1046
292
Ask HN: Are you put off building something because it already exists?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19774997
7 years ago
931
83
Topics in Advanced Data Structures [pdf]
http://web.stanford.edu/class/cs166/handouts/100%20Suggested%20Final%20Project%20Topics.pdf
797
524
SpaceX Gets FCC Approval to Sell Wireless High-Speed Home Internet from Space
https://www.cordcuttersnews.com/spacex-gets-fcc-approval-to-sell-wireless-high-speed-home-internet-from-space/
698
118
Belgian programmer solves MIT’s 20-year-old time capsule cryptographic puzzle
https://www.csail.mit.edu/news/belgian-programmer-solves-mits-20-year-old-cryptographic-puzzle
617
443
I Can’t Answer Standardized Test Questions About My Own Poems (2017)
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/standardized-tests-are-so-bad-i-cant-answer-these_b_586d5517e4b0c3539e80c341
537
171
Ask HN: How do you stay disciplined in the long run?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19777976
476
244
Apache Software Foundation joins GitHub open source community
https://github.blog/2019-04-29-apache-joins-github-community/
461
328
Jenkins Is Getting Old
https://itnext.io/jenkins-is-getting-old-2c98b3422f79
299
310
WeWork Files for IPO
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/29/business/dealbook/wework-ipo-filing.html
296
62
Unauthorized access to Docker Hub database
https://success.docker.com/article/docker-hub-user-notification
295
152
People Are Clamoring to Buy Old Insulin Pumps
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/04/looping-created-insulin-pump-underground-market/588091/
290
357
Burger King is rolling out meatless Impossible Whoppers nationwide
https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/29/18522637/burger-king-impossible-whopper-nationwide-rollout-meatless-vegetarian
283
124
Giving up on wlroots-rs
http://way-cooler.org/blog/2019/04/29/rewriting-way-cooler-in-c.html
267
50
Tsinghua law professor who criticized Xi Jinping barred from leaving China
https://www.inkstonenews.com/politics/law-professor-xu-zhangrun-barred-leaving-china/article/3008103
213
58
Show HN: Stretch – A high-performance cross-platform layout engine in Rust
https://vislyhq.github.io/stretch/
212
226
Google Staffers Share Stories of ‘Systemic’ Retaliation
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-26/google-staffers-share-350-stories-of-systemic-retaliation
202
280
Insurers Know How Often American Drivers Touch Their Phones
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-29/insurers-know-exactly-how-often-american-drivers-touch-their-phones
199
175
Indie Game Removed from Switch After Dev Reveals It Has a Hidden Code Editor
http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2019/04/indie_game_removed_from_switch_eshop_after_dev_reveals_it_contains_a_hidden_code_editor
191
148
Are the dead taking over Facebook?
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2053951719842540
188
57
Indonesia Plans to Move Its Capital Out of Jakarta, a City That's Sinking
https://www.npr.org/2019/04/29/718234878/indonesia-plans-to-move-its-capital-out-of-jakarta-a-city-thats-sinking
179
110
Mail a Letter Online
http://www.mailaletter.com/
174
46
How Many Type Parameters Can a Java Method Have?
http://justinblank.com/experiments/howmanytypeparameterscanajavamethodhave.html
170
31
Gravitational Wormhole: WireGuard for Kubernetes
https://gravitational.com/blog/announcing_wormhole/
157
145
Go 1.13: xerrors
https://crawshaw.io/blog/xerrors
35
The Paris Compressed-Air Power Network (2018)
http://www.douglas-self.com/MUSEUM/POWER/airnetwork/airnetwork.htm
155
39
Hundred-Tonne Robots That Help Keep New Zealand Running [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQ8WI3nc1l0
54
An algorithm wipes clean the criminal pasts of thousands
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-48072164
147
96
The Life of a Cherry Drying Pilot (2009)
https://www.aneclecticmind.com/2009/06/13/the-life-of-a-cherry-drying-pilot/
132
22
Launch HN: Trexo Robotics (YC W19) – Robotic Legs for Kids with Cerebral Palsy
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19780127
91
Thoughts on macOS Package Managers
https://saagarjha.com/blog/2019/04/26/thoughts-on-macos-package-managers/
122
28
Software, the Tough Tomato Principle, and the Great Weirdening of the World
https://florentcrivello.com/index.php/2019/04/29/software-the-tough-tomato-principle-and-the-great-weirdening-of-the-world/
117
85
$35 Atomic Pi Cherry Trail Linux SBC
https://www.cnx-software.com/2019/04/26/buy-atomic-pi-cherry-trail-sbc/
116
18
The Amiga Before the Amiga: The Amiga Development System
https://amigalove.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=1031
115
19
Show HN: My interview with patio11 and other profitable side project hackers
http://www.sideprojectbook.com
111
93
In its fight to keep drug prices high, big pharma leans on charities
https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-drug-prices-charity-20190429-story.html
101
Motion Estimation with Optical Flow
https://blog.nanonets.com/optical-flow/
100
Pprint: Pretty Printer for Modern C++
https://github.com/p-ranav/pprint
97
119
Ask HN: How to deal with a senior colleague who acts like he's boss?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19776335
95
13
Getting to Know Python 3.7- Data Classes, Async-Await and More
https://blog.heroku.com/python37-dataclasses-async-await
94
How category theory is applied
https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2019/04/29/how-category-theory-is-applied/
92
36
The Evolution of Disk Storage and an Introduction to NVMe
https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/data-flash-part-i-evolution-disk-storage-and-introduction-nvme
64
Boeing waited until after Lion Air crash to tell Southwest safety alert was off
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/28/boeing-didnt-tell-southwest-that-safety-feature-on-737-max-was-turned-off-wsj.html
89
HyperCard Stack: Douglas Adams' Megapode Nest Volume Calculator (1991)
https://archive.org/details/DouglasAdamsMegapode
61
Show HN: A game I made in 48 hours
https://joemanaco.itch.io/timezone
84
40
Alphabet Announces First Quarter 2019 Results
https://abc.xyz/investor/static/pdf/2019Q1_alphabet_earnings_release.pdf?cache=8ac2b86
82
30
I Merged My One-Person Software Company with a Bigger Player (2018)
https://philderksen.com/why-i-merged/
81
10
Valitor Sentenced to Pay 1.2B ISK over Wikileaks Payment Block
https://grapevine.is/news/2019/04/25/valitor-sentenced-to-pay-1-2-billion-isk-over-wikileaks-payment-block/
80
9
Tell HN: Hours left to protest ICANN's plan to uncap prices of legacy TLDs
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19777869
79
21
Old emotions remain salient in insomnia disorder
https://academic.oup.com/brain/advance-article/doi/10.1093/brain/awz089/5477778
78
24
Show HN: Python virtual environment, but backed by Docker
https://github.com/se7entyse7en/pydockenv
Software, the Tough Tomato Principle, and the Great Weirdening of the World