681
212
Ask HN: Which tool do you use to create beautiful diagrams?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18788244
7 years ago
673
203
How Facebook tracks you on Android [video]
https://media.ccc.de/v/35c3-9941-how_facebook_tracks_you_on_android/
654
93
Larry Roberts has died
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/30/obituaries/lawrence-g-roberts-dies-at-81.html
554
493
How the Valley treats experienced people
http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2018/12/29/age/
459
142
EU to fund bug bounty programs for open-source projects
https://www.zdnet.com/article/eu-to-fund-bug-bounty-programs-for-14-open-source-projects-starting-january-2019/
412
331
Microsoft changed how it interviews software developers
https://www.businessinsider.fr/us/microsoft-new-developer-interview-process-2018-12
328
161
CenturyLink 911 outage was caused by a single network card sending bad packets
https://twitter.com/GossiTheDog/status/1079144491238469638
300
234
Ibuprofen alters human testicular physiology to produce compensated hypogonadism
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/29311296/
285
146
Essential C (2003) [pdf]
http://cslibrary.stanford.edu/101/EssentialC.pdf
284
84
A list of lists of interview questions
https://github.com/MaximAbramchuck/awesome-interview-questions
275
47
Show HN: Vector Logo Zone – SVG logos for your readme or credits page
https://www.vectorlogo.zone/
250
101
Google terminated our start-up Google Play Publisher Account
https://android.jlelse.eu/google-just-terminated-our-start-up-google-play-publisher-account-on-christmas-day-5cb69a454da0
238
61
Critical step found in DNA repair, cellular aging (2017)
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2017/03/harvard-scientists-pinpoint-critical-step-in-dna-repair-cellular-aging/
211
82
Software Methodology: Why One Size Fits No One
https://github.com/risk-first/website/wiki/One-Size-Fits-No-One
196
107
AdGuard DNS: A Privacy-Oriented DNS Server
https://adguard.com/en/blog/adguard-dns-announcement/
192
80
I Was a Cable Guy. I Saw the Worst of America
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/cable-tech-dick-cheney-sex-dungeon_us_5c0ea571e4b06484c9fd4c21
187
45
The Feynman Technique: The Best Way to Learn Anything (2012)
https://fs.blog/2012/04/learn-anything-faster-with-the-feynman-technique/
91
KubeDB – Run production-grade databases easily on Kubernetes
https://kubedb.com/
173
Safe and Secure Drivers in High-Level Languages [video]
https://media.ccc.de/v/35c3-9670-safe_and_secure_drivers_in_high-level_languages
164
18
How long is that Bézier?
https://raphlinus.github.io/curves/2018/12/28/bezier-arclength.html
148
202
Button offers instant gratification for those plagued by airplane noise
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/button-offers-instant-gratification-for-those-plagued-by-airplane-noise/2018/12/29/c1035d32-02e1-11e9-b5df-5d3874f1ac36_story.html
144
9
Hacking how we see [video]
https://media.ccc.de/v/35c3-9370-hacking_how_we_see
143
20
SchemaCrawler: Free database schema discovery and comprehension tool
https://www.schemacrawler.com/index.html
132
70
Show HN: Bake – A modular build system and package manager for C/C++
https://www.github.com/SanderMertens/bake
130
Chinese Crankshafts (2012)
https://flycorvair.net/2012/01/15/chinese-crankshafts/
64
Understanding is a poor substitute for convexity (2012)
https://www.edge.org/conversation/nassim_nicholas_taleb-understanding-is-a-poor-substitute-for-convexity-antifragility
122
13
A deep dive into the world of DOS viruses [video]
https://media.ccc.de/v/35c3-9617-a_deep_dive_into_the_world_of_dos_viruses
104
19
Jean Bourgain
https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2018/12/29/jean-bourgain/
96
177
As oil and gas exports surge, West Texas becomes the world’s “extraction colony”
https://www.texastribune.org/2018/10/11/west-texas-becomes-worlds-extraction-colony-oil-gas-exports-surge/
22
A quest for beauty and clear thinking: interviewing John Baez
http://www.mathisintheair.com/eng/2018/12/30/a-quest-for-beauty-and-clear-thinking-interviewing-john-baez/
71
Elon and the collective
https://blog.piekniewski.info/2018/12/28/elon-and-the-collective/
92
34
Cyberattack from outside the U.S. hits newspapers across the country
https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-times-delivery-breakdown-20181229-story.html
87
ResearchCoders: Find ideas from the scientific community for coding projects
http://www.researchcoders.com/
78
85
They paid $100k to ride on Xcor's space plane. Now they want their money back
https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-xcor-astronauts-20181230-story.html
77
8
Why a cocktail of microbes could give protection against disease
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/dec/30/children-leukaemia-mel-greaves-microbes-protection-against-disease
30
Show HN: Lua/LuaJIT with C/C++/Java/JavaScript syntax
https://github.com/mingodad/ljs
42
Austria is the next country working to impose a tech tax on companies like Apple
https://9to5mac.com/2018/12/30/austria-tech-tax-apple/
72
51
China takes surveillance to new heights with flock of robotic doves
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2152027/china-takes-surveillance-new-heights-flock-robotic-doves-do-they
69
12
CS 188 – Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
https://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs188/fa18/
68
54
Scott Adams’ Financial Advice (2014)
https://www.mattcutts.com/blog/scott-adams-financial-advice/
67
63
Ask HN: How can I make the most out of high school?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18787851
48
How to Forget Your Mother Tongue and Remember Your National Language (2005)
http://pinyin.info/readings/mair/taiwanese.html
As oil and gas exports surge, West Texas becomes the world’s “extraction colony”