766
250
Ask HN: Advice for a new and inexperienced tech lead?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22255301
6 years ago
727
455
Open-plan offices decrease face-to-face collaboration: study
https://www.inc.com/geoffrey-james/its-official-open-plan-offices-are-now-dumbest-management-fad-of-all-time.html
717
87
Reverse engineering my router's firmware with binwalk
https://embeddedbits.org/reverse-engineering-router-firmware-with-binwalk/
691
249
FLIF – Free Lossless Image Format
https://flif.info/
533
234
Turning Off Autoplaying Previews
https://help.netflix.com/en/node/2102
527
622
No engineer has ever sued because of constructive post-interview feedback
http://blog.interviewing.io/no-engineer-has-ever-sued-a-company-because-of-constructive-post-interview-feedback-so-why-dont-employers-do-it/
460
98
SEO case study: 8k to 200k monthly organic traffic
https://apollodigital.io/blog/seo-case-study
397
205
Apollo 11 Guidance Computer vs. USB-C Chargers
https://forrestheller.com/Apollo-11-Computer-vs-USB-C-chargers.html
388
56
TV Backlight Compensation
http://www.lofibucket.com/articles/tv_backlight_compensation.html
364
138
Zero-days in Cisco Discovery Protocol
https://www.armis.com/cdpwn/
358
384
Ask HN: How did you fix your narcissism?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22255268
337
387
Your New Medical Credit Score Could Deny You Care
https://thetoolsweneed.com/poorly-secured-medical-credit-score-could-deny-you-care/
322
72
CS246: Mining Massive Data Sets
http://web.stanford.edu/class/cs246/
309
137
Webcam, Lights, and Audio for Remote Work, Podcasting, Videos, and Streaming
https://mattstauffer.com/blog/setting-up-your-webcam-lights-and-audio-for-remote-work-podcasting-videos-and-streaming/
270
252
Children of immigrants have higher rates of upward mobility than US-born
https://www.nber.org/papers/w26408
253
220
Boeing identifies new software problem on grounded 737 Max
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-02-06/boeing-identifies-new-software-problem-on-grounded-737-max-jet
248
299
Angular 9.0
https://blog.angular.io/version-9-of-angular-now-available-project-ivy-has-arrived-23c97b63cfa3
239
93
The secret of academic success, or fun filled failure if you prefer
https://billwadge.wordpress.com/2020/02/06/the-secret-of-academic-success-or-fun-filled-failure-if-you-prefer
238
65
Babashka – A Clojure for the grey areas of Bash
https://github.com/borkdude/babashka
★ 4.4k Clojure EPL-1.0– 6 years ago
133
Improving my productivity as a working programmer (2017)
https://malisper.me/how-to-improve-your-productivity-as-a-working-programmer/
221
152
SpaceX will now let you book a rocket launch online starting at $1M
https://techcrunch.com/2020/02/05/spacex-will-now-let-you-book-a-rocket-launch-online-starting-at-1-million/
211
208
Alphabet earnings show Google Cloud on $10B run rate
https://techcrunch.com/2020/02/03/alphabet-earnings-show-google-cloud-on-10b-run-rate/
206
142
The limits of high-speed rail
https://mappingignorance.org/2020/01/22/the-limits-of-high-speed-rail/
198
42
SurfingAttack: attack on voice assistants using ultrasonic guided wave
https://surfingattack.github.io/
192
255
Kotlin becomes second most popular language on the JVM
https://snyk.io/blog/kotlin-overtakes-scala-and-clojure-to-become-the-2nd-most-popular-language-on-the-jvm/
176
23
Show HN: My Book, Hands-On Software Engineering with Golang
https://www.packtpub.com/gb/programming/hands-on-software-engineering-with-golang
172
103
Even with a $199 Laptop, Clear Linux Can Offer Superior Performance
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=clear-199-laptop
147
31
Lasers etch a 'perfect' solar energy absorber
https://www.rochester.edu/newscenter/lasers-etch-a-perfect-solar-energy-absorber-414902/
139
26
Inertial Locking Box (2013)
http://www.tessmyers.com/inertiabox.html
Database Lab – Full-size staging databases as a service
https://gitlab.com/postgres-ai/database-lab
★ 346 APACHE-2.0– 6 years ago
134
82
Apple’s independent repair program is invasive to shops and their customers
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qjdjnv/apples-independent-repair-program-is-invasive-to-shops-and-their-customers-contract-shows
132
71
Signs of cancer can appear long before diagnosis, study shows
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/feb/05/signs-of-cancer-can-appear-long-before-diagnosis-study-shows
130
140
Uber Announces Results for Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2019
https://investor.uber.com/news-events/news/press-release-details/2020/Uber-Announces-Results-for-Fourth-Quarter-and-Full-Year-2019/default.aspx
126
135
What’s New in Swift 5.2
https://www.hackingwithswift.com/articles/212/whats-new-in-swift-5-2
125
163
Ask HN: What are some example of low tech improving your life?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22256055
122
88
Whistleblower Dr. Li Wenliang confirmed dead of coronavirus at 34
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3049411/coronavirus-li-wenliang-doctor-who-alerted-authorities-outbreak
120
40
Before the DNS: how yours truly upstaged the NIC's official HOSTS.TXT (2004)
https://iconia.com/before_the_dns.txt
117
96
How to Escape from Immoral Mazes
https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2020/01/16/how-escape-from-immoral-mazes/
114
38
Don’t pin the butterfly: not all hobbies need to become hustles
https://nesslabs.com/hobbies-versus-hustles
113
Lumière’s Train in 4K
http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/57783
112
0
Mental health websites don't have to sell user data but most still do
https://privacyinternational.org/report/3351/mental-health-websites-dont-have-sell-your-data-most-still-do
108
118
Does Visual Studio Rot the Mind? (2005)
http://charlespetzold.com/etc/DoesVisualStudioRotTheMind.html
60
Starliner faced “catastrophic” failure before software bug found
https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/02/starliner-faced-catastrophic-failure-before-software-bug-found/
107
Toy commercials are being replaced by product placement and YouTube influencers
https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2020/02/how-toys-are-marketed-kids-without-cable-tv/605920/
62
Ancestry lays off 6% of staff
https://techcrunch.com/2020/02/05/ancestry-lays-off-6-of-staff-as-consumer-genetic-testing-market-continues-to-decline/
Undercover Cops Hired 118 Handymen, Then Arrested Them for Not Having Licenses
https://reason.com/2020/02/05/undercover-cops-hired-118-handymen-then-arrested-them-all-for-not-having-licenses/
128
Elon Musk: Tons of C++/C engineers needed
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1224182478501482497
99
When Your Used Car Is a Little Too ‘Mobile’
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/02/when-your-used-car-is-a-little-too-mobile/
An Economist’s Guide to Potty Training
https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/an-economists-guide-to-potty-training/
97
30
Pitch Drop Experiment
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitch_drop_experiment
19
Writing a triple polyglot script
https://nkanaev.github.io/posts/triple-polyglot/
95
39
European parliament says it will not use facial recognition tech
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/feb/05/european-parliament-insists-it-will-not-use-facial-recognition-tech
85
Divesting AdSense might help Google stave off worse regulatory action
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-02-05/why-google-might-prefer-dropping-a-22-billion-business
11
Basecamp to launch email competitor
https://hey.com/
91
55
DHS Suspends Global Entry, Trusted Traveler Programs for New York Residents
https://www.scribd.com/document/445799731/DHS-Letter-to-NYS
13
Lessons from the history of attacks on secure hash functions (2019)
https://electriccoin.co/blog/lessons-from-the-history-of-attacks-on-secure-hash-functions/
123
China Sacrifices a Province to Save the World From Coronavirus
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-02-05/china-sacrifices-a-province-to-save-the-world-from-coronavirus
29
Dawn, a WebGPU Implementation in C++
https://dawn.googlesource.com/dawn
