788
171
Ask HN: Are there books for mathematics like Feynman's lectures on physics?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21346272
6 years ago
765
288
BBC News launches 'dark web' Tor mirror
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-50150981
623
422
Gitlab ‘rethinking’ third-party telemetry
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitaly/issues/2113
446
294
React Concurrent Mode
https://reactjs.org/docs/concurrent-mode-intro.html
382
81
How SSH Port Became 22
https://www.ssh.com/ssh/port
368
276
Ring Gave Police Stats About Users Who Said No to Law Enforcement Requests
https://gizmodo.com/ring-gave-police-stats-about-users-who-said-no-to-law-e-1837713840
359
204
MIT Media Lab Scientist Used Refugees to Tout Food Computers That Didn't Work
https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/at-work/start-ups/mit-media-lab-scientist-used-syrian-refugees-to-tout-food-computers
341
128
The Hacker’s Manifesto (1986)
http://phrack.org/issues/7/3.html
324
119
Why Aren’t We Curious About the Things We Want to Be Curious About?
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/18/opinion/sunday/curiosity-brain.html
419
Stripe to move to South San Francisco
https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/2nd-most-valuable-U-S-startup-to-leave-SF-as-14558067.php
322
141
How to Become the Best in the World at Something
https://forge.medium.com/how-to-become-the-best-in-the-world-at-something-f1b658f93428
321
194
Congressman's phone password is 111111
https://gfycat.com/uncommonacclaimedboar
303
235
Google T5 scores 88.9 on SuperGLUE Benchmark, approaching human baseline
https://super.gluebenchmark.com/leaderboard
293
114
Grafana Labs raises $24M
https://grafana.com/blog/2019/10/24/what-24-million-means-for-our-open-source-community/
266
103
Working asynchronously
https://blog.remote.com/why-you-should-be-doing-async-work/
247
231
Earliest known draft of the King James Bible discovered
https://www.neh.gov/article/first-draft-king-james-bible
243
38
Calculus for the Curious
https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2019/10/16/calculus-for-the-curious/
242
Man sues AT&T over 'SIM Swap' hack allegedly involving employees
https://www.foxla.com/news/torrance-man-sues-att-over-1-8-million-sim-swap-hack-allegedly-involving-company-employees
241
Teaching Rats to Drive Tiny Cars
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2220721-scientists-have-trained-rats-to-drive-tiny-cars-to-collect-food/
239
335
The decline in U.S. life expectancy is unlike anything seen in a century (2018)
https://www.popsci.com/life-expectancy-declining
227
278
Electron 7.0
https://electronjs.org/blog/electron-7-0
218
95
Flagstaff, Arizona, switched to LEDs without giving astronomers a headache
https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/10/how-flagstaff-arizona-switched-to-leds-without-giving-astronomers-a-headache/
217
84
The Body Keeps the Score: Book Summary
https://praxis.fortelabs.co/the-body-keeps-the-score-summary/
216
94
Rust and C++ on Floating-Point Intensive Code
https://www.reidatcheson.com/hpc/architecture/performance/rust/c++/2019/10/19/measure-cache.html
129
80x25
http://exple.tive.org/blarg/2019/10/23/80x25/
199
112
Firefox Preview/GeckoView Add-Ons Support
https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2019/10/23/fx-preview-geckoview-add-ons-support/
178
99
Vim 101: How to Start Using the Text Editor for Developers
http://www.datastuff.tech/programming/vim-start-using-the-text-editor-for-developers/
155
43
The effort to preserve a million letters written by U.S. soldiers during wartime
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/unprecedented-effort-preserve-million-letters-written-soldiers-wartime-180973336/
152
113
Signal Technology Foundation is now open for donations
https://freedom.press/news/signal-technology-foundation-now-open-donations/
148
Dark.fail: Is a darknet site online?
https://dark.fail/
146
83
Thanks Gitlab
https://cmpwn.com/@sir/103018233505800721
140
88
My own private Iceland
https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/10/21/20905485/iceland-overtourism-reykjavik-blue-lagoon-northern-lights
132
Web Based Qt Design Viewer
https://www.qt.io/blog/web-based-qt-design-viewer
130
170
Amish Counter Top Kitchen Appliances Run Off Compressed Air (2012)
https://www.sufficientself.com/threads/amish-counter-top-kitchen-appliances-run-off-compressed-air.12802/
122
We Never Paid for Journalism
https://idiallo.com/blog/we-never-paid-for-journalism
251
Monty Hall Problem
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Hall_problem
19
Royal Society journals are free to access until Oct 27
https://royalsociety.org/journals/
29
Obscure Charges That Utility Companies Add to Bills
https://www.propublica.org/article/the-obscure-charges-that-utility-companies-add-to-your-bills
115
28
Ubuntu Touch OTA-11 Release
https://ubports.com/pt_PT/blog/ubports-blog-1/post/ubuntu-touch-ota-11-release-252
110
134
Show HN: Passbox – Give access to your data only after you're dead
https://passbox.co
108
Italo Calvino, The Art of Fiction No. 130 (1992)
https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/2027/italo-calvino-the-art-of-fiction-no-130-italo-calvino
107
34
Show HN: Tool I created to covert tabular data to a 'pretty' table
https://dv.dbb1.dev
105
48
Show HN: Mac toolbar app to show electricity cutoff schedule
https://mhasbini.com/blog/introducing-electricity-cutoff-app.html
87
“May You Live in Interesting Times”
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2015/12/18/live/
Launch HN: Mutiny (YC S18) – Website Personalization for B2B Companies
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21346414
104
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Letting Bird’s scooters fly free
https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/53258.html
97
31
Stack Overflow is doing me ongoing harm
https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/336526/stack-overflow-is-doing-me-ongoing-harm-its-time-to-fix-it
96
26
SiFive U8-Series Core IP
https://www.sifive.com/press/sifive-announces-new-u8-series-core-ip-for-high-performance
90
Update Complete: U.S. Nuclear Weapons No Longer Need Floppy Disks
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/24/us/nuclear-weapons-floppy-disks.html
91
49
Ask HN: We need a better alternative for Q/A than stackoverflow
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21347079
27
Cyber memo warns of new risks to White House network
https://www.axios.com/scoop-cyber-memo-warns-of-new-risks-to-white-house-network-9aa19c6c-77a3-485b-919b-1dd9bd691514.html
12
Moodymann on Rollerskating in Detroit
https://www.residentadvisor.net/features/3544
Show HN: Differential Fuzzing of Cryptographic Libraries
https://guidovranken.com/2019/05/14/differential-fuzzing-of-cryptographic-libraries/
79
The New World of Notebook Publishing
https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2019/10/the-new-world-of-notebook-publishing/
74
37
Iron: From Mythical to Mundane
https://rootsofprogress.org/iron-from-mythical-to-mundane
The empty seat on a crowded Japanese train
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2018/10/17/our-lives/empty-seat-crowded-japanese-train-10-years-gaijin-seat-still-grates/#.XavCSEZKg2w
Flagstaff, Arizona, switched to LEDs without giving astronomers a headache