485
157
Event Sourcing is Hard
https://chriskiehl.com/article/event-sourcing-is-hard
7 years ago
419
171
Let Children Get Bored Again
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/02/opinion/sunday/children-bored.html
343
151
React as a UI Runtime
https://overreacted.io/react-as-a-ui-runtime/
258
32
Debugging Emacs, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love DTrace (2018)
https://nullprogram.com/blog/2018/01/17/
233
270
Things that are more inequitable than road pricing
http://cityobservatory.org/ten-things-more-inequitable-that-road-pricing/
223
70
GreatFire is tracking Apple iOS applications for instances of censorship
https://applecensorship.com/
220
75
Show HN: The operating system I built as my high school project (2016)
https://github.com/aswinmohanme/ultronOS
202
96
Is China’s corruption-busting AI being turned off for being too efficient?
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/2184857/chinas-corruption-busting-ai-system-zero-trust-being-turned-being
197
92
Machine learning leads mathematicians to unsolvable problem
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00083-3
190
123
Ask HN: What tech stack would you use to build an open-source Google Keep clone?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19070438
187
119
A Kingdom from Dust (2018)
https://story.californiasunday.com/resnick-a-kingdom-from-dust
175
59
WebAssembly Troubles Part 1: WebAssembly Is Not a Stack Machine
http://troubles.md/posts/wasm-is-not-a-stack-machine/
168
The Soviet license plate game and Kolmogorov complexity
https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2019/02/02/landau-kolmogorov/
163
81
BuzzFeed’s 19-year-old quizmaker will no longer work for free
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-friday-edition-1.5002107/why-this-19-year-old-buzzfeed-quizmaker-will-no-longer-work-for-free-1.5002111
161
51
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks (2015)
http://karpathy.github.io/2015/05/21/rnn-effectiveness/
88
Out-Of-Office Messages Are a Security Risk
https://lonesysadmin.net/2019/02/03/out-of-office-messages-are-a-security-risk/
159
10
CSS Reference
https://cssreference.io/
156
33
Asterius – Haskell to WebAssembly Compiler
https://github.com/tweag/asterius
153
66
The Over-Engaged Knowledge Worker
http://www.ianbicking.org/blog/2019/01/overengaged-knowledge-worker.html
203
Why Captchas have gotten so difficult
https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/1/18205610/google-captcha-ai-robot-human-difficult-artificial-intelligence
149
134
Stack Overflow: Helping One Million Developers Exit Vim (2017)
https://stackoverflow.blog/2017/05/23/stack-overflow-helping-one-million-developers-exit-vim/
146
112
Scientists cut the tolerable intake of PFAs by 99.9%
https://massivesci.com/articles/chemical-exposure-pfas-water-food
143
103
Our Language Affects What We See
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/our-language-affects-what-we-see/
138
87
Everything You Never Wanted to Know About CMake
https://izzys.casa/2019/02/everything-you-never-wanted-to-know-about-cmake/
136
24
A Mini-Introduction to Information Theory
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.11965
135
101
VW, BMW and Daimler hold talks on cooperation in self-driving cars
https://www.handelsblatt.com/today/companies/autonomous-plans-vw-bmw-and-daimler-hold-talks-on-cooperation-in-self-driving-cars/23909322.html
132
36
FOSDEM is a free event for software developers to meet
https://fosdem.org/2019/
61
Netflix and FreeBSD: Using Open Source to Deliver Streaming Video [pdf]
https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/event/netflix_freebsd/attachments/slides/3103/export/events/attachments/netflix_freebsd/slides/3103/FOSDEM_2019_Netflix_and_FreeBSD.pdf
125
53
Chase had ads on 400K sites then on just 5K and got the same results (2017)
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/29/business/chase-ads-youtube-fake-news-offensive-videos.html
124
25
4X
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4X
122
Police stop people for covering their faces from facial recognition camera
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/facial-recognition-cameras-technology-london-trial-met-police-face-cover-man-fined-a8756936.html?amp&__twitter_impression=true
58
All late projects are the same (2011) [pdf]
http://www.systemsguild.com/pdfs/DeMarcoNov2011.pdf
79
Studies Shoot Down Tech’s Harmful Effects on Kids – So Now What?
http://nautil.us//blog/studies-shoot-down-techs-harmful-effects-on-kidsso-now-what
118
45
Two-factor auth with public-key cryptography
https://www.kenforthewin.com/two-factor-auth-with-public-key-cryptography/
113
21
A brief history of the UUID (2017)
https://segment.com/blog/a-brief-history-of-the-uuid/
110
35
Defense of Amazon's Face Recognition Tool Undermined by Only Known Police Client
https://gizmodo.com/defense-of-amazons-face-recognition-tool-undermined-by-1832238149
108
115
Kenyans Say Chinese Investment Brings Racism and Discrimination (2018)
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/15/world/africa/kenya-china-racism.html
105
95
Pijul for Git users
https://nest.pijul.com/tae/pijul-for-git-users
104
82
Behind the Lion Air Crash, a Trail of Decisions Kept Pilots in the Dark
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/03/world/asia/lion-air-plane-crash-pilots.html
102
Rare snow rollers spotted in field near Marlborough, UK
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-47108382
14
Obfuscated JavaScript, scam emails, and American Express
https://blog.jonlu.ca/posts/deobfuscating-amex-scammer
17
A Trip Behind the Spectacle at Davos
https://palladiummag.com/2019/02/02/a-trip-behind-the-spectacle-at-davos/
69
A Nazi Interrogator Who Revealed the Value of Kindness (2014)
https://psmag.com/social-justice/nazi-interrogator-revealed-value-kindness-84747
93
37
Josiah Wedgwood
https://thehustle.co/josiahwedgwood
97
Rough sleeping has been almost eradicated in Helsinki
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-46891392
89
California's constitution makes affordable housing hard to build
https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-affordable-housing-constitution-20190203-story.html
85
Ask HN: Are side-projects still a good way to generate passive income?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19069320
83
48
Holocaust Paradox: Long Lives for Those Who Survived
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-01-28/holocaust-health-paradox-survivors-lived-longer
4
Show HN: E3Dos – A 3D engine I wrote when I was a teen
https://github.com/vlad-alexandru-ionescu/E3Dos
154
Did Finland’s basic income experiment work? [video]
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-47092727/did-finland-s-basic-income-experiment-work
19
Foundations Built for a General Theory of Neural Networks
https://www.quantamagazine.org/foundations-built-for-a-general-theory-of-neural-networks-20190131/
Denver to vote on whether to decriminalize 'magic mushrooms'
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-colorado-magic-mushrooms/denver-to-vote-on-whether-to-decriminalize-magic-mushrooms-idUSKCN1PR0PN
76
15
FCC struggles to convince judge that broadband isn’t “telecommunications”
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/02/throttling-of-firefighters-hurts-fcc-case-as-it-defends-net-neutrality-repeal/
Apple patents MacBook with key switches under a flexible touchscreen keyboard
https://www.techspot.com/news/78549-apple-patents-macbook-key-switches-underneath-flexible-touchscreen.html
72
Bird CEO on scooter startup copycats, unit economics, safety and seasonality
https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/03/bird-ceo-on-scooter-startup-copycats-unit-economics-safety-and-seasonality/
Culture of ‘Bending Rules’ in India Challenges U.S. Drug Agency
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-01-31/culture-of-bending-rules-in-india-challenges-u-s-drug-agency
Bird CEO on scooter startup copycats, unit economics, safety and seasonality