1010
440
Criticizing Google got me fired
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2017/08/31/i-criticized-google-it-got-me-fired-thats-how-corporate-power-works/?hpid=hp_no-name_opinion-card-f%3Ahomepage%2Fstory
8 years ago
468
272
Announcing Rust 1.20
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2017/08/31/Rust-1.20.html
436
383
ESPN Football Analyst Walks Away, Disturbed by Brain Trauma on Field
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/30/sports/espn-ed-cunningham-football-concussions.html
393
228
Interview with Ryan Dahl, Creator of Node.js
https://www.mappingthejourney.com/single-post/2017/08/31/Episode-8-Interview-with-Ryan-Dahl-Creator-of-Nodejs
341
139
What's Functional Programming All About?
http://www.lihaoyi.com/post/WhatsFunctionalProgrammingAllAbout.html
324
100
The FCC.gov Website Lets You Upload Malware Using Its Own Public API Key
https://hackernoon.com/the-fcc-gov-website-lets-you-upload-documents-and-host-them-there-bdcd5c1a5b8b
285
60
Astronomers have found the stars responsible for an explosion recorded in 1437
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/08/a-cosmic-whodunit/538482/?single_page=true
280
19
Transformer: A Novel Neural Network Architecture for Language Understanding
https://research.googleblog.com/2017/08/transformer-novel-neural-network.html
267
251
Tesla Model S battery degradation data
https://steinbuch.wordpress.com/2015/01/24/tesla-model-s-battery-degradation-data/
264
180
Harvard and the Making of the Unabomber (2000)
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2000/06/harvard-and-the-making-of-the-unabomber/378239/?single_page=true
258
78
Blum: “The proof is wrong. I shall elaborate precisely what the mistake is.”
https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.03486v2
231
32
Your load is too heavy: Zork deep reading
http://blog.zarfhome.com/2017/08/your-load-is-too-heavy-zork-deep-reading.html
198
230
Iowa's handout to Apple illustrates the folly of corporate welfare deals
http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-apple-iowa-welfare-20170829-story.html
197
64
A Bourne-style shell built from scratch in 35 minutes [video]
https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/screencasts/catalog/shell-from-scratch
195
46
A Guide to Crypto Currencies
https://mycrypto.guide
189
129
Mailable Live Animals
https://pe.usps.com/text/pub52/pub52c5_008.htm
186
40
LogDevice: a distributed data store for logs
https://code.facebook.com/posts/357056558062811/logdevice-a-distributed-data-store-for-logs/
181
135
Tesla Model S Hits 300k Miles with less than $11k maintenance costs
http://www.tesloop.com/blog/2017/8/30/tesla-model-s-hits-300k-miles-with-less-than-11k-maintenance-costs
20
Object detection: an overview in the age of Deep Learning
https://tryolabs.com/blog/2017/08/30/object-detection-an-overview-in-the-age-of-deep-learning/
77
CIA 'Angelfire' covert Windows malware system
https://wikileaks.org/vault7/#Angelfire
172
111
A candy man revolutionized the sushi industry
https://www.bloombergquint.com/pursuits/2017/08/30/how-an-angry-candy-man-revolutionized-the-modern-sushi-industry
171
8
Nanocoin – A minimal cryptocurrency implemented in Haskell
https://github.com/tdietert/nanocoin
169
156
Impact of breast milk on IQ, brain size and white matter development (2010)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2939272/
162
49
How NASA Kept the ISS Flying While Harvey Hit Mission Control
https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/31/16228906/nasa-mission-control-center-tropical-storm-harvey-international-space-station
153
25
Bootstrapping Kubernetes Google Cloud Platform without scripts
https://github.com/kelseyhightower/kubernetes-the-hard-way/tree/1.7.4
★ 48kApache-2.0–8 years ago
120
SanDisk crams 400GB into a microSD card
https://www.engadget.com/2017/08/31/sandisk-400gb-microsd-card/
138
34
A Game of Life on Penrose Tilings
https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.09301
89
Rural America Is Building Its Own Internet Because No One Else Will
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/paax9n/rural-america-is-building-its-own-internet-because-no-one-else-will
123
115
Does disabling Wi-Fi prevent my Android phone from sending Wi-Fi frames? [pdf]
https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01575519/document
118
63
Is Romantic Desire Predictable? Machine Learning Applied to Initial Attraction
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28853645?dopt=Abstract
114
9
Databases and Distributed Deadlocks: A FAQ
https://www.citusdata.com/blog/2017/08/31/databases-and-distributed-deadlocks-a-faq/
107
Why I hate your Single Page App
https://medium.freecodecamp.org/why-i-hate-your-single-page-app-f08bb4ff9134
104
109
Postmates laid off all its city managers yesterday
https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/31/postmates-laid-off-all-its-city-managers-yesterday/?ncid=rss
102
82
India demonetisation fails to purge black money
https://www.ft.com/content/7dbe0e14-8d8a-11e7-a352-e46f43c5825d
98
5
Cost-Based Optimizer in Apache Spark 2.2
https://databricks.com/blog/2017/08/31/cost-based-optimizer-in-apache-spark-2-2.html
Data-driven Scala Programming
https://blog.buildo.io/data-driven-scala-programming-e50f07c4db35
96
56
Type Systems (2004) [pdf]
http://lucacardelli.name/Papers/TypeSystems.pdf
95
Branding workaholism as a desirable lifestyle choice
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/31/opinion/sunday/silicon-valley-work-life-balance-.html
91
36
Google is losing allies across the political spectrum
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/08/google-is-losing-allies-across-the-political-spectrum/
85
3
Mastering Bayes with R
http://www.machinegurning.com/rstats/bayes_r/
38
Ex-CIA Agent Raises $40M to Find Every 'Thing' on the Web in Just One Hour
https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2017/08/31/qadium-massive-internet-scans-in-an-hour/#72a3d8ea72c4
80
Possibility of explosion at Arkema chemical plant near Houston
http://www.arkema-americas.com/en/social-responsibility/incident-page-2/
74
30
Neural networks meet space
http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/neural-networks-meet-space
73
61
‘Anonymous’ Chat App Hijacks Contact Data
https://www.bishopfox.com/blog/2017/08/hot-new-anonymous-chat-app-hijacks-millions-contact-data/
31
The Simplest React Stack – Part 1: Bootstrapping and State Management
https://medium.com/@solkimicreb/the-react-stack-challenge-5fd166e1245f
72
51
Apple Balks at Higher Web-Access Fees After $1B Video Bet
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-31/apple-backs-net-neutrality-as-it-steps-up-online-video-effort
70
Central Banks Can’t Ignore the Cryptocurrency Boom
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-30/cryptocurrencies-are-new-barbarians-at-the-gate-of-central-banks
ESPN Football Analyst Walks Away, Disturbed by Brain Trauma on Field