986
385
What Does a Coder Do If They Can't Type?
http://nsaphra.github.io/post/hands/
7 years ago
558
200
A mathematician's way of converting miles to kilometers
https://twitter.com/TamasGorbe/status/1158348261683605504
347
78
Get your work recognized: write a brag document
https://jvns.ca/blog/brag-documents/
332
167
The Problem at Yale Is Not Free Speech
https://palladiummag.com/2019/08/05/the-real-problem-at-yale-is-not-free-speech
322
331
Companies Use Borrowed Billions to Buy Back Stock, Not to Invest
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-08/companies-use-borrowed-billions-to-buy-back-stock-not-to-invest
313
258
Jeffrey Epstein: Financier 'found dead in cell' in New York
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49306032
218
73
Creeping normality
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creeping_normality
178
52
The Principia Discordia (1963)
https://principiadiscordia.com/book/1.php
92
Cisco is making it more difficult to use used hardware
https://www.ifixit.com/News/cisco-is-making-it-more-difficult-to-use-pre-owned-hardware
177
12
Daniel Radcliffe and the Art of the Fact-Check (2018)
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/10/15/daniel-radcliffe-and-the-art-of-the-fact-check
175
395
FBI tells lawmakers it can't access Dayton gunman's phone
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/456742-fbi-tells-lawmakers-it-cant-access-phone-of-dayton-gunman
174
65
Teen Hacker Finds Bugs in School Software That Exposed Millions of Records
https://www.wired.com/story/teen-hacker-school-software-blackboard-follett/
173
187
IBM Stops Buybacks to Pay for Red Hat
https://investorplace.com/2019/08/ibm-stops-buybacks-to-pay-for-red-hat/
26
Parallelism in PostgreSQL
https://www.percona.com/blog/2019/07/30/parallelism-in-postgresql/
171
58
Patterns on goods designed to trigger Automated License Plate Readers
https://adversarialfashion.com/
170
198
Telegram introduces feature to prevent users from texting too often in a group
https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/10/telegram-slow-mode-silent-notifications/
91
P++ idea: FAQ
https://wiki.php.net/pplusplus/faq
164
139
Electric motor design claims remarkable improvements
https://newatlas.com/linear-labs-hunstable-electric-motor/60974/
147
32
DEF CON and Stack Overflow: What Our Traffic Says About Cybersecurity
https://stackoverflow.blog/2019/08/08/def-con-stack-overflow-traffic-data-trends/?cb=1
35
Analyzing the Facebook ads placed by the US presidential candidates
https://medium.com/applied-data-science/56-070-165-facebook-ad-spend-of-us-presidential-candidates-broken-down-by-age-and-gender-2dcc32fe2c02
135
47
Monsanto built a step-by-step strategy to destroy my reputation
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/aug/08/monsanto-roundup-journalist-documents
132
Porsche Taycan [video]
https://fullycharged.show/episodes/porsche-taycan/
127
Energy Storage Investments Boom as Battery Costs Halve in the Next Decade
https://about.bnef.com/blog/energy-storage-investments-boom-battery-costs-halve-next-decade/
114
133
Disney Announces $12.99 Bundle for Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN+
http://geekdommovies.com/disney-announces-12-99-bundle-for-disney-hulu-and-espn/
113
7
Our Brains Tell Stories So We Can Live (2013)
http://nautil.us/issue/75/story/our-brains-tell-stories-so-we-can-live
97
34
Show HN: Bashfs – Run commands as your filesystem
https://github.com/pcgrosen/bashfs
★ 65 Python – 7 years ago
Debunking the Stanford Prison Experiment [pdf]
https://psyarxiv.com/mjhnp/
89
The Robot economy and the future of work
https://www.academia.edu/31709922/The_Robot_economy_and_the_future_of_work
87
85
I am a horse in the land of booleans
https://iloveponies.github.io/120-hour-epic-sax-marathon/I-am-a-horse-in-the-land-of-booleans.html
84
28
Show HN: MeSpeak.js 2.0 – Text-to-Speech in JavaScript
https://www.masswerk.at/nowgobang/2019/mespeak_2_0
82
37
EPYC SAP-SD 2-tier benchmark results
https://www.realworldtech.com/forum/?threadid=186584&curpostid=186630
80
45
Russia Says Five Died in Blast Where Radiation Spike Reported
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-10/russia-says-five-died-in-blast-where-radiation-spike-reported
30
Show HN: Historical order book reconstruction API for crypto markets
https://tardis.dev
74
A Map That Made Los Angeles Make Sense
https://www.citylab.com/life/2019/08/thomas-guide-los-angeles-history-street-map-google-waze-app/591721/
71
Five new Real-Time detections of fast radio bursts with UTMOST
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article-abstract/488/3/2989/5528327?redirectedFrom=fulltext
3
LucidScience – Electronic Projects and Tutorials
http://lucidscience.com/default.aspx