696
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Don’t Do This in Production
https://stephenmann.io/post/dont-do-this-in-production/
8 years ago
488
291
Insurance copays are higher than the cost of the drug about 25% of the time
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/why-a-patient-paid-a-285-copay-for-a-40-drug
348
82
The scientists who starved to death surrounded by food
https://www.amusingplanet.com/2018/08/the-scientists-who-starved-to-death.html
333
79
Headless Chrome support in Cloud Functions and App Engine
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp/introducing-headless-chrome-support-in-cloud-functions-and-app-engine
252
101
Introduction to Go Modules
https://roberto.selbach.ca/intro-to-go-modules/
235
103
The un-celebrity president: Jimmy Carter shuns riches, lives modestly
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/national/wp/2018/08/17/feature/the-un-celebrity-president-jimmy-carter-shuns-riches-lives-modestly-in-his-georgia-hometown/
231
49
Bumper Sticker Computer Science (1985) [pdf]
http://www.bowdoin.edu/~ltoma/teaching/cs340/spring05/coursestuff/Bentley_BumperSticker.pdf
199
207
Ask HN: How did you find your current job?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17791766
169
60
The 1970s calculator race
https://twitter.com/pulplibrarian/status/1030830856720527360
160
AV1 and the Video Wars of 2027
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/08/the-video-wars-of-2027/
154
4
MIT 6.886 – Graph Analytics – Spring 2018
https://people.csail.mit.edu/jshun/6886-s18/
147
62
How Amsterdam’s Airport Is Fighting Noise Pollution with Land Art
https://www.amusingplanet.com/2017/06/how-amsterdams-airport-is-fighting.html
143
21
The short history of the “about:” URL (2013)
http://www.montulli.org/lou/about_urls
141
131
Netflix will now interrupt series binges with video ads for its other series
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/08/netflix-begins-testing-ads-for-its-own-series-between-binge-season-episodes/
137
110
What It’s Like Living As a Diagnosed Psychopath
https://www.thecut.com/2018/08/my-life-as-a-psychopath.html
136
36
On Loneliness and Solitude
https://www.pa-mar.net/Lifestyle/Solitude.html
135
148
Pop Songs Written by Native Speakers of Swedish
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/08/15/pop-songs-in-english-written-by-native-speakers-of-swedish/
132
75
Show HN: Umbrella JS, a 2.5kb jQuery alternative
https://umbrellajs.com/
125
149
What happens when a Pacific island upsets China
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-pacific-china-palau-insight/empty-hotels-idle-boats-what-happens-when-a-pacific-island-upsets-china-idUSKBN1L4036
117
52
Details of horrific first voyages in transatlantic slave trade revealed
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/transatlantic-slave-trade-voyages-ships-log-details-africa-america-atlantic-ocean-deaths-disease-a8494546.html
116
38
Archaeologists explore a rural field in Kansas, and a lost city emerges
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-kansas-lost-city-20180819-htmlstory.html
115
59
One in five genetics papers contains Excel errors (2016)
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/08/one-five-genetics-papers-contains-errors-thanks-microsoft-excel
114
26
The personal SOS messages the BBC used to send
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-35815747
106
31
Show HN: FreshJobs – An aggregator of junior and entry-level jobs
https://freshjobs.io
104
19
LI2: Lego Institute for Lego Investigation
http://norvig.com/LI2/
18
A Haskell Compiler – Slides on GHC Implementation (2013)
http://www.scs.stanford.edu/11au-cs240h/notes/ghc-slides.html
99
134
Let’s all go back to Tumblr
https://theoutline.com/post/5811/why-tumblr-is-better-than-twitter-and-we-should-bring-it-back
92
11
SIGGRAPH 2018 Papers: Machine Learning, Graphics, and Rendering
https://medium.com/@jcowles/siggraph-2018-papers-ee2bb1be9050
88
33
The Chinese Wheelbarrow (2011)
http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2011/12/the-chinese-wheelbarrow.html
86
8
A Detailed Look at RFC 8446 (a.k.a. TLS 1.3)
https://blog.cloudflare.com/rfc-8446-aka-tls-1-3/
81
The greatest paper map of the United States, made by one guy in Oregon (2012)
http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2012/01/the_best_american_wall_map_david_imus_the_essential_geography_of_the_united_states_of_america_.html
12
Detailed articles on the avionics of NASA’s space shuttle
https://spaceflight.nasa.gov/shuttle/reference/shutref/orbiter/avionics/
45
Greek island to run on wind, solar power
https://techxplore.com/news/2018-08-renewable-resort-greek-island-solar.html
78
85
Is Lisp Still Unique? Or at Least Different? (2002)
http://norvig.com/Lisp-retro.html
73
80
They Don't Build Them Like They Used To: The New Construction Shortage
https://www.zillow.com/research/new-construction-shortgage-20991/
72
3
Generating Mazes with Inductive Graphs
http://jelv.is/blog/Generating-Mazes-with-Inductive-Graphs/