646
360
Prime Down: Amazon’s sale day turns into fail day
https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/16/prime-down-amazons-sale-day-turns-into-fail-day/
7 years ago
541
241
Why Gov.uk content should be published in HTML and not PDF
https://gds.blog.gov.uk/2018/07/16/why-gov-uk-content-should-be-published-in-html-and-not-pdf/
507
195
Keeping a plaintext “did” file
http://theptrk.com/2018/07/11/did-txt-file/
456
350
Twitch streamers who spend years broadcasting to no one
https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/16/17569520/twitch-streamers-zero-viewers-motivation-community
382
103
Show HN: Hasura – Fast, instant GraphQL APIs on Postgres
https://github.com/hasura/graphql-engine
★ 31.9kTypeScriptApache-2.0–7 years ago
343
145
Cloudflare, Mozilla, Fastly, and Apple Working on Encrypted SNI
https://twitter.com/grittygrease/status/1018566026320019457
341
224
LIDL cancels SAP introduction after spending 500M Euro
https://www.br.de/nachrichten/lidl-setzt-500-millionen-euro-in-den-sand-100.html
340
120
Alzheimer's risk 10 times lower with herpes medication
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/322463.php
315
105
Image optimization decreased website's page weight by 62%
https://freshman.tech/image-optimisation/
304
188
Instapaper is going independent
http://blog.instapaper.com/post/175953870856
296
102
A Parable by Dijkstra (1973)
https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD05xx/EWD594.html
295
386
Jeff Bezos Becomes the Richest Man in Modern History, Topping $150B
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-16/happy-prime-day-jeff-amazon-ceo-s-net-worth-tops-150-billion
146
The Power of Positive People
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/10/well/the-power-of-positive-people.html
288
49
Potential DNA damage from CRISPR has been ‘seriously underestimated’ study finds
https://www.statnews.com/2018/07/16/crispr-potential-dna-damage-underestimated/
245
130
Goldman Sachs model to predict World Cup game results didn’t come close
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-07-14/world-cup-goldman-sachs-gs-model-got-it-all-wrong
242
87
Happy 25th Anniversary Slackware Linux
http://www.slackware.com/announce/1.0.php
228
127
El Fuego Viviente Chili Sauce
https://github.com/aweijnitz/recipe-el_fuego_viviente
★ 1.7k–7 years ago
218
155
Judge Orders Los Angeles Times to Delete Part of Published Article
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/15/us/judge-los-angeles-times-delete-article.html
205
40
Supercharging the Git Commit Graph IV: Bloom Filters
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/devops/2018/07/16/super-charging-the-git-commit-graph-iv-bloom-filters/
200
73
Rav1e: An experimental AV1 video encoder, designed to be fast and safe
https://github.com/xiph/rav1e
★ 4kAssemblyBSD-2-Clause–7 years ago
199
Lean Testing or Why Unit Tests Are Worse Than You Think
https://blog.usejournal.com/lean-testing-or-why-unit-tests-are-worse-than-you-think-b6500139a009
193
118
Amazon Prime Day deals 'not what they seem'
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-44846356
191
How two strangers set up Dropbox and made billions
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-44766487
187
51
Lwan: A high-performance and scalable web server
https://lwan.ws/
165
30
The LDC D language compiler can now generate WebAssembly
https://wiki.dlang.org/Generating_WebAssembly_with_LDC
162
140
Munro Teardown Shows Tesla Model 3 Solidly Profitable [video]
https://youtube.com/watch?v=pAS-yjWj9DY
141
45
The Turkish city that lives for breakfast
http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20180715-the-turkish-city-that-lives-for-breakfast
139
In 2017, US had largest decline in CO2 emissions
https://www.aei.org/publication/chart-of-the-day-in-2017-us-had-largest-decline-in-co2-emissions-in-the-world-for-9th-time-this-century/
136
66
GitHub is down
https://status.github.com/messages
131
23
Show HN: Font Playground – Play with variable fonts
https://play.typedetail.com/
82
Fakebook: A tool exploring the 2016 U.S. election Facebook ads bought by Russia
https://fathom.info/fakebook/
126
151
The Chinese Government Likely Borrowed More than the US in 2017
http://thesoundingline.com/shock-the-chinese-government-likely-borrowed-more-than-the-us-in-2017/
123
50
Barbie typewriter (2015)
http://www.cryptomuseum.com/crypto/mehano/barbie/
121
19
Almost booting an iOS kernel in QEMU
https://worthdoingbadly.com/xnuqemu/
32
Dying Organs Restored to Life in Novel Experiments
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/10/health/mitochondria-transplant-heart-attack.html
109
Australia's new e-health platform crashes as people rush to opt-out
https://www.zdnet.com/google-amp/article/my-health-record-systems-collapse-under-more-opt-outs-than-expected
119
63
How should we evaluate progress in AI?
https://meaningness.com/metablog/artificial-intelligence-progress
47
To cash in on Kindle Unlimited, a cabal of authors gamed Amazon’s algorithm
https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/16/17566276/cockygate-amazon-kindle-unlimited-algorithm-self-published-romance-novel-cabal
114
28
Improving Connectomics by an Order of Magnitude
https://ai.googleblog.com/2018/07/improving-connectomics-by-order-of.html
110
84
British cave diver considering legal action after 'pedo' attack by Elon Musk
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/jul/16/british-diver-in-thai-cave-rescue-stunned-after-attack-by-elon-musk
108
52
What Makes a Hit
https://www8.gsb.columbia.edu/articles/projects/what-makes-a-hit/
MacBook Pro 13" Touch Bar 2018 Teardown
https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/MacBook+Pro+13-Inch+Touch+Bar+2018+Teardown/111384
104
4
Perceptrons from memristors
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.04912
Scaling: Ethereum’s make or break challenge [video]
https://techcrunch.com/video/in-conversation-with-vitalik-buterin-justin-drake-and-karl-floersch-ethereum-foundation/
101
20
How thick is the atmosphere? A derivation of the Boltzmann distribution
https://gravityandlevity.wordpress.com/2018/07/14/how-thick-is-the-atmosphere-a-derivation-of-the-boltmzann-distribution/amp/
100
70
Think everyone died young in ancient societies? Think again
https://aeon.co/ideas/think-everyone-died-young-in-ancient-societies-think-again
92
62
Ask HN: Should I abandon a functioning SaaS with no paying users?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17540190
89
39
How Israel, in Dark of Night, Torched Its Way to Iran’s Nuclear Secrets
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/15/us/politics/iran-israel-mossad-nuclear.html
22
How a Sneaky Furniture Expert Ripped Off the Rich and Tricked Versailles
https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2018/07/how-a-sneaky-furniture-expert-tricked-versailles
Show HN: Hasura – Fast, instant GraphQL APIs on Postgres