1217
760
PowerShell is open sourced and is available on Linux
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/powershell-is-open-sourced-and-is-available-on-linux/
10 years ago
859
358
Justice Department says it will end use of private prisons
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2016/08/18/justice-department-says-it-will-end-use-of-private-prisons/
743
70
Page Dewarping
https://mzucker.github.io/2016/08/15/page-dewarping.html
530
112
Grokking Deep Learning
https://iamtrask.github.io/2016/08/17/grokking-deep-learning/
468
TCP Puzzlers
https://www.joyent.com/blog/tcp-puzzlers
395
61
A minimal raytracer
https://mzucker.github.io/2016/08/03/miniray.html
391
180
How I wrote and published my novel using only open source tools
https://medium.com/@gabrielgambetta/how-i-wrote-and-published-my-novel-using-only-open-source-tools-5cdfbd7c00ca
321
92
Announcing Rust 1.11
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2016/08/18/Rust-1.11.html
289
201
Otto joins Uber
https://blog.ot.to/our-next-chapter-otto-joins-uber-307ee347a5bf#
237
Uber’s First Self-Driving Fleet Arrives in Pittsburgh This Month
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2016-08-18/uber-s-first-self-driving-fleet-arrives-in-pittsburgh-this-month-is06r7on
258
31
F# for Fun and Profit
https://www.gitbook.com/book/swlaschin/fsharpforfunandprofit/details
248
182
Technology was meant to herald a new way of working, but that’s not the case
http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20160816-theres-no-such-thing-as-flexible-work
241
117
The Secret Button
http://www.codersnotes.com/notes/the-secret-button/
229
96
Was There a Problem with the Rio Pool?
https://swimswam.com/problem-rio-pool/
190
131
AMD Zen Microarchitecture: Dual Schedulers, Micro-Op Cache and Memory Hierarchy
http://www.anandtech.com/show/10578/amd-zen-microarchitecture-dual-schedulers-micro-op-cache-memory-hierarchy-revealed
183
95
All Olympic gold medal winners in the 100m sprint compared in one race
http://interaktiv.tagesanzeiger.ch/2016/100meter/en/
171
119
Organisms might be quantum machines
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160715-organisms-might-be-quantum-machines
170
133
US ready to 'hand over' the internet's naming system
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-37114313
169
93
Decentralization is about diversity
https://sandstorm.io/news/2016-08-17-decentralization-is-about-diversity
164
195
Facebook is building its own Steam-style desktop gaming platform with Unity
https://techcrunch.com/2016/08/18/facebook-desktop-game-platform/
144
America’s housing system still has not been properly reformed
http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21705317-americas-housing-system-was-centre-last-crisis-it-has-still-not-been-properly
162
69
SF YIMBY Platform
http://www.sfyimby.org/platform/
161
40
Drawing isometric boxes in the correct order
http://shaunlebron.github.io/IsometricBlocks/
159
116
Formal – Interruption free communication
https://www.formalapp.com
143
23
Show HN: WebGL Fire Simulation
http://ghostinthecode.net/2016/08/17/fire.html
129
26
Programming principles from the early days of id Software
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/279357/Programming_principles_from_the_early_days_of_id_Software.php
123
15
NASA Data Portal
https://data.nasa.gov
106
25
Show HN: A Web Extension to save a page or selection as eBook
https://github.com/alexadam/save-as-ebook
★ 1.1k JavaScript MIT– 10 years ago
Bus1: a new Linux interprocess communication proposal
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/697191/d5803573a8c5b84c/
102
36
Introducing the Qt Lite project – Qt for any platform, any thing, any size
http://blog.qt.io/blog/2016/08/18/introducing-the-qt-lite-project-qt-for-any-platform-any-thing-any-size/
101
Practical File System Design: The Be File System (1999) [pdf]
http://www.nobius.org/~dbg/practical-file-system-design.pdf
97
Helsinki Tries Self-Driving Buses in Real Traffic
http://spectrum.ieee.org/cars-that-think/transportation/self-driving/helsinki-tries-selfdriving-buses-in-real-traffic
24
Human joins Mapbox
http://human.co/posts/human-joins-mapbox.html
91
10
Tutorial: Zero to Sixty in Racket
http://prl.ccs.neu.edu/blog/2016/08/02/tutorial-zero-to-sixty-in-racket/
22
Human collective intelligence as distributed Bayesian inference
http://arxiv.org/abs/1608.01987
87
20
An Illustrated Guide to Guy Debord’s ‘The Society of the Spectacle’
http://hyperallergic.com/313435/an-illustrated-guide-to-guy-debords-the-society-of-the-spectacle/
What Do Public Library Workers Do? (2011)
https://laurensmith.wordpress.com/2011/10/06/what-do-public-librarians-and-library-staff-do/
83
28
Show HN: Make notes, mindmaps, diagrams online – for studying or brainstorming
http://breakdown-notes.com
80
58
Coursera’s co-founder Daphne Koller set to start anew at Calico
https://techcrunch.com/2016/08/17/courseras-co-founder-daphne-koller-set-to-start-anew-at-calico/
79
The Public Suffix List
https://publicsuffix.org
76
Twitter Suspends 235,000 More Accounts Over Extremism
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/19/technology/twitter-suspends-accounts-extremism.html
75
88
Why Are New York City’s Streets Always Under Construction?
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/08/18/nyregion/new-york-101-streets-repair-and-maintenance.html
73
Uncovering the truth about the British empire and the Mau Mau uprising
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2016/aug/18/uncovering-truth-british-empire-caroline-elkins-mau-mau?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Tweet
72
52
Gawker.com to end operations next week after nearly 14 years of operation
http://www.cnbc.com/2016/08/18/gawkercom-to-end-operations-next-week-after-nearly-14-years-of-operation.html
