1006
710
Slack Is Buying HipChat from Atlassian
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-26/slack-and-atlassian-team-up-to-take-on-microsoft-in-chat-software
7 years ago
823
186
The Best Textbooks on Every Subject
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/xg3hXCYQPJkwHyik2/the-best-textbooks-on-every-subject
742
215
Stripe Issuing – An API for creating physical and virtual cards
https://stripe.com/issuing
509
399
Is WebAssembly the Return of Java Applets and Flash?
https://words.steveklabnik.com/is-webassembly-the-return-of-java-applets-flash
507
149
Worms frozen in permafrost for up to 42,000 years come back to life
http://siberiantimes.com/science/casestudy/news/worms-frozen-in-permafrost-for-up-to-42000-years-come-back-to-life/
437
71
Show HN: Layoutit – An interactive CSS Grid generator
http://layoutit.com/grid
400
30
The Site Reliability Workbook: Practical Ways to Implement SRE [pdf]
https://services.google.com/fh/files/misc/the-site-reliability-workbook-next18.pdf
391
137
Ask HN: Any good examples of learning through games/puzzles, for adults?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17616937
324
514
Bay Area cities are cracking down on free food at tech companies
https://www.businessinsider.com/san-francisco-free-cafeteria-food-facebook-ban-2018-7
317
184
First Successful Test of General Relativity Near Supermassive Black Hole
https://www.eso.org/public/unitedkingdom/news/eso1825/?lang
278
154
Why Discord Is Sticking with React Native
https://blog.discordapp.com/why-discord-is-sticking-with-react-native-ccc34be0d427
269
225
The World Economy Runs on GPS. It Needs a Backup Plan
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-07-25/the-world-economy-runs-on-gps-it-needs-a-backup-plan
234
50
Show HN: Percy – A Rust and WebAssembly isomorphic virtual DOM implementation
https://github.com/chinedufn/percy
★ 2.3kRustApache-2.0–7 years ago
231
29
Jeff Dean’s ML System Architecture Blueprint
https://medium.com/syncedreview/google-ai-chief-jeff-deans-ml-system-architecture-blueprint-a358e53c68a5
228
103
Amazon’s Face Recognition Falsely Matched 28 Members of Congress with Mugshots
https://www.aclu.org/blog/privacy-technology/surveillance-technologies/amazons-face-recognition-falsely-matched-28
194
160
Spotify hits 83M paying subscribers, more than double Apple Music’s 40M
https://9to5mac.com/2018/07/26/spotify-paid-subscribers-q2-2018/?pushup=1
162
7
Site Reliability Engineering
https://landing.google.com/sre/book.html
158
22
NetSpectre: Read Arbitrary Memory Over Network [pdf]
https://misc0110.net/web/files/netspectre.pdf
157
63
Ask HN: How to raise a seed round for people with no elite connections?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17621152
151
204
Facebook finally hands over leave campaign Brexit ads
https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/26/facebook-finally-hands-over-leave-campaign-brexit-ads/
147
96
Ask HN: Which self-hosted solutions are you using?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17615376
146
98
The missing profits of nations
https://voxeu.org/article/missing-profits-nations
145
81
Introducing Telegram Passport
https://telegram.org/blog/passport
97
Mozilla to Remove Support for Built-In Feed Reader from Firefox
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/software/mozilla-to-remove-support-for-built-in-feed-reader-from-firefox/
142
89
GCC 8.2 Released
https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-8/changes.html#GCC8.2
54
PANDAS revives the debate about the immune system and mental illness (2015)
http://nautil.us/issue/62/systems/yes-you-can-catch-insanity-rp
130
Lessons from the failure of General Magic
https://www.fastcompany.com/90208070/7-design-lessons-from-silicon-valleys-most-important-failure
124
1
Atlassian and Slack
https://slackhq.com/atlassian-and-slack-partnership
122
12
Efficient Methods and Hardware for Deep Learning [pdf]
http://cs231n.stanford.edu/slides/2017/cs231n_2017_lecture15.pdf
116
49
Launch loop
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Launch_loop
32
The quest to save Stephen Hawking's voice
https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/The-Silicon-Valley-quest-to-preserve-Stephen-12759775.php
107
86
Welcome to the New Space Age
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-07-26/welcome-to-the-new-space-age
65
IBM's Watson recommended 'unsafe and incorrect' cancer treatments
https://gizmodo.com/ibm-watson-reportedly-recommended-cancer-treatments-tha-1827868882
105
A Fear of Lawsuits Really Does Seem to Result in Extra Medical Tests
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/23/upshot/malpractice-lawsuits-medical-costs.html
100
Why Do the Biggest Companies Keep Getting Bigger? It’s How They Spend on Tech
https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-do-the-biggest-companies-keep-getting-bigger-its-how-they-spend-on-tech-1532610001
61
The secret in my blood
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/the_secret_in_my_blood
11
Best way to do Linux clones for your CI
https://www.kernel.org/best-way-to-do-linux-clones-for-your-ci.html
95
43
The unreasonable effectiveness of Soccermatics? (2017)
https://www.interaliamag.org/articles/david-sumpter-unreasonable-effectiveness-soccermatics/
93
For the first time in 15 years, a new Alzheimer’s drug looks promising
https://qz.com/1336195/biogen-and-esais-new-alzheimers-drug-ban2401-shows-promising-results-in-a-phase-ii-trial/
91
18
The Six-Lesson Schoolteacher (1991)
http://www.cantrip.org/gatto.html
87
23
Go: building on the shoulders of giants and stepping on a few toes [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sX8r6zATHGU
60
WW2 Spitfire Pilot Mary Ellis Dies
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-44962253
Slack acquires HipChat
https://twitter.com/stewart/status/1022574669151395840
Show HN: YC Review – Get your YC application reviewed by an alum
https://ycreview.com/
83
114
Canadian man changes gender on government IDs for cheaper car insurance
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/change-gender-identification-insurance-alberta-1.4754416?cmp=rss
82
134
John Conway: Discovering free will (2011)
https://plus.maths.org/content/john-conway-discovering-free-will-part-i
Worms frozen in permafrost for up to 42,000 years come back to life