587
436
Dear Bureaucrat, my job wants me to lie
https://www.federaltimes.com/your-career/the-bureaucrat/2019/03/07/dear-bureaucrat-my-job-wants-me-to-lie/
7 years ago
555
248
How to parent more predictably (2018)
https://www.jefftk.com/p/how-to-parent-more-predictably
541
140
Gorilla Youngsters Seen Dismantling Poachers’ Traps (2012)
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/07/120719-young-gorillas-juvenile-traps-snares-rwanda-science-fossey/
474
227
Introducing a new HTML element – welcome <clippy>
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2019/06/introducing-the-new-html-element-welcome/
402
292
WeChat is Watching: Living in China with the app that knows everything about me
http://nautil.us/issue/73/play/wechat-is-watching
401
48
Level Design Patterns in 2D Games
https://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/AhmedKhalifa/20190610/344344/Level_Design_Patterns_in_2D_Games.php
346
171
US efforts to jail Assange for espionage are a grave threat to a free media
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/may/26/prosecuting-julian-assange-for-espionage-poses-danger-freedom-of-press
345
231
Software Below the Poverty Line
https://staltz.com/software-below-the-poverty-line.html
274
143
Nearly 400 medical devices, procedures and practices found ineffective in study
https://www.sciencealert.com/recent-study-finds-400-medical-devices-procedures-or-practices-that-are-ineffective
265
40
How Nike sold its first shoes
https://marketingexamples.com/direct/how-nike-sold-first-shoes
259
122
Show HN: Browser Extension to Refine the HN Experience
https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news
★ 829 JavaScript MIT– 7 years ago
249
61
The New Wilderness
https://idlewords.com/2019/06/the_new_wilderness.htm
222
97
Pika CDN – A CDN for Modern JavaScript
https://www.pika.dev/cdn
218
69
Candida auris: A fungus hospitals don’t want to talk about
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/08/health/candida-auris-hospitals.html
216
32
Interactive Charts with D3
https://wattenberger.netlify.com/
215
267
We Could Have Had Electric Cars from the Beginning
https://longreads.com/2019/06/13/we-could-have-had-electric-cars-from-the-very-beginning/
80
NOAA upgrades the U.S. global weather forecast model
https://www.noaa.gov/media-release/noaa-upgrades-us-global-weather-forecast-model
207
68
Puerto Rico energy plan introduces MiniGrids to avoid repeat of Hurricane Maria
https://www.utilitydive.com/news/puerto-rico-energy-plan-introduces-minigrids-to-avoid-repeat-of-hurricane-m/556645/
206
46
First U.S. use of CRISPR to directly target cancer seeks approval
https://www.statnews.com/2019/05/02/crispr-targeting-cancer-seeking-go-ahead/
204
73
2m amateur radio band endangered?
https://www.f4fxl.org/2m-amateur-radio-band-endangered/
199
95
How to Design for the Web in 2019
https://medium.com/commitlog/how-to-design-for-the-web-in-2019-a0be4d6702e2
196
26
Prosecutors Are Shaping Privacy Law
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/13/opinion/privacy-law-enforcment-congress.html
192
185
Gimp 2.10.12
https://www.gimp.org/news/2019/06/12/gimp-2-10-12-released/
184
33
Logistic Regression from Bayes’ Theorem
https://www.countbayesie.com/blog/2019/6/12/logistic-regression-from-bayes-theorem
179
106
Hong Kong Protests Live Updates: Police Violence Puts Government on Defensive
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/12/world/asia/hong-kong-protests.html
169
92
India Plans to Launch Moon Mission in July
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-12/india-to-launch-moon-mission-in-july-eyes-entry-into-elite-club
168
37
Telegram Traces Cyber Attack to China During Hong Kong Protests
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-13/telegram-traces-cyber-attack-to-china-amid-hong-kong-protests
164
147
SwiftUI and Catalyst: Apple executes its invisible transition strategy
https://www.macworld.com/article/3402057/swiftui-and-catalyst-apple-executes-its-invisible-transition-strategy.html
150
18
Enzyme pathway in human gut microbiome that converts A to universal O type blood
https://naturemicrobiologycommunity.nature.com/users/261113-peter-rahfeld/posts/49635-an-enzymatic-pathway-in-the-human-gut-microbiome-that-converts-a-to-universal-o-type-blood
144
74
Notes on privacy and data collection of Matrix.org
https://gist.github.com/maxidorius/5736fd09c9194b7a6dc03b6b8d7220d0
120
Starsky Robotics Becomes First Uncrewed Truck to Hit 55 MPH
https://www.thedrive.com/tech/28520/starsky-robotics-becomes-first-unmanned-truck-to-hit-55-mph
127
149
Julian Assange: Home Secretary Signs US Extradition Request
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-48624024
124
81
Fast constant-time GCD algorithm and modular inversion
https://gcd.cr.yp.to/papers.html
58
The New Dropbox Sucks
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2019/06/13/dropbox-sucks
9
How modern life is transforming the human skeleton
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20190610-how-modern-life-is-transforming-the-human-skeleton
91
Fiverr IPO’s at $700M valuation
https://www.barrons.com/articles/fiverr-stock-ipo-strong-debut-gig-economy-company-freelance-marketplace-51560439843
119
94
How dried fish is made in Iceland
https://icelandmonitor.mbl.is/news/eat_and_drink/2019/06/12/how_dried_fish_is_made/
116
64
Show HN: Never-Blink: Blink and Lose. An Online Web Game
https://github.com/ByronHsu/Never-Blink
★ 902 JavaScript MIT– 7 years ago
115
86
Ask HN: Why are ISO standards so expensive?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20174847
108
13
Svalbard Global Seed Vault
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svalbard_Global_Seed_Vault
100
17
1872 Journalists Killed between 1992 and 2019
https://cpj.org/data/killed/?status=Killed&motiveConfirmed%5B%5D=Confirmed&motiveUnconfirmed%5B%5D=Unconfirmed&type%5B%5D=Journalist&start_year=1992&end_year=2019&group_by=year
87
38
Apple Still Eyes Intel's Modem Business
https://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1334807
15
A radio station that no one claims to run (2017)
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170801-the-ghostly-radio-station-that-no-one-claims-to-run
85
To Fix the Social Sciences, Look to the “Dark Ages” of Medicine
https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/social-sciences-dark-ages/
84
27
How Cars Transformed Policing
http://bostonreview.net/law-justice/sarah-seo-how-cars-transformed-policing
Living and Dying at the Port of Ancient Rome
https://www.arch.cam.ac.uk/diet-at-the-docks-living-and-dying-at-the-port-of-ancient-rome
82
24
Encrypting Gopher
https://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/gw.lite?gopher://tilde.team:70/0/~rain1/phlog/20190608-encrypting-gopher.txt
65
Japan outlaws flying drones while drunk
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-48621450
39
Building hybrid blockchain/cloud applications
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/building-hybrid-blockchain-cloud-applications-with-ethereum-and-google-cloud
0
Teaching a cheap Ethernet switch new tricks
https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/dell-switch-hacking
71
Sensorimotor Mechanics of People with a Sixth Finger
https://digest.bps.org.uk/2019/06/12/breakthrough-investigation-of-people-with-a-sixth-finger-has-implications-for-infant-medicine-and-cyborgs/
70
16
Hyperspace in the 1970s: Tony Buzan’s early hypertext system for paper
https://frieze.com/article/one-diagram-mind-them-all-hyperspace-1970s
20
Pyramid Tracks: Obscure, retro, and weird royalty free music
https://pyramidtracks.com
2
Three new FOSS umbrella organizations in Europe (2017)
https://lwn.net/Articles/713073/
66
What's Happened Since February?
http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2019/06/13.html
72
The U.S. Is Purging Chinese Cancer Researchers from Top Institutions
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-06-13/the-u-s-is-purging-chinese-americans-from-top-cancer-research
35
Point it, call it, get it right (2018)
https://www.flightsafetyaustralia.com/2018/01/point-it-call-i
63
Court: Photographer has no recourse against university copyright infringement
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/article/Texas-court-says-photographer-has-no-recourse-13973674.php