830
370
Astronauts escape malfunctioning Soyuz rocket
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-45822845
8 years ago
537
437
Ask HN: Ex-FAANG developers, where are you now and why?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18192534
363
131
Pro-privacy search engine DuckDuckGo hits 30M daily searches, up 50% in a year
https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/11/pro-privacy-search-engine-duckduckgo-hits-30m-daily-searches-up-50-in-a-year/
361
114
Show HN: Tableau-Like Data Visualizations in JavaScript
https://www.charts.com/muze
358
118
Anti-social Punishment
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/X5RyaEDHNq5qutSHK/anti-social-punishment
279
82
Self-healing material can build itself from carbon in the air
http://news.mit.edu/2018/self-healing-material-carbon-air-1011
272
119
310 Bitcoin challenge has been solved
https://bitcoinchallenge.codes/
269
170
Millions of workers believe they are bound by non-binding contracts
http://thespeakernewsjournal.com/business/millions-of-workers-are-bound-by-non-binding-contracts/
224
124
EU drops rule that would prevent self-driving car data from being copyrighted
https://boingboing.net/2018/10/10/corporate-kitts.html
222
106
Asterisks in Python
http://treyhunner.com/2018/10/asterisks-in-python-what-they-are-and-how-to-use-them/
218
73
After Journalist’s Alleged Murder, Tech Execs Distance Themselves from Saudis
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/amphtml/ryanmac/silicon-valley-leaders-disassociate-saudi-arabia-board-neom
215
163
We can no longer leave online security to the market
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/11/opinion/internet-hacking-cybersecurity-iot.html
178
123
Is Saudi money becoming radioactive?
https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/10/will-mbss-money-ever-become-radioactive/
174
48
The 555 and How It Got That Way
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/10/the-555-and-how-it-got-that-way/
58
Children poisoned by lead on U.S. Army bases
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-military-housing/
169
61
FISK – It's a floppy disk fax machine
https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1050258171317510144
167
92
Listen to a SIM-Jacking, Account-Stealing Ransom
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/5984zn/listen-to-sim-jacking-account-ransom-instagram-email-tmobile
165
145
A new version of Common-Lisp.net has been launched
https://common-lisp.net/
162
78
Faster R with FastR
https://medium.com/graalvm/faster-r-with-fastr-4b8db0e0dceb
161
Parallel Supercomputing for Astronomy with Julia
https://juliacomputing.com/case-studies/celeste.html
150
The next recession
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2018/10/11/the-next-recession
147
96
Amazon Atlas: The “Highly Confidential” locations of Amazon's data centers
https://wikileaks.org/amazon-atlas/
146
71
Anonymity on the Internet Must Be Protected (1995)
http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.805/student-papers/fall95-papers/rigby-anonymity.html
144
11
An overview of the top web hacking techniques of 2017
https://portswigger.net/blog/top-10-web-hacking-techniques-of-2017
Scientists say halting deforestation 'just as urgent' as reducing emissions
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/oct/04/climate-change-deforestation-global-warming-report
133
33
Apple inks $600M deal to acquire assets and talent from Dialog Semiconductor
https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/10/apple-is-paying-300m-in-cash-to-buy-a-part-of-dialog-semiconductor-and-expand-its-chipmaking-in-europe/
126
42
Documents OCR: Improving Efficiency by Making PDFs Searchable
https://medium.com/oscar-tech/documents-ocr-improving-efficiency-by-making-pdfs-searchable-b56a261f07d
75
Ask HN: Which plants can be planted indoors and easily maintained?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18192328
43
Walmart turns to Flipkart for tech
https://factordaily.com/walmart-turns-to-flipkart-for-tech/
115
51
OpenBSD's unveil()
https://lwn.net/Articles/767137/
112
168
US military grounds entire fleet of F-35 jets
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45827795
108
What happened when Buffer stopped using Slack on Fridays
https://www.fastcompany.com/90244091/what-happened-when-buffer-tried-turning-off-slack-on-fridays
102
2080 Ti TensorFlow GPU Benchmarks
https://lambdalabs.com/blog/best-gpu-tensorflow-2080-ti-vs-v100-vs-titan-v-vs-1080-ti-benchmark/
100
62
Real Differences Between OT and CRDT for Co-Editors
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.02137
99
Algorithmic merchandising will erode trust in Amazon
https://shift.newco.co/2018/10/10/this-is-how-amazon-loses/
98
Robot lawyer DoNotPay now lets you ‘sue anyone’ via an app
https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/10/17959874/donotpay-do-not-pay-robot-lawyer-ios-app-joshua-browder
97
6
Tale of Three Probabilistic Families: Discriminative, Descriptive and Generative
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.04261
72
Static site generators need less rigid content APIs
https://fvsch.com/static-site-generators/
36
An eclipse gave researchers an inside look at how bees respond to light
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/busy-bees-take-break-during-total-solar-eclipses-180970502/?no-ist
59
Venture capital investment is growing faster outside the US
https://www.citylab.com/life/2018/10/america-losing-its-edge-startups/572323/
88
50
Trapped by the ‘Walmart of Heroin’
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/10/magazine/kensington-heroin-opioid-philadelphia.html
86
Chances DNA can be used to find your family? Sixty percent and rising
https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/10/chances-dna-can-be-used-to-find-your-family-60-percent-and-rising/
84
77
CSV 1.1 – CSV Evolved (for Humans)
https://csv11.github.io/
80
29
Same-sex mice genetically engineered to have babies
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-45801043
The program to build NASA’s moon rocket could double in price to $9B
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2018/10/10/program-build-nasas-moon-rocket-could-double-price-billion-ig-says/
45
F5Bot: Email Keyword Alerts from Reddit, Hacker News, or Lobsters
https://f5bot.com/
70
7
How to Identify Almost Anyone in a Consumer Gene Database
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-to-identify-almost-anyone-in-a-consumer-gene-database/
66
1
Some Great SaaS Visualizations
https://medium.com/@kevinacohn/four-great-saas-visualizations-b45a6f0768b4
65
10
PeerTube, a free and federated video platform reaches 1.0
https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/releases/tag/v1.0.0
★ 14.6k TypeScript AGPL-3.0– 8 years ago
64
The Economic Viability of Mars Colonization (1998)
https://www.aleph.se/Trans/Tech/Space/mars.html
46
The next big restaurant chain may not own any kitchens
https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/07/the-next-big-restaurant-chain-may-not-own-any-kitchens/
60
12
Have Balloons and Ice Broken the Standard Model?
http://nautil.us/issue/65/in-plain-sight/have-balloons-and-ice-broken-the-standard-model
67
The Cavendish banana is facing extinction
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/cavendish-banana-extinction-gene-editing
4
The S.E.C. Dusts Off a Never-Used Cyber Enforcement Tool
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/08/business/dealbook/voya-sec-cyber.html