880
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Show HN: Lorem Picsum – Lorem Ipsum but for photos
https://picsum.photos/
7 years ago
744
239
Show HN: 1MB – Free and easy static website hosting and database
https://1mb.site
473
181
How I Almost Destroyed a £50M War Plane and the Normalisation of Deviance (2016)
https://fastjetperformance.com/podcasts/how-i-almost-destroyed-a-50-million-war-plane-when-display-flying-goes-wrong-and-the-normalisation-of-deviance/
337
134
Software Projects and Heroes: Lessons Learned from GitHub Projects
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.09954
336
43
Police misconduct: Search discipline records for thousands of cops
https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/investigations/2019/04/24/biggest-collection-police-accountability-records-ever-assembled/2299127002/
307
50
Machine Learning Books That Helped Me Level Up
http://www.datastuff.tech/data-science/3-machine-learning-books-that-helped-me-level-up-as-a-data-scientist/
300
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Darling – macOS Translation Layer for Linux
https://www.darlinghq.org
284
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The gig economy is quietly undermining a century of worker protections
https://qz.com/1556194/the-gig-economy-is-quietly-undermining-a-century-of-worker-protections/
273
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Why isn't 1 a prime number?
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/roots-of-unity/why-isnt-1-a-prime-number/
246
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Thousands take to Hong Kong streets to protest new extradition laws
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hongkong-politics-extradition-idUSKCN1S405E
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Over 13% of the homes in Japan are abandoned
http://flip.it/XKsblo
224
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Study finds Reddit’s ban of its most toxic subreddits worked (2017)
https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/11/study-finds-reddits-controversial-ban-of-its-most-toxic-subreddits-actually-worked/
41
Custard Antenna
https://michaelcullen.name/2019/04/custard-antenna/
211
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Coffee Cups Are Next
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-28/starbucks-sbux-dunkin-dnkn-brace-for-coffee-cup-bans-fees
209
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Subtractive synths explained (2011)
https://www.residentadvisor.net/features/1351
206
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CMU Computer Systems: Self-Grading Lab Assignments (2018)
http://csapp.cs.cmu.edu/3e/labs.html
192
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How And Why We Switched from Erlang to Python (2011)
https://engineering.mixpanel.com/2011/08/05/how-and-why-we-switched-from-erlang-to-python/
152
Finland’s Hobbyhorse Girls
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/21/world/europe/finland-hobbyhorse-girls.html
179
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Flow9 programming language is now open source
https://github.com/area9innovation/flow9
★ 571 C – 7 years ago
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We All Work for Facebook
https://longreads.com/2019/04/26/we-all-work-for-facebook/
176
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Indonesia election: More than 270 election staff die counting votes
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-48083051
172
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So You Want to Be a Penetration Tester?
https://jhalon.github.io/becoming-a-pentester/
167
Influencers Are Abandoning the Instagram Look
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/04/influencers-are-abandoning-instagram-look/587803/
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How do we know when we’ve fallen in love? (2016)
https://qz.com/793908/how-do-we-know-when-weve-fallen-in-love-my-informal-survey-reveals-three-big-patterns/
154
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I Work with Suicidal Farmers
https://newrepublic.com/article/153604/work-suicidal-farmers-its-becoming-much-bear
135
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The Anhei tokamak is first in the world to generate 100M degrees Celsius
https://phys.org/news/2019-04-china-quest-limitless-energy.html
133
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The Saddest Thing I Know about the Integers
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/roots-of-unity/the-saddest-thing-i-know-about-the-integers/
197
Brain Drain Across the United States
https://www.jec.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/republicans/2019/4/losing-our-minds-brain-drain-across-the-united-states
132
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PayPal Alternatives for Startups
https://startupstash.com/paypal-alternatives/
29
Jane Manchun Wong: App researcher who unlocks new features before they launch
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-47630849
131
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Building a Passive IMSI Catcher
https://harrisonsand.com/imsi-catcher/
128
Introduction to LSM Trees: May the Logs Be with You
https://priyankvex.wordpress.com/2019/04/28/introduction-to-lsm-trees-may-the-logs-be-with-you/
125
Lambda School wants to teach nursing
https://www.economist.com/business/2019/04/27/lambda-an-online-school-wants-to-teach-nursing
12
Show HN: Debugging-Friendly Tracebacks for Python
https://github.com/cknd/stackprinter/
★ 1.3k Python MIT– 7 years ago
115
How to Fly the B-25 Mitchell Bomber (1944) [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YQmkjpP6q8
112
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Building China: Rise of the Superblock
https://radiichina.com/building-china-rise-of-the-superblock/
103
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The answer to California's housing crisis is more housing
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/27/opinion/california-housing.html
97
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Timex Is Making Watches in America Again
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-26/timex-american-documents-watches-bring-manufacturing-back-to-u-s
90
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There is no good reason to buy an inkjet printer (2016)
https://jasonlefkowitz.net/2016/10/there-is-no-good-reason-to-ever-buy-an-inkjet-printer/
