934
388
More bosses give four-day workweek a try
https://www.npr.org/2020/02/21/807133509/enjoy-the-extra-day-off-more-bosses-give-4-day-workweek-a-try
6 years ago
853
408
Which of these Amazon Prime purchases are real?
https://thewirecutter.com/blog/i-bought-these-things-from-amazon-prime-can-you-tell-which-ones-are-real/
821
285
How to Write Usefully
http://paulgraham.com/useful.html
760
276
Radical hydrogen-boron reactor leapfrogs current nuclear fusion tech?
https://newatlas.com/energy/hb11-hydrogen-boron-fusion-clean-energy/
732
280
Amazon let a fraudster keep my Sony A74 IV and refunded him
https://petapixel.com/2020/02/21/amazon-let-a-fraudster-keep-my-sony-a7r-iv-and-refunded-him-2900/
532
357
Discord is not an acceptable choice for free software projects
https://sneak.berlin/20200220/discord-is-not-an-acceptable-choice-for-free-software-projects/
438
89
Scientists use ML to find an antibiotic able to kill superbugs in mice
https://www.statnews.com/2020/02/20/machine-learning-finds-novel-antibiotic-able-to-kill-superbugs/
425
91
Gilbert Strang Teaches Linear Algebra
https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-06-linear-algebra-spring-2010/video-lectures/
371
530
Follow-up to “The dystopian world of software engineering interviews”
https://www.jarednelsen.dev/posts/what-to-do-when-you-reach-number-1-on-hacker-news
353
390
Single-payer healthcare would save $450B and 68k lives a year: study
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(19)33019-3/fulltext
346
242
Requirements volatility is the core problem of software engineering
https://stackoverflow.blog/2020/02/20/requirements-volatility-is-the-core-problem-of-software-engineering/
335
145
QEMU for iOS
https://github.com/utmapp/UTM
★ 33.8k Swift Apache-2.0– 6 years ago
323
172
Google resists demands from states in digital-ad probe
https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-resists-demand-from-states-in-digital-ad-probe-11582281000
304
88
The Bash Hackers Wiki
https://wiki.bash-hackers.org/
299
33
Maryam Mirzakhani
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryam_Mirzakhani
294
162
FCC forced by court to ask the public again for feedback on net neutrality
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/02/21/fcc_net_neutrality/
112
Peter Norvig's Economic Simulation (2018)
https://github.com/norvig/pytudes/blob/master/ipynb/Economics.ipynb
★ 24.3k Jupyter Notebook MIT– 6 years ago
147
Chrome deploys deep-linking in latest build despite privacy concerns
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/02/20/chrome_deploys_deeplinking/
225
194
AMD Threadripper 3970X under heavy AVX2 load: Defective by design?
https://forum.level1techs.com/t/amd-threadripper-3970x-under-heavy-avx2-load-defective-by-design/153883
218
185
Paris Mayor: It's Time for a '15-Minute City'
https://www.citylab.com/environment/2020/02/paris-election-anne-hidalgo-city-planning-walks-stores-parks/606325/
213
69
Neat URL cleans URLs, removing parameters such as 'fbclid' and 'utm'
https://github.com/Smile4ever/Neat-URL
★ 662 JavaScript – 6 years ago
190
152
Quarter of all tweets about climate change produced by bots
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/feb/21/climate-tweets-twitter-bots-analysis
188
27
Challenges with distributed systems
https://aws.amazon.com/builders-library/challenges-with-distributed-systems/
179
72
Show HN: MDAnki – convert Markdown to Anki cards
https://github.com/ashlinchak/mdanki
★ 882 JavaScript – 6 years ago
174
59
The Need for Data Engineers
https://thenewstack.io/data-scientists-get-the-glamour-but-there-is-also-a-need-for-data-engineers/
154
Varoufakis to Publish Notorious Eurogroup Recordings from 2015 Meetings
https://greece.greekreporter.com/2020/02/14/varoufakis-to-publish-notorious-eurogroup-recordings-from-turbulent-2015-meetings/
148
106
Corporate buzzwords are how workers pretend to be adults
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/02/most-annoying-corporate-buzzwords/606748/
143
Amb
http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Amb
138
129
Windows 10 could start bullying people into using a Microsoft account to install
https://www.techradar.com/news/windows-10-could-start-bullying-people-into-using-a-microsoft-account-to-install
137
50
Racket-on-Chez Status
https://blog.racket-lang.org/2020/02/racket-on-chez-status.html
132
40
Beyond Bézier Curves (2013)
https://bosker.wordpress.com/2013/11/13/beyond-bezier-curves/
124
118
Programming a space invader in OCaml and OpenGL: lessons learned
https://marmelab.com/blog/2020/02/21/ocaml-and-opengl-in-practice.html
122
Breaking the Salary Sharing Taboo
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/02/19/magazine/salary-sharing.html
121
56
Domain Logic and SQL (2003)
https://www.martinfowler.com/articles/dblogic.html
119
55
Launch HN: Freshpaint (YC S19) – an automated, retroactive Segment alternative
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22384680
115
75
JP Morgan economists warn of 'catastrophic' climate change
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-51581098
People leave molecular wakes that may give away their secrets
https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2020/02/13/people-leave-molecular-wakes-that-may-give-away-their-secrets
109
125
Inside the Philip Morris campaign to 'normalize' a tobacco device
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-philipmorris-international-iqos-insig/inside-the-philip-morris-campaign-to-normalize-a-tobacco-device-idUSKBN20F1Q7
104
12
Little Ideas
https://www.collaborativefund.com/blog/100-little-ideas/
103
31
If cash gets damaged, this Treasury team will make sure it’s not a lost cause
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/if-your-cash-gets-damaged-this-treasury-team-will-make-sure-its-not-a-lost-cause/2020/02/13/609fd154-3c6b-11ea-8872-5df698785a4e_story.html
100
Riot OS – Real-Time, MMU optional and threads
https://www.riot-os.org
99
57
Overthinking it and the value of simple solutions (2019)
https://korecki.me/blog/2019/10/8/overthinking-it-and-the-value-of-simple-solutions
94
11
Giant Phages: a discovery in the world of viruses
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/02/oh-look-ton-giant-viruses-inside-your-mouth/606763/
