809
371
Microsoft Joins the Open Invention Network
https://globenewswire.com/news-release/2018/10/10/1619375/0/en/Microsoft-Joins-the-Open-Invention-Network-Community.html
7 years ago
404
107
Brief aerobic exercise immediately enhances attention and perceptual speed
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0001691817301336
394
144
What's a CPU to do when it has nothing to do?
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/767630/594421f913c3d00a/
389
192
“12 years ago today, I finished writing Hacker News”
https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1049723540902215681?s=21
388
88
Introduction to Differential Equations (2008)
http://tutorial.math.lamar.edu/Classes/DE/Definitions.aspx
339
202
Delete Your Account Now: A Conversation with Jaron Lanier
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/delete-your-account-a-conversation-with-jaron-lanier/
338
499
Ask HN: What can be done to prevent a climate catastrophe?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18181503
317
407
Amazon scraps secret AI recruiting tool that showed bias against women
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-amazon-com-jobs-automation-insight/amazon-scraps-secret-ai-recruiting-tool-that-showed-bias-against-women-idUSKCN1MK08G
309
287
Leaked Google briefing, admitting a “shift towards censorship”
https://www.scribd.com/document/390521673/The-Good-Censor-GOOGLE-LEAK
307
298
Arguing against using protobuffers
http://reasonablypolymorphic.com/blog/protos-are-wrong/
289
129
How I Faked My Way to the Top of Paris Fashion Week [video]
https://youtube.com/watch?v=jolbYvAMorY
278
99
Walt: JavaScript-like syntax for WebAssembly
https://github.com/ballercat/walt
★ 4.6kJavaScriptMIT–7 years ago
277
85
Dropbox traffic infrastructure: Edge network
https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech/2018/10/dropbox-traffic-infrastructure-edge-network/
271
51
Memory Allocators 101 – Write a simple memory allocator (2016)
https://arjunsreedharan.org/post/148675821737/memory-allocators-101
249
300
Uniqlo cut 90% of staff at one warehouse by replacing them with robots
https://qz.com/1419418/uniqlo-cut-90-of-staff-at-one-warehouse-by-replacing-them-with-robots/
248
11
The hacker's guide to uncertainty estimates
https://erikbern.com/2018/10/08/the-hackers-guide-to-uncertainty-estimates.html
242
198
Choosing to stay out of the community
http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2018/10/09/moat/
240
200
Rust has a static “garbage collector”
https://words.steveklabnik.com/borrow-checking-escape-analysis-and-the-generational-hypothesis
239
118
TSMC: First 7nm EUV Chips Taped Out, 5nm Risk Production in Q2 2019
https://www.anandtech.com/show/13445/tsmc-first-7nm-euv-chips-taped-out-5nm-risk-in-q2
226
34
Building a language translator from scratch with deep learning
https://blog.floydhub.com/language-translator/
214
Declassified documents show why the US and the USSR came close to war in 1973
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/09/opinion/stumbling-toward-armageddon.html
208
Why Is Behavioral Economics So Popular?
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/06/opinion/sunday/behavioral-economics.html
347
Globally, Almost Four Out of Ten Music Consumers Are Pirates
https://torrentfreak.com/globally-almost-four-out-of-ten-music-consumers-are-pirates-181010/
194
127
Stellar Smart Contracts
https://www.stellar.org/developers/guides/walkthroughs/stellar-smart-contracts.html
245
Python is becoming the world’s most popular programming language
https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2018/07/26/python-is-becoming-the-worlds-most-popular-coding-language
191
135
Study: Google is the biggest beneficiary of the GDPR
https://cliqz.com/en/magazine/study-google-is-the-biggest-beneficiary-of-the-gdpr
190
52
A Rust FFI adventure in unsafety
https://travisf.net/capstone-rs-unsafety-adventure
175
319
Windows 10 October 2018 Update no longer deletes your data
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/10/microsoft-fixes-october-update-file-deleting-bug-resumes-insider-testing/
174
150
SEC tightens the noose on ICO-funded startups
https://decryptmedia.com/2018/10/10/sec-tightens-the-noose-on-ico-funded-startups/
167
105
A Taco Truck on Every Corner, or Not?
https://a2civic.tech/blog/2018/09/30/a-taco-truck-on-every-corner-or-not.html
163
58
Continued progress porting Emacs to Rust
http://db48x.net/rust-remacs-2018/
158
64
The Art of Prolog, Second Edition
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/art-prolog-second-edition
153
43
Heathrow Airport fined £120K for serious failings in data protection practices
https://ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/news-and-events/news-and-blogs/2018/10/heathrow-airport-limited-fined-120-000-for-serious-failings-in-its-data-protection-practices/
146
112
How Bad Is It to Forget Someone's Name?
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/10/im-sorry-whats-your-name-again/572614/?single_page=true
143
Yossi Appleboum on How Bloomberg is Positioning His Research Against Supermicro
https://www.servethehome.com/yossi-appleboum-disagrees-bloomberg-is-positioning-his-research-against-supermicro/
141
96
Japan’s special take on a packed lunch
http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20181009-japans-special-take-on-a-packed-lunch
137
76
Programs compiled by Go 1.11 allocate an unreasonable amount of virtual memory
https://github.com/golang/go/issues/28114
★ 133.6kGoBSD-3-Clause–7 years ago
7
Open-Source Machine Learning Repos to Inspire Your Next Project
https://heartbeat.fritz.ai/25-open-source-machine-learning-repos-to-inspire-your-next-project-3b027a90155
134
100
To Heil, or Not to Heil, When Traveling in the Third Reich
https://longreads.com/2018/10/10/to-heil-or-not-to-heil-when-traveling-in-the-third-reich/
130
33
A packaging tutorial for Guix
https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/blog/2018/a-packaging-tutorial-for-guix/
117
A fraudster got $12M out of a Canadian university
https://www.thestar.com/edmonton/2018/10/09/how-a-fraudster-got-12-million-out-of-a-canadian-university-they-just-asked-for-it.html
31
PgFormatter: A PostgreSQL SQL syntax beautifier
https://github.com/darold/pgFormatter
★ 1.9kPLpgSQLPostgreSQL–7 years ago
126
119
Apple Said to Have 'Dramatically Reduced' iPhone Repair Fraud in China
https://www.macrumors.com/2018/10/09/apple-dramatically-reduces-iphone-fraud-in-china/
125
35
BlazingSQL – A GPU SQL Engine for RAPIDS Open-Source Software from Nvidia
https://blog.blazingdb.com/announcing-blazingsql-a-gpu-sql-engine-for-rapids-open-source-software-from-nvidia-11e115ba7dd7
123
22
Show HN: Percollate – a command-line tool to grab web pages as PDFs
https://github.com/danburzo/percollate
111
56
Delaying Further Symantec TLS Certificate Distrust
https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2018/10/10/delaying-further-symantec-tls-certificate-distrust/
109
Multiple Severe Vulnerabilities Reported in Juniper Networks Hardware
https://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&channel=SECURITY_ADVISORIES
104
Flatbush: A very fast static spatial index for 2D points and rectangles in JS
https://github.com/mourner/flatbush
★ 1.5kJavaScriptISC–7 years ago
103
6
Reinforcement Learning for Improving Agent Design
https://designrl.github.io
102
28
China Uighurs: Xinjiang 'legalises' Muslim internment camps
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-45812419
101
65
Magic Leap is real and it’s a janky marvel
https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/09/magic-leap-is-real-and-its-a-janky-marvel/
98
26
The Great Fish Market Migration of 2018
http://www.spoon-tamago.com/2018/10/08/the-great-fish-market-migration-of-2018/
120
Sex Differences in Visual Motion Processing
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(18)30776-0
95
16
3D Hair Synthesis Using Volumetric Variational Autoencoders
http://linjieluo.com/publications/3d-hair-synthesis-using-volumetric-variational-autoencoders/
94
116
Why Public Transportation Works Better Outside the U.S
https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2018/10/while-america-suffocated-transit-other-countries-embraced-it/572167/
37
Bullshit asymmetry principle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit#Bullshit_asymmetry_principle
83
In few years renewable power may become a better economic option
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/01/renewables-will-be-equal-or-cheaper-than-fossil-fuels-by-2020-according-to-research
82
Polly: LLVM Framework for High-Level Loop and Data-Locality Optimizations
https://polly.llvm.org/
81
9
6.S974 Decentralized Applications, Fall 2018
http://nil.lcs.mit.edu/6.S974/
78
12
Chinese Intelligence Officer Charged with Economic Espionage
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/chinese-intelligence-officer-charged-economic-espionage-involving-theft-trade-secrets-leading
James Murdoch in line to replace Musk as Tesla chairman
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tesla-chairman/james-murdoch-in-line-to-replace-musk-as-tesla-chairman-ft-idUSKCN1MK2DY
74
42
The Fiasco microkernel
https://l4re.org/fiasco/features.html
To Heil, or Not to Heil, When Traveling in the Third Reich