732
296
The shittiest project I ever worked on (2013)
https://blog.plover.com/tech/prudential.html
6 years ago
680
180
H.264 is magic (2016)
https://sidbala.com/h-264-is-magic/
533
359
Starlink – SpaceX’s broadband internet system
https://www.starlink.com/
418
164
First American Financial Corp. Leaked Hundreds of Millions of Insurance Records
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/05/first-american-financial-corp-leaked-hundreds-of-millions-of-title-insurance-records/
371
141
Floyd Martin retires after nearly 35 years as a mailman tomorrow
https://twitter.com/Jennifer__Brett/status/1131298044010483712
366
82
Making a Game Boy Game in 2017
https://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/DoctorLudos/20171207/311143/Making_a_Game_Boy_game_in_2017_A_quotSheep_It_Upquot_PostMortem_part_12.php
335
63
Firefox brings smooth video playback with the fastest AV1 decoder
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/05/firefox-brings-you-smooth-video-playback-with-the-worlds-fastest-av1-decoder/
325
42
Murray Gell-Mann Has Died
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/24/obituaries/murray-gell-mann-died-.html
322
343
The Huawei Disaster Reveals Google’s Iron Grip on Android
https://onezero.medium.com/the-huawei-disaster-reveals-googles-iron-grip-on-android-b1ccee34504d
317
120
OKRs from a development team’s perspective
https://zafulabs.com/2019/05/24/okrs-from-a-development-teams-perspective/
271
204
Why Does Windows Really Use Backslash as Path Separator?
http://www.os2museum.com/wp/why-does-windows-really-use-backslash-as-path-separator/
269
143
America is turning against facial-recognition software
https://www.economist.com/united-states/2019/05/25/america-is-turning-against-facial-recognition-software
263
257
Bill to put health warnings on soda and sugary drinks advances in California
https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-warning-label-sugary-drinks-advances-20190523-story.html
235
99
Maker of US border's license-plate scanning tech ransacked by hacker
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/05/23/perceptics_hacked_license_plate_recognition/
234
45
Belly.io – Curated List of Programming Coding Streamers
https://belly.io/programming
222
156
Crossfit Inc. suspends use of Facebook and associated properties
https://www.crossfit.com/battles/crossfit-suspends-facebook-instagram
212
72
Algorithm Solves Graph Isomorphism in Record Time (2015)
https://www.quantamagazine.org/algorithm-solves-graph-isomorphism-in-record-time-20151214/
206
133
Show HN: Workstation – Showcase Your Setup
https://workstation.is
205
More Productive Git
https://increment.com/open-source/more-productive-git/
200
217
Calorie per Dollar List – Eat for 21 Dollars a Week
https://efficiencyiseverything.com/calorie-per-dollar-list/
196
147
Smartphones Are Toys First, Tools Second
https://www.raptitude.com/2019/05/smartphones-are-toys-first-tools-second/
76
What is a fork, and how GitHub changed its meaning
https://drewdevault.com/2019/05/24/What-is-a-fork.html
194
101
What's the difference between 0/0 and 1/0?
https://blog.plover.com/math/division-by-zero.html
185
75
BioRender – Professional Science Figures
https://biorender.com/
177
85
What Happened to 'Miegakure,' the Game That Promised the 4th Dimension? (2018)
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/9kmknd/what-happened-to-miegakure-the-game-that-promised-the-4th-dimension
176
40
Grafana v6.2
https://grafana.com/blog/2019/05/22/grafana-v6.2-released/
243
NASA executive quits weeks after appointment to lead 2024 moon landing plan
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-space-exploration-nasa/nasa-executive-quits-weeks-after-being-named-to-lead-moon-initiative-idUSKCN1SU0A5
174
67
How to factor 2048 bit RSA integers in 8 hours using 20M noisy qubits
https://scirate.com/arxiv/1905.09749
169
57
Stronger than aluminum, a heavily altered wood cools passively
https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/05/chemically-treated-wood-could-send-excess-heat-to-space/
157
5M Bid request/s, 2ms max response time – The Road to Damascus
https://github.com/eloraiby/fs-pacer/blob/master/fs-pacer.md
154
31
The geometry of an electron determined for the first time
https://www.unibas.ch/en/News-Events/News/Uni-Research/The-geometry-of-an-electron-determined-for-the-first-time.html
153
182
Robinhood Is Set to Raise at Least $200 Million in New Funding
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-24/robinhood-is-set-to-raise-at-least-200-million-in-new-funding?srnd=premium
151
16
Pip3 install videoflow – new Python library to do computer vision on video
https://github.com/videoflow/videoflow
149
125
A Decade Ago, Suicides Rocked a French Telecom Firm – Now Its Execs Stand Trial
https://www.npr.org/2019/05/23/724476109/a-decade-ago-suicides-rocked-a-french-telecom-firm-now-its-execs-stand-trial
148
50
Hong Kong activists wanted by police gain protection in Germany
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/21/world/asia/hong-kong-china-germany-activists.html
138
Facebook: Another three billion fake profiles culled
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-48380504
124
181
China unveils 600 kph maglev train prototype
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1151282.shtml
121
Consuming Hacker News
https://riskfirst.org/2019/05/14/Hacker-News
112
35
Ship spies largest underwater eruption ever
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/05/ship-spies-largest-underwater-eruption-ever
105
Combining finances
https://blog.mitchjlee.com/2019/combining-finances
92
12
Plankton Haven’t Been the Same Since the Industrial Revolution
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/plankton-havent-been-same-industrial-revolution-180972266/
110
Dividends and Buybacks Now Larger Than Total Reported Earnings for Entire S&P500
https://thesoundingline.com/dividends-and-buybacks-now-larger-than-total-reported-earnings-for-the-entire-sp-500/
89
21
Show HN: Sourcetrail – Visual Source Explorer Now Supports Python
https://www.sourcetrail.com/
87
24
SpaceX launches sixty Starlink satellites on thrice-flown rocket, sticks landing
https://www.space.com/spacex-launches-60-starlink-internet-satellites.html
128
You don’t want a child prodigy
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/24/opinion/sunday/kids-sports-music-choices.html
84
9
Compress objects, not cache lines: an object-based compressed memory hierarchy
https://blog.acolyer.org/2019/05/24/zippads/
49
Peergos Alpha – A decentralized file storage and communication network
https://peergos.org/blog#alpha_release_june_2019_
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