2595
397
My Business Card Runs Linux
https://www.thirtythreeforty.net/posts/2019/12/my-business-card-runs-linux/
6 years ago
506
172
Minimalism – An undervalued development skill
https://volument.com/blog/minimalism-the-most-undervalued-development-skill
406
50
Show HN: Gameslab, a FPGA powered handheld game console
https://craigjb.com/2019/11/26/gameslab-overview/
403
129
Category Theory for Programmers (2014) [pdf]
https://github.com/hmemcpy/milewski-ctfp-pdf/
341
120
Darktable 3.0
https://www.darktable.org/2019/12/darktable-300-released/
327
187
An IT migration corrupted 1.3B customer records
https://increment.com/testing/what-broke-the-bank/
326
152
Ask HN: What do top engineers you know do that others don't?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21870889
324
132
French cities trying to ban public adverts
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/dec/23/advertising-breaks-your-spirit-the-french-cities-trying-to-ban-public-adverts
301
125
A Twitter app bug was used to match 17M phone numbers to user accounts
https://techcrunch.com/2019/12/24/twitter-android-bug-phone-numbers/
293
51
LaTeX, Instantly: Extract LaTeX from PDFs or Handwritten Notes
https://mathpix.com/
289
98
What it's like to bootstrap a business before it can financially support you
https://www.indiehackers.com/post/whats-it-like-to-bootstrap-a-business-before-it-can-financially-support-you-3472417e29
272
53
Chuck Peddle Dies at 82; His $25 Chip Helped Start the PC Age
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/24/technology/chuck-peddle-dead.html
244
131
Cheating in Programming
https://twitter.com/ben_burnes/status/1178676970609139712
229
210
Protobuffers Are Wrong
http://reasonablypolymorphic.com/blog/protos-are-wrong/index.html
226
25
A Breakthrough in Graph Theory [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tnu_Ws7Llo4
218
1
Tell HN: Merry Christmas
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21873889
212
Hyperscan: High-performance multiple regex matching library from Intel
https://www.hyperscan.io
198
209
Do Not Trust Journalists – A Mormon Example
http://scholars-stage.blogspot.com/2019/12/do-not-trust-journalists-mormon-example.html?m=1
189
30
The man who made Wolfenstein
https://www.polygon.com/features/2019/12/24/21029936/castle-wolfenstein-silas-warner
134
Russia 'successfully tests' its unplugged internet
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-50902496
183
Uber Founder Travis Kalanick Is Leaving the Company’s Board of Directors
https://techcrunch.com/2019/12/24/uber-founder-travis-kalanick-is-leaving-the-companys-board-of-directors/
181
92
How the U.S. betrayed the Marshall Islands, kindling the next nuclear disaster
https://www.latimes.com/projects/marshall-islands-nuclear-testing-sea-level-rise/
175
178
Java JIT vs. Java AOT vs. Go for Small, Short-Lived Processes
http://macias.info/entry/201912201300_graal_aot.md
151
40
What I've learned sending proposals to conferences
https://drobinin.com/posts/what-ive-learned-after-sending-147-proposals-to-36-conferences-in-a-year/
144
149
I don’t know if whoever flagged the typos in my eBook thought they were helping
https://twitter.com/ursulav/status/1209518819397505024
17
Crispr-Resistant Viruses Build ‘Safe Rooms’ to Shield Genomes from Enzymes
https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2019/12/416116/crispr-resistant-viruses-build-safe-rooms-shield-genomes-dna-dicing-enzymes
130
22
How to Ruin a Company with One Bad Process (2014)
https://a16z.com/2014/07/22/how-to-ruin-your-company-with-one-bad-process/
63
The secret afterlife of lost German luggage
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/23/travel/germany-lost-luggage-auction.html
93
Father and Daughter Convicted for $100M Fraudulent Tax Refund Scheme
https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdfl/pr/fort-lauderdale-father-and-daughter-convicted-trial-involvement-100-million-fraudulent
97
Catching CO2 from trucks and reducing their emissions by 90%
https://nuadox.com/post/189850038527/co2-trucks-emission
84
Uniqlo robots pick up packaged T-shirts and put them in a box
https://www.ft.com/content/79434838-2142-11ea-b8a1-584213ee7b2b
116
45
Implementing WebGPU in Gecko
http://kvark.github.io/web/gpu/gecko/2019/12/10/gecko-webgpu.html
115
70
In glyphosate review, WHO agency edited out “non-carcinogenic” findings (2017)
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/who-iarc-glyphosate/
114
35
Show HN: Linkding, a self-hostable bookmark service
https://github.com/sissbruecker/linkding
113
Social media bots often tweet fake health claims about cannabis: study
https://news.usc.edu/164317/cannabis-health-social-media-bots-fake-claims/
112
A collection of various lists for hackers, pentesters and security researchers
https://github.com/Hack-with-Github/Awesome-Hacking
110
103
Multilingual People Have Healthier, More Engaged Brains? (2016)
https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/46188/why-multilingual-people-have-healthier-more-engaged-brains
109
52
Hackers are breaking into websites and adding links to game Google
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/hackers-website-links-backlinks-seo-spam
Flight stats, entertainment, and trying to crack Widevine
https://blog.jonlu.ca/posts/aa-tracker
106
36
The investigation into ToTok
https://objective-see.com/blog/blog_0x52.html
16
Stock Option Pricing Inference
https://thomasvilhena.com/2019/12/stock-option-pricing-inference
102
76
Chinese restaurants are closing – many owners are glad
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/24/upshot/chinese-restaurants-closing-upward-mobility-second-generation.html
100
6
Flattening Quadratic Béziers
https://raphlinus.github.io/graphics/curves/2019/12/23/flatten-quadbez.html
223
Why It’s So Hard to Change People’s Commuting Behavior
https://hbr.org/2019/12/why-its-so-hard-to-change-peoples-commuting-behavior
47
Show HN: Kareer Day – Learn About Jobs by People Who've Done Them
https://www.kareerday.com
90
18
iNaturalist
https://www.inaturalist.org/
81
Escaping San Francisco
https://techpost.io/escaping-san-francisco/
A Stanford Professor Says Juul Stole Her Anti-Vaping PowerPoint Slides
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/stephaniemlee/stanford-juul-vaping-curriculum
Flight stats, entertainment, and trying to crack Widevine