1232
154
Ebola Is Now Curable
https://www.wired.com/story/ebola-is-now-curable-heres-how-the-new-treatments-work/
6 years ago
999
467
NULL license plate not such a bright idea
https://knrs.iheart.com/content/2019-08-12-clever-vanity-license-plate-backfires-on-man-winds-up-with-tons-of-tickets/
879
957
Python Is Eating the World
https://www.zdnet.com/article/python-is-eating-the-world-how-one-developers-side-project-became-the-hottest-programming-language-on-the-planet/
449
Verizon to Sell Tumblr to Automattic
https://www.wsj.com/articles/verizon-to-sell-tumblr-to-wordpress-owner-11565640000?mod=rsswn
750
353
Why has examine.com disappeared from search results?
https://examine.com/nutrition/google-update-july-2019/
544
332
The Horror of Microsoft Teams
https://medium.com/@joshuamkite/the-horror-of-microsoft-teams-c18360712361
395
220
Anxiety Looks Different in Men
http://wsj.com/articles/anxiety-looks-different-in-men-11564494352?mod=rsswn
380
128
Xfce 4.14
https://xfce.org/about/news/?post=1565568000
350
153
One City Saved $5M by Routing School Buses with an Algorithm
https://www.routefifty.com/tech-data/2019/08/boston-school-bus-routes/159113/
302
326
Social exclusion fuels extremism in young men
https://neurosciencenews.com/social-exclusion-extremism-14691/
295
73
I quit my job today to make video games full time
https://imgur.com/gallery/CVq5bO8
288
40
The Feynman Lectures on Physics: Algebra (1963)
http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/I_22.html
275
48
Ask HN: What Neural Networks/Deep Learning Books Should I Read?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20674745
268
67
GNU Radio 3.8
https://www.gnuradio.org/news/2019-08-10-gnu-radio-v3-8-0-0-release/
267
450
Tourism Is Overwhelming the World's Top Destinations
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-08-12/tourism-is-overwhelming-the-world-s-top-destinations
264
65
Minify Your SVGs
https://victorzhou.com/blog/minify-svgs/
261
199
A Bloomberg reporter’s account of trying to get back his name and credit rating
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-12/i-lost-my-identity-to-a-fraudster-and-it-took-six-years-to-clean-up-the-mess
257
115
Spying on HTTPS
https://textslashplain.com/2019/08/11/spying-on-https/
253
122
Metal shards from Boeing 787 taking off over Rome rain down on people below
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/plane-debris-falls-from-sky-boeing-787-rome-norwegian-isola-sacra-a9054216.html
237
240
The hypersane are among us, if only we are prepared to look
https://aeon.co/ideas/the-hypersane-are-among-us-if-only-we-are-prepared-to-look
236
75
Poetry: Dependency Management for Python
https://poetry.eustace.io/
233
80
Monads as a Programming Pattern
https://samgrayson.me/2019-08-06-monads-as-a-programming-pattern/
204
89
Why we're saying no to Google
https://blog.ecosia.org/google-android-choice-screen-auction-eu-ecosia/
194
58
Big Money Starts to Dump Stocks That Pose Climate Risks
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-07/big-money-starts-to-dump-stocks-that-pose-climate-risks
189
221
Why Does Infrastructure Cost So Much?
https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2019/7/31/why-does-infrastructure-cost-so-much
187
31
Home 3D metal printing: first results
https://incoherency.co.uk/blog/stories/metal-3d-printing-first-results.html
182
113
Why GNU/Linux Viruses Are Fairly Uncommon
https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/evilmalware.html
177
162
Rotten Apple: Right to Repair Roundup
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2019/08/rotten-apple-right-to-repair-roundup.html
165
32
Ransomware-ing a DSLR Camera
https://research.checkpoint.com/say-cheese-ransomware-ing-a-dslr-camera/
163
Hong Kong Airport shuts down as protesters take over
https://news.rthk.hk/rthk/en/component/k2/1474188-20190812.htm
149
Extended Validation Certificates Are Really Dead
https://www.troyhunt.com/extended-validation-certificates-are-really-really-dead/
160
107
Black Beekeepers Are Transforming Detroit’s Vacant Lots into Bee Farms (2018)
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/detroit-hives-honeybees_n_5a6cfc9ee4b0ddb658c7019c
53
Lorem Picsum, death by a million pixel-gigabits
https://dmarby.se/blog/lorem-picsum/
151
526
Where will ‘garage orphans’ charge electric cars?
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/drive/mobility/article-where-will-garage-orphans-charge-electric-cars-if-they-have-to-park/
Colombia fines Uber more than $629k for obstructing regulatory visit
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-uber-colombia/colombia-fines-uber-more-than-629000-for-obstructing-regulatory-visit-idUSKCN1V21RO
137
39
Root: CERN's scientific data analysis framework for C++
https://root.cern.ch/
GM, Volkswagen Say Goodbye to Hybrid Vehicles
https://www.wsj.com/articles/gm-volkswagen-say-goodbye-to-hybrid-vehicles-11565602200?mod=rsswn
123
26
OpenCensus Web: A tool to trace and monitor user-perceived performance
https://opensource.googleblog.com/2019/08/opencensus-web-unlocking-full-end-to.html
119
51
Finding Amelia Earhart’s Plane Seemed Impossible – Then Came a Startling Clue
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/12/science/amelia-earhart-search-robert-ballard.html
116
15
How the Pentagon Comes Up with Code Words and Secret Project Nicknames
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/29353/how-the-pentagon-comes-up-with-all-those-secret-project-nicknames-and-crazy-code-words
109
28
Mc.js: A Minecraft clone built entirely with JavaScript
https://github.com/ian13456/mc.js
108
78
Reporting on the State of the Climate in 2018
https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/reporting-state-climate-2018
97
159
NEC shows ‘flying car’ hovering steadily for minute
https://www.apnews.com/2d4ce8955bc04032928afdf97ed42818
96
34
“Angels” that aren’t actually angels, and the problems that poses
https://blog.ycombinator.com/angels-angels-and-vcs/
56
Translating and Interpreting Chinese Philosophy
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/chinese-translate-interpret/
95
82
Russia Says Small Nuclear Reactor Blew Up in Deadly Accident
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-12/russian-says-small-nuclear-reactor-blew-up-in-deadly-accident
92
24
Compact TLS 1.3
https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-rescorla-tls-ctls-02
Ask HN: Just found out that I’m gonna be a dad
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20675965
91
On Language and Humanity: In Conversation with Noam Chomsky
https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/noam-chomsky-interview/
90
20th anniversary of José Bové’s 'attack' on a McDonald's in rural France
https://twitter.com/obrien/status/1160852592840368128
33
Launch HN: Embrace (YC S19) – Spot and fix bugs in mobile apps
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20677403
14
SEC Investigating Data Leak at First American Financial Corp
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/08/sec-investigating-data-leak-at-first-american-financial-corp/
84
Cathay Pacific faces crackdown as Hong Kong protests hit business
https://www.ft.com/content/6afd54d0-bbe9-11e9-b350-db00d509634e
83
21
Using AR to help build a complex brick wall
https://www.archdaily.com/908618/this-is-how-a-complex-brick-wall-is-built-using-augmented-reality
The hypersane are among us, if only we are prepared to look