942
831
Ask HN: Who Wants to Be Fired?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21133181
7 years ago
560
304
Iraq blocks Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, and Instagram, shuts down internet
https://netblocks.org/reports/iraq-blocks-facebook-twitter-whatsapp-and-instagram-amid-civil-unrest-zA4zGlyR
516
190
New In Postgres 12: Generated Columns
https://pgdash.io/blog/postgres-12-generated-columns.html
442
91
Show HN: Ledonardo, my light painting hardware project
https://www.stavros.io/posts/behold-ledonardo/?
427
236
No evidence that testosterone reduces cognitive empathy
https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/largest-study-its-kind-no-evidence-testosterone-reduces-cognitive-empathy
416
120
How a double-free bug in WhatsApp turns to remote code execution
https://awakened1712.github.io/hacking/hacking-whatsapp-gif-rce/
373
291
Ocean plastic waste probably comes from ships, report says
https://www.afp.com/en/news/826/ocean-plastic-waste-probably-comes-ships-report-says-doc-1kv8e91
372
Microsoft introduces Windows 10 X for dual-screen devices
https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/02/microsoft-introduces-windows-10-x-for-dual-screen-devices/
371
156
Y Combinator Top Companies List 2019
https://www.ycombinator.com/topcompanies/
327
139
Do you have a problem? Write a compiler
http://oleg.fi/gists/posts/2019-09-26-write-a-compiler.html
301
61
What are the most indispensable books for indie hackers?
https://www.indiehackers.com/post/what-are-the-most-indispensable-books-for-indie-hackers-e2ec3a13e9
300
46
Making a RISC-V Operating System Using Rust
http://web.eecs.utk.edu/~smarz1/osblog/
274
275
Schwab Removes U.S. Stock, ETF and Options Commissions
https://pressroom.aboutschwab.com/press-release/corporate-and-financial-news/conjunction-chuck-schwabs-new-book-invested-schwab-remove
264
180
RxBar co-founder Peter Rahal on life after becoming a millionaire
https://marker.medium.com/what-really-happens-when-you-become-an-overnight-millionaire-acac42990175
232
113
Show HN: My first game, minimal procgen gravity golf inspired by Desert Golfing
http://astro.golf
225
178
Microsoft announces new Surface Duo phone
https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/2/20895128/microsoft-surface-phone-foldable-screen-features-specs-price-release-date
224
114
How much faster is Redis at storing a blob of JSON compared to Postgres?
https://www.peterbe.com/plog/redis-vs-postgres-blob-of-json
222
100
Where Is the Sun Located in the Milky Way?
https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/where-is-the-sun-located-in-the-milky-way
208
110
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: 40 years of parody and predictions
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02969-8
207
78
The IBM Pentium 4 64-Bit CPU
http://www.cpushack.com/2019/10/01/the-story-of-the-ibm-pentium-4-64-bit-cpu/
202
159
Intel slashes prices in face of AMD competition
https://www.anandtech.com/show/14925/intel-cascade-lakex-for-hedt-18-cores-for-under-1000
198
Car tires biggest likely source of microplastics in California coastal waters
https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2019-10-02/california-microplastics-ocean-study
191
41
Gradient Descent: The Ultimate Optimizer
https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.13371
184
109
Visa, Mastercard, Others Reconsider Involvement in Facebook's Libra Network
https://www.wsj.com/articles/visa-mastercard-others-reconsider-involvement-in-facebook-s-libra-network-11569967023?mod=rsswn
182
Why It’s Hard for Startups to Create Wealth in Europe
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-10-02/why-it-s-so-hard-for-entrepreneurs-to-get-really-rich-in-europe
57
A New R6RS Scheme Compiler
https://weinholt.se/articles/new-r6rs-compiler/
174
84
Working all night is not 'a badge of pride'
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-49891179
165
56
Tiny Acquires Meteor
https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/02/tiny-acquires-meteor/
160
220
Tesla Delivers Record 97,000 Vehicles in Q3
https://ir.tesla.com/news-releases/news-release-details/tesla-q3-2019-vehicle-production-deliveries
148
US set to impose tariffs on $7.5B of EU exports in Airbus row
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-49906815
146
Microsoft announces dual-screen Surface Neo
https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/2/20887395/microsoft-surface-neo-dual-screen-concept-design-windows-10x
144
142
How We Justified Piling Debt on Poor Customers
https://newrepublic.com/article/155212/worked-capital-one-five-years-justified-piling-debt-poor-customers
42
Solving the Wrong Problem (2011)
http://www.azarask.in/blog/post/the-wrong-problem
130
9
SpaCy v2.2
https://explosion.ai/blog/spacy-v2-2
118
27
Ackermann Steering Geometry
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ackermann_steering_geometry
117
54
TypeScript 3.7 Beta
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/announcing-typescript-3-7-beta/
128
Dropbox CTO Resigns
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1467623/000146762319000021/a10219form8-k.htm
102
Mark Zuckerberg misunderstands the threat of TikTok
https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/01/instagram-vs-tiktok/
112
95
Brex wants to replace startup bank accounts with Brex Cash
https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/02/brex-cash/
43
GoodbyeDPI – Passive Deep Packet Inspection Blocker / Circumvention Utility
https://github.com/ValdikSS/GoodbyeDPI
★ 28.2k C Apache-2.0– 7 years ago
47
Show HN: Memos – Search engine for your screenshots and photos
https://memos.org/hn
111
Robots to Cut 200k U.S. Bank Jobs in Next Decade, Study Says
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-02/robots-to-cut-200-000-u-s-bank-jobs-in-next-decade-study-says
108
80
Google – polling like it's the 90s
https://www.ably.io/blog/google-polling-like-its-the-90s/
107
74
Launch HN: Revel (YC S19) – Community for Women over 50
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21139118
105
36
A National Privacy Law Is Nowhere in Sight
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/01/technology/national-privacy-law.html
96
86
Learning Vim incrementally (2010)
https://yehudakatz.com/2010/07/29/everyone-who-tried-to-convince-me-to-use-vim-was-wrong/
88
10
#Script Lisp
https://sharpscript.net/lisp/
11
Notre Dame: a blow-by-blow account of the restoration process
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/analysis/inside-notre-dame-a-blow-by-blow-account-of-work-on-the-fire-ravaged-cathedral
81
48
Parthia: Rome's Ablest Competitor
https://www.ancient.eu/article/1445/parthia-romes-ablest-competitor/
79
66
The true story of the Amazon door desk (2011)
https://glog.glennf.com/blog/2011/10/16/the_true_story_of_the_amazon_door-desk
Was it worth paying €41.7bn to bail out Irish banks?
https://www.irishtimes.com/business/financial-services/was-it-worth-paying-41-7bn-to-bail-out-irish-banks-1.4036792
Taichi: A Language for High-Performance Computation on Spatially Sparse Data [pdf]
http://taichi.graphics/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/taichi_lang.pdf
76
YouTube demonetizing videos where LGBTQ keywords are said
https://boingboing.net/2019/10/02/youtube-demonetizing-videos-wh.html
75
73
Blazor – Build client web apps with C#
https://dotnet.microsoft.com/apps/aspnet/web-apps/blazor
65
Why are there no animals with three legs?
https://phys.org/news/2019-10-animals-legs.html
70
1
Boeing whistleblower: 737 MAX safety upgrades were rejected over cost
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/boeing-whistleblowers-complaint-says-737-max-safety-upgrades-were-rejected-over-cost/
69
Why should I always enable compiler warnings?
https://stackoverflow.com/q/57842756/938695