904
435
IBM is not doing "cognitive computing" with Watson (2016)
http://www.rogerschank.com/fraudulent-claims-made-by-IBM-about-Watson-and-AI
8 years ago
712
116
A home-made lithographically-fabricated integrated circuit
http://sam.zeloof.xyz/first-ic/#
501
291
Jan Koum to leave after broad clashes with Facebook
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/whatsapp-founder-plans-to-leave-after-broad-clashes-with-parent-facebook/2018/04/30/49448dd2-4ca9-11e8-84a0-458a1aa9ac0a_story.html
453
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Simone Giertz on her brain tumour [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpa4kp4lK60
403
206
Stripe Atlas for LLCs
https://stripe.com/blog/atlas-llc?c
398
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Thinking of yourself as an insomniac may be a part of the problem
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/apr/20/cant-sleep-insomnia-identity
365
114
Twitter also sold data access to Cambridge Analytica researcher
https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/30/twitter-also-sold-data-access-to-cambridge-analytica-researcher/
344
79
Show HN: ReLaXed – High-quality PDFs using web technologies
https://github.com/RelaxedJS/ReLaXed
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307
181
Python Environment
https://xkcd.com/1987/
273
182
How to speed up the Rust compiler in 2018
https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/2018/04/30/how-to-speed-up-the-rust-compiler-in-2018/
259
27
Top Checklists on HN
https://hn.algolia.com/?query=checklist&sort=byPopularity&prefix&page=0&dateRange=all&type=story
220
61
Building games that can be understood at a glance
http://stfj.net/DesigningForSubwayLegibility/
219
17
The TLA+ Video Course by Leslie Lamport
https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/video/videos.html
208
40
Lessons from Building Static Analysis Tools at Google
https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2018/4/226371-lessons-from-building-static-analysis-tools-at-google/fulltext
207
41
Show HN: A free, lightweight static page to get stock quotes using the IEX API
https://github.com/toddwschneider/stocks
★ 795HTMLMIT–8 years ago
92
Show HN: Create your own crapcoin in 3 minutes
https://crapcoin.solutions/
202
167
Detroit Was Crumbling, Now It's Reviving
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/04/30/us/detroit-come-back-budget.html
200
101
The False Allure of Hashing for Anonymization
https://gravitational.com/blog/hashing-for-anonymization/
199
34
Show HN: FPGA Ultrasound Imaging on a Raspberry Pi
http://un0rick.cc/FPGA-Rpi
169
68
Bezos: A CEO Who Can Write
https://mondaynote.com/bezos-a-ceo-who-can-write-2f368ee36599
163
210
Smartphone cradle used to cheat “10k steps/day” health insurance discounts
https://twitter.com/akaDashan/status/990054109855141888
156
201
IRS’ 60-Year-Old IT System Failed on Tax Day Due to New Hardware
https://www.nextgov.com/it-modernization/2018/04/irs-60-year-old-it-system-failed-tax-day-due-new-hardware/147598/
108
Ask HN: Why are big companies so much less efficient?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16960479
151
32
Hosting Jupyter Notebooks for 100k Users [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omxY1YsPGUc
145
121
Microsoft helped imprison a man for ‘counterfeiting’ software it gives away free
https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/25/how-microsoft-helped-imprison-a-man-for-counterfeiting-software-it-gives-away-for-free/
140
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Software sucks
https://shitpost.plover.com/s/software-sucks-4.html
134
38
A Look at MyRocks Performance
https://www.percona.com/blog/2018/04/30/a-look-at-myrocks-performance/
YouTube Is Removing Some Nootropics Channels
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/9kgpk5/youtube-is-removing-nootropics-channels
132
30
Macros: the Plan for Scala 3
https://www.scala-lang.org/blog/2018/04/30/in-a-nutshell.html
131
All You Need to Know About UML Diagrams
https://tallyfy.com/uml-diagram/
Comcast won’t give new speed boost to Internet users who don’t buy TV service
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/04/comcast-wont-give-new-speed-boost-to-internet-users-who-dont-buy-tv-service/
110
26
Anatomy of a Program in Memory (2009)
https://manybutfinite.com/post/anatomy-of-a-program-in-memory/
107
77
Alphabet's Median Pay Nears $200k
https://www.wsj.com/articles/at-googles-parent-alphabet-median-pay-nears-200-000-1524879024
152
Rural Kansas is dying
https://newfoodeconomy.org/rural-kansas-depopulation-commodity-agriculture/
102
16
Nvidia Tesla V100 on Google Cloud Platform
https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/04/Expanding-our-GPU-portfolio-with-NVIDIA-Tesla-V100.html
99
Ask HN: Is HN GDPR compliant?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16955206
'We're doomed': Mayer Hillman on the climate reality no one else will mention
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/apr/26/were-doomed-mayer-hillman-on-the-climate-reality-no-one-else-will-dare-mention?CMP=share_btn_fb
96
Chinese businesses and the military using “emotional surveillance technology”
http://uk.businessinsider.com/china-emotional-surveillance-technology-2018-4
Civilization Is Built on Code (2017)
http://nautil.us/blog/-civilization-is-built-on-code
95
11
Planning a Morrowind all-faction speedrun with simulated annealing, part 3
https://kimonote.com/@mildbyte/travelling-murderer-problem-planning-a-morrowind-all-faction-speedrun-with-simulated-annealing-part-3-46455/
93
13
Scrcpy: Display and control of Android devices connected on USB
https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy
★ 139.1kCApache-2.0–8 years ago
80
Bike Share Oversupply in China
https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2018/03/bike-share-oversupply-in-china-huge-piles-of-abandoned-and-broken-bicycles/556268/?single_page=true
141
The Difficulty of Untraining Drug Dogs How to Smell Marijuana
https://melmagazine.com/can-an-old-drug-dog-learn-new-tricks-like-how-not-to-smell-marijuana-in-states-where-its-legal-5f8293233187
45
Ask HN: What are some amazing open source projects that you have found recently?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16960300
87
66
Los Angeles Tests the Power of ‘Play Streets’
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/29/arts/design/play-streets-los-angeles-boyle-heights.html
85
A Pedagogical Analysis of Online Coding Tutorials [pdf]
https://faculty.washington.edu/ajko/papers/Kim2017CodingTutorialEvaluation.pdf
106
Sergey Brin warns of AI threats through a 'technology renaissance'
https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3031311/googles-sergey-brin-warns-of-ai-threats-through-a-technology-renaissance
83
Facebook Median Pay now $240k
https://www.sfgate.com/business/networth/article/Yes-median-pay-at-Facebook-really-is-about-12870786.php?t=4bd335ea10
69
Hello Go
https://medium.com/@caspervonb/hello-go-3e207da92da0
81
Hanging the Linux core dump pipe helper
https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2018/04/29/core/
76
Artificial intelligence is being used to predict gambler behaviour
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/apr/30/bookies-using-ai-to-keep-gamblers-hooked-insiders-say
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