908
437
Ask HN: A New Decade. Any Predictions? (2010)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1025681
6 years ago
864
505
Oslo had 0 pedestrian, 0 cyclist, 0 children and 1 driver trafic deaths in 2019
https://twitter.com/andershartmann/status/1212465415743512576
815
297
I Was Google’s Head of International Relations
https://medium.com/@rossformaine/i-was-googles-head-of-international-relations-here-s-why-i-left-49313d23065
1096
Ask HN: A New Decade. Any Predictions?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21941278
704
125
The Polygons of Another World
http://fabiensanglard.net/another_world_polygons/index.html
587
237
Apache Pulsar is an open-source distributed pub-sub messaging system
https://pulsar.apache.org/
447
223
Psilocybin found safe for consumption in largest ever controlled study
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/magic-mushroom-depression-psilocybin-trials-kcl-mental-health-addiction-a9251451.html
403
694
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2020)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21936440
398
327
Authoritarian nations are turning the internet into a weapon
https://onezero.medium.com/authoritarian-nations-are-turning-the-internet-into-a-weapon-10119d4e9992
382
349
Google veterans: The company has become ‘unrecognizable’
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/31/google-veterans-the-company-has-become-unrecognizable.html
376
115
Any way to find a lost Kindle inside a house?
https://ebooks.stackexchange.com/questions/7357/any-way-to-find-a-lost-kindle-inside-a-house
371
93
Six works of Computer Science-Fiction (2015)
http://blog.fogus.me/2015/04/27/six-works-of-computer-science-fiction/
296
One-quarter of the world’s pigs died in a year due to swine fever in China
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/01/opinion/china-swine-fever.html
343
102
Just Build the Product
https://davidnicholaswilliams.com/just-build-the-product/
334
164
Programming Language Checklist
https://famicol.in/language_checklist.html
331
261
BusKill: A kill cord for your laptop
https://tech.michaelaltfield.net/2020/01/02/buskill-laptop-kill-cord-dead-man-switch/
308
47
Show HN: A beetle generator made by machine-learning zoological illustrations
https://www.cunicode.com/works/confusing-coleopterists/#StyleGAN
286
132
How strong is your knot?
http://news.mit.edu/2020/model-how-strong-knot-0102
270
85
Recover HD Using a Magnet
http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/recover-hd/text.html
255
201
On Privacy versus Freedom
https://matrix.org/blog/2020/02/01/on-privacy-versus-freedom/
248
95
How Canada's military reacted to seeing Pokemon Go players trespassing
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/pokemon-canada-military-bases-1.5393774
234
49
Xiaomi camera playing on Google home hub sends stills from other people's homes
https://www.reddit.com/r/googlehome/comments/eine1m/when_i_load_the_xiaomi_camera_in_my_google_home/
222
106
RQ – Simple Job Queues for Python
https://github.com/rq/rq
205
30
Elasticsearch from the Bottom Up (2013)
https://www.elastic.co/blog/found-elasticsearch-from-the-bottom-up
198
71
Performance Testing HTTP/1.1 vs. HTTP/2 vs. HTTP/2 and Server Push for REST APIs
https://evertpot.com/h2-parallelism/
196
69
Exploiting Wi-Fi Stack on Tesla Model S
https://keenlab.tencent.com/en/2020/01/02/exploiting-wifi-stack-on-tesla-model-s/
194
232
Hospitals mergers do not improve quality: study
https://www.wsj.com/articles/hospitals-merged-quality-didnt-improve-11577916000
192
212
C++ Pattern Matching Proposal [pdf]
http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2019/p1371r1.pdf
189
227
Interpol issues 'red notice' for Carlos Ghosn's arrest
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-50972149
187
116
How the Digg team was acquihired
https://lethain.com//digg-acquihire/
183
148
Dad takes son to Mongolia to get him off his phone
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50830944
166
Philosophy as a public service
http://nautil.us/issue/79/catalysts/philosophy-is-a-public-service
159
Cerebras’s giant chip will smash deep learning’s speed barrier
https://spectrum.ieee.org/semiconductors/processors/cerebrass-giant-chip-will-smash-deep-learnings-speed-barrier
155
180
Ask HN: How do you protect your parents from tech scammers?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21934736
151
202
Wildfires Are Raging Outside Every Major City in Australia
https://time.com/5753584/bushfires-australia-catastrophic-fire-alert/
143
29
Serving Dynamic Vector Tiles from PostGIS
https://info.crunchydata.com/blog/dynamic-vector-tiles-from-postgis
139
168
Apple is suing iOS virtualization vendor Corellium for violating DMCA
https://www.ifixit.com/News/apple-is-bullying-a-security-company-with-a-dangerous-dmca-lawsuit
138
11
Things and Stuff of 2019
http://blog.fogus.me/2019/12/30/the-best-things-and-stuff-of-2019/
72
Signal Creator on Considerations for distributed and decentralized technologies
https://peertube.co.uk/videos/watch/12be5396-2a25-4ec8-a92a-674b1cb6b270
129
41
A tiny RISC-V MCU board selling for $3
https://www.cnx-software.com/2020/01/02/polos-gd32v-alef-tiny-risc-v-mcu-board/
126
86
Show HN: An infinitely nested task manager where progress bubbles up to the top
https://discotask.com
122
84
Predicting where AI is going in 2020
https://venturebeat.com/2020/01/02/top-minds-in-machine-learning-predict-where-ai-is-going-in-2020/
135
A single character code change
https://blog.pitest.org/how-i-once-saved-half-a-million-dollars-with-a-single-character-code-change/
114
80
Finnish PM Marin calls for 4-day-week and 6-hours working day in the country
https://www.neweurope.eu/article/finnish-pm-marin-calls-for-4-day-week-and-6-hours-working-day-in-the-country/
109
34
A 160k-year-old jaw in a Tibetan cave might explain high altitude living
https://www.businessinsider.com/160000-year-old-jaw-from-human-ancestor-in-tibet-cave-2019-5
103
43
WebAssembly is easy – a hello world example
https://fodor.org/blog/webassembly-hello-world/
35
How to Make a Secret Phone Call (2015)
https://www.fastcompany.com/3044637/secret-phone-network
97
87
Amazon threatened to fire employees for speaking out on climate, workers say
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/jan/02/amazon-threatened-fire-employees-speaking-out-climate-change-workers-say
Oslo had 0 pedestrian, 0 cyclist, 0 children and 1 driver trafic deaths in 2019