700
112
Show HN: Select Star SQL, an interactive SQL book
http://selectstarsql.com
8 years ago
634
198
Terry Davis has died
http://www.templeos.org/
509
137
Radical open-access plan could spell end to journal subscriptions
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-06178-7
472
97
The Tools I Use to Write Books
https://thorstenball.com/blog/2018/09/04/the-tools-i-use-to-write-books/
455
755
Mercedes Readies First Tesla Rival in $12B Attack
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-04/mercedes-readies-first-tesla-rival-in-12-billion-attack-plan
419
103
Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know
https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~rcs/research/interactive_latency.html
392
89
Show HN: Magic Sandbox – learn Kubernetes on real infrastructure
https://magicsandbox.com
364
48
Stellarium Web: Online Planetarium
https://stellarium-web.org/
356
280
Reboot Your Dreamliner Every 248 Days to Avoid Integer Overflow (2015)
https://www.i-programmer.info/news/149-security/8548-reboot-your-dreamliner-every-248-days-to-avoid-integer-overflow.html
313
94
Australia Wants to Take Government Surveillance to the Next Level
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/04/opinion/australia-encryptian-surveillance-bill.html
311
213
Progress update from the Librem 5 hardware department
https://puri.sm/posts/librem5-2018-09-hardware-report/
297
115
UPDuino: a $9.99 FPGA
https://tinyletter.com/jamesbowman/letters/upduino-a-9-99-fpga
268
18
How LLVM Optimizes a Function
https://blog.regehr.org/archives/1603
264
125
Wikimedia warns EU copyright reform threatens the ‘vibrant free web’
https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/04/wikimedia-warns-eu-copyright-reform-threatens-the-vibrant-free-web/
261
145
MikroTik routers are forwarding owners’ traffic to unknown attackers
https://blog.netlab.360.com/7500-mikrotik-routers-are-forwarding-owners-traffic-to-the-attackers-how-is-yours-en/
239
147
Why does sorting in computer science mean ordering rather than categorizing?
https://twitter.com/random_walker/status/1036704758696960001
233
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How to Get Kids to Do Chores: Does the Maya Method Work?
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2018/09/01/641266260/how-to-get-kids-to-do-chores-does-the-maya-method-work
230
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Evernote lost its CTO, CFO, CPO and HR head as it eyes another fundraise
https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/04/evernote-lost-its-cto-cfo-cpo-and-hr-head-in-the-last-month-as-it-eyes-another-fundraise/
226
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The mean age of high-tech founders is 43, economists say
https://blogs.wsj.com/cio/2018/08/31/silicon-valley-myths-aside-time-is-on-the-side-of-aging-entrepreneurs/
219
71
Ask HN: Types of questions to ask team members before accepting role?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17908547
210
108
Microsoft Azure suffers outage after cooling issue
https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/news/microsoft-azure-suffers-outage-after-cooling-issue/
186
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Amazon hits $1T market cap
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/04/amazon-hits-1-trillion-in-market-value.html
172
11
Levenshtein Automata (2010)
http://blog.notdot.net/2010/07/Damn-Cool-Algorithms-Levenshtein-Automata
164
50
Google Optimize now free for everyone
https://www.blog.google/products/marketingplatform/analytics/this-is-not-a-test-google-optimize-now-free-for-everyone/
111
Space station leak caused by drill, not meteorite
https://www.upi.com/Hole-responsible-for-space-station-leak-caused-by-drill-not-meteorite-Russia-says/2331536013870/
159
96
The fight over the sugar industry's influence on nutrition research
https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/23/17039780/sugar-industry-conspiracy-heart-disease-research-mark-hegsted-harvard
150
121
Skype rolls back its redesign by ditching stories and squiggles
https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/03/skype-rolls-back-its-redesign-by-ditching-stories-squiggles-and-over-the-top-color/
104
Conservative web development
https://drewdevault.com/2018/09/04/Conservative-web-development.html
149
151
Clayton Christensen: Half of U.S. colleges will be bankrupt in 10 to 15 years
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/30/hbs-prof-says-half-of-us-colleges-will-be-bankrupt-in-10-to-15-years.html
143
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OpsGenie is joining Atlassian
https://www.opsgenie.com/blog/opsgenie-is-joining-atlassian
141
19
“Stateless” sync using version vectors
http://archagon.net/blog/2018/09/03/good-spirits-persisting-data-statelessly/
134
86
Ask HN: What are your favorite non-fiction books of all time?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17909694
12
Learning Python for Social Scientists (2015)
https://nealcaren.github.io/python-tutorials/
80
A bug story: data alignment in C on x86 (2016)
http://pzemtsov.github.io/2016/11/06/bug-story-alignment-on-x86.html
130
Email security on Democratic campaigns is as bad as 2016
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2018/09/04/im-teaching-email-security-democratic-campaigns-its-bad/
124
32
Notes on “A Philosophy of Software Design”
https://lethain.com//notes-philosophy-software-design/
68
The Early History Of Smalltalk (1993)
http://worrydream.com/EarlyHistoryOfSmalltalk/
120
Why Technology Favors Tyranny
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/10/yuval-noah-harari-technology-tyranny/568330/?single_page=true
117
17
Hacking into a CPU’S Microcode (2017)
https://hackaday.com/2017/12/28/34c3-hacking-into-a-cpus-microcode/
62
Ask HN: What methods and tools can I use to decrease my app churn?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17912910
114
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Maybe adding generics to Go is about syntax after all
https://dave.cheney.net/2018/09/03/maybe-adding-generics-to-go-is-about-syntax-after-all
8
Show HN: AgentMaps – Turn maps into living societies
https://github.com/noncomputable/AgentMaps
★ 949 JavaScript BSD-2-Clause– 8 years ago
110
46
Rocket woman: How to cook curry and get a spacecraft into Mars orbit
https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-45374442
106
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The Diplomatic Couriers Who Deliver America's Secret Mail
https://www.wired.com/story/diplomatic-courier-service/
98
39
Mass Transit Optimization for Buses: The Depot Problem
https://www.optibus.com/mass-transit-optimization-for-buses-the-depot-problem/
Prosecuting homeless for sleeping outside may violate U.S. Constitution: ruling
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-idaho-homeless/prosecuting-homeless-for-sleeping-outside-may-violate-u-s-constitution-ruling-idUSKCN1LK26U
85
TypeScript 3.0
http://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/release-notes/typescript-3-0.html
92
26
Loser's Lunch
https://longreads.com/2018/09/03/losers-lunch/
91
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What Came First: The Village or the Temple? Or, the Mystery of Göbekli Tepe
https://bookworm.club/2018/09/sapiens/
90
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Female, minority students took AP computer science in record numbers
https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2018/08/27/female-minority-students-took-ap-computer-science-record-numbers/1079699002/