767
185
Eloquent JavaScript 3rd Edition (2018)
https://eloquentjavascript.net/
5 years ago
607
813
Ask HN: What scientific phenomenon do you wish someone would explain better?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22989280
572
132
Teleforking a Process onto a Different Computer
https://thume.ca/2020/04/18/telefork-forking-a-process-onto-a-different-computer/
421
243
Japan to subsidize 100% of salaries at small companies
https://asia.nikkei.com/Economy/Japan-to-subsidize-100-of-salaries-at-small-companies
386
134
Why my book can be downloaded for free (2014)
https://blog.plover.com/book/free-hop.html
352
115
A-Shell: Terminal for iOS
https://holzschu.github.io/a-Shell_iOS/
344
223
Germany flips to Apple-Google approach on smartphone contact tracing
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-europe-tech/germany-flips-on-smartphone-contact-tracing-backs-apple-and-google-idUSKCN22807J
313
169
'Expert Twitter' Only Goes So Far – Bring Back Blogs
https://www.wired.com/story/opinion-expert-twitter-only-goes-so-far-bring-back-blogs/
290
57
Decrypt WhatsApp encrypted media files
https://github.com/ddz/whatsapp-media-decrypt
280
My NixOS Desktop Flow
https://christine.website/blog/nixos-desktop-flow-2020-04-25
277
431
Teenagers are better behaved and less hedonistic (2018)
https://www.economist.com/international/2018/01/10/teenagers-are-better-behaved-and-less-hedonistic-nowadays
271
97
Show HN: Kanmail – An email client that functions like a kanban board
https://github.com/Oxygem/Kanmail
216
205
Was there PTSD in the ancient or medieval world?
https://acoup.blog/2020/04/24/fireside-friday-april-24-2020/
112
The third wave of open source migration
https://blog.tidelift.com/the-third-wave-of-open-source-migration
192
39
Show HN: Gmail CLI Utils (bulk delete mail by query, get/create filters)
https://github.com/abhishekkr/gmail-helper
186
163
Ask HN: Not smart enough to a programmer, where to take my life from here?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22988809
53
Creating ad hoc microphone arrays from personal devices (2019)
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/bring-your-phones-to-the-conference-table-creating-ad-hoc-microphone-arrays-from-personal-devices/?ocid=msr_blog_meettrans_interspeech_tw
179
67
Psychological techniques to practice Stoicism
https://hoanhan101.github.io/2020/04/26/guide-to-the-good-life
176
229
Seattle’s leaders let scientists take the lead, New York’s did not
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/05/04/seattles-leaders-let-scientists-take-the-lead-new-yorks-did-not
175
105
How much power can we expect from rainfall?
https://eighteenthelephant.com/2020/02/12/can-the-teardrops-that-fall-after-reading-bad-science-writing-generate-renewable-electricity-yes-they-can/
173
261
Dissection of COVIDSafe (Android): Australian government's contact tracing app
https://docs.google.com/document/d/17GuApb1fG3Bn0_DVgDQgrtnd_QO3foBl7NVb8vaWeKc/edit#
172
91
Google will require proof of identity from all advertisers
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/23/business/media/google-advertising.html
41
How I photograph the Milky Way with medium format film
https://petapixel.com/2020/04/25/how-i-photograph-the-milky-way-with-medium-format-film/
155
37
How to break everything by fuzz testing
https://chameth.com/break-everything-fuzz-testing/
154
118
The Obsolescence of Advertising in the Information Age (2018)
https://www.yalelawjournal.org/article/the-obsolescence-of-advertising-in-the-information-age
152
15
Beginners guide to gateways and proxies
https://www.learncloudnative.com/blog/2020-04-25-beginners-guide-to-gateways-proxies/
150
SELECT wat FROM sql
https://scattered-thoughts.net/writing/select-wat-from-sql/
76
Tips for Mathematical Handwriting (2007)
https://johnkerl.org/doc/ortho/ortho.html
143
58
Tokio: Runtime for writing reliable asynchronous applications with Rust
https://github.com/tokio-rs/tokio
140
59
Restoring the Gold Filter in Deus Ex: Human Revolution – Director’s Cut
https://cookieplmonster.github.io/2020/04/26/dxhr-dc-gold-filter/
138
MySQL Sharding at Quora
https://www.quora.com/q/quoraengineering/MySQL-sharding-at-Quora?share=1
137
102
Monorepoize – Bash scripts for creating a monorepo out of smaller repos
https://github.com/gigamonkey/monorepoize
125
38
Probing Facebook's Misinformation Machine
https://www.getrevue.co/profile/themarkup/issues/probing-facebook-s-misinformation-machine-241739
124
An average family in Tokyo can own a new house for $850/month
https://www.curbed.com/2017/2/3/14496248/tokyo-real-estate-affordable-homes
34
BR Shetty: The rise and fall of a billionaire
https://m.economictimes.com/nri/nris-in-news/br-shetty-the-staggering-rise-and-incredible-fall-of-a-billionaire/articleshow/75381757.cms
114
84
Chernobyl and the Cost of Lies (2019)
https://origins.osu.edu/connecting-history/HBO-chernobyl-disaster-nuclear-soviet-union
30
Show HN: Convert a number to an approximated text expression
https://github.com/tokenmill/numberwords
109
Coronavirus Country Comparator
https://boogheta.github.io/coronavirus-countries/#deceased&ratio&places=Belgium,France,Germany,Italy,Spain,USA,United%20Kingdom&alignTo=deceased
Customers do not ask for software complexity
https://nocomplexity.com/do-not-ask-for-software-complexity/
108
45
Lens Aberrations Explained
https://phillipreeve.net/blog/lens-aberrations-explained-part-1/
107
33
Vietnam's contact tracing app broadcasting a fixed ID
https://vnhacker.blogspot.com/2020/04/vietnams-contact-tracing-app_26.html
101
35
Sustainable work-life balance with Personal SLA (2019)
https://evgenii.info/sla-1/
90
5
Metaprogramming in Flat Assembler
https://gpfault.net/posts/asm-tut-1.txt.html
88
78
New Air Force One instruction manuals cost $84M
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/air-force/493347-new-air-force-one-instruction-manuals-cost-84-million
11
C program proofs with Frama-C and its weakest-precondition plugin [pdf]
https://allan-blanchard.fr/publis/frama-c-wp-tutorial-en.pdf
87
46
Feynman: making the extraordinary look easy
https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/feynman-making-the-extraordinary-look-easy/
106
AMD vs. Intel 2020: Who Makes the Best CPUs?
https://www.tomshardware.com/features/amd-vs-intel-cpus
42
Labour HQ used Facebook ads to deceive Jeremy Corbyn during election campaign
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/labour-hq-used-facebook-ads-to-deceive-jeremy-corbyn-during-election-campaign-grlx75c27
A fight against Amazon becomes a state matter in Quebec
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-25/a-fight-against-amazon-becomes-a-state-matter-in-quebec
13
GitLand: A Multiplayer game controlled using GitHub
https://github.com/programical/gitland
81
Postman delivers 'somewhere in Sheffield' parcel
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-52395609
