1370
137
Thank you HN
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17745688
7 years ago
1082
140
Academic Torrents – Making 27TB of research data available
http://academictorrents.com/
603
Exapunks
http://www.zachtronics.com/exapunks/
450
26
Dijkstra's in Disguise
https://blog.evjang.com/2018/08/dijkstras.html
348
55
OpenStax – openly licensed textbooks
https://openstax.org/
311
121
Traveling to the Sun: Why Won’t Parker Solar Probe Melt?
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2018/traveling-to-the-sun-why-won-t-parker-solar-probe-melt
269
124
Show HN: Didyougogo – An Altavista slayer
http://didyougogo.com/blog/didyougogo.html
256
229
USA Temperature: can I sucker you?
https://tamino.wordpress.com/2018/08/08/usa-temperature-can-i-sucker-you/
252
80
One man designed and built the ultimate bush plane
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2018/08/one-man-designed-and-built-the-ultimate-bush-plane/
243
62
Frink
https://frinklang.org/
232
77
Potato paradox
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potato_paradox
69
Show HN: WorldBrain – full text, local search of your browsing history
https://worldbrain.io/#
217
129
Heavy-handed security searches of hotel rooms at Defcon/Black Hat
https://www.secjuice.com/defcon-hotel-security-fiasco
188
175
Google's censored Chinese search engine: a catalogue of ethical violations?
https://theconversation.com/googles-censored-chinese-search-engine-a-catalogue-of-ethical-violations-101046
178
57
MacOS System 6, Version 6.0.8: run in browser
https://archive.org/details/mac_MacOS_6.0.8
167
20
Jorge Luis Borges Interview (1977)
http://www.denisdutton.com/jorge_luis_borges_interview.htm
166
125
Alcubierre drive
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcubierre_drive
160
226
Salt not as damaging to health as previously thought, says study
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/aug/09/salt-not-as-damaging-to-health-as-previously-thought-says-study
146
142
Growers Are Beaming Over the Success of Lasers to Stave Off Birds
https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/08/12/633065620/growers-are-beaming-over-the-success-of-lasers-to-stave-off-thieving-birds
120
66
PC-Retro Motherboard Kit: Build a faithful reproduction of the 1982 IBM PC 5150
http://www.mtmscientific.com/pc-retro.html
109
193
Man Who Stole Plane Near Seattle Raises Troubling Security Question
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/11/us/seatac-stolen-plane-richard-b-russell.html
32
Strawberry Pop-Tart Blow-Torches (1994)
http://www.pmichaud.com/toast/
107
85
Two years with CloudFormation: lessons learned
https://sanderknape.com/2018/08/two-years-with-cloudformation-lessons-learned/
105
28
History of editors for Lisp
https://github.com/shaunlebron/history-of-lisp-parens/blob/master/editors.md
★ 590–7 years ago
104
101
Beijing struggles to defuse anger over China's P2P lending crisis
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-lenders-p2p-insight/beijing-struggles-to-defuse-anger-over-chinas-p2p-lending-crisis-idUSKBN1KX077
103
84
Ask HN: Plenty of large sites down; Reddit.com, GNU.org, Discord, coincidence?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17744431
22
My Haskell Journey from C#
http://cvlad.info/haskell/
100
23
V.S. Naipaul has died
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/11/obituaries/vs-naipaul-dead-author-nobel-prize.html
95
64
From Father to Son, Last Words to Live by (2007)
https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/01/us/01charles.html
Ask HN: Plenty of large sites down; Reddit.com, GNU.org, Discord, coincidence?