1313
539
The Dropbox hack is real
https://www.troyhunt.com/the-dropbox-hack-is-real
10 years ago
819
156
Smaller and faster data compression with Zstandard
https://code.facebook.com/posts/1658392934479273/smaller-and-faster-data-compression-with-zstandard/
467
129
Rclone: rsync for cloud storage
http://rclone.org
423
127
How a Japanese cucumber farmer is using deep learning and TensorFlow
https://cloud.google.com/blog/big-data/2016/08/how-a-japanese-cucumber-farmer-is-using-deep-learning-and-tensorflow
359
32
Textures.js – SVG patterns for Data Visualization
http://riccardoscalco.github.io/textures/
325
128
Google's login page accepts a vulnerable GET parameter
https://www.aidanwoods.com/blog/faulty-login-pages
323
75
Announcing BuckleScript 1.0
http://bloomberg.github.io/bucklescript/blog/index.html
294
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Dropbox employee’s password reuse led to theft of 60M+ user credentials
https://techcrunch.com/2016/08/30/dropbox-employees-password-reuse-led-to-theft-of-60m-user-credentials/?ncid=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29
275
82
Amazon Launchpad for Startups
https://www.amazon.com/gp/launchpad
266
57
France: Open Access Law Adopted
https://www.openaire.eu/france-final-text-of-the-law-for-oa-has-been-adopted
226
172
Ask HN: How Did You Escape 9 to 5?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12398290
222
211
Grateful Dead Fan Timothy Tyler Has Been Granted Clemency
http://liveforlivemusic.com/news/grateful-dead-fan-timothy-tyler-has-been-granted-clemency-by-president-barack-obama/
220
53
Robin Hood Hashing should be the default hash table implementation (2013)
http://www.sebastiansylvan.com/post/robin-hood-hashing-should-be-your-default-hash-table-implementation/
200
80
SES-10 Launching to Orbit on SpaceX's Flight-Proven Falcon 9 Rocket
http://www.ses.com/4233325/news/2016/22407810
189
38
My favorite Erlang Program (2013)
http://joearms.github.io/2013/11/21/My-favorite-erlang-program.html
180
76
Safe Retirement Spending Using TensorFlow
http://blog.streeteye.com/blog/2016/08/safe-retirement-spending-using-certainty-equivalent-cash-flow-and-tensorflow/
178
18
Stitch – A small Python library for writing reproducible reports in Markdown
https://pystitch.github.io/
175
Speech Is 3x Faster Than Typing for English and Mandarin on Mobile Devices
http://hci.stanford.edu/research/speech/
168
50
Decoding Data from Iridium Satellites
http://www.rtl-sdr.com/talk-decoding-data-from-iridium-satellites/
153
25
The story of how WoSign gave me an SSL certificate for GitHub
https://www.schrauger.com/the-story-of-how-wosign-gave-me-an-ssl-certificate-for-github-com
138
93
Ask HN: How are credentials managed at your company?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12396883
137
73
Pebble 4.0 Apps and Firmware Released
https://blog.getpebble.com/2016/08/30/fw4-0/
136
39
Scientists find 3.7B-year-old fossil, oldest yet
http://phys.org/news/2016-08-scientists-billion-year-old-fossil-oldest.html
125
33
Olduse.net: a 30-year delayed Usenet feed
http://olduse.net/
120
35
SASM – Simple Crossplatform IDE for Assembly Languages
https://dman95.github.io/SASM/english.html
119
16
A new algorithm for smoother 360 video viewing
https://code.facebook.com/posts/697469023742261/360-video-stabilization-a-new-algorithm-for-smoother-360-video-viewing/
115
91
Graduate Students, the Laborers of Academia
http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/graduate-students-the-laborers-of-academia?mbid=rss
112
110
A silent epidemic of male suicide (2011)
http://www.bcmj.org/articles/silent-epidemic-male-suicide
107
187
On Two Views of Computation in Computer Science
https://pressron.wordpress.com/2016/08/30/what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-computation/
105
12
Life on the Infinite Farm [pdf]
https://www.math.brown.edu/~res/farm.pdf
104
34
Show HN: Use Meetup.com Data to Find Your Ideal City
https://cole-maclean.github.io/meetupcityfinder/
103
20
The Story of the First Microprocessors
http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/hardware/the-surprising-story-of-the-first-microprocessors
102
37
PRU tips: Understanding the BeagleBone's built-in microcontrollers
http://www.righto.com/2016/08/pru-tips-understanding-beaglebones.html
100
29
Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari – How data will destroy human freedom
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/aug/24/homo-deus-by-yuval-noah-harari-review
96
10
Building a Scalable Postgres Metrics Backend Using the Citus Extension
https://www.citusdata.com/blog/2016/08/30/citus-clouds-usage-of-citus-cloud/
94
74
Why do UDP packets get dropped?
http://jvns.ca/blog/2016/08/24/find-out-where-youre-dropping-packets/
87
EmDrive: Nasa paper has finally passed peer review
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/emdrive-nasa-eagleworks-paper-has-finally-passed-peer-review-says-scientist-know-1578716
84
36
Researchers Map Locations of Servers in Netflix’s Content Delivery Network
http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/telecom/internet/researchers-map-locations-of-4669-servers-in-netflixs-content-delivery-network
79
60
Show HN: Price changes alerts for any store
http://app.thepriceminer.com/
78
Theranos Halts New Zika Test After FDA Inspection
http://www.wsj.com/articles/theranos-halts-new-zika-test-after-fda-inspection-1472598332
141
Legislation would restrict H-1B visas
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-h1b-visa-20160830-snap-story.html
Raising Money Online – Advice for Startups
http://themacro.com/articles/2016/08/raising-money-online-advice-for-startups/
72
67
New elephant study shows catastrophic decline in Africa
http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/31/africa/great-elephant-census/
77
The Fastest FizzBuzz in the West
https://www.promptworks.com/blog/the-fastest-fizzbuzz-in-the-west?utm_source=python&utm_medium=reddit&utm_campaign=FizzBuzz
Atom 1.10 and 1.11 beta
http://blog.atom.io/2016/08/31/atom-1-10-and-1-11-beta.html
70
122
Tabs or spaces – Parsing a 1B files among 14 programming languages
https://medium.com/@hoffa/400-000-github-repositories-1-billion-files-14-terabytes-of-code-spaces-or-tabs-7cfe0b5dd7fd#.ux86pwfmi
68
66
Will Amazon Kill FedEx?
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-amazon-delivery/
19
Wallace and Gromit – The Great Train Chase (1993) [video]
http://www.aardman.com/celebrating-40-years/the-great-train-chase/
Tasmanian Devils Developing Resistance to Transmissible Cancer
http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/46907/title/Tasmanian-Devils-Developing-Resistance-to-Transmissible-Cancer/
64
Instrumentl (YC S16) Is Building a Database of All the Grants in the World
http://themacro.com/articles/2016/08/instrumentl/
63
22
The Cat-And-Mouse Story of Implementing Anti-Spam for Mail.ru
http://highscalability.com/blog/2016/8/30/the-cat-and-mouse-story-of-implementing-anti-spam-for-mailru.html
62
83
The Undermining of American Charity
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2016/07/14/the-undermining-of-american-charity/
61
6
Why some trees evolved to live underground (2014)
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20141103-why-some-trees-live-underground
108
The Internet Should Be a Public Good
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/08/internet-public-dns-privatization-icann-netflix/
