740
208
To Remember Everything You Learn, Surrender to This Algorithm (2008)
https://www.wired.com/2008/04/ff-wozniak/
7 years ago
580
167
Facebook Wanted Gizmodo to Kill Investigative Tool
https://gizmodo.com/facebook-wanted-us-to-kill-this-investigative-tool-1826620111
560
338
EPA is allowing asbestos back into manufacturing
https://archpaper.com/2018/08/epa-asbestos-manufacturing/
552
63
Facebook Field Guide to Machine Learning – video series
https://research.fb.com/the-facebook-field-guide-to-machine-learning-video-series
537
407
Power Worth Less Than Zero Spreads as Green Energy Floods the Grid
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-06/negative-prices-in-power-market-as-wind-solar-cut-electricity
415
85
How I gained commit access to Homebrew in 30 minutes
https://medium.com/@vesirin/how-i-gained-commit-access-to-homebrew-in-30-minutes-2ae314df03ab
347
273
Taking Tesla Private
https://www.tesla.com/blog/taking-tesla-private
339
61
Startup School 2018 – Curriculum
https://blog.ycombinator.com/startup-school-2018-curriculum/
159
Seaweed could be scrubbing more carbon from the atmosphere than expected (2017)
https://oceana.org/blog/seaweed-could-be-scrubbing-way-more-carbon-atmosphere-we-expected
313
327
Musk mulls taking Tesla private, Saudi sovereign fund builds $2B stake
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-07/tesla-jumps-on-report-of-saudis-building-about-2-billion-stake
289
102
Dungeons Tome – Tool for generating dungeons for RPGs
https://www.dungeonstome.com
287
13
Unix Syscalls
https://john-millikin.com/unix-syscalls
277
154
Voting system to be used in West Virginia elections is vulnerable
https://twitter.com/GossiTheDog/status/1026603800365330432
264
105
Engineers teach a drone to herd birds away from airports autonomously
https://techxplore.com/news/2018-08-drone-herd-birds-airports-autonomously.html
246
253
Announcing Dart 2 Stable and the Dart Web Platform
https://medium.com/dartlang/dart-2-stable-and-the-dart-web-platform-3775d5f8eac7
201
183
Very few owners of Alexa-powered devices use them for shopping
https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/06/surprise-no-one-buys-things-via-alexa/
199
50
Cracking WPA-2 Just Got a Whole Lot Easier
https://medium.com/@billbuchanan_27654/the-beginning-of-the-end-of-wpa-2-cracking-wpa-2-just-got-a-whole-lot-easier-55d7775a7a5a
196
77
Internal Facebook Note: Here Is A “Psychological Trick” To Target Teens
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/facebooks-teens-tbh-psychological-trick-memo
195
64
Speech-to-Text Benchmark: Framework for benchmarking speech-to-text engines
https://github.com/Picovoice/stt-benchmark
★ 689PythonApache-2.0–7 years ago
189
Luna Studio – Visual and textual functional programming language
https://github.com/luna/luna-studio
152
Leaked white paper proposes U.S. Congressional regulation of social media
https://www.cjr.org/the_new_gatekeepers/congress-white-paper-platforms.php
127
Sadly, I must say goodbye to Leaf, my programming language
https://mortoray.com/2018/08/07/sadly-i-must-say-goodbye-to-leaf-my-programming-language/
182
240
Why You Should Build a Hackintosh
https://martinhering.me/post/why-you-should-build-a-hackintosh
174
55
Nim partners with Status.im
https://nim-lang.org/blog/2018/08/07/nim-partners-with-status.html?ref=hn
161
117
Upwork Freelancers Who Want Guaranteed Pay Have to Opt in to Tracking Software
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/carolineodonovan/upwork-freelancers-work-diary-keystrokes-screenshot
160
54
G Suite Happy Ending
http://lawgimenez.me/2018/08/07/g-suite-happy-ending/
155
184
We Wanted Safer Banks, We Got More Inequality
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-08-06/inequality-why-bank-rules-and-fed-rates-hurt-middle-class
153
81
The next ten years of Instapaper
http://blog.instapaper.com/post/176732408411
144
33
M3: Uber's Open Source Large-Scale Metrics Platform for Prometheus
https://ubr.to/2ALH8Ak
143
Bringing Vulkan everywhere
http://gfx-rs.github.io/2018/04/09/vulkan-portability.html
142
34
Sclack: The best CLI client for Slack, because everything is terrible
https://github.com/haskellcamargo/sclack
★ 2.4kPythonGPL-3.0–7 years ago
141
187
What can defend against off-the-shelf drone weapons?
https://www.dw.com/en/what-can-defend-against-off-the-shelf-drone-weapons/a-44970742
135
2
Dart 2.0 is now available
https://www.dartlang.org/dart-2
130
69
Business writers, please stop comparing market value to GDP
https://www.cjr.org/business_of_news/business-writers-please-stop-comparing-market-value-to-gdp.php
122
149
New York’s success provides road map for others taking aim at pedestrian deaths
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/new-york-s-vision-zero-success-provides-road-map-for-others-taking-aim-at-pedestrian-deaths-1.4771286
121
73
Android Pie SDK is now more Kotlin-friendly
https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2018/08/android-pie-sdk-is-now-more-kotlin.html
112
109
Why the tech sector may not solve America’s looming automation crisis
https://pudding.cool/2018/08/retraining/
108
Domino-effect of climate events could move Earth into a ‘hothouse’ state
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/aug/06/domino-effect-of-climate-events-could-push-earth-into-a-hothouse-state
36
Ask HN: How to find contract work in Bay Area?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17710597
103
41
V8 release v6.9
https://v8project.blogspot.com/2018/08/v8-release-69.html
98
92
Hydrogen derived from ammonia could open up new export market for Australia
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-08-08/hydrogen-fuel-breakthrough-csiro-game-changer-export-potential/10082514
91
1
Saudi sovereign fund builds 3 to 5 percent stake in Tesla
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tesla-stake/saudi-sovereign-fund-builds-3-to-5-percent-stake-in-tesla-ft-idUSKBN1KS1UG
88
47
Securing Web Sites Made Them Less Accessible
https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2018/08/07/securing-sites-made-them-less-accessible/
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