602
362
EU to recommend that member states abolish daylight saving time
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/31/eu-recommend-member-states-abolish-daylight-saving-time
8 years ago
530
310
Can Beethoven send takedown requests?
https://wikimediafoundation.org/2018/08/27/can-beethoven-send-takedown-requests-a-first-hand-account-of-one-german-professors-experience-with-overly-broad-upload-filters/
529
131
After 24 years, Doom II's final secret has been found
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2018/08/31/after-24-years-doom-iis-final-secret-has-been-found/
389
224
Maersk installed 100-foot-tall rotating sails on one of its tankers
https://www.wsj.com/articles/maersk-tankers-turns-to-wind-power-to-cut-soaring-fuel-costs-1535641239
334
75
Show HN: Proven – An alternative to Twitter's verified accounts, with HN support
https://github.com/dschep/proven
★ 514 JavaScript GPL-3.0– 8 years ago
329
147
New Evidence That Lead Exposure Increases Crime (2017)
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2017/06/01/new-evidence-that-lead-exposure-increases-crime/
287
107
React Fire: Modernizing React DOM
https://github.com/facebook/react/issues/13525
★ 244.7k JavaScript MIT– 8 years ago
281
115
Cargo ships that sink when their cargo suddenly liquefies
https://theconversation.com/mystery-of-the-cargo-ships-that-sink-when-their-cargo-suddenly-liquefies-101158
276
91
x86-64 Assembly Language Programming with Ubuntu
http://www.egr.unlv.edu/~ed/x86.html
230
58
Prediction Markets: When Do They Work?
https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2018/07/26/prediction-markets-when-do-they-work/
226
99
Blackened Buildings of Manchester Before the Clean Air Act
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/incoming/gallery/blackened-buildings-manchester-before-clean-8727918
222
168
AI Can Transform Anyone Into a Professional Dancer
https://news.developer.nvidia.com/ai-can-transform-anyone-into-a-professional-dancer/
204
74
On the Worst-Case Complexity of TimSort
http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2018/9467/
202
83
How much countries spend in R&D
http://uis.unesco.org/apps/visualisations/research-and-development-spending/
199
301
San Francisco Denies Scooter Permits for Bird, Lime, Uber and Lyft
https://www.wsj.com/articles/san-francisco-denies-scooter-permits-for-bird-lime-uber-and-lyft-1535669924
198
27
Telco lobbyists accidentally send their talking points
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180829/18030740541/that-time-telco-lobbyists-sent-me-all-their-talking-points-about-trying-to-shift-blame-to-internet-companies.shtml
182
42
A deep dive into the Go memory allocator and garbage collector
https://about.sourcegraph.com/go/gophercon-2018-allocator-wrestling/
175
162
Java is still available at zero-cost
http://blog.joda.org/2018/08/java-is-still-available-at-zero-cost.html
167
95
Total Recall: LeBron's mighty mind (2014)
http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/11067098/lebron-james-greatest-weapon-brain
165
143
Mutiny at the big five is part of the future of work
https://abe-winter.github.io/2018/08/30/mutiny.html
The Chinese were solving 14th degree polynomials in 1303. Why?
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/9bkfhj/by_1303_the_chinese_were_solving_equations_of_the/
156
92
Can you use the terminal for everything? [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-2Ja7T9YF8
150
30
How the Brain Experiences Time
https://neurosciencenews.com/time-perception-9771/
148
109
How well does population density predict U.S. voting outcomes?
https://beta.observablehq.com/@jake-low/how-well-does-population-density-predict-u-s-voting-outcome
144
25
Show HN: Permafrost Engine – OpenGL 3.3 Real Time Strategy Engine in C
https://github.com/eduard-permyakov/permafrost-engine
★ 2.7k C GPL-3.0– 8 years ago
142
23
Tcpdump101 – Build packet capture syntax online
https://tcpdump101.com/
140
261
Apple self-driving car in accident: California DMV filing
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-autos/apple-self-driving-car-in-accident-california-dmv-filing-idUSKCN1LG2X1
136
48
Limits on Matrix Multiplication
https://rjlipton.wordpress.com/2018/08/30/limits-on-matrix-multiplication/
133
44
Full Ethereum blockchain now available as a BigQuery public dataset
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/ethereum-bigquery-public-dataset-smart-contract-analytics
Lenovo’s new Yoga Book replaces the keyboard with an E Ink screen
https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/30/17788476/lenovo-yoga-book-c930-dual-e-ink-screen-price-photos-release-date-ifa-2018
127
102
Russia tries more precise technology to block Telegram messenger
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-telegram/russia-tries-more-precise-technology-to-block-telegram-messenger-idUSKCN1LF1ZZ
126
108
Chief U.S. spy catcher says China using LinkedIn to recruit Americans
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-linkedin-china-espionage-exclusive/exclusive-chief-u-s-spy-catcher-says-china-using-linkedin-to-recruit-americans-idUSKCN1LG15Y
125
35
Z80 computer wirewrapped on perfboard
https://github.com/linker3000/Z80-Board
★ 146 – 8 years ago
18
Multi-Armed Bandits, Conjugate Models and Bayesian Reinforcement Learning
https://eigenfoo.xyz/bayesian-bandits/
124
26
Security Analysis of WireGuard [pdf]
https://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.857/2018/project/He-Xu-Xu-WireGuard.pdf
123
14
On the Kidnapped African Boy Who Became a German Philosopher
https://lithub.com/on-the-kidnapped-african-boy-who-became-a-german-philosopher/
121
2
NAFTA: Don’t Trade Away the Internet
https://act.openmedia.org/DontTradeAwayTheInternet
119
114
Silicon Valley is changing, and its lead over other tech hubs narrowing
https://www.economist.com/briefing/2018/09/01/silicon-valley-is-changing-and-its-lead-over-other-tech-hubs-narrowing
116
85
What Do Happy Teens Do?
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/our-changing-culture/201808/what-do-happy-teens-do
10
Briar Project
https://briarproject.org/how-it-works.html
DuckDuckGo's bang
https://duckduckgo.com/bang
96
Coca-Cola to buy Costa coffee for £3.9bn
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-45365893
101
'It's Enrico Pallazzo': The inside Story of 'The Naked Gun' Baseball Game
http://www.sportingnews.com/us/mlb/news/naked-gun-baseball-game-scene-national-anthem-angels-mariners-dodgers-stadium-enrico-pallazzo/zztjoa4obui818oo9waqjyf34
98
Anbox – A container-based approach to boot full Android on a regular Linux
https://github.com/anbox/anbox
★ 9k C++ GPL-3.0– 8 years ago
97
79
I've mostly given up on making Ubuntu bug reports
https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/UbuntuBugReportsUseless
Lego Wants to Remake Its Toy Bricks without Anyone Noticing
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/31/business/energy-environment/lego-plastic-denmark-environment-toys.html
89
3
Optimizing is-multiple checks with modular arithmetic
http://duriansoftware.com/joe/Optimizing-is-multiple-checks-with-modular-arithmetic.html?
86
Unsupervised machine translation
https://code.fb.com/ai-research/unsupervised-machine-translation-a-novel-approach-to-provide-fast-accurate-translations-for-more-languages/
77
To Grok a Mockingbird
http://raganwald.com/2018/08/30/to-grok-a-mockingbird.html
76
38
Updates to Cloud Speech-to-Text and general availability of Cloud Text-to-Speech
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/announcing-updates-to-cloud-speech-to-text-and-general-availability-of-cloud-text-to-speech
72
9
The early history of Windows file attributes
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20180830-00/?p=99615
71
20
Even bad estimates are valuable if you use them right
https://ntietz.com/2018/08/31/estimates.html
40
Bureaucracy as Active Ingredient
http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/08/30/bureaucracy-as-active-ingredient/
