660
141
Inside a fast CSS engine
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/08/inside-a-super-fast-css-engine-quantum-css-aka-stylo/
8 years ago
576
269
Let Consumers Sue Companies
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/22/opinion/let-consumers-sue-companies.html
431
188
Why is this C++ code faster than my hand-written assembly (2016)
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40354978/why-is-this-c-code-faster-than-my-hand-written-assembly-for-testing-the-collat
418
262
Chrome Enterprise
https://www.blog.google/topics/connected-workspaces/introducing-chrome-enterprise/
395
118
Show HN: The best time to visit any city
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15074526
307
240
Hackers nab $500k as Enigma is compromised weeks before its ICO
https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/21/hack-enigma-500000-ico/
278
428
Studying how Firefox can collect additional data in a privacy-preserving way
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.governance/81gMQeMEL0w
274
334
CrashPlan is exiting the consumer market
https://blog.code42.com/data-protection-needs-diverge/
271
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Sonos: users must accept new privacy policy or devices may “cease to function”
http://www.zdnet.com/article/sonos-accept-new-privacy-policy-speakers-cease-to-function/
258
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UK Government's Payment Infrastructure Is Now Open Source
https://govukpay-docs.cloudapps.digital/#contribute
235
199
All 50 startups from Y Combinator’s Summer 2017 Demo Day 1
https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/21/y-combinator-summer-2017/
79
Show HN: Pdf-Bot, an API/CLI for Generating PDFs Using Headless Chrome
https://github.com/esbenp/pdf-bot
★ 2.6kJavaScriptMIT–8 years ago
218
41
The Beauty of Bresenham's Algorithm
http://members.chello.at/~easyfilter/bresenham.html
174
364
A glut has used-car depreciation accelerating
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-21/your-car-is-now-worth-less-than-you-think
3
A Brief Survey of Deep Reinforcement Learning
https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.05866
148
45
Build-a-Coin Cryptocurrency Creator
http://build-a-co.in/
145
48
The Enduring Legacy of Zork
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/608670/the-enduring-legacy-of-zork/
143
153
Things about programming I learned with Go
http://mjk.space/5-things-about-programming-learned-with-go/
38
Show HN: RNN that generates Game of Thrones text
https://www.github.com/zackthoutt/got-book-6
★ 962Jupyter NotebookMIT–8 years ago
142
34
Apple IIe Design Guidelines (1982) [pdf]
http://www.apple2scans.net/files/1982-A2F2116-m-a2e-aiiedg.pdf
68
Typing with pleasure, and low latency
https://pavelfatin.com/typing-with-pleasure/#summary
140
187
Sensor tracks who's driving in your neighbourhood
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-41008141
139
58
China’s Bitmain dominates Bitcoin mining, wants to cash in on AI
https://qz.com/1053799/chinas-bitmain-dominates-bitcoin-mining-now-it-wants-to-cash-in-on-artificial-intelligence/
136
44
Mathematicians Tame Rogue Waves, Illuminating Future of LED Lighting
https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematicians-tame-rogue-waves-illuminating-future-of-led-lighting-20170822/
134
25
Cuberite – A lightweight, fast and extensible game server for Minecraft
https://cuberite.org/
132
40
Show HN: Idea Generator That Uses YC as Data
http://ycremix.com/
130
102
People Start Hating Their Jobs at Age 35
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-21/people-start-hating-their-jobs-at-age-35
127
42
Cyborg bacteria outperform plants when turning sunlight into useful compounds
https://phys.org/news/2017-08-cyborg-bacteria-outperform-sunlight-compounds.html
116
22
What I look for in a pitch
https://news.greylock.com/what-do-i-look-for-in-a-pitch-866355bddb3
114
27
The Book He Wasn't Supposed to Write
https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/08/the-secret-life-of-a-book-manuscript/536982/?single_page=true
99
US Income Inequality: All for the Top 1%
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/08/07/opinion/leonhardt-income-inequality.html?mcubz=1
110
74
Harmful Consequences of Postel's Maxim
https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-thomson-postel-was-wrong-01
109
56
Cracking random number generators (xoroshiro128+)
https://lemire.me/blog/2017/08/22/cracking-random-number-generators-xoroshiro128/
108
126
“We are working on getting Sublime Text 3.0 final ready to launch”
https://forum.sublimetext.com/t/is-sublime-no-longer-updated/30712/11
107
73
Portugal Dominated Angola for Centuries. Now the Roles Are Reversed
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/22/world/europe/angola-portugal-money-laundering.html
104
43
Answers from 2017 Common Lisp experts
https://blog.teknik.io/phoe/p/365
36
Recognizing when two arithmetic expressions are essentially the same
https://blog.plover.com/math/24-puzzle-2.html
59
Microsoft Announces Age of Empires IV
https://thenextweb.com/gaming/2017/08/22/microsoft-announces-age-of-empires-iv/
96
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SEC Is Studying Spotify's Plan to Bypass IPO in NYSE Listing
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-21/sec-is-said-to-study-spotify-plan-to-bypass-ipo-in-nyse-listing
91
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Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Could Have Caused 2 Years of Darkness
http://astrobiology.com/2017/08/dinosaur-killing-asteroid-could-have-caused-2-years-of-darkness.html
89
85
Winner-take-all effects in autonomous cars
http://ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2017/8/20/winner-takes-all
88
What Is Trump Worth to Twitter? One Analyst Estimates $2B
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-17/what-is-trump-worth-to-twitter-one-analyst-estimates-2-billion
78
The World Belongs to Those Who Create
https://www.sophiaellis.co/blog/the-world-belongs-to-those-who-create-vs-those-who-consume
87
Dealing with IPv6 fragmentation in the DNS
https://blog.apnic.net/2017/08/22/dealing-ipv6-fragmentation-dns/
83
Bitdefender Anti-Virus: Heap Buffer Overflow via 7z LZMA
https://landave.io/2017/08/bitdefender-heap-buffer-overflow-via-7z-lzma/
81
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Professors’ unprofessional programs have created a new profession
https://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21695377-professors-unprofessional-programs-have-created-new-profession-more
80
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Exploring bump mapping with WebGL
http://apoorvaj.io/exploring-bump-mapping-with-webgl.html
95
MS: Bitcoin mining uses as much electricity as 1M US homes
https://twitter.com/FatTailCapital/status/899714838796148745
37
What’s Your Heart-Rate Variability? It May Be Time to Find Out
https://www.wsj.com/articles/whats-your-heart-rate-variability-it-may-be-time-to-find-out-1498442460
76
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Harpy, a “Fire and Forget” autonomous weapon drone
http://www.iai.co.il/2013/36694-16153-en/Business_Areas_Land.aspx
19
Reverse Engineering My Home Security System: Decompiling Firmware Updates
https://markclayton.github.io/reverse-engineering-my-home-security-system-decompiling-firmware-updates.html
69
Verizon’s good unlimited data plan is now three bad unlimited plans
https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/22/16181362/verizon-new-unlimited-data-plan-video-throttling-net-neutrality
71
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Red Over Red, the Failure of U.S. Navy Leadership
http://gcaptain.com/editorial-red-red-us-naval-leadership-not-command/
128
Effective immediately I am stepping down from the Nodejs TSC
https://medium.com/@mylesborins/effective-immediately-i-am-stepping-down-from-the-nodejs-tsc-3df37c6ccbae
67
The Neurodiversity Case for Free Speech
http://quillette.com/2017/07/18/neurodiversity-case-free-speech/
64
20
Single-Molecule Transistors at Room Temperature
http://engineering.columbia.edu/news/latha-venkataraman-single-molecule-transistor
6
Gaps in basic knowledge of deep sea life
https://phys.org/news/2017-08-gaps-basic-knowledge-deep-sea.html
57
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http://andykeep.com/SchemeWorkshop2015/papers/sfpw1-2015-clinger.pdf
31
From Julian to Gregorian Calendar
https://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/julian-gregorian-switch.html
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