915
434
Julia 1.0
https://julialang.org/blog/2018/08/one-point-zero
7 years ago
851
332
Chemists discover how blue light speeds blindness
https://phys.org/news/2018-08-chemists-blue.html
592
109
Show HN: Retool – build internal tools faster
https://tryretool.com
537
309
A Dutch first: Ingenious BMW theft attempt
https://mrooding.me/a-dutch-first-ingenious-bmw-theft-attempt-5f7f49a96ec8
523
455
I don't trust Signal
https://drewdevault.com/2018/08/08/Signal.html
361
329
New York Times Co. Reports $24M Profit, Thanks to Digital Subscribers
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/08/business/media/new-york-times-earnings-subscriptions.html
320
248
Six Months at Riot Games
http://meagan-marie.tumblr.com/post/176788011970/six-months-at-riot-games
301
210
A PhD should be about improving society, not chasing academic kudos
https://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/2018/aug/09/a-phd-should-be-about-improving-society-not-chasing-academic-kudos
272
105
Discovery of nitrogen-fixing corn variety could reduce need for added fertilizer
https://www.ucdavis.edu/food/news/grow-food-crops-without-fertilizer
269
182
What the f*** is the edge?
https://arcentry.com/blog/what-the-f-is-the-edge/
266
524
Microsoft threatens to stop hosting Gab unless posts are removed
http://thehill.com/policy/technology/401129-microsoft-threatens-to-boot-gab-over-neo-nazis-hate-speech-posts
246
173
The Orange Juice Test (1985)
https://www.intercom.com/blog/the-orange-juice-test/
237
60
Show HN: NES Party – Online Multiplayer NES Emulator Using WebRTC
https://nes.party
231
91
Problem Solving and Clojure 1.9 with Rich Hickey
https://www.case-podcast.org/20-problem-solving-and-clojure-19-with-rich-hickey
224
124
America's first big offshore wind farm sets record low price
https://reneweconomy.com.au/americas-first-big-offshore-wind-farm-sets-record-low-price-of-6-5c-kwh-45126/
220
64
Half of the Great Barrier Reef Is Dead
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2018/08/explore-atlas-great-barrier-reef-coral-bleaching-map-climate-change
218
67
Christopher Domas: Hardware Backdoors in X86 CPUs
https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/rosenbridge
★ 2.3kCMIT–7 years ago
213
27
Getting Alexa to Respond to Sign Language Using Your Webcam and TensorFlow.js
https://medium.com/tensorflow/getting-alexa-to-respond-to-sign-language-using-your-webcam-and-tensorflow-js-735ccc1e6d3f
206
IPOs are expensive and cumbersome – Try a direct listing, like we did at Spotify
https://www.ft.com/content/60cd1bb8-9970-11e8-88de-49c908b1f264
95
WireGuarding the mainline
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/761939/4cee93b4fe564556/
196
359
Engineering whiteboard interviews: yay or nay?
https://www.keyvalues.com/blog/engineering-whiteboard-interviews-yay-or-nay
194
45
A Guide to Python's Magic Methods (2012)
https://rszalski.github.io/magicmethods/
179
114
Facebook has ended the ability to automatically post Tweets to profiles or pages
https://help.twitter.com/en/managing-your-account/link-twitter-to-facebook
175
229
Baltimore police will pay consultant $176k to maintain Lotus Notes system
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-city/bs-md-ci-lotus-notes-20180808-story.html
162
104
Wanted: ‘Lost Einsteins.’ Please Apply
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/09/technology/talent-opportunity-gap-pioneer-fund.html
159
102
How Globalization Has Broken the Chain of Responsibility
https://www.sapiens.org/culture/globalization-downfall-gladstone-australia/
156
59
A little bump in the wire that makes the Internet faster
https://apenwarr.ca/log/?m=201808
153
86
How to Recover from Romantic Heartbreak?
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-to-recover-from-romantic-heartbreak
140
123
A timesyncd failure and systemd's lack of debugability
https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/SystemdTimesyncdFailure
137
76
A Visual, Intuitive Guide to Imaginary Numbers (2007)
https://betterexplained.com/articles/a-visual-intuitive-guide-to-imaginary-numbers/
136
50
New Map Scale Is More Readable by People Who Are Color Blind
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/end-of-the-rainbow-new-map-scale-is-more-readable-by-people-who-are-color-blind/
131
133
Smoking around the world
https://ourworldindata.org/smoking
122
17
Functional Bits: Lambda-calculus based algorithmic information theory [pdf]
https://tromp.github.io/cl/LC.pdf
116
58
Librem 5 general development report
https://puri.sm/posts/librem5-progress-report-17/
113
61
First drug to prevent chronic migraines approved by EU
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/jul/31/first-ever-pill-to-prevent-chronic-migraines-approved-by-eu
112
118
The financial mistakes behind why a startup laid off 400 employees overnight
https://www.teampay.co/blog/3-mistakes-that-crushed-zirtual-overnight/
111
34
Factor: An impressive stack-based language environment
https://www.junglecoder.com/blog/factorlang-review
110
44
Pocket’s 30M Users Are Great for Publishers
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-09/pocket-s-30-million-users-are-great-for-publishers
10
Go 1.11beta3 is in average 11x faster for crypto/tls benchmarks on ARM64
https://gist.github.com/carlosedp/f85274ef2a9bacc773cf8ddeedaee821
100
Systemd's DynamicUser feature is currently dangerous
https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/SystemdDynamicUserDangerous
98
73
On the uses and misuses of panics in Go
https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2018/on-the-uses-and-misuses-of-panics-in-go/
96
Taking an Ancestry Test Could Make It Harder to Buy Life Insurance
http://cbslocal.com/2018/01/18/taking-ancestry-test-makes-buying-life-insurance-harder/
37
Unknown Unknowns: The Problem of Hypocognition
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/unknown-unknowns-the-problem-of-hypocognition/
94
79
Handling of U.S. trade dispute causes rift in Chinese leadership: sources
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trade-china-politics-analysis/handling-of-u-s-trade-dispute-causes-rift-in-chinese-leadership-sources-idUSKBN1KU0TU
93
126
War Without End
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/08/magazine/war-afghanistan-iraq-soldiers.html
38
High resolution timers and high uptime headaches
https://cookieplmonster.github.io/2018/08/07/high-resolution-timers-and-uptime-headaches/
90
The Discord Store Beta
https://blog.discordapp.com/the-discord-store-beta-9a35596fdd4
84
15
Leibniz's Explanation of Binary Arithmetic (1701)
http://www.leibniz-translations.com/binary.htm
82
Cable networks are speeding up TV shows to cram in ads
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cable-networks-are-speeding-up-tv-shows-to-cram-in-ads/
81
Understanding Simpson’s Paradox (2013) [pdf]
https://ftp.cs.ucla.edu/pub/stat_ser/r414.pdf
70
Musk’s Money Mystery Intrigues SEC
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-08-09/musk-s-money-mystery-intrigues-sec
35
Show HN: I built Analytics for my Ghost blog
https://ghostboard.io
33
BBC websites blocked in China after security change
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-45098190
13
New organic battery can operate for decades
https://differentimpulse.com/organic-battery-can-operate-decades/
A PhD should be about improving society, not chasing academic kudos