761
246
Why I Ripped the Same CD 300 Times
https://john-millikin.com/%F0%9F%A4%94/why-i-ripped-the-same-cd-300-times
7 years ago
470
135
Learning Dexterity
https://blog.openai.com/learning-dexterity/
467
402
Uber shuts down self-driving trucks unit
https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/30/ubers-self-driving-trucks-division-is-dead-long-live-uber-self-driving-cars/
455
265
Some Amazon Reviews Are Too Good to Be Believed – They're Paid For
https://www.npr.org/2018/07/30/629800775/some-amazon-reviews-are-too-good-to-be-believed-theyre-paid-for
452
88
India's first RISC-V based Chip is Here: Linux boots on Shakti processor
http://www.geekdave.in/2018/07/indias-first-risc-v-is-here-linux-boots.html
367
179
Announcing TypeScript 3.0
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/typescript/2018/07/30/announcing-typescript-3-0/
336
233
Why the New V8 Is So Damn Fast
https://nodesource.com/blog/why-the-new-v8-is-so-damn-fast
326
70
Tom Tryniski digitized nearly 50M pages of newspapers in his living room
https://www.cjr.org/the_profile/tom-tryniski-fultonhistory.php
314
190
Bank of America questions customer’s citizenship, freezes accounts
http://www.kctv5.com/story/38753295/bank-of-america-questioning-customers-citizenship-freezing-accounts
266
124
How Britain beat the odds to achieve space flight, and then abandoned it
https://medium.com/lapsed-historian/an-empire-of-stars-d6b24f92cbc7
260
158
L-theanine, a constituent in tea, and its effect on mental state (2008) [pdf]
http://apjcn.nhri.org.tw/server/APJCN/17%20Suppl%201//167.pdf
259
153
Grain: A strongly-typed functional programming language for the modern web
https://grain-lang.org/
255
87
How F5Bot Slurps All of Reddit
https://intoli.com/blog/f5bot/
247
141
Computer science as a lost art (2015)
http://rubyhacker.com/blog2/20150917.html
237
168
Evolving the Firefox Brand
https://blog.mozilla.org/opendesign/evolving-the-firefox-brand/
172
Security Begins at the Home Router
https://insights.sei.cmu.edu/sei_blog/2018/07/security-begins-at-the-home-router.html
227
364
In Brazil, it is considered rude to be on time to a party
http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20180729-why-brazilians-are-always-late
211
12
SICP Distilled – An Idiosyncratic Tour of SICP in Clojure
http://www.sicpdistilled.com
210
113
Elastic TabStops: A Better Way to Indent and Align Code (2017)
http://nickgravgaard.com/elastic-tabstops/
207
239
What Economists Still Don’t Get About the 2008 Crisis
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-07-29/what-economists-still-don-t-get-about-2008-crisis
204
104
Goodreads offloads DynamoDB tables to S3 and queries them with Athena
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/big-data/how-goodreads-offloads-amazon-dynamodb-tables-to-amazon-s3-and-queries-them-using-amazon-athena/
199
121
Hello World on z/OS
https://medium.com/@bellmar/hello-world-on-z-os-a0ef31c1e87f
53
Non-PhotoRealistic Quake (2002)
https://research.cs.wisc.edu/graphics/Gallery/NPRQuake/whatIsIt.html
195
16
Bandit Algorithms Book [pdf]
http://downloads.tor-lattimore.com/banditbook/book.pdf
191
192
Serverless, Inc. lands $10M Series A to build serverless dev platform
https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/30/serverless-inc-lands-10-m-series-a-to-build-serverless-developers-platform/
189
175
If monads are the solution, what is the problem?
http://danghica.blogspot.com/2018/07/haskell-if-monads-are-solution-what-is.html
171
Ask HN: What “dumbphones” are available and viable in the US?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17641613
164
75
Building an Inclusive Code Review Culture
https://blog.plaid.com/building-an-inclusive-code-review-culture/
159
69
To Persuade Someone, Look Emotional
http://nautil.us/blog/to-persuade-someone-look-emotional
156
42
Show HN: Owl, a new kind of parser generator
https://github.com/ianh/owl
★ 802CMIT–7 years ago
146
62
A Taste of Linear Logic (1993) [pdf]
https://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/wadler/papers/lineartaste/lineartaste-revised.pdf
144
74
Apollo Accelerators – Amiga Classic accelerator boards
http://www.apollo-accelerators.com/
29
Facebook Lenses
https://stratechery.com/2018/facebook-lenses/
84
Practical Common Lisp (2009)
http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/
139
252
‘Lopping,’ ‘Tips’ and the ‘Z-List’: Bias Lawsuit Explores Harvard’s Admissions
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/29/us/harvard-admissions-asian-americans.html
36
Ferret: a Lisp implementation for real time embedded control systems
https://github.com/nakkaya/ferret
★ 1.1kMakefileBSD-2-Clause–7 years ago
128
83
Why isn’t someone using my software product or open source tool?
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/921921604140937216.html
125
243
The Pension Hole for U.S. Cities and States Is the Size of Japan’s Economy
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-pension-hole-for-u-s-cities-and-states-is-the-size-of-japans-economy-1532972501
122
63
One month from concept to $1000 in revenue
https://www.indiehackers.com/forum/week-2-one-month-from-concept-to-1000-revenue-bb7c736b9e
118
BitTorrent Is Now Part of TRON
http://blog.bittorrent.com/2018/07/23/its-official-bittorrent-is-now-part-of-tron/
116
73
How to read Plato (1995)
http://plato-dialogues.org/email/950404_1.htm
114
23
Accidents at Amazon: workers left to suffer after warehouse injuries
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/30/accidents-at-amazon-workers-left-to-suffer-after-warehouse-injuries
112
15
Augmenting Agile with Formal Methods
https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/augmenting-agile/
110
86
Do Our Questions Create the World?
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/do-our-questions-create-the-world/
105
127
MH370 Was ‘Manipulated’ Off Course to Its End, Report Says
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-30/mh370-investigation-unable-to-determine-cause-of-disappearance
97
The 4,000 Lines of Code Harvard Hopes Will Change Translation (2017)
https://slator.com/academia/4000-lines-code-harvard-hopes-will-change-translation/
102
34
Advice giving: A subtle pathway to power
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=6779&context=lkcsb_research
101
14
Machine Learning for Drummers
http://blog.petersobot.com/machine-learning-for-drummers
100
60
Rapidstring: Maybe the fastest string library ever
https://github.com/boyerjohn/rapidstring
99
Inventory of CO2 available for terraforming Mars
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-018-0529-6
98
The Race to a Trillion
https://www.aboveavalon.com/notes/2018/7/11/the-race-to-a-trillion
95
46
When Ramjets Ruled Science Fiction
https://www.tor.com/2018/07/30/when-ramjets-ruled-science-fiction/
94
Showing a Craigslist scammer who's boss using Python [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtNYzv8gLbs&feature=youtu.be
91
25
Xinjiang - A Surveillance State Unlike Any the World Has Ever Seen
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/china-s-xinjiang-province-a-surveillance-state-unlike-any-the-world-has-ever-seen-a-1220174.html
90
A treasure trove of skate culture is being saved
https://www.huckmag.com/outdoor/rad-archive-dan-adams-skate-culture/
6
The Wisdom And/or Madness of Crowds
https://ncase.me/crowds/
A new security header: Feature Policy
https://scotthelme.co.uk/a-new-security-header-feature-policy/
Activist Publishes 11,000 Private DMs Between Wikileaks and Its Supporters
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/3kyv9n/activist-publishes-11000-wikileaks-twitter-direct-messages-dms
37
Launch HN: Toybox (YC S18) – Communicate changes to sites without writing code
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17645998
In India, Summer Heat May Soon Be Literally Unbearable
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/17/climate/india-heat-wave-summer.html
80
173
And Nobody Noticed It Was a Fake Cake
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/25/fashion/weddings/and-nobody-noticed-it-was-a-fake-cake.html
79
45
How the CIA’s Fake Vaccination Campaign Endangers Us All
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-cia-fake-vaccination-campaign-endangers-us-all/
77
Inducing People’s Employers to Fire Them Should Be a Civil Wrong
https://quillette.com/2018/07/28/inducing-peoples-employers-to-fire-them-should-be-a-civil-wrong/
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