520
166
Forgotten Employee (2002)
https://sites.google.com/site/forgottenemployee/
8 years ago
437
156
Eight hours a night isn’t enough, according to a leading sleep scientist
https://qz.com/1301123/why-eight-hours-a-night-isnt-enough-according-to-a-leading-sleep-scientist/
391
221
Tell HN: I miss the old internet
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17334552
339
182
We Should Teach Music History Backwards
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/why-we-should-teach-music-history-backwards-180955053/?no-ist
338
24
MIT Career Development Handbook [pdf]
https://gecd.mit.edu/sites/default/files/about/files/career-handbook.pdf
284
85
ActorDB – Distributed SQL database
https://github.com/biokoda/actordb
★ 1.8k Erlang MPL-2.0– 8 years ago
255
271
Luxury hotels are being inundated with requests from self-described influencers
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/06/instagram-influencers-are-driving-luxury-hotels-crazy/562679/?single_page=true
206
126
Ask HN: How to not fail on coding interview questions?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17333697
194
80
Handles are the better pointers
https://floooh.github.io/2018/06/17/handles-vs-pointers.html
192
224
Harvard discrimination lawsuit: data show penalization of Asian-Americans
http://infoproc.blogspot.com/2018/06/harvard-discrimination-lawsuit-data.html
178
248
Netflix Is Why AT&T bought Time Warner, and Comcast and Disney want Fox
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/13/netflix-why-att-bought-time-warner-and-comcast-and-disney-want-fox.html
176
93
Goodbye, Denver Post. Hello, Blockchain
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/17/business/media/denver-post-blockchain-colorado-sun.html
175
45
Vendors, Disclosure, and a bit of WebUSB Madness
http://pwnaccelerator.github.io/2018/webusb-yubico-disclosure.html
How Peppa Pig became a video nightmare for children
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jun/17/peppa-pig-youtube-weird-algorithms-automated-content
170
57
Teach Programming to become a better programmer
https://www.zeroequalsfalse.press/2018/06/10/teach/
157
33
The Math of Card Shuffling
http://fredhohman.com/card-shuffling/
134
68
Ctrl-labs’ armband lets you control computer cursors with your mind
https://venturebeat.com/2018/06/16/ctrl-labs-armband-lets-you-control-computer-cursors-with-your-mind/
128
49
FBG – Lightweight C Linux framebuffer graphics with parallelism
https://github.com/grz0zrg/fbg
★ 528 C BSD-3-Clause– 8 years ago
127
34
Delhi’s air pollution monitors have recorded the highest levels they can measure
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/15/delhi-blanketed-by-smog-so-toxic-it-cant-be-measured
125
51
Politicians in favor of upload filtering get channel deleted by upload filtering
https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2018/06/politicians-about-to-vote-in-favor-of-mandatory-upload-filtering-in-europe-get-channel-deleted-by-youtubes-upload-filtering/
124
31
Humans grow linearly, companies grow exponentially – interview with Khalid Halim
http://firstround.com/review/hypergrowth-and-the-law-of-startup-physics
119
40
Dispatch: web-based IRC client in Go
https://github.com/khlieng/dispatch
★ 638 Go MIT– 8 years ago
118
84
Ask HN: How do I find a meaningful software engineering job?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17332796
115
87
Dev Watercooler: World of Warcraft Classic
https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/news/21881587/dev-watercooler-world-of-warcraft-classic
111
32
How Ceiling Fans Allowed Slaves to Eavesdrop on Plantation Owners
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/punkah-project-fans-antebellum-south
107
27
My Data Request: Request your data from over 100 companies
https://mydatarequest.com/
105
53
Breaking Up with James Joyce
https://sydneyreviewofbooks.com/breaking-james-joyce/
102
26
Zapcc – A caching C++ compiler based on clang
https://github.com/yrnkrn/zapcc
★ 1.2k C++ – 8 years ago
101
LemonGraph – A log-based transactional graph
https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/lemongraph
★ 1.1k Python – 8 years ago
100
Audio Modem Communication Library in Python
https://github.com/romanz/amodem
★ 1k Python – 8 years ago
95
75
The power of Result types in Swift
https://www.swiftbysundell.com/posts/the-power-of-result-types-in-swift
94
20
After twenty years, what Marc Benioff got right and wrong about the cloud
https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/17/after-twenty-years-of-salesforce-what-marc-benioff-got-right-and-wrong-about-the-cloud/
90
15
A Bitter Guide to Open Source
https://medium.com/codezillas/a-bitter-guide-to-open-source-a8e3b6a3c1c4
44
Design Tip: Never Use Black (2012)
https://ianstormtaylor.com/design-tip-never-use-black/
18
Rethinking GPS: Engineering Next-Gen Location at Uber
https://eng.uber.com/rethinking-gps/
Vynchronize – A fun realtime video sync platform for friends
https://github.com/kyle8998/Vynchronize
★ 1.1k JavaScript MIT– 8 years ago
38
Vertical Takeoff and Vertical Landing, Now Available for Model Rockets
https://blog.hackster.io/vertical-takeoff-and-vertical-landing-now-available-for-model-rockets-deb766845e4f
82
50
The Bugs Are Winning
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2018/06/28/superbugs-are-winning-antibiotics/
78
39
200-year-old ciphers may reveal the location of treasure buried in Virginia
http://mentalfloss.com/article/540277/beale-ciphers-buried-treasure
77
19
A former Theranos employee's account of life inside the company
https://www.reddit.com/r/tech/comments/8rmudm/i_worked_at_theranos_and_this_is_a_glimpse_of_my/
76
Marc Benioff of Salesforce: ‘Are We Not All Connected?’
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/15/business/marc-benioff-salesforce-corner-office.html
55
CryptoKitties sales plummet in popularity
http://www.businessinsider.com/cryptokitties-blockchain-beanie-babies-transactions-plummet-2018-6?op=1
73
23
Show HN: A SIMD-accelerated noise library in Rust
https://github.com/jackmott/rust-simd-noise
★ 266 Rust – 8 years ago
