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Learning Math for Machine Learning
https://blog.ycombinator.com/learning-math-for-machine-learning/
7 years ago
602
454
How LeBron James' new public school is the first of its kind
https://www.sbnation.com/platform/amp/2018/7/31/17634370/lebron-james-school-akron-i-promise-different
492
414
Google Plans to Launch Censored Search Engine in China, Leaked Documents Reveal
https://theintercept.com/2018/08/01/google-china-search-engine-censorship/
470
102
A time in 1994 when Steve Jobs got to use a device like an iPhone
https://www.cake.co/conversations/6bNY8PD/that-time-in-1994-when-steve-jobs-got-to-use-a-device-like-an-iphone
448
1012
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2018)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17663077
443
269
Why a Typical Home Solar Setup Does Not Work with the Grid Down
https://syonyk.blogspot.com/2018/05/why-typical-home-solar-setup-does-not-work-off-grid.html
380
133
Paul Graham on SICP (2000)
https://www.amazon.com/review/R3G05B1TQ5XGZP/
334
30
A friendly guide to colours in data visualisation
https://blog.datawrapper.de/colorguide/
332
24
Jason's Machine Learning 101
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1kSuQyW5DTnkVaZEjGYCkfOxvzCqGEFzWBy4e9Uedd9k/preview?imm_mid=0f9b7e&cmp=em-data-na-na-newsltr_20171213&slide=id.g168a3288f7_0_58
331
181
WireGuard is submitted for Linux kernel inclusion
https://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=153306429108040&w=2
308
197
Reddit Security Incident
https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/93qnm5/we_had_a_security_incident_heres_what_you_need_to/
307
125
Django 2.1 released
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.1/releases/2.1/
237
How we spent $30k in Firebase in less than 72 hours
https://hackernoon.com/how-we-spent-30k-usd-in-firebase-in-less-than-72-hours-307490bd24d
305
95
Sequoia-PGP – A new OpenPGP implementation in Rust
https://sequoia-pgp.org/
287
66
My Own Car System, Rear Camera, Offline Maps and Routing with Go
https://blog.nobugware.com/post/2018/my_own_car_system_raspberry_pi_offline_mapping_map_matching_places_part2/
285
167
Introducing the Dweb
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/07/introducing-the-d-web/
244
Facebook’s New Message to WhatsApp: Make Money
https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebooks-new-message-to-whatsapp-make-money-1533139325
239
84
Google Refuses to Remove the Pirate Bay's Homepage
https://torrentfreak.com/google-categorically-refuses-to-remove-the-pirate-bays-homepage-180729/
233
94
GitLab is working on a tool just for data teams
https://about.gitlab.com/2018/08/01/hey-data-teams-we-are-working-on-a-tool-just-for-you/
223
139
China's Peer-To-Peer Lenders Are Falling Like Dominoes as Panic Spreads
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-20/china-s-p2p-platform-failures-surge-as-panic-spreads-in-market
222
136
A Tiny, $25 Million Mistake (2014)
https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/09/16/348975479/a-tiny-25-million-mistake
212
198
Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/08/01/magazine/climate-change-losing-earth.html
203
229
Tesla Second Quarter 2018 Update
http://ir.tesla.com/static-files/7235e525-db16-470c-8dce-9ecac0ad7712
193
65
How to tell the difference between persuasion and manipulation
https://aeon.co/ideas/how-to-tell-the-difference-between-persuasion-and-manipulation
192
16
From developer to entrepreneur: Learning to build an indie startup
https://twomakers.io/two-makers-one-journey/
191
43
CS Unplugged: Computer Science Without a Computer
https://csunplugged.org/en/
190
74
Fusion.js: A Plugin-Based Universal Web Framework
https://eng.uber.com/fusionjs
184
86
The Twilio API for WhatsApp
https://www.twilio.com/blog/2018/08/twilio-whatsapp-api.html
180
38
Show HN: Toy – A thin C++ game engine
http://hugoam.github.io/toy-io
170
129
Cherry MX History
https://tedium.co/2018/07/19/cherry-mx-keyboard-history/
168
23
Is it Pokemon or Big Data? (2016)
https://pixelastic.github.io/pokemonorbigdata/
166
150
Basic Income caused crime to drop by 40% and strengthened workforce?
https://www.theincomer.com/2018/02/28/basic-income-crime-rate-drop-by-40-lower-inequality-even-stronger-workforce/
155
52
Google's AutoML: Cutting Through the Hype
http://www.fast.ai/2018/07/23/auto-ml-3/
147
29
Rackjure
http://docs.racket-lang.org/rackjure/index.html
142
25
Why startups need to approach SEO differently than established companies
https://www.atrium.co/blog/seo-seed-stage-startups/
138
115
Atom 1.29
http://blog.atom.io/2018/07/31/atom-1-29.html
124
64
The art of stealing
https://www.nrc.nl/kunsthal-en/
120
127
Thieves escape by motorboat after royal jewels heist in Sweden
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/01/swedish-royal-jewels-stolen-from-cathedral
119
160
The End of Employees
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-end-of-employees-1486050443
118
22
Federal Judge: Albuquerque's Asset Forfeiture is Unconstitutional
https://reason.com/blog/2018/07/30/federal-judge-rules-albuquerques-asset-f
31
Actor Model of Computation (2010) [pdf]
https://arxiv.org/vc/arxiv/papers/1008/1008.1459v8.pdf
116
14
Prospecting for Hash Functions
https://nullprogram.com/blog/2018/07/31/
9
Zinc: Introduce minimal cryptography library
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/zx2c4/linux.git/commit/?h=zinc
114
10
Deep learning beginner to expert: techniques from Fast.ai
https://blog.floydhub.com/ten-techniques-from-fast-ai/
112
49
Cognitive Dissonance in Programming
http://hangaroundtheweb.com/2018/07/cognitive-dissonance-in-programming/
111
48
2018 Fields Medal and Nevanlinna Prize Winners
https://www.quantamagazine.org/tag/2018-fields-medal-and-nevanlinna-prize-winners/
106
“Single?” Lawn Signs Conquer the American Landscape (2008)
https://blog.rjmetrics.com/2008/11/06/single-lawn-signs-conquer-the-american-landscape/
101
Apple was overtaken by Huawei in global smartphone sales
https://qz.com/1345496/apple-was-just-overtaken-by-huawei-in-global-smartphone-sales/
97
5
How to Read an RFC
https://www.mnot.net/blog/2018/07/31/read_rfc
Show HN: StyleURL – Edit CSS via Chrome Devtools and turn the diff into a gist
https://www.styleurl.app
93
146
GUIs Considered Harmful (1992)
http://porkmail.org/era/unix/guis.txt
90
The simplicity of dropping Google in 2018
https://macwright.org/2018/04/26/leaving-google.html
85
3
Mach-O linking and loading tricks
http://blog.darlinghq.org/2018/07/mach-o-linking-and-loading-tricks.html
144
Where did the Microsoft tech stack disappear?
https://michaelscodingspot.com/2018/07/30/where-did-the-microsoft-tech-stack-disappear/
82
50
What the Luddites Really Fought Against (2011)
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/what-the-luddites-really-fought-against-264412/?no-ist
San Francisco Officials to Tech Workers: Buy Your Lunch
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/31/technology/san-francisco-tech-free-lunch.html