567
205
WireGuard is in net-next
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next.git/commit/?id=e7096c131e5161fa3b8e52a650d7719d2857adfd
6 years ago
501
224
O(n^2), again, now in Windows Management Instrumentation
https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2019/12/08/on2-again-now-in-wmi/
428
311
The sad state of sysadmin in the age of containers (2015)
https://www.vitavonni.de/blog/201503/2015031201-the-sad-state-of-sysadmin-in-the-age-of-containers.html
415
202
AI Dungeon 2 costing over $10k/day to run on GCS/Colab
https://twitter.com/nickwalton00/status/1203370250030350338
413
67
Operations for Effective CEOs
https://www.sametab.com/blog/operations-and-internal-communication-strategies-for-effective-ceos
406
245
Things end users care about but programmers don't
https://instadeq.com/blog/posts/things-end-users-care-about-but-programmers-dont/
382
211
Ask HN: We are shutting down our startup, I get our code. What now?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21743302
329
78
The Nintendo Switch Switch
https://blog.cynthia.re/post/nintendo-switch-ethernet-switch
328
152
Technology Preview: Signal Private Group System
https://signal.org/blog/signal-private-group-system/
316
330
Apple’s Ad-Targeting Crackdown Shakes Up Ad Market
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/apples-ad-targeting-crackdown-shakes-up-ad-market?pu=hackernews4qs3ac&utm_source=hackernews&utm_medium=unlocka
288
506
College-educated workers are taking over the American factory floor
https://www.wsj.com/articles/american-factories-demand-white-collar-education-for-blue-collar-work-11575907185
236
140
Transputer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transputer
88
Show HN: Version Control for Databases
https://github.com/infostreams/db
★ 1.3k Shell MIT– 6 years ago
223
108
Some things every C programmer should know about C (2002)
https://web.archive.org/web/20030812081713/http://klausler.com/cnotes.txt
208
70
Paul Volcker has died
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/09/business/paul-a-volcker-dead.html
204
58
Computational photography from selfies to black holes
https://vas3k.com/blog/computational_photography/
198
496
Why Child Care Is So Expensive
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/11/why-child-care-so-expensive/602599
196
How a Chinese Company Built a $250M Search Hijacking Empire
https://medium.com/against-surveillance-capitalism/how-a-chinese-company-built-a-250-million-search-hijacking-empire-35f957566852
188
103
Game Boy Advance “Hello World” Using Zig
https://github.com/wendigojaeger/ZigGBAHelloWorld/
★ 384 Zig MIT– 6 years ago
187
176
E-scooter company goes bust after spending big on Facebook ads
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-50713723
186
91
Simple Rules ‘Bootstrap’ the Laws of Physics
https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-simple-rules-bootstrap-the-laws-of-physics-20191209/
182
63
Must and Must Not: On writing documentation
https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3341158
159
158
Why Kids Love Garbage Trucks
https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2019/12/why-kids-love-garbage-trucks/603193/
148
132
How William Gibson Keeps His Science Fiction Real
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/12/16/how-william-gibson-keeps-his-science-fiction-real
144
45
Show HN: Tiny, fast, and free API to geolocate IP addresses
https://github.com/Risk3sixty-Labs/geoapi
★ 715 JavaScript MIT– 6 years ago
28
Science Books of 2019
https://fivebooks.com/best-books/science-2019-barbara-kiser/
137
231
How to Buy a Private Jet
https://www.worth.com/how-to-buy-a-private-jet/
105
Serverless Development with Serverless Framework
https://thecloud.christmas/2019/9
135
30
Formatting Is Unreasonably Expensive for Embedded Rust
https://jamesmunns.com/blog/fmt-unreasonably-expensive/
133
76
Repo Blowup Was Fueled by Big Banks and Hedge Funds, BIS Says
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-12-08/repo-blowup-was-fueled-by-big-banks-and-hedge-funds-bis-says
130
175
The internet doesn't care about multiplayer games
https://www.networknext.com/post/the-internet-doesnt-care-about-your-game
122
183
What are your options for cognitive enhancement?
https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/at-work/tech-careers/what-are-your-options-for-cognitive-enhancement
119
What Did the U.S. Get for $2T in Afghanistan?
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/09/world/middleeast/afghanistan-war-cost.html
154
Ten-Hour Time-Restricted Eating Benefits Patients with Metabolic Syndrome
https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/12/08/785142534/eat-for-10-hours-fast-for-14-this-daily-habit-prompts-weight-loss-study-finds
104
41
A man using Google ad data to help heroin users
https://onezero.medium.com/900-000-americans-tell-google-they-want-to-try-buy-or-quit-heroin-every-year-48f725ee5db9
160
Vietnam’s Richest Man Bets $2B to Sell Cars to Americans
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-12-09/vietnam-s-richest-man-bets-2-billion-to-sell-cars-to-americans
102
Financial Time Series Forecasting with Deep Learning: A Literature Review
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.13288
22
Long Bets by Confidence Level
https://www.jefftk.com/p/long-bets-by-confidence-level
101
23
Mind your Logs: How a build log from a Jenkins leaked everything
https://medium.com/@aseem.shrey/mind-your-logs-how-a-build-log-from-a-jenkins-leaked-everything-603cf07fa85
96
Centrifugal Machine Guns
https://armourersbench.com/2019/12/08/centrifugal-machine-guns/
113
America's Missile That Uses Sword Blades Instead of Explosives Has Struck Again
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/31375/americans-hellfire-missile-that-uses-swords-instead-of-explosives-struck-again-in-syria
89
For Sale: The Only Bar in a 14-Person Montana Town
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/cool-bar-montana
94
155
Five cities account for vast majority of growth in U.S. tech jobs: study
https://www.wsj.com/articles/five-cities-account-for-vast-majority-of-growth-in-tech-jobs-study-finds-11575867660
38
AI-powered Lego sorting machine built with Lego bricks
https://www.brothers-brick.com/2019/12/06/this-fan-created-the-ultimate-lego-brick-sorting-machine-powered-by-ai-exclusive-feature/
32
Russian flag and national anthem banned from 2020 Olympics
https://www.thestar.com.my/news/regional/2019/12/09/breaking-news-russia-banned-from-2020-olympics
If Bitcoin Looks Like It Isn’t Trading, It’s Because It Isn’t
https://www.wsj.com/articles/if-bitcoin-looks-like-it-isnt-trading-its-because-it-isnt-11575637204
87
47
Every bookmark manager ever made
https://bookmarkos.com/every-bookmark-manager-ever-made/
86
An open-source browser extension to auto-skip sponsored segments on YouTube
https://github.com/ajayyy/SponsorBlock
★ 13.1k TypeScript GPL-3.0– 6 years ago
85
Grocery Industry Confronts a Problem: Only 10% of Americans Love Cooking (2017)
https://hbr.org/2017/09/the-grocery-industry-confronts-a-new-problem-only-10-of-americans-love-cooking
83
13
Chunking Optimizations: Let the Knife Do the Work
https://nullprogram.com/blog/2019/12/09/
82
19
To Wash It All Away (2014) [pdf]
http://scholar.harvard.edu/files/mickens/files/towashitallaway.pdf
80
77
The Great Recycling Con [video]
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/09/opinion/recycling-myths.html
74
Cray-2 vectorization instruction notes by former Principal Engineer of Cray
https://web.archive.org/web/20070929163851/http://klausler.com/cray2.txt
72
93
The Old Boys' Club: Schmoozing and the Gender Gap
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=57091
39
Missing Movies (2018)
https://johnaugust.com/2018/missing-movies
69
7
Aplette: a minimalist APL oriented toward scripting within a UNIX environment
https://github.com/gregfjohnson/aplette
★ 88 C – 6 years ago
Grad School and Public Health
https://www.benkuhn.net/grad
36
A way to make anonymous online donations
http://jpkoning.blogspot.com/2019/12/a-way-to-make-anonymous-online-donations.html
56
Over the past 35 years, views on privacy and Caller ID have flipped
https://tedium.co/2019/12/05/telephone-caller-id-history/
66
10
2019’s Top Machine and Deep Learning Research Papers
https://heartbeat.fritz.ai/2019s-top-machine-and-deep-learning-research-papers-1ec363f29e85
64
9
The Art of Hosting Good Conversations Online (1998)
https://www.rheingold.com/texts/artonlinehost.html
62
8
The Scottish Book
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Book
61
Finnish minister Sanna Marin, 34, to become world's youngest PM
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-50709422
