962
330
How the CIA used Crypto AG encryption devices to spy on countries for decades
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/world/national-security/cia-crypto-encryption-machines-espionage/
6 years ago
852
178
Ask HN: What are some books where the reader learns by building projects?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22299180
847
351
“We already store data. In a database. It works well”
https://twitter.com/jimmy_wales/status/1226868636020805632
814
227
Shit – An implementation of Git using POSIX shell
https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/shit
631
346
Firefox 73
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2020/02/firefox-73-is-upon-us/
548
188
Where are all the animated SVGs?
https://www.getmotion.io/blog/where-are-all-the-animated-svgs/
529
507
N26 will be leaving the UK
https://n26.com/en-de/blog/leaving-uk-does-not-change-our-global-vision-to-transform-retail-banking-for-the-better
434
228
Swift Playgrounds for macOS
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/swift-playgrounds/id1496833156?mt=12%22
412
191
A popular self-driving car dataset is missing labels for hundreds of pedestrians
https://blog.roboflow.ai/self-driving-car-dataset-missing-pedestrians/
394
130
Apps I pay for as a bootstrapped business
https://daily.patwalls.co/apps-services-that-i-pay-for
377
273
Mozilla’s plan to fix internet privacy
https://www.protocol.com/mozilla-plan-fix-internet-privacy
376
149
I've screwed up plenty of things too
https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2020/02/10/broken/
355
163
Hard Drive Stats for 2019
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-stats-for-2019/
419
Apple Pay on pace to account for 10% of global card transactions
https://qz.com/1799912/apple-pay-on-pace-to-account-for-10-percent-of-global-card-transactions/
350
206
Li Wenliang
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Wenliang
319
60
Stage is a minimalistic 2D, cross-platform HTML5 game engine
http://piqnt.com/stage.js/
294
288
Costco Capitalism
https://www.bryanlehrer.com/entries/costco/
289
199
The Rise of “Movie-Set Urbanism”
https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2020/2/6/movie-set-urbanism
274
94
Experience report on a large Python-to-Go translation
https://gitlab.com/esr/reposurgeon/blob/master/GoNotes.adoc
262
176
Coronavirus outbreak likely now ‘gathering steam’
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/02/harvard-expert-says-coronavirus-likely-just-gathering-steam/
260
57
An Astronaut’s Guide to Mental Models
https://fs.blog/2020/02/mental-models-in-space/
219
121
U.S. Officials Say Huawei Can Covertly Access Telecom Networks
https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-officials-say-huawei-can-covertly-access-telecom-networks-11581452256
215
80
Awk As A Major Systems Programming Language, Revisited (2018)
http://www.skeeve.com/awk-sys-prog.html
244
Airbus unveils 'blended wing body' plane design after secret flight tests
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-singapore-airshow-airbus-design/airbus-unveils-blended-wing-body-plane-design-after-secret-flight-tests-idUSKBN20509H
211
97
The coming IP war over facts derived from books
https://abe-winter.github.io/2020/02/11/books-facts-ip.html
210
46
Growing Neural Cellular Automata: A Differentiable Model of Morphogenesis
https://distill.pub/2020/growing-ca/?/
200
63
Yap: An ephemeral, Real-Time chat room with up to six participants
https://yap.chat/
198
128
Ask HN: How does your company keep track of lessons learned?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22297780
173
Dead Sea dates grown from 2000-year-old seeds
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/02/dead-sea-dates-grown-2000-year-old-seeds
153
74
Mate Desktop 1.24
https://mate-desktop.org/blog/2020-02-10-mate-1-24-released/
148
134
How Microsoft rewrote its C# compiler in C# and made it open source (2017)
https://medium.com/microsoft-open-source-stories/how-microsoft-rewrote-its-c-compiler-in-c-and-made-it-open-source-4ebed5646f98
147
172
The Myth of the Barter Economy (2016)
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/02/barter-society-myth/471051/
145
5
Applied Thinking for Intelligence Analysis: A Guide for Practitioners (2014) [pdf]
http://airpower.airforce.gov.au/APDC/media/PDF-Files/Air%20Force%20Publications/AF13-Applied-Thinking-for-Intelligence-Analysis.pdf
144
140
Boeing Starliner's flight's flaws show “fundamental problem,” NASA says
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/07/science/boeing-starliner-nasa.html
142
79
Plasma 5.18
https://kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.18.0
138
33
USB armory: an open-source hardware design, flash-drive sized computer
https://inversepath.com/usbarmory.html
109
Copyrighting melodies to avoid accidental infringement [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfXn_ecH5Rw
108
The Economics of Clean Code
https://frederickvanbrabant.com/post/2020-02-07-the-economics-of-clean-code/
127
23
Applying Mypy to real-world projects
http://calpaterson.com/mypy-hints.html
126
61
Who Was Sun Tzu’s Napoleon?
https://thestrategybridge.org/the-bridge/2020/2/11/who-was-sun-tzus-napoleon
125
40
Using Python and Selenium for automated visual regression testing
https://github.com/seleniumbase/SeleniumBase/blob/master/examples/visual_testing/ReadMe.md
124
42
The History of Git
https://www.welcometothejungle.com/en/articles/btc-history-git
Ask HN: How do you manage your financials?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22300314
119
190
Investigating the Performance Overhead of C++ Exceptions
https://pspdfkit.com/blog/2020/performance-overhead-of-exceptions-in-cpp/
107
32
Judge Orders Navy to Release USS Thresher Disaster Documents
https://news.usni.org/2020/02/11/judge-orders-navy-to-release-uss-thresher-disaster-documents
104
62
Turtleocracy
https://www.notion.so/Turtleocracy-47a6df7692bf4e95a39504a73a50a295
103
Compiling a Functional Language Using C++, Part 9 – Garbage Collection
https://danilafe.com/blog/09_compiler_garbage_collection/
102
38
Coding Flaw Exposes Voter Details for 6.5M Israelis
https://www.databreachtoday.asia/coding-flaw-exposes-voter-details-for-65-million-israelis-a-13708
100
Inkjet Printing of High Performance Transistors (2017)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-01391-2
98
Colorado voters are set to decide if wolves should be reintroduced to the state
https://www.npr.org/2020/02/11/803895398/colorado-voters-are-set-to-decide-if-wolves-should-be-reintroduced-to-the-state
96
Getting started on Twitter as a scientist
https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007513
4
A modern take on the “paperclip computer”
https://hackaday.com/2020/02/08/a-modern-take-on-the-paperclip-computer/
93
118
Why poor people make poor decisions
https://thecorrespondent.com/283/why-poor-people-make-poor-decisions/37442933638-a4773584
92
The high cost of a free coding bootcamp
https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/11/21131848/lambda-school-coding-bootcamp-isa-tuition-cost-free
91
10
Dissecting the Windows Defender Driver
https://n4r1b.netlify.com/en/posts/2020/01/dissecting-the-windows-defender-driver-wdfilter-part-1/
Boeing Starliner's flight's flaws show “fundamental problem,” NASA says