712
Nuclear power is the fastest way to slash greenhouse gas emissions, decarbonize
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/06/opinion/sunday/climate-change-nuclear-power.html
7 years ago
541
302
Dieter Rams designed products to last, is horrified how we throw things away
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-04-06/dieter-rams-the-braun-design-who-made-products-to-last-lifetime/10970850
443
249
Battery Reality: There’s Nothing Better Than Lithium-Ion Coming Soon
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-03/battery-reality-there-s-nothing-better-than-lithium-ion-coming-soon
352
58
NirSoft, a collection of small and useful freeware utilities
https://www.nirsoft.net/
346
62
Quirk – Open-Source Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
https://github.com/flaque/quirk
309
200
Linux-based 4G phones with Google Assistant sold for $7 in Indonesia
https://tuxphones.com/smart-feature-phones-revolution-kai-os/
295
83
Rise of Candida auris embodies a serious and growing public health threat
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/06/health/drug-resistant-candida-auris.html
292
121
SQL databases come up with algorithms you’d never have dreamed of (2017) [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTPGW1PNy_Y
290
165
I let a stranger watch me work for a day and I've never been more productive
https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/focusmate-review-productivity-work-hack
278
636
Ask HN: Which great products didn't succeed?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19592697
273
22
Overview of differential equations [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_di4Zn4wz4&list=PLZHQObOWTQDNPOjrT6KVlfJuKtYTftqH6&index=2&t=0s
218
132
Lessons learned porting 50k loc from Java to Go
https://blog.kowalczyk.info/article/19f2fe97f06a47c3b1f118fd06851fad/lessons-learned-porting-50k-loc-from-java-to-go.html
214
33
NNCP: Lossless Data Compression with Neural Networks
https://bellard.org/nncp/
211
147
Heaven or High Water – Selling Miami's Last 50 Years
https://popula.com/2019/04/02/heaven-or-high-water/
209
59
Polish general who fought with Washington may have been female
https://asunow.asu.edu/20190405-discoveries-asu-bioarchaeologist-uncovers-200-year-old-mystery
207
FamilyTreeDNA: It’s Our ‘Moral Responsibility’ to Give FBI Access to Your DNA
https://gizmodo.com/ancestry-testing-company-it-s-our-moral-responsibilit-1833774781
199
113
Samsung warns profit to fall 60%
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/biz/archives/2019/04/06/2003712873
192
94
Cosmologist claims Universe may not be expanding (2013)
https://www.nature.com/news/cosmologist-claims-universe-may-not-be-expanding-1.13379
188
164
r/ChangeMyView Is Graduating Reddit: Introducing ChangeAView.com
https://changeaview.org/2019/04/06/r-changemyview-is-graduating-reddit-introducing-changeaview-com/
187
20
x86 Assembly Guide (2018)
http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs216/guides/x86.html
179
72
“Startup Robs Every Customer They Have for Thousands of Dollars Overnight”
https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/b9vk9g/san_francisco_based_startup_robs_every_customer/
174
89
Anvil Firing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anvil_firing
Eisvogel: A clean pandoc LaTeX template with a focus on computer science
https://github.com/Wandmalfarbe/pandoc-latex-template
162
86
The Efficiency Is Everything Cookbook [pdf]
https://efficiencyiseverything.com/The-Cookbook-v-1.4.pdf
155
99
Low-earth orbit satellites threatened by debris from Indian anti-satellite test
https://breakingdefense.com/2019/04/indian-asat-debris-threatens-all-leo-sats/
145
26
HermiTux: A Binary-Compatible Unikernel
https://ssrg-vt.github.io/hermitux/
141
90
A $230k debt and a LinkedIn message led an ex-CIA officer to spy for China
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/how-230-000-debt-linkedin-message-led-ex-cia-officer-n990691
56
Residents concerned about DNA-for-cash transactions in Louisville
http://www.wave3.com/2019/04/01/residents-concerned-about-dna-for-cash-transactions-louisville/
43
GPS Time Rollover Failures Keep Happening, But They’re Almost Done
https://blog.fosketts.net/2019/04/06/gps-time-rollover-failures-keep-happening-but-theyre-almost-done/
130
53
A million people live in underground nuclear bunkers in Beijing (2017)
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photography/proof/2017/02/atomic-rooms-beijing-china-housing/
125
111
Man Who Bribed Son into Penn Guilty in $1.3B Health Fraud
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-05/man-who-bribed-son-into-penn-guilty-in-1-3-billion-health-fraud
Way to store your dotfiles: A bare Git repository (2016)
https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/dotfiles
117
Capture and Decode FM Radio
https://witestlab.poly.edu/blog/capture-and-decode-fm-radio/
116
Apple Plus – brand versus subscription
https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2019/4/4/apple-plus-brand-versus-subscription
70
The unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in the natural sciences (1960) [pdf]
https://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/~v1ranick/papers/wigner.pdf
41
Scandals suggest standards have slipped in corporate America
https://www.economist.com/business/2019/04/06/scandals-suggest-standards-have-slipped-in-corporate-america
107
With a Second Repeating Radio Burst, Astronomers Close in on an Explanation
https://www.quantamagazine.org/astronomers-now-think-they-can-explain-fast-radio-bursts-20190228/
102
Show HN: PaaS with database and free backups
https://backery.io
95
50
Case Study: IBM's System/360-370 Architecture (1987) [pdf]
https://www.cs.tufts.edu/~nr/cs257/archive/alfred-spector/spector87ibm.pdf
10
Scalable Muscle-Actuated Human Simulation and Control
http://mrl.snu.ac.kr/research/ProjectScalable/Page.htm
92
Show HN: Maildown – Markdown email campaigns
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19590646
85
34
The Nightmare of Human Organ Harvesting in China
https://outline.com/H63avJ
73
Lyft threatens lawsuit against Morgan Stanley, accusing support of short selling
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/06/lyft-is-threatening-litigation-against-morgan-stanley-accusing-the-firm-of-supporting-short-selling.html
Dieter Rams designed products to last, is horrified how we throw things away