752
159
Microsimulation of Traffic Flow
http://traffic-simulation.de/ring.html
7 years ago
705
238
Source code for Zork, Hitchhiker’s Guide, and other Infocom games
https://github.com/historicalsource?tab=repositories
700
317
Why software projects take longer than you think – a statistical model
https://erikbern.com/2019/04/15/why-software-projects-take-longer-than-you-think-a-statistical-model.html
668
471
5G Is Likely to Put Weather Forecasting at Risk
https://hackaday.com/2019/04/16/5g-buildout-likely-to-put-weather-forecasting-at-risk/
640
295
“I worked at Boeing for about 1.5 years in the 2008-9 time period”
https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/bdfqm4/the_real_reason_boeings_new_plane_crashed_twice/ekyyd9g/
126
Qualcomm and Apple agree to drop all litigation
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/04/qualcomm-and-apple-agree-to-drop-all-litigation/
437
120
EU gives 'high-level' protection to whistleblowers
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-47936682
402
109
Facebook documents show plans to sell access to user data discussed for years
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/mark-zuckerberg-leveraged-facebook-user-data-fight-rivals-help-friends-n994706
390
112
Pyodide: Bringing the scientific Python stack to the browser
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/04/pyodide-bringing-the-scientific-python-stack-to-the-browser/
332
230
Panic’s Next Editor
https://panic.com/next/
325
28
A Gentle Introduction to Text Summarization in Machine Learning
https://blog.floydhub.com/gentle-introduction-to-text-summarization-in-machine-learning/
299
The Notre Dame fire and the future of history
https://www.wired.com/story/the-notre-dame-fire-and-the-future-of-history/
273
129
Rust: Beyond the Typechecker
https://blog.merigoux.ovh/en/2019/04/16/verifying-rust.html
253
206
Life of Brian at 40: an assertion of individual freedom that still resonates
https://theconversation.com/life-of-brian-at-40-an-assertion-of-individual-freedom-that-still-resonates-114743
249
63
Tech Industry-Funded Think Tanks Work to Overturn California Privacy Law
https://theintercept.com/2019/04/16/consumer-privacy-laws-california/
247
80
Land of Lisp (2010)
http://landoflisp.com/
236
118
Microplastics Are Blowing in the Wind
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/microplastics-are-blowing-in-the-wind/
234
12
Kalman and Bayesian Filters in Python (2018)
https://github.com/rlabbe/Kalman-and-Bayesian-Filters-in-Python
229
49
GNU Awk 5.0
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2019-04/msg00002.html
225
133
Apple: Rotate tracking IDs on iPhone each month
https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/campaigns/privacy-thats-iphone-but-is-it/
222
93
We’re asking Apple to change the advertising ID for each iPhone every month
https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2019/04/15/the-bug-in-apples-latest-marketing-campaign/
213
346
Jack Dorsey says it’s time to rethink the fundamental dynamics of Twitter
https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/16/jack-dorsey-ted/
199
117
Mathematica Version 12 Released
https://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2019/04/version-12-launches-today-big-jump-for-wolfram-language-and-mathematica/
198
26
How does a relational database work? (2017)
http://coding-geek.com/how-databases-work/
194
68
Mathematicians Discover the Perfect Way to Multiply
https://www.wired.com/story/mathematicians-discover-the-perfect-way-to-multiply/
182
232
Sony reveals PlayStation 5 details
https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/16/18401209/sony-playstation-5-details-8k-graphics-ray-tracing-ssds-ps4-backward-compatibility
175
30
Godot Engine – Announcing the Godot 2019 Showreel
https://godotengine.org/article/godot-2019-showreel
167
21
Wasmer: A Python library for executing WebAssembly binaries
https://github.com/wasmerio/python-ext-wasm
165
17
The Art of Research – A History by Vi Hart
https://theartofresearch.org/a-history/
158
67
Zstandard v1.4.0
https://github.com/facebook/zstd/releases/tag/v1.4.0
151
164
Increasingly Competitive College Admissions: Much More Than You Wanted to Know
https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/04/15/increasingly-competitive-college-admissions-much-more-than-you-wanted-to-know/
150
Employee Wellness Programs Yield Little Benefit, Study Shows
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/16/health/employee-wellness-programs.html
147
33
CuPy – NumPy-compatible matrix library accelerated by CUDA
https://cupy.chainer.org/
132
4
Show HN: Sortraits, Portraits of Sorting Algorithms
https://wtracy.gitlab.io/sortraits/
130
14
From Theory to Systems: A Grounded Approach to Programming Language Education
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.06750
124
32
GLFW 3.3 Is Released
https://www.glfw.org/Version-3.3-released.html
61
Indian government asks Apple and Google to take down TikTok app
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/software/no-sc-stay-on-ban-government-asks-apple-google-to-take-down-tiktok-app/articleshow/68898483.cms
123
166
The Bosque Programming Language
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/bosque-programming-language/
31
Ryzen R1000 SoC offers dual Zen and triple Vega cores with a 12-25W TDP
http://linuxgizmos.com/ryzen-r1000-soc-offers-dual-zen-and-triple-vega-cores-with-a-12-25w-tdp/
119
The Tragedy of Given-When-Then
https://theitriskmanager.com/2019/04/06/the-tragedy-of-given-when-then/
116
79
Work harder or the communists will win
https://m.signalvnoise.com/work-harder-or-the-communists-will-win/
66
Stonehenge: DNA Reveals Origin of Builders
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-47938188
106
87
College Kids Are Living Like Kings in Vancouver’s Empty Mansions
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-04-16/college-kids-are-living-like-kings-in-vancouver-s-empty-mansions
99
84
The University Is a Ticking Time Bomb
https://www.chronicle.com/article/The-University-Is-a-Ticking/246119?key=K9RMtIzWwk9f4WCspEIEE4f2Z-lnxGSx0oKzM1DwdJm3k4GsX_vNyb4T0h6JMHU-Z0ltWHRmS1BsTVBQZVhYYW9FLVFvZkNmS1JoOUI0MVNaeHk4bGhiemxHcw
97
34
We Built a Facial Recognition Machine for $60
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/04/16/opinion/facial-recognition-new-york-city.html
95
7
Show HN: Talks from successful founders, curated every day
https://opsimath.co/?ref=
25
YouTube Flagged Notre Dame Fire as Misinformation, Attached Article About 9/11
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanhatesthis/youtube-notre-dame-fire-livestreams
92
Call Me by My Name: Deborah Abrams Kaplan
https://lettersfromnj.wordpress.com/2019/04/11/call-me-by-my-name-deborah-abrams-kaplan/
90
Lisp Machine Hacking (2018)
http://victor.se/bjorn/lispm.php
89
First US Patients Treated With CRISPR As Human Gene-Editing Trials Get Underway
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/04/16/712402435/first-u-s-patients-treated-with-crispr-as-gene-editing-human-trials-get-underway
44
How to Train Your OpenAI Five
https://openai.com/blog/how-to-train-your-openai-five/
39
Lexical Distance Among Languages of Europe (2015)
https://alternativetransport.wordpress.com/2015/05/05/34/
64
How long do neutrons live? Physicists close in on decades-old puzzle
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01203-9
8
The Coming Desert
https://newleftreview.org/issues/II97/articles/mike-davis-the-coming-desert
82
The Time Tim Cook Stood His Ground Against the FBI
https://www.wired.com/story/the-time-tim-cook-stood-his-ground-against-fbi/
81
52
US Government Admits It Doesn’t Know If Assange Cracked Password for Manning
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/evy4ka/us-government-doesnt-know-if-assange-cracked-password-manning
3
15 Months of Fresh Hell Inside Facebook
https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-mark-zuckerberg-15-months-of-fresh-hell/
78
Estonia is a place for independent minds
https://estonia.ee/
Source code for Zork, Hitchhiker’s Guide, and other Infocom games
