1395
593
Google Cloud Is Down
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20077421
6 years ago
586
312
Password expiration is dead, long live passwords
https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/02/password-expiration-is-dead-long-live-your-passwords/
547
214
Google Just Gave 2B Chrome Users a Reason to Switch to Firefox
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kateoflahertyuk/2019/05/30/google-just-gave-2-billion-chrome-users-a-reason-to-switch-to-firefox/#1b219e42751f
464
87
A home microhydro plant (2009)
https://ludens.cl/paradise/turbine/turbine.html
437
65
Animated Knots: Learn how to tie knots with step-by-step animation
https://www.animatedknots.com/complete-knot-list
372
339
US demands social media details from visa applicants
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-48486672
297
251
India heatwave temperatures pass 50 Celsius
https://phys.org/news/2019-06-india-heatwave-temperatures-celsius.html
269
61
Vim tricks
https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/intermediate-vim/
244
174
Economists Are Obsessed with Job Creation – How About Less Work? (2017)
http://evonomics.com/less-work-job-creation-peter-gray/
237
177
TSA-style body scanners are coming to public spaces
https://massprivatei.blogspot.com/2019/05/police-to-use-tsa-style-scanners-to-spy.html
221
35
Compiling C to WebAssembly Without Emscripten
https://dassur.ma/things/c-to-webassembly/
215
238
Storm 2.0
https://storm.apache.org/2019/05/30/storm200-released.html
209
77
If I ingest a grain of sand size piece of the Chernobyl Reactor No.4 core
https://www.quora.com/If-I-ingest-a-grain-of-sand-size-piece-of-the-Chernobyl-Reactor-No-4-core-what-would-happen-to-my-body/answer/Carl-Willis-2?share=1
179
107
How Stoicism can help us
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/05/life-hacks-from-marcus-aurelius-how-stoicism-can-help-us
164
115
A new credit bubble gets ready to burst
https://www.greenwichtime.com/business/article/A-new-credit-bubble-gets-ready-to-burst-13911193.php
154
13
Dolphin Progress May 2019
https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/2019/06/02/dolphin-progress-report-may-2019/
153
120
Evidence of a nocebo response following a nationwide antidepressant drug switch
https://cpe.psychopen.eu/article/29642/
147
6
What Makes a Graphics Systems Paper Beautiful
http://graphics.stanford.edu/~kayvonf/notes/systemspaper/
141
A Tiling Desktop Environment
https://bitcannon.net/post/pro-desktop/
145
84
Millennials ‘Make Farming Sexy’ in Africa, Where Tilling Soil Once Meant Shame
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/27/world/africa/farming-millennials.html
37
Show HN: Nullboard – Simple, light, locally-stored to-do lists
https://nullboard.io/preview
136
103
How to use array reduce for more than just numbers
https://jrsinclair.com/articles/2019/functional-js-do-more-with-reduce/
133
220
Huawei reassesses goal to be world’s bestselling smartphone vendor
https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3012702/huawei-reassesses-goal-be-worlds-bestselling-smartphone-vendor-after
131
59
Tiananmen Square: China minister defends 1989 crackdown
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-48489002
112
The Dark Side of Dark Mode
https://tidbits.com/2019/05/31/the-dark-side-of-dark-mode/
127
On the Pleasures and Sorrows of Life Without Screens
http://www.calnewport.com/blog/2019/05/31/on-the-pleasures-and-sorrows-of-life-without-screens/
122
30
Emu: Language for Programming GPUs in Rust
https://github.com/calebwin/emu
88
What We Want Doesn’t Always Make Us Happy
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-05-01/what-we-want-doesn-t-always-make-us-happy
119
12
Ilya Starinov – The godfather of modern insurgent IED warfare
http://www.standingwellback.com/home/2019/5/29/ilya-starinov-the-godfather-of-modern-insurgent-ied-warfare.html
116
18
The Human Antivenom Project
https://www.outsideonline.com/2395803/snakebite-antivenom-tim-friede
111
38
The Startup Party Is Over
http://news.quelsolaar.com/#post111
73
Shady Numbers and Bad Business: Inside the Esports Bubble
https://kotaku.com/as-esports-grows-experts-fear-its-a-bubble-ready-to-po-1834982843
110
68
Rethinking Files
https://www.devever.net/~hl/objectworld
108
63
Question mark hangs over trendy tech startup domains
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/05/27/io_domains_uk_un/
106
24
A Visual Introduction to Morse Theory
http://bastian.rieck.me/blog/posts/2019/morse_theory/
101
The avocado is an evolutionary anachronism
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/why-the-avocado-should-have-gone-the-way-of-the-dodo-4976527/
98
185
Hollywood studios say they’re quitting Netflix – the truth is more complicated
https://www.al.com/life/2019/06/hollywood-studios-say-theyre-quitting-netflix-but-the-truth-is-more-complicated.html
93
Cloudflare Workers
https://workers.cloudflare.com/
91
124
Google’s Dominance Is No Longer a Sure Thing
https://www.wsj.com/articles/googles-dominance-is-no-longer-a-sure-thing-11559427954
90
54
The prison inside: Japan's hikikomori lack relationships, not physical spaces
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2019/06/01/lifestyle/prison-inside-japans-hikikomori-lack-relationships-not-physical-spaces/
76
The Central Park Five
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/30/arts/television/when-they-see-us.html
89
14
Most complex ASCII fluid – Honorable mention (2012)
http://www.ioccc.org/2012/endoh1/hint.html
85
No Brainer (2015)
http://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=6116
60
A new census shows how a Brazilian favela works
https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2019/05/30/a-new-census-shows-how-a-brazilian-favela-really-works
79
48
Tenure-Based Ownership – A distributed equity model for worker ownership
http://ianmobbs.com/projects/equity
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