653
413
Editorial board of Index and more than 70 staff members resign
https://index.hu/english/2020/07/24/editorial_board_of_index_resigns/
6 years ago
638
803
The Four Quadrants of Conformism
http://paulgraham.com/conformism.html
611
224
When Hubble stared at nothing for 100 hours (2015)
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/phenomena/2015/04/24/when-hubble-stared-at-nothing-for-100-hours/
593
409
Put tiny businesses back into residential neighborhoods
https://www.fastcompany.com/90530672/with-downtowns-staying-abandoned-put-tiny-businesses-back-into-residential-neighborhoods
588
241
Cold Showers: For when people get too hyped up about things
https://github.com/hwayne/awesome-cold-showers
468
186
On Liberating My Smartwatch from Cloud Services
https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=5863
122
To Get More Replies, Say Less (2017)
https://www.gkogan.co/blog/increase-reply-rates/
387
Amazon Warehouse scam: 16TB HDD swapped for 8TB, returned for full refund
https://twitter.com/BlissWallpaper/status/1286419567783432193
386
52
Townscaper – A building game inspired by the design of Scandinavian cities
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-24/the-video-game-where-you-build-an-empty-town
340
176
I made a simple geolocation service
https://maxkostinevich.com/blog/serverless-geolocation/
333
215
Ask HN: Is it just me? why is “news” so addictive?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23938007
304
327
Regional Air Mobility: Why we don’t plan to operate flights under 20km
https://lilium.com/newsroom-detail/why-regional-air-mobility
449
I’m Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23940345
299
275
Indian IT consultancies struggle against technological obsolescence
https://www.economist.com/business/2020/07/23/indian-it-consultancies-struggle-against-technological-obsolescence
284
60
Best Data Science Books According to the Experts
https://builtin.com/data-science/data-science-books
258
39
Machine Learning Research at Apple
https://machinelearning.apple.com
233
109
Emulating Nintendo Switch Games on Linux
https://boilingsteam.com/emulating-nintendo-switch-games-on-linux/
216
162
FAA issues emergency directive on 2,000 Boeing 737 NG, Classic planes
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-boeing-737ng/faa-issues-emergency-directive-on-2000-boeing-737-ng-classic-planes-idUSKCN24P1KS
205
128
72% of Americans say social media companies have too much political influence
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/07/22/most-americans-say-social-media-companies-have-too-much-power-influence-in-politics/
194
27
How a Kalman filter works, in pictures
https://www.bzarg.com/p/how-a-kalman-filter-works-in-pictures/
154
Apple for the first time makes a top-of-the-line iPhone model in India
https://m.economictimes.com/tech/hardware/the-i-in-iphone-11-now-stands-for-india-made/articleshow/77135725.cms
177
Dividing front end from back end is an antipattern
https://www.thoughtworks.com/insights/blog/dividing-frontend-backend-antipattern
175
79
How to validate your startup idea quickly
https://amanjain.substack.com/p/how-to-validate-your-startup-idea
169
116
Reporters are leaving newsrooms for newsletters
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/07/24/substack-email-newsletter-journalism/
208
The Covid-19 pandemic is forcing a rethink in macroeconomics
https://www.economist.com/briefing/2020/07/25/the-covid-19-pandemic-is-forcing-a-rethink-in-macroeconomics
153
86
Hacker95.css – Make Hacker News look like Windows 95
https://github.com/chowderman/Hacker95
146
8
Datahike: Durable Datalog database powered by an efficient Datalog query engine
https://github.com/replikativ/datahike
145
152
You advocate a ________ approach to calendar reform (2013)
https://qntm.org/calendar
133
121
Thinking of a Cybersecurity Career?
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/07/thinking-of-a-cybersecurity-career-read-this/
130
Domain-Oriented Microservice Architecture
https://eng.uber.com/microservice-architecture/
117
149
The 20th anniversary of the Power Mac G4 Cube
https://www.wired.com/story/20-years-ago-steve-jobs-built-the-coolest-computer-ever-it-bombed/
114
31
The source of the e1000e corruption bug (2008)
https://lwn.net/Articles/304105/
113
66
Steve Wozniak sues YouTube over ongoing bitcoin scams
https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/23/21335554/steve-wozniak-youtube-lawsuit-bitcoin-scam-cryptocurrency-apple
101
Ask HN: Are there any software jobs in nature/animal conservation?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23938635
107
163
A few negative online reviews early on can hurt a restaurant
https://news.osu.edu/how-a-few-negative-online-reviews-early-on-can-hurt-a-restaurant/
77
NIST’s Post-Quantum Cryptography Program Enters ‘Selection Round’
https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2020/07/nists-post-quantum-cryptography-program-enters-selection-round
We’re treating self-improvement like a software upgrade
https://medium.com/team-human/were-treating-self-improvement-like-a-software-upgrade-b25a8e3a80c6
48
The Eastland disaster killed more passengers than the Titanic and the Lusitania
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/eastland-disaster-killed-more-passengers-titanic-and-lusitania-why-has-it-been-forgotten-180953146/
100
99
Good Logging
https://henrikwarne.com/2020/07/23/good-logging/
96
70
Garmin Outage Persists After 24 Hours Downtime
https://twitter.com/GarminFitness/status/1286273563096489985
89
Understanding null safety in Dart
https://dart.dev/null-safety/understanding-null-safety
94
Erythrocyte omega-3 index, ambient fine particle exposure and brain aging
https://n.neurology.org/content/early/2020/07/15/WNL.0000000000010074
82
Judge rules Seattle media companies must hand over protest images to police
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/judge-rules-seattle-media-companies-must-hand-over-protest-images-to-police/
Pentagon's UFO Unit to Disclose Some of Its Findings to the Public
https://www.sciencetimes.com/articles/26600/20200724/pentagons-ufo-unit-disclose-findings-public.htm
62
Building the ultimate home office again
https://www.troyhunt.com/building-the-ultimate-home-office-again/
76
51
Avoid character-by-character processing when performance matters
https://lemire.me/blog/2020/07/21/avoid-character-by-character-processing-when-performance-matters/
83
The futility of “I told you so” in software engineering teams
https://humza.sh/2020/07/24/the-futility-of-i-told-you-so.html
75
32
FDA Updates on Hand Sanitizers with Methanol
https://www.fda.gov/drugs/drug-safety-and-availability/fda-updates-hand-sanitizers-methanol