827
562
China to bar people with bad 'social credit' from planes, trains
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-credit/china-to-bar-people-with-bad-social-credit-from-planes-trains-idUSKCN1GS10S
8 years ago
552
163
The Game of Everything, Part 1: Making Civilization
https://www.filfre.net/2018/03/the-game-of-everything-part-1-making-civilization/
542
193
Sierra Leone just ran the first blockchain-based election
https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/14/sierra-leone-just-ran-the-first-blockchain-based-election/
490
229
A fork on GitHub is no fork
https://www.niels-ole.com/ownership/2018/03/16/github-forks.html
482
178
The Multiworse Is Coming
http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2018/03/the-multiworse-is-coming.html
397
44
Interactive map of Linux kernel
http://www.makelinux.net/kernel_map/
350
374
Bus Lane Blocked, He Trained His Computer to Catch Scofflaws
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/03/15/nyregion/bike-lane-blocked-new-york.html
347
158
Japan’s Prisons Are a Haven for Elderly Women
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-03-16/japan-s-prisons-are-a-haven-for-elderly-women
310
90
GrayKey iPhone unlocker poses serious security concerns
https://blog.malwarebytes.com/security-world/2018/03/graykey-iphone-unlocker-poses-serious-security-concerns/
297
77
Dark Web Map
https://www.hyperiongray.com/dark-web-map/
289
196
Stock trade app Robinhood raising at $5B+, up 4X in a year
https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/15/robinhood-quintacorn/
252
83
Regular Expressions – Mastering Lookahead and Lookbehind
http://www.rexegg.com/regex-lookarounds.html
247
76
Google Cloud Platform’s new interactive CLI
https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/03/introducing-GCPs-new-interactive-CLI.html
228
211
Adrian Lamo has died
http://www.zdnet.com/article/adrian-lamo-hacker-dies/
166
What America looked like before the EPA, in photos
https://kottke.org/18/03/what-america-looked-like-before-the-epa-in-photos
227
123
Money creation in the modern economy (2014) [pdf]
https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/quarterly-bulletin/2014/money-creation-in-the-modern-economy.pdf
161
Airbus moves 130k employees from Microsoft Office to GSuite
https://www.geekwire.com/2018/google-picks-another-win-g-suite-airbus-grounds-microsoft-office/
225
84
What can we learn from how compilers are designed?
http://www.tedinski.com/2018/03/13/how-compilers-are-designed.html
186
The Best Books on the Philosophy of Mind
https://fivebooks.com/best-books/philosophy-mind-keith-frankish/
210
51
Tiny, Perfect Staircases Made by French Woodworkers
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/compagnons-tiny-staircases-models
198
71
Alabama Sheriff Legally Took $750,000 Meant To Feed Inmates
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/03/14/593204274/alabama-sheriff-legally-took-750-000-meant-to-feed-inmates-bought-beach-house
29
Let's build an MP3-decoder (2008)
http://blog.bjrn.se/2008/10/lets-build-mp3-decoder.html
191
39
Protecting Against HSTS Abuse
https://webkit.org/blog/8146/protecting-against-hsts-abuse/
137
Launch HN: Hexel (YC W18) – Create a cryptocurrency for your community
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16602069
100
Our Interesting Call with CTS-Labs
https://www.anandtech.com/show/12536/our-interesting-call-with-cts-labs
181
53
Trump's Campaign Payments Totalling $130K
https://gist.github.com/RyanCavanaugh/a42ee7f8c4edb540c1b303cf7a7d26e2
176
48
Scott Kelly’s medical monitoring has spawned some bad press coverage
https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/03/scott-kellys-medical-monitoring-has-spawned-some-horrific-press-coverage/
152
157
The IRS collects data on Coinbase account holders
https://www.wsj.com/articles/do-you-own-bitcoin-the-irs-is-coming-for-you-1521192601
147
75
How to avoid humiliating newcomers: A guide for advanced developers
https://opensource.com/article/18/3/avoid-humiliating-newcomers
142
55
“No Man’s Sky” Displayed on the Amiga 1000
http://www.bytecellar.com/2018/03/14/a-planetary-anachronism-no-mans-sky-beautifully-rendered-on-the-amiga-1000/
9
You need 16 times the sample size to estimate an interaction than a main effect
http://andrewgelman.com/2018/03/15/need-16-times-sample-size-estimate-interaction-estimate-main-effect/
139
De-anonymizing programmers from executable binaries
https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/03/16/when-coding-style-survives-compilation-de-anonymizing-programmers-from-executable-binaries/
138
LiDAR scans are finding hidden Roman roads and cutting crime
http://www.wired.co.uk/article/lidar-mapping-environment-agency-2020-flood-defence-waste-dumping
126
59
Why Earth's History Appears So Miraculous
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/03/human-existence-will-look-more-miraculous-the-longer-we-survive/554513/?single_page=true
120
31
Uncovering a network of “adult dating” spam accounts on Twitter
https://labsblog.f-secure.com/2018/03/16/marketing-dirty-tinder-on-twitter/
61
Ask HN: Are there any studies about book reading retention rates vs. audiobooks?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16601545
111
93
The deadly toll of street racing in Los Angeles
http://www.latimes.com/projects/la-me-street-racing/
107
60
Varnish Cache 6.0.0
https://varnish-cache.org/releases/rel6.0.0.html
103
94
In a first, U.S. blames Russia for cyber attacks on energy grid
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-russia-sanctions-energygrid/in-a-first-u-s-blames-russia-for-cyber-attacks-on-energy-grid-idUSKCN1GR2G3
86
19
Surprising Creativity: Anecdotes from Evolutionary Computation
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.03453
In a first, U.S. blames Russia for cyber attacks on energy grid