1012
184
Leukemia Has Won
https://alex.blog/2019/02/18/leukemia-has-won/
7 years ago
920
495
Public protest against Amazon
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19202450
635
221
Four-day week trial: study finds lower stress but no cut in output
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2019/feb/19/four-day-week-trial-study-finds-lower-stress-but-no-cut-in-output
524
265
Bookworm: A Simple, Focused eBook Reader
https://babluboy.github.io/bookworm/
509
225
Could 'Oumuamua be an icy fractal aggregate ejected from a protoplanetary disk?
https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/no-oumuamua-is-not-an-alien-spaceship-it-might-be-even-weirder
342
76
Code Shelter: A Maintainer Community for Abandoned FOSS Projects
https://www.codeshelter.co/
318
329
Apple’s Latest Macs Have a Serious Audio Glitching Bug
http://cdm.link/2019/02/apple-2018-glitch/
314
247
“Reverse location” search warrants identify all cellphones near a crime scene
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2019/02/07/google-location-police-search-warrants
307
85
Why a Grape Turns into a Fireball in the Microwave
https://www.wired.com/story/why-a-grape-turns-into-a-fireball-in-a-microwave/
289
124
Dear OpenAI: Please Open Source Your Language Model
https://thegradient.pub/openai-please-open-source-your-language-model/
282
163
Amazon Caught Selling Counterfeits of Publisher’s Computer Books–Again
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/02/amazon-caught-selling-counterfeits-of-publishers-computer-books-again/
274
169
Researchers Find Further Evidence That Schizophrenia Is Connected to Our Guts
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2019/02/07/gut-bugs-may-shape-schizophrenia/#.XGtu1KSIaaO
234
81
Show HN: Chrome Extension to See IMDB Ratings Directly on Netflix
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/imdb-ratings-on-netflix/ohonjgnjobblbhfeamidafpnbkppbljh
207
180
Boeing 787 Reaches 801 MPH as a Jet Stream Packs Record-Breaking Speeds
https://www.latimes.com/science/la-sci-sn-jet-stream-flight-20190219-story.html
103
As McKinsey Sells Advice, Its Hedge Fund May Have a Stake in the Outcome
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/19/business/mckinsey-hedge-fund.html
206
154
At 18 Stories, Mjøsa Tower Is World’s Tallest Wooden Building
http://news.cision.com/metsa-wood/r/metsa-wood--at-18-storeys--mjosa-tower-in-brumunddal-to-take-title-of-world-s-tallest-wooden-buildin,c2325089
202
109
Overwatch Randomized Trial on Gender
http://danluu.com/overwatch-gender/
188
Uncleftish Beholding
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncleftish_Beholding
99
Redis Labs Raises a $60M Series E Round
https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/19/redis-labs-raises-a-60m-series-e-round/
181
49
Battlesnake – Competitive Snake Games over HTTP
http://play.battlesnake.io
179
37
Growing a Compiler: Getting to Machine Learning from a General Purpose Compiler
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1IiBLVU5Pj-48vzEMnuYEr9WQy9u2oi6Yk_8F3sgGkvQ/edit
171
31
Jeff Bezos at YC Startup School 2008 [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nKfFHuouzA
167
19
Metamath
http://us.metamath.org/
166
17
Autocomplete Using Markov Chains
https://yurichev.com/blog/markov/
161
Algorithms for Reinforcement Learning
https://sites.ualberta.ca/~szepesva/RLBook.html
155
Discovering a New Form of Communication in the Brain
https://thedaily.case.edu/discovering-a-new-form-of-communication-in-the-brain/
101
Grand Canyon Museum Had Buckets of Uranium Sitting Around for 18 Years
https://www.npr.org/2019/02/19/696001017/grand-canyon-museum-reportedly-had-buckets-of-uranium-sitting-around-for-18-year
201
Why the “Self-Made” Success Story Is a Myth
https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/features/a26091060/money-millennials-parents-career-success/
152
130
How Not to Do Time Tracking for Software Developers
https://www.7pace.com/blog/developer-time-tracking-fails
118
SIMD Instructions Considered Harmful (2017)
https://www.sigarch.org/simd-instructions-considered-harmful/
151
119
China Unveils Plan to Tie Hong Kong, Macau Closer to Mainland
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-18/china-unveils-plan-to-tie-hong-kong-macau-closer-to-mainland
146
25
It Takes Two Neurons to Ride a Bicycle (2004) [pdf]
http://paradise.caltech.edu/%7Ecook/papers/TwoNeurons.pdf
142
24
Ledger's Advanced Side Channel Analysis Repository
https://github.com/Ledger-Donjon/lascar
141
127
V100 Server On-Prem vs. AWS P3 Instance Cost Comparison
https://lambdalabs.com/blog/8-v100-server-on-prem-vs-p3-instance-tco-analysis-cost-comparison/
137
47
Neuroscientists Say They've Found an Entirely New Form of Neural Communication
https://www.sciencealert.com/neuroscientists-say-they-ve-found-an-entirely-new-form-of-neural-communication
55
Grave Concerns Over White House Efforts to Transfer Nuclear Tech to Saudi Arabia
https://oversight.house.gov/news/press-releases/multiple-whistleblowers-raise-grave-concerns-with-white-house-efforts-to
126
Should Mental Disorders Have Names?
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/should-mental-disorders-have-names/
122
68
Announcing workers.dev
https://blog.cloudflare.com/announcing-workers-dev/
220
First .dev Domains Go Live
https://blog.google/technology/developers/hello-dev/
70
The Tethered Uni-Rotor Network: Eternal Flight UAV
https://turnuav.com/
115
9
Reflections on Learning Rust by Building Punchtop
https://hyperbo.la/w/reflections-on-learning-rust/
114
112
41 Years Ago, There Were BBS Instead of the Internet
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/02/18/41_years_of_the_bbs/
113
46
I Deleted All of My Social Media and 60,000 Followers
https://petapixel.com/2019/02/19/why-i-deleted-all-of-my-social-media-and-60000-followers/
102
36
Canvas fingerprinting on the web
https://antoinevastel.com/browser%20fingerprinting/2019/02/19/canvas-fingerprint-on-the-web.html
93
30
Shazam removed all 3rd party SDKs from its iPhone app
https://blog.appfigures.com/shazam-for-ios-sheds-3rd-party-sdks/
6
Show HN: Summarized Finance / Tech Newsletter Using Natural Language Processing
http://getthecrypt.com/how-it-works
What Even Is a Number?
https://notebook.drmaciver.com/posts/2019-02-18-08:58.html
92
Improve your privacy in the age of mass surveillance (2017)
https://web.archive.org/web/20181107150700/https://iotdarwinaward.com/post/improve-your-privacy-in-age-of-mass-surveillance/
88
140
Nearly Half of US Female Scientists Leave Full-Time Science After First Child
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00611-1
83
98
Beware of Buying Young People's Blood to Prevent Aging, FDA Says
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-19/beware-of-buying-young-people-s-blood-to-prevent-aging-fda-says
80
12
Rose: Compiler Infrastructure for Source-to-Source Program Transformation
https://github.com/rose-compiler/rose-develop#readme
78
Show HN: Fltrdr – A TUI Text Reader for the Terminal
https://github.com/octobanana/fltrdr
39
Average Office Worker Spends Less Than 3 Hours of the Day Working Productively
https://www.vouchercloud.com/resources/office-worker-productivity
74
175
Ask HN: Show Us Your Personal Website/Blog?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19197533
73
Why you think you’re right, even when you’re wrong (2017)
https://ideas.ted.com/why-you-think-youre-right-even-when-youre-wrong/
Comparing the Network Performance of AWS, Azure and GCP [pdf]
https://pc.nanog.org/static/published/meetings/NANOG75/1909/20190218_Kesavan_Comparing_The_Network_v1.pdf
At 18 Stories, Mjøsa Tower Is World’s Tallest Wooden Building