791
420
I’m an Ex-Google Woman Tech Leader and I’m Sick of Our Approach to Diversity
https://medium.com/the-mission/im-an-ex-google-woman-tech-leader-and-i-m-sick-of-our-approach-to-diversity-17008c5fe999
9 years ago
779
288
U.S. judge says LinkedIn cannot block startup from public profile data
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-microsoft-linkedin-ruling-idUSKCN1AU2BV?il=0
662
286
A Solution of the P versus NP Problem?
https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.03486
644
315
Let's Remove the Global Interpreter Lock
https://morepypy.blogspot.com/2017/08/lets-remove-global-interpreter-lock.html
473
149
German universities take on Dutch publishing giant Elsevier
https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/german-universities-take-on-elsevier-/3007807.article
436
266
Launch HN: Lambda School (YC S17) – CS education that's free until you get a job
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15011033
431
43
“Packages should be reproducible” added to Debian Policy
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=844431
385
178
Selection bias is the most powerful force in education
https://fredrikdeboer.com/2017/03/29/why-selection-bias-is-the-most-powerful-force-in-education/
319
101
Being Thankful for Free Software Developers
https://fosspost.org/opinions/people-be-thankful-for-free-software-developers
301
91
The Uber Dilemma
https://stratechery.com/2017/the-uber-dilemma/
290
237
We Fight for the Users
https://www.dreamhost.com/blog/we-fight-for-the-users/
281
141
Announcing .NET Core 2.0
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2017/08/14/announcing-net-core-2-0/
277
102
Chris Lattner Joins Google Brain
https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/14/swift-creator-chris-lattner-joins-google-brain-after-tesla-autopilot-stint
274
48
Create Anime Characters with A.I.
http://make.girls.moe/#/
270
96
Facebook’s Onavo Gives Social-Media Firm Inside Peek at Rivals’ Users
https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebooks-onavo-gives-social-media-firm-inside-peek-at-rivals-users-1502622003
267
132
F.lux major update
https://justgetflux.com/news/pages/v4/bigupdate/?v=4.43
264
227
It's Never Too Late to Learn Guitar
http://adamharkus.com/never-too-late-learn-guitar/#.WZGS85RAHzM.hackernews
263
133
Feeling bad about feeling bad can make you feel worse
http://news.berkeley.edu/2017/08/10/emotionalacceptance/
257
344
Quitting Caffeine
https://enki.org/2017/08/13/quitting-caffeine/
253
93
64-bit Firefox is the new default on 64-bit Windows
https://blog.mozilla.org/firefox/firefox-64-default-64-bit-windows/
249
34
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Optical Networking [pdf]
https://www.nanog.org/sites/default/files/2_Steenbergen_Tutorial_New_And_v2.pdf
56
Thread Pools in Nginx Boost Performance 9x (2015)
https://www.nginx.com/blog/thread-pools-boost-performance-9x/
244
195
Letter from Benchmark to Uber Employees [pdf]
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwpPJSL_5U3vVmZLSFJQTXVaeU0/view
212
235
Google is paying Apple billions per year to remain on the iPhone
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/14/google-paying-apple-3-billion-to-remain-default-search--bernstein.html
191
104
Microsoft ASP.Net Core 2.0.0 released
https://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.AspNetCore/2.0.0
169
92
Native Encryption for ZFS on Linux
https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/commit/b52563034230b35f0562b6f40ad1a00f02bd9a05
★ 12.1k C – 9 years ago
166
37
Metal Slug 2 – reducing the slowdown (2015)
http://blog.system11.org/?p=1442
157
156
Snap sold fewer than 42K Spectacles, down 35% in Q2
https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/10/snap-spectacles-sales/
Text Is Keeping Kids from Coding
https://medium.com/@dannyyaroslavski/text-is-keeping-kids-from-coding-b70988dd7541
144
113
The Lost Art of Stealing Fruit
http://www.newyorker.com/culture/onward-and-upward-in-the-garden/the-lost-art-of-stealing-fruit
137
105
Airbnb's preferred smart lock vendor accidentally bricks 500 door-locks
http://boingboing.net/2017/08/14/airbnbs-preferred-smart-lock.html
134
74
Evercoin: A cryptocurrency exchange platform
https://evercoin.com/
3
A Primer on Neural Network Models for Natural Language Processing (2015)
https://arxiv.org/abs/1510.00726
147
Why Genghis Khan’s tomb can’t be found
http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20170717-why-genghis-khans-tomb-cant-be-found
SoftBank’s $100B fund is in a league of its own
https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/09/how-softbanks-100b-fund-is-in-a-league-all-its-own/?utm_source=tcfbpage&sr_share=facebook
127
58
The Blockchain Problem Space – When to Use Blockchain?
https://blog.ironbay.digital/the-blockchain-problem-space-bd94d2babb51
117
‘Instantly rechargeable’ battery could change the future of electric automobiles
https://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/releases/2017/Q2/instantly-rechargeable-battery-could-change-the-future-of-electric-and-hybrid-automobiles.html
114
73
DJI adds an offline mode to its drones for clients with ‘sensitive operations’
https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/14/dji-adds-an-offline-mode-to-its-drones-for-clients-with-sensitive-operations
29
COVFEFE Act
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_Over_Various_Feeds_Electronically_for_Engagement_Act
107
258
Google cancels domain registration for Daily Stormer
http://www.businessinsider.com/google-cancels-domain-registration-for-daily-stormer-2017-8
79
The Last American Baseball-Glove Maker Refuses to Die
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-08-14/the-last-american-baseball-glove-maker-refuses-to-die
36
Macie: Automatically Discover, Classify, and Secure Content at Scale
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/launch-amazon-macie-securing-your-s3-buckets/
100
2
Papers I like (part 2)
https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2017/08/14/papers-i-like-part-2/
97
11
Google Hires Chris Lattner for Its AI Team
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-14/google-hires-former-star-apple-engineer-for-its-ai-team
9
Cassini skims Saturn's atmosphere
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-40902774
95
68
The AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 and RX Vega 56 Review: Vega Burning Bright
http://www.anandtech.com/show/11717/the-amd-radeon-rx-vega-64-and-56-review
