478
270
New Office Hours Aim for Well Rested, More Productive Workers
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/24/well/mind/work-schedule-hours-sleep-productivity-chronotype-night-owls.html
7 years ago
430
107
lsix: ls for images
https://github.com/hackerb9/lsix
429
231
Rust 2019 and beyond: limits to some growth
https://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/263429.html
383
239
Chinese may take over Mombasa port: Ouko
https://www.nation.co.ke/news/Chinese-may-take-Mombasa-Port--Ouko/1056-4902162-xfphu7z/index.html
337
131
Artificial Intelligence Creates Realistic Pictures of People
http://www.openculture.com/2018/12/artificial-intelligence-creates-realistic-photos-of-people-none-of-whom-actually-exist.html
302
730
Patreon Bars Anti-Feminist for Racist Speech, Inciting Revolt
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/24/technology/patreon-hate-speech-bans.html
268
294
Apple needs to change iPhone’s call UI because robocalls are killing us
https://spencerdailey.com/2018/12/26/in-2019-apple-needs-to-change-iphones-call-ui-because-robocalls-are-killing-us/
253
91
A Beginner's Guide to Scaling to 11M Users on Amazon's AWS (2016)
http://highscalability.com/blog/2016/1/11/a-beginners-guide-to-scaling-to-11-million-users-on-amazons.html
235
125
Colin O’Brady Completes Crossing of Antarctica with Final 32-Hour Push
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/26/sports/antarctica-race-colin-obrady.html
84
Microsoft Word for Windows 1.0 Postmortem (1989) [pdf]
http://antitrust.slated.org/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/8000/PX08875.pdf
225
38
Recovering Nintendo’s Lost SimCity for the NES
https://gamehistory.org/simcity/
222
123
ISO-8601, YYYY, yyyy, and why your year may be wrong
https://ericasadun.com/2018/12/25/iso-8601-yyyy-yyyy-and-why-your-year-may-be-wrong/
220
122
The future of Kubernetes is virtual machines
http://tech.paulcz.net/blog/future-of-kubernetes-is-virtual-machines/
219
304
As Bitcoin Sinks, Industry Startups Are Forced to Cut Back
https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/26/as-bitcoin-sinks-industry-startups-are-forced-to-cut-back/
218
183
Ask HN: What skills to acquire in 2019?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18765383
210
ECMAScript modules in Node.js: the new plan
http://2ality.com/2018/12/nodejs-esm-phases.html
209
121
Why don't I take military funding? (2004)
http://web.eecs.umich.edu/~kuipers/opinions/no-military-funding.html
197
234
WKWebView, an Electron alternative on macOS/iOS
https://holtwick.de/blog/2018-12-20-web-technologies
193
26
Software Architecture, all you need to know [pdf]
https://share.composieux.fr/white-book-software-architecture.pdf
180
Ask HN: Famous anonymous inventions other than Bitcoin?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18762932
174
97
Making and Selling a Stair-Climbing Dolly
https://starterstory.com/stories/how-two-unlikely-partners-invented-the-upcart-and-went-viral-on-qvc
164
126
Two years later, I still miss the headphone port
https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/25/i-still-miss-the-headphone-port/
44
Spending $5k to put Zimbabwe on Street View
https://www.cnet.com/news/this-man-spent-5000-of-his-own-money-to-put-zimbabwe-on-street-view
159
48
Noah: Bash on Ubuntu on macOS
https://github.com/linux-noah/noah
145
Banana Pi to Launch 24-Core Arm Server
https://www.cnx-software.com/2018/12/26/banana-pi-24-core-arm-server/
142
40
Offline voice AI within 512 KB of RAM [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WadKhfLyqTQ
140
7
Physics puzzles
https://www.lockhaven.edu/~dsimanek/puzzles/puzzles.htm
137
10
Alan Turing and the mathematics of pattern formation in nature
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/08/science/alan-turing-desalination.html
134
5
Games Console
https://mitxela.com/projects/console
133
138
Ask HN: What’s your plan in 2019?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18760636
132
Industry pushes sugary products, while obfuscating the health hazards
https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2018/12/412916/sugars-sick-secrets-how-industry-forces-have-manipulated-science-downplay-harm
2
Interactive Jupyter/Python demos of popular machine-learning algorithms
https://github.com/trekhleb/homemade-machine-learning/blob/master/README.md
130
74
Behind the Market Swoon: The Herdlike Behavior of Computerized Trading
https://www.wsj.com/articles/behind-the-market-swoon-the-herdlike-behavior-of-computerized-trading-11545785641
128
56
Dirt-poor and ugly – the proud new mantra of those left behind in the new China
https://www.latimes.com/world/asia/la-fg-chinese-poor-ugly-20181226-story.html
30
Risky business: linking Toxoplasma infection and entrepreneurship behavior
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rspb.2018.0822
124
108
Show HN: Notable – A Markdown-based note-taking app that doesn't suck
https://github.com/fabiospampinato/notable
54
How Much of the Internet Is Fake?
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/12/how-much-of-the-internet-is-fake.html
75
Buttery smooth Emacs (2016)
https://www.facebook.com/notes/daniel-colascione/buttery-smooth-emacs/10155313440066102/
116
100
Do Developers Understand IEEE Floating Point? [pdf]
http://pdinda.org/Papers/ipdps18.pdf
105
135
How the pilots of Lion Air Flight 610 lost control
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/12/26/world/asia/lion-air-crash-12-minutes.html
37
The vanished grandeur of accounting (2014)
http://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2014/06/07/the-vanished-grandeur-accounting/3zcbRBoPDNIryWyNYNMvbO/story.html
32
Show HN: A minimal FFT code
http://lambdaway.free.fr/lambdaspeech/?view=zorg
118
Pessimism about parallelism
http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=8223
34
Resiliency with Queues: Building a System That Never Skips a Beat in a Billion
https://www.braze.com/perspectives/article/building-braze-job-queues-resiliency
90
24
Show HN: TypeScript to GraphQL conversion tool with type inference
https://github.com/acro5piano/typed-graphqlify
85
67
Ranges, Code Quality, and the future of C++
https://medium.com/@jasonmeisel/ranges-code-quality-and-the-future-of-c-99adc6199608
17
The many ways to launch FreeBSD in EC2
http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2018-12-26-the-many-ways-to-launch-FreeBSD-in-EC2.html
81
19
Show HN: Free open-source IPTV cloud service
https://github.com/fastogt/iptv
79
16
The OPM hack explained: Bad security practices meet China's Captain America
https://www.csoonline.com/article/3318238/data-breach/the-opm-hack-explained-bad-security-practices-meet-chinas-captain-america.html
73
1
A Survey of $RANDOM
https://nullprogram.com/blog/2018/12/25/
69
51
One Giant Step for a Chess-Playing Machine
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/26/science/chess-artificial-intelligence.html
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