497
117
Pronunciations for hexadecimal numbers (1968)
https://twitter.com/lizhenry/status/1165760903809130496
6 years ago
480
422
Useless Windows 10 Features
https://www.howtogeek.com/437942/all-the-useless-windows-10-features-microsoft-should-remove/
445
170
Super Mario 64 has been decompiled
https://github.com/n64decomp/sm64/blob/master/README.md
389
89
Ask HN: Best resources to gain math intuition?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20804582
331
507
Beyond Meat and KFC partner to test fried plant-based ‘chicken’
https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/26/20833145/beyond-meat-kfc-fried-chicken-test-plant-based-sample-date
301
107
Moscow's blockchain voting system cracked a month before election
https://www.zdnet.com/article/moscows-blockchain-voting-system-cracked-a-month-before-election/
287
74
Gamedev Tutorial: Trigonometry Basics – Sine and Cosine
http://allenchou.net/2019/08/trigonometry-basics-sine-cosine/
275
206
Show HN: I made a CRM system to make sales fun
https://wobaka.com
261
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Opioid crisis: Johnson and Johnson hit by landmark ruling
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-49452373
241
142
What Netflix’s ‘Great Hack’ Gets Wrong About Cambridge Analytica
https://www.thenation.com/article/cambridge-analytica-facebook-hack/
238
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Credit cards have a privacy problem
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/08/26/spy-your-wallet-credit-cards-have-privacy-problem/
237
157
Huawei Seeks Independence from the US with RISC-V and Ascend Chips
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/huawei-risc-v-ai-processors-ascend-us,40238.html
233
81
Show HN: Zero-Config Documentation Websites for Python
https://timothycrosley.github.io/portray/
229
Should small Rust structs be passed by-copy or by-borrow?
https://www.forrestthewoods.com/blog/should-small-rust-structs-be-passed-by-copy-or-by-borrow/
212
108
Experimental USAF space plane breaks record for orbital spaceflight
https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/26/experimental-u-s-air-force-space-plane-breaks-previous-record-for-orbital-spaceflight/
44
Interviews with programming language creators (2010) [pdf]
http://www.math.bas.bg/bantchev/misc/az.pdf
203
151
How Does Esperanto Sound?
https://martinrue.com/how-does-esperanto-sound/
171
Recognizing the signs of disruption in our urban habitat
https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2019/8/21/whats-wrong-with-this-picture
201
96
Facebook emails show internal concerns being raised about Cambridge Analytica
https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/23/facebook-really-doesnt-want-you-to-read-these-emails/
197
How do black holes destroy information and why is that a problem?
https://backreaction.blogspot.com/2019/08/how-do-black-holes-destroy-information.html
191
204
Keeping Tesla Roadsters Alive Is Serious Work
https://www.roadandtrack.com/new-cars/a28819221/tesla-roadster-repair-carl-medlock/
176
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YouTube blocks recording of public domain Schubert/Liszt composition
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPZUQqtVDmcjm4NY5FkzqLA/community?lb=UgwnsAnMT7NLWnGylUB4AaABCQ
167
41
Spacebook: AGI's near Real-Time satellite viewer
http://apps.agi.com/SatelliteViewer/
166
236
North American versus European distribution systems (2011)
https://electrical-engineering-portal.com/north-american-versus-european-distribution-systems
158
Small towns in much of the country are dependent on punitive fines and fees
https://www.governing.com/topics/finance/gov-addicted-to-fines.html
165
The Provocations of Camille Paglia
https://www.city-journal.org/camille-paglia
156
68
Using bacteria to make self-healing cement
https://www.thestructuralengineer.info/news-center/news/item/589-using-bacteria-to-make-self-healing-cement
155
4
Do-It-Yourself OpenJDK Garbage Collector
https://shipilev.net/jvm/diy-gc/
148
132
The Poorest 20% of Americans Are Richer on Average Than Most Nations
https://www.justfacts.com/news_poorest_americans_richer_than_europe.asp
194
Waymo’s Backseat Drivers: Confidential Data Reveals Self-Driving Taxi Hurdles
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/waymos-backseat-drivers-confidential-data-reveals-self-driving-taxi-hurdles?pu=hackernewsfuxi21&utm_medium=unlock&utm_source=hackernews
141
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How Facebook Tracks You on Android (2018) [video]
https://media.ccc.de/v/35c3-9941-how_facebook_tracks_you_on_android
140
53
Show HN: Base – API for authentication, email sending, images and more
https://www.base-api.io
18
28Gbps Microstrip with Pepper Jack Cheese as Substrate (2016)
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/28gbps-microstrip-pepper-jack-cheese-substrate-ryan-lott/
138
49
The thoughts running through our heads are more varied than we might suppose
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20190819-what-your-inner-voice-says-about-you
59
Chemists discover water microdroplets spontaneously produce hydrogen peroxide
https://phys.org/news/2019-08-chemists-microdroplets-spontaneously-hydrogen-peroxide.html
137
Tell HN: Oracle now requires you to login when you try to download JRE
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20799424
134
54
Launch HN: Memfault (YC W19) – Crashlytics for Firmware
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20801512
The Cherokee want a representative in Congress, taking up a 200-year-old promise
https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/25/politics/cherokee-nation-congressional-delegate-treaty/
130
8
Min Chiu Li
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Min_Chiu_Li
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U.S. tech companies are building a Chinese-style social credit system
https://www.fastcompany.com/90394048/uh-oh-silicon-valley-is-building-a-chinese-style-social-credit-system
124
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Are spies more trouble than they're worth?
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/09/02/are-spies-more-trouble-than-theyre-worth
122
17
Fast Tensors in Clojure – A Sneak Peek
https://dragan.rocks/articles/19/Fast-tensors-Clojure-sneak-peek?src=hn
114
75
Michael Crichton: Why Speculate? (2005)
http://larvatus.com/michael-crichton-why-speculate/
109
45
How the brain 'approximates' without counting
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2019-08-brain-approximates.html
105
19
GoAccess – Visual Web Log Analyzer
https://goaccess.io/
100
70
The Perfect French Baguette
http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20190825-the-perfect-french-baguette
99
1
Elon Musk Gambled Tesla to Save SolarCity
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/08/how-elon-musk-gambled-tesla-to-save-solarcity
98
Incrementing vectors
https://travisdowns.github.io/blog/2019/08/26/vector-inc.html
95
Woman Finds Yellow Diamond While Watching YouTube Video on How to Find Diamonds
https://gizmodo.com/woman-finds-3-72-carat-yellow-diamond-while-watching-yo-1837415139
94
26
Swift on Raspberry Pi
https://blog.lickability.com/swift-on-raspberry-pi-e44c79fc32f3
93
36
Fuzzification: Anti-Fuzzing Techniques [pdf]
https://www.usenix.org/system/files/sec19fall_jung_prepub.pdf
92
Ask HN: Best Blogging Platform
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20796729
88
27
India Develops the World's First Iron-Ion Battery
https://www.energytrend.com/news/20190826-15033.html
82
Installing Debian Linux 2.0 (1998)
http://archive.debian.org/debian/dists/hamm/main/disks-i386/current/install.html
76
48
How to set up a perfect Python project
https://sourcery.ai/blog/python-best-practices/
20
Daydreams Shape Our Sense of Self
http://nautil.us/blog/daydreams-shape-your-sense-of-self
73
A Fine Map from Alexander von Humboldt (1851)
https://longstreet.typepad.com/thesciencebookstore/2019/08/jf-der-erdkorper-in-seiner-gestaltung-erdansichten-entworfen-von-tr-bromme-ausgefuhrt-v-e-winckelmann-published-i.html
72
37
What Is a Logo-Like Language?
https://maxhallinan.com/posts/2019/08/25/what-is-a-logo-like-language/
33
‘Key player’ identified in genetic link to psychiatric conditions
https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/news/view/1566294-key-player-identified-in-genetic-link-to-psychiatric-conditions
145
Our Food Is Killing Too Many of Us
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/26/opinion/food-nutrition-health-care.html
71
Analog Spring Reverb: How it works
https://anasounds.com/analog-spring-reverb-how-it-works/
The Cherokee want a representative in Congress, taking up a 200-year-old promise