1471
367
How to do a code review
https://google.github.io/eng-practices/review/reviewer/
7 years ago
895
106
How to learn D3.js
https://wattenberger.com/blog/d3
804
261
Stripe Capital
https://stripe.com/capital
485
320
Sites with dumb password rules
https://github.com/dumb-password-rules/dumb-password-rules
★ 3k Nunjucks MIT– 7 years ago
467
238
US city rejects $5.3M ransom demand and restores encrypted files from backup
https://secalerts.co/article/city-knocks-back-ransom-demand-and-restores-files-from-backup/c785f0f3
465
309
Apple has copied some of the most popular apps in the App Store
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/09/05/how-apple-uses-its-app-store-copy-best-ideas/
442
253
Why Finnish babies sleep in cardboard boxes (2013)
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-22751415
441
237
Samsung Announces Key-Value SSD Prototype
https://www.anandtech.com/show/14839/samsung-announces-standardscompliant-keyvalue-ssd-prototype
432
439
Facebook Dating
https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2019/09/facebook-dating/
343
126
PowerToys: Windows system utilities to maximize productivity
https://github.com/Microsoft/PowerToys
★ 132.1k C# MIT– 7 years ago
331
262
Judge Rules Terrorism Watchlist Violates Constitutional Rights
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/04/us/politics/terrorism-watchlist-constitution.html
325
205
Apple Music Web Client
http://beta.music.apple.com/
308
191
A critique of the claim that passive investing is a bubble
https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2019/09/debunking-the-silly-passive-is-a-bubble-myth/
307
82
Graphics Programming Black Book by Michael Abrash (2001)
https://github.com/jagregory/abrash-black-book
★ 4.8k CSS – 7 years ago
294
218
WeWork Parent Weighs Slashing Its Valuation in Half
https://www.wsj.com/articles/wework-parent-weighs-slashing-its-valuation-roughly-in-half-11567689174?mod=rsswn
278
148
Slow Mornings May Be a Secret to Tech-Life Balance
https://elemental.medium.com/why-slow-mornings-may-be-the-secret-to-tech-life-balance-b44c2139963b
270
119
Three Tribes of Programming (2017)
https://josephg.com/blog/3-tribes/
169
Enabling developers and organizations to use differential privacy
https://developers.googleblog.com/2019/09/enabling-developers-and-organizations.html
259
44
I wrote a self-hosting C compiler in 40 days (2015)
https://www.sigbus.info/how-i-wrote-a-self-hosting-c-compiler-in-40-days
255
50
Ask HN: Good Remote Work Literature?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20884974
187
In a small trial, drugs seemed to rejuvenate the body’s ‘epigenetic clock’
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02638-w
234
188
Weighted blankets might ease insomnia and anxiety
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/home/weighted-blankets-might-ease-insomnia-and-anxiety-heres-what-to-know-before-buying-one/2019/01/18/71b1aefa-1a6f-11e9-8813-cb9dec761e73_story.html
51
Secushare: A decentralized, secure social network built on GNUnet
https://secushare.org/
189
37
Memory Layout of a Program in C
http://web.eecs.utk.edu/~huangj/cs360/360/notes/Memory/lecture.html
219
Slack’s Shares Plunge After It Predicts a Larger Loss
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/04/technology/slack-earnings.html
88
Librem 5 Shipping Announcement
https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-shipping-announcement/
174
74
TP-82 Cosmonaut survival pistol
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TP-82_Cosmonaut_survival_pistol
85
Mystery surrounds lost German sea data station
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-49592330
168
136
Statisticians want to abandon science’s standard measure of ‘significance’
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/statisticians-standard-measure-significance-p-values
166
145
Driving an Ambulance in the Age of Narcan
https://hazlitt.net/longreads/magic-eraser-juice
162
Differentiable Programming Mega-Proposal
https://forums.swift.org/t/differentiable-programming-mega-proposal/28547
153
Review of Moneyland by Oliver Bullough (2018)
https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2018/08/moneyland-how-super-rich-looted-their-own-countries-create-elite-global-haven
146
42
Cloudflare-sync – Tool for using Cloudflare as a dynamic DNS provider
https://github.com/mxplusb/cloudflare-sync
★ 267 Go MIT– 7 years ago
A Philosopher Reviews Judea Pearl's “The Book of Why”
https://bostonreview.net/science-nature/tim-maudlin-why-world
143
41
Squirrels listen in to birds' conversations as signal of safety
https://phys.org/news/2019-09-squirrels-birds-conversations-safety.html
123
Was Etsy too good to be true?
https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/9/4/20841475/etsy-free-shipping-amazon-handmade-josh-silverman
141
98
The growing need for human robot-minders could juice the remote workforce
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-next-hot-job-pretending-to-be-a-robot-11567224001?mod=rsswn
139
95
Mach kernel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mach_(kernel)
135
130
'Co-living': the end of urban loneliness or cynical corporate dormitories?
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/sep/03/co-living-the-end-of-urban-loneliness-or-cynical-corporate-dormitories
134
53
A hierarchy of software engineering discourse
https://uvwx.github.io/hierarchy.html
133
104
Apple Change Causes Scramble Among Private Messaging App Makers
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/apple-change-causes-scramble-among-private-messaging-app-makers?pu=hackernewsff2o9j&utm_source=hackernews&utm_medium=unlock
73
Let the callers of your API control allocations
https://dave.cheney.net/2019/09/05/dont-force-allocations-on-the-callers-of-your-api
125
58
Segment Security Incident
https://segment.com/security/bulletins/incident090519/
110
Will the Long-Term Stock Exchange Make a Difference?
https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2019/06/08/will-the-long-term-stock-exchange-make-a-difference/
109
149
Debate in Austria over enshrining use of cash in the constitution
https://www.euractiv.com/section/data-protection/news/debate-rages-in-austria-over-enshrining-use-of-cash-in-the-constitution/
107
57
How Amazon Hooked America on Fast Delivery, Avoiding Responsibility for Crashes
https://features.propublica.org/amazon-delivery-crashes/how-amazon-hooked-america-on-fast-delivery-while-avoiding-responsibility-for-crashes/
23
Jepsen: YugaByte DB 1.3.1
https://jepsen.io/analyses/yugabyte-db-1.3.1
105
34
Cobol Web Development
http://www.infogoal.com/cbd/cbdweb.htm
210
The Porsche Taycan's Two-Speed Gearbox
https://www.wired.com/story/electric-car-two-speed-transmission-gearbox/
97
48
Windows File Manager re-released
https://github.com/microsoft/winfile
★ 7k C MIT– 7 years ago
25
Stegasuras: Neural Linguistic Steganography
https://steganography.live/
94
55
How social networks can be used to bias votes
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02616-2
93
Are We Wrong About Black Holes?
https://www.quantamagazine.org/craig-callender-are-we-all-wrong-about-black-holes-20190905/