1722
472
Ninth Circuit rules NSA's bulk collection of Americans' call records was illegal
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/02/court-rules-nsa-phone-snooping-illegal-407727
6 years ago
1266
259
Most-favorited Hacker News posts
https://observablehq.com/@tomlarkworthy/hacker-favourites-analysis
703
541
Small nuclear reactors: tiny NuScale reactor gets safety approval
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a33896110/tiny-nuclear-reactor-government-approval/
608
435
Police-issued "courtesy cards" help friends and family out of minor infractions
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/v7gxa4/pba-card-police-courtesy-cards
515
306
Russia opposition leader poisoned with Novichok
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-54002880
469
147
Supercomputer analysis of Covid-19 leads to new theory
https://elemental.medium.com/a-supercomputer-analyzed-covid-19-and-an-interesting-new-theory-has-emerged-31cb8eba9d63
458
228
How I built a keyboard/video/mouse switch for my two 4k monitors
https://haim.dev/posts/2020-07-28-dual-monitor-kvm/
454
164
Bardcore
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bardcore
400
128
Lesser-known Web APIs
https://blog.greenroots.info/10-lesser-known-web-apis-you-may-want-to-use-ckejv75cr012y70s158n85yhn
376
251
India bans PUBG, Baidu and more than 100 apps linked to China
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-53998205
342
108
Programming with Categories
http://brendanfong.com/programmingcats.html
334
319
Patreon Raises $90M Series E at $1.2B Valuation
https://blog.patreon.com/patreon-series-e-announcement
354
Ask HN: What is your favorite method of sending large files?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24351111
312
208
Law allows police to seize and sell cars of non-lawbreakers, keeping proceeds
https://kstp.com/news/controversial-law-allows-police-to-seize-and-sell-cars-of-non-lawbreakers-keeping-the-proceeds-august-24-2020/5838303/
296
247
TSA tries out another biometric system
https://papersplease.org/wp/2020/09/01/tsa-tries-out-another-illegal-biometric-id-verification-system/
286
43
Lo-Fi Player
https://magenta.tensorflow.org/lofi-player
250
364
Teens' anxiety levels dropped during pandemic, study finds
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-53884401
244
On modern hardware the min-max heap beats a binary heap
https://probablydance.com/2020/08/31/on-modern-hardware-the-min-max-heap-beats-a-binary-heap/
240
355
Half of Americans fear a health-related bankruptcy
https://www.axios.com/health-bankruptcy-fears-poll-ce3c4905-53c6-4f43-ba4f-fde22f4ef849.html
223
87
Staff Report on Algorithmic Trading in U.S. Capital Markets [pdf]
https://www.sec.gov/files/Algo_Trading_Report_2020.pdf
219
49
Linux from Scratch 10.0
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/news.html
217
245
Shared salary spreadsheet reveals Microsoft employee earnings for a second year
https://onezero.medium.com/leaked-salary-spreadsheet-reveals-microsoft-employee-earnings-for-a-second-year-d1466132d309
212
476
Why is OOP still so widely spread?
https://stackoverflow.blog/2020/09/02/if-everyone-hates-it-why-is-oop-still-so-widely-spread/
211
126
Release of methane gas from the seafloor in the Southern Hemisphere
https://lnu.se/en/meet-linnaeus-university/current/news/2020/massive-release-of-methane-gas-from-the-seafloor-linked-to-global-warming-discovered-for-the-first-time-in-the-southern-hemisphere/
207
Intel Launches 11th Gen Core Tiger Lake
https://www.anandtech.com/print/16063/intel-launches-11th-gen-core-tiger-lake-processors-and-evo-branding
202
Why I Actively Discourage Online Tooling like jwt.io and Online JSON Validators
https://www.jvt.me/posts/2020/09/01/against-online-tooling/
192
66
To design and develop an interactive globe
https://stripe.com/blog/globe
183
82
Essential C (2003) [pdf]
http://cslibrary.stanford.edu/101/EssentialC.pdf
180
28
The Hash Monster: ESP-32 Tamagotchi for WiFi Cracking
https://telescope.ac/petazzoni/the-hash-monster-esp32-tamagotchi-for-wifi-cracking
163
35
Craigstarter: DIY Replacement for Kickstarter
https://github.com/cmod/craigstarter
162
73
To be creative, Chinese philosophy teaches us to abandon ‘originality’
https://psyche.co/ideas/to-be-creative-chinese-philosophy-teaches-us-to-abandon-originality
152
36
Using Clojure in the command line with Babashka
https://www.karimarttila.fi/clojure/2020/09/01/using-clojure-in-command-line-with-babashka.html
33
Accidental Pinhole and Pinspeck Cameras (2014)
http://people.csail.mit.edu/torralba/research/accidentalcameras/
145
Unix Wars (2000)
https://www.livinginternet.com/i/iw_unix_war.htm
143
142
What I Learned Going Through YC as a 17 Year Old
https://tieshunroquerre.com/blog/yc-learnings
136
83
Git-Based Wiki
https://www.bit-101.com/blog/2020/09/git-based-wiki/
133
41
Inside the HP Nanoprocessor
http://www.righto.com/2020/09/inside-hp-nanoprocessor-high-speed.html
131
60
Multiple Western Digital 5400RPM drives are actually 7200RPM drives
https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/ikk0rv/psa_multiple_wd_5400rpm_drives_are_actually/
129
107
Kubernetes: Make your services faster by removing CPU limits
https://erickhun.com/posts/kubernetes-faster-services-no-cpu-limits/
124
11
Hints and Principles for Computer System Design [pdf]
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/4cex542zznbjh7b/AADM59pqAb9YBy4eeT1uw0t8a?dl=0&preview=Hints+190+full.pdf
80
Bodybuilding supplement promotes healthy aging and extends life span in mice
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/09/bodybuilding-supplement-promotes-healthy-aging-and-extends-life-span-least-mice
122
54
XLS: Accelerated HW Synthesis
https://google.github.io/xls/
112
116
The Odyssey – Alexander Pope translation (1725)
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3160/3160-h/3160-h.htm
106
4
A round-up of topology-based papers at ICML 2020
https://bastian.rieck.me/blog/posts/2020/icml_topology_roundup/
94
Possible detection of a black hole with a mass thought to be impossible
https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-black-hole-so-big-it-should-not-exist-20200902/
84
63
Tips for stable and portable software
https://begriffs.com/posts/2020-08-31-portable-stable-software.html?hn=3