347
114
First-party isolation in Firefox: what breaks if you enable it?
https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/firefox-fpi
7 years ago
327
189
Tell HN: Google requiring phone number to log into Chromebook
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17944311
313
64
Build a better Bookshelf
https://huytd.github.io/build-a-better-bookshelf.html
304
51
A doctor in Bangladesh has found a simple way to treat infant pneumonia
https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2018/09/08/how-a-shampoo-bottle-is-saving-young-lives
276
63
Starting an ISP: Deploying Fiber
http://chrishacken.com/starting-an-internet-service-provider-part-2-deploying-fiber/
256
40
D3-dag – Layout algorithms for visualizing directed acylic graphs
https://github.com/erikbrinkman/d3-dag
★ 1.5kTypeScriptMIT–7 years ago
252
96
Show HN: Zero – Local file system transparently swapping to the cloud
https://github.com/KonstantinSchubert/zero
★ 773Python–7 years ago
248
87
What Is Systems Programming, Really?
http://willcrichton.net/notes/systems-programming/
230
174
I survived the Warsaw ghetto. Here are the lessons I’d like to pass on
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/05/survived-warsaw-ghetto-wartime-lessons-extremism-europe
224
62
Isochronous Curves
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tautochrone_curve
222
89
Infectious Theory of Alzheimer's Disease Draws Fresh Interest
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/09/09/645629133/infectious-theory-of-alzheimers-disease-draws-fresh-interest
220
103
Ask HN: How to transition from academic programming to software engineering?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17944306
202
60
Mistakes C/C++ Devs make writing Go
https://about.sourcegraph.com/go/gophercon-2018-5-mistakes-c-c-devs-make-writing-go
193
Companies worry more about access to software developers than capital
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/06/companies-worry-more-about-access-to-software-developers-than-capital.html
187
66
How Tutanota replaced Google’s FCM with their own notification system
https://f-droid.org/en/2018/09/03/replacing-gcm-in-tutanota.html
185
141
To Restore Civil Society, Start with the Library
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/08/opinion/sunday/civil-society-library.html
74
NSA metadata program “consistent” with Fourth Amendment, Kavanaugh once argued
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/09/even-after-nsa-metadata-program-revised-kavanaugh-argued-in-favor-of-it/
183
27
The First 15 Years of PyPy – A Personal Retrospective
https://morepypy.blogspot.com/2018/09/the-first-15-years-of-pypy.html
182
7
Smenu, a command-line advanced selection filter and a menu builder for terminal
https://github.com/p-gen/smenu
★ 2.4kCMPL-2.0–7 years ago
176
127
Clojure is cool
http://ahungry.com/blog/2018-09-09-Clojure-is-Cool.html
147
118
Beijing’s Three Options: Unemployment, Debt, or Wealth Transfers
https://carnegieendowment.org/chinafinancialmarkets/77178
145
35
Mirror life
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_life
140
169
YouTube stars heading for burnout
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/sep/08/youtube-stars-burnout-fun-bleak-stressed
36
Isaac Asimov on The David Letterman Show (1980) [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=365kJOsFd3w
126
21
A map showing the steepness of streets (2013)
http://www.tobyeglesfield.com/a-map-showing-the-steepness-of-streets/
124
29
Additional Mac App Store apps caught stealing and uploading browser history
https://9to5mac.com/2018/09/09/additional-mac-app-store-apps-caught-stealing-and-uploading-browser-history/
33
Scientists discover how to turn light into matter after 80-year quest (2014)
https://phys.org/news/2014-05-scientists-year-quest.html
110
43
GNU nano 3.0 released
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-nano/2018-09/msg00000.html
98
12
Going Fast and Cheap: How We Made Anna Autoscale
https://rise.cs.berkeley.edu/blog/going-fast-and-cheap-how-we-made-anna-autoscale/
45
Show HN: Prod – Blocks addictive websites until you've finished your to-do list
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/prod-%E2%80%94-the-thoughtful-to/cpelgckpifnonijeenjbaglajimalpcl
90
5
EU copyright must protect access to knowledge and the commons
https://creativecommons.org/2018/09/07/its-now-or-never-eu-copyright-must-protect-access-to-knowledge-and-the-commons/
Reazon – miniKanren for Emacs
https://github.com/nickdrozd/reazon
★ 116Emacs LispGPL-3.0–7 years ago
34
Lisp for the Web (2008)
https://www.adamtornhill.com/articles/lispweb.htm
84
UK’s worst-selling map: The empty landscape charted by OS440
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/sep/09/uk-worst-selling-map-empty-landscape-ordnance-survey-os440-glen-cassley
79
55
Entrepreneur raises millions of bugs to tackle food waste problem (2017)
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1066448.shtml
26
Top cancer researcher fails to disclose corporate ties in major journals
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/08/health/jose-baselga-cancer-memorial-sloan-kettering.html
71
23
Spontaneous knotting of an agitated string (2007)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2034230/
70
14
Why I never finish my Haskell programs (part 2)
https://blog.plover.com/prog/haskell/what-goes-wrong-2.html
Beijing’s Three Options: Unemployment, Debt, or Wealth Transfers