631
392
Signal is finally bringing its secure messaging to the masses
https://www.wired.com/story/signal-encrypted-messaging-features-mainstream/
6 years ago
536
262
Japan has 33k businesses at least a century old
https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20200211-why-are-so-many-old-companies-in-japan
520
472
18-year-old personal website, built with Frontpage and still updated
http://www.fmboschetto.it/
511
312
Google cuts jobs at cloud-computing group
https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-cuts-jobs-at-cloud-computing-group-11581719153
498
138
Brown: color is weird [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wh4aWZRtTwU
496
207
Ask HN: What job can a “jack of all trades” look for?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22326109
483
218
Apple Edge Cache
https://cache.edge.apple
437
175
Ask HN: What are some examples of good database schema designs?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22324691
420
Ask HN: How do you learn complex, dense technical information?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22325975
414
55
A Map of Mathematics
https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-map-of-mathematics-20200213/
364
132
To become a good C programmer (2011)
http://fabiensanglard.net/c/
346
161
A radio frequency exposure test finds an iPhone 11 Pro exceeds the FCC's limit
https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/telecom/wireless/radio-frequency-exposure-test-iphone-11-pro-double-fcc-limits
329
621
California’s housing crisis: how a bureaucrat pushed to build
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/13/business/economy/housing-crisis-conor-dougherty-golden-gates.html
106
Quadsort: a stable non-recursive merge sort
https://github.com/scandum/quadsort
285
144
I made my own PCBs with a 3D printer
https://www.stavros.io/posts/make-pcbs-at-home/
263
245
Mac OS Catalina: more trouble than it’s worth (Part 2)
http://morrick.me/archives/8760
253
85
Flowcharts of programming language constructs
https://www.progsbase.com/blog/flow-charts-of-programming-language-constructs/
248
58
Plink-plonk.js – hear webpages render with DOM observer and audio API
https://gist.github.com/tomhicks/6cb5e827723c4eaef638bf9f7686d2d8
242
77
The US Secret Service mistook a cyberpunk RPG for a hacker's handbook
https://www.dicebreaker.com/categories/roleplaying-game/feature/gurps-cyberpunk-rpg-us-secret-service
232
51
Show HN: A Firefox extension to add latency to distracting webpages
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/delaywebpage/
224
140
Why do incompetent managers get promoted?
https://medium.com/@lancengym/why-do-incompetent-managers-get-promoted-815165a03bee
214
42
Fastai: A Layered API for Deep Learning
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.04688
334
Facebook reverses on paid influencers after Bloomberg memes
https://techxplore.com/news/2020-02-facebook-paid-political-messages-ads.html
204
282
Self-driving cars turned out to be harder than expected
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2020/2/14/21063487/self-driving-cars-autonomous-vehicles-waymo-cruise-uber
189
71
Introduction to Clifford Algebra (2006)
https://www.av8n.com/physics/clifford-intro.htm
183
93
HQ Trivia shuts down after acquisition falls through
https://techcrunch.com/2020/02/14/hq-trivia-shuts-down/
182
194
Delphi's 25th Birthday
https://community.idera.com/developer-tools/b/blog/posts/25-years-of-excellence
173
10
Millions of Tiny Databases [pdf]
https://assets.amazon.science/c4/11/de2606884b63bf4d95190a3c2390/millions-of-tiny-databases.pdf
33
Svgbob – convert ASCII diagrams to SVG, now with styling support
https://ivanceras.github.io/svgbob-editor/
159
47
Founders share the challenges of running a tech business
https://www.indiehackers.com/post/the-biggest-challenges-of-running-a-tech-business-ea87797f6d
25
Corona Labs is shutting down, will open-source everything under MIT
https://coronalabs.com/blog/2020/02/12/corona-labs-annual-update/
137
150
Why do so many developers get DRY wrong?
https://changelog.com/posts/why-do-so-many-developers-get-dry-wrong
123
59
A 7KB AWS lambda Node.js library with zero runtime dependencies
https://www.npmjs.com/package/micro-aws-lambda
122
41
Problems, not solutions (2018)
https://ben.balter.com/2018/07/16/problems-not-solutions/
118
57
OpenSSH 8.2
https://lists.mindrot.org/pipermail/openssh-unix-announce/2020-February/000138.html
116
102
Early humans in Africa may have interbred with an extinct species: new research
https://theconversation.com/early-humans-in-africa-may-have-interbred-with-a-mysterious-extinct-species-new-research-131699
Classification of the Principal Programming Paradigms (2009)
https://www.info.ucl.ac.be/~pvr/paradigms.html
114
Amazon can’t end fake reviews, but its new system might drown them out
https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/2/14/21121209/amazon-fake-reviews-one-tap-star-ratings-seller-feedback
112
24
Printing tiny, high-precision objects
https://actu.epfl.ch/news/printing-tiny-high-precision-objects-in-a-matter-o/
109
Why has progress stalled? (2014)
https://aeon.co/essays/has-progress-in-science-and-technology-come-to-a-halt
Amish Hackers (2009)
https://kk.org/thetechnium/amish-hackers-a/
15
A Human's Guide to Words (2010)
https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/A_Human%27s_Guide_to_Words
108
20
Wardian cases and the process of transporting plants
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-51209050
101
Ask HN: Do You Miss IRC?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22330459
CSS Containment Specification
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_Containment
98
Crystal 0.33
https://crystal-lang.org/2020/02/14/crystal-0.33.0-released.html
96
23
LibreTaxi 2 published, open-source Uber PoC
https://github.com/ro31337/libretaxi2
89
AutoFlip: an open-source framework for intelligent video reframing
https://ai.googleblog.com/2020/02/autoflip-open-source-framework-for.html
68
Passionate kissing is not a human universal (2015)
https://hraf.yale.edu/romantic-or-disgusting-passionate-kissing-is-not-a-human-universal/
82
11
Gossiping Commons
https://gossipingcommons.org/
79
14
Show HN: Critic.sh – Simple testing framework for Bash
https://github.com/Checksum/critic.sh
78
9
Exploring the Web Speech API
https://www.voorhoede.nl/en/blog/exploring-the-web-speech-api/
NYC Active Major Construction
https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/buildings/html/nyc-active-major-construction.html
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