991
485
Coders Automating Their Own Job
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/10/agents-of-automation/568795/?single_page=true
8 years ago
853
4
Amazon increases minimum wage for all U.S. workers to $15 an hour
https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/02/amazon-minimum-wage/
768
1006
Amazon raises minimum wage to $15 for all US employees
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/02/amazon-raises-minimum-wage-to-15-for-all-us-employees.html
569
143
Vigilante engineer stops Waymo from patenting key lidar technology
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2018/10/lone-engineer-spanks-waymo-in-lidar-patent-battle/
500
313
In Praise of Mediocrity
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/29/opinion/sunday/in-praise-of-mediocrity.html
457
157
Startups I Want to Fund
https://startupandrew.com/posts/startups-i-want-to-fund/
369
227
Brendan Eich Writes to the US Senate: We Need a GDPR for the United States
https://brave.com/us-gdpr-senate
359
175
Announcing flicker-free boot for Fedora 29
https://hansdegoede.livejournal.com/19224.html
343
375
Should you learn C to “learn how the computer works”?
https://words.steveklabnik.com/should-you-learn-c-to-learn-how-the-computer-works
342
78
Intel ME Manufacturing Mode: obscured dangers and MacBook vulnerability
http://blog.ptsecurity.com/2018/10/intel-me-manufacturing-mode-macbook.html
290
135
Why Are Enterprises So Slow?
https://zwischenzugs.com/2018/10/02/why-are-enterprises-so-slow/
279
55
Fastai for PyTorch: Fast and accurate neural nets using modern best practices
http://www.fast.ai/2018/10/02/fastai-ai/
260
92
Ferret – Declarative web scraping
https://github.com/MontFerret/ferret
★ 5.9k Go Apache-2.0– 8 years ago
245
71
Facebook launches PyTorch 1.0
https://code.fb.com/ai-research/facebook-accelerates-ai-development-with-new-partners-and-production-capabilities-for-pytorch-1-0/
242
110
‘Goblin’ world found orbiting at the edges of the Solar System
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-06885-1
236
155
Hetzner removes traffic limitation for dedicated servers
https://wiki.hetzner.de/index.php?title=Traffic/en&curid=2842&diff=30324&oldid=29871
215
118
Tesla delivered 83,500 vehicles in the third quarter, more than expected
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/02/tesla-third-quarter-auto-production.html
211
73
Physics Nobel won by laser wizardry – laureates include first woman in 55 years
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-06752-z
207
96
The Complicated Financial Lives of Freelancers
https://www.npr.org/2018/10/02/653627067/going-it-solo-the-complicated-financial-lives-of-freelancers
205
189
Bill Gates: “I never said '640K should be enough for anybody'” (1996)
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/alt.folklore.computers/mpjS-h4jpD8/9DW_VQVLzpkJ
107
China Censors Bad Economic News Amid Signs of Slower Growth
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/28/business/china-censor-economic-news.html
203
152
Avoiding Zombie Startups
https://salon.thefamily.co/avoiding-zombie-startups-9bcd4a79ccc0
202
61
Show HN: A list of programmers coding live
https://shipstreams.com/
200
70
Create React App 2.0: Babel 7, Sass, and More
https://reactjs.org/blog/2018/10/01/create-react-app-v2.html
195
37
Ask HN: What are good projects to understand CUDA and GPU Programming?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18119345
177
89
ARM releases free Cortex-M processor cores for FPGAs
https://abopen.com/news/arm-offers-free-as-in-beer-cortex-ip-to-combat-fossi-threat/
90
Miller Columns
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller_columns
176
100
A History of .NET Runtimes
http://mattwarren.org/2018/10/02/A-History-of-.NET-Runtimes/
160
138
Google DeepMind Founder Demis Hassabis: Three Truths about AI
https://www.techrepublic.com/article/google-deepmind-founder-demis-hassabis-three-truths-about-ai/
149
33
iOS 12: Core Data External Binary Data Storage Becomes Corrupt
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2018/10/01/ios-12-and-core-data-external-binary-data-storage/
145
25
Data Factories
https://stratechery.com/2018/data-factories/
144
12
Generative Coding – “The Nature of Code” Ported to Three.js
https://medium.com/creative-coding-space/generative-coding-the-nature-of-code-ported-to-three-js-629b9724c02e
137
159
The Costs of Programming Language Fragmentation
https://robert.ocallahan.org/2018/10/the-costs-of-programming-language.html
134
84
America Isn’t Ready for the Lanternfly Invasion
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-10-02/america-isn-t-ready-for-the-lanternfly-invasion
130
109
Introducing Haskell to a Company
https://alasconnect.github.io/blog/posts/2018-10-02-introducing-haskell-to-a-company.html
125
“So the silence from Facebook over the weekend is.. deafening.”
https://twitter.com/gavinsblog/status/1046717365520666624?s=12
122
162
Silicon Valley's Keystone Problem: A Monoculture of Thought
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/02/technology/silicon-valleys-keystone-problem-a-monoculture-of-thought.html
121
54
Gaia spots stars flying between galaxies
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/10/181002103000.htm
117
88
Housing bubbles are universally destructive
https://www.tbwns.com/2018/10/01/the-bears-lair-housing-bubbles-are-universally-destructive/
16
TicTacToe in SQL (Postgres)
https://bitbucket.org/snippets/mariusz-krynski/bedBGK/tic-tac-toesql
In El Chapo’s Trial, Extraordinary Steps to Keep Witnesses Alive
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/01/nyregion/el-chapo-trial-witnesses.html
44
The Remarkable Persistence of 24x36
http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2018/10/the-remarkable-persistence-of-24x36.html
Show HN: ekill – Like xkill, but for annoying web page elements
https://github.com/rhardih/ekill
★ 976 JavaScript MIT– 8 years ago
123
Launch HN: Station (YC W18) – One place for all your web apps
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18123596
106
72
Why Can a Machine Beat Mario but Not Pokemon?
https://medium.com/@shayaan.jagtap/why-can-a-machine-beat-mario-but-not-pokemon-ff61313187e1
105
A Gentle Introduction to Markov Chain Monte Carlo (2012)
https://theclevermachine.wordpress.com/2012/11/19/a-gentle-introduction-to-markov-chain-monte-carlo-mcmc/
104
Stacked Diffs versus Pull Requests
https://jg.gg/2018/09/29/stacked-diffs-versus-pull-requests/
29
Optical Tweezers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_tweezers
31
Zombie Startups in Europe
https://threader.app/thread/1047037881892655106
94
99
Police to Seattle’s techies, streamers: Sign up for our anti-swatting service
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/10/police-to-seattles-techies-streamers-sign-up-for-our-anti-swatting-service/
93
5
John Hennessy and David Patterson Turing Award Lectures (2018) [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LVeEjsn8Ts&t=122
36
The Devil Is in the Details of Project Verify’s Goal to Eliminate Passwords
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/10/project-verify
13
MAC address age tracking
https://github.com/hdm/mac-ages
★ 576 Ruby – 8 years ago
87
11
Fletcher's Checksum
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fletcher%27s_checksum
