1181
260
Alan Kay's answer to ‘what are some forgotten books programmers should read?’
https://www.quora.com/Experienced-programmers-and-computer-scientists-what-are-some-really-old-or-even-nearly-forgotten-books-you-think-every-new-programmer-should-read/answer/Alan-Kay-11?share=1
6 years ago
566
131
Home Chip Fab
http://sam.zeloof.xyz/category/semiconductor/
547
312
Who Owns Huawei?
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3372669
457
Eat less meat: UN climate change report calls for change to human diet
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02409-7
424
211
Google to Offer a Best Price Guarantee on Certain Flights
https://www.blog.google/products/flights-hotels/best-prices-for-your-trips/
288
93
Coinbase: Responding to Firefox 0-days in the wild
https://blog.coinbase.com/responding-to-firefox-0-days-in-the-wild-d9c85a57f15b
283
120
Rice University researchers propose a way to boost solar efficiency
https://polyarch.co/rice-university-research-heat-into-light/
134
Big Pharma is using faux generics to keep drug prices high, critics say
https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/08/big-pharma-is-using-faux-generics-to-keep-drug-prices-high-critics-say/
255
63
Kubernetes Security Assessment [pdf]
https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/wg-security-audit/findings/Kubernetes%20Final%20Report.pdf
247
47
Open-source firmware
https://mullvad.net/ja/blog/2019/8/7/open-source-firmware-future/
213
119
Swap, swap, swap, and bad places to work
http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2019/08/08/swap/
212
159
Why Aren’t We Talking About LinkedIn?
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/08/style/linkedin-social-media.html
38
The Erlang Rationale
https://rvirding.blogspot.com/2019/01/the-erlang-rationale.html
207
251
‘No One Saw a Thing’: When a Midwest Town Banded Together to Kill the Town Bully
https://www.thedailybeast.com/no-one-saw-a-thing-when-a-small-midwest-town-banded-together-to-kill-the-town-bully
202
167
How Command and Conquer: Tiberian Sun punished the computers of the day [video]
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/02/video-to-make-tiberian-sun-westwood-had-to-find-the-right-pathfinding-system/
What’s the difference between statistics and machine learning?
https://thestatsgeek.com/2019/08/08/whats-the-difference-between-statistics-and-machine-learning/
197
84
AMD EPYC processors come to Google, and to Google Cloud
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/amd-epyc-processors-come-to-google-and-to-google-cloud
181
61
Hundreds of exposed Amazon cloud backups found leaking sensitive data
https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/09/aws-ebs-cloud-backups-leak
95
Show HN: Tailwind.run – An Online Playground for Tailwind CSS
https://tailwind.run
179
85
CEOs Who Cheat in Bedroom Will Cheat in Boardroom: Study
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-09/ceos-who-cheat-on-spouse-twice-as-likely-to-cheat-at-work-study
178
162
How shrinkflation is playing havoc with economists’ models
https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2019/08/06/how-shrinkflation-is-playing-havoc-with-economists-models
174
205
HarmonyOS is Huawei’s Android alternative for smartphones and smart home devices
https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/09/harmonyos-huawei-release/
169
109
Personal Website for Programmers
https://github.com/Naresh1318/Topaz
36
Ted Chiang: Realist of a Larger Reality
https://www.publicbooks.org/ted-chiang-realist-of-a-larger-reality/
166
136
Escape rooms are big business
https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/8/7/20749177/escape-room-game
161
91
Food is free if you know where to look
https://fallingfruit.org/
157
118
Show HN: I built a poker site with Haskell
https://github.com/therewillbecode/haskell-poker
149
The lat/lon floating point delusion
https://www.datafix.com.au/BASHing/2019-08-09.html
146
54
The Rule of 2
https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/docs/security/rule-of-2.md
64
Climate change: Marine heatwaves kill coral instantly
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-49255642
143
68
Solar Powered Raspberry Pi Camera
https://kaspars.net/blog/solar-raspberry-pi-camera
America’s social-media addiction is getting worse
https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2019/08/08/americas-social-media-addiction-is-getting-worse
138
25
Free Software network services and web applications which can be hosted locally
https://github.com/Kickball/awesome-selfhosted
137
44
The New Lion King trailer style transformed to resemble the animated version
http://geekdommovies.com/heres-what-the-live-action-lion-king-would-look-like-if-the-cgi-was-closer-to-the-original-animated-movie/
127
92
I Tried Hiding from Big Tech in a Pile of Privacy Gadgets
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-08-08/i-tried-hiding-from-silicon-valley-in-a-pile-of-privacy-gadgets
125
88
Huntington Park’s “RoboCop” stores pedestrians’ faces, scans license plates
https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2019/aug/05/california-hp-robocop/
114
40
Game of Trees: A Version Control System for OpenBSD
https://gameoftrees.org/index.html
112
16
42 Hours of Buckminster Fuller might be just the vision we need
https://cdm.link/2019/08/42-hours-of-buckminster-fuller/
106
41
Ask HN: Is Google Secretly Undermining Firefox?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20658912
104
19
100 Years Ago, a Telephone Tower in Stockholm Connected 5000 Phone Lines (2014)
https://twistedsifter.com/2014/08/stockholm-telephone-tower-connects-5000-lines/
90
Show HN: I'm building a robot that cuts hair, starting with beard trims [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CmHuTKToag&feature=youtu.be
103
31
J-Core Open Processor
http://j-core.org/
97
86
The coming automation of propaganda
https://warontherocks.com/2019/08/the-coming-automation-of-propaganda/
96
Ear Speakers – Research, Design, and Evolution
https://www.valvesoftware.com/en/index/deep-dive/ear-speakers
5
Carla – Open-source simulator for autonomous driving research
http://carla.org/
Disney Research Makes Dynamic Robots Less Wiggly, More Lifelike
https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-hardware/disney-research-dynamic-robotic-characters
A Mexican Hospital, an American Surgeon, and a $5k Check
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/09/business/medical-tourism-mexico.html
73
Holidays are good for workers and companies alike
https://www.economist.com/business/2019/08/08/holidays-are-good-for-workers-and-companies-alike
26
Emperor Norton
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Norton
98
Uber Freezes Hiring of U.S. Tech Staff as It Seeks to Cut Costs
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-09/uber-freezes-hiring-of-u-s-tech-staff-as-it-seeks-to-cut-costs
89
7
A journalist discovered and reunited identical twins
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2019-08-07/how-a-journalist-discovered-and-reunited-identical-twins
Don't Say “Homoiconic” (2018)
http://www.expressionsofchange.org/dont-say-homoiconic/
US Air Force pauses flights for over a hundred C-130s over ‘atypical’ cracking
https://www.defensenews.com/air/2019/08/08/air-force-pauses-flight-ops-for-more-than-a-hundred-c-130s-after-atypical-cracking-found/
79
The Suicides in South Korea, and the Suicide of South Korea
http://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/the-korea-blog/suicides-south-korea-suicide-south-korea/
50
Google Launches ‘Live View’ AR Walking Directions for Google Maps
https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/08/google-launches-live-view-ar-walking-directions-for-google-maps/
Eleven Ordinary Twenty-Somethings With $250B Riding on Their Lives
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-09/meet-the-spy-11-kids-with-250-billion-riding-on-their-lives
82
34
YouTube lets biggest stars off the hook for breaking rules, moderators say
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/08/youtube-lets-biggest-stars-off-the-hook-for-breaking-rules-moderators-say/
80
Japanese addressing system
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_addressing_system
35
Climate crisis, shown directly on power plant, in guerrilla projection
https://cdm.link/2019/08/climate-crisis-laser-projection/
78
Is Ebola Evolving into a Deadlier Virus?
https://www.newyorker.com/science/elements/is-ebola-evolving-into-a-more-deadly-virus
9
Launch HN: Together (YC S19) – App to facilitate employee-employee mentoring
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20656223
75
Global economy is probably in recession
https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-global-economy-kemp/column-global-economy-is-probably-in-recession-idUKKCN1UX1OF
New research on PTSD in elephants and other animals
https://www.cbc.ca/natureofthings/blog/new-research-shows-that-elephants-and-other-animals-can-suffer-from-ptsd
71
8
History of Clarus the Dogcow
https://512pixels.net/dogcow/
70
Welcome to Black Hat, where the attendees are the threat
https://www.wsj.com/articles/welcome-to-black-hat-where-the-attendees-are-the-threat-11565343002?mod=rsswn
22
M44 (Cyanide Device)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M44_(cyanide_device)
69
72
It’s All Greek to You and Me, So What Is It to the Greeks?
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/its-all-greek-to-me
Major power failure affects homes and transport
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-49300025
Crypto CTF
https://cryp.toc.tf/
18
Malaysia files charges against 17 current and ex-Goldman Sachs bosses
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/09/1mdb-malaysia-files-charges-against-17-current-and-ex-goldman-sachs-bosses
U.S. Holds Off on Huawei Licenses as China Halts Crop-Buying
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-08/u-s-holds-off-on-huawei-licenses-as-china-halts-crop-buying
67
23
The World’s Smartest Chimp Has Died
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/09/opinion/chimpanzee-sarah.html
65
30
The Deadly Boredom of ‘A Meaningless Life’
https://quillette.com/2019/08/07/the-deadly-boredom-of-a-meaningless-life/
Swap, swap, swap, and bad places to work