1080
1501
Ask a Female Engineer: Thoughts on the Google Memo
https://blog.ycombinator.com/ask-a-female-engineer-thoughts-on-the-google-memo/
8 years ago
845
188
Show HN: A stop-motion video of an engine
https://www.howacarworks.com/engine
645
197
SVG can do that?
http://slides.com/sdrasner/svg-can-do-that#/
498
50
APIs as infrastructure: future-proofing Stripe with versioning
https://stripe.com/blog/api-versioning
489
210
Ask HN: Is Georgia Tech's Online Master in CS Worth It?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15018002
460
318
I Bought a Book About the Internet from 1994 and None of the Links Worked
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/paabgg/i-bought-a-book-about-the-internet-from-1994-and-none-of-the-links-worked
447
285
Gates Makes Largest Donation Since 2000 with $4.6B Pledge
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-14/gates-makes-largest-donation-since-2000-with-4-6-billion-pledge
354
139
I’m 35 and I may suddenly have lost the rest of my life
https://medium.com/@sgriddle/im-35-and-i-may-suddenly-have-lost-the-rest-of-my-life-i-m-panicking-just-a-bit-35d6a28dcbc
371
Intel CEO leaves American Manufacturing Council
http://blogs.intel.com/policy/2017/08/14/intel-ceo-leaves-manufacturing-council/
282
68
Rustgo: Calling Rust from Go with near-zero overhead
https://blog.filippo.io/rustgo/
277
88
Researchers unravel the biosynthesis of psilocybin
http://cen.acs.org/articles/95/web/2017/08/Magic-mushroomenzyme-mystery-solved.html
259
110
Writing parsers like it is 2017
https://blog.acolyer.org/2017/08/15/writing-parsers-like-it-is-2017/
247
235
Bezos should put his billions in public libraries
https://www.wired.com/story/jeff-bezos-should-put-his-billions-into-libraries/
244
95
Rust for the Web
https://thefullsnack.com/en/rust-for-the-web.html
241
44
Plans for partitioning in PostgreSQL v11
http://rhaas.blogspot.com/2017/08/plans-for-partitioning-in-v11.html
206
104
MongoDB has filed confidentially for IPO
https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/15/database-provider-mongodb-has-filed-confidentially-for-ipo/?ncid=rss
23
Learnings from One Year of Building an Open Source Elixir Application
http://achariam.com/elyxel/
192
53
Dung Beetles Navigate via the Milky Way
https://voices.nationalgeographic.org/2013/01/24/dung-beetles-navigate-via-the-milky-way-an-animal-kingdom-first/
164
119
Text Messages Between Travis Kalanick and Anthony Levandowski
http://spectrum.ieee.org/cars-that-think/transportation/self-driving/28-revealing-text-messages-between-travis-kalanick-and-anthony-levandowski
157
147
Why Some U.S. Ex-Spies Don't Buy the Russia Story
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-08-10/why-some-u-s-ex-spies-don-t-buy-the-russia-story
149
18
An Introduction to Quantum Computing, Without the Physics
https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.03684
135
What I believe II
http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=3389
144
59
The HDFS Juggernaut
https://blog.shodan.io/the-hdfs-juggernaut/
142
China's Plan for World Domination in AI Isn't So Crazy
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-14/china-s-plan-for-world-domination-in-ai-isn-t-so-crazy-after-all
60
The Rising Return to Non-Cognitive Skill [pdf]
http://ftp.iza.org/dp10914.pdf
133
Pakistani province plants one billion trees to slow down global warming effects
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/pakistan-plant-billion-trees-global-warming-effects-climate-change-imran-khan-khyber-pakhtunkhaw-a7892176.html
118
8
Teaching an AI to play a simple game using Q-learning
http://www.practicalai.io/teaching-ai-play-simple-game-using-q-learning/
116
24
Real-time 3D visualization of geospatial data with Blender
https://github.com/ptabriz/FOSS4G_workshop
★ 315HTML–8 years ago
111
76
Show HN: One hostname to rule them all
https://onehostname.com/
106
29
Ev Williams helped create the open web, now he’s betting against it (2016)
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/06/ev-williams-is-the-forrest-gump-of-the-internet/486899/?single_page=true
83
On Melissa O’Neill’s PCG random number generator
http://lemire.me/blog/2017/08/15/on-melissa-oneills-pcg-random-number-generator/
102
28
FTC says Uber took a wrong turn with misleading privacy, security promises
https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/blogs/business-blog/2017/08/ftc-says-uber-took-wrong-turn-misleading-privacy-security
174
MoviePass wants to let you go to the theater once a day for $10 a month
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-15/netflix-co-founder-s-crazy-plan-pay-10-a-month-go-to-the-movies-all-you-want
99
26
The Dao Programming Language
http://daoscript.org/
94
15
Slave Revolt in Jamaica, 1760-1761: A Cartographic Narrative (2012)
http://revolt.axismaps.com/project.html
91
89
What Goldman Is Telling Big Money Clients About Bitcoin
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-09/here-s-what-goldman-is-telling-big-money-clients-about-bitcoin
84
High-process-count support added to master
http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/users/2017-August/313552.html
82
85
The e-mail Larry Page should have written to James Damore
https://www.economist.com/news/21726276-last-week-paper-said-alphabets-boss-should-write-detailed-ringing-rebuttal
79
57
Amazon Is Seeking $16B Bond Sale for Whole Foods
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-15/amazon-is-said-to-sell-bonds-to-finance-whole-foods-acquisition
78
6
Blockchain 101 – Elliptical Curve Cryptography
https://eng.paxos.com/blockchain-101-elliptical-curve-cryptography
226
The Daily Stormer, Online Speech, and Internet Registrars
https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2017/08/daily-stormer-online-speech-and-internet-registrars
The Daily Stormer, Online Speech, and Internet Registrars