701
147
Ask HN: What is your favourite tech talk?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16838460
8 years ago
447
99
My Favorite PostgreSQL Queries and Why They Matter
https://severalnines.com/blog/my-favorite-postgresql-queries-and-why-they-matter
366
262
Was there a civilization on Earth before humans?
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/04/are-we-earths-only-civilization/557180/?single_page=true
283
82
How to Be a Systems Thinker
https://www.edge.org/conversation/mary_catherine_bateson-how-to-be-a-systems-thinker
245
129
Soviet-Era Industrial Design
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/soviet-design-history?utm_medium=atlas-page&utm_source=twitter
227
174
Assumptions about how children learn to read have been disproven by research
https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/557915?single_page=true
221
89
How people die vs. media coverage of death
https://owenshen24.github.io/charting-death/
220
70
Front-End Developer Handbook
https://frontendmasters.com/books/front-end-handbook/2018/
209
213
China Is Nationalizing Its Tech Sector
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-04-12/china-is-nationalizing-its-tech-sector
207
133
What did Alan Kay and Steve Jobs talk about at the 2007 iPhone keynote?
https://www.quora.com/What-did-Alan-Kay-and-Steve-Jobs-talk-about-at-the-2007-iPhone-keynote/answer/Alan-Kay-11?share=1
206
50
Bret Victor Redesigns Classic Strogatz Paper (2011)
http://worrydream.com/ScientificCommunicationAsSequentialArt/
191
73
Ask HN: What are well designed SaaS websites?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16837683
187
119
VuePress: a fully Vue-powered static site generator
https://vuepress.vuejs.org/
183
83
Trillions of Viruses Fall from the Sky Each Day
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/13/science/virosphere-evolution.html
178
130
Dark side of ergonomics in Rust
https://vorner.github.io/2018/04/08/Dark-side-of-ergonomics.html
171
16
Hackett – A Haskell-like language with support for Racket’s macro system
https://github.com/lexi-lambda/hackett
★ 1.1kRacketISC–8 years ago
164
35
Causes and consequences of the Sicilian Mafia
https://voxeu.org/article/causes-and-consequences-sicilian-mafia
153
TurboTax Freemium Funnel: Critical Analysis and UX Teardown
https://medium.com/@brandonscottread/turbotax-design-1a37356adc61
148
62
Origins of the myth of dopamine as the ‘pleasure chemical’
https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/27/17169446/dopamine-pleasure-chemical-neuroscience-reward-motivation
13
Tiny Steps Towards Liberating Bootloaders and Modem Firmware of MediaTek Phones
https://postmarketos.org/blog/2018/04/14/lowlevel/
143
79
1 in 10 Americans in survey say they deleted their Facebook account over privacy
http://www.businessinsider.com/delete-facebook-statistics-nearly-10-percent-americans-deleted-facebook-account-study-2018-4?r=UK&IR=T
142
166
‘Moderate’ drinking guidelines are too loose, study says
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/moderate-drinking-guidelines-are-too-loose-study-says/2018/04/12/da73d89c-3e64-11e8-974f-aacd97698cef_story.html
141
75
Y Combinator, Backer of Dropbox, Vaults from Experiment to Kingmaker
https://www.wsj.com/articles/y-combinator-backer-of-dropbox-vaults-from-experiment-to-kingmaker-1521718200
134
97
The Secret to Better Social Media? Fewer Friends
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-secret-to-better-social-media-fewer-friends-1523376444
127
Oracle Said to Be Leading Anti-Amazon Lobby on Pentagon Cloud Bid
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-13/oracle-is-said-to-lead-anti-amazon-lobby-on-pentagon-cloud-bid
125
55
Radio host Art Bell has died
https://www.reviewjournal.com/local/local-nevada/pahrump-based-radio-host-art-bell-dies-at-72/
120
34
Eroom's law
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eroom%27s_law
Two Decades of War Have Eroded the Morale of America’s Troops
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/05/left-behind/556844/?single_page=true
115
80
“Coming Out” as Face Blind
http://narrative.ly/coming-face-blind/
112
18
When algorithms surprise us
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.03453
98
In Racine County, houses are being designated ‘blighted’ to make way for Foxconn
http://beltmag.com/blighted-by-foxconn/
111
40
Notes on Resonance
http://worrydream.com/NotesOnResonance/
108
52
The Fossil distributed version control system
https://fossil-scm.org/index.html/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki
106
68
Sky Diving Cured My Depression
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/13/opinion/depression-sky-diving-dubai.html
105
27
Pip 10 has been released
https://blog.python.org/2018/04/pip-10-has-been-released.html
101
90
SourceForge Hiding Fact That They Have Lost the Latest Revision of SVN?
https://medium.com/@jonykatz/sourceforge-hiding-fact-that-they-have-lost-the-latest-revision-of-svn-d221f2d68285
96
31
ML turns video of a 360° turn into 3D model of a person
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/04/watch-artificial-intelligence-create-3d-model-person-just-few-seconds-video
93
21
Turbo Pascal navigational aids that saved my life in 1991
https://github.com/timonoko/sextant/blob/master/README.md
★ 34Pascal–8 years ago
87
49
Doctors Battle Drug-Resistant Typhoid Outbreak
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/13/health/drug-resistant-typhoid-epidemic.html
Founder who lived with bipolar for years started a company to tackle the stigma
https://www.forbes.com/sites/meganbruneau/2018/04/14/this-founder-lived-with-a-secret-bipolar-diagnosis-for-years-today-his-company-tackles-the-stigma/#6ca4b20f49f7
37
Ember.js 3.1 and 3.2 Beta Released
https://emberjs.com/blog/2018/03/26/ember-3-1-released.html
Y Combinator, Backer of Dropbox, Vaults from Experiment to Kingmaker