674
320
YouTube AI deletes war crimes evidence as 'extremist material'
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/youtube-criticised-after-middle-east-video-taken-down-over-extremist-content-1244893230
8 years ago
614
155
Show HN: Extension-blocking domains removed by threat from other blacklists
https://github.com/paulgb/BarbBlock
★ 646JavaScriptMIT–8 years ago
596
354
Annual note to self: most of the world exists outside the tech bubble
https://steveblank.com/2017/08/12/working-outside-the-tech-bubble/
563
104
Time.gif
https://hookrace.net/blog/time.gif
504
293
Big brother is here, and his name is Facebook
https://thenextweb.com/contributors/2017/08/11/big-brother-name-facebook/
415
51
Ask HN: What free resources did you use to learn how to program ML/AI?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14998352
323
194
Tesla raises $1.8B
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-bonds-tesla-idUSKBN1AR28M
307
36
Crown shyness
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_shyness
294
7
Papers I like
https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2017/08/12/papers-i-like-part-1/
282
U.R. Rao has died
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/11/world/asia/ur-rao-dead-india-space-program.html
255
41
Motive.c: The Soul of the Sims (1997)
http://www.donhopkins.com/home/images/Sims/
219
19
Cathleen Morawetz has died
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/11/science/cathleen-morawetz-dead-nyu-mathematician.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fscience&action=click&contentCollection=science®ion=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=sectionfront&_r=0
206
57
Memories of Kurt Gödel
http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2012/08/01/memories-of-kurt-godel/
195
117
Hard Lessons in Living Off the Grid
https://longreads.com/2017/08/08/hard-lessons-in-living-off-the-grid/
193
66
My grandfather at Dunkirk
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-40852280
192
136
The Legion Lonely
http://hazlitt.net/longreads/legion-lonely
187
Worldbuilding
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/worldbuilding.php
182
92
An Average Guy Who Spent 6,000 Hours Trying to Be a Professional Golfer
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/08/the-dan-plan/536592/?single_page=true
161
146
Don’t ruin streaming by turning it into cable
https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/11/dont-ruin-streaming-by-turning-it-into-cable/
159
145
Biggest amateur-built sub sinks – owner is suspected of killing passenger
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/08/biggest-amateur-built-sub-sinks-owner-is-suspected-of-killing-passenger/
152
EFF Urges Supreme Court to Take on Unconstitutional NSA Surveillance
https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-urges-supreme-court-take-unconstitutional-nsa-surveillance-reverse-dangerous
147
45
Predict the future with Machine Learning
https://www.zeroequalsfalse.press/2017/08/10/ml/
140
8
Reverse Engineering Malware 102
https://securedorg.github.io/RE102/
132
56
TRAPPIST-1 Is Older Than Our Solar System
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/trappist-1-is-older-than-our-solar-system
126
112
Why an eight-hour bus ride from Los Angeles to San Francisco might beat a flight
https://www.economist.com/blogs/gulliver/2017/08/life-slow-lane?fsrc=scn/fb/te/bl/ed/whyaneighthourbusridefromlosangelestosanfranciscomightbeataflight
The Next Moon Landing Is Near, Thanks to Pioneering Engineers
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/08/space-race-moon-google-lunar-xprize/
122
53
What is it like to understand advanced mathematics?
https://www.quora.com/What-is-it-like-to-understand-advanced-mathematics-Does-it-feel-analogous-to-having-mastery-of-another-language-like-in-programming-or-linguistics/answers/873950?share=1
121
39
Immutable Data Structures That Are Compatible with Normal JS Arrays and Objects
https://github.com/rtfeldman/seamless-immutable
★ 5.3kJavaScriptBSD-3-Clause–8 years ago
119
65
Stocks with Outperform Ratings Beat the Market
http://blog.ayoungprogrammer.com/2017/05/stocks-with-outperform-ratings-beats-market.html/
25
URL obfuscation (2002)
http://www.pc-help.org/obscure.htm
107
27
“With $80B in Value Created, Techstars Is the #1 Global Accelerator”
http://blog.capitalandgrowth.org/david-cohen/
239
Does OO really match the way we think (1997) [pdf]
http://www.leshatton.org/Documents/OO_IS698.pdf
98
35
Pony Performance Cheatsheet
https://www.ponylang.org/reference/pony-performance-cheatsheet/
96
18
A year with Notmuch mail (2016)
https://lwn.net/Articles/705856/
26
What I Didn't Say (2013)
http://www.paulgraham.com/wids.html
93
47
I'm a woman in computer science. Let me ladysplain the Google memo to you
https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/8/11/16130452/google-memo-women-tech-biology-sexism
Perspective: Google API that detects toxic comments
http://perspectiveapi.com/
91
NetRunner: a web browser catering to powerusers
https://netrunner.cc/
89
1
R interface to Keras
https://rstudio.github.io/keras/