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https://medium.com/@jsonpify/you-dont-need-standup-9a74782517c1
8 years ago
648
280
Building a Kickass Portfolio
https://zen-of-programming.com/kickass-portfolio
549
63
Pyxel: A retro game development environment in Python
https://github.com/kitao/pyxel
★ 17.4k Rust – 8 years ago
375
82
In Pursuit of Production Minimalism
https://brandur.org/minimalism
339
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Apple becomes the first $1T company
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/business/wp/2018/08/02/apple-becomes-the-first-1-trillion-company-in-history/
328
98
The BASIC Engine
https://basicengine.org
326
74
A Brief History of the BEAM Compiler
http://blog.erlang.org/beam-compiler-history/
319
88
Announcing Rust 1.28
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2018/08/02/Rust-1.28.html
316
120
A Map of Wireless Passwords from Airports and Lounges
https://foxnomad.com/2016/04/26/map-wireless-passwords-airports-lounges-around-world-updated-regularly/
271
216
Lubuntu is taking a new direction
https://lubuntu.me/taking-a-new-direction/
266
104
Show HN: Standup tool that works like Snapchat stories for remote teams
https://standups.io/index.html
232
155
France bans smartphone use in schools
https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/1/17640476/france-bans-smartphone-cellphones-school-emmanuel-macron
221
212
As Google Maps Renames Neighborhoods, Residents Fume
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/02/technology/google-maps-neighborhood-names.html
209
39
Another Expansion of Copyright
https://act.eff.org/action/stop-another-expansion-of-copyright-tell-the-senate-to-vote-no-on-s-2823
203
296
Three Levels of Wealth
http://awealthofcommonsense.com/2018/08/the-3-levels-of-wealth/
192
36
A Ray-Tracing Pioneer Explains How He Stumbled into Global Illumination
https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2018/08/01/ray-tracing-global-illumination-turner-whitted
186
180
Wikipedia bans agenda-driven editor, but punishes the messenger too
https://wikipedia.fivefilters.org/banning/
185
222
Tesla is building its own AI chips for self-driving cars
https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/01/tesla-is-building-its-own-ai-chips-for-self-driving-cars/
183
40
Show HN: I trained a neural network to learn Arabic morphology
https://github.com/tb0yd/rootfinder
★ 142 Jupyter Notebook GPL-3.0– 8 years ago
182
133
How to explain infinity to kids
https://blog.plover.com/math/infinity-for-kids.html
173
123
The Oldest Building in Every US State
https://www.archdaily.com/898839/the-oldest-building-in-every-us-state
171
59
Handshake: An experimental peer-to-peer root DNS
https://handshake.org
157
54
Kolmogorov Complexity and Our Search for Meaning
http://nautil.us/issue/63/horizons/kolmogorov-complexity-and-our-search-for-meaning
48
Our Logo Looks Like Underpants: A Case Study in Internationalization (2013)
https://blog.rjmetrics.com/2013/10/09/our-logo-looks-like-underpants-a-case-study-in-internationalization/
156
Windows Calculator invalid input with 10^x function
https://www.tenforums.com/software-apps/111414-windows-calculator-invalid-input-10-x-function.html
62
Cisco plans to acquire cybersecurity firm Duo Security for $2.35B
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/02/cisco-buys-security-start-up.html
140
Children learn best when engaged in the living world, not on screens
https://aeon.co/essays/children-learn-best-when-engaged-in-the-living-world-not-on-screens
139
105
Relation between alcohol consumption in midlife and dementia in late life
https://www.bmj.com/content/362/bmj.k3164
A Mathematical Theory for Why People Hallucinate
https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-math-theory-for-why-people-hallucinate-20180730/
116
23
“I Have a Secret. My Father Is Steve Jobs”
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/08/lisa-brennan-jobs-small-fry-steve-jobs-daughter/amp
37
How does Hammacher Schlemmer survive in the age of Amazon?
http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/August-2018/Hammacher-Schlemmer/
112
72
PIN number analysis (2012)
http://www.datagenetics.com/blog/september32012/
111
44
Show HN: Life – A secure, blazing-fast, cross-platform WebAssembly VM in Go
https://github.com/perlin-network/life
★ 1.6k Go MIT– 8 years ago
110
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Developments in tech in Toronto over the past seven years
https://blog.brainstation.io/how-toronto-became-a-global-tech-leader-in-7-years/
109
70
Fred Turner: Silicon Valley Thinks Politics Doesn’t Exist
https://032c.com/fred-turner-silicon-valley-thinks-politics-doesnt-exist
57
CCleaner v5.45 Introduces Data Collection with No Way to Opt-Out
https://sensorstechforum.com/ccleaner-v5-45-data-collection/
16
Show HN: Wikipedia2Vec – A tool for learning embeddings of words and entities
https://wikipedia2vec.github.io/
119
Walmart stumbles with its 'last mile' package delivery plan
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-walmart-lastmile-workers-insight/walmart-discovers-why-the-last-mile-is-the-hardest-idUSKBN1KK0DD
141
The fightback against the Bitcoin energy guzzlers has begun
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/bitcoin-mining-energy-consumption-new-york
103
Ransom: Routing Around Nation-States
https://ransom.cs.princeton.edu/
95
8
Logic Programming and Compiler Writing (1980) [pdf]
http://sovietov.com/tmp/warren1980.pdf
93
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The Hacker's Diet (2005)
https://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/
92
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Japanese Medical School Deducted Points from Exam Scores of Female Applicants
https://www.npr.org/2018/08/02/634936967/report-japanese-medical-school-deducted-points-from-exam-scores-of-female-applic?ft=nprml&f=1001
115
Opera launches as a snap for Linux users
https://blogs.opera.com/desktop/2018/08/opera-launches-snap-linux-users/
87
15
CPU cache misconceptions, and the MESI cache coherence protocol
https://software.rajivprab.com/2018/04/29/myths-programmers-believe-about-cpu-caches/
55
PowerShell and Markdown
https://ephos.github.io/posts/2018-8-1-PowerShell-Markdown
78
19
Show HN: DomTerm – a web-based rich terminal emulator and console
http://domterm.org/
Compiling Lambda Calculus
http://t3x.org/clc/index.html
56
Braid 10th anniversary critical compilation
https://www.critical-distance.com/2018/07/24/braid-10th-anniversary-critical-compilation/
R generation
https://rss.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1740-9713.2018.01169.x
Sparse matrix representations in SciPy (2017)
https://heydenberk.com/blog/posts/sparse-matrix-representations-in-scipy/
71
Launch HN: Federacy (YC S18) – bug bounties for startups
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17673461
68
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Akshay Venkatesh: A Number Theorist Who Bridges Math and Time
https://www.quantamagazine.org/fields-medalist-akshay-venkatesh-bridges-math-and-time-20180801/