660
127
Show HN: Lunar lander-type game with computational fluid dynamics
https://github.com/s-macke/Interplanetary-Postal-Service/
★ 673CGPL-3.0–7 years ago
446
80
SageMath – Open-Source Mathematical Software System
https://www.sagemath.org/
7 years ago
433
347
In killing Inbox, Google takes another swipe at its most passionate users
https://www.computerworld.com/article/3305946/email/in-killing-inbox-google-takes-another-swipe-at-its-most-passionate-users.html
329
33
Raytracing a Black Hole
http://rantonels.github.io/starless/
226
132
E Ink Waveforms are a closely guarded secret
https://goodereader.com/blog/e-paper/e-ink-waveforms-are-a-closely-guarded-secret
223
73
How to be alone: the difference between loneliness and solitude
https://medium.com/swlh/how-to-be-alone-the-difference-between-loneliness-and-solitude-70745a66bc62
201
156
Ask HN: How is Facebook's iOS app 491MB?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17995954
191
23
My RustConf 2018 Closing Keynote
https://kyren.github.io/2018/09/14/rustconf-talk.html
177
213
Ask HN: How do I choose between a job offer from Google and a promising startup?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17995053
161
87
WwwBasic – An implementation of BASIC designed to be easy to run on the Web
https://github.com/google/wwwbasic
★ 1.1kJavaScriptApache-2.0–7 years ago
152
76
You can’t “turn off the borrow checker” in Rust
https://words.steveklabnik.com/you-can-t-turn-off-the-borrow-checker-in-rust
139
51
How Game Apps That Captivate Kids Have Been Collecting Their Data
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/09/12/technology/kids-apps-data-privacy-google-twitter.html
90
Low.js – Node.js for embedded devices
http://www.lowjs.org
137
Opinion vs. Skill on Hacker News
https://richardwatson.co/opinion-vs.-skill-on-hacker-news.html
133
92
Tyler Cowen launches fellowship and grant program for moon shot ideas
https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/13/economist-tyler-cowen-launches-a-fellowship-and-grant-program-for-moon-shot-ideas/
129
42
Why does the Zune HD have the message “For our Princess” inside of the case?
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20180914-00/?p=99735
124
75
Gravitational waves provide dose of reality about extra dimensions
https://phys.org/news/2018-09-gravitational-dose-reality-extra-dimensions.html
121
154
Is the Second Farm Crisis Upon Us?
https://civileats.com/2018/09/10/is-the-second-farm-crisis-upon-us/
115
99
If Jeff Bezos wants to help low-income people why not just pay them better?
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/14/jeff-bezos-low-income-people-pay-amazon-workers-better
108
49
XML, blockchains, and the strange shapes of progress
https://apenwarr.ca/log/?m=201809
105
6
Brian Kernighan on the Elements of Programming Style [video]
https://dave.cheney.net/2018/09/15/internets-of-interest-1-brian-kernighan-on-the-elements-of-programming-style
14
Ice age wolf pup and caribou dug up in Canada
https://amp.theguardian.com/science/2018/sep/14/spectacular-ice-age-wolf-pup-and-caribou-dug-up-in-canada
104
53
Watch Plants Light Up When They Get Attacked
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/13/science/plant-defenses.html
74
The Major Urban Revolution of Minor Transportation Means
https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2018/9/13/the-major-urban-revolution-of-minor-transportation-means
96
16
Variational Autoencoders Explained
http://anotherdatum.com/vae.html
20
Quantum Computing and Cryptography
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2018/09/quantum_computi_2.html
93
Ask HN: Why Does the European Tech Industry Have Such a B2B Focus?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17994600
86
52
Show HN: Re:consent – View and change the consent you have given to websites
https://github.com/cliqz-oss/re-consent
★ 105JavaScriptMPL-2.0–7 years ago
81
95
Handling Notch on iPhone X, XS, XR, XS Max
https://bubblin.io/blog/notch
63
Phishing Is the Internet’s Most Successful Con
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/09/phishing-is-the-internets-most-successful-con/569920/?single_page=true
46
Stories – Medium clone built with Rails
https://github.com/michelson/dante-stories
★ 384Ruby–7 years ago
38
One DNA test said he was likely to get Alzheimer’s, the other said he wasn’t
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/15/opinion/sunday/23andme-ancestry-alzheimers-genetic-testing.html
58
Elephant birds: Who killed the largest birds that ever lived?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-45495400
78
19
The Causal Revolutionary – Interview with Judea Pearl
https://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/the-causal-revolutionary/#.W5zZAEtAHvs.twitter
AMD Contributes 8.5x More Code to the Linux Kernel Than Nvidia
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=AMD-NVIDIA-Intel-Kernel-Contrib
The Privacy Revolution in Action
https://tcsltesting.blogspot.com/2018/04/the-privacy-revolution-in-action.html
70
11
Android devices send data 10x more often to Google than iOS devices to Apple
https://www.macrumors.com/2018/08/22/android-sends-data-google-10-times-ios-to-apple/
69
32
We still don’t understand motion sickness
https://qz.com/quartzy/1379653/we-still-dont-understand-motion-sickness-but-its-likely-to-get-worse-in-the-digital-age/
68
Nuclear pasta in neutron stars may be the strongest material in the universe
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/nuclear-pasta-neutron-stars-may-be-strongest-material-universe
66
3
Machine intelligence at Dropbox
https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech/2018/09/machine-intelligence-at-dropbox-an-update-from-our-dbxi-team/amp/
65
AMC Is Beating MoviePass at Its Own Game
https://www.fool.com/investing/2018/09/15/3-reasons-amc-is-beating-moviepass-at-its-own-game.aspx
77
Net neutrality gives “free” Internet to Netflix and Google, ISP claims
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/09/net-neutrality-gives-free-internet-to-netflix-and-google-isp-claims/
62
21
newLISP v.10.7.4 Development Release
http://www.newlisp.org/downloads/development/newLISP-10.7.4-Release.html
WwwBasic – An implementation of BASIC designed to be easy to run on the Web