494
307
I Don’t Care How Well You Code, Understand Your Compensation
https://hackernoon.com/i-dont-care-how-well-you-code-understand-your-compensation-a1e810973c5e#.htkm7xfnq
10 years ago
432
175
Building fast.com
http://techblog.netflix.com/2016/08/building-fastcom.html
357
221
Researchers crack open malware that hid for 5 years
http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/08/researchers-crack-open-unusually-advanced-malware-that-hid-for-5-years/
316
103
PyPy gets funding from Mozilla for Python 3.5 support
https://morepypy.blogspot.com/2016/08/pypy-gets-funding-from-mozilla-for.html
309
235
AI’s Language Problem
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/602094/ais-language-problem/?set=602129
241
449
Facebook will force advertising on ad-blocking users
http://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-will-force-advertising-on-ad-blocking-users-1470751204
226
140
How to Have Healthy Relationships as a Developer
http://smo.nu/how-to-have-healthy-relationships-as-a-developer/
52
Marie Curie Got Her Start at a Secret University for Women
http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-secret-polish-university-for-women-where-marie-curie-got-her-start
218
64
The CIA’s 1944 Simple Sabotage Field Manual (2015)
http://www.openculture.com/2015/12/simple-sabotage-field-manual.html
211
21
PostgreSQL Index Internals
https://www.pgcon.org/2016/schedule/events/934.en.html
198
82
90-year-old Cryptanalytic Efforts Must Stay Secret, says NSA
https://nsarchive.wordpress.com/2016/06/20/90-year-old-cryptanalytic-efforts-must-stay-secret-says-nsa/
189
58
What No New Particles Means for Physics
https://www.quantamagazine.org/20160809-what-no-new-particles-means-for-physics/
188
51
Fast and Accurate Document Detection for Scanning
https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech/2016/08/fast-and-accurate-document-detection-for-scanning/
178
216
More encryption means less privacy
http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2904894
164
59
Tips for selling your side project
http://codeandtechno.com/posts/tips-for-selling-your-side-project/
146
147
We're Andromium. Making the Superbook, a $99 Android Laptop Shell. AMA
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12253834
145
17
A Street Map of New York City in the 1800s
http://www.techinsider.io/old-photos-of-new-york-city-in-the-1800s-with-google-street-view-2016-7
143
43
Intel to buy deep-learning startup Nervana Systems for at least $350M
http://www.recode.net/2016/8/9/12413600/intel-buys-nervana--350-million
138
80
Google Compute Engine Incident #16015
https://status.cloud.google.com/incident/compute/16015
135
34
Cjdns: a secure non-anonymous P2P network
https://github.com/cjdelisle/cjdns/blob/master/doc/Whitepaper.md
★ 5.3k C GPL-3.0– 10 years ago
128
36
De La Soul’s Legacy Is Trapped in Digital Limbo
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/08/14/arts/music/de-la-soul-digital-albums.html
123
55
APL Tutorial
http://www.zerobugsandprogramfaster.net/essays/5b.html
119
Recreating the Doctor Who Time Tunnel in GLSL
http://roy.red/slitscan-.html
117
44
Updating Torrents via DHT Mutable Items
http://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0046.html
113
90
Struggling Twitter lists over 183,000 square feet for sublease at its S.F. HQ
http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/real-estate/2016/08/twitter-sublease-midmarket-sf-office-twtr.html
110
95
Ask HN: Know a good tool to purge all posts/likes/photos from Facebook?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12254374
106
18
IO-808: A Web-Based TR-808 Drum Machine Using React, Redux, and Web Audio API
http://io808.com/
102
26
1400 km of optical fiber connect optical clocks in France and Germany
http://sciencebulletin.org/archives/4098.html
100
Show HN: Knuckleball – An in-memory data structure server
https://github.com/ral99/knuckleball
★ 181 C++ BSD-3-Clause– 10 years ago
98
89
Randstad buys Monster for $429M as recruitment consolidation continues
https://techcrunch.com/2016/08/08/randstad-buys-monster-for-429m-as-recruitment-consolidation-continues/
37
Linear regression
http://eli.thegreenplace.net/2016/linear-regression/
72
Eating a manchineel “beach apple” (2000)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1127797/
97
GDB Debugging Full Example: Ncurses
http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2016-08-09/gdb-example-ncurses.html
94
35
What Is Knot Theory? Why Is It in Mathematics? [pdf]
http://www.sci.osaka-cu.ac.jp/~kawauchi/WhatIsKnotTheory.pdf
93
7
Square Enix Graphics Designer Manabu Daishima Has Died
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2016-08-08/square-enix-graphics-designer-manabu-daishima-passes-away/.105134
Static files in Go
http://bouk.co/blog/static-files/
85
75
USMS Asset Forfeiture Bitcoin Sale
https://www.usmarshals.gov/assets/2016/bitcoinauction/index.html
168
Apple says Australia's banks pose a security threat to iPhones
http://www.afr.com/technology/apple-says-australias-banks-pose-a-security-threat-to-iphones-20160809-gqogpr
41
Hellwig Will Appeal VMware Ruling After Evidentiary Set Back in Lower Court
http://sfconservancy.org/news/2016/aug/09/vmware-appeal/
How do we build encryption backdoors?
http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2015/04/how-do-we-build-encryption-backdors.html
79
ZeroDB (YC S16) Provides Security for Enterprise Big Data in the Cloud
http://themacro.com/articles/2016/08/zerodb/
84
Dyson sphere
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyson_sphere
77
Most of us would be better off without lawns
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/08/04/lawns-are-a-soul-crushing-timesuck-and-most-of-us-would-be-better-off-without-them/
76
28
Beyond Bitcoin – Part II: Blockchain-based systems without mining [pdf]
http://eprint.iacr.org/2016/747.pdf
No Man's Sky: Update 1.03
http://www.no-mans-sky.com/2016/08/update-1-03/
70
33
America's First Medal at the Nazi Olympics Was for Town Planning
http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/americas-first-medal-at-the-nazi-olympics-was-fortown-planning
92
Feature Request: Manual Refresh of external calendar feeds
https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/calendar/iXp8fZfgU2E;context-place=topicsearchin/calendar/ical
68
20
Godot reaches 2.1 stable
https://godotengine.org/article/godot-reaches-2-1-stable
67
Soylent Coffee: Nootropics, fat, carbs, protein
http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/08/if-youve-been-waiting-for-soylent-coffee-your-wait-is-over/
65
3
Implementing a basic x86 page frame allocator in C
https://anastas.io/osdev/memory/2016/08/08/page-frame-allocator.html
56
An act to amend Financial and Corporations Codes relating to digital currency
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1326
15
Evidence Mounts That Rembrandt Used Optics to Paint Self-Portraits
http://hyperallergic.com/315706/evidence-mounts-that-rembrandt-used-optics-to-paint-self-portraits/
Recommendations for building a career in open source
https://opensource.com/business/16/8/building-career-open-source
133
The DAO Hacker Is Getting Away
http://www.coindesk.com/ethereum-dao-hacker-getting-away-classic/
63
Apple’s New Privacy Technology May Pressure Competitors
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/602046/apples-new-privacy-technology-may-pressure-competitors-to-better-protect-our-data/
Walking a mile is 3x more expensive than driving, from a fuel perspective
http://www.datadriventhoughts.com/2016/08/08/walking-is-3-times-more-expensive-than-driving-from-an-energy-perspective/
