629
516
Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22849208
6 years ago
607
424
Nasty macOS flaw is bricking MacBooks: Don't install this update
https://www.tomsguide.com/news/nasty-macos-flaw-is-bricking-macbooks-dont-install-this-update
531
43
How to Speak (2018) [video]
https://ocw.mit.edu/resources/res-tll-005-how-to-speak-january-iap-2018/how-to-speak/index.htm
495
279
Bored? How about trying a Linux speed run?
https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2020/04/11/pengrun/
430
54
Writing a SQL database from scratch in Go
https://notes.eatonphil.com/database-basics.html
428
118
Enemy AI: chasing a player without Navigation2D or A* pathfinding
https://abitawake.com/news/articles/enemy-ai-chasing-a-player-without-navigation2d-or-a-star-pathfinding
337
467
New nuclear reactor designs promise safe, clean electricity
https://www.city-journal.org/next-generation-nuclear-power
329
331
China clamping down on coronavirus research, deleted pages suggest
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/11/china-clamping-down-on-coronavirus-research-deleted-pages-suggest
301
208
Social distancing is bringing drive-in theaters back to life
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/drive-in-theaters-adapt-to-coronavirus
268
130
Foxconn’s buildings in Wisconsin are still empty, one year later
https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/12/21217060/foxconn-wisconsin-innovation-centers-empty-buildings
247
61
So you want to be a compiler wizard (2016)
https://belkadan.com/blog/2016/05/So-You-Want-To-Be-A-Compiler-Wizard/
210
115
Fastmail Labels Beta
https://beta.fastmail.com/help/receive/labels-beta.html
202
80
Show HN: Dashboard for tracking insider trading at S&P 500 companies
https://www.quiverquant.com/sources/insidertrading
195
223
You're a Slave to Money, Then You Die
https://churchlifejournal.nd.edu/articles/youre-a-slave-to-money-then-you-die/
188
28
Rediscovering CardDAV
https://jpmens.net/2020/04/12/rediscovering-carddav/
183
108
Stop the Apple and Google contact tracing platform
https://blog.xot.nl/2020/04/11/stop-the-apple-and-google-contact-tracing-platform-or-be-ready-to-ditch-your-smartphone/
73
I found an obscure political joke in the scan of a 1971 IBM logic block manual
https://twitter.com/kenshirriff/status/1249090752983912448
86
California Supreme Court: Transaction is not required to sue online providers
https://harvardlawreview.org/2020/04/white-v-square/
172
14
Blog of Inigo Quilez, Creator of Shadertoy
https://www.iquilezles.org/www/index.htm
170
57
Computers Can Be Understood
https://blog.nelhage.com/post/computers-can-be-understood/
153
105
Does time really flow? New clues from intuitionist math
https://www.quantamagazine.org/does-time-really-flow-new-clues-come-from-a-century-old-approach-to-math-20200407/
145
88
Why Aren’t More Users More Happy With Our VMs? Part 1 (2018)
http://tratt.net/laurie/blog/entries/why_arent_more_users_more_happy_with_our_vms_part_1.html
144
Entropy and Life
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_and_life
132
Deprecating password authentication in GitHub API
https://developer.github.com/changes/2020-02-14-deprecating-password-auth/
129
39
Twttr sketch (2006)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/jackdorsey/182613360/in/photostream/
128
101
Re-Thinking Electronic Mail
https://ideas.liw.fi/rethinking-email.html
Contact Tracing in the Real World
https://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2020/04/12/contact-tracing-in-the-real-world/
114
21
De-risking custom technology projects: 18F technology budgeting guide
https://github.com/18F/technology-budgeting/blob/master/handbook.md
★ 496 – 6 years ago
152
Seen everywhere in last U.S. crisis, moral hazard is nowhere in this one
https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN21U0GV
107
YAML: Probably not so great after all (2019)
https://www.arp242.net/yaml-config.html
102
52
V0LTpwn: Attacking x86 Processor Integrity from Software
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.04870
97
19
Show HN: Crossnote – a note taking extension for VSCode
https://github.com/0xGG/vscode-crossnote
★ 289 TypeScript AGPL-3.0– 6 years ago
95
6
Nimporter 1.0 released (seamlessly import Nim code from Python)
https://www.reddit.com/r/nim/comments/fz7x3e/nimporter_v100_is_out/
92
45
Digital hoarders: Our terabytes are put to use for the betterment of mankind
https://arstechnica.com/?p=1667508
Who is running the Pandemic Survival fear-mongering spam campaign
https://osint.fans/coronavirus-spam-selling-pandemic-survival-ebook
83
72
The pope just proposed a universal basic income
https://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2020/04/12/pope-just-proposed-universal-basic-income-united-states-ready-it
11
The messy secret reality behind OpenAI
https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/02/17/844721/ai-openai-moonshot-elon-musk-sam-altman-greg-brockman-messy-secretive-reality/
82
The internet’s fifth man (2013)
https://www.economist.com/news/technology-quarterly/21590765-louis-pouzin-helped-create-internet-now-he-campaigning-ensure-its
33
The cost of virtualizing CS conferences
https://rachitnigam.com/post/virtual-cs-conferences/
23
Undefined behavior can result in time travel (2014)
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20140627-00/?p=633
75
9
Show HN: HFD – A design language for laser cutters written in Go
http://heavyfishdesign.com
10
BlockBlock 1.0.0 beta – rewritten and open source
https://github.com/objective-see/BlockBlock
★ 791 Objective-C GPL-3.0– 6 years ago
74
Truisms (1978)
https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~field/holzer/truisms.txt
A Conversation with Alan Kay (2004)
https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1039523
71
38
Surveillance Capitalism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveillance_capitalism
68
66
“Mamma Desta” and Ethiopian food in the U.S
https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2020/3/28/21195850/ethiopian-food-washington-dc-history-desta-bairu
5
Conway's Game of Life Implemented in Conway's Game of Life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP5-iIeKXE8&t=5s