778
641
Android Oreo
https://www.android.com/versions/oreo-8-0/
8 years ago
682
538
Ellen Pao: My lawsuit failed. Others won’t
https://www.thecut.com/2017/08/ellen-pao-silicon-valley-sexism-reset-excerpt.html
481
110
How JavaScript works: inside the V8 engine
https://blog.sessionstack.com/how-javascript-works-inside-the-v8-engine-5-tips-on-how-to-write-optimized-code-ac089e62b12e
462
137
Examining a vintage RAM chip, I find a counterfeit with a different die inside
http://www.righto.com/2017/08/inside-fake-ram-chip-i-found-something.html
349
52
Analyzing Cryptocurrency Markets Using Python
https://blog.patricktriest.com/analyzing-cryptocurrencies-python/?utm_source=hackernews
294
120
Firefox 55 and Selenium IDE
https://seleniumhq.wordpress.com/2017/08/09/firefox-55-and-selenium-ide/
279
270
Love it or hate it, truckers say they can’t stop listening to public radio
https://current.org/2017/08/love-it-or-hate-it-truckers-say-they-cant-stop-listening-to-public-radio/
258
197
Statistics Professor Just Banned by Google: Here Is His Story
http://investingchannel.com/article/433394/One-Statistics-Professor-Was-Just-Banned-By-Google-Here-Is-His-Story
247
75
Serverless Raspberry Pi Cluster with Docker
https://blog.alexellis.io/your-serverless-raspberry-pi-cluster/
241
54
The ‘here is’ key
https://dave.cheney.net/2017/08/21/the-here-is-key
229
Going Multi-Cloud with AWS and GCP: Lessons Learned at Scale
https://metamarkets.com/2017/big-cloud-data-aws-and-gcp/
228
68
Initial Hammer2 filesystem implementation
http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/users/2017-August/313558.html
195
254
Aging Parents with Lots of Stuff, and Children Who Don’t Want It
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/18/your-money/aging-parents-with-lots-of-stuff-and-children-who-dont-want-it.html
175
40
A Stroke of Genius: Striving for Greatness in All You Do (1993)
http://www.mccurley.org/advice/hamming_advice.html
173
113
California teaches inmates code; some states ban them from teaching themselves
https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2017/aug/17/prisons-coding-ban/
161
Brian Aldiss has died
https://www.curtisbrown.co.uk/news/announcement-of-the-death-of-brian-aldiss-obe
160
8
Introducing Android 8.0 Oreo
https://www.blog.google/products/android/android-oreo-superpowers-coming-device-near-you/
152
29
A supercompiler pass for Erlang
https://github.com/fenollp/erlscp
★ 93Erlang–8 years ago
148
90
Statistics professor at Columbia and Georgetown banned from all Google services
https://twitter.com/salilstatistics/status/898906185969139714
147
108
Vue.js and Brunch: Webpack Alternative
https://vuejsdevelopers.com/2017/08/20/vue-js-brunch/?jsdojo_id=reddit_vpb
146
78
Let’s hear it for the four-hour working day
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/aug/11/oliver-burkeman-four-hour-working-day
142
80
Does the world need polymaths?
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-40865986
141
Rise and fall of JVM languages
https://blog.frankel.ch/rise-fall-jvm-languages/#gsc.tab=0
139
Why a Dutch court stopped high school students from exchanging schools
https://medium.com/popular-choice/why-a-dutch-court-stopped-high-school-students-from-exchanging-schools-1315303a48b6
133
23
Zsh Configuration from the Ground Up
https://zanshin.net/2013/02/02/zsh-configuration-from-the-ground-up/
128
YC Summer 2017 Stats
https://blog.ycombinator.com/yc-summer-2017-stats/
124
60
The Windows App Store Is Full of Pirate Streaming Apps
https://torrentfreak.com/the-windows-app-store-is-full-of-pirate-streaming-apps-170820/
121
111
Intel Launches 8th Generation CPUs, Starting with Kaby Lake Refresh
http://www.anandtech.com/show/11738/intel-launches-8th-generation-cpus-starting-with-kaby-lake-refresh-for-15w-mobile
107
92
Async/Await will make code simpler
https://blog.patricktriest.com/what-is-async-await-why-should-you-care/
106
27
Awesome Linux Software
https://github.com/LewisVo/Awesome-Linux-Software
★ 24.9kHTML–8 years ago
105
138
Sperm Count in Western Men Has Dropped Over 50 Percent Since 1973, Paper Finds
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/16/health/male-sperm-count-problem.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=0
48
The Hardest Program I've Ever Written (2015)
http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2015/09/08/the-hardest-program-ive-ever-written/?sort
22
Student mistook examples of unsolved math problems for homework, solves them
http://www.snopes.com/college/homework/unsolvable.asp
102
Why didn't electricity immediately change manufacturing?
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-40673694
101
36
Custom Elements v1: Reusable Web Components
https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/architecture/building-components/customelements
99
14
Winning the War on Error: Solving the Halting Problem and Curing Cancer [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdmQUlD7P40
96
10
Voyager antenna operator: 'I was the first human to see images from Neptune'
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/08/21/voyager_2_40th_anniversary_meet_richard_stephenson_radio_operator/
33
Ask HN: What does deliberate practice look like for computer programming?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15068455
11
The Michelson Language
https://www.michelson-lang.com/
87
38
On almost every indicator, Germany’s south is doing better than its north
https://www.economist.com/blogs/kaffeeklatsch/2017/08/explaining-munich-miracle
86
4
Crinkler secrets, 4k intro executable compressor at its best (2010)
https://code4k.blogspot.com/2010/12/crinkler-secrets-4k-intro-executable.html
82
Conversational Speech Recognition System [pdf]
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/ms_swbd17-2.pdf
77
Status: Investigating reports of connectivity issues
https://status.github.com/messages/2017-08-21
76
136
“Bing is bigger than you think,” Microsoft boasts, at 33% of US searches
https://www.onmsft.com/news/bing-ads-tweets-search-market-share-numbers-bing-is-bigger-than-you-think
74
83
Danish Submarine Inventor Says He Buried Swedish Journalist at Sea
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/21/world/europe/swedish-journalist-peter-madsen-danish.html
Preact : a smaller, faster React alternative
https://blog.logrocket.com/introduction-to-preact-a-smaller-faster-react-alternative-ad5532eb6d79
73
A Short History of Complex Numbers (2006) [pdf]
http://www.math.uri.edu/~merino/spring06/mth562/ShortHistoryComplexNumbers2006.pdf
103
How Hate Groups Forced Online Platforms to Reveal Their True Nature
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/21/magazine/how-hate-groups-forced-online-platforms-to-reveal-their-true-nature.html
6
Solar Eclipse live stream
https://www.nasa.gov/eclipselive/#NASA+TV+Public+Channel
72
57
HTC Vive Price Cut
https://blog.vive.com/us/2017/08/21/htc-vive-announces-price-drop/
71
Experiments in NES JIT Compilation
https://bheisler.github.io/post/experiments-in-nes-jit-compilation/
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