1004
64
Show HN: Generating fantasy maps – an interactive exploration
http://mewo2.com/notes/terrain/
10 years ago
833
226
This JPEG is also a webpage
http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/squirrel/
599
327
Everyone is quitting
https://sites.google.com/site/thefaceofamazon/home/everyone-is-quitting
434
336
“CPUs are optimized for video games”
https://moderncrypto.org/mail-archive/noise/2016/000699.html
425
161
Shape of errors to come
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2016/08/10/Shape-of-errors-to-come.html
415
199
Show HN: Give 7B people an instant physical address
https://github.com/roberdam/Xaddress
★ 1.1k Ruby MIT– 10 years ago
320
56
How does gdb work?
http://jvns.ca/blog/2016/08/10/how-does-gdb-work/
319
96
Ask HN: What are good reads for designing APIs?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12262586
318
152
I don't think the Port Authority would like it if you looked at this photo
https://plus.google.com/+JonathanRockway/posts/DJV3U7e8enh
299
100
Microsoft proves backdoor keys are a bad idea
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/08/10/microsoft_secure_boot_ms16_100/
284
174
Flash and Chrome
http://chrome.googleblog.com/2016/08/flash-and-chrome.html
281
117
On Cybersecurity and Being Targeted
http://www.kennethreitz.org/essays/on-cybersecurity-and-being-targeted
244
51
Secure Golden Key Boot
https://rol.im/securegoldenkeyboot/
241
Google employees have enjoyed revolving door during Obama administration
http://watchdog.org/265844/google-obama-revolving-door/
229
10
Image Completion with Deep Learning in TensorFlow
http://bamos.github.io/2016/08/09/deep-completion/
218
Ask HN: 8 years working, now 3-4 months off to learn. Looking for advice
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12259772
209
154
Why It Doesn't Pay to Be a People Pleaser
http://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/why_it_doesnt_pay_to_be_a_people_pleaser
228
WikiLeaks offers $20,000 for information on former DNC staffer's murder
http://www.businessinsider.com/wikileaks-20000-seth-rich-dnc-2016-8
198
72
Intero for Emacs: complete interactive development program for Haskell
https://commercialhaskell.github.io/intero/
164
94
Type Punning Functions in C
http://www.evanmiller.org/type-punning-functions-in-c.html
160
43
The boss, not the workload, causes workplace depression
http://sciencenordic.com/boss-not-workload-causes-workplace-depression
159
Playability Test of 100 Humble Bundle Games on Linux
http://blogg.forteller.net/2016/humble-test/
148
74
The perils of being your own doctor
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2016/aug/04/perils-being-your-own-doctor-als
89
American Bar Association votes to DRM referenced material made public
https://boingboing.net/2016/08/10/american-bar-association-votes.html
141
55
Why scaling and parallelism remain hard even with new tools and languages
https://www.erlang-solutions.com/blog/the-continuing-headaches-of-distributed-programming.html
132
12
R: text analysis of Trump’s tweets
https://www.r-bloggers.com/text-analysis-of-trumps-tweets-confirms-he-writes-only-the-angrier-android-half/
129
23
A TCP weakness in Linux systems allows network traffic hijack
http://www.isssource.com/fixing-an-internet-security-threat/
128
35
FreeBSD Core statement on recent freebsd-update and related vulnerabilities
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-announce/2016-August/001739.html
114
115
The Great Productivity Puzzle
http://www.newyorker.com/news/john-cassidy/the-great-productivity-puzzle?intcid=mod-latest
109
Employee #1: Tumblr
http://themacro.com/articles/2016/08/employee-1-tumblr/
107
40
Cursory hack – Fake address bar interaction
https://jameshfisher.github.io/cursory-hack/
28
ProtonMail now the maintainer of OpenPGPjs email encryption library
https://protonmail.com/blog/openpgpjs-email-encryption/
106
42
Study found bronze medal-winners tended to be happier than silver medalists
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetorch/2012/08/03/157835076/would-you-rather-win-silver-or-bronze-be-careful-what-you-wish-for
87
From first principles: Why I bet on Scala.js
http://www.lihaoyi.com/post/FromfirstprinciplesWhyIbetonScalajs.html
Beyond CRISPR: A guide to the many other ways to edit a genome
http://www.nature.com/news/beyond-crispr-a-guide-to-the-many-other-ways-to-edit-a-genome-1.20388
33
The Million-Key Question: Investigating the Origins of RSA Public Keys
https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity16/technical-sessions/presentation/svenda
105
47
Python 3 on Google App Engine flexible environment now in beta
https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/08/python-3-on-Google-App-Engine-flexible-environment-now-in-beta.html
15
The OpenSSD Project (2011)
http://www.openssd-project.org/wiki/The_OpenSSD_Project
104
69
Why bad-tempered people earn more and live longer
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160809-why-it-pays-to-be-grumpy-and-bad-tempered
102
188
Apple Said to Plan First Pro Laptop Overhaul in Years
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-10/apple-said-to-plan-first-pro-laptop-overhaul-in-four-years
99
30
Librevault: Open source zero-knowledge peer-to-peer file sync
https://librevault.com/
95
24
Data Analysis and Visualization Using R (2014)
http://varianceexplained.org/RData/
93
31
“The WorldWideWeb (WWW) project aims to allow links to information” (1991)
https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!msg/alt.hypertext/eCTkkOoWTAY/bJGhZyooXzkJ
92
27
Don Bateman’s terrain mapping device
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-bateman-airplane-safety-device/
88
14
Rust compiler walk-through – Introduction
https://gchp.ie/2016/08/09/rust-compiler-walkthrough-introduction/
A Prayer for Archimedes (2007)
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/prayer-archimedes
79
22
Acoustic Prism Invented at EPFL
http://actu.epfl.ch/news/acoustic-prism-invented-at-epfl/
1
Text analysis of Trump's tweets shows he writes only the (angrier) Android half
http://varianceexplained.org/r/trump-tweets/
The Miracle of the Modern Banana
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/people-and-culture/food/the-plate/2016/08/the-miracle-of-bananas