1463
238
Algorithms, by Jeff Erickson
http://jeffe.cs.illinois.edu/teaching/algorithms/?
7 years ago
697
143
New Horizons’ first hi-res imagery of Ultima Thule
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/News-Center/News-Article.php?page=20190102
587
952
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2019)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18807017
559
133
Cafe opens in Tokyo staffed by robots controlled by paralyzed people
https://soranews24.com/2018/11/29/cafe-opens-in-tokyo-staffed-by-robots-controlled-by-paralyzed-people/
535
671
Letter from Tim Cook to Apple Investors
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/01/letter-from-tim-cook-to-apple-investors/
476
110
Scratch 3.0
https://scratch.mit.edu/discuss/topic/326861/
446
47
Lessons from Running a Small-Scale Electronics Factory in My Guest Bedroom
https://spun.io/2018/12/15/lessons-from-running-a-small-scale-electronics-factory-in-my-guest-bedroom-part-1-design/
361
44
Flair: A simple framework for natural language processing
https://github.com/zalandoresearch/flair
352
104
Migrating from Google Analytics
https://thomashunter.name/posts/2018-12-28-migrating-from-google-analytics
345
41
Marble Marcher: ray-traced real time game on the surface of evolving fractals
https://codeparade.itch.io/marblemarcher
341
163
Thunderbird in 2019
https://blog.mozilla.org/thunderbird/2019/01/thunderbird-in-2019/
332
391
Monorepos: Please don’t
https://medium.com/@mattklein123/monorepos-please-dont-e9a279be011b
304
373
IQ is largely a pseudoscientific swindle
https://medium.com/incerto/iq-is-largely-a-pseudoscientific-swindle-f131c101ba39
265
123
What I learned at work this year
https://www.gatesnotes.com/About-Bill-Gates/Year-in-Review-2018
260
128
How to Use JSON Web Tokens
https://github.com/dwyl/learn-json-web-tokens/blob/master/README.md
259
101
AI Can Detect Alzheimer’s Disease Six Years Before a Diagnosis
https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2018/12/412946/artificial-intelligence-can-detect-alzheimers-disease-brain-scans-six-years
248
245
Norway's electric cars zip to new record: almost a third of all sales
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-norway-autos/norways-electric-cars-zip-to-new-record-almost-a-third-of-all-sales-idUSKCN1OW0YP
234
50
Non-Euclidean Worlds Engine [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEB11PQ9Eo8
222
How to DIY a Product Launch Video with No Experience, and for Free
https://clearfounder.com/how-to-diy-a-product-launch-video-with-no-experience-and-for-free/
216
127
OpenSCAD: Software for creating solid 3D CAD objects
https://www.openscad.org
208
22
A Visual Exploration of Gaussian Processes
https://www.jgoertler.com/visual-exploration-gaussian-processes/
206
79
Analyzing Core I9-9900K performance with Spectre and Meltdown mitigations
https://www.anandtech.com/show/13659/analyzing-core-i9-9900k-performance-with-spectre-and-meltdown-hardware-mitigations
178
228
USB Type-C to Become More Secure with Authentication Standard
http://www.eweek.com/security/usb-type-c-to-become-more-secure-with-authentication-standard
176
82
Childhood's End: The digital revolution has turned into something else
https://www.edge.org/conversation/george_dyson-childhoods-end
174
18
A sane introduction to maximum likelihood estimation and maximum a posteriori
http://blog.christianperone.com/2019/01/a-sane-introduction-to-maximum-likelihood-estimation-mle-and-maximum-a-posteriori-map/
171
57
Txqr: Transfer data via animated QR codes
https://github.com/divan/txqr
167
108
Warby Parker built a 1,400-employee company by focusing on team culture
https://jilt.com/upsell/warby-parker-culture/
162
71
Adding a Trackpoint to an Inexpensive Mechanical Keyboard
https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=98733.0
157
21
Automatic categorization of text is a core tool now
https://abe-winter.github.io/2019/01/01/nlp-18.html
28
“The default name prefix is changed to be ‘sqlite’ spelled backwards” (2006)
https://github.com/endlesssoftware/sqlite3/blob/master/os.h#L133
155
45
Exploiting the Math.expm1 typing bug in V8
https://abiondo.me/2019/01/02/exploiting-math-expm1-v8/
151
31
Kuleshov effect
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuleshov_effect
142
241
Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2019)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18807015
137
55
Apple Early Chip Design
http://www.byrdsight.com/apple-macintosh/
134
56
Google wins U.S. approval for radar-based hand motion sensor
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-google-sensor/google-wins-u-s-approval-for-radar-based-hand-motion-sensor-idUSKCN1OV1SH
132
Tesla cuts prices as Model 3 deliveries narrowly miss estimates
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-02/tesla-cuts-prices-as-model-3-deliveries-narrowly-miss-estimates
129
How ‘Magic Angle’ Graphene Is Stirring Up Physics
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07848-2
111
GIMP and GEGL in 2018
https://www.gimp.org/news/2019/01/02/gimp-and-gegl-in-2018/
126
Unions Did Great Things for the American Working Class
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-06-13/unions-did-great-things-for-the-american-working-class
122
42
Smalltalk 80 – Blue Book (1983) [pdf]
http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr/FreeBooks/BlueBook/Bluebook.pdf
117
91
Peddling the ‘Secrets’ to Getting Rich on Amazon
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/01/men-peddling-secrets-getting-rich-amazon/578443/
Fully static, unprivileged, self-contained, containers as executable binaries
https://github.com/genuinetools/binctr
115
105
What Is Going to Happen in 2019
https://avc.com/2019/01/what-is-going-to-happen-in-2019/
114
70
The Worst Interface Ever: The Self-Destruct Switch (2004)
https://asktog.com/columns/065WorstInterface.html
112
95
Apple knows 5G is about infrastructure, not mobile phones (2018)
https://www.cringely.com/2018/11/21/apple-knows-5g-is-about-infrastructure-not-mobile-phones/
29
A landmark 2012 paper transformed how software recognizes images
https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/12/how-computers-got-shockingly-good-at-recognizing-images/
103
Chicago’s Deep Tunnel: The solution to urban flooding, or a cautionary tale?
https://slate.com/business/2019/01/chicagos-deep-tunnel-is-it-the-solution-to-urban-flooding-or-a-cautionary-tale.html?via=homepage_taps_top
DIY Spectrum Analyzer 0 to 1750MHz (1999)
http://lea.hamradio.si/~s53mv/spectana/sa.html
99
Inside the booming business of background music
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/nov/06/inside-the-booming-business-of-background-music
97
65
Xi Jinping says Taiwan “must and will be” reunited with China
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-46733174
What Isaac Asimov Taught Us About Predicting the Future
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/31/books/review/isaac-asimov-psychohistory.html
Fully static, unprivileged, self-contained, containers as executable binaries