753
211
Things I Don’t Know as of 2018
https://overreacted.io/things-i-dont-know-as-of-2018/
7 years ago
514
67
Crypto 101 – Introductory course on cryptography
https://www.crypto101.io
506
220
Fish shell 3.0
https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/releases/tag/3.0.0
★ 33.3k Rust – 7 years ago
434
213
911 emergency services go down across the US after CenturyLink outage
https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/28/911-service-outage-centurylink/
432
233
What Happens to Kid Culture When Streets Are Closed to Cars
https://www.citylab.com/design/2018/11/car-free-pedestrianization-made-pontevedra-spain-kid-friendly/576268/
396
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Teachers Quit Jobs at Highest Rate on Record
https://www.wsj.com/articles/teachers-quit-jobs-at-highest-rate-on-record-11545993052
376
70
SSH Examples, Tips and Tunnels
https://hackertarget.com/ssh-examples-tunnels/
354
46
Best Paper Awards in Computer Science since 1996
https://jeffhuang.com/best_paper_awards.html
353
51
Show HN: Open source JavaScript library to record and replay the web
https://www.rrweb.io/
347
249
“Modern” C++ Lamentations
http://aras-p.info/blog/2018/12/28/Modern-C-Lamentations/
308
256
Why I’m so “against” Ethereum
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1078682801954799617.html
273
Brain.js
https://github.com/BrainJS/brain.js
★ 14.8k TypeScript MIT– 7 years ago
247
78
How AlphaZero Mastered Its Games
https://www.newyorker.com/science/elements/how-the-artificial-intelligence-program-alphazero-mastered-its-games
244
293
Fundamental rule of traffic: building new roads makes people drive more (2015)
https://www.vox.com/2014/10/23/6994159/traffic-roads-induced-demand
22
Show HN: Pg-extend-rs – Easy Postgres extensions in Rust
https://bluejekyll.github.io/blog/rust/2018/12/27/announcing-pg-extend.html
240
166
New York Sky Turns Bright Blue After Transformer Explosion
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/27/nyregion/blue-sky-queens-explosion.html
232
49
A free clone of the Age of Empires II engine
https://openage.sft.mx/
222
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Audiophiles in Japan Are Installing Their Own Power Poles
https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-gift-for-music-lovers-who-have-it-all-a-personal-utility-pole-1471189463
199
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A new generation of environmentalists is learning to love atomic power
https://www.hcn.org/issues/50.21/nuclear-energy-a-new-generation-of-environmentalists-is-learning-to-stop-worrying-and-love-nuclear-power
120
More games should be honest about death
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2018/12/28/more-games-should-be-truly-honest-about-death/
193
90
911 call centers down in Washington state
https://twitter.com/ThurstonSheriff/status/1078551751144333312
192
62
I wrote a free book about TDD and clean architecture in Python
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18775349
189
152
Portugal’s Economic Revival
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/22/business/portugal-economy-austerity.html
184
53
The Skylab 4 Mutiny, 1973 (2012)
https://libcom.org/history/1973-skylab-4-mutiny
176
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Tesla Adds Larry Ellison and Kathleen Wilson-Thompson as Board Directors
https://www.wsj.com/articles/tesla-to-larry-ellison-and-kathleen-wilson-thompson-as-board-directors-11546003507
171
114
Tying Allowance to Chores Could Kill Kids’ Motivation to Help Out
https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2018/12/allowance-kids-chores-help/578848/
170
36
Inside the AMD Microcode ROM [video]
https://media.ccc.de/v/35c3-9614-inside_the_amd_microcode_rom
151
87
Amazon is selling stolen art, fake products and is infringing copyrights
https://www.facebook.com/AmazonUK/posts/2822462551134523?comment_id=2835971836450261&comment_tracking=%7B%22tn%22%3A%22R%2348%22%7D
132
21
Reverse Engineering Guide for Beginners: Methodology and tools
https://0x00sec.org/t/re-guide-for-beginners-methodology-and-tools/2242
129
24
Google Data Studio in 10 Minutes: Step-By-Step Guide
https://datascience-school.com/blog/google-data-studio-in-10-minutes-step-by-step-guide/
125
16
Larry Ellison now on Tesla's board of directors
https://www.tesla.com/blog/tesla-welcomes-larry-ellison-and-kathleen-wilson-thompson-new-independent-directors-its-board
118
US Dept of Energy AS32982 Network Possibly BGP Hijacked by China Telecom
https://bgpstream.com/event/171779
117
25
Libpostal: A C library for parsing/normalizing street addresses around the world
https://github.com/openvenues/libpostal
★ 4.7k C MIT– 7 years ago
113
42
Ask HN: Tool for self-hosting your own Facebook profile after downloading it?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18776224
109
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Great Wall Motor unveils $9k electric urban car with nearly 200-mile range
https://electrek.co/2018/12/27/great-wall-motor-ora-r1-all-electric-urban-car/
103
68
A tech addict who works in the tech industry
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/hes-a-tech-addict-who-works-in-the-tech-industry/
102
38
Inside Haddington Dynamics and Their Groundbreaking Dexter Robot Arm
https://blog.hackster.io/inside-haddington-dynamics-and-their-groundbreaking-dexter-robot-arm-db9a7a965445
101
Try F# on WebAssembly
https://forums.websharper.com/blog/86246
8
Harvard Physics Problem of the Week (2002-2004)
https://www.physics.harvard.edu/academics/undergrad/problems
97
20
Anatomy of a shell
https://drewdevault.com/2018/12/28/Anatomy-of-a-shell.html
94
Forget new year’s resolutions and conduct a ‘past year review’ instead
https://tim.blog/2018/12/28/past-year-review/
30
Hacking the most popular cryptocurrency hardware wallets [video]
https://media.ccc.de/v/35c3-9563-wallet_fail
2
Practical Guide to Bare Metal C++
https://arobenko.gitbooks.io/bare_metal_cpp/content/
83
32
A tilt of the head facilitates social engagement
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-12-tilt-social-engagement.html
13
Every Building on Every Block: A Time Capsule of 1930s New York
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/12/28/nyregion/nyc-property-tax-photos.html
81
44
How Two Tiny Volatility Products Helped Fuel a Sudden Stock Slump
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-07/how-two-tiny-volatility-products-helped-fuel-sudden-stock-slump
79
9
Applied Cryptography Engineering (2013)
https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2013/07/22/applied-practical-cryptography/
77
PHP + Ajax scripts or the modern ecosystem dilemma
https://threader.app/thread/1078388060696576001
96
The next big blue collar job is coding (2017)
https://www.wired.com/2017/02/programming-is-the-new-blue-collar-job/
76
29
A Perspective on C++ Standardization in 2018
https://thephd.github.io/perspective-standardization-in-2018
71
6
An Economic Geography of the United States: From Commutes to Megaregions (2016)
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/here-are-the-real-boundaries-of-american-metropolises-decided-by-an-algorithm
56
The Wright Brothers Defeated Gravity and the Government Machine
https://medium.com/dialogue-and-discourse/the-wright-brothers-defeated-gravity-the-government-machine-8dc249a85274
0
Penetration Testing Tools Cheat Sheet (2017)
https://highon.coffee/blog/penetration-testing-tools-cheat-sheet/
The C Object System (2010)
https://arxiv.org/abs/1003.2547
66
3
Global Assassination Grid: Infrastructure, People Behind Drone Killings [video]
https://media.ccc.de/v/33c3-8425-the_global_assassination_grid
5
Show HN: LazyCode – C++14 composable, lazily evaluated map, filter, fold
https://github.com/SaadAttieh/lazyCode
★ 155 C++ – 7 years ago
63
128
What We Learned from a Year of Americans ‘Risking It’ Without Insurance
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-28/what-we-learned-from-a-year-of-americans-risking-it-without-insurance