1448
287
Broot – A new way to see and navigate directory trees
https://dystroy.org/broot/
6 years ago
672
415
BeOS: The Alternate Universe's Mac OS X
https://hackaday.com/2020/01/09/beos-the-alternate-universes-mac-os-x/
572
555
Linus: Don't Use ZFS
https://www.realworldtech.com/forum/?threadid=189711&curpostid=189841
463
115
Httpx: A next-generation HTTP client for Python
https://www.python-httpx.org/
447
372
Gandi loses data, customers told to use their own backups
https://status.gandi.net/timeline/events/2109
418
106
Algorithm Removes Water from Underwater Images
https://www.scientificamerican.com/video/seeing-through-the-sea/
74
Gary Starkweather died on December 26, 2019
https://www.greenm3.com/gdcblog/2020/1/6/gary-starkweather-passed-away-dec-26-2019-inventor-problem-solver-who-persevered-mentor-for-the-next-generation
414
82
After 36 years as a paid product, the Micro-Cap Circuit Simulator is now free
http://www.spectrum-soft.com/download/download.shtm
400
164
Why are some things darker when wet?
https://aryankashyap.com/why-are-some-things-darker-when-wet
377
193
The MTA is going after an Etsy artist over a New York subway map it didn’t make
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qjd8j3/the-mta-is-going-after-an-etsy-artist-over-a-new-york-subway-map-it-didnt-make
353
409
Judge orders Google to turn over a full year of actor’s data
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/criminal-justice/ct-jussie-smollett-special-prosecutor-investigation-20200108-j3j3p2dypvf5vbbo5jpxrvcjsq-story.html
348
186
Managing my personal knowledge base
https://tkainrad.dev/posts/managing-my-personal-knowledge-base/
312
The Strange Saga of Kowloon Walled City
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/kowloon-walled-city
311
42
Hacker News Classics (2018)
http://jsomers.net/hn
288
104
The BLAKE3 cryptographic hash function
https://github.com/BLAKE3-team/BLAKE3
285
71
Remote iPhone exploitation part 2: a remote ASLR bypass
https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2020/01/remote-iphone-exploitation-part-2.html
278
296
U.S. alcohol-related deaths have doubled, study says
https://www.npr.org/2020/01/08/794772148/alcohol-related-deaths-have-doubled-study-says
251
256
Asimov’s Empire, Asimov’s Wall
https://www.publicbooks.org/asimovs-empire-asimovs-wall/
238
337
Lime shuts in 12 markets, lays off around 100
https://www.axios.com/e-scooter-startup-lime-shuts-in-12-markets-lays-off-around-100-d25d44e4-c0f1-4713-9a89-868f4da40e03.html
233
147
Facebook forcing moderators to log every second of day
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/z3beea/facebook-moderators-lawsuit-ptsd-trauma-tracking-bathroom-breaks
230
75
An idea from physics helps AI see in higher dimensions
https://www.quantamagazine.org/an-idea-from-physics-helps-ai-see-in-higher-dimensions-20200109/
225
346
Things that I think will be important in the next decade
https://www.facebook.com/4/posts/10111311886191191/
216
135
Ring fired employees for watching customer videos
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/y3mdvk/ring-fired-employees-abusing-video-data
209
143
Decreasing human body temperature in the U.S. since the industrial revolution
https://elifesciences.org/articles/49555
203
23
Talk write-up: How to build a PaaS for 1500 engineers
https://srvaroa.github.io/paas/infrastructure/platform/kubernetes/cloud/2020/01/02/talk-how-to-build-a-paas-for-1500-engineers.html
201
Size of node_modules folder when installing the top 100 packages
https://size-of-npm.netlify.com/
196
Fireflies (2017)
https://ncase.me/fireflies/
185
77
Show HN: Ryeboard – Visual Workspace
https://www.ryeboard.com/
184
37
A Croatian fisherman caught a new NASA device while fishing
http://alugy.com/europe/a-croatian-fisherman-caught-a-misterious-nasas-device-while-fishing/
35
Show HN: Lucidity – an interactive program-state visualizer
http://symbolflux.com/luciditystory.html
175
182
Work on these things
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/12/work-on-these-things.html
168
91
Accelerating Photosynthesis
http://rubyplants.com/
48
Installing air filters in classrooms has large educational benefits?
https://www.vox.com/2020/1/8/21051869/indoor-air-pollution-student-achievement
154
142
Nursing Homes in the US Overmedicate People with Dementia (2018)
https://www.hrw.org/report/2018/02/05/they-want-docile/how-nursing-homes-united-states-overmedicate-people-dementia
153
26
Peer-to-Peer Based Social Networks: A Comprehensive Survey
https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.02611
107
Scientists identify pathways that extend nematode worm lifespan fivefold
https://phys.org/news/2020-01-biological-scientists-pathways-lifespan.html
139
17
Scalene: a high-performance, high-precision CPU and memory profiler for Python
https://github.com/emeryberger/scalene
136
49
Bay Area Regional GTFS Feed: 31 transit agency feeds together in one API
https://www.interline.io/blog/mtc-regional-gtfs-feed-release/
121
137
Abandoned stores, empty homes: why San Francisco's boom looks like a crisis
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jan/09/san-francisco-gentrification-second-wave
120
Leaving Pittsburgh because of industrial air pollution
https://www.publicsource.org/when-better-isnt-good-enough-why-i-tell-my-google-co-workers-and-industry-peers-to-avoid-pittsburgh/
118
9
A Brief Guide to Startup Pivots
http://blog.eladgil.com/2019/05/a-brief-guide-to-startup-pivots-4-types.html
69
Open Source, SaaS and Monetization
https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2019/11/4/open-source-and-saas/
117
San Francisco has nearly five empty homes per homeless resident
https://sf.curbed.com/2019/12/3/20993251/san-francisco-bay-area-vacant-homes-per-homeless-count
29
Apple's auto layout and visual format language for JavaScript (2016)
http://ijzerenhein.github.io/autolayout.js/
33
Hummingbird – AirVPN's free and open source OpenVPN 3 client
https://gitlab.com/AirVPN/hummingbird/tree/master
109
The Oldschool PC Font Pack
https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/
28
Shifting Careers to Autonomous Vehicles
https://towardsdatascience.com/how-i-found-my-current-job-3fb22e511a1f
97
133
Announcing Updated Postman Plans and Pricing
https://blog.getpostman.com/2020/01/06/announcing-updated-postman-plans-and-pricing/
96
14
Google Research: Looking Back at 2019, and Forward to 2020 and Beyond
https://ai.googleblog.com/2020/01/google-research-looking-back-at-2019.html
95
Integrate PWAs into Native Sharing UIs with Workbox
https://web.dev/workbox-share-targets/
92
20
Show HN: Ilograph – interactive architecture diagrams as code
https://app.ilograph.com/demo.ilograph.Ilograph/Request
90
A review of the effects of installing air filters in classrooms
https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/01/09/no-i-dont-think-that-this-study-offers-good-evidence-that-installing-air-filters-in-classrooms-has-surprisingly-large-educational-benefits/
88
87
Ask HN: How many of you are rolling your own auth?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22001918
83
Show HN: Look Busy fills your work calendar with secretly fake events
https://lookbusy.app
Health and Wealth in the Roman Empire (2019)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1570677X18302600?via%3Dihub
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