602
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EU to recommend that member states abolish daylight saving time
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/31/eu-recommend-member-states-abolish-daylight-saving-time
7 years ago
530
310
Can Beethoven send takedown requests?
https://wikimediafoundation.org/2018/08/27/can-beethoven-send-takedown-requests-a-first-hand-account-of-one-german-professors-experience-with-overly-broad-upload-filters/
529
131
After 24 years, Doom II's final secret has been found
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2018/08/31/after-24-years-doom-iis-final-secret-has-been-found/
389
224
Maersk installed 100-foot-tall rotating sails on one of its tankers
https://www.wsj.com/articles/maersk-tankers-turns-to-wind-power-to-cut-soaring-fuel-costs-1535641239
334
75
Show HN: Proven – An alternative to Twitter's verified accounts, with HN support
https://github.com/dschep/proven
★ 514JavaScriptGPL-3.0–7 years ago
329
147
New Evidence That Lead Exposure Increases Crime (2017)
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2017/06/01/new-evidence-that-lead-exposure-increases-crime/
287
107
React Fire: Modernizing React DOM
https://github.com/facebook/react/issues/13525
★ 244.7kJavaScriptMIT–7 years ago
281
115
Cargo ships that sink when their cargo suddenly liquefies
https://theconversation.com/mystery-of-the-cargo-ships-that-sink-when-their-cargo-suddenly-liquefies-101158
276
91
x86-64 Assembly Language Programming with Ubuntu
http://www.egr.unlv.edu/~ed/x86.html
230
58
Prediction Markets: When Do They Work?
https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2018/07/26/prediction-markets-when-do-they-work/
226
99
Blackened Buildings of Manchester Before the Clean Air Act
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/incoming/gallery/blackened-buildings-manchester-before-clean-8727918
222
168
AI Can Transform Anyone Into a Professional Dancer
https://news.developer.nvidia.com/ai-can-transform-anyone-into-a-professional-dancer/
204
74
On the Worst-Case Complexity of TimSort
http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2018/9467/
202
83
How much countries spend in R&D
http://uis.unesco.org/apps/visualisations/research-and-development-spending/
199
301
San Francisco Denies Scooter Permits for Bird, Lime, Uber and Lyft
https://www.wsj.com/articles/san-francisco-denies-scooter-permits-for-bird-lime-uber-and-lyft-1535669924
198
27
Telco lobbyists accidentally send their talking points
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180829/18030740541/that-time-telco-lobbyists-sent-me-all-their-talking-points-about-trying-to-shift-blame-to-internet-companies.shtml
182
42
A deep dive into the Go memory allocator and garbage collector
https://about.sourcegraph.com/go/gophercon-2018-allocator-wrestling/
175
162
Java is still available at zero-cost
http://blog.joda.org/2018/08/java-is-still-available-at-zero-cost.html
167
95
Total Recall: LeBron's mighty mind (2014)
http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/11067098/lebron-james-greatest-weapon-brain
165
143
Mutiny at the big five is part of the future of work
https://abe-winter.github.io/2018/08/30/mutiny.html
San Francisco Denies Scooter Permits for Bird, Lime, Uber and Lyft