387

Programmers: Before you turn 40, get a plan B (2009)

290

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261

Pentagon testing mass surveillance balloons across the US

204

“I would like to maintain the floppy driver”

162

Medieval people bathed regularly

162

Fasting Cure Is No Fad

158

Empress trees absorb about 103 tons of carbon a year per acre

147

Typed Properties in PHP 7.4

142

Contributing to the Mozilla code base

123

‘Just four dudes’: Inside EasyList, a community-run ad-blocking list

119

Standard Ebooks: Free public-domain ebooks, carefully produced

107

Hong Kong protests: 'I'm in Australia but I feel censored by Chinese students'

99

Amazon will pull the plug on dash buttons

97

The race is on to develop new strategies for storing nuclear waste

86

The Art of Warez [video]

86

Wisconsin Officials Urge People to Stop Vaping After Sudden Rise in Lung Disease

80

Misconfigured Jira instances exposed data of hundreds of Fortune 500 companies

78

Bad Times in Tech? Not If You’re a Startup Serving Other Startups

75

The Web We Want

68

Facebook to Add Its Name to Instagram, WhatsApp

67

Why we ground electrical systems (2015)

66

Would you accept cheaper rent in exchange for a monthly Amazon purchasing quota?

64

Amazon allegedly scammed out of $370K by 22-year-old's return shipments of dirt

63

AMD Ryzen 7 3700X is such a hit it almost outsold Intel’s entire CPU range

60

KIP-500: Replace ZooKeeper with a Self-Managed Metadata Quorum

56

Homomorphic encryption

56

Lawsuit filed against GitHub in wake of Capital One data breach

55

Who Did the Maya Sacrifice?

51

Punpedia – The Online Encyclopedia of Puns

49

China has started a grand experiment in AI education

40

Electric scooters aren't as green as you may think

40

The Real Dark Web

40

A practical guide to CSS transitions and animations

39

China’s options for retaliating against tariffs are limited by its own economy

36

Cartoons in Tektronix Schematics

35

Yahoo Mail’s Plan to Fix Email: Make Computers Read It

35

The Birth of the Semicolon

34

Roaring glacial melt under the bridge to Kangerlussiauq, Greenland

32

The Polar Star, the only U.S. ship capable of bludgeoning through heavy ice

28

Lawsuit: Autopilot didn't prevent Model 3 from driving under semi at 68 MPH

27

Mining Bitcoin on an Apple II

25

I found an easter egg from 1977

23

How Digital Advertising Markets Really Work

22

Network Effects That Don’t Look Like Network Effects

20

A mosque rebuilt once a year

19

Nipkow disk

18

Launch HN: Prolific (YC S19) – Quickly find high-quality survey participants

15

Prolog Control in Six Slides

15

The “Terrascope”: On the Possibility of Using the Earth as an Atmospheric Lens

15

KiloGrams: Large N-Grams for Malware Classification

14

Ghost Taxis of Japan (2016)

14

A movie changed one man's vision (2012)

13

It may be possible to extract electricity directly from damp air

12

Advances in Conversational AI

12

FBI says “extremists” motivated by Pizzagate, QAnon are threats

12

Facebook gets closer to letting you type with your mind

11

“Awakenings” in Advanced Dementia Patients Hint at Untapped Brain Reserves

11

SpaCy PyTorch Transformers

10

Building a Programming Language Pt. 3 – Interpreting

9

The Secret Life of Kudzu

9

More on Backdooring (or Not) WhatsApp

8

BiVector: Community for Geometric Algebra for CGI, Vision and Engineering

8

Gilder's Law

7

Literature-Based Discovery

7

Breaking Down the Chrome Web Store: An Exploratory Analysis of Extensions

6

A hiker in Canada was approached by a cougar. She blasted Metallica to scare it

6

Dreaming about Better Sleep: Dreem, Oura and the Rest

6

A brief tour of differential privacy [pdf]

5

America’s DIY Phone Farmers

4

New advanced malware, possibly nation sponsored, is targeting US utilities

4

Saudi Arabia Allows Women to Travel Without a Male Guardian's Permission

4

The Mizar proof system (2017)

4

History of Balloons and Ballooning (2017)

3

Making the Moon Camera

3

Local Routing in a new Indefinitely Scalable Architecture [pdf]

3

Rome Is the Fulcrum of AMD’s Datacenter Pivot

2

The Ghosts of Our Lives

2

A virtual reality website from the time before Oculus

2

WWLLN – The World Wide Lightning Location Network

2

The Endless, Invisible Persuasion Tactics of the Internet

2

The Dark Art of Interrogation (2003)

2

Tree First Aid After a Storm

2

Alarm over voter purges as 17m Americans removed from rolls in two years

2

My Points on Flutter as a React Native Developer

1

Julia: Come for the Syntax, Stay for the Speed

1

The Complex Case of Rui Pinto

1

The Fleshly Frontier

1

Edward Snowden: Permanent Record

1

Chandrasekhar Limit

1

Letter from a Region in My Mind (1962)