Curated Articles: Redux

Top papers and documents on Hacker News in the last month. Updated weekly.

This Perspective article asserts that the most prestigious journals publish the least reliable science, and asks how long we can afford to reward scientists for publishing there.

Experience the thrill of multiball mayhem and the agony of a double drain.

Google’s AMP project is supposed to speed up your web site. But what do you do when it makes your site slower? Do publishers have a real choice about using it?

Use of game-changing Triton malware to target safety systems isn't an isolated incident.

Javanoscript, Python, DevOps, and China

Social neuroscientists ask what happens at the level of neurons when you tell someone a story or a group watches movies

count(*) is often quite slow in PostgreSQL. This article explores how to count rows faster using approximations and other tricks.

jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library

As the iterative learning algorithm has to start somewhere, we have to decide how to initialize weights. Here we try a few techniques and weight their streng...

It might be difficult for modern audiences to believe, but at one point Microsoft Windows fit on floppy disks. This was a simpler time, with smaller hard drives, lower resolution displays, and no h…

Unlike at social networks such as Facebook and Twitter, the people who respond to reports of harassment are largely unpaid volunteers.

An international telemarketing network lured hundreds of thousands of elderly or disabled patients into a criminal scheme, prosecutors said.

"A service mesh solution from Google Cloud for simplifying, managing, and securing complex microservices architectures."