878
171
Why Do Keynote Speakers Keep Suggesting That Improving Security Is Possible?
https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity18/presentation/mickens
7 years ago
629
310
24-core CPU and I can’t type an email
https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2018/08/16/24-core-cpu-and-i-cant-type-an-email-part-one/
447
94
Show HN: git-bug – Distributed bug tracker embedded in git
https://github.com/MichaelMure/git-bug
★ 9.7kGoGPL-3.0–7 years ago
401
76
Faster – Fast key-value store from Microsoft Research
https://github.com/Microsoft/FASTER
★ 6.6kC#MIT–7 years ago
389
278
Arm Announces Client CPU Roadmap For Laptops
https://www.arm.com/company/news/2018/08/accelerating-mobile-and-laptop-performance
318
222
Pre-sleep treatment with galantamine stimulates lucid dreaming
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0201246
361
Elon Musk Confronts a Fateful Tweet and an ‘Excruciating’ Year
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/16/business/elon-musk-interview-tesla.html
256
124
Show HN: Find recommendations from good people
http://abyjames.com/projects/recommendations/
252
35
Python Fire – Generates CLIs from any Python object
https://github.com/google/python-fire
★ 28.1kPython–7 years ago
233
72
Ask HN: Simple, beginner friendly ETL / Data Engineering project ideas?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17781762
225
34
Two French rivers disappear underground in cracks and sinkholes
http://strangesounds.org/2018/08/french-rivers-disappear-underground-doubs-river-has-disappeared-between-pontarlier-and-morteau-1km-swallowed-up-by-large-cracks-in-the-riverbed.html
209
78
Mithril.js – A modern client-side Javascript framework
https://mithril.js.org/
207
105
U.S. government seeks Facebook help to wiretap Messenger
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-encryption-exclusive/exclusive-u-s-government-seeks-facebook-help-to-wiretap-messenger-sources-idUSKBN1L226D
70
Think Julia: How to Think Like a Computer Scientist
https://benlauwens.github.io/ThinkJulia.jl/latest/book.html
198
63
John Ousterhout: My favorite sayings
http://web.stanford.edu/~ouster/cgi-bin/sayings.php
196
164
How to Write Unmaintainable Code (2017)
https://github.com/Droogans/unmaintainable-code
★ 10.1k–7 years ago
188
136
Poland was shockingly liberal during the 1400s
http://www.smashcompany.com/philosophy/poland-was-shockingly-liberal-in-the-1400s
155
44
A map of publicly available fruit trees, mostly in Slovakia
http://www.fruitmap.sk/
145
45
Why Kakoune – The quest for a better code editor
http://kakoune.org/why-kakoune/why-kakoune.html
138
42
Microsoft Closes US Surface Factory, Moves Production to China
https://www.extremetech.com/computing/252743-microsoft-closes-us-surface-factory-moves-production-china
4
Show HN: Map of Related Books for “Designing Data Intensive Apps”
https://anvaka.github.io/greview/ddia/1/
135
122
Napoleon Was the Best General Ever
https://towardsdatascience.com/napoleon-was-the-best-general-ever-and-the-math-proves-it-86efed303eeb
134
97
Why Facebook is losing the war on hate speech in Myanmar
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/myanmar-facebook-hate/
130
8
How to Read 100s of Millions of Records per Second from a Single Disk
https://clemenswinter.com/2018/08/13/how-read-100s-of-millions-of-records-per-second-from-a-single-disk/
129
60
A Sound Card Before Its Time
http://www.os2museum.com/wp/a-sound-card-before-its-time/
128
40
VigNAT: A Formally Verified Performant NAT
https://vignat.github.io/
125
The Secret to Ant Efficiency Is Idleness
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/16/science/ants-worker-idleness.html
123
18
The Math Required for Machine Learning
https://medium.com/technomancy/the-math-required-for-machine-learning-af0d90db3903
117
38
History of T (2001)
http://www.paulgraham.com/thist.html
110
22
The City Born in a Day: The Origin Story of Oklahoma City
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/08/how-oklahoma-city-was-born-in-a-day.html
109
30
How a tiny hospital used AI to lower costs and improve patient outcomes
https://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/flagler-hospital-uses-ai-create-clinical-pathways-enhance-care-and-slash-costs
108
55
MinUnit – A minimal unit testing framework for C (2002)
http://www.jera.com/techinfo/jtns/jtn002.html
107
64
They’re Falsely Accused of Shoplifting, but Retailers Demand Penalties
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/17/business/falsely-accused-of-shoplifting-but-retailers-demand-they-pay.html
27
Amiga Graphics Archive
http://amiga.lychesis.net/
74
Press leaks during Google's all-hands meeting enrage insiders
https://www.businessinsider.com/google-insiders-press-leaks-at-meeting-backfired-gave-sergey-brin-moral-high-ground-china-2018-8
28
With Undefined Behavior, Anything Is Possible
https://raphlinus.github.io/programming/rust/2018/08/17/undefined-behavior.html
131
The Great Chinese Art Heist
https://www.gq.com/story/the-great-chinese-art-heist
93
67
Artificial Intelligence Still Isn’t All That Smart
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-08-16/smart-machines-won-t-be-ready-to-do-complex-jobs-anytime-soon
85
The nightmarishly complex wheat genome finally yields to scientists
https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/08/give-us-this-day-our-daily-bread-wheat-genome/
6
Automatic Generation of a Hybrid Query Execution Engine
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.05448
84
68
Ask HN: What software should I use to write a textbook?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17781569
39
An open-source standards and software project for intimate hardware (maybe NSFW)
https://buttplug.io/
80
Myths about /dev/urandom (2014)
https://www.2uo.de/myths-about-urandom
23
Ask HN: What are your favorite long-form nonfiction websites?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17784547
79
Show HN: I made wits.io where writers can earn money with book summaries
https://www.wits.io/contribute
Symantec Distrust in Firefox Nightly 63
https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2018/08/14/symantec-distrust-in-firefox-nightly-63
19
“The DNS Camel”, or, the rise in DNS complexity
https://blog.powerdns.com/2018/03/22/the-dns-camel-or-the-rise-in-dns-complexit/
Publishing an iOS App with ClojureScript and React Native
http://increasinglyfunctional.com/2018/08/17/i-published-an-ios-app-with-clojurescript-and-react-native.html
African palm oil expansion is bad news for the continent’s primates
https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/08/african-palm-oil-expansion-is-bad-news-for-the-continents-primates/
71
16
An Online Magazine You Can’t Read Online
http://nautil.us/issue/63/horizons/the-online-magazine-you-cant-read-online
26
M4 (computer language)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M4_(computer_language)
69
5
Lenses for philosophers
https://julesh.com/2018/08/16/lenses-for-philosophers/
They’re Falsely Accused of Shoplifting, but Retailers Demand Penalties