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Reddit just passed Facebook as #3 most popular website in US
https://www.alexa.com/topsites/countries/US
8 years ago
993
492
AI winter is well on its way
https://blog.piekniewski.info/2018/05/28/ai-winter-is-well-on-its-way/
100
Uber, Google and others pay London Evening Standard for favorable coverage
https://www.opendemocracy.net/uk/james-cusick/george-osborne-s-london-evening-standard-promises-positive-news-coverage-to-uber-goo
449
172
I Write Letters to CEOs
https://www.johnwdefeo.com/articles/why-i-write-letters-to-ceos
446
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Intel Announces Optane DIMMs
https://www.anandtech.com/show/12828/intel-launches-optane-dimms-up-to-512gb-apache-pass-is-here
399
123
Actix: a small, pragmatic, and fast Rust web framework
https://actix.rs/
392
215
Diamonds Suck (2006)
http://diamondssuck.com/
382
354
Why Is Front-End Development So Unstable?
https://www.breck-mckye.com/blog/2018/05/why-is-front-end-development-so-unstable/
363
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Walmart will begin offering to subsidize college tuition for its U.S. workers
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/30/business/walmart-college-tuition.html
332
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Scrum disempowers developers
https://www.lambdacambridge.com/blog/how-scrum-disempowers-developers-and-destroys-agile
311
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China overtakes U.S. for healthy lifespan: WHO data
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-lifespan/china-overtakes-us-for-healthy-lifespan-who-data-idUSKCN1IV15L
303
44
How to Sell – a guide for SaaS startups
https://www.entrepidpartners.com/how-to-sell-guide
262
79
Show HN: Write every day, measure your progress, achieve your writing goals
https://writingstreak.io/?src=hn
256
118
Announcing .NET Core 2.1
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2018/05/30/announcing-net-core-2-1/
248
125
Nebulet: A microkernel that runs WebAssembly in Ring 0
https://github.com/nebulet/nebulet
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233
96
Predicting Stock Performance with Natural Language Deep Learning
https://www.microsoft.com/developerblog/2017/12/04/predicting-stock-performance-deep-learning/
225
70
Mary Meeker Internet Trends Report 2018
https://www.slideshare.net/kleinerperkins/internet-trends-report-2018-99574140
221
Lobotomizing Gnome
https://eklitzke.org/lobotomizing-gnome
213
51
Ask HN: How to blog things I've learnt in graduate school?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17191206
210
13
Architecture of a Database System (2007) [pdf]
http://db.cs.berkeley.edu/papers/fntdb07-architecture.pdf
209
270
Depressing and faintly terrifying days for the C standard [pdf]
http://www.yodaiken.com/2018/05/20/depressing-and-faintly-terrifying-days-for-the-c-standard/
203
40
Odyssey – Scalable PostgreSQL connection pooler
https://github.com/yandex/odyssey
★ 3.4kCBSD-3-Clause–8 years ago
199
120
What I’ve Been Doing Since Quitting My Job
https://mtlynch.io/since-quitting/
198
57
Cervus: A WebAssembly subsystem for Linux
https://github.com/cervus-v/cervus
★ 734RustGPL-2.0–8 years ago
168
How a Pentagon Contract Became an Identity Crisis for Google
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/30/technology/google-project-maven-pentagon.html
163
38
A Universal Law of Procrastination (2016)
https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/PT.3.3064
158
12
Seven Pillars of Causal Reasoning with Reflections on Machine Learning [pdf]
http://ftp.cs.ucla.edu/pub/stat_ser/r481.pdf
Signed Integers Are Two’s Complement
http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2018/p0907r0.html
157
52
Build2, a Cargo-like dependency and build manager for C/C++
https://build2.org/build2-toolchain/doc/build2-toolchain-intro.xhtml
149
45
Diamonds Are Bullshit
https://priceonomics.com/post/45768546804/diamonds-are-bullshit
142
39
Ocean waves play greater role in trapping CO2 than previously understood
https://phys.org/news/2018-05-reveals-ocean-greater-role-carbon.html
136
Zig: programming language designed for robustness optimality and clarity [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4oYSByyRak
133
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Accountancy used to be boring and safe, but today it’s neither
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/may/29/the-financial-scandal-no-one-is-talking-about-big-four-accountancy-firms
132
75
IBM Watson Health slashes workforce
https://www.massdevice.com/report-ibm-watson-health-slashes-workforce/
127
11
Playing hard exploration games by watching YouTube
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.11592
80
Buffett Proposed $3 Billion Uber Investment But Deal Crumbled
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-30/buffett-said-to-have-offered-uber-3-billion-but-talks-crumbled
124
23
The Slippery Math of Causation
https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-math-of-causation-puzzle-20180530/
53
How to Avoid Distractions and Start the Right Company
https://www.atrium.co/blog/sam-altman-start-the-right-company/?hn
119
88
'Murdered' Journalist Is Alive and Well
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-44307611
114
24
What is Software Engineering?
https://research.swtch.com/vgo-eng
USA needs law 'a lot like GDPR' says Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/05/30/salesforce_q1_2019/?
112
71
1958 Imperial: What It's Like to Drive an Auto-Pilot Car
http://www.imperialclub.com/Articles/58AutoPilot/index.htm
99
76
How Futures Trading Changed Bitcoin Prices
https://www.frbsf.org/economic-research/publications/economic-letter/2018/may/how-futures-trading-changed-bitcoin-prices/
97
GDPR, China and data sovereignty are ultimately wins for Amazon and Google
https://techcrunch.com/2018/05/29/gdpr-and-the-cloud-winners/
93
67
Start colon cancer screening at 45, not 50, American Cancer Society urges
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/05/30/american-cancer-society-colon-cancer-screening-45/651959002/
91
Bye, Chrome: Why I’m switching to Firefox
https://www.fastcodesign.com/90174010/bye-chrome-why-im-switching-to-firefox-and-you-should-too
87
7
Post-Spectre Threat Model Re-Think
https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/docs/security/side-channel-threat-model.md
86
When an implementation monoculture might be the right thing
https://blog.mozilla.org/nfroyd/2018/05/29/when-implementation-monoculture-right-thing/
84
26
Y’all Ain’t Killing Me: The Rise of “Super Jobs.”
http://theunderemployedlife.com/yall-aint-killing-rise-super-jobs/
60
Google spinoff Dandelion uses ground energy to heat and cool homes
https://www.cnet.com/news/google-spinoff-dandelion-uses-ground-energy-to-heat-and-cool-homes/?ftag=COS-05-10aaa0b&linkId=52352248#ftag=CAD590a51e
83
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Veblen goods
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veblen_good
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