208
73
Prostitution and the internet
http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21611074-how-new-technology-shaking-up-oldest-business-more-bang-your-buck
12 years ago
192
350
Death by Inches: The battle over the metric system in America
http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/books/2014/08/john_marciano_s_whatever_happened_to_the_metric_system_reviewed.single.html
183
32
We’re 10 today
https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2014/08/09/10th-birthday/
168
38
Fast and easy Levenshtein distance using a trie (2011)
http://stevehanov.ca/blog/index.php?id=114
149
63
MacBasic
http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=MacBasic.txt
146
57
A Message from the Amazon Books Team
http://www.readersunited.com
143
25
One wolf's migration across Europe
http://www.theguardian.com/science/animal-magic/2014/aug/08/slavc-wolf-migration-europe
130
68
Hackers Unveil Their Plan to Change Email
http://time.com/3096341/email-encryption-hackers/
126
Getting It Done with Haskell
https://app.doxiq.com/d/rbczklzyvgczkfgh/Getting-it-Done-with-Haskell-pdf
123
172
The Trucking Industry Needs More Drivers. Maybe It Needs to Pay More
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/10/upshot/the-trucking-industry-needs-more-drivers-it-should-try-paying-more.html?ref=business&_r=0
95
61
Neuromancer, 30 years old this month
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jul/28/william-gibson-neuromancer-cyberpunk-books
85
We’re tackling aging
http://www.calicolabs.com/
94
29
Sysmon – Log system activity to the Windows event log
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/dn798348
106
Why Not a Three-Day Week?
http://www.newyorker.com/science/maria-konnikova/three-day-week
75
27
Clojure Style Guide
https://github.com/bbatsov/clojure-style-guide
★ 4k – 12 years ago
70
8
Non-Transparent Memory Safety
http://blog.regehr.org/archives/1175
46
Nigel Richards, The Best Scrabble Player
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-makes-nigel-richards-the-best-scrabble-player-on-earth/
67
40
Soviet Armored Military Vehicles for Sale
http://www.sovietarmor.com/for_sale.html
64
7
Towards daily imaging of Spaceship Earth
https://www.planet.com/pulse/towards-daily/
58
15
18F API Standards
https://github.com/18f/api-standards
★ 488 – 12 years ago
11
How to bypass Zeus Trojan’s self protection mechanism
http://int0xcc.svbtle.com/how-to-bypass-zeus-trojans-self-protection-mechanism
53
Is Wine-Tasting Junk Science?
http://www.npr.org/blogs/13.7/2014/08/08/338839598/is-wine-tasting-junk-science
52
Secrets of amazing teachers: What both sides of the education debate get wrong
http://www.salon.com/2014/08/09/secrets_of_amazing_teachers_what_both_sides_of_the_education_reform_debate_get_wrong_about_autonomy_and_accountability/
51
Haskell Platform 2014.2.0.0 Released
http://www.haskell.org/platform/#2014.2.0.0
47
10
For The Love Of Open Mapping Data
http://techcrunch.com/2014/08/09/for-the-love-of-open-mapping-data/?ncid=rss
44
1
NY DA Employs Secret Orders to Gather Complete Dossiers from Facebook
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/06/prism-local-edition-ny-da-employs-381-secret-orders-gather-complete-digital
22
Why so many shipowners find Panama's flag convenient
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-28558480
39
Court Rejects Silicon Valley Hiring Settlement
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/08/09/technology/settlement-rejected-in-silicon-valley-hiring-case.html
3
Doing Data Science with coLaboratory
http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2014/08/doing-data-science-with-colaboratory.html
16
The Difference Between Working at Facebook, Google, and Microsoft
http://www.businessinsider.com/dima-korolev-career-2014-8
17
How Math Got Its ‘Nobel’
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/10/opinion/sunday/how-math-got-its-nobel-.html
