785
370
Learning from Terminals to Design the Future of User Interfaces
https://brandur.org/interfaces
8 years ago
599
125
Filament: Physically-based rendering engine
https://google.github.io/filament/Filament.md.html
545
256
The default OpenSSH key encryption is worse than plaintext
https://latacora.singles/2018/08/03/the-default-openssh.html
543
97
Things they don’t teach you running a business by yourself
https://docs.browserless.io/blog/2018/08/01/running-an-indie-business.html
493
317
Periodic fasting starves cisplatin‐resistant cancers to death
http://emboj.embopress.org/content/early/2018/06/06/embj.201899815
455
166
Show HN: A map that shows you how far you can go for a given time or distance
https://oalley.net/
368
90
Modern SAT solvers: fast, neat and underused
https://codingnest.com/modern-sat-solvers-fast-neat-underused-part-1-of-n/
362
215
Fidelity Introduces Zero Expense Ratio Index Funds
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180801005635/en/Fidelity-Rewrites-Rules-Investing-Deliver-Unparalleled-Simplicity
339
161
Google Maps is no longer a flat map
https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/03/google-maps-is-no-longer-flatearth/
324
326
Nearly Half of Americans Are Lonely
https://www.advisory.com/research/care-transformation-center/care-transformation-center-blog/2018/07/loneliness-epidemic
67
JPL Open-Source Rover Project Based on the Rovers on Mars
https://github.com/nasa-jpl/open-source-rover
★ 9.2k Prolog Apache-2.0– 8 years ago
305
196
Ask HN: How to get web development career on track from being homeless?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17684451
274
111
BYTE Magazine
https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine
272
151
3M Knew About the Dangers of PFOA and PFOS Decades Ago, Internal Documents Show
https://theintercept.com/2018/07/31/3m-pfas-minnesota-pfoa-pfos/
265
231
Firefox removes RSS support
https://evertpot.com/firefox-rss/
258
121
FCC sides with Google Fiber over Comcast with new pro-competition rule
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/08/fcc-gives-google-fiber-and-new-isps-faster-access-to-utility-poles/
252
270
Should computer science researchers disclose negative social consequences?
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05791-w
131
Spotify GDPR data export: user receives 250MB containing every interaction
https://twitter.com/steipete/status/1025024813889478656
236
70
AMD Creates Quad Core Zen SoC with 24 Vega CUs for Chinese Consoles
https://www.anandtech.com/show/13153/amd-creates-quad-core-zen-soc-with-24-vega-cus-for-chinese-consoles
232
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GE Engineer Linked to China Stole Power Plant Technology, FBI Says
https://www.wsj.com/articles/ge-engineer-linked-to-china-allegedly-stole-power-plant-technology-fbi-says-1533235590
214
Trash piles up in US as China closes door to recycling
https://phys.org/news/2018-07-trash-piles-china-door-recycling.html
172
24
How did you get it to run on a Gameboy?
http://20dollarlolita.tumblr.com/post/176285106968/the-actual-storys-so-much-cooler-than-that-i
165
84
Always-on Alibaba office app fuels backlash among Chinese workers
https://www.businessinsider.com/r-ding-always-on-alibaba-office-app-fuels-backlash-among-chinese-workers-2018-8
163
140
Goodbye Python, Hello Go
https://thinkfaster.co/2018/07/goodbye-python-hello-go/
156
56
What Can Small Tech Companies Do About Patent Trolls?
https://blogs.findlaw.com/technologist/2018/08/what-can-small-tech-companies-do-about-patent-trolls.html
155
68
Why Westerners Fear Robots and the Japanese Do Not
https://www.wired.com/story/ideas-joi-ito-robot-overlords/
138
74
Japan still has great influence on global financial markets
https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2018/08/02/japan-still-has-great-influence-on-global-financial-markets
135
101
Some Bacteria Are Becoming 'More Tolerant' of Hand Sanitizers, Study Finds
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2018/08/02/635017716/some-bacteria-are-becoming-more-tolerant-of-hand-sanitizers-study-finds
133
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Apple’s $1T Milestone Reflects Rise of Powerful Megacompanies
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/02/business/apple-trillion.html
124
58
One Year Without AMP
https://www.alexkras.com/one-year-without-amp/
112
45
How Numba and Cython speed up Python code
https://rushter.com/blog/numba-cython-python-optimization/
110
37
The Disturbing Fate of a Planet Made of Blueberries
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-if-earth-were-made-of-blueberries
108
10
Indigenous community built a DIY drone to fight off illegal loggers (2016)
https://qz.com/662530/a-tiny-forest-tribe-built-a-diy-drone-from-youtube-to-fight-off-illegal-loggers/
103
50
Systemisers are better at maths
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-30013-8
102
20
Life lessons from differential equations (2015)
https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2015/07/23/life-lessons-from-differential-equations/
99
21
Linus Torvalds on Wireguard
http://lists.openwall.net/netdev/2018/08/02/124
98
22
Show HN: HugeGraph – An open source fast and highly scalable graph database
https://github.com/hugegraph/hugegraph
★ 25 Java Apache-2.0– 8 years ago
85
42
Bitcoin Whale's Bad Trade Leaves Counterparties Holding the Bag
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-03/a-massive-losing-bet-on-bitcoin-futures-has-investors-buzzing
Cookie policy notifications have ruined user experience on the web
https://www.reddit.com/r/web_design/comments/93o0eg/cookie_policy_notifications_have_ruined_user/
82
13
The Kitten Programming Language
http://kittenlang.org/
81
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Angst Swells as Australian Population Nears 25M
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-31/angst-swells-as-australian-population-nears-25-million