1104
472
Liquid water 'lake' revealed on Mars
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-44952710
8 years ago
659
163
Zotero: An open-source tool to help collect, organize, cite, and share research
https://www.zotero.org/
618
388
Facebook stock drops more than 20% after revenue forecast misses
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/facebook-stock-crushed-after-revenue-user-growth-miss-2018-07-25
506
231
The secret call to Andy Grove that may have helped Apple buy NeXT
https://www.cake.co/conversations/g4CP6zJ/the-secret-call-to-andy-grove-that-may-have-helped-steve-jobs-change-the-world
487
60
Learn how to write an emulator
http://www.emulator101.com/
395
168
Elixir v1.7 released
https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2018/07/25/elixir-v1-7-0-released/
390
255
Ten years left to redesign lithium-ion batteries?
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05752-3
310
250
Removing jQuery from GitHub.com frontend
https://twitter.com/mislav/status/1022058279000842240
287
71
Ask HN: Where can one learn about the history of the internet and the protocols?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17607095
277
142
Google Unveils Titan Security Key, a Yubico-Like Phishing Resistant 2FA Device
https://www.cyberscoop.com/google-titan-security-key-2fa-anti-phishing/
273
222
GlaxoSmithKline makes $300M investment in 23andMe, forms 50-50 R&D pact
https://www.fiercebiotech.com/biotech/glaxosmithkline-makes-300m-investment-23andme-forms-50-50-r-d-pact
264
15 Years of SparkFun
https://www.sparkfun.com/news/2571
262
87
AMD stock rises after best earnings in 7 years
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/amd-stock-rises-after-strong-revenue-fuels-earnings-beat-2018-07-25
251
80
IP addresses and routing
https://jvns.ca/blog/2018/07/24/ip-addresses-routing/
235
Modern C++ for C Programmers: part 5
https://ds9a.nl/articles/posts/cpp-5/
218
61
Senator Asks US Agencies to Remove Flash from Government Websites
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/government/senator-asks-us-agencies-to-remove-flash-from-government-websites/
200
150
Freezing Python’s Dependency Hell
https://tech.instacart.com/freezing-pythons-dependency-hell-in-2018-f1076d625241
199
49
Machine Learning in Google Bigquery
http://ai.googleblog.com/2018/07/machine-learning-in-google-bigquery.html
196
72
SpaceX lands Falcon 9 booster on Just Read the Instructions drone ship
https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/25/spacex-lands-falcon-9-booster-on-just-read-the-instructions-drone-ship/
193
76
The Shipping Forecast
https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-shipping-forecast/
174
145
Address Verification and Full PGP Support
https://protonmail.com/blog/address-verification-pgp-support/
161
172
That sinking feeling
https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2018/07/that-sinking-feeling.html
160
97
'Japan's millennium bug' ahead of Akihito's abdication
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/25/big-tech-warns-japan-millennium-bug-y2k-emperor-akihito-abdication
159
52
The Biomass Distribution on Earth
http://www.pnas.org/content/115/25/6506
158
69
The year Mexico legalised drugs
https://www.historyextra.com/period/modern/1940-the-year-mexico-legalised-drugs/
154
88
Some suddenly become accomplished artists or musicians with no previous training
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/brain-gain-a-person-can-instantly-blossom-into-a-savant-and-no-one-knows-why/
151
83
Is America Encouraging the Wrong Kind of Entrepreneurship? (2017)
https://hbr.org/2017/06/is-america-encouraging-the-wrong-kind-of-entrepreneurship
149
137
Missouri disaster: Duck boat’s designer had no engineering training
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-duck-boat-20180724-story.html
51
Show HN: CSS Scan – Instantly check or copy computed CSS from any element
http://guivr.github.io/cssscan
140
78
Page Lifecycle API
https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2018/07/page-lifecycle-api
12
Introduction to compute shaders
https://anteru.net/blog/2018/intro-to-compute-shaders/
136
148
Toronto adds more tech jobs than Silicon Valley in past 5 years
https://m.huffingtonpost.ca/2018/07/24/toronto-best-city-tech-jobs_a_23488711/
135
120
Treating violence as a public health problem has produced great results
https://mosaicscience.com/story/violence-crime-knife-chicago-glasgow-gang-epidemic-gun-health-prevention/
131
48
Phoebus cartel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoebus_cartel
130
84
Intel Ditching Hyper-Threading with New Core I7-9700k Coffee Lake Processor
https://wccftech.com/intel-ditching-hyper-threading-with-new-core-i7-9700k-coffee-lake/
123
127
How Lies Spread Online
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/08/opinion/sunday/truth-lies-spread-online.html
117
15
Implementing Neural Turing Machines
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.08518
115
VLC is blacklisting recent Huawei devices to combat negative app reviews
https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/25/17614014/vlc-blacklisting-recent-huawei-devices-negative-app-reviews
111
Rome's Subway Expansion Reveals Artifacts From The Ancient Past
https://www.npr.org/2018/07/22/630532760/romes-subway-expansion-reveals-artifacts-from-the-ancient-past
109
Chrome 68 Released: HTTP Sites Marked as “Not Secure”
https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2018/07/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
107
45
YouTube page load is 5x slower in Firefox and Edge than in Chrome
https://old.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/91jil3/youtube_page_load_is_5x_slower_in_firefox_and/
103
42
Launch HN: RevenueCat (YC S18) – Simple API for Managing In-App Subscriptions
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17610735
101
40
Deep Learning and Free Software
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/760142/c328ef70b2d47794/
92
39
Court: Native American tribe can’t be a “sovereign” shield during patent review
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/07/court-native-american-tribe-cant-be-a-sovereign-shield-during-patent-review/
89
31
Mozilla exec says Google slowed YouTube down on non-Chrome browsers
https://www.cnet.com/news/mozilla-exec-says-google-slowed-youtube-down-on-non-chrome-browsers/
Not all bugs are worth fixing and that's okay
https://blog.bugsnag.com/application-stability-monitoring/
67
Facebook Q2 2018 Earnings
https://investor.fb.com/investor-events/event-details/2018/Facebook-Q2-2018-Earnings/default.aspx
82
65
Dogs rush to help when owners cry, study suggests
https://www-m.cnn.com/2018/07/24/health/dogs-human-crying-empathy-study/index.html
81
A learning platform to teach the Ada and SPARK programming languages
https://learn.adacore.com/
Open Letter from Sandy Hook Parents to Mark Zuckerberg
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jul/25/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-sandy-hook-parents-open-letter