1314
291
Fast
https://patrickcollison.com/fast
6 years ago
703
96
The Deep Sea
https://neal.fun/deep-sea/
418
434
Go + Services = One Goliath Project
https://engineering.khanacademy.org/posts/goliath.htm
386
161
U.S. Navy bans TikTok from government-issued mobile devices
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-tiktok-navy/u-s-navy-bans-tiktok-from-government-issued-mobile-devices-idUSKBN1YO2HU
372
129
Monica: Open-source personal CRM
https://www.monicahq.com/
352
110
Scaling Etsy
https://twitter.com/mcfunley/status/1194713711337852928
321
46
Free and Open-Source Mathematics Textbooks
http://dcernst.github.io/resources/free-and-open-source-textbooks/
318
174
Alan Kay: Smalltalk is not about objects, it’s about messaging (1998)
http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/1998-October/017019.html
265
138
ACM signed letter opposing open access
https://newsroom.publishers.org/researchers-and-publishers-oppose-immediate-free-distribution-of-peer-reviewed-journal-articles
254
47
Coolest Things I Learned in 2019
https://www.perell.com/blog/2019/12/11/coolest-things-i-learned-in-2019
237
183
Show HN: Mandarin Tone Trainer – A ‘Helping Ear’ for Mandarin Pronunciation
https://mandarintonetrainer.com
224
132
Boeing push to make training profitable may have left 737 Max pilots unprepared
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-12-20/boeing-s-profit-push-may-have-left-737-max-pilots-unprepared
200
143
Ask HN: What is your financial “setup”?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21853636
195
38
Nitter: Alternative Twitter Front-End
https://github.com/zedeus/nitter
189
A cool way to explain logic gates with water [video]
https://twitter.com/page_eco/status/1188749430020698112
163
49
Ask HN: Do you know any good audio books for developers?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21851207
160
85
Google forbids login with niche Linux browsers
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/12/couldnt-sign-you-in-google-browser-error-linux
154
14
Neural Network
http://nxxcxx.github.io/Neural-Network/
150
33
NeurIPS 2019 Notes [pdf]
https://david-abel.github.io/notes/neurips_2019.pdf
149
81
The Art of Dying
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/12/23/the-art-of-dying
134
152
A Lonely Plea: ‘Anybody Need a Grandma for Christmas?’
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/19/us/grandma-for-christmas.html
26
Normal 1: what normal maps are and how they work
https://www.artstation.com/typhen/blog/GMyG/this-is-normal-1-what-normal-maps-are-and-how-they-work
123
The Cycle from ‘Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance’ Comes to Smithsonian
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/cycle-zen-art-and-motorcycle-maintenance-comes-smithsonian-180973836/
60
Hedge funds listened to Bank of England briefings a few seconds earlier
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/dec/19/hedge-funds-hacked-into-bank-of-england-briefings
122
28
Randy Suess, computer bulletin board inventor, has died
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/20/technology/randy-suess-dead.html
119
58
Moonjit – Fork of LuaJIT to Continue Development
https://github.com/moonjit/moonjit
118
92
Citymapper
https://citymapper.com
116
Porting a JavaScript App to WebAssembly with Rust (Part 1)
https://slowtec.de/posts/2019-12-20-porting-javascript-to-rust-part-1.html
115
18
Squashed Bugs, with Failure Rate Heatmaps
https://pingcap.com/blog/squashed-bugs-served-hot-and-fresh-with-failure-rate-heatmaps/
112
40
Smartphones and the location data marketplace
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/20/opinion/location-tracking-smartphone-marketing.html
99
45
Linux is now a viable OS for PC gamers, thanks to Steam's Proton initiative
https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming-linux-has-come-long-way
22
LavaPS: Top, Implemented as a Lava Lamp (1995)
https://www.isi.edu/~johnh/SOFTWARE/LAVAPS/
95
Betelgeuse Fades More
https://astroblogger.blogspot.com/2019/12/betelgeuse-fades-more.html
90
48
The First Credit Card Ever (2016)
https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2016/04/day-cash-died/
89
126
Tech companies will post incoherent ads for open positions in tiny local papers
https://twitter.com/sweis/status/1208253229617709056
87
65
Does simultaneous multithreading still make sense?
https://www.codeblueprint.co.uk/2019/11/05/does-smt-make-sense.html
54
Creating Online Environments That Work Well for Older Users
https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2019/11/online-environments-older-users/
80
3
Understanding Machine Learning: From Theory to Algorithms (Downloadable Book)
https://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~shais/UnderstandingMachineLearning/
79
11
Building a parachute is boggling
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2019-12-19/boeing-spacex-spacecraft-parachutes
Randy Suess, computer bulletin board inventor, has died