769
356
Pricing niche products
https://kevinlynagh.com/notes/pricing-niche-products/
7 years ago
629
187
Making My Own Glasses
https://www.eidel.io/2019/04/24/making-my-own-glasses/
552
302
Calibre 4.0
https://calibre-ebook.com/new-in/thirteen
538
283
Paypal Withdraws from Facebook's Libra Cryptocurrency
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/04/paypal-withdraws-from-facebooks-libra-cryptocurrency.html
470
65
Streamlit: Turn a Python script into an interactive data analysis tool
https://towardsdatascience.com/coding-ml-tools-like-you-code-ml-models-ddba3357eace
400
127
Lab-made primordial soup yields RNA bases
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02622-4
379
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Apple approves previously rejected HKMap.live app
https://twitter.com/hkmaplive/status/1180137132842610688
357
76
Caddy Proposal: Permanently change all proprietary licensing to open source
https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/issues/2786
★ 71.9k Go Apache-2.0– 7 years ago
351
85
Political Operatives Faked Millions of Comments Against Net Nuetrality
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jsvine/net-neutrality-fcc-fake-comments-impersonation
328
315
It's time to ban cars from Manhattan?
https://ny.curbed.com/2019/10/3/20896837/nyc-traffic-history-pedestrian-cars
313
157
Why does 1.1.1.1 not resolve archive.is?
https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/135222/why-does-1-1-1-1-not-resolve-archive-is/135223#135223
37
Fundamentals of Python Programming [pdf]
https://python.cs.southern.edu/pythonbook/pythonbook.pdf
296
90
Mastodon 3.0
https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/releases/tag/v3.0.0
★ 49.8k Ruby AGPL-3.0– 7 years ago
295
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A Cheating Scandal Rocking the Poker World
https://www.theringer.com/2019/10/4/20899034/poker-cheating-mike-postle-stones-gambling-hall-twitch-no-limit-holdem-sacramento-veronica-brill
290
57
Show HN: Imagededup – Finding duplicate images made easy
https://github.com/idealo/imagededup
★ 5.6k Python Apache-2.0– 7 years ago
278
A new Linux memory controller promises to save lots of RAM
https://thenewstack.io/a-new-linux-memory-controller-promises-to-save-lots-of-ram/
268
136
In the Pancreas, Common Fungi May Drive Cancer
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/03/health/pancreatic-cancer-fungi.html
265
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A Swiss Lesson in Enlightened Street Design
https://www.citylab.com/perspective/2019/09/urban-planning-zurich-public-transit-street-design-traffic/599011/
248
134
Show HN: Able – an alternative to Medium
https://able.bio/rhett/the-new-able-editor--596ha6x
236
A brief history of government efforts to stop people from wearing masks
https://qz.com/1721901/hong-kong-anti-mask-law-a-history-of-mask-bans-around-the-world/
233
133
Vulnerabilities exploited in VPN products used worldwide
https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/news/alert-vpn-vulnerabilities
231
30
Signal: Incoming call can be connected without user interaction
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1943
226
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Disney Bans Netflix Ads as Streaming’s Marketing Wars Intensify
https://www.wsj.com/articles/disney-bans-netflix-ads-as-streamings-marketing-wars-intensify-11570199291?mod=rsswn
214
51
Paralysed man moves in mind-reading exoskeleton
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-49907356
207
177
College Students Just Want Normal Libraries
https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2019/10/college-students-dont-want-fancy-libraries/599455/
205
249
Unsteady income in young adulthood linked to thinking problems in middle age
https://www.aan.com/PressRoom/Home/PressRelease/2750
191
139
Streets with Nooks and Crannies Are Beloved and Endangered
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/urbs/streets-with-nooks-and-crannies-are-beloved-and-endangered/
190
245
Ask HN: What are your arguments in favor of end-to-end encryption?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21156664
186
Google Cloud Worth $225B, Deutsche Bank Says
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-03/google-cloud-worth-double-ibm-s-market-cap-deutsche-bank-says
182
122
Uber makes JFK airport helicopter taxis available to all users
https://in.reuters.com/article/uber-copter/uber-makes-jfk-airport-helicopter-taxis-available-to-all-users-idINKBN1WI15X
170
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One of the oldest known human settlements is about to be flooded by a dam
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2019-10-03/ancient-city-hasankeyf-underwater
167
70
We decided to go for the big rewrite
https://tech.channable.com/posts/2019-10-04-why-we-decided-to-go-for-the-big-rewrite.html
162
69
Oppenheimer and the Gita (2014)
http://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2014/05/23/oppenheimer-gita/
156
74
Facebook Now Allows Politicians to Lie in Paid Ads
https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2019/10/facebook-now-allows-politicians-to-lie-in-paid-ads.html
154
We are on the cusp of a disruption in food and agricultural production
https://www.rethinkx.com/food-and-agriculture-executive-summary
89
The rise of the financial machines
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2019/10/03/the-rise-of-the-financial-machines
152
62
Scientist Who Discredited Meat Guidelines Didn’t Report Past Food Industry Ties
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/04/well/eat/scientist-who-discredited-meat-guidelines-didnt-report-past-food-industry-ties.html
17
The Walking Arm Trebuchet
https://www.instructables.com/id/Worlds-Simplest-and-Newest-Trebuchet-Walking-Arm-T/
60
Pigs recorded using tools
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2019/10/first-tool-use-pigs-visayan-endangered/
32
Canada’s fossil fuel subsidies amount to $1,650 per Canadian
https://thenarwhal.ca/canadas-fossil-fuel-subsidies-amount-to-1650-per-canadian-its-got-to-stop/
132
67
A dissident who beats up Tai Chi masters
https://deadspin.com/he-never-intended-to-become-a-political-dissident-but-1838706430
130
Hundreds of Propaganda Accounts Targeting Iran and Qatar Removed from Facebook
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/janelytvynenko/uae-propaganda
Vue.js v3 released (pre alpha)
https://github.com/vuejs/vue-next
★ 53.5k TypeScript MIT– 7 years ago
128
44
Global groundwater extraction a “ticking time bomb”
https://cosmosmagazine.com/earth-sciences/global-groundwater-extraction-a-ticking-time-bomb
111
142
Parsing C++ is literally undecidable (2013)
http://blog.reverberate.org/2013/08/parsing-c-is-literally-undecidable.html
110
8
Fast HSV to RGB Conversion
http://www.vagrearg.org/content/hsvrgb
104
Green AI
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.10597
102
108
Shenanigans in the Microkitchen
http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2019/10/03/thirst/
101
11
India’s elephant-friendly tea garden
http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20191003-indias-elephant-friendly-tea-garden
93
Highlight negative results to improve science
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02960-3
13
Why printk() is so complicated, and how to fix it
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/800946/a9ad9aba46f14e78/
73
XMPP: A Communication Protocol for the Internet of Things
https://www.briskbraintech.com/xmpp-a-communication-protocol-for-the-internet-of-things/
88
24
Oracle demands $12K from network biz that doesn't use its software
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/10/04/oracle_virtualbox_merula/