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Firefox Focus – A new private browser for iOS and Android
https://blog.mozilla.org/firefox/lightweight-browser-focus-does-less-which-is-much-more/
8 years ago
602
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E-commerce will evolve next month as Amazon loses the 1-Click patent
https://thirtybees.com/blog/e-commerce-will-change-forever/
436
106
Why the Brain Needs More Downtime (2013)
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/mental-downtime/
321
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Docker Is Raising Funding at $1.3B Valuation
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-09/docker-is-said-to-be-raising-funding-at-1-3-billion-valuation
310
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Towards a JavaScript Binary AST
https://yoric.github.io/post/binary-ast-newsletter-1/
270
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Opioid makers made payments to one in 12 U.S. doctors
https://news.brown.edu/articles/2017/08/opioids-influence
265
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Try Out Rust IDE Support in Visual Studio Code
https://users.rust-lang.org/t/try-out-rust-ide-support-in-visual-studio-code/12407
264
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GitHub CEO Chris Wanstrath To Step Down After Finding Replacement
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2017/08/17/github-ceo-chris-wanstrath-to-step-down/?c=0#33c9269eadd3
253
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Google's stance on neo-Nazis 'dangerous', says EFF
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-40974069
241
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YouTube admits 'wrong call' over deletion of Syrian war crime videos
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/youtube-admits-wrong-call-over-deletion-syrian-war-crime-videos-1140126078
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Fighting Neo-Nazis and the Future of Free Expression
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/08/fighting-neo-nazis-future-free-expression
218
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Security Keys
https://www.imperialviolet.org/2017/08/13/securitykeys.html
217
65
Introducing WAL-G: Faster Disaster Recovery for Postgres
https://www.citusdata.com/blog/2017/08/18/introducing-wal-g-faster-restores-for-postgres/
213
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Neural Nets Can Learn Function Type Signatures from Binaries [pdf]
https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/usenixsecurity17/sec17-chua.pdf
201
67
HelenOS: portable microkernel-based multiserver operating system
http://www.helenos.org/
189
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Superhuman is what Gmail would be if built today
https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/18/rapportive-founders-new-startup-superhuman-is-what-gmail-would-be-if-built-today/
183
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Reasonable Scala Compiler
https://github.com/twitter/reasonable-scala#
★ 1.2kScalaApache-2.0–8 years ago
174
A CEO Who Pays Employees to De-Locate from the Bay
https://blog.ycombinator.com/the-ceo-who-pays-employees-to-de-locate-from-the-bay/
173
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An Electronic Voting Firm Exposes 1.8M Chicagoans
https://www.upguard.com/breaches/cloud-leak-chicago-voters
166
135
My last name makes me invisible to Computers (2015)
https://www.wired.com/2015/11/null#tpw
81
Life and death in Apple’s forbidden city
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jun/18/foxconn-life-death-forbidden-city-longhua-suicide-apple-iphone-brian-merchant-one-device-extract
157
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Naming things (2015) [pdf]
http://www2.stat.duke.edu/~rcs46/lectures_2015/01-markdown-git/slides/naming-slides/naming-slides.pdf
143
Former Harvard Money Manager Is Launching a Digital-Currency Hedge Fund
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-17/ex-harvard-money-manager-is-said-to-launch-digital-currency-fund
141
30
Life Aboard the Longest Train Ride Through India
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/destinations/asia/india/life-on-the-longest-train-ride-through-india/
20
Agorakit, an open source groupware for citizens
http://www.agorakit.org
134
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GOP lawmakers shamed on billboards for trying to repeal net neutrality rules
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/08/pro-net-neutrality-billboards-shame-lawmakers-who-want-to-repeal-rules
131
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NBC’s Snapchat news show gains 29+ million viewers in its first month
https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/18/nbcs-snapchat-news-show-gains-29-million-viewers-in-its-first-month
128
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Leading elephant conservationist shot dead in Tanzania
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/aug/17/leading-elephant-conservationist-ivory-shot-dead-in-tanzania
127
41
Getting an Amiga 1000 Online
https://amigalove.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=300
63
The Cult of the Costco Surfboard
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120
10
The Art of Teaching Math and Science
https://www.quantamagazine.org/math-and-science-teachers-pencils-down-20161011/
114
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The ACLU Asks in 1934: Shall We Defend Free Speech for Nazis in America?
http://documents.latimes.com/aclu-asks-1934-shall-we-defend-free-speech-nazis-america/
109
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Infosys CEO Vishal Sikka Resigns
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/infosys-ceo-vishal-sikka-resigns/articleshow/60113725.cms
42
Python Practices for Efficient Code: Performance, Memory, and Usability
https://www.codementor.io/satwikkansal/python-practices-for-efficient-code-performance-memory-and-usability-aze6oiq65
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What a Border Collie Taught a Linguist About Language
https://www.wired.com/story/what-a-border-collie-taught-a-linguist-about-language/
100
Show HN: Minimal build system using just /bin/sh
https://notabug.org/akkartik/basic-build
99
32
Nvidia-Docker – Build and Run Docker Containers Leveraging Nvidia GPUs
https://github.com/NVIDIA/nvidia-docker
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28
0x – A Protocol for Trading Tokens
https://0xproject.com/otc
47
Launch HN: Plasticity (YC S17) – APIs for human-like natural language interfaces
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15047929
91
0
Where the Wild Things Go: The remarkable travel itineraries of animals
http://nautil.us/issue/51/limits/where-the-wild-things-go
Muesli – An alternative approach to Soylent
https://github.com/l29ah/muesli
★ 186Haskell–8 years ago
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Essential Phone review: An arcane artifact from an unrealized future
https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/18/16165040/essential-phone-review-android-andy-rubin
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qBitcoin – Proposal for a decentralized online quantum cash system
https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.04955
86
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Alt-social network Gab booted from Google Play Store for hate speech
https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/17/alt-social-network-gab-booted-from-google-play-store-for-hate-speech
80
Tech companies: make remote work part of your diversity and inclusion efforts
https://medium.com/@margotcodes/tech-companies-make-remote-work-part-of-your-diversity-and-inclusion-efforts-b100ab74bf97
Why Type Systems Matter
http://matthias-endler.de/2017/why-type-systems-matter/
78
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How to 2X Your Salary as a Software Engineer
http://youexec.com/articles/how-to-2x-your-salary-as-a-software-engineer
77
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75
6
OpenAI Baselines: ACKTR and A2C
https://blog.openai.com/baselines-acktr-a2c/
Python code to generate text using a pretrained character-based RNN
https://github.com/minimaxir/textgenrnn
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Washington man facing prison after foraging for wild psilocybin mushrooms
https://www.psymposia.com/magazine/washington-man-facing-prison-foraging-wild-mushrooms/
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