1532
144
Let's Encrypt Root Trusted by All Major Root Programs
https://letsencrypt.org/2018/08/06/trusted-by-all-major-root-programs.html
8 years ago
604
224
I’m a very slow thinker (2016)
https://sivers.org/slow
597
213
Facebook has asked U.S. banks to share financial information about customers
https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-to-banks-give-us-your-data-well-give-you-our-users-1533564049
580
185
AWS icon quiz
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdnEEo0o2JgnIt8VOGffhkcYj-C2h9m5_NFzM0Q1AU-P8d0zA/viewform
566
187
What happens when you ask people to draw a bike (2016)
http://www.gianlucagimini.it/prototypes/velocipedia.html
494
148
FCC admits it was never actually hacked
https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/06/fcc-admits-it-was-never-actually-hacked/
481
357
Introducing Android 9 Pie
https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2018/08/introducing-android-9-pie.html
444
93
The Structure of Stand-Up Comedy
https://pudding.cool/2018/02/stand-up/
420
259
Where Vim Came From
https://twobithistory.org/2018/08/05/where-vim-came-from.html
418
My experience with Sarah Jeong, Jason Koebler, and Vice Magazine
https://medium.com/@therealsexycyborg/shenzhen-tech-girl-naomi-wu-my-experience-with-sarah-jeong-jason-koebler-and-vice-magazine-3f4a32fda9b5
381
177
Ask HN: What are the most interesting emerging fields in computer science?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17696271
371
136
Horrors of Using Azure Kubernetes Service in Production
https://movingfulcrum.com/horrors-of-using-azure-kubernetes-service-in-production/
342
201
Nile: decentralized, commission-free, local-economy focused Amazon alternative
https://github.com/open-source-ideas/open-source-ideas/issues/78
★ 6.7k – 8 years ago
337
288
Pi-Hole: Why You Need a Network-Wide Ad-Blocker
https://blog.cryptoaustralia.org.au/2018/08/06/why-you-need-network-wide-ad-blocker-pi-hole/
325
182
Study Finds Increased Incarceration Has Marginal-To-Zero Impact on Crime
https://eji.org/news/study-finds-increased-incarceration-does-not-reduce-crime
292
210
DoD: Turn Off Your Fitbit, Garmin, Apple Watch GPS
https://breakingdefense.com/2018/08/turn-off-your-fitbit-garmin-apple-watch-gps-now/
281
122
OpenAI Five Benchmark: Results
https://blog.openai.com/openai-five-benchmark-results/
253
191
Plan to replicate 50 high-impact cancer papers shrinks to just 18
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/07/plan-replicate-50-high-impact-cancer-papers-shrinks-just-18
241
311
The world is losing the war against climate change
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2018/08/02/the-world-is-losing-the-war-against-climate-change
235
SpiderOak removes its warrant canary
https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/94nspi/spideroak_cans_its_warrant_canary_suffers/
223
260
Apple Removes Infowars from Podcast Directory
https://www.wsj.com/articles/apple-removes-infowars-from-podcast-directory-1533538681
214
158
Women Die More from Heart Attacks Than Men Unless ER Doc Is Female
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/women-die-more-from-heart-attacks-than-men-unless-er-doc-is-female/
212
54
Thunderbird 60.0 release
https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/60.0/releasenotes/
204
20
Ask HN: What are your go-to blogs and books on building business applications?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17698231
198
168
Boston-area startups are on pace to overtake NYC venture totals
https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/04/boston-area-startups-are-on-pace-to-overtake-nyc-venture-totals/
188
118
The AMD Threadripper 2 Teaser: Pre-Orders Start Today, Up to 32 Cores
https://www.anandtech.com/show/13123/amd-threadripper-2-teaser-pre-orders-start-today-up-to-32-cores
114
Rainway takes a game running on one system and streams it to another device
https://blog.rainway.io/play-overwatch-and-anything-else-in-your-browser-with-rainway-86798744bddb
39
One-Process Programming Notes
https://crawshaw.io/blog/one-process-programming-notes
178
73
SpaceX set to re-fly a Block 5 rocket for the first time tonight
https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/08/tonight-spacex-to-reuse-its-first-block-5-variant-of-the-falcon-9/
89
The magic of asyncio explained
https://hackernoon.com/a-simple-introduction-to-pythons-asyncio-595d9c9ecf8c
166
Energy Saved, Sleep Lost: The Unintended Consequences of LED Lighting
https://medium.com/@caseorganic/energy-saved-sleep-lost-the-unintended-consequences-of-led-lighting-c0909d4872d0
74
For progress to be by accumulation and not random walk, read great books (2010)
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ufBYjpi9gK6uvtkh5/for-progress-to-be-by-accumulation-and-not-by-random-walk
152
55
Show HN: Dancemusic.wtf – Quiz Game for Learning Electronic Dance Music Styles
http://dancemusic.wtf/
142
169
Bankruptcy Booms Among Older Americans
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/05/business/bankruptcy-older-americans.html
137
38
Ask HN: How do you all deal with lack of motivation?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17695868
17
A Couple of Meta-Interpreters in Prolog
https://www.metalevel.at/acomip/
127
21
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https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/byz.pdf
126
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https://dinfuehr.github.io/blog/dora-implementing-a-jit-compiler-with-rust/
42
Decentralized Identifiers – DIDs
https://w3c-ccg.github.io/did-spec/
109
170
MoviePass keeps plan at $10, but limits subscribers to three movies a month
https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/06/moviepass-keeps-plan-at-10-but-limits-subscribers-to-three-movies-a-month/
69
‘Lies My Teacher Told Me’ and America’s Post-Truth Era
https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2018/08/history-education-post-truth-america/566657/?single_page=true
107
16
Deploying TLS 1.3 at scale with Fizz, a performant open source TLS library
https://code.fb.com/networking-traffic/deploying-tls-1-3-at-scale-with-fizz-a-performant-open-source-tls-library/