873
113
I took 50k images of the night sky to make an 81 Megapixel image of the moon
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/arer0k/i_took_nearly_50000_images_of_the_night_sky_to/
7 years ago
707
234
Magic Lantern
https://www.magiclantern.fm/
584
815
A faster, more efficient cryptocurrency
http://news.mit.edu/2019/vault-faster-more-efficient-cryptocurrency-0124
507
511
Harder programming questions do a worse job of predicting outcomes
https://triplebyte.com/blog/interview-questions-are-too-hard-and-too-short
295
239
The shady economics of ‘buy one, get one free’ deals
https://thehustle.co/are-buy-one-get-one-free-deals-worth-it/
276
126
A Newly-Generated Create-React-App 2.1.5 App Has 1,568 Dependencies
https://twitter.com/garybernhardt/status/1097307043881308161
242
27
Underactuated Robotics
http://underactuated.csail.mit.edu/underactuated.html
237
210
When India Kicked Out Coca-Cola, Local Sodas Thrived
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-is-thums-up
235
42
Cache Eviction: When Are Randomized Algorithms Better Than LRU? (2014)
http://danluu.com/2choices-eviction/
226
52
Drug Combo Creates New Neurons from Neighboring Cells
https://www.technologynetworks.com/neuroscience/news/drug-combo-creates-new-neurons-from-neighboring-cells-315118
224
97
How the US has hidden its empire
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/feb/15/the-us-hidden-empire-overseas-territories-united-states-guam-puerto-rico-american-samoa
209
47
Explaining Code Using ASCII Art
https://blog.regehr.org/archives/1653
205
23
Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction (2018) [pdf]
http://incompleteideas.net/book/RLbook2018.pdf
201
156
I ruin developers’ lives with my code reviews and I'm sorry
https://habr.com/en/post/440736/
195
249
Why I Write CSS in JavaScript
https://mxstbr.com/thoughts/css-in-js/
192
76
BlazingSQL – GPU SQL Engine Now Runs Over 20X Faster Than Apache Spark
https://blog.blazingdb.com/blazingsql-the-gpu-sql-engine-now-runs-over-20x-faster-than-apache-spark-1b0bffc990a9
189
70
National Sword
https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/national-sword/
186
94
Japanese government will access home devices in security survey
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20190125_44/
Kodak's Discovery of A-Bomb Testing (2016)
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/a21382/how-kodak-accidentally-discovered-radioactive-fallout/
185
109
2.7M medical calls breached in Sweden
https://twitter.com/mikko/status/1097510234220826624?s=21
174
63
Oodi, Helsinki’s new flagship library
https://www.economist.com/prospero/2019/02/15/inside-oodi-helsinkis-new-flagship-library
157
31
Home-built 737 cockpit
https://www.flightdeck737.be/en/pc/visuals
149
43
Advent of Code 2018, in Coq
https://github.com/Lysxia/advent-of-coq-2018
147
161
Can a robot pick a strawberry better, faster, and cheaper than a human?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/national/wp/2019/02/17/feature/inside-the-race-to-replace-farmworkers-with-robots/
146
48
Show HN: Inlets – Expose your local endpoints to the Internet
https://github.com/alexellis/inlets
135
79
JPL Institutional Coding Standard for the C Programming Language (2009) [pdf]
https://lars-lab.jpl.nasa.gov/JPL_Coding_Standard_C.pdf
134
98
How Badly Is Google Books Search Broken, and Why?
http://sappingattention.blogspot.com/2019/02/how-badly-is-google-books-search-broken.html
130
162
Disinformation and ‘fake news’: Final Report published
https://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/digital-culture-media-and-sport-committee/news/fake-news-report-published-17-19/
125
SOCKMAP – TCP splicing of the future
https://blog.cloudflare.com/sockmap-tcp-splicing-of-the-future/
122
22
Implementing End-To-End Encryption in Matrix Clients
https://matrix.org/docs/guides/e2e_implementation.html
120
Chris Lattner on the Origins of Swift
https://oleb.net/2019/chris-lattner-swift-origins/
118
124
A humble alternative to technical interviews
https://blog.zachwf.com/2019/02/a-humble-alternative-to-technical.html
117
Deep learning may need a new programming language
https://venturebeat.com/2019/02/18/facebooks-chief-ai-scientist-deep-learning-may-need-a-new-programming-language/
112
19
The Single Rotation rule: simple and rich reversible cellular automaton (2013)
http://dmishin.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-single-rotation-rule-remarkably.html
111
U.K. Lawmakers accuse Facebook's CEO of leadership failure
https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-ceo-mark-zuckerberg-humiliated-by-damian-collins-committee-2019-2
110
145
What It's Like to Be a Black Mathematician
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/18/us/edray-goins-black-mathematicians.html
106
49
Towards an understanding of technical debt (2016)
https://kellanem.com/notes/towards-an-understanding-of-technical-debt
104
58
Flavors of SIMD
https://zeuxcg.org/2019/02/17/flavors-of-simd/
102
Nonnegative matrix factorization
https://blog.acolyer.org/2019/02/18/the-why-and-how-of-nonnegative-matrix-factorization/
96
30
WorldWideWeb
https://adactio.com/journal/14821
How to generate random geo-coordinates within a given radius
https://jordinl.com/posts/2019-02-15-how-to-generate-random-geocoordinates-within-given-radius
93
44
Critique of the recent study on insect decline
https://ecologyisnotadirtyword.com/2019/02/16/insectageddon-is-a-great-story-but-what-are-the-facts/
83
Major Games Publishers Are Feeling the Impact of Peaking Attention
https://www.midiaresearch.com/blog/major-games-publishers-are-feeling-the-impact-of-peaking-attention/
11
Huawei Targets Apple Trade Secrets
https://www.macrumors.com/2019/02/18/huaweis-efforts-to-steal-apple/
82
50
About $250K is needed for a company get to sustainability
https://medium.com/@jproco/you-need-250-000-to-start-a-company-886298e8cf7e
81
Show HN: Spase.io – A new kind of planner
http://spase.io/?in=hackernews
15
Space Based ADS-B
https://www.radarbox24.com/blog/space-based-ads-b
77
26
Museum of Failure
http://museumoffailure.se/
75
Shunting-yard algorithm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shunting-yard_algorithm
74
JavaScript-Based Spreadsheet-Like Formulas in Google Docs
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/formulas-for-google-docs/kgjbgmonlnhglokmfnpnklegakfknbeh
72
34
The Principal Developer
https://sizovs.net/2019/02/15/the-principal-developer/?new=true
71
10
First impressions of Filecoin
https://gergely.imreh.net/blog/2019/02/first-impressions-of-filecoin/
232
Generics aren't ready for Go
https://drewdevault.com/2019/02/18/Generics-arent-ready-for-Go.html
69
The Path Amazon Rejected
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/16/opinion/amazon-new-york-bill-de-blasio.html
Hannibal’s route across the Alps (2016)
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/apr/03/where-muck-hannibals-elephants-alps-italy-bill-mahaney-york-university-toronto
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