852
158
System design hack: Postgres is a great pub/sub and job server
https://layerci.com/blog/postgres-is-the-answer/
6 years ago
572
603
Open Letter to the Linux Foundation
https://blog.cleancoder.com/uncle-bob/2019/11/08/OpenLetterLinuxFoundation.html
509
363
Apple has made it difficult to use web-based technology on its platforms
https://onezero.medium.com/apple-is-trying-to-kill-web-technology-a274237c174d
419
Nuclear energy is a vital part of solving the climate crisis
https://archive.is/0bVPq
391
190
NASA Flew Gas Detectors Above California, Found ‘Super Emitters’
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-11-06/nasa-flew-gas-detectors-above-california-found-super-emitters
371
157
Amazon Is Accused of Forcing Up Prices in Antitrust Complaint
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-11-08/amazon-merchant-lays-out-antitrust-case-in-letter-to-congress
349
320
We do not use foreign keys (2016)
https://github.com/github/gh-ost/issues/331#issuecomment-266027731
337
223
Go Turns 10
https://blog.golang.org/10years
287
197
Gitlab's Director of Risk and Global Compliance Resigns
https://www.reddit.com/r/gitlab/comments/dtfccm/gitlabs_director_of_risk_and_global_compliance/
286
221
Modern Data Practice and the SQL Tradition
https://tselai.com/modern-data-practice-and-the-sql-tradition.html
278
41
The Tech of Pixar: Piper (2017)
https://www.fxguide.com/fxfeatured/the-tech-of-pixar-part-1-piper-daring-to-be-different/
265
59
Immediate brain plasticity after one hour of brain–computer interface
https://physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1113/JP278118
253
67
Just did the Y Combinator interview: here are my notes
https://blog.checklyhq.com/just-did-the-ycombinator-interview-here-are-my-notes/
251
114
How Discord achieves native iOS performance with React Native
https://blog.discordapp.com/how-discord-achieves-native-ios-performance-with-react-native-390c84dcd502
230
20
Security assessment techniques for Go projects
https://blog.trailofbits.com/2019/11/07/attacking-go-vr-ttps/
116
Ants trapped for years in an old bunker
https://jhr.pensoft.net/article/38972/list/1/
214
141
My Kid Lost a Game of 'Magic' to Its Creator But Scored a Piece of Its Art
https://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/how-my-kid-lost-a-game-of-magic-to-its-creator-but-scored-a-piece-of-its-original-art/
211
191
Bad JSON Parsers
https://github.com/lovasoa/bad_json_parsers
205
35
Visual6502 Remix
https://floooh.github.io/visual6502remix/
200
83
Blending complex systems made my latency 10x higher
https://srvaroa.github.io/kubernetes/migration/latency/dns/java/aws/microservices/2019/10/22/kubernetes-added-a-0-to-my-latency.html
102
Project Silica proof-of-concept stores movie on quartz glass
https://news.microsoft.com/innovation-stories/ignite-project-silica-superman/
189
107
Expertise in the Age of YouTube
https://behavioralscientist.org/expertise-in-the-age-of-youtube/
60
The problem isn’t data protection, it’s data collection
https://twitter.com/CNBCi/status/1191431197332852737
188
178
UK Met Office Climate Dashboard
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/monitoring/dashboard.html
184
38
Parallel Commits: A New Atomic Commit Protocol for Distributed Transactions
https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/parallel-commits
183
108
My Decade as a Fugitive
https://story.californiasunday.com/waymond-hall
180
146
Software Updates
https://xkcd.com/2224/
173
Delays in Boeing Max Return Began with Near-Crash in Simulator
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-11-08/delays-in-boeing-max-return-began-with-near-crash-in-simulator
172
519
Netflix, HBO and Cable Giants Are Coming for Password Sharers
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-11-08/netflix-hbo-and-cable-giants-are-coming-for-password-cheats
167
America’s Largest Health Insurer Is Giving Apartments to Homeless People
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-11-05/unitedhealth-s-myconnections-houses-the-homeless-through-medicaid
154
39
Show HN: Nonprofit Open-Source Food Delivery and Local Shopping Platform
https://nearbyshops.org
153
85
Elephants Rarely Get Cancer, Now We Know Why (2015)
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2015/10/08/elephants-cancer-genes/
151
74
Show HN: Minimal Reader for the ESV Bible, Written in Janet
https://github.com/staab/esv
86
Ask HN: Starting an Anonymous Blog in 2019?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21482899
143
28
Evaluation of CPU profiling tools: gperftools, Valgrind and gprof (2015)
http://gernotklingler.com/blog/gprof-valgrind-gperftools-evaluation-tools-application-level-cpu-profiling-linux/
142
100
When Britain and France Almost Merged into One Country (2017)
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/08/dunkirk-brexit/536106/
134
72
Sendy Is Insecure: How Not to Implement ReCAPTCHA
https://victorzhou.com/blog/sendy-recaptcha-security/
133
71
Adversarial design printed on a shirt to fool object recognition algorithms
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/evj9bm/adversarial-design-shirt-makes-you-invisible-to-ai
131
45
Deep learning has a size problem
https://heartbeat.fritz.ai/deep-learning-has-a-size-problem-ea601304cd8
130
7
Experience: My face became a meme [as told by Harold himself]
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/nov/08/experience-hide-the-pain-harold-face-became-meme-turned-it-into-career
Some Indian Twitter users are leaving for Mastodon
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-50343054
117
14
French postal workers helping lonely older people (2018)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/23/care-package-french-postal-workers-helping-lonely-older-people
18
Mark Twain playing with electricity in Nikola Tesla's lab in 1894 (2013)
http://www.openculture.com/2013/10/mark-twain-plays-with-electricity-in-nikola-teslas-lab-photo-1894.html
47
IBM, sonic delay lines, and the history of the 80×24 display
http://www.righto.com/2019/11/ibm-sonic-delay-lines-and-history-of.html?m=1
112
46
Making Wrong Code Look Wrong (2005)
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2005/05/11/making-wrong-code-look-wrong/
16
Show HN: Python package and CLI to generate stylistic word clouds
https://github.com/minimaxir/stylecloud
109
61
Ransomware, Data Breaches at Hospitals Tied to Uptick in Fatal Heart Attacks
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/11/study-ransomware-data-breaches-at-hospitals-tied-to-uptick-in-fatal-heart-attacks/
We Need to Map the Ocean Floor
http://nautil.us/blog/why-we-need-to-map-the-ocean-floor
103
90
Looka lays off staff as failed rebrand from Logojoy cut revenue in half
https://betakit.com/looka-lays-off-80-percent-of-staff-as-failed-rebrand-from-logojoy-cut-revenue-in-half/
Why functional programming matters (1990) [pdf]
https://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/dat/miranda/whyfp90.pdf
93
The Valentine’s Day Text Message Mystery
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/08/style/text-message-valentines.html
92
A Memo on the Secret Features of the Hitachi 6309 processor (1992)
https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/hitachi/6309/a_memo_on_the_secret_features_of_6309
88
34
Yakovlevian Torque
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakovlevian_torque
80
Benjamin Libet's argument against free will is being questioned
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2019/09/free-will-bereitschaftspotential/597736/
87
43
SimplyThick: A Tragedy No One Saw Coming (2013)
https://www.stlmag.com/Simply-Thick-A-Tragedy-No-One-Saw-Coming/
Cheap zinc/manganese battery being developed commercially
https://www.adelaide.edu.au/newsroom/news/list/2019/10/29/funding-battery-breakthrough-0
2
A Deep Dive into Internet Censorship in Russia
https://censoredplanet.org/russia
84
An Experiment on Code Structure
https://pboyd.io/posts/code-structure-experiment/
82
78
The Morality of Quantum Computing
https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=4405
IBM System/360 Principles of Operation (1964) [pdf]
http://bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/360/princOps/A22-6821-0_360PrincOps.pdf
22
The One Weird Trick SecureROM Hates [pdf]
http://iokit.racing/oneweirdtrick.pdf
IBM, sonic delay lines, and the history of the 80×24 display