595
228
Serverless Docker Beta
https://zeit.co/blog/serverless-docker
8 years ago
467
94
Google tracks users who turn off location history
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-45183041
367
556
Americans Own Less Stuff, and That’s Reason to Be Nervous
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-08-12/american-ownership-society-is-changing-thanks-to-technology
336
116
Understanding L1 Terminal Fault aka Foreshadow: What You Need to Know
https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/understanding-l1-terminal-fault-aka-foreshadow-what-you-need-know
311
127
Why you should, and shouldn’t, join a startup
https://www.atrium.co/blog/work-at-a-startup/
309
188
Italy bridge: Genoa motorway collapse kills at least 22
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-45183624
287
174
Programming in the Adult Entertainment Industry Is Broken
https://dev.to/jwoertink/programming-in-the-adult-entertainment-industry-is-broken-hgn
284
125
Why Use an FPGA Instead of a CPU or GPU?
https://blog.esciencecenter.nl/why-use-an-fpga-instead-of-a-cpu-or-gpu-b234cd4f309c
260
272
What Happens to #MeToo When a Feminist Is the Accused?
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/13/nyregion/sexual-harassment-nyu-female-professor.html
252
239
People start hating their jobs at 35
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-21/people-start-hating-their-jobs-at-age-35?m
136
Tinder founders sue parent companies Match and IAC for at least $2B
https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/14/tinder-match-lawsuit/
234
98
Windows 10 vs. Linux Performance On AMD Threadripper 2990WX
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=2990wx-linux-windows&num=1
232
73
Show HN: Rb – Turns Ruby into a command line utility
https://github.com/thisredone/rb
★ 1.4k Ruby MIT– 8 years ago
230
129
When Security Compromises Security – The Caesars/Defcon debacle
https://www.defiant.com/caesars-palace-defcon-2018-security/
208
72
Cost of a Join
https://www.brianlikespostgres.com/
186
34
Duke Team Finds Missing Immune Cells That Could Fight Lethal Brain Tumors
https://corporate.dukehealth.org/news-listing/duke-team-finds-missing-immune-cells-could-fight-lethal-brain-tumors
172
95
Emacs Lisp JIT Compiler
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2018-08/msg00393.html
171
35
MIT mathematicians solve age-old spaghetti mystery
http://news.mit.edu/2018/mit-mathematicians-solve-age-old-spaghetti-mystery-0813
170
100
Ask HN: How can I prepare for a coding interview in a week?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17755688
155
103
Instructions from Facebook not to touch the posts of the cabinet minister
https://444.hu/2018/08/14/we-received-instructions-from-facebook-not-to-touch-the-posts-of-the-cabinet-minister
149
179
Are diesel’s days numbered? A view from a trip to BYD’s electric bus factory
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2018/08/are-diesels-days-numbered-a-view-from-a-trip-to-byds-electric-bus-factory/
142
44
How Does FreeConferenceCall.com Make Money? (2012)
https://aaronparecki.com/2012/03/25/8/how-does-freeconferencecall-make-money
199
Ask HN: Can engineers from Google or Facebook solve whiteboard questions easily?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17757092
140
65
Two CMU Computer Science Professors Resign, Citing “sexist management”
http://www.post-gazette.com/business/tech-news/2018/08/14/lenore-manuel-blum-carnegie-mellon-university-school-computer-science-project-olympus/stories/201808140055
138
180
How air-conditioning created the modern city
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/aug/14/how-air-conditioning-created-modern-city
131
19
Collaborate, but only intermittently, says new study
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/08/180813160528.htm
130
16
Clothing Britain’s Spies During World War II
https://daily.jstor.org/clothing-britains-spies-wwii/
32
TensorFlow 2.0 is coming
https://groups.google.com/a/tensorflow.org/d/topic/announce/qXfsxr2sF-0/discussion
48
From laboratory in far west, China’s surveillance state spreads quietly
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-monitoring-insight/from-laboratory-in-far-west-chinas-surveillance-state-spreads-quietly-idUSKBN1KZ0R3
121
59
Show HN: Paperkast
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17756242
117
76
India Aims for the World's Biggest Health Care Overhaul
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2018/08/14/638187029/india-aims-for-the-worlds-biggest-health-care-overhaul
21
Vue.js Tutorial for beginners
http://adrianmejia.com/blog/2018/08/04/Vue-js-Tutorial-for-beginners-Create-a-Todo-App/#.W3NVkKA68SE.hackernews
115
U.S. Attorney Moves to Dismiss Murder-For-Hire Charges Against Ross Ulbricht
https://www.ccn.com/u-s-attorney-moves-to-dismiss-murder-for-hire-charges-against-ross-ulbricht/amp/
114
86
Elon Musk’s Funding for Tesla Wasn’t So Secure
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-08-13/funding-for-elon-musk-s-tesla-buyout-wasn-t-so-secure
112
52
Setting up a second keyboard for more shortcuts in Emacs
http://jordekang.tk/posts/rus-kbd.html
106
70
Banks and Retailers Are Tracking How You Type, Swipe and Tap
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/13/business/behavioral-biometrics-banks-security.html
105
22
LaTeX TikZ for Cryptographers
https://www.iacr.org/authors/tikz/
102
71
To Fix Back Pain, You Might Have To Change The Way You Sit
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2018/08/13/636025077/to-fix-that-pain-in-your-back-you-might-have-to-change-the-way-you-sit
Bitcoin, Ether Sink as ‘Sense of Panic’ Grips Crypto Investors
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-14/bitcoin-sinks-below-6-000-as-almost-everything-crypto-tumbles
10
Meltdown strikes back: the L1 terminal fault vulnerability
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/762570/75306c44ec963c8f/
31
Australian draft law requires tech companies to hand over encrypted messages
https://www.homeaffairs.gov.au/about/consultations/assistance-and-access-bill-2018
90
Current state of the art in objects classification
http://rodrigob.github.io/are_we_there_yet/build/classification_datasets_results.html
88
87
Turkey’s Lira Crisis Tests Erdogan’s Authoritarian Approach
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/13/world/europe/erdogan-turkey-lira-crisis.html
4
Diagnosing a Weak Memory Ordering Bug
https://robert.ocallahan.org/2018/08/for-first-time-in-my-life-i-tracked.html
36
When a 20-year-old punk put on a series of illegal shows in the desert
https://www.huckmag.com/?p=414909
84
242
The Mopeds Are Coming
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/08/the-mopeds-are-coming/567125/?single_page=true
79
40
How a billion dollar autonomous vehicle startup lost its way
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-08-13/how-a-billion-dollar-autonomous-vehicle-startup-lost-its-way
78
82
Vaping 'can damage vital immune system cells'
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-45170756
75
The rise (and rise) of the healthcare administrator
https://www.athenahealth.com/insight/expert-forum-rise-and-rise-healthcare-administrator
Launch HN: Fintual Inc. (YC S18) – Automated Wealth Manager for Latin America
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17759748
67
Gazing Back at the Surveillance Cameras That Watch Us
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/13/lens/surveillance-camera-photography.html
61
LHC physicists embrace brute-force approach to particle hunt
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05972-7
Ask HN: What are some of the simplest software businesses that exist?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17760587
69
6
Important Algorithms That Helped Define Math, Computing, Physics
https://interestingengineering.com/15-of-the-most-important-algorithms-that-helped-define-mathematics-computing-and-physics
28
How I Recovered Millions of Transactions Using Tcl (2016)
https://www.activestate.com/blog/2016/08/tcl-big-data-how-i-recovered-millions-transactions-using-tcl
33
The Superinvestors of Graham-and-Doddsville (1984)
https://www8.gsb.columbia.edu/articles/columbia-business/superinvestors
Top Programming Languages: Python extends its lead, Assembly enters the Top Ten
https://spectrum.ieee.org/at-work/innovation/the-2018-top-programming-languages
The Design is the Implementation
https://danshumway.com/blog/design-is-implementation/
5
Why some computer viruses refuse to die
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-44564709
64
13
Implementing SIP Telephony in Python (2008) [pdf]
http://39peers.net/download/doc/report.pdf
62
The SF Bay Area, where the streets are paved with single young men
http://visualizing.nyc/bay-area-zip-codes-singles-map/
SC-IM: An ncurses spreadsheet program for terminal
https://github.com/andmarti1424/sc-im
★ 5.6k C – 8 years ago
26
Go 1.11 Rc1 released
https://golang.org/dl/go1.11rc1
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1
Production Ramp-Up of a Hardware Startup (2016) [pdf]
https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/106689/969775787-MIT.pdf?sequence=1