675
261
Zettlr – FOSS markdown editor for personal knowledge management and publishing
https://www.zettlr.com/
6 years ago
518
163
Openstreetmap, a global map for worldwide insight
https://blog.mapbox.com/openstreetmap-a-global-map-for-worldwide-insight-4e041cbf1ec1
438
225
The Silence Is Deafening
https://devonzuegel.com/post/the-silence-is-deafening
394
111
Barclays Bank Using Internet Archive as CDN for JavaScript Files?
https://twitter.com/immunda/status/1278783894683336704
391
113
Tell HN: Airbnb now opts in your name and photo to data sharing
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23725734
376
294
Politically-correct witch-hunt is killing free speech
https://medium.com/@sarahadowney/this-politically-correct-witch-hunt-is-killing-free-speech-and-we-have-to-fight-it-7ced038d33ae
366
168
2+1=4, by quinoa
https://www.efavdb.com/quinoa%20packing
343
Guietta – Python module to create simple GUIs
https://github.com/alfiopuglisi/guietta
306
217
Google-backed groups criticize Apple's new warnings on user tracking
https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-google-apple/google-backed-groups-criticize-apples-new-warnings-on-user-tracking-idUKKBN2440VG
293
69
Bitcoin From Scratch – Part 1
https://monokh.com/posts/bitcoin-from-scratch-part-1
285
162
EU safety agency suspends Pakistani airlines' European authorisation
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-pakistan-airlines-eu/eu-safety-agency-suspends-pakistani-airlines-european-authorisation-for-six-months-idUSKBN2412MT
258
56
Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper in a new gigapixel image
http://www.openculture.com/2020/06/an-immaculate-copy-of-leonardos-the-last-supper-digitized-by-google.html
241
92
Debubble
http://debubble.me
235
85
Ask HN: Did you take any fresh MOOCs as of 2020?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23722680
234
97
GPT-3 Creative Fiction
https://www.gwern.net/GPT-3
226
52
Ten Lessons I Wish I Had Been Taught (1997) [pdf]
https://www.ams.org/notices/199701/comm-rota.pdf
202
45
Sphere Eversion
https://rreusser.github.io/explorations/sphere-eversion/
179
54
Org-roam: Emacs org file based personal knowledge base system
https://www.orgroam.com/
176
47
QuickBasic64: Basic for the Modern Era
https://www.qb64.org/portal/
161
74
Botswana: Lab tests to solve mystery of hundreds of dead elephants
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-53273361
155
127
A 28-year-old with no degree becomes a must read on the economy
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-02/nathan-tankus-s-newsletter-subscribers-don-t-care-about-diplomas
153
126
The Walkman, Forty Years On
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-walkman-forty-years-on
25
TaBERT: A new model for understanding queries over tabular data
https://ai.facebook.com/blog/tabert-a-new-model-for-understanding-queries-over-tabular-data/
150
19
Show HN: The Book of Minecraft Modding
https://thebookofmodding.ml/
142
99
Göbekli Tepe
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Göbekli_Tepe
140
94
Reddit and LinkedIn apps also caught copying and pasting clipboard contents
https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/reddit-and-linkedin-apps-also-caught-copying-and-pasting-clipboard-contents/?aff=202007B
139
144
A 1950s proposal to nuke Alaska (2015)
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/actual-1950s-proposal-nuke-alaska
138
78
Photo Requests from Solitary
http://photorequestsfromsolitary.org/
128
83
Things You Should Never Do (2000)
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-never-do-part-i/
30
Intro to Fully Homomorphic Encryption
http://blog.higashi.tech/2020/06/16/fhe_01.html
124
141
Colleges are reopening in fall, but many professors won’t be present
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/03/us/coronavirus-college-professors.html
109
The dying mall’s new lease on life: apartments
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-30/a-case-for-turning-empty-malls-into-housing
108
195
“It'll all be over by Christmas” (Part 2)
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2020/07/itll-all-be-over-by-christmas-.html
87
Extracting video and audio from used police body cam
https://twitter.com/d0tslash/status/1278414895487365121
107
283
The science of mask-wearing hasn’t changed, so why have our expectations?
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-science-of-mask-wearing-hasnt-changed-so-why-have-our-expectations/
106
158
It’s Time to Abolish Single-Family Zoning
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/urbs/its-time-to-abolish-single-family-zoning/
104
14
Web Design Museum 1991 – 2006
https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/
100
Triso particles have safety features that may power a new generation of reactors
https://www.wired.com/story/nuclear-power-balls-triso-fuel/
12
The Millennium Falcon (2016)
https://kitbashed.com/blog/a-complete-history-of-the-millennium-falcon
96
Queues are Databases (1995)
https://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0701158
91
131
There are more streaming choices than ever – why are prices going up?
https://www.theverge.com/21310442/tv-streaming-youtube-fubo-price-increases-carrier-fees-disputes-costs-cable-television
88
A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy (2003) [pdf]
https://www.gwern.net/docs/technology/2005-shirky-agroupisitsownworstenemy.pdf
Apple iPhone SE 2020 Camera review
https://www.dxomark.com/apple-iphone-se-2020-camera-review/
86
15
Thrones Wreathed in Shadow: Tacitus and the psychology of authoritarianism
https://warontherocks.com/2020/07/thrones-wreathed-in-shadow-tacitus-and-the-psychology-of-authoritarianism/
32
Beware the Google Password Manager
https://fasterthanli.me/articles/beware-the-google-password-manager
American businesses have the power to change China’s behavior
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/07/03/american-businesses-have-power-change-chinas-behavior-time-step-up/
22
CanaryTrap: Detecting data misuse by third-party apps on online social networks
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.15794
81
20
Low latency multipliers and cryptographic puzzles
https://blog.janestreet.com/really-low-latency-multipliers-and-cryptographic-puzzles/
80
33
The undeserved status of the pigeon-hole principle (1991)
https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD10xx/EWD1094.html
35
Lessons learned from building a commercial open-source bot development platform
https://livablesoftware.com/lessons-learned-building-commercial-oss-bot-platform/
77
Building a BASIC Interpreter, '80s style
https://able.bio/kerrishotts/building-a-basic-interpreter-80s-style--79a9d703
48
There's never been an easier time to write your own language (2016)
https://joshsharp.com.au/blog/never-been-an-easier-time-to-write-a-language.html
76
5
Open letter calling for the release of WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange
https://defend.wikileaks.org/2020/07/03/open-letter-calling-for-the-release-of-wikileaks-publisher-julian-assange/
75
Finding the 'invisible' millions who are not on maps
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-52650856
Tamgucalc: A spreadsheet in character mode with Lisp formulas
https://github.com/naver/tamgu/wiki/tamgucalc-(en)
65
3
Neural supersampling for real-time rendering
https://research.fb.com/blog/2020/07/introducing-neural-supersampling-for-real-time-rendering/