755
513
Fewer Than Half of Google Searches Now Result in a Click
https://sparktoro.com/blog/less-than-half-of-google-searches-now-result-in-a-click/
7 years ago
610
244
Milky Way’s Black Hole Just Flared, Growing 75 Times as Bright for a Few Hours
https://www.universetoday.com/143150/milky-ways-black-hole-just-flared-growing-75-times-as-bright-for-a-few-hours/#more-143150
511
131
Show HN: Divjoy – React Codebase and UI Generator
https://divjoy.com
510
95
Proteins That May Restore Damaged Sound-Detecting Cells in the Ear
https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/newsroom/news-releases/researchers-find-proteins-that-might-restore-damaged-sound-detecting-cells-in-the-ear
432
36
Tell HN: Danny Cohen Has Died
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20689675
430
84
Down the Rabbit-Hole
https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2019/08/down-rabbit-hole.html
426
176
GitHub stars won’t pay your rent
https://medium.com/@kitze/github-stars-wont-pay-your-rent-8b348e12baed
152
Three Kinds of Good Tech Debt
https://engineering.squarespace.com/blog/2019/three-kinds-of-good-tech-debt
394
391
Chinese military entering Shenzen, just across the border with Hong Kong
https://twitter.com/AlexandreKrausz/status/1160947525442056193
265
235
We Made Amiga, They Fucked It Up (2015)
https://www.filfre.net/2015/04/the-68000-wars-part-3-we-made-amiga-they-fucked-it-up/
255
231
Three Years of Misery Inside Google, the Happiest Company in Tech
https://www.wired.com/story/inside-google-three-years-misery-happiest-company-tech/
253
191
The fungus that devastates the Cavendish banana has now arrived in Latin America
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/08/banana-fungus-latin-america-threatening-future/
252
94
The “terrible” 3 cent MCU – a short survey of sub $0.10 microcontrollers
https://cpldcpu.wordpress.com/2019/08/12/the-terrible-3-cent-mcu/
251
229
FAA Bans Recalled Apple Laptops from Flights
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-13/u-s-regulator-bans-recalled-apple-laptops-from-flights
246
171
Show HN: Yack – Community Browser for Hacker News, Reddit, YouTube and More
https://yack.io
241
A bug I wish I hadn't caught
https://roganmurley.com/2019/06/08/the-bug.html
239
213
My Home Lab Server with 20 Cores / 40 Threads and 128 GB Memory
https://louwrentius.com/my-home-lab-server-with-20-cores-40-threads-and-128-gb-memory.html
208
44
Crispr pioneer among University of California researchers boycotting Elsevier
https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/crispr-pioneer-among-university-of-california-researchers-boycotting-elvesier-/3010833.article
201
89
Michael Cicconetti
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Cicconetti
197
106
China Is Waging a Disinformation War Against Hong Kong Protesters
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/13/world/asia/hong-kong-protests-china.html
39
HTTP/2 Denial of Service Advisory
https://github.com/Netflix/security-bulletins/blob/master/advisories/third-party/2019-002.md
★ 745 – 7 years ago
186
158
Microsoft Screws Azure Customers and Its Own Advocates Alike
https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/microsoft-screws-customers-and-its-own-advocates-alike/
180
96
Removing One Maine Dam 20 Years Ago Changed Everything
https://therevelator.org/edwards-dam-removal/
170
113
Somehow I Became Respectable
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2019/05/21/somehow-i-became-respectable/
168
134
Protests Put Hong Kong on Collision Course with China’s Communist Party
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/12/world/asia/hong-kong-protests-communist-party.htmL
167
Paternity Leave Was Crucial After the Birth of My Child
https://parenting.nytimes.com/work-money/alexis-ohanian-paternity-leave
165
99
U.S. Significantly Weakens Endangered Species Act
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/12/climate/endangered-species-act-changes.html#click=https://t.co/cFmbb935wW
155
Extreme climate change has arrived in America
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/national/climate-environment/climate-change-america/
151
Solar now ‘cheaper than grid electricity’ in every Chinese city
https://www.carbonbrief.org/solar-now-cheaper-than-grid-electricity-in-every-chinese-city-study-finds
149
19
Facebook Paid Hundreds of Contractors to Transcribe Users’ Audio
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-13/facebook-paid-hundreds-of-contractors-to-transcribe-users-audio
60
The Shady World of Repair Manuals: Copyrighting for Planned Obsolescence (2012)
https://www.wired.com/2012/11/cease-and-desist-manuals-planned-obsolescence/
148
50
In the beginning was the command line (1999) [pdf]
https://faculty.georgetown.edu/irvinem/theory/Stephenson-CommandLine-1999.pdf
141
77
Supercomputers will start building a 3D map of the world
https://www.c4isrnet.com/intel-geoint/2019/08/05/supercomputers-will-start-building-a-3-d-map-of-the-world/
26
BGP super-blunder: How Verizon sparked a ‘cascading catastrophic failure’
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/06/24/verizon_bgp_misconfiguration_cloudflare/
130
107
Arrived – a new model of home ownership
https://arrivedhomes.com/
129
34
Trump’s paid Thiel’s Palantir $1.5B so far to build ICE’s surveillance network
https://thenextweb.com/artificial-intelligence/2019/08/12/study-trumps-paid-peter-thiels-palantir-1-5b-so-far-to-build-ices-mass-surveillance-network/
125
71
Urgent/11 – Zero Day Vulnerabilities Impacting VxWorks
https://armis.com/urgent11/
119
17
MesaPy: A Memory-Safe Python Implementation based on PyPy (2018)
https://github.com/mesalock-linux/mesapy
★ 370 Python – 7 years ago
117
153
Show HN: I made online community for unusual people
https://holynetr.com/
How Far Out Is AWS Fargate?
https://read.iopipe.com/how-far-out-is-aws-fargate-a2409d2f9bc7
43
If you want developers to adopt your software, make it less risky (2017)
https://www.reifyworks.com/writing/2017-02-21-if-you-want-developers-to-adopt-your-software-make-it-less-risky
115
73
How annoying is too annoying?
https://input-delay.glitch.me/
109
Indigenous Women Are Publishing the First Maya Works in over 400 Years
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/indigenous-maya-women-bookmakers-collective-workshop
57
Pakistan to ban single-use plastic bags
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/pakistan-moves-to-ban-single-use-plastic-bags-the-health-of-200-million-people-is-at-stake/2019/08/12/6c7641ca-bc23-11e9-b873-63ace636af08_story.html
105
25
Saharan Village Is Home to Thousands of Ancient Texts
https://mymodernmet.com/chinguetti-mauritania-desert-libraries
100
67
The land that no country wants (2016)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/03/welcome-to-the-land-that-no-country-wants-bir-tawil
98
46
Wavelets (1994) [pdf]
http://cybertester.com/data/wavelet.pdf
Outlaw Country
https://magazine.atavist.com/outlaw-country-klamath-county-oregon-guns-murder
Bill Hader Channels Tom Cruise – DeepFake [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWrhRBb-1Ig
93
Interest Rates: Naturally Negative?
https://blog.pimco.com/en/2019/08/interest-rates
92
20
The death of a weather satellite as seen by SDR
https://hackaday.com/2019/08/12/the-death-of-a-weather-satellite-as-seen-by-sdr/
91
82
Kevinism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevinism
88
33
Q-Learning
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q-learning
86
56
Launch HN: Shift Health (YC S19) – Understand Your Healthcare Costs Pre-Visit
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20690144
85
51
Low on water, California farmers turn to solar farming
https://grist.org/article/california-farmer-solar-panel-water-renewable-nature-conservancy/
81
42
Show HN: Wagyu – Rust library for generating cryptocurrency wallets
https://github.com/ArgusHQ/wagyu/
★ 644 Rust Apache-2.0– 7 years ago
79
21
Making Cloud.typography Faster
https://csswizardry.com/2019/08/making-cloud-typography-faster/
66
SEC Freezes $8M in Assets in Alleged Fraudulent Token Offering Scheme
https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2019-150
3
A New Clue to How Life Originated
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/08/interlocking-puzzle-allowed-life-emerge/595945/
75
31
Launch HN: Boost Biomes (YC S19) – Microbes for better crop yields, shelf life
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20687797
74
48
Show HN: Procrastinating? Take a 5min break without leaving your computer
https://break45.com
Xi’s Dilemma: Send Forces into Hong Kong, or Wait Out Protesters
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-13/xi-s-dilemma-send-forces-into-hong-kong-or-wait-out-protesters
