601
199
Disconnect. Offline only
https://chris.bolin.co/offline/
8 years ago
534
420
iOS 11 Safari will automatically strip AMP links from shared URLs
https://twitter.com/viticci/status/900396684844433409
475
161
A Thorium-Salt Reactor Has Fired Up for the First Time in Four Decades
http://www.thoriumenergyworld.com/news/finally-worlds-first-tmsr-experiment-in-over-40-years-started
427
288
Universities are broke – let’s cut the pointless admin and get back to teaching
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/aug/21/universities-broke-cut-pointless-admin-teaching
410
86
The Interface font family
https://rsms.me/interface/
359
115
HackerNews Grid
http://hackernewsgrid.com/
346
204
Introducing Network Service Tiers
https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/08/introducing-Network-Service-Tiers-your-cloud-network-your-way.html
332
385
Wall Street Banks Warn Downturn Is Coming
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-22/wall-street-banks-warn-winter-is-coming-as-business-cycle-peaks
319
185
ThoughtWorks has been sold to private equity
https://martinfowler.com/articles/201708-tw-sale.html
310
134
Inside Waymo's Secret World for Training Self-Driving Cars
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/08/inside-waymos-secret-testing-and-simulation-facilities/537648/?single_page=true
300
65
A history of branch prediction
https://danluu.com/branch-prediction/
297
143
Moving The New York Times Games Platform to Google App Engine
https://open.nytimes.com/moving-the-new-york-times-games-platform-to-google-app-engine-e9337f2c9444
272
419
Apple Scales Back Its Ambitions for a Self-Driving Car
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/22/technology/apple-self-driving-car.html
270
99
Why I haven't jumped ship from Common Lisp to Racket just yet
http://fare.livejournal.com/188429.html
257
75
A ship that flips 90 degrees for precise scientific measurements
http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/flip-ocean-research-platform-scripps
253
138
Rethinking the D-Bus Message Bus
https://dvdhrm.github.io/rethinking-the-dbus-message-bus/
242
184
D as a Better C
http://dlang.org/blog/2017/08/23/d-as-a-better-c/
237
192
Amazon has as much office space in Seattle as the next 40 biggest employers
http://www.seattletimes.com/business/amazon/thanks-to-amazon-seattle-is-now-americas-biggest-company-town/
236
63
Offline-Friendly Forms
https://mxb.at/blog/offline-forms/
217
207
Alaska’s thawing soils are now pouring carbon dioxide into the air
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/05/08/alaskas-tundra-is-filling-the-atmosphere-with-carbon-dioxide-worsening-climate-change/?utm_term=.da7f3e23dc07
214
149
Billionaires and big ag are joining venture investors to fund lab-grown meat
https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/23/billionaires-and-big-ag-are-joining-venture-investors-to-fund-lab-grown-meat/
111
New and improved bike routing, with low stress options
https://mapzen.com/blog/low-stress-bike-routing/
82
Disney’s Choice
https://stratechery.com/2017/disneys-choice/
190
70
Wading Through AccuWeather’s Response
https://daringfireball.net/2017/08/wading_through_accuweathers_bullshit_response
189
52
Write a hash table in C
https://github.com/jamesroutley/write-a-hash-table
★ 4.3kMIT–8 years ago
186
“This project violates the MIT license of Gemstash”
https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/google-cloud-gemserver/issues/36#issuecomment-324503159
★ 45RubyApache-2.0–8 years ago
158
Dangers of Sitting
https://www.bloomberg.com/quicktake/dangers-of-sitting
182
103
Stencil – A reusable web component generator
https://stenciljs.com/
168
197
Why I Still Use Vim
https://medium.com/@caspervonb/why-i-still-use-vim-67afd76b4db6
163
289
1 in 3 Americans Have $0 Saved for Retirement (2016)
https://www.gobankingrates.com/retirement/1-3-americans-0-saved-retirement/
Ex-lottery worker who rigged winnings gets 25 years in prison
http://money.cnn.com/2017/08/22/news/iowa-lottery-sentencing/index.html
54
Web merchants routinely leak data about Bitcoin purchases
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/608716/bitcoin-transactions-arent-as-anonymous-as-everyone-hoped/
153
We Live in Fear of the Online Mobs
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-08-22/we-live-in-fear-of-the-online-mobs
152
FTC Approves of Amazon and Whole Foods Deal
https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2017/08/statement-federal-trade-commissions-acting-director-bureau
150
40
Beta Family: 50k Users to Test Your App
https://betafamily.com/
141
76
Companies from Y Combinator’s Summer 2017 Demo Day (Day 2)
https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/22/yc-demo-day-s17-day-2/?utm_source=tcfbpage&sr_share=facebook
139
15
How are PCA and SVD related?
https://intoli.com/blog/pca-and-svd/
110
Neo – Desired Word Processor for Authors
http://www.hughhowey.com/neo-a-word-processor-for-authors/
129
27
Google TPU Performance Analysis
http://www.anandtech.com/show/11749/hot-chips-google-tpu-performance-analysis-live-blog-3pm-pt-10pm-utc
124
17
Building a Wooden Word Watch for My Roommates
http://imgur.com/a/TNoh2
114
133
Aging Japan Wants Automation, Not Immigration
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-08-22/aging-japan-wants-automation-not-immigration
67
Exploit broker Zerodium ups the ante with $500k to target Signal and WhatsApp
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/08/wanted-weaponized-exploits-that-hack-phones-will-pay-top-dollar/
9
Researchers say Exxon duped public over climate concerns
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-23/exxon-duped-public-over-climate-concerns-harvard-research-says
109
120
Kim Wall: Headless body identified as missing journalist
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-41021223
105
89
Code Smells: Iteration
https://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2017/08/code-smells-iteration/
91
Sun Flyer, an Electric Trainer Aircraft
http://spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace/aviation/cheaper-lighter-quieter-the-electrification-of-flight-is-at-hand
ScienceBeam – using computer vision to extract PDF data
https://elifesciences.org/labs/5b56aff6/sciencebeam-using-computer-vision-to-extract-pdf-data
101
Node.js is forked to Ayo.js (pronounced like “IO”)
https://github.com/ayojs/ayo
★ 1.6kJavaScript–8 years ago
97
Nuclear fusion is on the brink of a milestone, but faces lack of funding [audio]
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-22/the-nuclear-tech-breakthrough-that-could-make-oil-obsolete
96
Ask HN: How long did it take you to go from side project idea to launch?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15082901
95
The Icewind Dale Problem
http://koaning.io/the-icewind-dale-problem.html
84
Medium rolls out a payment model for writers based on engagement
https://www.poynter.org/2017/will-clap-for-food-medium-rolls-out-a-payment-model-for-writers-based-on-engagement/471110/
39
Psilocybin-assisted group therapy for demoralization in long-term AIDS survivors
http://clinicaltrials.ucsf.edu/trial/NCT02950467
90
108
Are You Downplaying Luck’s Role in Your Life?
http://nautil.us/blog/are-you-downplaying-lucks-role-in-your-life
47
The Dark Side of Resilience
https://hbr.org/2017/08/the-dark-side-of-resilience
81
10
Whalesong: a Racket to JavaScript compiler
http://www.hashcollision.org/whalesong/
Nuclear fusion is on the brink of a milestone, but faces lack of funding [audio]