769
237
Using FOIA Data and Unix to halve major source of parking tickets
http://mchap.io/using-foia-data-and-unix-to-halve-major-source-of-parking-tickets.html
8 years ago
533
152
Original Source code for the Furby [pdf]
http://www.seanriddle.com/furbysource.pdf
515
259
Google tracks your movements, like it or not
https://apnews.com/f60bc112665b458cb6473d7ee9492932
481
163
Dear customers of Cloudflare: an appeal regarding Tor
https://gitlab.com/iblech/tor-appeal/blob/master/README.md
477
57
The Total Beginner's Guide to Game AI
https://www.gamedev.net/articles/programming/artificial-intelligence/the-total-beginners-guide-to-game-ai-r4942/
380
90
The 10:1 rule of writing and programming
https://www.ybrikman.com/writing/2018/08/12/the-10-to-1-rule-of-writing-and-programming/
322
189
AMD Threadripper 2990WX 32-Core and 2950X 16-Core Review
https://www.anandtech.com/show/13124/the-amd-threadripper-2990wx-and-2950x-review
316
Nvidia Unveils Quadro RTX, a Raytracing GPU
https://www.nasdaq.com/press-release/nvidia-unveils-quadro-rtx-worlds-first-raytracing-gpu-20180813-00977
312
424
Would You Let the I.R.S. Prepare Your Taxes? (2015)
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/16/technology/personaltech/turbotax-or-irs-as-tax-preparer-intuit-has-a-favorite.html
275
62
Universal Method to Sort Complex Information Found
https://www.quantamagazine.org/universal-method-to-sort-complex-information-found-20180813/
267
45
Show HN: A side project in medical devices
https://chrisseaton.com/merseyburns/
250
88
Ask HN: Best way to publish papers as a non-scholar?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17750861
248
41
Notes Nearing Ninety: Learning to Write Less
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/08/08/notes-nearing-ninety-learning-to-write-less/
242
155
Ask HN: Recommendations of good cybercrime novels?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17749283
218
38
Mkcert: Tool for making locally-trusted development certificates
https://github.com/FiloSottile/mkcert
★ 58.6k Go BSD-3-Clause– 8 years ago
217
172
Parents Break Teen Out of Mayo Clinic
https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2018/08/13/teenager-escape-mayo-clinic/
207
61
Faxploit: Sending Fax Back to the Dark Ages
https://research.checkpoint.com/sending-fax-back-to-the-dark-ages/
203
136
The tech industry's use of persuasive techniques on children
https://medium.com/@richardnfreed/the-tech-industrys-psychological-war-on-kids-c452870464ce
198
180
Soviet Collapse Echoes in China’s Belt and Road
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-08-12/soviet-collapse-echoes-in-china-s-belt-and-road-investment
195
175
Lenovo Launches Ultra-Thin ThinkPad P1: X1 Carbon Meets Workstation
https://www.anandtech.com/show/13208/lenovo-launches-ultra-thin-thinkpad-p1
193
Endocrine-disrupting chemical exposure in US: disease burden and cost analysis
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/landia/article/PIIS2213-8587(16)30275-3/fulltext
192
112
In a Town of 11 People, Mysterious Disappearance Turns Neighbor Against Neighbor
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/11/world/australia/larrimah-mystery.html
190
127
US elections remain 'dangerously vulnerable' to cyber-attacks
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/13/us-election-cybersecurity-hacking-voting
168
40
Fraud in superconductor physics
https://twitter.com/gravity_levity/status/1029061204919177216
159
33
Show HN: Trackerjacker – Map and track wifi networks you're not connected to
https://github.com/calebmadrigal/trackerjacker
★ 2.7k Python MIT– 8 years ago
71
Absolute Hot
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolute_hot
154
Starting your own bank is laborious but profitable (2009)
https://www.wealthmanagement.com/practice-management/you-can-open-bank
153
22
Organized Resources for Deep Learning Researchers and Developers
https://github.com/astorfi/Deep-Learning-World
★ 3.1k Python MIT– 8 years ago
150
85
It’s Amazon’s Swamp Now
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/08/has-bezos-become-more-powerful-in-dc-than-trump
148
19
The Bell System Technical Journal
https://archive.org/search.php?query=bell%20system%20technical%20journal
141
36
How to deal with dirty side effects in your pure functional JavaScript
https://jrsinclair.com/articles/2018/how-to-deal-with-dirty-side-effects-in-your-pure-functional-javascript/
137
131
Update on Taking Tesla Private
https://www.tesla.com/blog/update-taking-tesla-private?redirect=no
132
86
14-year-old boy uses legal quirk to run for Vermont governor
https://www.wpri.com/politics/14-year-old-boy-uses-legal-quirk-to-run-for-vermont-governor/1365623960
125
66
Show HN: unicode.style
https://unicode.style
123
10
Shrinking Machine Learning Models for Offline Use
https://developer.amazon.com/blogs/alexa/post/09bacbdd-c089-4b02-863d-6761728102ed/shrinking-machine-learning-models-for-offline-use
4
Cache-Line Aware Data Structures
https://accu.org/index.php/journals/2535
114
13
A Basic Just-In-Time Compiler (2015)
https://nullprogram.com/blog/2015/03/19/
111
55
What is Intel’s Thunderbolt 3 dual port controller’s total bandwidth?
https://communities.intel.com/message/560462
109
16
How intermittent breaks in interaction improve collective intelligence
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2018/08/09/1802407115
108
Creating the alien writing in Infinifactory (2015)
http://www.zachtronics.com/alien-writing/
107
47
AssemblyAI: speech-to-text API
http://assemblyai.com
25
Bluetooth Low Energy Swiss-Army Knife
https://github.com/virtualabs/btlejack
★ 2k Python MIT– 8 years ago
106
34
Turkish Grammar by Predicate Logic
https://pypi.org/project/kefir/
104
60
Why GE Digital Failed
https://www.inc.com/alex-moazed/why-ge-digital-didnt-make-it-big.html
102
Crystal 0.26.0 released
https://crystal-lang.org/2018/08/09/crystal-0.26.0-released.html
101
52
Man victim of 'vomit fraud,' and his wife found the video to prove it
http://www.wday.com/news/4484702-mcfeely-west-fargo-man-victim-vomit-fraud-and-his-wife-found-video-prove-it
98
France approves 720MW of solar as price falls another 5%
https://www.pv-tech.org/news/france-approves-720mw-of-solar-as-price-falls-another-5
92
Vanguard Warns of Worsening Odds for the Economy and Markets
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/10/business/vanguard-recession-economy.html
91
64
Facebook buys Vidpresso's (YC W14) team and tech to make video interactive
https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/13/facebook-vidpresso/
81
Project Natick – Underwater datacenter with live cameras
https://natick.research.microsoft.com/
15
Microbiologist Carl Woese changed the way we think about evolution
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/13/magazine/evolution-gene-microbiology.html
80
37
A new form of carbon, schwartzites, has been created
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/carbon-new-form-chemistry-schwarzite-zeolite-ztc-graphene-university-california-berkeley-a8490226.html
