639
408
Almost one in five men admits to having no close friends, a survey has found
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/all-the-lonely-people-are-men-a-fifth-have-no-friends-6rzvhl736
7 years ago
531
88
Using Gooey as a Universal Front End for Any Language or CLI Application
https://chriskiehl.com/article/gooey-as-a-universal-frontend
502
120
Show HN: I made a neural net that analyzes privacy policies
https://useguard.com
443
132
Understanding the working of X11 from the ground up (2017)
https://magcius.github.io/xplain/article/index.html
399
141
The Church of Interruption
https://sambleckley.com/writing/church-of-interruption.html
389
143
Hacking the Brain
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6429408/
369
232
Some WeWork Board Members Seek to Remove Adam Neumann as CEO
https://www.wsj.com/articles/some-wework-board-members-seek-to-remove-adam-neumann-as-ceo-11569171188?mod=rsswn
306
178
Brains are the last frontier of privacy
https://www.axios.com/robotic-brains-data-technology-companies-6ba7269e-1553-4395-a6db-3560fead7e24.html
305
57
Hacker Who Revealed Soccer Secrets Is Charged with 147 Crimes
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/20/sports/football-leaks-rui-pinto.html
291
Four common mistakes in audio development (2016)
http://atastypixel.com/blog/four-common-mistakes-in-audio-development/
280
138
Charts show how little progress has been made in limiting greenhouse emissions
https://www.nature.com/immersive/d41586-019-02711-4/index.html
251
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The ReMarkable Tablet: A Review
https://blog.liw.fi/posts/2019/09/22/the_remarkable_tablet_a_review/
243
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When TCP sockets refuse to die
https://idea.popcount.org/2019-09-20-when-tcp-sockets-refuse-to-die/
205
Money as a System of Control (2017)
https://thedistillery.pub/money-as-a-system-of-control-andreas-m-antonopoulos-video-transcript
220
130
NUMA Siloing in the FreeBSD Network Stack [pdf]
https://people.freebsd.org/~gallatin/talks/euro2019.pdf
203
238
End of an American tradition: Amtrak kills the traditional dining car
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/the-end-of-an-american-tradition-the-amtrak-dining-car/2019/09/21/d63cca3a-d888-11e9-bfb1-849887369476_story.html
196
175
Ask HN: PostgreSQL or MySQL?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21040625
191
160
My father was IBM’s first black software engineer
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2019-09-20/ibm-nazi-germany-tech-racism-father
39
A Blue Collar Slob’s Introduction to the Rare Oakland Manzanita [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tpWrX-XlBQ
181
68
Quantum Supremacy Using a Programmable Superconducting Processor
https://drive.google.com/file/d/19lv8p1fB47z1pEZVlfDXhop082Lc-kdD/view
115
A Son’s Race to Give His Dying Father Artificial Immortality (2017)
https://www.wired.com/story/a-sons-race-to-give-his-dying-father-artificial-immortality/
22
Folding Paper Globes
https://mapscaping.com/pages/folding-paper-globes
158
91
Realtek RTL836x series of Ethernet switch ICs has a 8051 hidden inside
https://twitter.com/whitequark/status/1175701730819895296
157
44
ProtoThreads: Lightweight, Stackless Threads in C
http://dunkels.com/adam/pt/
155
123
Why Are Some Societies More Entrepreneurial than Others?
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3449762
149
48
For Sale: America’s Largest Private Grove of Giant Sequoias
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/giant-sequoias-for-sale
145
47
A Burning B-52 Nearly Caused A Nuclear Catastrophe
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/29945/the-time-when-a-burning-b-52-nearly-caused-a-nuclear-catastrophe-worse-than-chernobyl
27
Neqo, an Implementation of QUIC Written in Rust
https://github.com/mozilla/neqo/
★ 2.1k Rust Apache-2.0– 7 years ago
137
29
The tech behind building an independent, internet radio station
https://watsonsmith.com.au/building-an-internet-radio-station
135
207
From Underwear to Cars, India’s Economy Is Fraying
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/21/business/economy/india-economy-trade.html
Goodbye Aron Eisenberg:( — aka Nog (DS9)
https://twitter.com/malissa_longo/status/1175620223023628288
131
28
A look back on OCaml since 2011
http://www.ocamlpro.com/2019/09/20/a-look-back-on-ocaml/
129
54
Ask HN: Parents of HN, what are your best sources for evidence-based parenting?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21043214
121
The tiny but mighty Olympia oyster regains a foothold in Washington waters
https://www.seattletimes.com/pacific-nw-magazine/the-tiny-but-mighty-olympia-oyster-regains-a-foothold-in-washington-waters/
117
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Why I don't love Light Rail Transit
https://danco.substack.com/p/why-i-dont-love-light-rail-transit
58
Vela Incident
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vela_incident
33
Reverse-engineering precision op amps from a 1969 analog computer
https://www.righto.com/2019/09/reverse-engineering-precision-op-amps.html
114
8
Xv6 for RISC-V
https://github.com/mit-pdos/xv6-riscv
★ 9.5k C – 7 years ago
112
21
Absurd Design – Free Surrealist Illustrations and Vector Art
https://absurd.design/
103
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The Verizon iPhone 11 Pro is Locked For 60 days. Buyers are told it is unlocked
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/warning-iphone-upgrade-program-11-pros-are-not-factory-unlocked-they-are-lying.2200359/
92
96
The Fermi Paradox and the Aurora Effect: Exo-Civilization Settlement
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.04450
89
Psychological Effects of a 1-Month Meditation Retreat
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5149565/
86
11
Espresso: A Fast End-to-End Neural Speech Recognition Toolkit
https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.08723
85
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Questions raised about research by OpenAg Initiative at M.I.T. Media Lab
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/22/business/media/mit-media-lab-food-computer.html