819
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Valve Rolls Out Wine-Based “Proton” for Running Windows Games on Linux
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Valve-Steam-Play-Proton-Linux
7 years ago
570
379
Edge Computing at Chick-fil-A
https://medium.com/@cfatechblog/edge-computing-at-chick-fil-a-7d67242675e2
483
120
PyPy.js: Python in the web browser
https://pypyjs.org/
457
Apple and Google Face Growing Revolt Over App Store ‘Tax’
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-22/apple-and-google-face-growing-revolt-over-app-store-tax
448
197
Redis will remain BSD licensed
http://antirez.com/news/120
438
59
A visualization of the prime factors of the first million integers
https://johnhw.github.io/umap_primes/index.md.html
406
333
Ask HN: Codebase at my work is a complete mess, what should I do?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17819771
396
250
Open source takes continued investment, and that must be subsidized somehow
https://www.influxdata.com/blog/its-time-for-the-open-source-community-to-get-real/
349
238
The Commons Clause is an existential threat to open source
https://drewdevault.com/2018/08/22/Commons-clause-will-destroy-open-source.html
303
84
The Apocalyptic Architecture of One 1970s Retail Chain
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/best-superstores-architecture
280
244
Bullshit jobs and the yoke of managerial feudalism
https://www.economist.com/open-future/2018/06/29/bullshit-jobs-and-the-yoke-of-managerial-feudalism
234
77
What they don’t tell you about event sourcing
https://medium.com/@hugo.oliveira.rocha/what-they-dont-tell-you-about-event-sourcing-6afc23c69e9a
228
81
The Planet Now Has More Trees Than It Did 35 Years Ago
https://psmag.com/environment/the-planet-now-has-more-trees-than-it-did-35-years-ago
225
41
A study of musical scales (2017)
https://ianring.com/musictheory/scales/
212
94
Need More Self-Control? Try a Simple Ritual
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/need-more-self-control-try-a-simple-ritual/
209
168
OpenAI Five at Dota 2 – The International [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYXIgOaU1zw
207
127
China’s Mass Internment Camps Have No Clear End in Sight
https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/08/22/chinas-mass-internment-camps-have-no-clear-end-in-sight/
206
105
Buzzfeed journalist denied China visa following coverage of Xinjiang crackdown
https://www.hongkongfp.com/2018/08/22/buzzfeed-journalist-denied-new-china-visa-following-award-winning-coverage-xinjiang-crackdown/
190
257
Why Prosperity Has Increased but Happiness Has Not
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/21/opinion/happiness-inequality-prosperity-.html
216
Are we alone? Tiny spacecraft will head to Alpha Centauri to find out
https://www.cnet.com/news/sending-tiny-spacecraft-to-alpha-centauri
189
86
Algo: A set of Ansible scripts that simplify the setup of a personal IPSEC VPN
https://github.com/trailofbits/algo
★ 30.2kPythonAGPL-3.0–7 years ago
186
Advice for Haskell beginners (2017)
http://www.haskellforall.com/2017/10/advice-for-haskell-beginners.html
181
184
Nobody Trusts Facebook, Twitter Is a Hot Mess, What Is Snapchat Doing?
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-08-22/nobody-trusts-facebook-twitter-is-a-hot-mess-what-is-snap-s-evan-spiegel-doing
165
48
Mod and remainder are not the same
https://rob.conery.io/2018/08/21/mod-and-remainder-are-not-the-same/
162
Cisco ‘secured visas for foreign workers instead of hiring US citizens’: report
https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/08/21/h-1b-visa-reliant-cisco-secured-visas-for-foreign-workers-instead-of-hiring-u-s-citizens-report
157
66
Show HN: SVG 3D Builder – Build 3D Models with SVG
https://github.com/captainwz/svg-3d-builder
★ 861JavaScript–7 years ago
155
36
UBC researchers may have found a way to make donated blood universal
https://vancouversun.com/health/local-health/ubc-researchers-have-found-a-way-to-make-all-donated-blood-universal
145
46
Google Data Collection research
https://digitalcontentnext.org/blog/2018/08/21/google-data-collection-research/
135
85
Facebook to Remove Onavo App from Apple Store
https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-to-remove-data-security-app-from-apple-store-1534975340
51
Aramco listing plan halted, oil giant disbands advisors – sources
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-saudi-aramco-ipo-exclusive/exclusive-aramco-listing-plan-halted-oil-giant-disbands-advisors-sources-idUSKCN1L71TZ
91
Startups that launched at Y Combinator’s S18 Demo Day 2
https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/21/all-59-startups-that-launched-today-at-y-combinators-s18-demo-day-2/
133
37
Italy’s famous dome is cracking, and muon imaging may help
https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/08/cosmic-rays-could-help-unlock-the-secrets-of-brunelleschis-dome/
22
The Git project selects SHA-256 as the next-gen hash function to migrate to
https://public-inbox.org/git/[email protected]/
132
42
Nuclear Weapons Nerds
https://gizmodo.com/meet-the-nuclear-weapons-nerds-1826964319
122
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The Workman Keyboard Layout Philosophy (2010)
http://workmanlayout.org/
Driverless Startup Zoox Suddenly Removes CEO
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-22/driverless-startup-zoox-said-to-remove-ceo-in-sudden-move
117
33
Mum’s a Neanderthal, Dad’s a Denisovan: discovery of an ancient-human hybrid
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-06004-0
111
45
Single-decryption EM-based attack reveals private keys from Android phones [pdf]
https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/usenixsecurity18/sec18-alam.pdf
106
12
Evaluating Vax Lisp 3.1
https://netzhansa.blogspot.com/2018/08/evaluating-vax-lisp-30.html
103
5
Monitoring and Observability in the .NET Runtime
https://mattwarren.org/2018/08/21/Monitoring-and-Observability-in-the-.NET-Runtime/
101
137
Japanese fleet catches 177 whales in latest hunt
https://japantoday.com/category/national/japan-fleet-catches-177-whales-in-latest-hunt
‘Legacy system’ exposed Black Hat 2018 attendees’ contact information
https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/22/legacy-system-exposed-black-hat-2018-attendees-contact-information/
96
How a coding error fueled a dispute between two condensed matter theorists
https://physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/PT.6.1.20180822a/full/
95
43
The Desperate Quest for Genomic Compression Algorithms
https://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/the-desperate-quest-for-genomic-compression-algorithms
87
26
Whiteboard problems in pure Lambda Calculus (2017)
https://www.jtolio.com/2017/03/whiteboard-problems-in-pure-lambda-calculus/
75
Packard Merlin: How Detroit Mass-Produced Britain’s Hand-Built Powerhouse (2015)
https://www.tested.com/art/makers/492418-packard-merlin-how-detroit-mass-produced-britains-hand-built-powerhouse/
83
3
How the First World War Transformed Art
https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/art-design/2018/08/after-bullets-brushes-how-first-world-war-transformed-art
40
Introducing the Cultural Leadership Fund
https://a16z.com/2018/08/22/introducing-the-cultural-leadership-fund/
79
143
Passport queues vex airlines
https://www.economist.com/business/2018/08/18/passport-queues-vex-airlines
28
While the planet burns our politicians fiddle
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-while-the-planet-burns-our-politicians-fiddle/
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