1322
366
Ask HN: What are your “brain hacks” that help you manage everyday situations?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18588727
7 years ago
532
101
The Friendship That Made Google Huge
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/12/10/the-friendship-that-made-google-huge
472
450
Tumblr will ban all adult content on December 17th
https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/3/18123752/tumblr-adult-content-porn-ban-date-explicit-changes-why-safe-mode
421
928
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2018)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18589702
418
149
UBlock Origin 1.17.4 released
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/releases/tag/1.17.4
406
116
How I Wrote a Modern C++ Library in Rust
https://hsivonen.fi/modern-cpp-in-rust/
388
265
The U.S. Yield Curve Has Inverted
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-12-03/u-s-yield-curve-just-inverted-that-s-huge
368
117
PhysX SDK 4.0, an Open-Source Physics Engine
https://news.developer.nvidia.com/announcing-physx-sdk-4-0-an-open-source-physics-engine/
363
123
AlphaFold: Using AI for scientific discovery
https://deepmind.com/blog/alphafold/
348
130
How Does React Tell a Class from a Function?
https://overreacted.io/how-does-react-tell-a-class-from-a-function/
335
175
C.S. Lewis on the Reading of Old Books
https://reasonabletheology.org/cs-lewis-on-reading-old-books/
319
250
I Quit Google Over Its Censored Chinese Search Engine
https://theintercept.com/2018/12/01/google-china-censorship-human-rights/
274
34
QEMU Advent Calendar: A surprise disk image each day until Christmas
https://qemu-advent-calendar.org/
261
278
Ask HN: What should an ideal developer interview process look like?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18585677
248
62
Immutable Web Apps
https://immutablewebapps.org/
243
46
Building a Language and Compiler for Machine Learning
https://julialang.org/blog/2018/12/ml-language-compiler
219
Lime and Bird are growing rapidly
https://www.futureengine.org/articles/scooters-are-worth-10b
215
Simple Encrypted Arithmetic Library goes open source
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/the-microsoft-simple-encrypted-arithmetic-library-goes-open-source/
214
334
China ‘Is the Only One in the Race’ to Make Electric Buses, Taxis and Trucks
https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-has-early-lead-on-electric-commercial-vehicles-1543755601
102
Pointers in C (2010)
https://boredzo.org/pointers/
213
87
Firefox Profilemaker
https://ffprofile.com/
209
NULL: The worst mistake of computer science? (2015)
https://www.lucidchart.com/techblog/2015/08/31/the-worst-mistake-of-computer-science/
193
238
Developer on Call
https://henrikwarne.com/2018/12/03/developer-on-call/
190
139
Israeli Software Helped Saudis Spy on Khashoggi, Lawsuit Says
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/02/world/middleeast/saudi-khashoggi-spyware-israel.html
180
97
Buying an Amiga 30 years later
https://www.vintagewave.net/blog/2018/11/30/buying-a-commodore-amiga-30-years-later
177
227
Wall Street Rule for the #MeToo Era: Avoid Women at All Cost
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-03/a-wall-street-rule-for-the-metoo-era-avoid-women-at-all-cost
176
96
SpaceX Launches 19th Rocket in a Year, a Company Record
https://www.wsj.com/articles/spacex-launches-19th-rocket-in-a-year-a-company-record-1543862707
161
24
154
127
Steam’s discovery algorithm killed my sales
http://greyaliengames.com/blog/steams-discovery-algorithm-killed-my-sales/
147
8
Scientists Find Gut Bacteria in the Human Brain
http://nautil.us/issue/66/clockwork/are-there-bacteria-in-your-brain
146
14
Designing and building an FPGA sprite-based graphics accelerator (2014)
http://andybrown.me.uk/2014/06/01/ase/
58
TAWS – The Amiga Workbench Simulation
http://www.taws.ch/WB.html
132
71
Optimizing Siri on HomePod in Far‑Field Settings
https://machinelearning.apple.com/2018/12/03/optimizing-siri-on-homepod-in-far-field-settings.html
53
A novel way to stop the spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria
https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2018/12/01/a-novel-way-to-stop-the-spread-of-antibiotic-resistant-bacteria
56
Show HN: McFly, a smart Bash history search CLI in Rust with a neural network
https://github.com/cantino/mcfly
113
21
How Feynman Diagrams Almost Saved Space
https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-feynman-diagrams-are-so-important-20160705/
108
47
Unknown Civil War Faces are Being Identified Through Facial Recognition App
https://www.thevintagenews.com/2018/12/01/civil-war-photo-sleuth/
106
15
Teensy 3.1 bare metal: Writing a USB driver (2014)
http://kevincuzner.com/2014/12/12/teensy-3-1-bare-metal-writing-a-usb-driver/
168
Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2018)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18589704
51
It's all about typography
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18588069
GNU Wallpapers
https://www.gnu.org/graphics/wallpapers.en.html
35
Stripe open-sources Skycfg, a configuration builder for Kubernetes
https://github.com/stripe/skycfg
Overdose Deaths Set a Record Last Year
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/11/29/upshot/fentanyl-drug-overdose-deaths.html
95
A Collector of Math and Physics Surprises
https://www.quantamagazine.org/tadashi-tokieda-collects-math-and-physics-surprises-20181127/
91
27
Maxwell's fluid model of magnetism (2015)
https://arxiv.org/abs/1502.05926
84
23
After publishers sued Sci-Hub, Russian ISPs are preventing access
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/gy7d7j/sci-hub-and-lib-gen-continue-to-get-attacked-around-the-world
83
104
Anthropologists Say Gladiators and Soldiers in Ancient Rome Were Vegetarian
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3761927/
82
Sir David Attenborough: Climate change 'our greatest threat'
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-46398057
China ‘Is the Only One in the Race’ to Make Electric Buses, Taxis and Trucks