714
198
Nobody knows how to cite 4chan mathematicians who solved an interesting problem
https://twitter.com/adversariel/status/1054811880919834634
7 years ago
697
528
Tim Cook makes blistering attack on the “data industrial complex”
https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/24/apples-tim-cook-makes-blistering-attack-on-the-data-industrial-complex/
484
217
Show HN: Ultimate Plumber – a tool for writing Linux pipes with live preview
https://github.com/akavel/up
★ 8.8kGoApache-2.0–7 years ago
450
55
Citus Data Donates 1% of Equity to PostgreSQL Organizations
https://www.citusdata.com/newsroom/press/citus-data-donates-1-percent-equity-to-non-profit-postgresql-organizations/
369
404
Tesla Third Quarter 2018 Update [pdf]
http://ir.tesla.com/static-files/725970e6-eda5-47ab-96e1-422d4045f799
345
137
gRPC-Web is going GA
https://www.cncf.io/blog/2018/10/24/grpc-web-is-going-ga/
337
170
Digital Ocean Managed Databases
https://try.digitalocean.com/dbaas-beta/
301
36
Zip Trees
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.06726
282
73
Phrack Magazine (1985-2016)
http://www.phrack.org/
276
61
PipelineDB 1.0 – High-Performance Time-Series Aggregation for PostgreSQL
https://www.pipelinedb.com/blog/pipelinedb-1-0-0-high-performance-time-series-aggregation-for-postgresql
256
176
Apple and Samsung fined for deliberately slowing down phones
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/oct/24/apple-samsung-fined-for-slowing-down-phones
232
379
America’s Need for Skilled Immigrants Isn’t Going Away
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-10-24/america-s-need-for-skilled-immigrants-isn-t-going-away?srnd=premium
227
115
Bringing transparency to ER prices, one hospital bill at a time
https://www.cjr.org/q_and_a/sarah-kliff-vox.php
206
169
Proposal: Go 2 transition
https://github.com/golang/proposal/blob/master/design/28221-go2-transitions.md
★ 3.4kHTMLBSD-3-Clause–7 years ago
197
82
Former CIA Chief of Disguise Explains How Spies Use Disguises [video]
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JASUsVY5YJ8
299
Arabic, a great language, has a low profile
https://www.economist.com/books-and-arts/2018/10/20/arabic-a-great-language-has-a-low-profile
196
39
Algebra and the Lambda Calculus (1993)
https://people.csail.mit.edu/jaffer/lambda.txt
192
143
When Sears Flourished, So Did Workers. At Amazon, It’s More Complicated
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/23/business/economy/amazon-workers-sears-bankruptcy-filing.html
182
81
Towards fearless SIMD
https://raphlinus.github.io/rust/simd/2018/10/19/fearless-simd.html
178
Thermometer Tells Your Temperature, Then Tells Firms Where to Advertise
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/23/business/media/fever-advertisements-medicine-clorox.html
177
74
The path to $100B [video]
https://www.startupschool.org/videos/51
155
312
What Comes After the Roomba?
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/21/business/what-comes-after-the-roomba.html
148
React v16.6.0: lazy, memo and contextType
https://reactjs.org/blog/2018/10/23/react-v-16-6.html
100
Ask HN: How do you monitor your websites?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18293434
141
China’s hidden camps
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/China_hidden_camps
42
Eugene Shoemaker Is Still the Only Man Buried on the Moon
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/eugene-shoemaker-buried-moon-celestis-nasa
140
133
The NSA Called Me After Midnight and Requested My Source Code
https://medium.com/datadriveninvestor/why-the-nsa-called-me-after-midnight-and-requested-my-source-code-f7076c59ab3d
132
72
Show HN: Relica – Cross-platform local, remote, and multi-cloud file backups
https://relicabackup.com/
131
51
How to build a Moon base
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07107-4
124
41
Spatial – Collaborate from anywhere in AR
https://spatial.is
122
6
Up: tool for writing Linux pipes in a terminal-based UI interactively
https://github.com/akavel/up#up---the-ultimate-plumber
114
193
Richard Stallman Has Announced the GNU Kind Communication Guidelines
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/kind-communication.html
107
43
A terminal file manager written in bash
https://github.com/dylanaraps/fff
★ 4.1kShellMIT–7 years ago
104
88
When Trump Phones Friends, the Chinese and the Russians Listen and Learn
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/24/us/politics/trump-phone-security.html
99
47
Google Earth didn't update its image of a military installation for eight years
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/gye79x/google-earth-stopped-mapping-this-military-installation
98
17
The Case of Jane Doe Ponytail
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/10/11/nyregion/sex-workers-massage-parlor.html
91
In Japan, the Kit Kat Isn’t Just a Chocolate
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/10/24/magazine/candy-kit-kat-japan.html
Ask HN: How do I stop being resentful towards other devs
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18295564
90
9
Optimal Time-Inconsistent Beliefs: Misplanning, Procrastination, and Commitment [pdf]
https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/TimeInconsistentBeliefs_0.pdf
32
A.I. will have implications for education, welfare and geopolitics (2016)
https://www.economist.com/special-report/2016/06/25/re-educating-rita
20
Life on a neutron star (2004)
http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/N/neutronstarlife.html
80
18
Swiss Tables and absl::Hash
https://abseil.io/blog/20180927-swisstables
79
2
Amazon web services explained by simple visuals
https://www.awsgeek.com/
76
56
The myth of whiteness in classical sculpture
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/10/29/the-myth-of-whiteness-in-classical-sculpture
27
Show HN: IronDB – a resilient key-value store for the browser
https://github.com/gruns/irondb
★ 11–7 years ago
58
Ask HN: How do you pay remote employees in different countries?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18289932
23
How I Learned to Love Bonsai
https://thewalrus.ca/how-i-learned-to-love-bonsai/
69
52
The Problem with Facebook and Virtual Reality
https://stratechery.com/2018/the-problem-with-virtual-reality/
68
22
Node 11.0
https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v11.0.0/
When Sears Flourished, So Did Workers. At Amazon, It’s More Complicated