752
587
Martin Shkreli is found guilty of securities fraud
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/business/wp/2017/08/04/martin-shkreli-jury-enters-fifth-day-of-deliberations/
8 years ago
664
334
Arrest of WannaCry researcher sends chill through security community
http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/345337-wannacry-hero-chills-security-community
323
52
The slow currentTimeMillis()
http://pzemtsov.github.io/2017/07/23/the-slow-currenttimemillis.html
310
27
A Dinosaur So Well Preserved It Looks Like a Statue
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/08/a-dinosaur-so-well-preserved-it-looks-like-a-statue/535782/?single_page=true
307
51
The Loyal Engineers Steering NASA’s Voyager Probes Across the Universe
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/08/03/magazine/the-loyal-engineers-steering-nasas-voyager-probes-across-the-universe.html
286
90
JetBrains Web UI components open-sourced
https://blog.jetbrains.com/hub/2017/08/02/jetbrains-web-ui-components-open-sourced/
190
A tall chimney to facilitate heat exchange in the atmosphere
http://www.superchimney.org
69
Prodigy: A new tool for radically efficient machine teaching
https://explosion.ai/blog/prodigy-annotation-tool-active-learning
275
145
Roman Ruins Found in France Are Called ‘Exceptional’
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/02/world/europe/france-roman-neighborhood-sainte-colombe-vienne.html
272
76
I fell in love with an assassin (2008)
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/i-fell-in-love-with-a-female-assassin-791978.html
270
73
A Candle Loses Nothing by Lighting Another Candle
http://stephaniehurlburt.com/blog/2017/8/4/a-candle-loses-nothing-by-lighting-another-candle
259
32
US Supreme Court will require electronic filings and post them free online
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/08/03/the-supreme-court-has-finally-embraced-the-21st-century/
245
143
Porting 4.5K lines of C to Go
https://blog.kowalczyk.info/article/wN9R/experience-porting-4.5k-loc-of-c-to-go-facebooks-css-flexbox-implementation-yoga.html
240
72
Stackblitz – Online VS Code Editor for Angular and React
https://stackblitz.com/
231
248
Why Apple and other tech companies are fighting to keep devices hard to repair
https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/3/16087628/apple-e-waste-environmental-standards-ieee-right-to-repair
228
211
Clojure will affect the way you think about programming
http://eli.thegreenplace.net/2017/clojure-the-perfect-language-to-expand-your-brain/
213
40
How to Design Programs, Second Edition
http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/HtDP2e/
346
Ask HN: What tech that's right around the corner are you most excited about?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14930317
194
101
Go reliability and durability at Dropbox
https://about.sourcegraph.com/go/go-reliability-and-durability-at-dropbox-tammy-butow
191
35
Learn GraphQL with GitHub
https://github.com/blog/2412-learn-graphql-with-github
13
Math Journal Editors Quit for Open Access
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/07/31/math-journal-editors-resign-start-rival-open-access-journal
187
71
Apple has proven me wrong about HomeKit
https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/3/16083996/internet-of-shit-wrong-about-homekit
186
Can you make your brain not see this circle illusion?
http://www.syfy.com/syfywire/can-you-make-your-brain-not-see-this-circle-illusion
174
103
Blue Apron Plans to Cut 24% of Staff Barely a Month After IPO
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-04/blue-apron-plans-to-cut-24-of-staff-barely-a-month-since-ipo
169
66
Ryzen CPU HyperThreads break if 100% busy and interrupted to top of Memory
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=321899
159
49
A New Tor Search Engine
https://abikogailmonxlzl.onion.casa/
157
64
What Sets Successful CEOs Apart
https://hbr.org/2017/05/what-sets-successful-ceos-apart
146
95
Mono for Unreal Engine
https://mono-ue.github.io/
141
128
Airport lounges will let anyone in, provided you can fake a QR code (2016)
https://boingboing.net/2016/08/05/airport-lounges-will-let-anyon.html
138
56
Building account systems
https://blog.plan99.net/building-account-systems-f790bf5fdbe0
133
116
GoboLinux: A distro that redefines the entire filesystem hierarchy
https://gobolinux.org/
131
120
Apple Plans to Release a Cellular-Capable Watch to Break iPhone Ties
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-04/apple-said-to-ready-cellular-capable-watch-to-break-iphone-ties
124
62
To start a billion dollar startup, start looking for problems
http://startupstunned.blogspot.com/2017/08/want-to-start-billion-dollar-startup.html
123
19
The Man Who Picked Victorian London's Unpickable Lock
http://mentalfloss.com/article/501820/man-who-picked-victorian-londons-unpickable-lock
119
Waiting for Apache Open Office
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/729460/ad130bc79f387e7e/
109
33
A formalization of category theory in Coq
https://github.com/jwiegley/category-theory
★ 800Rocq ProverBSD-3-Clause–8 years ago
Vermont Medical School Says Goodbye to Lectures
http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/08/03/541411275/vermont-medical-school-says-goodbye-to-lectures
104
9
Markov's and Chebyshev's Inequalities Explained
https://intoli.com/blog/chebyshevs-inequality/
18
A board game company defined video game ads for 20 years
https://www.polygon.com/2017/8/3/16086120/classic-video-game-ads-nintendo-parker-brothers
Web Assembly Working Group Charter Approved
https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webassembly/2017Aug/0001.html
99
Roman Britain in Black and White
https://www.the-tls.co.uk/roman-britain-black-white/
98
25
Optimizing Hash-Array Mapped Tries for Fast Immutable JVM Collections (2015) [pdf]
https://michael.steindorfer.name/publications/oopsla15.pdf
97
10
Easy Code Visual Assembler IDE
http://www.easycode.cat/English/
96
Evidence that ancient farms had different origins than previously thought
https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/08/evidence-that-humans-had-farms-30000-years-earlier-than-previously-thought/
94
41
Launch HN: AssemblyAI (YC S17) – API for customizable speech recognition
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14929955
93
22
Ethereum Scam Database
https://etherscamdb.info/
92
Software is narrative
http://infiniteundo.com/post/158336863413/software-as-narrative-1n
11
Computational Category Theory
http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~david/categories/
42
Chefs and Soldiers Make Good Product Managers
http://firstround.com/review/why-soldiers-and-chefs-make-the-best-product-managers/
87
Data Driven Weight Loss: Losing 66 pounds and gaining a six pack in 8 months
http://debarghyadas.com/writes/transformation/
85
24
An 1814 Beer Flood that Killed Eight People
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/1814-beer-flood-killed-eight-people-180964256/?no-ist
82
78
Increasingly, businesses don’t generate profits – they generate capital gains
http://evonomics.com/amazon-accounting-corporate-profits-rich-peoples-income-invisible-bezos/
80
Snopes.com prevails in tentative court ruling over finances, ownership
http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/business/technology/sd-fi-snopes-tentative-20170803-story.html
A formalization of category theory in Coq