741
566
Jimmy Wales has quietly launched a Facebook rival
https://www.zdnet.com/article/wikipedias-jimmy-wales-has-quietly-launched-a-facebook-rival-social-network/
6 years ago
636
319
The Unparalleled Genius of John von Neumann
https://medium.com/cantors-paradise/the-unparalleled-genius-of-john-von-neumann-791bb9f42a2d
537
167
I Created a $60K/Month App That Collects In-Person Payments Through Stripe
https://www.starterstory.com/stripe-in-person-payments
529
86
Eigenvectors from eigenvalues
https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2019/08/13/eigenvectors-from-eigenvalues/
522
444
Supreme Court to Hear Google-Oracle Copyright Fight
https://www.axios.com/supreme-court-google-oracle-copyright-fight-c5de0f29-b6ff-436e-afe0-68f794a62ad6.html
510
207
Pointless work meetings 'really a form of therapy'
https://www.bbc.com/news/education-50418317
453
131
Which answer in this list is the correct answer to this question? (2017)
https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/2217248/which-answer-in-this-list-is-the-correct-answer-to-this-question
443
116
To motivate people, talk about the context of the work to be done
https://www.sametab.com/blog/employee-engagement
416
548
Google cancels TGIF weekly all-hands meetings
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/15/google-cancels-tgif-weekly-all-hands-meetings.html
368
360
The Value in Go’s Simplicity
https://benjamincongdon.me/blog/2019/11/11/The-Value-in-Gos-Simplicity/
351
69
Sourcehut's Year in Alpha
https://sourcehut.org/blog/2019-11-15-sourcehut-1-year-alpha/
340
74
Sea-Thru: A Method for Removing Water from Underwater Images
https://petapixel.com/2019/11/13/this-algorithm-can-remove-the-water-from-underwater-photos-and-the-results-are-incredible/
327
46
Training algorithms on copyrighted data not illegal: US Supreme Court
https://towardsdatascience.com/the-most-important-supreme-court-decision-for-data-science-and-machine-learning-44cfc1c1bcaf
298
67
Hayabusa2 is leaving the asteroid Ryugu and heading back to Earth
https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/hayabusa2-is-leaving-the-asteroid-ryugu-and-heading-back-to-earth
263
Interstellar space even weirder than expected, NASA probe reveals
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2019/11/interstellar-space-weirder-than-expected-nasa-voyager-2-reveals/
247
177
How Google uses blacklists, algorithm tweaks and contractors for search results
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/how-google-interferes-with-its-search-algorithms-and-changes-your-results/ar-BBWOCm2
242
260
Ex-FDA Advisor Says of Lasik Eye Surgery: ‘It Should Have Never Been Approved’
https://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2019/06/17/lasik-eye-surgery-complications-fda-approval/
230
16
Distilling knowledge from neural networks to build smaller and faster models
https://blog.floydhub.com/knowledge-distillation/
221
127
Cops are making fewer arrests since N.J. got rid of cash bail
https://www.nj.com/data/2019/11/cops-are-making-fewer-arrests-since-nj-got-rid-of-cash-bail.html
199
33
NaN Gates and Flip FLOPS
http://tom7.org/nand/
189
222
Nine-year-old child to graduate university
https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/14/europe/university-graduate-child-genius-scli-intl/index.html
36
TROS: IBM mainframes stored microcode in transformers
http://www.righto.com/2019/11/tros-how-ibm-mainframes-stored.html
170
191
The 80/24 Rule
https://blog.ploeh.dk/2019/11/04/the-80-24-rule/
159
58
“Why We Sleep” Is Riddled with Scientific and Factual Errors
https://guzey.com/books/why-we-sleep/
155
105
Google Chrome experiment crashes browser tabs, impacts companies worldwide
https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-chrome-experiment-crashes-browser-tabs-impacts-companies-worldwide/
151
43
What is the “two-drive trick” that can read Amiga disks on a PC?
https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/12747/what-is-the-two-drive-trick-that-can-read-amiga-disks-on-a-pc
148
83
A Black Hole Threw a Star Out of the Milky Way Galaxy
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/14/science/stars-black-hole-milky-way.html
144
101
It's Not Sabotage, They're Drowning
https://shermanonsoftware.com/2019/11/15/its-not-sabotage-theyre-drowning/
18
Show HN: Scholarref tools – never deal with journal webpages again
https://adamsgaard.dk/scholarref.html
123
59
Oyo's business model is looking a lot like WeWork's
https://asia.nikkei.com/Opinion/Oyo-s-business-model-is-looking-a-lot-like-WeWork-s
122
55
Show HN: Faster UTF-8 validator
https://github.com/zwegner/faster-utf8-validator
109
44
Open-sourcing Clusterman, a cluster autoscaler for Kubernetes and Mesos
https://engineeringblog.yelp.com/2019/11/open-source-clusterman.html
106
79
Taylor Swift: Don’t know what else to do
https://www.facebook.com/notes/taylor-swift/dont-know-what-else-to-do/10156631338812023/
98
37
NUVIA: New Server CPU Startup Going After Intel and AMD
https://www.anandtech.com/show/15115/nuvia-breaks-cover-new-startup-to-take-on-datacenter-cpu-market
92
118
Ohio bill would allow students to be scientifically wrong due to religion
https://local12.com/news/local/ohio-house-passes-bill-allowing-student-answers-to-be-scientifically-wrong-due-to-religion
91
51
Gibberish Asian Font Mystery Solved (2006)
http://hanzismatter.blogspot.com/2006/08/gibberish-asian-font-mystery-solved.html
90
Pinephone – “BraveHeart” Limited Edition Linux SmartPhone
https://store.pine64.org/?product=pinephone-braveheart-limited-edition-linux-smartphone-for-early-adaptor
89
OpenWRT will natively support NextDNS in upcoming 19.07.0 release
https://github.com/openwrt/luci/pull/3291
34
Codem Ipsum: Lorem Ipsum but for Code
https://codemipsum.pomb.us/
30
Lyft is ceasing scooter operations in six cities and laying off 20 employees
https://techcrunch.com/2019/11/14/lyft-is-ceasing-scooter-operations-in-six-cities-and-laying-off-20-employees/
82
20
The architecture of declarative configuration management
https://blog.nelhage.com/post/declarative-configuration-management/
A Year of Helping Customers Build Production-Ready Kubernetes Infrastructure
https://www.pulumi.com/blog/crosswalk-kubernetes/
81
136
U.S. Workers Show Little Improvement in 21st Century Skills
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-11-15/u-s-workers-show-little-improvement-in-21st-century-skills
80
12
The Measure of Intelligence: towards more human-like artificial systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.01547
78
56
Show HN: Simple PDF to PNG Server
https://secureview.cloudbrowser.xyz/secretpage-canneverbefound.html
How Google uses blacklists, algorithm tweaks and contractors for search results
