931
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NYU Makes Tuition Free for All Medical Students
https://www.wsj.com/articles/nyu-offers-full-tuition-scholarships-for-all-medical-students-1534433082
7 years ago
412
138
Who Left Open The Cookie Jar?
https://wholeftopenthecookiejar.eu
342
308
Traveling the World on a Third World Passport
https://www.bucketlistly.blog/posts/how-to-travel-third-world-passport-thai
337
31
Introduction to A* (1997)
http://theory.stanford.edu/~amitp/GameProgramming/AStarComparison.html
332
122
Show HN: Wayland compositor in around 500 lines of annotated C
https://gist.github.com/SirCmpwn/ae4d1cdcca97ffeb2c35f0878d75dc17
330
What to say when recruiters ask you to name the first number
http://blog.interviewing.io/exactly-what-to-say-when-recruiters-ask-you-to-name-the-first-number-and-in-other-hard-situations/
321
171
China’s first ‘fully homegrown’ web browser found to be Google Chrome clone
https://shanghai.ist/2018/08/16/chinas-first-fully-homegrown-web-browser-found-to-be-google-chrome-clone/
319
82
FDA approves first generic version of EpiPen
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2018/08/16/fda-approves-first-generic-version-of-epipen/
315
109
The Hacker News Habit
https://hackernewslater.com/posts/the-hacker-news-habit/
28
Twitter's Secret “Guest Mode”
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2018/08/twitters-secret-guest-mode/
277
199
Botched CIA Communications System Helped Blow Cover of Chinese Agents
https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/08/15/botched-cia-communications-system-helped-blow-cover-chinese-agents-intelligence/
274
223
How to Hire
https://hbr.org/2018/01/how-to-hire
268
140
Google Needs to Come Clean About Its Chinese Plans
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/08/google-needs-come-clean-about-its-chinese-plans
248
78
Pixelblaze V2 – An advanced LED pattern development engine and controller
https://www.bhencke.com/pixelblaze/
245
OpenPGPjs has passed an independent security audit
https://protonmail.com/blog/openpgpjs-protonmail-security-audit/
237
77
Battery breakthrough: Double performance lithium battery that doesn’t catch fire
https://news.umich.edu/battery-breakthrough-doubling-performance-with-lithium-metal-that-doesnt-catch-fire/
234
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Google Employees Protest Work on Censored Search Engine for China
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/16/technology/google-employees-protest-search-censored-china.html
229
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Australians who won't unlock their phones could face ten years in jail
https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2018/08/16/australians-who-wont-unlock-their-phones-could-face-10-years-in-jail/
215
19
Computational Duplo train track layouts
http://www.cr31.co.uk/stagecast/trains/tt8_duplo_lout.html
211
195
Dugout Loop
https://www.boringcompany.com/dugout
200
21
A high bias low-variance introduction to Machine Learning for physicists
http://physics.bu.edu/~pankajm/MLnotebooks.html
30
A dull, resilient stream processor in Go
https://github.com/Jeffail/benthos
★ 8.6kGo–7 years ago
174
64
Solo – Open-source FIDO2 security key
https://solokeys.com/
172
205
US bosses now earn 312 times the average worker's wage
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/aug/16/ceo-versus-worker-wage-american-companies-pay-gap-study-2018
26
Aretha Franklin has died
https://www.clickondetroit.com/entertainment/aretha-franklin/aretha-franklin-the-queen-of-soul-dies-at-age-76
166
96
TLS 1.3 Is an Opportunity for Amazon, Google and Microsoft to End Censorship
https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2018/08/tls-1-3-is-coming-an-opportunity-for-amazon-google-and-microsoft-to-end-censorship/
133
Cryptocurrency investor robbed via his cellphone account sues AT&T for $224M
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/15/cryptocurrency-investor-sues-att-for-224-million-over-loss-of-digita.html
154
15
Modern SAT solvers: fast, neat and underused – part 2
https://codingnest.com/modern-sat-solvers-fast-neat-and-underused-part-2-of-n/
149
204
Bleak New Estimates in Drug Epidemic: A Record 72,000 Overdose Deaths in 2017
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/15/upshot/opioids-overdose-deaths-rising-fentanyl.html
141
89
What else is in Go 1.11?
https://talks.godoc.org/github.com/mvdan/talks/2018/go1.11.slide#1
129
71
Electricity Map – Live CO2 emissions of electricity consumption
https://www.electricitymap.org/
128
80
Suicidal Vet Calls MDMA Treatment ‘a Miracle'
https://www.thedailybeast.com/suicidal-vet-calls-mdma-treatment-a-miracle
125
38
An introduction to libuv (2016)
https://nikhilm.github.io/uvbook/
Gource – a software version control visualization tool
http://gource.io/
116
48
Engineers Say They've Created a Way to Detect Bombs and Guns Using Basic Wifi
https://gizmodo.com/a-group-of-engineers-say-theyve-created-a-way-to-detect-1828361739
115
20
NetData: monitor your systems and applications, with interactive web dashboards
http://my-netdata.io/
112
10
Schism: A library of CRDT implementations of Clojure’s core data types
https://github.com/aredington/schism
★ 359ClojureMIT–7 years ago
105
Taking on a Patent Troll: Caveat Troglodytarum
https://bitmovin.com/caveat-troglodytarum-trolls-beware/
99
A tweet storm explaining the history and state of Ethereum's Casper research
https://twitter.com/VitalikButerin/status/1029900695925706753
97
16
The Linux Documentation Project Guides
http://www.tldp.org/guides.html
93
88
Name and Shame: IBM
https://old.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/97qhdo/name_and_shame_ibm/
92
101
MoviePass Owner Sued by Shareholders as Business Model Falters
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-15/moviepass-owner-sued-by-shareholders-as-business-model-falters
Amazon in Running to Acquire Landmark Movie Chain
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-16/amazon-is-said-to-be-in-running-to-acquire-landmark-movie-chain
18
Open Source REST API for SpaceX data
https://github.com/r-spacex/SpaceX-API
★ 10.8kJavaScriptApache-2.0–7 years ago
91
Pext: Python Extendable Tool
https://github.com/Pext/Pext
★ 407Python–7 years ago
32
The Eno notation language
https://eno-lang.org/
Introducing Driver Module Framework
https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2018/08/15/introducing-driver-module-framework/#J6CWEbpcH0OwgWbP.97
87
45
How to deploy an app to production with an actual button
https://blog.github.com/2018-08-16-how-to-deploy-to-production-with-an-actual-button
84
85
Video game crash of 1983
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_crash_of_1983
83
6
Typed Clojure in Theory and Practice [pdf]
http://ambrosebs.com/talks/proposal.pdf
34
Service Workers
https://hackernoon.com/service-workers-62a7b14aa63a
17
Face detection – An overview and comparison of different solutions
https://www.liip.ch/en/blog/face-detection-an-overview-and-comparison-of-different-solutions-part1
74
5
Invisible Institute Relaunches the Citizens Police Data Project
https://theintercept.com/2018/08/16/invisible-institute-chicago-police-data/
73
Stripe for female founders has invited you to join Stripe Atlas
https://atlas.stripe.com/invite/atlasfemalefounders
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