1145
375
DuckDuckGo Traffic
https://duckduckgo.com/traffic
7 years ago
750
250
Solid – Reshape the web as we know it
https://solid.inrupt.com/
684
465
Elon Musk Settles SEC Fraud Charges
https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2018-226
613
563
Ask HN: What things have richly rewarded the time invested in mastering them?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18098992
533
203
World’s Oldest Surviving Torrent Still Alive After 15 Years
https://torrentfreak.com/worlds-oldest-torrent-still-alive-after-15-years-180929/
332
195
Atlassian's new terms forbid benchmarking
https://community.developer.atlassian.com/t/about-the-new-software-terms-scent-of-intel-re-performance/24041
326
148
The relative performance of C and Rust
http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2018/09/28/the-relative-performance-of-c-and-rust/
296
171
How counterfeits benefit Amazon
http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-amazon-counterfeits-20180928-story.html
79
Haiku R1/beta1 has been released
https://www.haiku-os.org/news/2018_09_28_haiku_r1_beta1/
288
120
Ask HN: How do you decide when you've done enough work for the day?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18103640
246
132
No Cash Needed at This Cafe: Students Pay the Tab with Their Personal Data
https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/09/29/643386327/no-cash-needed-at-this-cafe-students-pay-the-tab-with-their-personal-data
245
142
Mexico’s drug cartels are moving into the gasoline industry
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/drug-war-mexico-gas-oil-cartel-717563/
234
126
Turn off tracking protection to resolve “video is currently unavailable” error
https://cbsi.secure.force.com/CBSi/ViewArticle_allaccess?popup=true&aId=kA00L000000Hfaq&categories=CBS_Entertainment%3AAll_Access&template=template_cbsvod&referer=cbs.com/vod&data=&cfs=SFS_FT
233
17
Facebook blocked users from posting some stories about its security breach
https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/28/facebook-blocks-guardian-story/
191
26
The Riemann Hypothesis, explained
https://medium.com/@JorgenVeisdal/the-riemann-hypothesis-explained-fa01c1f75d3f
185
47
In test case, U.S. fails to force Facebook to wiretap Messenger calls
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-encryption-exclusive/exclusive-in-test-case-u-s-fails-to-force-facebook-to-wiretap-messenger-calls-sources-idUSKCN1M82K1
179
125
Solving My Email Problem
http://blog.nawaz.org/posts/2018/Sep/solving-my-email-problem/
178
32
UK intelligence agency admits unlawfully spying on Privacy International
https://privacyinternational.org/press-release/2283/press-release-uk-intelligence-agency-admits-unlawfully-spying-privacy
133
Uber Scam in Brazil – Drivers Have ‘Challenges’ Ending Trips
https://loyaltylobby.com/2018/09/28/uber-scam-in-brazil-drivers-have-challenges-ending-trips/?omhide=true
169
31
Mario Kart Wii: The History of the Ultra Shortcut [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmJ_LT8bUj0
166
64
U.S. Congress Renews $5M Open Textbook Pilot for Second Year
https://sparcopen.org/news/2018/open-textbooks-pilot-fy19/
159
74
Hardening macOS
https://blog.bejarano.io/hardening-macos.html
158
10
How I ended up writing opensnoop in pure C using eBPF
https://bolinfest.github.io/opensnoop-native/
156
176
Cincinnati Joins the List of Cities Saying ‘No’ to Parking Minimums
https://nextcity.org/daily/entry/cincinnati-joins-the-list-of-cities-saying-no-to-parking-minimums
153
15
The Art of Approximation in Science and Engineering [pdf]
http://web.mit.edu/6.055/book/book-draft.pdf
149
45
Rust Ownership Explained with Python
https://paulkernfeld.com/2018/09/16/ownership-explained-with-python.html#
7
Project West Ford
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_West_Ford
145
Teenage tech prodigy wants to fix Bitcoin's energy consumption problem
https://www.businessinsider.com/teenage-tech-prodigy-wants-to-fix-bitcoins-growing-energy-problem-2018-5?IR=T
144
Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds (2017)
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/02/27/why-facts-dont-change-our-minds
141
22
Instagram founders left because of changes imposed from above
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/27/opinion/facebook-instagram-systrom.html
REMI: Python REMote Interface Library
https://github.com/dddomodossola/remi
★ 3.6kPythonApache-2.0–7 years ago
119
54
FCC bans radios that haven't been certified for non-amateur bands
https://medium.com/@lucky225/fcc-back-peddles-all-transceivers-capable-of-transmitting-on-frequencies-that-require-40377a3722c5
116
18
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Optical Networking [pdf]
https://www.nanog.org/sites/default/files/Steenbergen.Everything_You_Need.pdf
114
35
How the West Was Lost: In America’s First Climate War
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/09/how-the-west-was-lost/569365/?single_page=true
112
37
John Urschel Goes Pro
https://hmmdaily.com/2018/09/28/john-urschel-goes-pro/
104
ClickHouse, a column-oriented DBMS to generate analytical reports in real time
https://github.com/yandex/ClickHouse
★ 47.1kC++Apache-2.0–7 years ago
99
4
Confessions of a Fake News Writer
https://www.facebook.com/notes/book-recommendations-best-book-to-read/confessions-of-a-fake-news-writer/2111686775714843/
97
Proof Without Words: Gregory’s Theorem
https://divisbyzero.com/2018/09/28/proof-without-word-gregorys-theorem/
94
What 61,000 hidden structures reveal about Maya civilization
https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/09/what-61000-hidden-structures-reveal-about-maya-civilization/
92
60
China’s Leaders Confront an Unlikely Foe: Ardent Young Communists
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/28/world/asia/china-maoists-xi-protests.html
91
88
So is it nature not nurture after all?
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/sep/29/so-is-it-nature-not-nurture-after-all-genetics-robert-plomin-polygenic-testing
90
E-Ink Monitors: Ready for Prime Time?
https://cloudconfusing.com/2018/09/18/e-ink-monitors-ready-for-prime-time/
85
46
Show HN: Strife, a 2D game library for Go
https://github.com/felixangell/strife
★ 252GoMIT–7 years ago
56
UnQLite – An Embeddable NoSQL Database Engine
https://unqlite.org/
84
25
The origin of circuits (2007)
https://www.damninteresting.com/on-the-origin-of-circuits/
82
24
Page Weight Matters (2012)
http://blog.chriszacharias.com/page-weight-matters
28
Show HN: A simple GUI app to make Linux touchpad gestures easier
https://gitlab.com/cunidev/gestures
★ 235GPL-3.0–7 years ago
81
Show HN: Docute – Fast way to create a documentation site
https://docute.org
78
14
Dafny: verification-aware programming language
https://github.com/Microsoft/dafny
★ 3.3kC#–7 years ago
77
Europe’s Oldest Intact Book Was Preserved and Found in the Coffin of a Saint
http://www.openculture.com/2018/09/europes-oldest-intact-book-preserved-found-coffin-saint.html
73
Show HN: Leptus – Erlang REST framework that runs on top of Cowboy web server
https://github.com/sinasamavati/leptus
★ 346ErlangMIT–7 years ago
ClickHouse, a column-oriented DBMS to generate analytical reports in real time