692
90
Building a BitTorrent client from the ground up in Go
https://blog.jse.li/posts/torrent/
6 years ago
595
211
U.S. government limits exports of artificial intelligence software
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-artificial-intelligence/u-s-government-limits-exports-of-artificial-intelligence-software-idUSKBN1Z21PT
553
391
Ask HN: Are books worth it?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21955258
460
149
Lessons from six years as a solo consultant
https://www.embeddeduse.com/2019/06/26/lessons-from-six-years-as-a-solo-consultant/
422
260
A serverless email server on AWS using S3 and SES
https://github.com/0x4447/0x4447_product_s3_email
★ 3k MIT– 6 years ago
414
63
Notes on Technical Writing
https://mkaz.blog/misc/notes-on-technical-writing/
373
145
Mutexes are faster than Spinlocks
https://matklad.github.io/2020/01/04/mutexes-are-faster-than-spinlocks.html
351
193
Why are we using black box models in AI when we don’t need to? (2019)
https://hdsr.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/f9kuryi8
308
200
Machine learning is fundamentally conservative
http://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/provocations/neophobic-conservative-ai-overlords-want-everything-stay/
251
47
Show HN: Pure C WebRTC implementation for embedded devices
https://github.com/awslabs/amazon-kinesis-video-streams-webrtc-sdk-c
★ 1.1k C Apache-2.0– 6 years ago
247
342
Black boys don’t need more discipline, they need mentors (2018)
https://educationpost.org/black-boys-dont-need-more-discipline-they-need-mentors/
168
How the CIA Overthrew Iran's Democracy in Four Days in 1953 (2019)
https://www.npr.org/2019/01/31/690363402/how-the-cia-overthrew-irans-democracy-in-four-days
240
113
The Most Abandoned Books on GoodReads (2019)
https://www.gwern.net/GoodReads
232
65
End-to-end double-ratchet encryption with epoch key exchange
https://patentswarm.com/patents/US10412063B1
223
78
Promiscuous cookies and their impending death via the SameSite policy
https://www.troyhunt.com/promiscuous-cookies-and-their-impending-death-via-the-samesite-policy/
212
133
Hello World
https://drewdevault.com/2020/01/04/Slow.html
204
41
Wanggongchang Explosion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanggongchang_Explosion
187
19
Scripting tmux
https://www.arp242.net/tmux.html
176
122
Porn site to pay $12.7M to women who didn't know videos would be posted
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jan/03/girlsdoporn-site-pay-127m-women-didnt-know-videos-posted
172
18
Show HN: Self-Published Book – “Data Science in Production”
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21955527
170
59
Open-Source Engine for Heroes of Might and Magic 3
https://github.com/vcmi/vcmi
★ 5.6k C++ GPL-2.0– 6 years ago
169
Getting a 787 back in the air after a diversion
https://www.flightradar24.com/blog/a-quick-fix-getting-a-787-back-in-the-air-after-a-diversion/
166
Climate change now detectable from any single day of weather at global scale
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-019-0666-7
161
119
Why “Move Fast and Break Things” Doesn’t Work Anymore
https://hbr.org/2019/12/why-move-fast-and-break-things-doesnt-work-anymore
160
37
JobFunnel, a job website search aggregator
https://github.com/PaulMcInnis/JobFunnel
★ 2.1k Python MIT– 6 years ago
98
Ignore Sunk Costs (2009)
https://seths.blog/2009/05/ignore-sunk-costs/
142
89
Vim9: An experimental fork of Vim to explore making Vim script faster and better
https://github.com/brammool/vim9/blob/master/README.md
★ 514 Vim script Vim– 6 years ago
136
60
Stripe Atlas Vendor Leaked SSNs
https://twitter.com/kwuchu/status/1213306146225823749
125
7
Ben Carlin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Carlin
121
102
Heliogen, backed by Gates, says it has achieved a solar breakthrough
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/11/19/business/heliogen-solar-energy-bill-gates/index.html
118
56
Webfs: A Filesystem Built on Top of the Web
https://github.com/brendoncarroll/webfs
★ 339 Go GPL-3.0– 6 years ago
117
71
Fresh Cambridge Analytica leak ‘shows global manipulation is out of control’
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/jan/04/cambridge-analytica-data-leak-global-election-manipulation
115
6
An instant classic about learning ancient Greek
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/comma-queen/an-instant-classic-about-learning-ancient-greek
9
Reflections on Teaching Wargame Design
https://warontherocks.com/2020/01/reflections-on-teaching-wargame-design/
4
Mini HTTP Guide for Developers
https://charemza.name/blog/posts/abstractions/http/http-guide-for-developers/
103
35
The Eccentric Father of the Atomic Bomb, J. Robert Oppenheimer (2019)
https://medium.com/cantors-paradise/the-ingenious-eccentric-father-of-the-atomic-bomb-ba012f620454
31
The Astonishing Prescience of Nam June Paik
https://zwischenzugs.com/2020/01/04/the-astonishing-prescience-of-nam-june-paik/
100
44
Unremarkables
https://www.profgalloway.com/unremarkables
96
10
Locks, Mutexes, and Semaphores: Types of Synchronization Objects (2014)
https://www.justsoftwaresolutions.co.uk/threading/locks-mutexes-semaphores.html
95
College as an incubator of Girardian terror
https://danwang.co/college-girardian-terror/
Show HN: Set with Friends – A Real-Time multiplayer online card game
https://setwithfriends.com/
94
MS OS/2 SDK Document Dump
http://www.os2museum.com/wp/ms-os-2-sdk-document-dump/
83
21
Native Applications with Racket
https://defn.io/2020/01/04/remember-internals/
12
Ian Stewart's top popular mathematics books (2012)
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/jan/18/ian-stewart-top-10-popular-mathematics