1362
232
YouTube videos that have almost zero previous views
http://astronaut.io/
6 years ago
836
104
Calculus for Beginners and Artists (2003)
http://www-math.mit.edu/~djk/calculus_beginners/
561
336
Landfill is underrated and recycling overrated
https://medium.com/@robertwiblin/what-you-think-about-landfill-and-recycling-is-probably-totally-wrong-3a6cf57049ce
523
107
You Only Need to Test with 5 Users (2000)
https://www.nngroup.com/articles/why-you-only-need-to-test-with-5-users/
362
292
Jony Ive’s Mistakes: When Beautiful Design Is Bad Design
https://onezero.medium.com/jony-ives-errors-why-ugly-isn-t-always-bad-design-but-beautiful-sometimes-is-9c5fde886263
339
226
After Car2Go eased its background checks, 75 vehicles were stolen in one day
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-11/mercedes-thieves-showed-just-how-vulnerable-car-sharing-can-be
314
281
Ask HN: How do you deal with professional envy?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20433301
303
136
What is Silverblue?
https://fedoramagazine.org/what-is-silverblue/
290
267
“10x engineers”: Stereotypes and research
https://jasoncrawford.org/10x-engineers
262
184
Ask HN: Is “new” Reddit completely unusable for anyone else?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20432746
241
239
Portugal’s radical drugs policy is working (2017)
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/dec/05/portugals-radical-drugs-policy-is-working-why-hasnt-the-world-copied-it
237
205
India is sending a rover to the moon, and the country is pumped
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/14/world/asia/india-moon-landing.html
229
82
Interesting Programming Languages
https://www.btbytes.com/pl.html
224
219
Insects feel persistent pain after injury, evidence suggests
https://sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2019/07/11/thwack--insects-feel-chronic-pain-after-injury.html
196
30
Sand won't save you this time (2008)
https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2008/02/26/sand_wont_save_you_this_time
190
80
Ask HN: How do you personally learn?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20433926
189
133
Soil Erosion: Why soil is disappearing from farms
http://www.bbc.com/future/bespoke/follow-the-food/why-soil-is-disappearing-from-farms/
185
18
From Laptop to Lambda: Outsourcing Everyday Jobs to Thousands of Containers [pdf]
https://www-cs.stanford.edu/~matei/papers/2019/usenix_atc_gg.pdf
181
55
Hasselblad: A Camera That Went to the Moon and Changed How We See It
https://www.npr.org/2019/07/13/735314929/the-camera-that-went-to-the-moon-and-changed-how-we-see-it
179
69
Craig Newmark: a survivor from the era of internet optimism
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jul/14/craigslist-craig-newmark-outrage-is-profitable-most-online-outrage-is-faked-for-profit
166
54
Explaining a Novel to Pakistani Intelligence
https://www.cjr.org/special_report/explaining-a-novel-to-pakistani-intelligence.php
160
38
Rust as the New C Part 1: Building and Combining Native Libs into C API
http://hotforknowledge.com/2019/07/14/6-rust-the-new-c/
155
Developer Tropes: “Google Does It”
https://tomaytotomato.com/developer-tropes/
151
141
How much money can you make on Mechanical Turk?
https://thehustle.co/making-money-on-amazon-mechanical-turk/
150
52
Virtual Kubernetes
https://github.com/ibuildthecloud/k3v
149
43
George Wilson, The Man Who Walked His Life Away
https://deadspin.com/the-man-who-walked-his-life-away-1835620495
144
187
A new book critiques medicine
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/is-medicine-overrated/
137
116
Google shuts down its blog management tool just 10 months after launch
https://www.androidpolice.com/2019/07/13/google-blog-compass-shutdown/
27
Writing a Ph.D. thesis with Org Mode
https://github.com/dangom/org-thesis
134
35
Fresh Air Archive: 40 years of interviews with the voices that shape our world
https://freshairarchive.org/
126
In May 2009 O'Reilly agreed to publish a book about Common Lisp (2011)
https://www.nicklevine.org/lisp-book/talks/eclm-2011-10-23/plan.txt
Why airplane windows have round corners (2016)
https://jasonlefkowitz.net/2016/09/why-airplane-windows-have-round-corners/
128
58
Olive: Professional open-source non-linear video editor
https://github.com/olive-editor/olive
125
135
Boeing 737 Max Grounding Could Stretch into 2020
https://www.wsj.com/articles/boeing-737-max-grounding-could-stretch-into-2020-11563112801?mod=rsswn
124
169
“What the Hardware Does” Is Not What Your Program Does: Uninitialized Memory
https://www.ralfj.de/blog/2019/07/14/uninit.html
123
39
Show HN: Cloud Maker – Rapidly create cloud architecture diagrams
https://cloudmaker.ai#
122
5
Cedarwood: Efficiently-Updatable Double Array Trie in Rust
https://blog.paulme.ng/posts/2019-07-14-cedarwood%3A-efficiently-updatable-double-array-trie-in-rust.html
119
HyperFoods: Machine intelligent mapping of cancer-beating molecules in foods
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-45349-y
115
28
Crispr is less like molecular scissors and more like molecular malware
https://thenextweb.com/syndication/2019/07/14/crispr-is-less-like-molecular-scissors-and-more-like-molecular-malware/
114
65
Alan Cooper on the “10x” Programmer
https://twitter.com/MrAlanCooper/status/1150215587978596353
113
Streaming Cassandra at WePay
https://wecode.wepay.com/posts/streaming-cassandra-at-wepay-part-1
112
72
Building a hackable editor in the browser
http://bjenik.com/hackableeditor/
109
25
Bullet Time
https://logicmag.io/07-bullet-time/
106
51
The Vision for Decentralized Web
http://www.tautvilas.lt/the-vision-for-a-more-decentralized-web
60
Servants Without Masters
https://write.as/harold-lee/servants-without-masters
96
71
A brief history and future of credit scores
https://www.economist.com/international/2019/07/06/a-brief-history-and-future-of-credit-scores
94
CEO of Marriott Statements About Hotel Fees Customers Loathe
https://www.inc.com/chris-matyszczyk/the-ceo-of-marriott-just-made-some-stunning-statements-about-hotel-fees-customers-loathe.html
92
8
Plot Maps of Star Wars
http://www.andrewdegraff.com/moviemaps/#/star-wars/
91
99
Ask HN: Getting Started Investing
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20433300
After Car2Go eased its background checks, 75 vehicles were stolen in one day