863
180
What: A terminal tool to check what is taking up your bandwidth
https://github.com/imsnif/what
6 years ago
633
382
How an Alzheimer’s ‘cabal’ thwarted progress toward a cure
https://www.statnews.com/2019/06/25/alzheimers-cabal-thwarted-progress-toward-cure/
626
243
Fake “like” factories – how we reverse engineered facebooks user IDs [video]
https://media.ccc.de/v/36c3-10936-inside_the_fake_like_factories
585
328
What Is the Most Valuable Thing You Can Learn in One Hour?
https://quanticdev.com/articles/most-valuable-thing-to-learn-in-one-hour
568
312
Switching from Chrome to Firefox
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/switching-chrome-firefox
436
295
The Linux codebase has over 3k TODO comments, many from over a decade ago
https://todos.tickgit.com/browse?repo=https://github.com/torvalds/linux
355
145
ProtonMail takes aim at Google with an encrypted calendar
https://venturebeat.com/2019/12/30/protonmail-takes-aim-at-google-with-an-encrypted-calendar/
256
18
RIP Syd Mead (Blade Runner, TRON Designer)
http://sydmead.com/gallery/
221
92
Pedestrian routing that offers pleasant alternatives to the shortest route
https://www.gislounge.com/finding-pleasant-routes-using-gis/
219
202
Boeing 737 Max: Automated Crashes [video]
https://media.ccc.de/v/36c3-10961-boeing_737max_automated_crashes
33
KafkaHQ
https://github.com/tchiotludo/kafkahq
203
139
Why introductory chemistry is boring: a long-term historical perspective
https://get21stnight.com/2019/12/27/why-introductory-chemistry-is-boring-a-long-term-historical-perspective/
199
20
Meet Dash O’Pepper
https://filipeherculano.dev/blog/dash-o-pepper/
190
116
Breast cancer detection in mammography using deep learning approach
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.11027
182
98
Too Much Crypto [pdf]
https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/1492.pdf
19
CPU Introspection: Intel Load Port Snooping
https://gamozolabs.github.io/metrology/2019/12/30/load-port-monitor.html
177
91
Ask HN: Ex-Employer gossiping I “hacked” their platform – what to do?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21913383
174
102
What were the creepiest declassified documents of the last decade?
https://old.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/ehhftl/serious_what_were_the_creepiest_declassified
172
61
Changes to accessing and using Geolite2 databases
https://blog.maxmind.com/2019/12/18/significant-changes-to-accessing-and-using-geolite2-databases/
167
125
How a preventable disaster killed six marines
https://www.propublica.org/article/marines-hornet-squadron-242-crash-pacific-resilard
165
188
Incident: Wizz Air and Air Europa Planes in Near Collision over Spain
https://avherald.com/h?article=4c2b4349
158
178
German expressions that don’t exist in English
https://leowid.com/the-power-of-naming-what-we-feel-10-german-expressions-that-dont-exist-in-english-and-their-wisdom/
157
1
ProtonCalendar beta
https://protonmail.com/blog/protoncalendar-security-model/
156
93
Using an /e/ phone as a desktop or laptop
https://www.nexedi.com/NXD-Document.Blog.E.Phone.As.Desktop
148
80
No, that dot in the domain name of the URL is not a mistake (2004)
http://jdebp.info./FGA/web-fully-qualified-domain-name.html
143
Publish – A static site generator for Swift developers
https://github.com/johnsundell/publish
138
159
I’m on Medicare, but I still got stuck with a $25k hospital bill
https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2019/dec/27/andrew-taylor-im-on-medicare-but-i-still-got-stuck/
135
54
Japanese ink supplier Seiko Advance produces colors for Apple’s iPhones
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Technology/Apple-ink-supplier-in-Japan-makes-mark-with-iPhone-11-Pro-colors
134
36
KernType – A Kerning Game
http://type.method.ac/#
133
The Joys of Unix Keyboards
https://donatstudios.com/UNIX-Keyboards
132
45
Generalized Knights
https://lemoing.ca/blog/knight.html
131
34
US atomic waste dump in Marshall Islands to be investigated
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50951981
122
Piet, a programming language in which programs look like abstract paintings
https://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/piet.html
118
44
On Technical Writing
https://arturdryomov.dev/posts/on-technical-writing/
117
26
Show HN: Rewtro plays tiny videogames encoded in origami GameBoy cartridges
https://github.com/kesiev/rewtro
115
46
Show HN: MassCode – a code snippets manager for developers
https://github.com/antonreshetov/massCode
114
22
New Material to Make Lithium Ion Batteries Self-Healing and Easily Recyclable
https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/new-material-makes-lithium-ion-batteries-self-healing-and-recyclable/
109
144
Ask HN: What did you build in 2019?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21914185
12
Show HN: Art Resources and Tutorials Website
https://artres.xyz
108
28
One Year After ‘The Big Hack’
https://pxlnv.com/blog/one-year-after-big-hack/
107
Mathematics and Computation
https://www.math.ias.edu/avi/book
103
126
Zwitterion: a web dev server that lets you import anything
https://github.com/lastmjs/zwitterion
97
105
Chinese scientist who edited twin babies' genes jailed for 3 years
https://lite.cnn.io/en/article/h_a23f39996d9c239544ae6130989a63f1
The Fallacy of Premature Optimization (2009)
https://ubiquity.acm.org/article.cfm?id=1513451
50
Verdigris: Qt Without Moc
https://woboq.com/blog/verdigris-qt-without-moc.html
90
The Rise of the Architectural Cult
https://inference-review.com/article/the-rise-of-the-architectural-cult
88
120
Ask HN: Do you still use RSS?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21913598
86
66
Semigroup Resonance FizzBuzz
https://blog.ploeh.dk/2019/12/30/semigroup-resonance-fizzbuzz/
85
10
Retro68 – a GCC-based cross-compiler for classic 68K and PPC Macintoshes
https://github.com/autc04/Retro68
82
Show HN: dlinject.py – Inject a .so into a running Linux process, without ptrace
https://github.com/DavidBuchanan314/dlinject
From the Big Short to Normal People: Books That Defined the Decade
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/dec/26/from-the-big-short-to-normal-people-the-books-that-defined-the-decade
17
A City Is Not a Tree (1965)
https://www.patternlanguage.com/archive/cityisnotatree.html
77
163
Our Tesla Model 3 Suffered a Failure While Parked
https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a30361800/tesla-model-3-long-term-failure-stranded-while-parked/
74
Research Papers That Caught the Public's Attention in 2019
https://www.altmetric.com/top100/2019
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