467
40
My Dad's Friendship with Charles Barkley
https://www.wbur.org/onlyagame/2018/12/14/lin-wang-charles-barkley
7 years ago
388
205
How the 0.001% invest
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2018/12/15/how-the-0001-invest
341
292
Browsers
https://adactio.com/journal/14608
336
158
Google AMP case study: leads dropped by 59%
https://kinsta.com/blog/disable-google-amp/
142
Can Repelling Magnets Replace the Spring in a Pogo Stick?
https://www.kjmagnetics.com/blog.asp?p=pogo-stick-spring
291
82
Johnson and Johnson knew for decades that asbestos lurked in its Baby Powder
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/johnsonandjohnson-cancer/
275
57
4,400 year old Egyptian tomb discovered in the Saqqara pyramid complex
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-46580264
272
155
German exclaves in Belgium separated by a bicycle path from the rest of Germany
https://fascinatingmaps.com/strange-german-exclaves-in-belgium-vennbahn/
230
164
1980s Amiga has been running the AC and heat in 19 schools for 30 years
https://www.geek.com/news/commodore-amiga-computer-has-been-running-the-acheat-in-19-schools-for-30-years-1625147/
218
96
Why Design Thinking Works
https://hbr.org/2018/09/why-design-thinking-works
210
75
Linux: IO without entering the kernel
http://git.kernel.dk/cgit/linux-block/commit/?h=aio-poll&id=5aeaa1ad235c708e31ad930d1ff6ba6fd39bee91
192
50
How Peter Jackson Made WWI Footage Seem Astonishingly New
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/16/movies/peter-jackson-war-movie.html
85
Keyboardio Kickstarter Day 1278: A startling discovery
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/keyboardio/the-model-01-an-heirloom-grade-keyboard-for-seriou/posts/2369985
188
63
Firefox 64 built with GCC and Clang
https://hubicka.blogspot.com/2018/12/firefox-64-built-with-gcc-and-clang.html
187
84
Thoughts on, and pictures of, the original Macintosh User Manual
https://www.peterme.com/2007/08/27/thoughts-on-and-pics-of-the-original-macintosh-user-manual/
185
Organizational Debt
https://boats.gitlab.io/blog/post/rust-2019/
169
39
How McKinsey has helped raise the stature of authoritarian governments
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/15/world/asia/mckinsey-china-russia.html
167
44
An Illustrated Theory of Numbers (2017)
http://illustratedtheoryofnumbers.com/
161
Can functional programming be liberated from the von Neumann paradigm? (2010)
http://conal.net/blog/posts/can-functional-programming-be-liberated-from-the-von-neumann-paradigm
149
256
Plastic Water Bottles, Which Enabled a Drinks Boom, Now Threaten Industry
https://www.wsj.com/articles/bottled-water-americas-most-popular-drink-has-a-plastic-problem-11544627923
146
68
The Most Important Software Innovations (2001-2017)
https://dwheeler.com/innovation/innovation.html
25
Systematic Parsing of X.509: Eradicating Security Issues with a Parse Tree
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.04959
144
86
Nvidia's $1,100 AI brain for robots goes on sale
https://www.engadget.com/2018/12/12/nvidia-jetson-agx-xavier-robot-processor-available/
133
67
Ask HN: Best Centralized Backup Solution
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18692844
126
Pampy: Pattern Matching for Python
https://github.com/santinic/pampy/blob/master/README.md
125
103
Headspace vs. Calm: A Meditation-App Battle That’s Anything but Zen
https://www.wsj.com/articles/headspace-vs-calm-the-meditation-battle-thats-anything-but-zen-11544889606
122
80
Java’s Forgotten Forebear (2009)
https://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/javas-forgotten-forbear/
119
17
Cofounder of Vine and HQ Trivia Dies at 35
https://www.businessinsider.com/colin-kroll-hq-trivia-and-vine-cofounder-found-dead-2018-12
116
28
A lesson on thinking and acting long term
https://threader.app/thread/1074063712254857218
113
60
World's first fully electric bus fleet quietens Chinese megacity
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/dec/12/silence-shenzhen-world-first-electric-bus-fleet
105
Wireguard VPN: Typical Setup (2017)
https://www.ckn.io/blog/2017/11/14/wireguard-vpn-typical-setup/
101
77
Breaking Into Android Phones with a 3D-Printed Head
https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2018/12/13/we-broke-into-a-bunch-of-android-phones-with-a-3d-printed-head/#305e5c2f1330
100
71
The End of the Ad-Supported Web
https://medium.com/unlock-protocol/the-end-of-the-ad-supported-web-d4d093fb462f
94
Sears to pay $25.3M in bonuses to top execs after filing for bankruptcy
https://thehill.com/policy/finance/421565-sears-gets-approval-to-pay-253-million-in-bonuses-to-top-execs-after-filing
Blazor – A .NET web framework that runs in the browser with WebAssembly
https://github.com/aspnet/blazor
95
108
Few people are actually trapped in filter bubbles. Why do they say they are?
http://www.niemanlab.org/2018/12/few-people-are-actually-trapped-in-filter-bubbles-why-do-they-like-to-say-that-they-are/
87
10
Show HN: Single-header C++11 HTML document constructor
https://github.com/tinfoilboy/CTML
36
LiveAgent: Over $250K monthly recurring revenue with a spin-off project
https://www.failory.com/mistakes/liveagent
8
Pushback Derails Company That Thrived on Patent Lawsuits
https://www.wsj.com/articles/pushback-derails-company-that-thrived-on-patent-lawsuits-11544972671
81
49
The Walter White of Wichita (2016)
http://interactive.fusion.net/death-by-fentanyl/the-walter-white-of-wichita.html
47
Forget Fortnite–my son is still obsessed with Minecraft
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/12/forget-fortnite-my-son-is-still-obsessed-with-minecraft/
79
13
The Accidental Room
https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-accidental-room/
24
Michelangelo PyML: Uber’s Platform for Rapid Python ML Model
https://eng.uber.com/michelangelo-pyml/
76
12
Leonard Susskind on Feynman, the Holographic Principle, and Unanswered Physics
https://blog.ycombinator.com/leonard-susskind-on-richard-feynman-the-holographic-principle-and-unanswered-questions-in-physics/
74
7
Typewriter Cartography
https://somethingaboutmaps.wordpress.com/2018/11/26/typewriter-cartography/
73
There Are Now More Shows Streaming Than There Are on Broadcast or Cable
https://www.indiewire.com/2018/12/streaming-shows-outnumber-broadcast-cable-1202027973/
72
38
Refactoring Large Functions
http://robert.muth.org/refactoring-large-functions.html
22
NetSurf Web Browser
http://www.netsurf-browser.org
69
New Neurons for the Brain
http://maxplanck.nautil.us/article/348/new-neurons-for-the-brain
66
3
Rosetta witnesses birth of bow shock around comet
https://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Rosetta/Rosetta_witnesses_birth_of_baby_bow_shock_around_comet
4
How We Deal with Data Quality Using Circuit Breakers
https://quickbooks-engineering.intuit.com/taming-data-quality-with-circuit-breakers-dbe550d3ca78
65
51
Amazon Targets Unprofitable Items, with a Sharper Focus on the Bottom Line
https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-targets-unprofitable-items-with-a-sharper-focus-on-the-bottom-line-11544965201
15
Show HN: My 7th Grade Young Entrepreneur Project -- interactive holiday cards
https://github.com/ellailan/ColourMeCards
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