822
442
US Navy will replace touchscreen with mechanical controls on its destroyers
https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/11/20800111/us-navy-uss-john-s-mccain-crash-ntsb-report-touchscreen-mechanical-controls
7 years ago
797
323
Insect 'apocalypse' in U.S. driven by 50x increase in toxic pesticides: study
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/08/insect-apocalypse-under-way-toxic-pesticides-agriculture/
589
204
Speaking to yourself in the third person makes you wiser
https://aeon.co/ideas/why-speaking-to-yourself-in-the-third-person-makes-you-wiser
583
82
Paged Out – a new experimental magazine about programming
https://pagedout.institute
440
193
Google Chrome Incognito Mode Can Still Be Detected
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/google/google-chrome-incognito-mode-can-still-be-detected-by-these-methods/
368
243
Await in Rust
https://docs.rs/dtolnay/0.0.3/dtolnay/macro._01__await_a_minute.html
335
262
Uber, losing billions, freezes engineering hires
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2019/08/uber-freezes-engineering-hires-amid-mounting-losses/
281
169
The worst sales promotion in history: Hoover's free flight fiasco
https://thehustle.co/the-worst-sales-promotion-in-history/
237
190
Black Hat Talk About ‘Time AI’ Causes Uproar, Is Deleted by Conference
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/8xw9kp/black-hat-talk-about-time-ai-causes-uproar-is-deleted-by-conference
233
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Denial of H1-B visas to India’s largest IT services exporters at all-time high
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/nri/visa-and-immigration/h-1b-visa-denials-at-all-time-high/articleshow/70613732.cms
215
150
Legit-Looking iPhone Lightning Cables Will Hijack Your Computer
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/evj4qw/these-iphone-lightning-cables-will-hack-your-computer
35
Open Startups List
https://open-startups.xyz/
211
78
What I Do as a DevOps Consultant
https://ilhicas.com/2019/08/11/What-you-as-a-Devops.html
198
96
Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives and Why We Don't Talk about It
https://ndpr.nd.edu/news/private-government-how-employers-rule-our-lives-and-why-we-dont-talk-about-it/
139
Ask HN: Configuration Management for Personal Computer?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20670235
160
33
Theories of Error Back-Propagation in the Brain
https://www.cell.com/trends/cognitive-sciences/fulltext/S1364-6613(19)30012-9
155
29
Vibration-minimizing motion retargeting for robotic characters
https://la.disneyresearch.com/publication/publication-process-vibration-minimizing-motion-retargeting-for-robotic-characters/
153
21
Math in Data Science
https://www.dataquest.io/blog/math-in-data-science/
69
Show HN: Personal Management System
https://github.com/Volmarg/personal-management-system
★ 3.9k PHP MIT– 7 years ago
152
129
Don't forget randomness is still just a hypothesis (2006)
https://www.nature.com/articles/439392d
77
When to Shut Down a Startup [video]
https://blog.ycombinator.com/when-to-shut-down-a-startup/
147
258
Are We Living in a Computer Simulation? Let’s Not Find Out
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/10/opinion/sunday/are-we-living-in-a-computer-simulation-lets-not-find-out.html
142
41
MoviePass reportedly changed passwords to prevent users from seeing films
https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/9/20799145/moviepass-subscriber-passwords-accounts-limit-change-films-tactics
44
Tiny Toy TOTP Generator in 18 Lines of Python
https://github.com/susam/toytotp
★ 1.4k Python MIT– 7 years ago
141
101
Hutter Prize: Compress a 100MB file to less than the current record of 16 MB
http://www.hutter1.net/prize/index.htm
137
115
Economist Raj Chetty has found a surprising tool to fight housing segregation
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/8/4/20726427/raj-chetty-segregation-moving-opportunity-seattle-experiment
126
55
Which Categories of Seed Startups Are Thriving? Which Aren't?
https://tomtunguz.com/which-categories-of-seed-startups-are-thriving-which-aren-t/
120
63
Amazon's Plan to Conquer the World of Publishing
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/08/amazons-plan-take-over-world-publishing/595630/
109
20
The HP Way: How Bill Hewlett and I Built Our Company (1960)
https://gizmodo.com/the-hp-way-how-bill-hewlett-and-i-built-our-company-5634378
108
84
Russia, after protests, tells Google not to advertise “illegal” events
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-politics-protests-google/russia-after-protests-tells-google-not-to-advertise-illegal-events-idUSKCN1V10BY
106
102
Turkmenistan on the brink of collapse?
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/08/10/asia/turkmenistan-caspian-sea-intl-hnk/index.html
105
18
Show HN: Curated Toolkit for Remote Work
https://nohq.co/tools/
62
Show HN: Cordless, a Discord terminal client written in Go
https://github.com/Bios-Marcel/cordless
★ 1.6k Go BSD-3-Clause– 7 years ago
103
53
Dollar vans, NYC’s other transit system
https://queenseagle.com/all/dollar-van-transit-system
154
Death of the Neighborhood Bar
https://www.bostonmagazine.com/restaurants/2019/08/06/plough-stars-neighborhood-bars/
Commodore 900
http://www.floodgap.com/retrobits/ckb/secret/900.html
99
34
Shepard Tone
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shepard_tone
Warning as 4G Hotspots Are Hacked
https://www.pentestpartners.com/security-blog/reverse-engineering-4g-hotspots-for-fun-bugs-and-net-financial-loss/
95
14
The Fastest and Shortest Algorithm for All Well-Defined Problems (2002)
https://www.arxiv-vanity.com/papers/cs/0206022/
94
65
A new book asserts that rich countries grow with lighter environmental impacts
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/613845/the-planet-has-a-fever-and-the-cure-is-more-capitalism-a-prominent-economist-argues/
70
2019 Hyundai Kona EV Explodes When Parked
https://www.thedrive.com/news/29219/2019-hyundai-kona-ev-explodes-when-parked-sends-garage-door-flying-across-street
85
4
Architecting Containers: Understanding User Space vs. Kernel Space (2015)
https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/architecting-containers-part-1-why-understanding-user-space-vs-kernel-space-matters
67
The Dipole Drive: A New Concept in Space Propulsion
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/6.2019-1122