675
242
Twenty-two states ask appeals court to bring back net neutrality
https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/21/twenty-two-states-ask-appeals-court-to-bring-back-net-neutrality/
7 years ago
585
292
Startup School: Every Company That Applied Is Now Accepted
https://blog.ycombinator.com/startup-school-every-company-that-applied-is-now-accepted/
573
369
National prison strike launches over underpaid labor and prison conditions
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/08/national-prison-strike-launches-over-underpaid-labor-and-prison-conditions.html
567
339
Verizon throttled fire department’s “unlimited” data during wildfire
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/08/verizon-throttled-fire-departments-unlimited-data-during-calif-wildfire/
472
473
Commons Clause
https://redislabs.com/community/commons-clause/
338
137
Panic Attacks
https://avc.com/2018/08/panic-attacks/
322
145
Learn You a Haskell for Great Good
http://learnyouahaskell.com/
321
108
Introducing Ghost 2.0
https://blog.ghost.org/2-0/
313
122
Small Assets without the Headache in Elm 0.19
https://elm-lang.org/blog/small-assets-without-the-headache
312
198
What to Do After Finding Hot Connectors on Overhead Power Lines (2017) [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piQpLL5nD18
239
91
Ice confirmed at the Moon’s poles
https://phys.org/news/2018-08-ice-moon-poles.amp
236
15
Introduction to Data Mining – Second Edition
https://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~kumar001/dmbook/index.php
228
47
CodeSandbox
https://codesandbox.io/
224
A Web Design Crash Course: From Developer to Developer
https://zen-of-programming.com/design
219
126
How to Hire Your First Engineer
https://blog.ycombinator.com/how-to-hire-your-first-engineer/
211
86
Being the editor of a newspaper in Eve Online
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2018/08/20/whats-it-like-being-the-editor-of-a-newspaper-in-eve-online/
90
Someone Is Waging a Secret War to Undermine the Pentagon’s Huge Cloud Contract
https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2018/08/someone-waging-secret-war-undermine-pentagons-huge-cloud-contract/150685/
193
Memristor – The fictional circuit element
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.05982
191
172
Internal documents reveal the grueling way Tesla hit its 5,000 Model 3 target
https://www.thisisinsider.com/tesla-hit-model-3-target-by-reworking-thousands-of-cars-2018-8
185
63
Beta release of PHP 7.2 in the Google App Engine standard environment
https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/php7/
180
Facebook is rating the trustworthiness of its users on a scale from zero to one
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2018/08/21/facebook-is-rating-trustworthiness-its-users-scale-zero-one/
177
140
We Don’t Run Cron Jobs (2016)
https://engblog.nextdoor.com/we-don-t-run-cron-jobs-at-nextdoor-6f7f9cc62040
161
61
vTaiwan: An experiment in participatory governance
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/611816/the-simple-but-ingenious-system-taiwan-uses-to-crowdsource-its-laws/
160
Backpage.com’s Founders Speak for the First Time
https://reason.com/archives/2018/08/21/backpage-founders-larkin-and-lacey-speak
158
32
My Experience and Advice for Using GPUs in Deep Learning: Which GPU to get
http://timdettmers.com/2018/08/21/which-gpu-for-deep-learning/
156
121
Startups that launched today at Y Combinator’s S18 Demo Day 1
https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/20/here-are-the-63-startups-that-launched-today-at-y-combinators-s18-demo-day-1/
Stop Payment: A homeowner’s revolt against the banks (2012)
https://harpers.org/archive/2012/01/stop-payment-a-homeowners-revolt-against-the-banks/
139
82
Massachusetts gives workers new protections against noncompete clauses
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/08/massachusetts-gives-workers-new-protections-against-noncompete-clauses/
238
Russian hackers targeted U.S. conservative think-tanks, says Microsoft
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-russia-hackers/russian-hacking-of-conservative-groups-sites-thwarted-microsoft-idUSKCN1L60I0
33
PolarFS: Alibaba Distributed File System for Shared Storage Cloud Database [pdf]
http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol11/p1849-cao.pdf
136
175
Companies shouldn't give candidates homework assignments
http://www.gayle.com/blog/2013/09/18/companies-who-give-candidates-homework-assignments-knock-it-off
135
19
Theft: A History of Music
https://law.duke.edu/musiccomic/
132
201
Slack confirms it has raised $427M at a post-money valuation of over $7B
https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/21/slack-confirms-it-has-raised-427m-at-a-post-money-valuation-of-over-7-1b/
127
134
After the Bitcoin Boom: Hard Lessons for Cryptocurrency Investors
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/20/technology/cryptocurrency-investor-losses.html
123
27
A Parasitic Vine That Slowly Sucks the Life Out of Wasps
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/08/parasite-vine-wasp-tumor/567823/?single_page=true
120
41
Why OpenCV uses BGR color space (2015)
https://www.learnopencv.com/why-does-opencv-use-bgr-color-format/
117
China Invests Big in Clean and Cheap Energy from Thorium
http://www.thoriumenergyworld.com/press-release/china-invests-big-in-clean-and-cheap-energy-from-thorium
116
94
A Look at Vim, a Text Editor for the Ages
https://thenewstack.io/a-look-at-vim-a-text-editor-for-the-ages/
114
67
Kotlin 1.2.60 comes with native compiler binaries
https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin/releases/tag/v1.2.60
★ 52.6kKotlin–7 years ago
53
Google Assistant’s latest feature: “Tell me something good”
https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/21/google-assistants-latest-feature-delivers-just-the-good-news/
103
Dynamic Django Models with Model Models
https://www.protoapi.net/blog/2/
97
New T3 Instances – Burstable, Cost-Effective Performance
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-t3-instances-burstable-cost-effective-performance/
10
Richard Bellman on the Birth of Dynamic Programming (2002) [pdf]
https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/pdf/10.1287/opre.50.1.48.17791
89
133
The neglected benefits of the commute
http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20180806-the-neglected-benefits-of-the-commute
109
Is Pop Music Evolving, or Is It Just Getting Louder? (2012)
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/is-pop-music-evolving-or-is-it-just-getting-louder/
88
69
Google created a fake pizza brand to test creative strategies for YouTube ads
https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/20/google-doctor-fork/
42
Paul Singer, Doomsday Investor
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/08/27/paul-singer-doomsday-investor
85
54
Is China a developed country? A long and better answer
https://www.inkstonenews.com/china/is-china-a-developed-country-long-and-better-answer/article/2160430
84
40
Facebook Fueled Anti-Refugee Attacks in Germany, New Research Suggests
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/21/world/europe/facebook-refugee-attacks-germany.html
80
58
PowerShell Remoting
https://www.sconstantinou.com/powershell-remoting/
79
Aerial photos reveal the stark divide between rich and poor
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-45257901
Clicker Diet: Tracking Diet with Tally Counter
https://clickerdiet.com/
70
60
We are taking new steps against broadening threats to democracy
https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2018/08/20/we-are-taking-new-steps-against-broadening-threats-to-democracy/
3
A breakdown of a GIF decoder (2012)
http://commandlinefanatic.com/cgi-bin/showarticle.cgi?article=art011
16
Using AWS EC2 instance store vs EBS for MySQL
https://www.percona.com/blog/2018/08/20/using-aws-ec2-instance-store-vs-ebs-for-mysql-how-to-increase-performance-and-decrease-cost/
Russian hackers targeted U.S. conservative think-tanks, says Microsoft