787
289
Why Nukemap Isn't on Google Maps Anymore
http://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2019/12/13/why-nukemap-isnt-on-google-maps-anymore/
6 years ago
676
185
The Outer Worlds: Fixing the “game thinks my companion is dead” bug
https://twitter.com/_taylorswope/status/1205252714680045568
606
110
Happy Hues – Curated colors in context
https://www.happyhues.co/
554
362
An account is now required to read Reddit comment threads?
https://old.reddit.com/r/mobileweb/comments/e7yivg/join_reddit_to_keep_reading_an_account_is_now/
410
306
49% of workers, forced to change passwords, reuse same one with minor change
https://www.grahamcluley.com/49-of-workers-when-forced-to-update-their-password-reuse-the-same-one-with-just-a-minor-change/
395
313
If this project is dead, just tell us
https://github.com/pypa/pipenv/issues/4058
373
227
Ask HN: What's the current sentiment on JWT for stateless auth tokens?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21783303
361
153
Terence Tao Proves Result on the Collatz Conjecture
https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematician-terence-tao-and-the-collatz-conjecture-20191211/
357
173
Cyc
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyc
348
430
Google Culture War Escalates as Era of Transparency Wanes
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-12-13/google-culture-war-escalates-as-era-of-transparency-wanes
301
128
Reputation management firms bury Google results by placing flattering content
https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-the-1-scrubs-its-image-online-11576233000
299
84
AT&T drops out of FCC speed-test program so it can hide bad results
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/12/att-drops-out-of-fcc-speed-test-program-so-it-can-hide-bad-results/
280
97
Ways to reduce the costs of an HTTP(S) API on AWS
https://gameanalytics.com/blog/reduce-costs-https-api-aws.html
264
312
Ask HN: My company wants my side project. What can I do?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21786111
233
223
Shopping Sucks Now
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/9399mp/im-fed-up-with-shopping-it-blows-so-hard-why-cant-i-buy-anything-someone-help-me
219
78
Bill Atkinson: Reflections on the 40th anniversary of my joining Apple
https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Joining_Apple_Computer
211
111
Reimagining the PhD
https://nadiaeghbal.com/phd
210
65
Bloomberg just bought CityLab and put half its reporters out of a job
https://www.motherjones.com/media/2019/12/bloomberg-just-bought-citylab-and-put-half-its-reporters-out-of-a-job/
207
34
Basics of Compiler Design (2000) [pdf]
http://hjemmesider.diku.dk/~torbenm/Basics/basics_lulu2.pdf
202
243
We 30x'd our Node parallelism
https://blog.plaid.com/how-we-parallelized-our-node-service-by-30x/
195
23
Layout 101
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B0gPtgNVonXPT1NsWGpKZWZKV1U
192
47
Cache of Crypto-Jewish Recipes Dating to Inquisition Found in Miami Kitchen
https://www.timesofisrael.com/cache-of-crypto-jewish-recipes-dating-to-inquisition-found-in-miami-kitchen
188
4
Rules of Machine Learning: Best Practices for ML Engineering [pdf]
http://martin.zinkevich.org/rules_of_ml/rules_of_ml.pdf
186
43
How the Library of Congress Unrolled a 2000-Year-Old Buddhist Scroll
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/gandhara-scroll-library-of-congress
183
38
BBC Sound Effects
http://bbcsfx.acropolis.org.uk/
175
140
Asking questions is a skill: Lessons from 10 years of Stack Overflow
https://blog.mattbierner.com/10-years-stack-overflow-learnings/
174
57
Jeff Dean interview: Machine learning trends in 2020
https://venturebeat.com/2019/12/13/google-ai-chief-jeff-dean-interview-machine-learning-trends-in-2020/
170
94
Ask HN: Best ways to volunteer?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21783323
166
133
SuperShuttle is going out of business
https://www.latimes.com/travel/story/2019-12-12/supershuttle-says-it-will-stop-service-to-lax
158
76
Offering software for snooping to governments is a booming business
https://www.economist.com/business/2019/12/12/offering-software-for-snooping-to-governments-is-a-booming-business
138
Show HN: LastingPaper – A Desktop App for Your E-Ink Kindle
https://www.lastingpaper.com
134
11
Probability Theory for Physically Based Rendering
https://jacco.ompf2.com/2019/12/11/probability-theory-for-physically-based-rendering/
129
73
Poetry – Dependency Management for Python – v1.0
https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry/releases/tag/1.0.0
126
Google Street View image of a house predicts car accident risk of its resident
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.05270
Proprioception: The Silent “Sixth” Sense
https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/11/22/20920762/proprioception-sixth-sense
Feathered dinosaur tail found in amber (2016)
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-38224564
119
12
Show HN: Falco – Open-Source Web Performance Monitoring
https://github.com/theodo/falco
117
77
A genomic predictor of lifespan in vertebrates
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-54447-w
StyleGAN2
https://github.com/NVlabs/stylegan2
116
Dota 2 with Large Scale Deep Reinforcement Learning [pdf]
https://cdn.openai.com/dota-2.pdf
112
33
Deep Learning Breakthrough Made by Rice University Scientists
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/12/mach-ai-training-linear-cost-exponential-gain/
107
“My Car does not start when I buy Vanilla Ice Cream” (2015)
https://www.digitalrepublik.com/digital-marketing-newsletter/2015/05/10/my-car-does-not-start-when-i-buy-vanilla-ice-cream-said-a-man-to-general-motors/
106
66
Biopharma has abandoned antibiotic development
https://endpts.com/biopharma-has-abandoned-antibiotic-development-heres-why-we-did-too/
104
25
Dynamo vs. Cassandra: Systems Design of NoSQL Databases (2018)
https://sujithjay.com/data-systems/dynamo-cassandra/
103
The AI Index 2019 Report
https://hai.stanford.edu/news/introducing-ai-index-2019-report
101
180
The Cybertruck is not brutalist
https://www.inverse.com/article/61479-cybertruck-brutalism-not-really
100
Netflix sends journalists on pricey trips
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/12/12/netflix-sends-journalists-pricey-trips-raising-questions-angering-rivals/
98
86
Seven deadly sins of talking about “types” (2014)
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~srk31/blog/2014/10/07/#seven-type-sins
96
61
A small Wisconsin company stored thousands of people’s CDs, then vanished
https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/13/21019565/murfie-madison-wisconsin-store-stream-cd-vinyl-collection-closed
85
Confessions of a Book Pirate (2010)
https://themillions.com/2010/01/confessions-of-a-book-pirate.html
90
83
The future of finance is self-driving money
https://venturegrit.substack.com/p/why-self-driving-money-is-more-important
20
Ant Colony Optimization Visualization for the Travelling Salesman Problem
https://jtp.io/aco-tsp/
89
118
VirtualBox 6.1
https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog-6.1#v0
88
41
How McKinsey infiltrated the world of global public health
https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2019/12/13/21004456/bill-gates-mckinsey-global-public-health-bcg
87
5
DeepMind Memory Task Suite
https://github.com/deepmind/dm_memorytasks
208
The falling price of a TV set
https://theoutline.com/post/8421/smart-tv-cheap-roku
Genius sues Google and LyricFind over allegedly stolen song lyrics
https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/3/20993621/genius-google-lawsuit-stolen-lyrics-lyricfind
27
Work Is a Queue of Queues
https://amontalenti.com/2019/11/04/work-is-a-queue-of-queues
82
56
The Arctic may have crossed key threshold in a long-dreaded climate feedback
https://www.adn.com/nation-world/2019/12/10/the-arctic-may-have-crossed-key-threshold-in-a-long-dreaded-climate-feedback/
35
1950s Smart Homes and the Longevity of Design
https://resobscura.blogspot.com/2019/12/1950s-smart-homes-and-longevity-of.html
102
Andrew Yang’s math on the robot takeover doesn’t check out
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-11-20/robots-replacing-human-workers-isn-t-supported-by-data
15
How to Build a Remote Team: Resources and Advice from Remote Companies
https://remotehub.io/blog/build-remote-team
95
America’s First Amphetamine Epidemic 1929–1971 (2008)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2377281
49% of workers, forced to change passwords, reuse same one with minor change