442
689
Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22174828
6 years ago
419
61
Microsoft Application Inspector
https://github.com/Microsoft/ApplicationInspector
376
256
Ask HN: What are some interesting projects to reuse your old devices?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22167121
334
276
My 2020 Hackintosh Hardware Spec
https://infinitediaries.net/my-2020-hackintosh-hardware-spec/
313
227
U.S. files lawsuits over robocall scams
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-robocalls-fraud/u-s-files-lawsuits-over-robocall-scams-cites-massive-financial-losses-idUSKBN1ZR2SM
307
323
How Popular Is “Sign in with Apple”?
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2020/01/28/sign-in-with-apple-popularity
298
158
Thunderbird’s New Home
https://blog.thunderbird.net/2020/01/thunderbirds-new-home/
Trapped in Iran: My Summer as a Guest of the Revolutionary Guards
https://www.1843magazine.com/features/trapped-in-iran
286
243
Apple Reports Record First Quarter Results
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/01/apple-reports-record-first-quarter-results/
278
150
Ted versus The Media Lab [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qH4Kr3Gsadc
271
116
Anatomy of a Scam
https://jacquesmattheij.com/anatomy-of-a-scam/
267
139
Coronavirus Real Time Map
https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6
259
183
The Effect of Cold Showering on Health and Work (2016)
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0161749
250
17
Show HN: Thinc, a new deep learning library by the makers of spaCy and FastAPI
https://thinc.ai/
244
151
The Pacific Ocean is so acidic that it's dissolving Dungeness crabs' shells
https://www.fox5vegas.com/news/us_world_news/the-pacific-ocean-is-so-acidic-that-it-s-dissolving/article_fd95d429-a451-5cf8-832d-9bb41046f5c8.html
238
145
Single dose of psilocybin eased cancer patients' anxiety, depression for years
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/mental-health/single-dose-psychedelic-drug-eased-cancer-patients-anxiety-depression-years-n1123451
236
187
Medallion Fund “Stretches Explanation to the Limit,” Professor Claims
https://www.institutionalinvestor.com/article/b1k2fymby99nj0/Famed-Medallion-Fund-Stretches-Explanation-to-the-Limit-Professor-Claims
196
195
First Maine inmate enrolled in graduate school conducts research in prison
https://portlandphoenix.me/degree-of-difficulty/
190
21
Ring doorbell 'gives Facebook and Google user data'
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-51281476
185
63
Launch HN: Deviceplane (YC W20) – Update and Manage Devices Running Linux
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22171446
182
59
Jupyter notebooks in the IDE: VS Code vs. PyCharm
https://towardsdatascience.com/jupyter-notebooks-in-the-ide-visual-studio-code-versus-pycharm-5e72218eb3e8
177
104
Towards a conversational agent that can chat about anything
https://ai.googleblog.com/2020/01/towards-conversational-agent-that-can.html
172
41
Hachikō
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hachikō
169
93
Why We Terminated Our Partnership with Microsoft
http://paulstovell.com/blog/re-next-decade-of-open-source
88
Sci-Hub users cost ASA journals thousands of downloads
https://familyinequality.wordpress.com/2020/01/15/sci-hub-users-cost-asa-journals-hundreds-of-thousands-of-downloads-and-thats-ok/
168
108
Ask HN: What's your cross-platform PDF / ePub reading workflow?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22170395
163
209
U.S. wants the EU to accept chemical-washed chicken as part of trade deal
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2020-01-27/chicken-chemicals-eu-trade
222
Rocket League left behind on macOS and Linux due to DirectX 11 shift
https://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/357261/Rocket_League_left_behind_on_macOS_and_Linux_due_to_DirectX_11_shift.php
65
Hundreds of workers defy Amazon rules to protest company's climate failures
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/jan/27/amazon-workers-climate-protest
138
69
How the stress of fight or flight turns hair white
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03949-8
136
55
Clearview AI is struggling to address complaints as its legal issues mount
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/clearview-ai-cops-run-wild-facial-recognition-lawsuits
119
Microsoft urged: Open-source Windows 7 to 'undo past wrongs'
https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-urged-open-source-windows-7-to-undo-past-wrongs/
134
71
Sanitation conquered disease long before vaccines or antibiotics
https://rootsofprogress.org/draining-the-swamp
132
85
Wc in D: 712 Characters Without a Single Branch
https://dlang.org/blog/2020/01/28/wc-in-d-712-characters-without-a-single-branch/
130
121
A 96 Bitcoin ransom payment ends up on Bitfinex
http://jpkoning.blogspot.com/2020/01/what-happens-when-96-bitcoin-ransom.html
129
33
Automating receipt processing with deep learning
https://nanonets.com/blog/receipt-ocr/
123
The Fed Has Bought 70% of Net Treasury Issuance Since October
https://thesoundingline.com/the-fed-has-bought-70-of-net-treasury-issuance-since-october/
122
Teens don't have a clue about IT? (2016)
https://blog.mysunland.org/index.php/posts/teens-dont-have-a-clue-about-it
118
44
How the Father of Claymation Lost His Company (2014)
https://priceonomics.com/how-the-father-of-claymation-lost-his-company/
111
22
Replicache: Easy Offline-First for Existing Applications
https://replicache.dev/
8
The tools and tricks that let Ars Technica function without a physical office
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/01/no-office-no-problem-how-ars-technicas-remote-workers-work/
110
Poverty hurts children in ways we're beginning to understand
https://lithub.com/poverty-hurts-children-in-ways-were-just-beginning-to-understand/
106
Show HN: HN Theater – Talks and Videos of Hacker News
https://yahnd.com/theater/
103
American fuzzy lop – a security-oriented fuzzer
http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/
102
23
Show HN: Debugger that generates video visualizations for algorithm learning
https://github.com/CCExtractor/vardbg
94
83
LPE and RCE in OpenBSD OpenSMTPD
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/01/28/3
91
31
Coq is a Lean Typechecker
https://coq.discourse.group/t/alpha-announcement-coq-is-a-lean-typechecker/581
86
14
Machine Unlearning
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.03817
84
Experts Warn of Possible Sustained Global Spread of New Coronavirus
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/experts-warn-of-possible-sustained-global-spread-of-new-coronavirus/
82
47
Distributed SQL vs. NewSQL
https://blog.yugabyte.com/distributedsql-vs-newsql/
75
45
The greatest migration: the history and mystery of Polynesian navigation (2019)
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2019/03/harvard-reviews-thompson-explores-the-history-and-mystery-of-polynesian-navigation/
68
54
Green Wave
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_wave
27
Climate Target Update Tracker
https://climateactiontracker.org/
66
115
Deep Decarbonization: A Realistic Way Forward on Climate Change
https://e360.yale.edu/features/deep-decarbonization-a-realistic-way-forward-on-climate-change
62
Huawei set for limited role in UK 5G networks
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-51283059
15
My butthole has been a location on Facebook since 2012 – I can’t get it removed
https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/ev28pn/my_butthole_has_been_a_location_on_facebook_since/
Single dose of psilocybin eased cancer patients' anxiety, depression for years
