775
75
UnDraw: Open-source illustrations for every project you can imagine and create
https://undraw.co/
6 years ago
716
193
Show HN: Angeldust – a fast and efficient video game
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21858226
643
85
Ask HN: Best Talks of 2019?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21858866
580
188
Autonomous DeLorean drives sideways to move forward
https://news.stanford.edu/2019/12/20/autonomous-delorean-drives-sideways-move-forward/
566
221
How Do Bullets Work in Video Games?
https://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/TristanJung/20191206/355250/How_Do_Bullets_Work_in_Video_Games.php
564
87
NSA's Backdoor Key from Lotus Notes (2002)
http://www.cypherspace.org/adam/hacks/lotus-nsa-key.html
535
500
Apple's products are getting harder to use, ignore principles of design (2015)
https://jnd.org/apples_products_are_getting_harder_to_use_because_they_ignore_principles_of_design/
406
97
Show HN: Local Node.js app to save everything you browse and serve it offline
https://github.com/dosyago/22120
365
185
Fashionable Problems
http://paulgraham.com/fp.html
294
183
People who tend to be optimistic are likelier to live to 85 or more: study
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/09/01/755185560/optimists-for-the-win-finding-the-bright-side-might-help-you-live-longer
237
168
Paid Cerberus 'lifetime' licenses are expiring
https://www.androidpolice.com/2019/12/21/cerberus-paid-lifetime-license-expiration/
236
42
Things everyone in ML should know about belief formation in humans [video]
https://slideslive.com/38921495/how-to-know
227
184
Booking.com agrees to EU demands to change travel offers
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-booking-hldg-eu/booking-com-agrees-to-change-way-it-presents-travel-offers-eu-idUSKBN1YO18C
217
40
Guerilla Gardening (2015)
http://www.guerrillagardening.org/
214
107
Microdosing LSD for Alzheimer’s proves safe in early human trial
https://newatlas.com/science/microdosing-lsd-alzheimers-phase1-trial-results-safety/
213
197
UFO: Pilot who spotted famous Tic Tac breaks silence after 15 years
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/12/tic-tac-ufo-video-q-and-a-with-navy-pilot-chad-underwood.html
208
55
Radeon Open Compute 3.0
https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/ROCm/tree/roc-3.0.0
198
105
Windows 10 Desktop: Physically building and photographing the logos (2015)
https://gmunk.com/Windows-10-Desktop/
192
New laser ultrasound technique can remotely image the inside of a person
https://news.mit.edu/2019/first-laser-ultrasound-images-humans-1219
186
93
What's Amazon's market share? 35% or 5%?
https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2019/12/amazons-market-share19
165
59
Gov.uk content should be published in HTML and not PDF (2018)
https://gds.blog.gov.uk/2018/07/16/why-gov-uk-content-should-be-published-in-html-and-not-pdf/
How Smartphones Betray Democracy
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/21/opinion/location-data-democracy-protests.html
158
22
Show HN: Linux driver for the Xbox One wireless dongle
https://github.com/medusalix/xow
150
162
China Is About to Fire Up Its HL-2M Tokamak
https://www.newsweek.com/china-about-fire-its-artificial-sun-quest-fusion-energy-1477705
149
115
French executives convicted in the suicides of 35 of their workers
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2019/12/20/three-french-executives-were-convicted-suicides-their-workers/
138
Maps Reveal the Hidden Structures of ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ Books (2017)
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/cyoa-choose-your-own-adventure-maps
135
210
We've Just Had the Best Decade in Human History
https://www.spectator.co.uk/2019/12/weve-just-had-the-best-decade-in-human-history-seriously/
129
Croydon Shut Down
https://www.networkrail.co.uk/running-the-railway/our-regions/southern/disruption-at-victoria-and-london-bridge/
125
24
Longest-Serving Professor at Cornell Reflects on Journey Through Academia
https://cornellsun.com/2019/12/09/60-years-later-longest-serving-professor-at-cornell-reflects-on-journey-through-academia/
124
92
Fact-check: Five claims about thorium made by Andrew Yang
https://thebulletin.org/2019/12/fact-check-five-claims-about-thorium-made-by-andrew-yang/#
123
35
Debugging a Live Saturn V
http://www.zamiang.com/post/debugging-a-live-saturn-v
21
LISP 1.5 Programmer's Manual (1962) [pdf]
http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/book/LISP%201.5%20Programmers%20Manual.pdf
117
38
JSON on the Command Line with Jq
https://shapeshed.com/jq-json/
114
Why Creativity Is a Numbers Game (2015)
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/beautiful-minds/why-creativity-is-a-numbers-game/
113
32
Can Programming Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style? (1977) [pdf]
https://www.thocp.net/biographies/papers/backus_turingaward_lecture.pdf
112
OpenBSD system-call-origin verification
https://lwn.net/Articles/806776/
109
34
Show HN: Timelite, a simple time tracking solution
https://github.com/overshard/timelite
108
27
A programming language based on the one-liners of Arnold Schwarzenegger
https://lhartikk.github.io/ArnoldC/
106
62
Predicting When P=NP Is Resolved
https://rjlipton.wordpress.com/2019/12/22/predicting-when-pnp-is-resolved/
104
12
Okay, Maybe Proofs Aren't Dying After All
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/okay-maybe-proofs-arent-dying-after-all/
98
23
Chinese Mass Surveillance – Snowden
https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1208469511051075585
144
Homelessness rises in U.S., driven by California housing crisis
https://www.axios.com/hud-homelessness-rises-in-us-driven-by-california-f231500a-2fee-4477-813e-e838923e0288.html
95
46
Vectorized execution brings a 10x performance increase for expression evaluation
https://pingcap.com/blog/10x-performance-improvement-for-expression-evaluation-made-possible-by-vectorized-execution/
17
MegaZeux: Game creation system released in 1994 and still being developed today
https://www.digitalmzx.com/
94
133
Climate change driving entire planet to dangerous 'global tipping point‘
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2019/11/earth-tipping-point/
30
A Bank Behind the Fintech Boom
https://www.forbes.com/sites/antoinegara/2019/12/17/the-forbes-investigation-inside-the-secret-bank-behind-the-fintech-boom/#e384e423c10c
90
45
What we know about you when you click on this article
https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/12/10/20962868/vox-media-privacy-policy-explained-what-we-know-about-you
89
73
Klong: a Simple Array Language
http://t3x.org/klong/
81
28
Gitlab 12.6
https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2019/12/22/gitlab-12-6-released/
80
Ask HN: Best practices for hiring software contractors?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21858813
Apple's products are getting harder to use, ignore principles of design (2015)