834
576
International System of Units overhauled in historic vote
http://www.npl.co.uk/news/international-system-of-units-overhauled-in-historic-vote
7 years ago
780
146
Big List of Naughty Strings
https://github.com/minimaxir/big-list-of-naughty-strings
★ 47.6k Python MIT– 7 years ago
613
387
I Found the Best Burger Place in America, Then I Killed It
https://www.thrillist.com/eat/portland/stanichs-closed-will-it-reopen-burger-quest
561
421
Elementary OS – Fast, open, privacy-respecting replacement for Windows and macOS
https://elementary.io/
329
111
Across the West powerful firms are becoming even more powerful
https://www.economist.com/special-report/2018/11/15/across-the-west-powerful-firms-are-becoming-even-more-powerful
302
101
Python Data Visualization 2018: Why So Many Libraries?
https://www.anaconda.com/blog/developer-blog/python-data-visualization-2018-why-so-many-libraries/
293
397
Microsoft Is Putting Ads on the Mail App in Windows 10
https://www.thurrott.com/windows/windows-10/192251/microsoft-is-adding-ads-to-the-mail-app-in-windows-10
288
97
PSA: Firefox Nightly now with experimental Wayland support
https://glandium.org/blog/?p=3899
277
89
Golua – A Lua 5.3 engine implemented in Go
https://github.com/Azure/golua
★ 1.8k Go MIT– 7 years ago
270
117
C Portability Lessons from Weird Machines
https://begriffs.com/posts/2018-11-15-c-portability.html
251
239
Transitioning Google Cloud leadership after three great years
https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/inside-google-cloud/transitioning-google-cloud-after-three-great-years
249
20
AI Playbook
http://aiplaybook.a16z.com
247
131
Microsoft’s enterprise products covertly gather personal data on users
https://thenextweb.com/microsoft/2018/11/15/report-microsofts-enterprise-products-covertly-gather-personal-data-on-users/
237
85
Ask HN: Older textbooks/papers you consider classics still worth studying today?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18469649
227
46
Scientists who make apps addictive
https://www.1843magazine.com/features/the-scientists-who-make-apps-addictive
225
168
Facebook Applied for Patent to Predict Who’s in House Based on Family Photos
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/nicolenguyen/facebook-household-prediction-patent
217
64
Show HN: Find a Study Buddy for your MOOC
https://stacks.courses/
204
93
Orangutans are the only great apes besides humans to ‘talk’ about the past
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/11/orangutans-are-only-great-apes-besides-humans-talk-about-past
200
62
Build a do-it-yourself IMSI Catcher for about $20
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/gy7qm9/how-i-made-imsi-catcher-cheap-amazon-github
185
59
A chemical so hot it destroys nerve endings – in a good way
https://www.wired.com/story/resiniferatoxin/
178
127
Quietly, Japan has established itself as a power in the aerospace industry
https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/11/long-on-tradition-japan-grapples-with-a-rapidly-changing-rocket-industry/
163
22
The Art of Mathematics
https://krieger.jhu.edu/magazine/fall-2018-v16n1/the-art-of-mathematics/
157
17
Rare microbes lead scientists to discover new branch on the tree of life
https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/hemimastigotes-supra-kingdom-1.4715823
68
Built to Burn
https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/built-to-burn/
150
Amazon S3 Block Public Access: Protection for Your Accounts and Buckets
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-s3-block-public-access-another-layer-of-protection-for-your-accounts-and-buckets/
149
The Art and Science of Leading Projects
https://www.teamgantt.com/art-science-of-leading-projects
138
148
Science Is Getting Less Bang for Its Buck
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/11/diminishing-returns-science/575665/
129
35
Imaginary worlds dreamed by BigGAN
http://aiweirdness.com/post/178619746932/imaginary-worlds-dreamed-by-biggan
162
Prosecutors Have Prepared Indictment of Julian Assange, a Filing Reveals
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/16/us/politics/julian-assange-indictment-wikileaks.html
123
77
Insomnia: 'No link' between sleepless nights and early death
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-46223386
118
48
What the Lion Air Pilots May Have Needed to Do to Avoid a Crash
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/11/16/world/asia/lion-air-crash-cockpit.html
Singapore to test facial recognition on lampposts, stoking privacy fears
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-singapore-surveillance/singapore-to-test-facial-recognition-on-lampposts-stoking-privacy-fears-idUSKBN1HK0RV
102
27
Pachyderm Raises $10M to Bring Data Provenance to the Enterprise
http://www.pachyderm.io/2018/11/15/Series-A.html
99
Simplicity awakes
http://jehanne.io/2018/11/15/simplicity-awakes.html
98
58
Subsidies to Amazon Are Uneconomical, Un-American, and Unconstitutional
https://promarket.org/subsidies-amazon-unamerican/
40
Make Buyers Want to Pay
https://www.gkogan.co/blog/buyers/
95
In poor countries technology can make big improvements to education
https://www.economist.com/international/2018/11/17/in-poor-countries-technology-can-make-big-improvements-to-education
94
139
Ask HN: Dontrecruit.me – A website to collect stories about bad recruiters
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18468694
50
A Look Inside the Tactics of Definers, Facebook’s Attack Dog
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/15/technology/facebook-definers-opposition-research.html
86
43
MiSafes' child-tracking smartwatches are easy to hack
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-46195189
79
49
Official support for Windows 10 on ARM development
https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2018/11/15/official-support-for-windows-10-on-arm-development/
Third Pilots' Union Raises Concern About Boeing 737 Max Jet
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-15/third-pilots-union-raises-concern-about-boeing-s-737-max-jet
39
Running Windows Software on ARM Devices with Wine
https://gist.github.com/MIvanchev/14de59fa2552d315ac74c30cf1c0b01e
73
Shaved Heads, Snipped Tubes, Imperial Marines and Dope Fiends: On Synanon (2013)
http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/48/pendle.php
71
28
US homeless fundraiser: GoFundMe campaign 'based on a lie'
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-46221766
70
The US military is testing stratospheric balloons that never have to come down
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612417/darpa-is-testing-stratospheric-balloons-that-ride-the-wind-so-they-never-have-to-come-down/
10
What Facebook Knew and Tried to Hide [audio]
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/16/podcasts/the-daily/facebook-zuckerberg-sandberg-russia-election-data.html
67
Insomnia: To Pursue Sleep So Hard You Become Invigorated by the Chase
https://longreads.com/2018/11/15/insomnia-to-pursue-sleep-so-hard-you-become-invigorated-by-the-chase/
21
Expresso: A simple expressions language with polymorphic extensible row types
https://github.com/willtim/Expresso
★ 310 Haskell – 7 years ago
65
IllumiPaper: Illuminated Interactive Paper
https://imld.de/en/research/research-projects/illumipaper/
