727
307
Mickey Mouse and Batman will soon be public domain
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/01/a-whole-years-worth-of-works-just-fell-into-the-public-domain/
7 years ago
444
94
Courier Prime: It’s Courier, Just Better
https://quoteunquoteapps.com/courierprime/
426
81
New Horizons Reaches Ultima Thule
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/12/31/science/new-horizons-ultima-thule-flyby.html
323
8
Learning KVM – implement your own kernel
https://david942j.blogspot.com/2018/10/note-learning-kvm-implement-your-own.html
285
135
The old guard of Mac indy apps has thrived for more than 25 years
https://www.macworld.com/article/3327502/macs/mac-indy-apps-thrived-for-more-than-25-years.html
264
63
Pathfinding for Tower Defense
https://www.redblobgames.com/pathfinding/tower-defense/
209
125
Netflix Takes Down Episode of Hasan Minhaj’s Show in Saudi Arabia
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/netflix-patriot-act-with-hasan-minhaj-saudi-arabia_us_5c2b8947e4b0407e9085ad5d?m=false&ec_carp=2448675307665736902
207
137
Flat Design vs. Traditional Design: Comparative Experimental Study (2015)
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/281628009_Flat_Design_vs_Traditional_Design_Comparative_Experimental_Study
202
73
Drawing is the best videogame
https://thecreativeindependent.com/weekends/drawing-is-the-best-videogame-by-jeffrey-alan-scudder
200
80
Why We Sleep, and Why We Often Can’t
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/12/10/why-we-sleep-and-why-we-often-cant
183
62
A fifth of Earth’s geologic history might have vanished because of glaciers
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2018/12/part-earths-crust-went-missing-glaciers-may-be-why-geology/
181
58
Merlin: A cross-platform command and control server and agent written in Go
https://github.com/Ne0nd0g/merlin
★ 5.5k Go GPL-3.0– 7 years ago
171
150
The Chinese scientist who allegedly created CRISPR babies is being detained
https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/29/chinese-scientist-who-allegedly-created-the-first-genetically-engineered-babies-is-being-detained/
166
74
Programmer as wizard, programmer as engineer (2018)
https://www.tedinski.com/2018/03/20/wizarding-vs-engineering.html
163
91
The Commerce Department is considering national security restrictions on AI
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/01/technology/artificial-intelligence-export-restrictions.html
151
85
It’s time to reappraise the humble Choose Your Own Adventure book
https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/arts-and-books/the-oulipo-of-the-1980s-why-its-time-to-reappraise-the-humble-choose-your-own-adventure-book
148
30
Identity Theft, Credit Reports, and You (2017)
https://www.kalzumeus.com/2017/09/09/identity-theft-credit-reports/
139
20
The Tsetlin Machine outperforms neural networks
https://cair.uia.no/milestones-and-discoveries/the-tsetlin-machine-outperforms-neural-networks/
136
10
A list of useful books for game AI programming (2014)
http://alumni.media.mit.edu/~jorkin/aibooks.html
128
87
Firefox shows ads for Booking.com in New Tab page
https://www.neowin.net/news/firefox-640-is-now-showing-a-bookingcom-ad-in-the-new-tab-page/
126
42
First Sednit UEFI Rootkit Unveiled [video]
https://media.ccc.de/v/35c3-9561-first_sednit_uefi_rootkit_unveiled
122
47
Rust 2019: Tame Complexity through Community Involvement Tools
https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/rust-2019-address-the-big-problem/9109
119
34
Flutter Desktop Embedding
https://github.com/google/flutter-desktop-embedding
★ 7k C++ Apache-2.0– 7 years ago
24
PANE: Programming with visible data
http://joshuahhh.com/projects/pane/
118
68
Detroit's Big Comeback: Out of Bankruptcy, a Rebirth
https://www.npr.org/2018/12/28/680629749/out-of-bankruptcy-detroit-reaches-financial-milestone
113
72
Ask HN: Academics who switched to industry, what's your experience been like?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18798498
108
7
LVC – Linear Verified Compiler
https://www.ps.uni-saarland.de/~sdschn/LVC.html
107
15
Zero-knowledge attestation
https://www.imperialviolet.org/2019/01/01/zkattestation.html
101
28
A Tiny Austrian Town Has the Coolest Bus Shelters (2014)
https://www.citylab.com/design/2014/05/a-tiny-austrian-town-has-coolest-bus-shelters-weve-ever-seen/371078
99
37
How Atari created the Star Wars arcade game (2017)
https://arcadeblogger.com/2017/06/16/atari-star-wars-arcade-cockpit-development/
22
FreeCAD BIM development news December 2018
https://github.com/yorikvanhavre/BIM_Workbench/wiki/FreeCAD-BIM-development-news-21---December-2018
★ 394 Python – 7 years ago
98
Living and working in Sweden as engineers
http://hongchao.me/living-and-working-in-sweden-as-engineers/
96
18
Optimization: An Introduction (2006) [pdf]
http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/pls/portallive/docs/1/7288263.PDF
89
Bullshit Jobs and the Labourisation of Work
https://medium.com/s/story/are-bullshit-jobs-really-bullshit-c6d1fc2f2c44
21
Writing my network protocol in Rust
https://ayende.com/blog/185665-A/writing-my-network-protocol-in-rust
Show HN: Snigl – Forth with Lisp in C
https://gitlab.com/sifoo/snigl
★ 41 MIT– 7 years ago
RPN calculator implementations in 61 languages
http://www.math.bas.bg/bantchev/place/rpn/rpn.impl.html
84
Be Moore Like Chuck
http://sigusr2.net/be-moore-like-chuck.html
76
23
Rational rendering and floating bar
http://iquilezles.org/www/articles/floatingbar/floatingbar.htm
75
100
In Screening for Suicide Risk, Facebook Takes on Tricky Public Health Role
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/31/technology/facebook-suicide-screening-algorithm.html
3
Flow-Based Deep Generative Models
https://lilianweng.github.io/lil-log/2018/10/13/flow-based-deep-generative-models.html
The blind mind: No sensory visual imagery in aphantasia
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29175093
70
The fate of reduce() in Python 3000 (2005)
https://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=98196
