687
349
Now Is the Perfect Time for an RSS Renaissance
https://neflabs.com/blog/rss-renaissance/
8 years ago
677
243
Why it took a long time to build the tiny link preview on Wikipedia
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/04/20/why-it-took-a-long-time-to-build-that-tiny-link-preview-on-wikipedia/
547
133
MIT Researchers Have Developed a ‘System for Dream Control’
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ywxjvg/steel-ball-control-dreams-dormio-mit-hypnagogia
475
478
Renting is Throwing Money Away, Right? (2015)
https://affordanything.com/is-renting-better-than-buying-should-i-rent-or-buy/
330
58
Show HN: Giving a Broken Barcode Scanner a New Life with Elixir and Nerves
https://bcarrigan.com/2018/04/20/wunderscan/
303
185
The Many Ways Google Harvests Data
https://www.wsj.com/articles/who-has-more-of-your-personal-data-than-facebook-try-google-1524398401
253
192
Underestimating the mind-warping potential of fake video
https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/4/20/17109764/deepfake-ai-false-memory-psychology
247
20
An Introduction to Hashing in the Era of Machine Learning
https://blog.bradfieldcs.com/an-introduction-to-hashing-in-the-era-of-machine-learning-6039394549b0
191
Qt for WebAssembly Technology Preview
http://blog.qt.io/blog/2018/04/23/beta-qt-webassembly-technology-preview/
242
279
How Windmills as Wide as Jumbo Jets Are Making Clean Energy Mainstream
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/04/23/business/energy-environment/big-windmills.html
241
68
Using USB-VGA dongles as SDR transmitter
http://laforge.gnumonks.org/blog/20180423-osmo-fl2k/
232
36
Planning a Morrowind all-faction speedrun with simulated annealing, part 2
https://kimonote.com/@mildbyte/travelling-murderer-problem-planning-a-morrowind-all-faction-speedrun-with-simulated-annealing-part-2-43269/
219
70
New AI Imaging Technique Reconstructs Photos with Realistic Results
https://news.developer.nvidia.com/new-ai-imaging-technique-reconstructs-photos-with-realistic-results/
214
134
Johns Hopkins surgeons perform world's first male genital transplant
https://hub.jhu.edu/2018/04/23/penis-transplant-surgery-johns-hopkins/
213
65
The last day of linotype at the NYT (1978) [video]
https://vimeo.com/127605643
208
96
What’s Not Included in Facebook’s “Download Your Data”
https://www.wired.com/story/whats-not-included-in-facebooks-download-your-data
190
49
Fast website link checker in Go
https://github.com/raviqqe/muffet
★ 2.5kGoMIT–8 years ago
162
How vulture capitalists ate Toys 'R' Us
http://theweek.com/articles/761124/how-vulture-capitalists-ate-toys-r
181
72
The “unpatchable” exploit that makes every current Nintendo Switch hackable
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/04/the-unpatchable-exploit-that-makes-every-current-nintendo-switch-hackable/
173
42
Show HN: HTTP/2 Python-Asyncio Web Microframework
https://gitlab.com/pgjones/quart
168
15
IAmA Dane Jasper, CEO of Sonic, Northern California's Largest Independent ISP
https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/8eccqb/im_dane_jasper_cofounder_and_ceo_of_sonic/
164
78
How I Write SQL, Part 1: Naming Conventions (2014)
https://launchbylunch.com/posts/2014/Feb/16/sql-naming-conventions/
160
39
Ex-Facebook Executive: “You Don’t Realize It but You Are Being Programmed”
https://medium.com/@mustaphahitani/ex-facebook-executive-you-dont-realize-it-but-you-are-being-programmed-618242134d
159
124
YouTube networks drop thousands of creators as YouTube policy shifts
https://www.polygon.com/2018/4/23/17268436/fullscreen-socialblade-youtube-mcn-multi-channel-network-creators-monetization
151
Alphabet Q1 2018 Earnings [pdf]
https://abc.xyz/investor/pdf/2018Q1_alphabet_earnings_release.pdf
155
38
Accelerating Deep Neuroevolution: Train Atari in Hours on a Single Computer
https://ubere.ng/2qUDmwp
Show HN: Interactive WebGL visualization of all 47K buildings in Manhattan
https://tbaldw.in/nyc-buildings
139
210
Google has started the global roll-out of its new Chat messaging service
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-43836504
137
112
Bringing Objective-C to the Amiga
https://heap.zone/blog/?76
128
98
Ask HN: Uncommon but attainable programmer skillsets valued by employers?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16902536
125
55
Giving away the company's secret sauce
https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2018/04/22/sauce/
121
150
The Surprisingly Solid Mathematical Case of the Tin Foil Hat Gun Prepper
https://medium.com/@bjcampbell/the-surprisingly-solid-mathematical-case-of-the-tin-foil-hat-gun-prepper-15fce7d10437
119
182
The Future of Software Is No Code
https://www.inc.com/greg-satell/how-no-code-platforms-are-disrupting-software.html
118
107
Cryptonetworks and why tokens are fundamental
https://www.nickgrossman.is/2018/cryptonetworks-and-why-tokens-are-fundamental/
120
The Node.js Ecosystem Is Chaotic and Insecure
https://medium.com/p/73fac4bc5068
140
Gerontopoly: Homeownership, wealth, and age
http://cityobservatory.org/gerontopoly-homeownership-wealth-and-age/
106
40
Amazon is said to be building home robots
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-23/amazon-is-said-to-be-working-on-another-big-bet-home-robots
226
Hyper 2, Electron based terminal
https://zeit.co/blog/hyper2
105
41
On Radical Markets
https://vitalik.ca/general/2018/04/20/radical_markets.html
103
Tech workers who are engineering a mid-30s retirement
https://story.californiasunday.com/tech-retirees?mc_cid=4c3a28b9cd&mc_eid=c40ad0da43
10
How DNA Transfer Framed Lukis Anderson for Murder
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2018/04/19/framed-for-murder-by-his-own-dna
90
Bringing people back to the open web
https://chrishardie.com/2018/04/rebuilding-open-web/
95
60
Tesla batteries will live longer than expected, survey finds
https://www.engadget.com/2018/04/16/tesla-battery-packs-live-longer/
92
45
Show HN: Create a personalized and optimized webpack configuration
http://web.jakoblind.no/webpack-config/
91
32
The 20-year-old entrepreneur is a myth, according to study
https://phys.org/news/2018-04-year-old-entrepreneur-myth.html
89
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Gwynne Shotwell: SpaceX's Plan to Fly You Across the Globe in 30 Minutes [video]
https://www.ted.com/talks/gwynne_shotwell_spacex_s_plan_to_fly_you_across_the_globe_in_30_minutes
48
How China Is Buying Its Way into Europe
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-china-business-in-europe/
88
135
Retirement Shock: Need to Find a Job After 40 Years at General Electric
https://www.wsj.com/articles/retirement-shock-need-to-find-a-job-after-a-40-years-at-general-electric-1524418855
IAmA Dane Jasper, CEO of Sonic, Northern California's Largest Independent ISP