1056
272
Amazon Dark Patterns
http://www.netinstructions.com/amazon-dark-patterns/
7 years ago
1017
550
The Bullshit Web
https://pxlnv.com/blog/bullshit-web/
1004
140
A bootable CD image with a retro game in a single tweet
https://www.quaxio.com/bootable_cd_retro_game_tweet/
824
216
Teenager Finds Classical Alternative to Quantum Recommendation Algorithm
https://www.quantamagazine.org/teenager-finds-classical-alternative-to-quantum-recommendation-algorithm-20180731/
522
150
That $35 that scientific journals charge goes 100% to publisher, 0% to authors
https://twitter.com/hwitteman/status/1015049411276300289
463
231
How America Uses Its Land
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-us-land-use/
395
126
Thank You, Robert Voit, Creator of Paint Shop Pro
https://ianlotinsky.wordpress.com/2018/07/29/thank-you-robert-voit-creator-of-jasc-paint-shop-pro/
364
69
How we scaled Nginx
https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-we-scaled-nginx-and-saved-the-world-54-years-every-day/?ref
295
76
Show HN: Make a business model canvas in your browser
https://sbussard.github.io/canvas-sketch/
279
183
Ex-SolarCity employees: We were fired after reporting millions in fake sales
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/07/3-ex-solarcity-employees-claim-company-oversaw-bogus-sales-to-inflate-valuation
243
34
Light painting animations directly from Blender
https://hackaday.com/2018/07/30/light-painting-animations-directly-from-blender
Taskbook: Like Trello but for the Terminal
https://github.com/klauscfhq/taskbook#--taskbook
★ 9.3kJavaScriptMIT–7 years ago
240
105
Evolving Floorplans
http://www.joelsimon.net/evo_floorplans.html
236
301
Waymo's Self-Driving Cars Are Near: Meet a Teen Who Rides One Every Day
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-07-31/inside-the-life-of-waymo-s-driverless-test-family
228
141
Most Remote Spots in USA Wilderness Complexes
http://www.peakbagger.com/report/report.aspx?r=w
222
371
Credit-Card Backlash Mounts as Kroger Weighs Expanding Visa Ban
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-30/credit-card-backlash-mounts-as-kroger-weighs-expanding-visa-ban
205
59
Faust: Stream Processing for Python
https://github.com/robinhood/faust
★ 6.8kPython–7 years ago
199
53
Australian firm Meriton fined $3M for misleading consumers on TripAdvisor
https://www.accc.gov.au/media-release/meriton-to-pay-3-million-for-misleading-consumers-on-tripadvisor
191
98
Books found in dumpster belonged to Thomas Jefferson
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/good-news/he-found-15-books-in-a-sierra-dumpster-then-he-found-out-they-belonged-to-thomas-jefferson/ar-BBLd9cM
186
96
Windows NT and VMS: The Rest of the Story (1998)
https://www.itprotoday.com/management-mobility/windows-nt-and-vms-rest-story
178
347
Removing Bad Actors on Facebook
https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/07/removing-bad-actors-on-facebook/
174
413
Apple Reports Third Quarter Results
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2018/07/apple-reports-third-quarter-results/
172
38
Ancient public library discovered in Germany
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jul/31/spectacular-ancient-public-library-discovered-in-germany
37
Elsevier demands unacceptable for Germany’s academic community
https://www.hrk.de/press/press-releases/press-release/meldung/deal-and-elsevier-negotiations-elsevier-demands-unacceptable-for-the-academic-community-4409/
170
254
Ask HN: How to overcome fear of flying?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17654487
160
79
Tencent loses $143B in market value
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-31/think-u-s-tech-is-bad-check-out-tencent-s-140-billion-selloff
155
Composing Programs – An introduction to programming in the tradition of SICP
http://www.composingprograms.com/
139
60
Krita in the Windows Store: an update
https://krita.org/en/item/krita-in-the-windows-store-an-update/
132
48
Leonardo Da Vinci's to Do List (Circa 1490)
http://www.openculture.com/2018/07/leonardo-da-vincis-list-circa-1490.html
125
18
How to read an RFC
https://www.mnot.net/blog/2018/07/31/read_rfc
115
133
Bail reform could give justice to poor, minorities
https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/counties/orange-county/article215771080.html
112
The ArdaCraft project seeks to recreate Tolkien’s Middle-earth in Minecraft
https://ardacraft.me/
54
Launch HN: JITX (YC S18) – Automating Circuit Board Design
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17654865
111
15
Web Typography Resources
https://betterwebtype.com/web-typography-resources
100
74
Better slow than sorry – VirtualBox 3D acceleration considered harmful
https://phoenhex.re/2018-07-27/better-slow-than-sorry
70
How Jack Ma took on eBay with Taobao
https://www.techinasia.com/were-war-story-jack-ma-ebay-taobao
25
Fastcat – A Faster `cat` Implementation Using Splice
https://matthias-endler.de/2018/fastcat/
91
14
Museum of ZZT
https://museumofzzt.com/
94
Dell XPS 13 Kabylake Makes for a Great Linux Laptop
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=dell-xps13-9370&num=1
17
A Dynamic Forth Compiler for WebAssembly
https://el-tramo.be/blog/waforth/
89
129
Everyone does not, in fact, have a book in them
https://theoutline.com/post/5541/unconventional-wisdom-you-should-not-write-a-book?zd=1&zi=4m5oydnj
87
11
Porting Coreboot to the 51NB X210
https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/50924.html
86
Landlord: Per-Tenant Stats in Postgres with Citus
https://www.citusdata.com/blog/2018/07/31/introducing-landlord-per-tenant-stats/
13
Analyzing Articles on Hacker News Using NLP
http://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/jayantj/news-analyze/blob/master/notebooks/Analyze%20HN%20using%20NLP!.ipynb
77
32
Why Hostility Can Bring People Closer Together
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-hostility-can-bring-people-closer-together/
Thank You, Robert Voit, Creator of Paint Shop Pro