571
484
We Have Ruined Childhood
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/17/opinion/sunday/childhood-suicide-depression-anxiety.html
6 years ago
539
162
Apple will soon treat online web tracking the same as a security vulnerability
https://thenextweb.com/privacy/2019/08/16/apple-will-soon-treat-online-web-tracking-the-same-as-a-security-vulnerability/
445
444
YAML: Probably not so great after all
https://arp242.net/yaml-config.html
440
113
Rules for Intuitive UX
https://learnui.design/blog/4-rules-intuitive-ux.html
423
37
The Architecture of Open Source Applications
http://www.aosabook.org/en/index.html
357
231
Open letter from an Android developer to the Google Play team
https://medium.com/@tokata/how-google-play-terminated-a-developer-for-no-reason-e4d760e9f472
306
82
Ask HN: What book to read to get a footing in CS theory?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20729252
305
60
Dirty tricks 6502 programmers use
https://nurpax.github.io/posts/2019-08-18-dirty-tricks-6502-programmers-use.html
290
142
Python vs. Rust for Neural Networks
https://ngoldbaum.github.io/posts/python-vs-rust-nn/
280
204
Media Can’t Stop Presenting Horrifying Stories as ‘Uplifting’ Perseverance Porn
https://fair.org/home/media-just-cant-stop-presenting-horrifying-stories-as-uplifting-perseverance-porn/
267
164
35% Faster Than The Filesystem (2017)
https://www.sqlite.org/fasterthanfs.html
265
145
Die With Me – A chat app you can only use when you have less than 5% battery
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/die-with-me/id1317265106
256
80
Why doesn't mathematics collapse, though humans often make mistakes in proofs?
https://mathoverflow.net/questions/338607/why-doesnt-mathematics-collapse-down-even-though-humans-quite-often-make-mista
238
154
In the US, it's cheaper to build and operate wind farms than buy fossil fuels
https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/08/wind-power-prices-now-lower-than-the-cost-of-natural-gas/
237
49
Building ages in the Netherlands
https://parallel.co.uk/netherlands/#13.8/52.365/4.9/0/40
221
140
She Wanted a Man with a Good Job Who Is Nice to Animals
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/16/style/modern-love-man-who-is-nice-to-animals.html
206
70
Ruffle – An Adobe Flash Player Written in Rust Compiled to WebAssembly
https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle
192
167
Giving up on Julia (2016)
https://www.zverovich.net/2016/05/13/giving-up-on-julia.html
189
20
Laws of Showrunning (2016) [pdf]
http://okbjgm.weebly.com/uploads/3/1/5/0/31506003/11_laws_of_showrunning_nice_version.pdf
178
242
Résumés Are Starting to Look Like Instagram, and Sometimes Even Tinder
https://www.wsj.com/articles/resumes-are-starting-to-look-like-instagramand-sometimes-even-tinder-11565707364?mod=rsswn
170
43
HK social media users writing phonetically spelled posts to shut out trolls
https://news.rthk.hk/rthk/en/component/k2/1475264-20190818.htm
161
137
Interslavic Language
http://steen.free.fr/interslavic/introduction.html
157
62
Photos taken by the EPA reveal America before pollution was regulated
https://www.insider.com/what-us-cities-looked-like-before-epa-regulated-pollution-2019-8
153
28
J can look like APL or English
https://wjmn.github.io/posts/j-can-look-like-apl.html
150
34
Ignition: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants (1972) [pdf]
https://library.sciencemadness.org/library/books/ignition.pdf
125
64
Getting Started with Lisp in 2019
https://smalldata.tech/blog/2019/08/16/getting-started-with-lisp-in-2019
121
67
Traits of Serverless Architecture
https://www.thoughtworks.com/insights/blog/traits-serverless-architecture
120
159
California’s Biggest Cities Confront a ‘Defecation Crisis’
https://www.wsj.com/articles/californias-biggest-cities-confront-a-defecation-crisis-11565994160?mod=rsswn
119
75
How Slack Harms Projects
https://www.silasreinagel.com/blog/2019/08/12/how-slack-harms-projects/
118
72
Mistakes to Avoid When Buying a MicroSD Card (2018)
https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/5-mistakes-avoid-buying-next-microsd-card/
112
165
Leaked Brexit Document Predicts 'Catastrophic Collapse' of U.K. Infrastructure
https://www.npr.org/2019/08/18/752173091/leaked-brexit-document-depicts-government-fears-of-gridlock-food-shortages-unres
106
32
The Grand C++ Error Explosion Competition
https://tgceec.tumblr.com/post/74534916370/results-of-the-grand-c-error-explosion/
101
36
The lunar laser ranging experiment is still going 50 years later
https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-institute/ieee-history/one-apollo-11-experiment-is-still-going-50-years-later
95
38
Thoughts on Racket2
https://beautifulracket.com/appendix/thoughts-on-racket2.html
5
Problem Solving and Clojure 1.9 (2018)
https://github.com/matthiasn/talk-transcripts/blob/master/Hickey_Rich/ProblemSolving.md
91
57
Marium, the Dugong Who Charmed Thailand, Dies After Ingesting Plastic
https://www.npr.org/2019/08/17/752042032/marium-the-dugong-that-charmed-thailand-dies-after-ingesting-plastic
21
The World's Largest Submarine: The Soviet Union's Pr. 941 Typhoon SSBN (2014)
http://imgur.com/a/xi3P3
88
18
How Life Sciences Actually Work
https://guzey.com/how-life-sciences-actually-work/
86
Version Museum
https://www.versionmuseum.com/
85
Iceland commemorates first glacier lost to climate change
https://phys.org/news/2019-08-iceland-commemorates-glacier-lost-climate.html
83
22
Exploring Zork (2012)
https://www.filfre.net/2012/01/exploring-zork-part-1/
78
47
Where did all the cod go? Fishing crisis in the North Sea
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/aug/18/where-did-all-the-cod-go-fish-chips-north-sea-sustainable-stocks
77
68
Ask HN: Affordable, online university for getting a degree to quit programming?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20733200
74
52
Moore’s Law is not Dead
https://www.tsmc.com/english/newsEvents/blog_article_20190814.htm
Why doesn't mathematics collapse, though humans often make mistakes in proofs?