452
85
Ask HN: What are your favorite statistics and probability textbooks?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17474646
8 years ago
417
232
Mark Zuckerberg and his empire of oily rags
https://craphound.com/news/2018/07/02/mark-zuckerberg-and-his-empire-of-oily-rags/
371
92
Show HN: Hacker News job trends
https://github.com/timqian/hacker-job-trends/
★ 750 JavaScript MIT– 8 years ago
326
197
Yes, Amazon Is Tracking People
https://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/yes-amazon-tracking-people
315
236
Things That Happen in Silicon Valley and Also the Soviet Union
https://twitter.com/atroyn/status/1014974099930714115?s=21
311
147
Roadmap to becoming a React developer in 2018
https://github.com/adam-golab/react-developer-roadmap
★ 18.9k JavaScript – 8 years ago
292
110
How a Microsoft Font Brought Down Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif (2017)
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/how-a-microsoft-font-brought-down-pakistani-prime-minister-nawaz-sharif/article35828938/
274
134
Escaping the SPA rabbit hole with modern Rails
https://medium.com/@jmanrubia/escaping-the-spa-rabbit-hole-with-turbolinks-903f942bf52c
273
168
Is timeless UI design a thing?
https://www.imaginarycloud.com/blog/timeless-classic-ui-design/amp
257
331
I’m Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17472974
241
104
A graph of programming languages connected through compilers
https://akr.am/languages/
84
The State of Rust on Haiku
https://www.haiku-os.org/blog/nielx/2018-07-05_the_state_of_rust_on_haiku/
230
128
How the Blog Broke the Web (2017)
https://stackingthebricks.com/how-blogs-broke-the-web/
224
166
Uganda Bans VPNs to Prevent Users from Dodging Its New Social Media Tax
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180702/12431840157/uganda-bans-vpns-to-prevent-users-dodging-absurd-new-social-media-tax.shtml
201
233
How Reddit plans to make money through advertising
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/29/how-reddit-plans-to-make-money-through-advertising.html
187
159
Ask HN: What talks or videos do you suggest to watch on a long flight?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17472338
179
76
The Horrors of Upgrading Etcd Beneath Kubernetes
https://gravitational.com/blog/kubernetes-and-offline-etcd-upgrades?
170
82
E-waste mining could be big business and good for the planet
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-44642176
169
332
Say Hello to Full Employment
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2018/07/hello-full-employment/564527/?single_page=true
162
27
Captain Einstein – Experience Relativity in Virtual Reality
http://captaineinstein.org/
158
29
An Interview with Andy Hertzfeld
https://www.notion.so/tools-and-craft/01-andy-hertzfeld
155
31
Programming Minecraft on the Raspberry Pi
http://blog.wolfram.com/2018/07/05/programming-minecraft-on-the-raspberry-pi/
154
50
The BeOS file system, an OS geek retrospective
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/07/the-beos-filesystem/
145
17
Why your brain never runs out of problems to find
https://theconversation.com/why-your-brain-never-runs-out-of-problems-to-find-98990
144
48
Sapper – Progressive web apps powered by Svelte
https://sapper.svelte.technology/
137
Show HN: TaskBotJS – TypeScript and JavaScript background job processing
https://github.com/eropple/taskbotjs/
★ 484 TypeScript – 8 years ago
136
97
Survival of the Richest
https://medium.com/s/futurehuman/survival-of-the-richest-9ef6cddd0cc1
43
Really Friendly Command Line Intro
https://hellowebbooks.com/learn-command-line/
130
EU parliament calls for Privacy Shield to be pulled until US complies
https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/05/eu-parliament-calls-for-privacy-shield-to-be-pulled-until-us-complies/
101
FAA pushes back on Boeing exemption for 787 safety flaw
https://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/faa-pushes-back-on-boeing-exemption-for-787-safety-f-449263/
33
Logic Theorist
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logic_Theorist
127
8
The Rogue World of New York’s Major Trash Haulers
https://features.propublica.org/sanitation-salvage/sanitation-salvage-accidents-new-york-city-commercial-carting-garbage/
124
Codius – Open Hosting Protocol
https://codius.org/
116
133
Thousands Say Kratom Cured Their Addiction, Government Says It’s Another Opioid
https://www.buzzfeed.com/azeenghorayshi/kratom-opioid-addiction
115
143
SF hospital charged $15K ‘trauma response fee’ for baby that needed no treatment
https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/2154017/san-francisco-hospital-treated-korean-tourists-baby
25
GNU Guix and GuixSD 0.15.0 released
https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/blog/2018/gnu-guix-and-guixsd-0.15.0-released/
112
55
Firefox Pioneer
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/about-firefox-pioneer
19
A tutorial on the free-energy framework for modelling perception and learning
https://tmorville.github.io//finprojects/free-energy/
121
Sex and Sexuality
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/sex-sexuality/
The Bay Area’s tech boom in historical and social context
https://www.citylab.com/equity/2018/07/the-dark-side-of-the-silicon-gold-rush/564140/
99
26
Writing Iterators in Julia 0.7
https://invenia.github.io/blog/2018/07/06/iteratorsinjulia07/
93
11
Conduit 0.5.0 and the future of Conduit
https://blog.conduit.io/2018/07/06/conduit-0-5-and-the-future/
90
32
The History of Ice Cream
https://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2018/06/30/how-ice-cream-made-america/leqtRFPQZxn8IrCXww1W2O/story.html
88
79
Is the Bitcoin network an oligarchy?
https://www.epj.org/epjb-news/1510-epjb-highlight-is-the-bitcoin-network-an-oligarchy
35
“The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Deep Learning Representations”
https://blog.insightdatascience.com/the-unreasonable-effectiveness-of-deep-learning-representations-4ce83fc663cf
83
13
Using Machine Learning to Understand Page Templates
https://www.bloomreach.com/en/blog/2018/07/using-machine-learning-to-learn-page-templates.html
87
Google’s Voice Assistant Could Talk Its Way Into Call Centers
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/googles-controversial-voice-assistant-could-talk-its-way-into-call-centers
80
24
Fermat’s Library – Annotating Academic Papers Every Week
https://blog.ycombinator.com/fermats-library-annotating-academic-papers-every-week/
15
RoboSat: feature extraction from aerial and satellite imagery
https://github.com/mapbox/robosat
★ 2k Python MIT– 8 years ago
39
How much is time wrong around the world? (2014)
https://blog.poormansmath.net/how-much-is-time-wrong-around-the-world/
77
CO2 shortage: Lessons learned from a storm in a pint glass?
https://www.gasworld.com/co2-shortage-lessons-learned/2015003.article
3
GraalSqueak: A Fast Smalltalk Bytecode Interpreter [pdf]
https://fniephaus.com/2018/icooolps18-graalsqueak.pdf
71
How Snow Leopard became synonymous with reliability
https://9to5mac.com/2018/01/31/snow-leopard-became-reliability-legend/