649
365
Moving 12 years of email from GMail to FastMail
https://cpbotha.net/2016/08/06/moving-12-years-of-email-from-gmail-to-fastmail/
10 years ago
536
211
“I Want to Know What Code Is Running Inside My Body”
https://backchannel.com/i-want-to-know-what-code-is-running-inside-my-body-ff9a159da34b#.gait3xuzi
483
380
Why I'm not a big fan of Scrum
http://okigiveup.net/not-big-fan-of-scrum/
444
341
A Generation Lost in the Bazaar (2012)
http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2349257
429
254
Confirmed: Walmart buys Jet.com for $3B in cash
https://techcrunch.com/2016/08/08/confirmed-walmart-buys-jet-com-for-3b-in-cash/
386
133
Notes on Distributed Systems for Young Bloods (2013)
https://www.somethingsimilar.com/2013/01/14/notes-on-distributed-systems-for-young-bloods/
363
47
Image Kernels explained visually
http://setosa.io/ev/image-kernels/
309
121
Why do CPUs have multiple cache levels?
https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2016/08/07/why-do-cpus-have-multiple-cache-levels/
215
188
Trial by Jury, a Hallowed American Right, Is Vanishing
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/08/nyregion/jury-trials-vanish-and-justice-is-served-behind-closed-doors.html
207
91
TLS Everywhere, not https: URIs (2015)
https://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Security-NotTheS.html
196
40
CSS mix-blend-mode is bad for your browsing history
https://lcamtuf.blogspot.com/2016/08/css-mix-blend-mode-is-bad-for-keeping.html
179
74
It’s hard work printing nothing
http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/its-hard-work-printing-nothing
175
124
Quadrooter: New Vulnerabilities Affecting Over 900M Android Devices [pdf]
https://www.checkpoint.com/downloads/resources/quadRooter-vulnerability-research-report.pdf
169
142
Purely Functional Linux with NixOS [video]
https://begriffs.com/posts/2016-08-08-intro-to-nixos.html?hn=1
152
131
Ecological Wealth of Nations
http://www.footprintnetwork.org/ecological_footprint_nations/index.html
150
151
Research indicates that only about half of perceived friendships are mutual
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/07/opinion/sunday/do-your-friends-actually-like-you.html?action=click&contentCollection=U.S.&module=Trending&version=Full®ion=Marginalia&pgtype=article
147
181
Emperor Akihito of Japan Raises Possibility of Leaving Throne
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/09/world/asia/japan-emperor-akihito-retirement.html
146
99
Version 11 of Mathematica
http://blog.wolfram.com/2016/08/08/today-we-launch-version-11/
141
37
Printable 1:24000 topographic maps for the entire US
http://www.natgeomaps.com/trail-maps/pdf-quads
140
30
The Update Framework
https://theupdateframework.github.io/
137
77
Fear and Loathing in Linux, or Who Needs /etc/motd (2010)
http://web.archive.org/web/20131205090841/http://deadmemes.net/2010/10/19/fear-and-loathing-in-debianubuntu-or-who-needs-etcmotd
130
4
AMA: We Are the Google Brain Team
https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/4w6tsv/ama_we_are_the_google_brain_team_wed_love_to/
122
64
How Teletext and Ceefax are coming back from the dead
http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/how-teletext-and-ceefax-are-coming-back-from-the-dead-1326145
117
23
CuratedAI: A literary magazine written by machines, for people
http://curatedai.com/
115
Thousands of Delta passengers delayed by computer outage
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-37009311
109
Backyard telescopes and amateur eyes see where “pro” astronomers can’t
http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/08/amateur-astronomy/
107
52
A New Explanation for One of the Strangest Occurrences in Nature: Ball Lightning
http://nautil.us/blog/a-new-explanation-for-one-of-the-strangest-occurrences-in-nature-ball-lightning
105
53
EU expands copyright to furniture and extends term by a century
https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2016/08/3d-printers-break-eu-expands-copyright-furniture/
100
57
Show HN: JSON.is
http://json.is
32
40-Thread Xeon PC Build for Less Than the Price of a Broadwell-E Core I7
http://www.techspot.com/review/1218-affordable-40-thread-xeon-monster-pc/
95
6
Reverse Engineering Quadcopter Protocols
https://mmelchior.wordpress.com/2016/06/06/qc-360-a1-p1/
94
73
Video of Valley Mogul Kicking His Girlfriend 117 Times Could Send Him to Jail
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/08/08/video-of-silicon-valley-mogul-kicking-his-girlfriend-117-times-could-send-him-to-jail.html
85
Cat People vs. Dog People
https://research.facebook.com/blog/cat-people-dog-people/
Protecting Netflix Viewing Privacy at Scale
http://techblog.netflix.com/2016/08/protecting-netflix-viewing-privacy-at.html
89
78
Foreign residential property buyers to be taxed at 15% in Vancouver
http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21703381-taxing-problem-foreign-buyers-home-bias?fsrc=scn/fb/te/pe/ed/homebias
88
50
Answer: How many center-pivot irrigation systems do you see?
http://searchresearch1.blogspot.com/2016/08/answer-how-many-center-pivot-irrigation.html
87
63
Kids can now learn to code with Pocky, the delicious Japanese snack
http://www.theverge.com/2016/8/5/12387456/glicode-pocky-coding-game-japan
84
14
Metropolis Algorithm and Bayesian posterior sampling
http://efavdb.com/metropolis/
80
26
The Magic Bureaucrat and His Riverside Miracle
http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/magic-bureaucrat-riverside-miracle/
93
What If Addiction Is Not a Disease?
http://chronicle.com/article/What-if-Addiction-Is-Not-a/237383
75
13
Computing machinery and intelligence (1950)
http://www.loebner.net/Prizef/TuringArticle.html
49
NSIS 3.0 ready
http://nsis.sourceforge.net/News
72
Run instant authentication checks on any government issued ID
http://www.confirm.io/
How to Give Rural America Broadband? Look to the Early 1900s
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/08/technology/how-to-give-rural-america-broadband-look-to-the-early-1900s.html?_r=0
70
18
Destroy All Software relaunches
https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/screencasts
