543
330
Starship Prototype Unveiled
https://www.space.com/elon-musk-unveils-spacex-starship-2019-update.html
7 years ago
542
169
Text Rendering Hates You
https://gankra.github.io/blah/text-hates-you/
446
147
Berlin Key
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_key
438
195
Starship Update
https://www.spacex.com/webcast?d=20190928
394
196
Which companies are using Erlang, and why?
https://www.erlang-solutions.com/blog/which-companies-are-using-erlang-and-why-mytopdogstatus.html
353
459
Employers Used Facebook to Keep Women and Older Workers from Seeing Job Ads
https://www.propublica.org/article/employers-used-facebook-to-keep-women-and-older-workers-from-seeing-job-ads-the-federal-government-thinks-thats-illegal
221
131
Creating the Go Programming Language [audio]
https://changelog.com/gotime/100
220
163
Show HN: Ieddit – A minimalist, Reddit-like site with anonymous posts/comments
https://ieddit.com/about/
212
165
Online courses vs. colleges for software engineering
https://www.raahul.me/posts/online-courses-vs-colleges/
205
127
We can’t trust AI systems built on deep learning alone
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614443/we-cant-trust-ai-systems-built-on-deep-learning-alone/
142
Pre-built solar homes could make renewable energy almost 50% cheaper
https://www.inverse.com/article/59638-solar-homes-doe
58
Bloomberg Misreports on Whatsapp Story
https://twitter.com/alexstamos/status/1178308065268920320
194
20
Event Modeling
https://eventmodeling.org/posts/what-is-event-modeling/
189
121
JSON for Modern C++
https://github.com/nlohmann/json
★ 49.5k C++ MIT– 7 years ago
35
The Quest to Be Good at Everything
https://superorganizers.substack.com/p/the-quest-to-be-good-at-everything#
187
83
Amazon and Apple are building rival networks that know where everything is
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/amazon-sidewalk-apple-u1-networks
184
183
How to Succeed as a Poor Programmer
https://psgraphics.blogspot.com/2019/09/how-to-succeed-as-poor-programmer.html?m=1
173
52
Show HN: Aristotl – an intuitive logical fallacy lookup tool
https://www.aristotl.io
168
A.I. researchers are making more than $1M, even at a nonprofit
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/19/technology/artificial-intelligence-salaries-openai.html
New blood test could detect more than 20 types of cancer
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/09/28/new-blood-test-could-detect-20-types-cancer/
161
74
Simulation of what a massive black hole would look like
https://www.theweathernetwork.com/ca/news/article/nasa-black-hole-simulation-seems-to-def-reality
160
53
Show HN: Ansible Crash Course
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21106202
159
259
People are reporting collisions with Tesla’s Smart Summon feature
https://www.thedrive.com/news/30074/people-are-already-reporting-collisions-with-teslas-driverless-smart-summon-feature
158
36
40k-year-old bracelet made by extinct human species found (2015)
http://www.digitaljournal.com/science/40-000-year-old-bracelet-from-extinct-human-species-discovered/article/432798
157
33
SBCL 20: Steel Bank Common Lisp's 20th Anniversary Workshop
http://www.sbcl.org/sbcl20/
154
Keybase iOS Has a Backdoor?
https://sneak.berlin/20190929/keybase-backdoor/
144
122
Bounded Integer: Header-only C++ library replaces integers, adds explicit bounds
https://bitbucket.org/davidstone/bounded_integer/src/master/
114
Sorry macOS users, but Apple has gone too far for some of us devs
https://www.gridsagegames.com/blog/2019/09/sorry-mac-users-apple-doesnt-care-about-us-devs/
138
Pictures from the 1939 New York World's Fair (2017)
https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/1939-new-york-world-fair/
130
185
Ask HN: Germany vs. Canada for Tech Jobs?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21106662
25
A computer built from NOR gates: inside the Apollo Guidance Computer
https://www.righto.com/2019/09/a-computer-built-from-nor-gates-inside.html
112
Nuclear Fusion Could Rescue the Planet from Climate Catastrophe
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-09-28/startups-take-aim-at-nuclear-fusion-energy-s-biggest-challenge
107
62
The Great Public Market Reckoning
https://avc.com/2019/09/the-great-public-market-reckoning/
98
8
Learn X in Y Minutes
https://learnxinyminutes.com
97
Spaghetti Sort (2018)
https://advent.morr.cc/2018/15
94
41
Before 737 Max, Boeing’s Flight-Control System Included Key Safeguards
https://www.wsj.com/articles/before-737-max-boeings-flight-control-system-included-key-safeguards-11569754800?mod=rsswn
91
22
Theorem Proving in Lean [pdf]
https://leanprover.github.io/theorem_proving_in_lean/theorem_proving_in_lean.pdf
87
5
Show HN: Beating the Turing Test
https://decentium.org/almstdigital/beating-the.d
101
Number theorist fears many proofs widely considered to be true are wrong
https://www.vice.com/en_au/article/8xwm54/number-theorist-fears-all-published-math-is-wrong-actually
37
The Asymmetry of Internet Identity
https://crawshaw.io/blog/identity-stack
82
55
The Electoral College and the Knapsack Problem
https://mike.place/2017/ecknapsack/
The Intelligence of Plants
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2019/09/26/the-intelligence-of-plants/
79
10
Radio Tecnico: How the Zetas Cartel Took over Mexico with Walkie-Talkies (2014)
https://www.popsci.com/article/technology/radio-tecnico-how-zetas-cartel-took-over-mexico-walkie-talkies/
78
1
Show HN: Geodata API for country and city select drop-downs
https://github.com/shivammathur/countrycity
★ 102 PHP MIT– 7 years ago
51
APL Demonstration (1975) [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DTpQ4Kk2wA
76
24
Representing and Editing JSON with Spreadsheets (2018)
https://medium.com/@donhopkins/representing-and-editing-json-with-spreadsheets-8f8832db5239
75
18
Mathematics as a Cultural Force
https://longreads.com/2019/09/27/mathematics-as-a-cultural-force/
