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Show HN: I'm 12, learning JS, and wrote Wolfram's cellular automaton in Node
https://bitbucket.org/liamilan/wolfram-cellular-automata
7 years ago
839
383
Bye bye BetterSlack
https://g3rv4.com/2018/08/bye-bye-betterslack
453
361
Teens who refuse to use social media
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/aug/29/teens-desert-social-media
443
172
We Spent $3.3M Buying Out Investors: Why and How We Did It
https://open.buffer.com/buying-out-investors/
365
533
Ask HN: What do you struggle with?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17867109
349
102
Google, but for colors
https://picular.co/
343
75
LiteTree: SQLite with Branches
https://github.com/aergoio/litetree
★ 1.6kCMIT–7 years ago
336
679
Some Facebook Employees Unite to Challenge Its ‘Intolerant’ Liberal Culture
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/28/technology/inside-facebook-employees-political-bias.html
324
212
Twitter’s deletion of its FB app caused old cross-posts to temporarily disappear
https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/28/facebook-has-removed-all-cross-posted-tweets/
314
152
What Was the Microsoft Network?
http://www.codersnotes.com/notes/the-microsoft-network/
170
Air pollution causes ‘huge’ reduction in intelligence: study
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/aug/27/air-pollution-causes-huge-reduction-in-intelligence-study-reveals
276
33
Financial Modeling for Startups: An Introduction
https://www.fivecastfinancial.com/guides/financial-modeling-for-startups-an-introduction/
265
254
Miami Will Be Underwater Soon. Its Drinking Water Could Go First
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-08-29/miami-s-other-water-problem
219
44
A Missing Link in Postgres 11: Fast Column Creation with Defaults
https://brandur.org/postgres-default
184
77
How to Succeed with a Startup [video]
https://blog.ycombinator.com/sam-altman-how-to-succeed-with-a-startup/
180
8
Python Pandas: Tricks and Features
https://realpython.com/python-pandas-tricks/
174
28
Beej's Quick Guide to GDB (2009)
https://beej.us/guide/bggdb/
173
111
For $450, a Japanese Company Will Quit Your Job for You
https://www.npr.org/2018/08/28/642597968/for-450-this-japanese-company-will-quit-your-job-for-you
158
CivJS: A JavaScript 4X Game (2015)
https://github.com/Venerons/CivJS
★ 571JavaScriptGPL-3.0–7 years ago
157
52
FCC can define markets with only one ISP as “competitive,” court rules
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/08/fcc-can-define-markets-with-only-one-isp-as-competitive-court-rules/
Transmuting Low-Value Programmer Cred into High-Value Status Illegibility
https://daedtech.com/transmuting-low-value-programmer-cred-into-high-value-status-lllegibility/
153
65
How to use LEDs to detect light
https://makezine.com/projects/make-36-boards/how-to-use-leds-to-detect-light/
51
Google donates money to help run the Kubernetes infrastructure
https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/29/google-steps-back-from-running-the-kubernetes-infrastructure/
149
Sinister 'hunger stones' with dire warnings have surfaced as water levels drop
https://www.businessinsider.com/sinister-hunger-stones-dire-warnings-surfaced-europe-2018-8
143
151
Lerna relicences to protest ICE
https://github.com/lerna/lerna/pull/1616
★ 36kTypeScriptMIT–7 years ago
142
155
Why the Future of Data Storage Is Still Magnetic Tape
https://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/hardware/why-the-future-of-data-storage-is-still-magnetic-tape
133
100
A plea for lean software (1995) [pdf]
https://cr.yp.to/bib/1995/wirth.pdf
48
Lobste.rs
https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters
★ 4.6kRuby–7 years ago
131
55
SurveyMonkey S-1
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1739936/000119312518261892/d494258ds1.htm
130
137
We Discovered Helium 150 Years Ago. Are We Running Out?
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2018/08/news-helium-mri-superconducting-markets-reserve-technology/
125
168
Germany, seeking independence from U.S., pushes cyber security research
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-cyber/germany-seeking-independence-from-u-s-pushes-cyber-security-research-idUSKCN1LE1FX
124
Puffins are in trouble
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/08/29/climate/puffins-dwindling-iceland.html
121
19
Using FOIA and public databases to track down Department of Defense contracts
https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2018/aug/24/how-use-foia-find-department-defense-contracts/
116
Ecstasy as a Remedy for PTSD? You Probably Have Some Questions
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/01/us/ecstasy-molly-ptsd-mdma.html
113
27
Madoko – a fast markdown processor for writing professional documents
https://www.madoko.net
87
How TripAdvisor Changed Travel
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/aug/17/how-tripadvisor-changed-travel
35
On Software Tooling
https://www.marcel.is/sw-tooling/
112
37
Postgres data types you should consider using
https://www.citusdata.com/blog/2018/08/29/datatypes-you-should-consider-using/
110
84
Diagrams: A diagram editor for the Mac
https://diagrams.app/
107
Hackers sell data of 130M Chinese hotel guests on dark web for 8 Bitcoin
https://thenextweb.com/hardfork/2018/08/29/china-bitcoin-data-dark-web/
‘Overtourism’ Worries Europe. How Much Did Technology Help Get Us There?
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/29/technology/technology-overtourism-europe.html
105
82
Trump unblocks more Twitter users after U.S. court ruling
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-twitter/trump-unblocks-more-twitter-users-after-u-s-court-ruling-idUSKCN1LE08Q
56
China’s Re-education Camps
https://www.wsj.com/articles/chinas-re-education-camps-1535497220
98
Data Engineering Patterns with Apache Airflow [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23_1WlxGGM4
92
138
Life on the Internet Is Hard When Your Last Name Is 'Butts'
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/9kmp9v/life-on-the-internet-is-hard-when-your-last-name-is-butts
90
21
Show HN: A smarthome dashboard concept using zircle-ui
https://github.com/zircleUI/smarthome-tutorial
★ 212VueMIT–7 years ago
80
13
Unimania: I Need Your Facebook Data, Location, and Your Browsing History
https://adguard.com/en/blog/unimania-spyware-campaign/
162
Locals reportedly frustrated with Waymo's self-driving cars
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/28/locals-reportedly-frustrated-with-alphabets-waymo-self-driving-cars.html
Germany, seeking independence from U.S., pushes cyber security research