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Google AMP – A 70% drop in our conversion rate
https://medium.com/the-set-list/google-amp-a-70-drop-in-our-conversion-rate-35fe3cb69c59
8 years ago
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71
Show HN: Pts.js – A library for visualization and creative coding
https://ptsjs.org/
478
62
GLB: GitHub's open source load balancer
https://githubengineering.com/glb-director-open-source-load-balancer/
384
Holloway Guide to Equity Compensation
https://www.holloway.com/g/equity-compensation
374
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Gerald M. Weinberg has died
https://facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10156413364572778&id=605267777
373
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The Secret API of Banks
http://gduverger.com/secret-api-banks
317
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A $250 Biohack That’s Revolutionizing Life with Diabetes
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-08-08/the-250-biohack-that-s-revolutionizing-life-with-diabetes
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180
Utah expands public transportation with rapid bus transit, free until 2021
http://rideuta.com/news/2018/08/UVX-Service-Starts-August-13
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285
Snap’s Drop in Active Users Could Signal a Social Media Peak
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/07/technology/snapchat-users.html
302
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Tomu, a tiny ARM microprocessor which fits in your USB port
https://tomu.im/
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Bail has become a way to lock up the poor regardless of guilt or threat
https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/its-a-crime-to-be-poor-in-america-bail-reform/
277
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Python 3 is now available on App Engine standard environment
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp/introducing-app-engine-second-generation-runtimes-and-python-3-7
262
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The terrible 'what if': how OCD makes every day a matter of life or death
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/01/living-with-ocd-survival-poison-contaminated-food
256
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Photography Composition
https://antongorlin.com/blog/photography-composition-definitive-guide/
74
A Comcast Security Flaw Exposed Millions of Customers’ Personal Information
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/nicolenguyen/a-comcast-security-flaw-exposed-millions-of-customers
212
Dev.to is now open source
https://github.com/thepracticaldev/dev.to
★ 22.6k Ruby AGPL-3.0– 8 years ago
208
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Tokyo medical school admits changing results to exclude women
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/08/tokyo-medical-school-admits-changing-results-to-exclude-women
182
60
µUBSan: clean-room reimplementation of the Undefined Behavior Sanitizer runtime
https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/introduction_to_%C2%B5ubsan_a_clean
Julia v1.0 has been released
https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/releases/tag/v1.0.0
★ 48.6k Julia MIT– 8 years ago
246
False Advertising for College Is Pretty Much the Norm
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-08-07/for-profit-colleges-aren-t-the-only-ones-with-false-advertising
176
46
Shannon Labs – $100K Fellowship to support independent researchers
https://shannonlabs.co/?hn
175
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Magic Leap One Creator's Edition First Look
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/08/magic-leap-one-creators-edition-first-look.html
169
83
LibreOffice 6.1 released
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2018/08/08/libreoffice-6-1/
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XKCD: Voting software
https://xkcd.com/2030/
158
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Warner Music Group Sells Entire Stake in Spotify
https://variety.com/2018/biz/news/warner-music-group-sells-entire-stake-in-spotify-1202897605/
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User banned from Das Keyboard forums for telling people of open-source drivers
https://twitter.com/sebirdman/status/1026625633953013761
141
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Georgia defends voting system despite 243-percent turnout in one precinct
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/08/georgia-defends-voting-system-despite-243-percent-turnout-in-one-precinct/
135
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Uber Hit with Cap as New York City Takes Lead in Crackdown
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/08/nyregion/uber-vote-city-council-cap.html
127
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Hyperpolyglot: Lisp
http://hyperpolyglot.org/lisp
123
How Musicians Make Money, Or Don’t, In 2018
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/how-musicians-make-money-or-dont-at-all-in-2018-706745/
121
43
The pfSense Book
https://www.netgate.com/docs/pfsense/book/
117
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The Weight of Numbers: Air Pollution and PM2.5
https://undark.org/breathtaking/
115
44
MkDocs 1.0
https://www.mkdocs.org/about/release-notes/#version-10-2018-08-03
112
19
Causal Models
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/causal-models/
33
Blogging with Emacs org-mode
https://www.sadiqpk.org/blog/2018/08/08/blogging-with-org-mode.html
99
7
CMU Engineers Find Innovative Way to Make a Low-Cost 3D Bioprinter
https://healthtechmagazine.net/article/2018/07/cmu-engineers-find-innovative-way-make-low-cost-3d-bioprinter
The Places in America Where Most Income Goes to Rent
https://priceonomics.com/the-places-in-america-where-all-your-salary-goes/
92
List of Websites not available in the EU because of GDPR
https://data.verifiedjoseph.com/dataset/websites-not-available-eu-gdpr
98
Is Apple Really Your Privacy Hero?
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-08/is-apple-really-your-privacy-hero
91
Stacked Borrows: an aliasing model for Rust
https://www.ralfj.de/blog/2018/08/07/stacked-borrows.html
88
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Tech’s Military Dilemma
https://newrepublic.com/article/148870/techs-military-dilemma-silicon-valley
14
Filter Before You Parse: Faster Analytics on Raw Data with Sparser
https://dawn.cs.stanford.edu/2018/08/07/sparser/
57
Snapchat Source Code GitHub Leak Caused by Bad iOS Update
https://sensorstechforum.com/snapchat-source-code-leak-github/
Going Serverless: From Common Lisp and CGI to AWS Lambda and API Gateway
https://medium.com/@glikson/going-serverless-from-common-lisp-and-cgi-to-aws-lambda-and-api-gateway-9fba46c84fb8
84
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Firefox Offers Recommendations with Latest Test Pilot Experiment: Advance
https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2018/08/07/firefox-offers-recommendations-with-latest-test-pilot-experiment-advance/
81
DeepTAM: Deep Tracking and Mapping
https://lmb.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/people/zhouh/deeptam/
China announces 25% tariffs on $16B worth US goods
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/08/china-announces-25percent-tariffs-on-16-billion-worth-of-us-goods-including.html
80
Manners in Early Modern England
https://amp.theguardian.com/books/2018/aug/08/in-pursuit-of-civility-by-keith-thomas-review
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The Largest US Trading Partners All Put Higher Tariffs on the US Than Vice Versa
http://thesoundingline.com/nearly-all-the-uss-largest-trading-partners-impose-higher-tariffs-on-us-goods-than-vice-versa/
107
Crypto’s $600B Crash Hits a New Low
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-08/bitcoin-tumbles-to-3-week-low-as-sec-postpones-etf-decision
8
F1 Query: Declarative Querying at Google Scale [pdf]
http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol11/p1835-samwel.pdf
72
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Humans May Have Reached North America by More Than One Route
https://gizmodo.com/humans-may-have-reached-north-america-by-more-than-one-1828194893
3
A Poet of Computation Who Uncovers Distant Truths
https://www.quantamagazine.org/computer-scientist-constantinos-daskalakis-wins-nevanlinna-prize-20180801/
25
You can't debug distributed systems with dashboards
https://read.acloud.guru/why-you-cant-effectively-debug-your-modern-systems-with-dashboards-57fe3ecd26bf
70
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Seiko UC-2000 (1984) – the dawn of wearable computers
https://www.inexhibit.com/case-studies/seiko-uc-2000-1984-the-dawn-of-wearable-computers/
38
Show HN: Extension to highlight and tag users on Hacker News
https://github.com/veggiedefender/hn-friends
★ 50 JavaScript – 8 years ago
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The next 700 programming languages (1966) [pdf]
http://fsl.cs.illinois.edu/images/e/ef/P157-landin.pdf
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Design Thinking: B2 APIs and the Hidden Costs of S3 Compatibility
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/design-thinking-b2-apis-the-hidden-costs-of-s3-compatibility