643
323
Hello from Orkut
http://orkut.com/
10 years ago
459
160
Let's Encrypt root certificate trusted by Mozilla
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1289889#c6
441
140
Mozilla Awards $585k to Nine Open Source Projects
https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2016/08/04/mozilla-awards-585000-to-nine-open-source-projects-in-q2-2016/
406
135
Ask HN: How do you get notified about newest research papers in your field?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12233289
385
312
Torrentz Shuts Down, Largest Torrent Meta-Search Engine Says Farewell
https://torrentfreak.com/torrentz-shuts-down-largest-torrent-meta-search-engine-says-farewell-160805/
361
246
Why We Moved from Amazon Web Services to Google Cloud Platform
https://lugassy.net/why-we-moved-from-amazon-web-services-to-google-cloud-platform-726c412fd667#.lst7lyful
349
95
Minds Turned to Ash: Burnout is more than working too hard
https://www.1843magazine.com/features/minds-turned-to-ash
333
163
The Linux kernel hidden inside Windows 10
https://github.com/ionescu007/lxss
★ 888 C++ MIT– 10 years ago
292
346
Moving to GitLab: Yes, it's worth it
https://about.gitlab.com/2016/08/04/moving-to-gitlab-yes-its-worth-it/
277
179
Amazon launches Prime Air, its own dedicated cargo planes to speed delivery
https://techcrunch.com/2016/08/04/amazon-to-launch-prime-air-its-own-dedicated-cargo-planes-to-speed-delivery/?ncid=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29
261
59
MIT and DARPA Pack Lidar Sensor onto Single Chip
http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/semiconductors/optoelectronics/mit-lidar-on-a-chip
253
155
Praise for Intelligence Can Undermine Children's Motivation (1998) [pdf]
https://psychology.stanford.edu/sites/all/files/Intelligence%20Praise%20Can%20Undermine%20Motivation%20and%20Performance_0.pdf
242
69
Test flight held for small jet modeled after Miyazaki anime
http://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20160805/p2a/00m/0na/013000c
233
188
Find a new city
http://austinkleon.com/2016/08/03/find-a-new-city/
229
206
The Real Value of $100 in Each US State
http://taxfoundation.org/blog/real-value-100-each-state-2016
202
What are Bloom filters? (2015)
https://medium.com/the-story/what-are-bloom-filters-1ec2a50c68ff#.x11blygds
166
26
Carnegie Mellon’s Mayhem AI Wins DARPA’s Cyber Grand Challenge
https://techcrunch.com/2016/08/05/carnegie-mellons-mayhem-ai-takes-home-2-million-from-darpas-cyber-grand-challenge/
58
“Please note, the hashtag is for our paying advertisers”
https://twitter.com/EdmondActive/status/761404345908736000
158
57
Show HN: Book about writing web apps in Go without a framework
https://github.com/thewhitetulip/web-dev-golang-anti-textbook/
★ 3.2k Go – 10 years ago
150
32
Hitchhiker trees: functional, persistent, off-heap sorted maps
https://github.com/datacrypt-project/hitchhiker-tree/blob/master/doc/hitchhiker.adoc
★ 1.2k Clojure EPL-1.0– 10 years ago
133
62
A molecule called ‘Sandman’ could help solve the ‘mystery of sleep’
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2016/08/03/a-molecule-called-sandman-could-help-solve-the-mystery-of-sleep/
132
110
FTC to Crack Down on Paid Celebrity Posts That Aren’t Clear Ads
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-05/ftc-to-crack-down-on-paid-celebrity-posts-that-aren-t-clear-ads
131
93
Latest to Quit Google’s Self-Driving Car Unit: Top Roboticist
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/06/technology/alphabet-google-autonomous-car-chris-urmson.html?mtrref=undefined&gwh=CC520E9B5D3F22E2DE4DD4808171F4A1&gwt=pay&_r=0
126
30
Understanding gradient descent
http://eli.thegreenplace.net/2016/understanding-gradient-descent/
124
Demystifying the Secure Enclave Processor [pdf]
https://www.blackhat.com/docs/us-16/materials/us-16-Mandt-Demystifying-The-Secure-Enclave-Processor.pdf
120
The truth about Lisp (2006)
http://www.secretgeek.net/lisp_truth
45
7-Elevens Are Becoming Lifelines for Japan's Elderly
http://www.citylab.com/navigator/2016/08/how-7-elevens-are-becoming-lifelines-for-japans-elderly/493772/
117
22
Can NAT traversal be Tor's killer feature? (2014)
https://gist.github.com/obvio171/73122ba490c864644792#file-can-nat-traversal-be-tor-s-killer-feature-md
112
The Lost Art of C Structure Packing (2014)
http://www.catb.org/esr/structure-packing/
113
217
To Cut Down Poverty, Cut Down the Cost of Living
http://www.citylab.com/cityfixer/2016/08/poverty-reduction-cost-of-living-center-for-neighborhood-technology/494348/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheAtlanticCities+%28CityLab%29
103
Notes on concurrency bugs
http://danluu.com/concurrency-bugs/
99
11
Making Rust Fly with MIR [video]
https://air.mozilla.org/making-mir-fly/
94
86
XMPP: Swiss Army Knife for the Internet of Things
https://blog.securitycompass.com/xmpp-swiss-army-knife-for-internet-of-things-iot-9eff783c44ba#.6fzzosfqh
87
15
An Isolated Tribe Emerges from the Rain Forest
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/08/08/an-isolated-tribe-emerges-from-the-rain-forest?intcid=mod-most-popular
89
Btrfs RAID 5/6 Code Found to Be Very Unsafe and Will Likely Require a Rewrite
http://phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Btrfs-RAID-56-Is-Bad
85
52
No Exit: Dementia Village Dwellers Live in Alternate Reality
http://weburbanist.com/2014/02/18/no-exit-dementia-village-dwellers-live-in-alternate-reality/
81
5
Xen exploitation part 3: XSA-182, Qubes escape
http://blog.quarkslab.com/xen-exploitation-part-3-xsa-182-qubes-escape.html
79
18
Show HN: PyHN - Hacker news client for command line
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyhn/0.3.6
72
JQuery++
http://jquerypp.com/
74
39
Ask HN: Chances for mature newbie
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12231066
66
A free/open computer on a card that you swap in and out of a 3D printed laptop
http://boingboing.net/2016/08/04/a-freeopen-computer-on-a-card.html
9
1700 blogs for hackers
https://github.com/abdelhai/devblogs
★ 635 Python – 10 years ago
24
Three States and a Plan: The A.I. of F.E.A.R (2006) [pdf]
http://alumni.media.mit.edu/~jorkin/gdc2006_orkin_jeff_fear.pdf
68
104
Ask HN: How much job hopping is acceptable?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12233155
67
48
Brains of overweight people look ten years older than those of lean peers
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/aug/04/brains-of-overweight-people-look-ten-years-older-than-those-of-lean-peers
37
Do Oil Companies Really Need $4B per Year of Taxpayers’ Money?
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/08/06/upshot/do-oil-companies-really-need-4-billion-per-year-of-taxpayers-money.html?em_pos=small&emc=edit_dk_20160805&nl=dealbook&nl_art=5&nlid=65508833&ref=headline&te=1&_r=1&referer=