734
436
Python dicts are now ordered
https://softwaremaniacs.org/blog/2020/02/05/dicts-ordered/en/
6 years ago
512
217
1000 True Fans? Try 100
https://a16z.com/2020/02/06/100-true-fans/
504
300
Critical Bluetooth vulnerability in Android
https://insinuator.net/2020/02/critical-bluetooth-vulnerability-in-android-cve-2020-0022/
501
191
Simple, solar-powered water desalination
http://news.mit.edu/2020/passive-solar-powered-water-desalination-0207
500
452
Tesla remotely removed autopilot features from used Tesla without notice
https://jalopnik.com/tesla-remotely-removes-autopilot-features-from-customer-1841472617
484
205
Global warming has begun to make Norway warmer and wetter
https://www.nrk.no/chasing-climate-change-1.14859595
455
102
Our first patent troll
https://mycroft.ai/blog/troll-hunter-mycrofts-position-on-patent-trolls/
299
Life and Death in a Wuhan Coronavirus ICU
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/reporters-notebook-life-and-death-in-a-wuhan-coronavirus-icu
444
286
95th percentile isn't that hard to reach
https://danluu.com/p95-skill/
382
MacBook 16-inch Fan Noise (2019)
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250878229
338
236
ThinkPad T480 is my new main laptop which runs FreeBSD
https://genneko.github.io/playing-with-bsd/hardware/freebsd-on-thinkpad-t480/
321
178
This person does not exist
https://www.thispersondoesnotexist.com/
292
252
On Resigning from Google
https://www.alphabetworkers.org/resignation-letter/
288
112
Ask HN: What agenda do you have for 1:1 meetings with your supervisor?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22264043
282
158
Chrome 80 Is 30% Slower Than Chrome 75
https://github.com/krausest/js-framework-benchmark/issues/683#issuecomment-583113382
266
107
Environmental lawyer who won a judgment against Chevron lost everything
https://theintercept.com/2020/01/29/chevron-ecuador-lawsuit-steven-donziger/
213
65
The Rapid Growth of Io_uring
https://lwn.net/Articles/810414/
212
2
Apple fined for slowing down old iPhones
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-51413724
209
66
Board Games of the Ancient World
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/best-board-games-ancient-world-180974094/
208
352
Ask HN: What is the single top-priority software engineering problem?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22271124
193
276
France fines Apple €25M for iOS software that slowed down older iPhones
https://www.dw.com/en/france-fines-apple-25-million-for-slowing-iphone-software/a-52290154?maca=en-rss-en-eu-2092-rdf
182
181
Skepticism after Windows 10 search failure
https://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2020/02/06/windows-10-warning-serious-failure-provokes-questions-and-anger/#7eb5ac7d6a52
177
91
Modern workers are at the mercy of ratings
https://www.economist.com/business/2020/02/06/how-modern-workers-are-at-the-mercy-of-ratings
172
57
Wikimedia Cookbook
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Table_of_Contents
171
35
One Hundred Ideas for Computing
https://samsquire.github.io/ideas/
166
128
How the Nike Vaporfly War Was Lost
https://www.outsideonline.com/2408971/nike-vaporfly-controversy
163
Migrating to CockroachDB
https://www.openmymind.net/Migrating-To-CockroachDB/
159
68
Show HN: Building an open-source language-learning platform
https://librelingo.app/
155
69
Warner music claimed my video for defending their copyright [video]
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KM6X2MEl7R8
145
Latest EU data shows that in the Netherlands 14% of employees work from home
http://alugy.com/usa/latest-eu-data-shows-that-in-the-netherlands-14-of-employees-work-from-home-in-usa-only-2-8/
141
24
Dolphin Progress Report: December 2019 and January 2020
https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/2020/02/07/dolphin-progress-report-dec-2019-and-jan-2020/
137
21
HiPlot: High-dimensional interactive plots made easy
https://ai.facebook.com/blog/hiplot-high-dimensional-interactive-plots-made-easy/
135
98
64 Core Threadripper 3990X CPU Review
https://www.anandtech.com/print/15483/amd-threadripper-3990x-review
56
HyperCard: What Could Have Been (2002)
https://www.wired.com/2002/08/hypercard-what-could-have-been/
133
30
How to reduce 'attention residue'
https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20200130-the-life-hack-to-reduce-admin-and-carve-out-downtime
132
78
Software-dependent devices: do they now need expiration dates?
http://circuitbored.com/communicate/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=187
130
94
Guide to the London Startup Ecosystem
https://startupsoflondon.com/london-startup-ecosystem-ultimate-report-2020/
25
Stepping Feet Illusion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stepping_Feet_Illusion
127
115
“Abrupt thaw” of Arctic permafrost releasing more CO2 than predicted
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2020/02/arctic-thawing-ground-releasing-shocking-amount-dangerous-gases/
122
138
Japan Turns to Coal After Closing Nuclear Power Plants
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-02-05/japan-turns-to-coal-after-closing-nuclear-power-plants
120
14
Combinatris: Tetris with SKI Combinators
http://dirk.rave.org/combinatris/
118
22
Show HN: Fast Real-Time Anomaly Detection in Dynamic Graphs
https://github.com/bhatiasiddharth/MIDAS/
72
What if half of Switzerland's rooftops produced electricity?
https://actu.epfl.ch/news/what-if-half-of-switzerland-s-rooftops-produced-el/
26
An improvised Lego device helped scientists conduct tests at CERN
https://home.cern/news/news/experiments/using-lego-study-building-blocks-universe
103
44
Rust: Zero-Cost Abstraction in Action
https://idursun.com/posts/rust_zero_cost_abstractions_in_action/
101
74
Ask HN: Were you in a computer user group, back in their heyday?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22271884
97
8
Tesla remotely disables Autopilot on used Model S after it was sold
https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/6/21127243/tesla-model-s-autopilot-disabled-remotely-used-car-update
96
32
Federal agencies use cellphone location data for immigration enforcement
https://www.wsj.com/articles/federal-agencies-use-cellphone-location-data-for-immigration-enforcement-11581078600
90
39
Hacked from a lightbulb
https://blog.checkpoint.com/2020/02/05/the-dark-side-of-smart-lighting-check-point-research-shows-how-business-and-home-networks-can-be-hacked-from-a-lightbulb/
88
146
Surf industry paradox: Surfing, by its nature, contradicts basic capitalism
https://beachgrit.com/2020/02/the-surf-industry-paradox-surfing-by-its-very-nature-inherently-contradicts-basic-capitalism/
196
LA’s new trains have not lessened the time spent stuck in traffic
https://www.economist.com/united-states/2020/02/06/angelenos-are-happy-to-pay-for-public-transport-but-loth-to-use-it
87
36
Dynamic Route53 records for AWS auto scaling groups with Terraform
https://underthehood.meltwater.com/blog/2020/02/07/dynamic-route53-records-for-aws-auto-scaling-groups-with-terraform/
84
27
Dockerizing a Ruby on Rails Application
https://semaphoreci.com/community/tutorials/dockerizing-a-ruby-on-rails-application
75
UK to host spyware firm accused of aiding human rights abuses
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/06/uk-to-host-spyware-firm-accused-of-aiding-human-rights-abuses
JavaScript Libraries Are Almost Never Updated Once Installed
https://blog.cloudflare.com/javascript-libraries-are-almost-never-updated/
42
New research on how mosquitoes find humans to bite
https://phys.org/news/2020-02-mosquitoes-humans.html
Surf industry paradox: Surfing, by its nature, contradicts basic capitalism