779
68
Markov Chains Explained Visually (2014)
http://setosa.io/ev/markov-chains/
7 years ago
493
321
Katie's New Face
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2018/09/face-transplant-katie-stubblefield-story-identity-surgery-science/
475
197
Software development requires servant leaders
https://adl.io/essays/why-software-development-requires-servant-leaders/
393
260
The easiest way to keep your web apps accessible: Just use text
https://blog.logrocket.com/the-easiest-way-to-keep-your-web-apps-accessible-c2b57506cc2a
389
149
The Akrasia Effect: Why We Don’t Follow Through on What We Set Out to Do
https://jamesclear.com/akrasia
377
441
Launch HN: The Buttermilk Company (YC S18) – Homemade Indian Food in 5 Minutes
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17767789
374
281
Georgia Tech Creates Cybersecurity Master’s Degree Online for Less Than $10k
https://www.news.gatech.edu/2018/08/08/georgia-tech-creates-cybersecurity-masters-degree-online-less-10000
351
345
YC China and Qi Lu
https://blog.ycombinator.com/yc-china-qi-lu/
335
104
TinyWM – A tiny window manager in around 50 lines of C
http://incise.org/tinywm.html
333
115
SQLite Release 3.25.0 adds support for window functions
https://www.sqlite.org/draft/releaselog/current.html
323
414
Companies Shouldn’t Be Accountable Only to Shareholders
https://www.wsj.com/articles/companies-shouldnt-be-accountable-only-to-shareholders-1534287687
299
106
Osx-kvm: Run macOS on QEMU/KVM
https://github.com/kholia/OSX-KVM
★ 23.2kShell–7 years ago
297
190
Introducing the Windows Pseudo Console (ConPty)
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/2018/08/02/windows-command-line-introducing-the-windows-pseudo-console-conpty/
257
108
Leo Editor
https://www.leoeditor.com/
236
75
SQLite – The “server-process-edition” branch
https://sqlite.org/src/artifact/0c6bc6f55191b690
226
73
Inside the die of Intel's 8087 coprocessor chip, root of modern floating point
http://www.righto.com/2018/08/inside-die-of-intels-8087-coprocessor.html
212
279
Bullshit-sensitivity predicts prosocial behavior
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0201474
182
103
Code review review is the manager’s job
https://hecate.co/blog/code-review-review-is-the-managers-job
178
46
TimescaleDB vs. InfluxDB: built differently for time-series data
https://blog.timescale.com/timescaledb-vs-influxdb-for-time-series-data-timescale-influx-sql-nosql-36489299877
173
139
Reversing the effects of long programming sessions
https://www.poppastring.com/blog/ReversingTheEffectsOfLongProgrammingSessions.aspx
172
194
The Jury Is In: Monolithic OS Design Is Flawed [pdf]
http://ts.data61.csiro.au/publications/csiro_full_text/Biggs_LH_18.pdf
161
105
Dropbear SSH, a lightweight alternative to OpenSSH
https://www.librebyte.net/en/network/dropbear-ssh-a-lightweight-alternative-to-openssh/
153
151
Why There Are So Many Thai Restaurants in America
https://munchies.vice.com/en_us/article/paxadz/the-surprising-reason-that-there-are-so-many-thai-restaurants-in-america
89
Intangible investment behaves differently
https://www.gatesnotes.com/Books/Capitalism-Without-Capital
145
$100M Was Once Big Money for a Startup. Now, It’s Common
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/14/technology/venture-capital-mega-round.html
141
95
Blind: an anonymous, corporate social network
https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/11/blind-loyalty/
138
61
Scaling Your Static Site to a Global Market for a Fraction of the Cost on AWS
https://medium.com/@elliot_f/scaling-your-static-site-to-a-global-market-for-a-fraction-of-the-cost-on-aws-12d23f30f877
133
77
Exploring Error Handling Patterns in Go
https://8thlight.com/blog/kyle-krull/2018/08/13/exploring-error-handling-patterns-in-go.html
124
21
Issues relating to a bug in Intel cpus
https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=153431475429367&w=2
114
12
Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System
http://donellameadows.org/archives/leverage-points-places-to-intervene-in-a-system/
110
29
Ajit Pai grilled by lawmakers on why FCC spread “myth” of DDoS attack
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/08/ajit-pai-must-answer-for-fccs-lies-to-congress-about-ddos-senators-say/
New Zealand Passes Law to Crack Down on Foreign Home Buyers
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-14/new-zealand-poised-to-impose-crackdown-on-foreign-home-buyers
20
Irony Alert: Disney About 'Overzealous Copyright Holders'
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180815/01040040434/irony-alert-disney-yes-disney-whines-about-overzealous-copyright-holders.shtml
102
65
Show HN: Eno – A lightning fast, user-friendly YAML/TOML alternative
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17765426
101
24
Search Engine for Web Page Source Code with 300M Sites Indexed
https://publicwww.com/
98
The TTY demystified (2008)
https://www.linusakesson.net/programming/tty/
6
Show HN: A Go implementation of TensorFlow's streaming quantiles estimator
https://github.com/axiomhq/quantiles
★ 162GoMIT–7 years ago
97
Cubans cheer as internet goes nationwide for a day
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cuba-internet/cubans-cheer-as-internet-goes-nationwide-for-a-day-idUSKBN1KZ2CB
27
Products Are Functions
http://www.feltpresence.com/functions.html
88
84
What makes Paris look like Paris? (2012)
https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2015/12/194622-what-makes-paris-look-like-paris/fulltext
Leg exercise is critical to brain and nervous system health
https://blog.frontiersin.org/2018/06/07/neuroscience-leg-exercise-brain-nervous-system-health/
85
5
Collective awareness, or the models that we use to understand the world
https://www.edge.org/conversation/j_doyne_farmer-collective-awareness
83
45
What It Takes to Hold Your Breath for 24 Minutes (2017)
https://www.wired.com/story/what-it-takes-to-hold-your-breath-for-24-minutes-yeah-its-a-thing/
82
18
Geospatial indexing on Hilbert curves
https://blog.zen.ly/geospatial-indexing-on-hilbert-curves-2379b929addc
80
35
How to start an e-commerce store that doesn’t dropship
https://medium.com/@kentf/how-to-start-an-e-commerce-store-that-doesnt-dropship-742adb1087f3
120
The Revolution Against the Revolution: Looking Back on Shays’ Rebellion
https://www.city-journal.org/html/shays-rebellion-16041.html
44
Algorithm and Blues: The Tyranny of the Coming Smart-Tech Utopia
http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/publications/algorithm-and-blues-tyranny-coming-smart-tech-utopia
7
Salt-infused graphene creates an infrared cloaking device
https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/08/salt-infused-graphene-makes-for-a-infrared-cloaking-device/
Alexa, be my friend: Children talk to technology, but how does it respond?
http://www.washington.edu/news/2018/08/06/alexa-be-my-friend-children-talk-to-technology-but-how-does-it-respond/
72
9
Break a dozen secret keys, get a million more for free (2015)
https://ecrypt-eu.blogspot.com/2015/11/break-dozen-secret-keys-get-million.html
71
60
Do electrons think? (1949)
https://quantumlifescience.wordpress.com/2014/04/10/do-electrons-think-erwin-schrodinger-bbc-1949/
1
QLBridge – Go SQL Runtime Engine
https://github.com/araddon/qlbridge
★ 869GoMIT–7 years ago
Dissecting a Shader Quine
https://gpfault.net/posts/shader-quine.txt.html
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