855
459
If you want to understand Silicon Valley, watch Silicon Valley
https://www.gatesnotes.com/About-Bill-Gates/Silicon-Valley
7 years ago
704
122
How to Acquire Your First 100 Customers
https://docs.google.com/document/d/104qgagSsp2rQQEDORGbYC0uqt0neYHCPxu-aUl4CuSQ/edit
634
385
Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18483460
461
275
Never connect to ProtonMail using Chrome
https://old.reddit.com/r/ProtonMail/comments/9yl94k/never_connect_to_protonmail_using_chrome/
451
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Don’t work “remotely”
http://blairreeves.me/2018/11/09/dont-work-remotely/?resubmit=hn
373
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Italy’s olive crisis intensifies as deadly tree disease spreads
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07389-8
360
The State of JavaScript 2018
https://2018.stateofjs.com
323
111
Flying for Thanksgiving
https://bert.org/2018/11/18/flying-for-thanksgiving/
304
42
Show HN: Self-Driving Pi Car
https://github.com/felipessalvatore/self_driving_pi_car
292
108
Web scraping case fails under Supreme Court's Dastar doctrine
http://blog.internetcases.com/2018/11/19/web-scraping-case-fails-under-dastar/
288
109
Post-REST
https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2018/11/18/Post-REST
272
136
Want to Recruit Better Engineers? Open Source Your Code
https://angel.co/blog/want-to-recruit-better-engineers-open-source-your-code
252
29
Israeli scientists develop tissue implants that won't be rejected
https://www.israel21c.org/israeli-scientists-develop-implanted-organs-made-from-patients-own-cells/
244
104
A remote UK community living off-grid
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-45046023
227
179
The Media Industry and the “Make-Google-Pay” Fantasy
https://mondaynote.com/the-media-industry-and-the-make-google-pay-fantasy-1b4de36e3b04
226
40
Functional, stateless JavaScript finite state machines and statecharts
https://xstate.js.org/docs/
193
188
Why Standing Desks Are Overrated
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/19/upshot/why-standing-desks-are-overrated.html
190
Ask HN: Starting a career in security at 40?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18487547
Silicon Valley wages have dropped for non-tech jobs
https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/11/18/silicon-valley-wages-have-dropped-for-all-except-highest-paying-jobs-report/
185
137
Deep learning pioneer Yoshua Bengio is worried about AI’s future
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612434/one-of-the-fathers-of-ai-is-worried-about-its-future/
70
FoundationDB 6.0 released, featuring multi-region support
https://www.foundationdb.org/blog/foundationdb-6-0-15-released/
172
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World Draw
https://worlddraw.withgoogle.com/explore
164
96
Kelly Criterion (2007)
http://r6.ca/blog/20070816T193609Z.html
159
EuclidesDB: a multi-model machine learning feature database
https://euclidesdb.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
145
25
Show HN: Share one-liner command snippets
https://snippets.shodan.io
143
56
A Brand New Interview with David Foster Wallace
https://electricliterature.com/a-brand-new-interview-with-david-foster-wallace-71c03223294b
22
Translating Between Statistics and Machine Learning
https://insights.sei.cmu.edu/sei_blog/2018/11/translating-between-statistics-and-machine-learning.html
33
Show HN: SkillUpper – practice coding interview questions step-by-step
https://skillupper.com
214
Why you're having trouble hiring
http://blairreeves.me/2018/08/30/why-youre-having-trouble-hiring/
95
Fibers are the right solution to improve Ruby performance
https://www.codeotaku.com/journal/2018-11/fibers-are-the-right-solution/index
123
17
Relit: Typed Literal Macros for Reason
https://github.com/cyrus-/relit
19
Show HN: All-pair similarity search on millions of sets in Python and on laptop
https://github.com/ekzhu/SetSimilaritySearch
69
Čezeta e-scooter: The rebirth of the chicest communist-era scooter
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/nov/18/cezeta-electric-scooter-rebirth-of-communist-era-bike-chic
118
59
Big Oil Doesn’t Like EV Subsidies, Just Its Own Giant Subsidy
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-11-19/big-oil-vs-electric-cars-carbon-tax-would-level-playing-field
34
A day in the life of Lloyd Squires, Vermont's 'best' bagel maker
https://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/story/life/2018/11/19/lloyd-squires-myers-bagels-burlington/1977013002/
115
107
Tesla Gave Me Control of Their Site Forums
https://www.dansdeals.com/more/dans-commentary/went-tesla-delivery-hell-tesla-giving-control-site-forums-1-5-million-tesla-account-contacts/
114
57
The dolphin who loved me: the Nasa-funded project that went wrong (2014)
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jun/08/the-dolphin-who-loved-me
112
163
Bitcoin falls below $5,000
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-46263998
106
47
It's Time to Change the Narrative About Clean Energy
https://unreasonable.is/change-narrative-clean-energy/amp/
105
186
A Guide to Statistics on Historical Trends in Income Inequality
https://www.cbpp.org/research/poverty-and-inequality/a-guide-to-statistics-on-historical-trends-in-income-inequality
27
Brainwaves Encode the Grammar of Human Language
http://maxplanck.nautil.us/article/341/brainwaves-encode-the-grammar-of-human-language
103
Coding Interview Preparation Bootcamp
https://medium.com/educative/3-month-coding-interview-bootcamp-904422926ce8
93
21
Threads Cannot Be Implemented as a Library (2005) [pdf]
https://cs.nyu.edu/~mwalfish/classes/14fa/ref/boehm05threads.pdf
92
10
“Devil Girl from Mars”: Why I Write Science Fiction (1998)
http://web.mit.edu/m-i-t/articles/butler_talk_index.html
91
30
LegoOS: Disseminated, Distributed OS for Hardware Resource Disaggregation [pdf]
https://www.usenix.org/system/files/osdi18-shan.pdf
90
Antidepressant withdrawal: reviewing the paper behind the headlines
https://www.nationalelfservice.net/treatment/antidepressants/antidepressant-withdrawal-reviewing-the-paper-behind-the-headlines/
86
12
Varying Speaking Styles with Neural Text-to-Speech
https://developer.amazon.com/blogs/alexa/post/7ab9665a-0536-4be2-aaad-18281ec59af8/varying-speaking-styles-with-neural-text-to-speech
83
7
The Computer Hack That Saved Apollo 14 (2017) [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSSmNUl9Snw
82
NYC Housing Authority routinely disputed tests that revealed lead in apartments
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/18/nyregion/nycha-lead-paint.html
79
Toward a deeper understanding of the way AI agents see things
https://code.fb.com/ai-research/ai-agents-see/
78
23
Show HN: Funky – Easier, flexible, and more interactive shell functions
https://github.com/bbugyi200/funky
Big Oil Doesn’t Like EV Subsidies, Just Its Own Giant Subsidy