1724
214
Turning a MacBook into a Touchscreen with $1 of Hardware (2018)
https://www.anishathalye.com/2018/04/03/macbook-touchscreen/
6 years ago
953
449
Yelp Is Replacing Restaurants’ Phone Numbers So Grubhub Can Take a Cut
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wjwebw/yelp-is-sneakily-replacing-restaurants-phone-numbers-so-grubhub-can-take-a-cut
683
202
New York City Neighbors Build Cheaper Way to Connect to Web
https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-york-city-neighbors-build-cheaper-way-to-connect-to-web-11565100000?mod=rsswn
462
227
Supercentenarians are concentrated into regions with no birth certificates
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/704080v1
445
100
A Guide to Recording 660FPS Video on a $6 Raspberry Pi Camera
http://blog.robertelder.org/recording-660-fps-on-raspberry-pi-camera/
414
93
Toni Morrison Has Died
https://www.wsj.com/articles/nobel-laureate-toni-morrison-has-died-11565099219?mod=rsswn
397
124
Show HN: I trained a deep learning model to build sites for me
https://zecoda.com/
332
151
AT&T employees were bribed to install phone unlocking malware on company network
https://www.geekwire.com/2019/seattle-area-att-employees-bribed-install-phone-unlocking-malware-company-network-authorities-say/
327
79
FFmpeg 4.2
http://ffmpeg.org/index.html#pr4.2
314
26
How to get your first ten customers (2013)
http://danshipper.com/nothing-happens-until-the-sale-is-made
309
114
Arend: Theorem Prover Based on Homotopy Type Theory by JetBrains
https://arend-lang.github.io/
291
261
Health insurance companies are useless
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2019-08-05/health-insurance-useless
271
96
Toshiba Introduces New Tiny NVMe SSD Form Factor
https://www.anandtech.com/show/14711/toshiba-introduces-new-tiny-nvme-ssd-form-factor
267
186
Facebook Hit by Apple’s Crackdown on Messaging Feature
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/facebook-hit-by-apples-crackdown-on-messaging-feature?pu=hackernews8g0mjb&utm_source=hackernews&utm_medium=unlock
264
33
Millions of Books Are Secretly in the Public Domain
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/kz4e3e/millions-of-books-are-secretly-in-the-public-domain-you-can-download-them-free
257
188
Chrome hides www and https:// in the address bar again
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/google/google-chrome-hides-www-and-https-in-the-address-bar-again/
256
136
Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q2 2019
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-stats-q2-2019/
248
87
It’s worth spending weeks on research before wasting years on a hopeless project
https://ottofeller.com/blog/how-to-conduct-research-and-successfully-launch-a-product
231
55
Focus on the high-expectation customer
https://uxdesign.cc/stop-designing-products-for-random-people-4734423cbfe6
212
42
Seashells – Pipe output from command-line programs to the web in real time
https://seashells.io/
201
Unison File Synchronizer
https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/
190
123
A Quarter of Humanity Faces Looming Water Crises
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/06/climate/world-water-stress.html
166
64
Social share buttons that don't allow the social sites to track your users
https://github.com/panzi/SocialSharePrivacy
165
22
US Appeals Court Voids Google Cookie Privacy Settlement That Paid Users Nothing
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-alphabet-google-cookies/u-s-appeals-court-voids-google-cookie-privacy-settlement-that-paid-users-nothing-idUSKCN1UW23R
162
137
China warns India of 'reverse sanctions' if Huawei is blocked
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-huawei-india-exclusive/exclusive-china-warns-india-of-reverse-sanctions-if-huawei-is-blocked-sources-idUSKCN1UW1FF
159
121
Being basic as a virtue
https://nadiaeghbal.com/basic
158
148
Hospital checklists are meant to save lives, so why do they often fail?
https://www.nature.com/news/hospital-checklists-are-meant-to-save-lives-so-why-do-they-often-fail-1.18057
155
150
Swiss Post Suspends Drone Delivery Service After Second Crash
https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/drones/swiss-post-suspends-drone-delivery-service-after-second-crash
152
61
History of the broken vertical bar, being the ¦ form of |
https://www.reddit.com/r/typography/comments/aqcesg/history_of_the_broken_vertical_bar_being_the_form/
41
Finnair Flight 915
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnair_Flight_915
56
10 Years SeL4: Still the Best, Still Getting Better
https://microkerneldude.wordpress.com/2019/08/06/10-years-sel4-still-the-best-still-getting-better/
147
25
Casting Glass from 3D Printed Molds
http://amosdudley.com/weblog/Casting-Glass-from-3D-Printed-Molds
146
60
Who Did the Math for General Relativity First, Einstein or Hilbert?
https://medium.com/cantors-paradise/einstein-and-hilberts-race-to-generalize-relativity-6885f44e3cbe
145
19
How we built a P2P file sharing network from scratch
https://xorro-p2p.github.io/
142
37
Documentation – Your Secret Weapon
https://www.anup.io/2019/08/05/documentation-your-secret-weapon/
105
A Commercial Path to Fusion
https://physicsworld.com/a/a-commercial-path-to-fusion/
141
73
Decentralized DNS with the Handshake Naming System
https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2019/08/private-internet-access-users-can-now-resolve-internet-names-with-the-handshake-naming-system-hns/
139
58
Side channel that leaked data from Intel CPUs patched by silent Windows update
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/08/silent-windows-update-patched-side-channel-that-leaked-data-from-intel-cpus/
138
44
Glymphatic system clears toxins in the brain during sleep (2013)
https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/news/story/3956/to-sleep-perchance-to-clean.aspx
135
Arabic Mathematics: Forgotten Brilliance? (1999)
http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/Arabic_mathematics.html
132
Show HN: A time tracker that asks you every 10 min what you're doing
https://maesure.com/
128
46
Launch HN: Lang (YC S19) – Internationalization Built for Devs
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20627137
126
66
Open list of GDPR fines so far
https://github.com/lknik/gdpr/blob/master/fines/README.md
122
Ask HN: The most useful Mac keyboard shortcuts?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20621224
N. Korea Took in $2B in Cyberattacks to Fund Weapons Program: U.N. Report
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-cyber-un/north-korea-took-2-billion-in-cyberattacks-to-fund-weapons-program-u-n-report-idUSKCN1UV1ZX
120
83
Recursive language and modern imagination acquired 70k years ago: hypothesis
https://phys.org/news/2019-08-recursive-language-modern-simultaneously-years.html
95
Intel 10nm Chip Gets Mixed Reviews
https://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1334991
115
Unshaky – Tries to address double key press issue on Apple's butterfly keyboard
https://github.com/aahung/Unshaky
113
68
Lifehacker: Tarek Loubani on 3D-Printing in Gaza
https://logicmag.io/bodies/tarek-loubani-on-3d-printing-in-gaza/
112
78
Computer Stupidities (2013)
http://rinkworks.com/stupid/
109
160
Contrary to Musk's claim, Lidar has some advantages in Self Driving technology
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2019/08/elon-musk-says-driverless-cars-dont-need-lidar-experts-arent-so-sure/
34
Effects of a glyphosate-based herbicide on soil ecosystem
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-44988-5
104
Hostile Architecture
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostile_architecture
102
65
Monzo urges 480k customers to change their pin numbers
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/aug/05/monzo-urges-480000-customers-to-change-their-pin-numbers
101
70
First, Do No Harm: A Hippocratic Oath for Software Developers (2004)
https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1016991
Suburb in the sky: how Jakartans built an entire village on top of a mall
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/aug/05/suburb-in-the-sky-how-jakartans-built-an-entire-village-on-top-of-a-mall
127
Darpa wants help cracking the election security problem
https://www.fifthdomain.com/dod/2019/08/05/darpa-wants-help-cracking-the-election-security-problem/
62
Google Voice is killing SMS voicemail transcripts and Chrome Extension texting
https://www.androidpolice.com/2019/08/02/google-voice-is-killing-sms-voicemail-transcripts-and-texting-from-its-chrome-extension/
88
51
Rocket Lab - Reusability Plans for Electron Rocket via Helicopter Catching
https://www.rocketlabusa.com/news/updates/rocket-lab-announces-reusability-plans-for-electron-rocket/
Contrary to Musk's claim, Lidar has some advantages in Self Driving technology