511
43
Scientists Discover a Cure for the Deadliest Strain of Tuberculosis
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/14/health/tuberculosis-xdr-tb-cure.html
6 years ago
474
251
Mercedes-Benz pre-safe sound
https://www.mercedesbenzofnatick.com/new-features-mercedes-benz-comand-system.htm
465
210
Psytrance Guide
http://psytranceguide.com/
464
133
Planet: Imaging the entire Earth every day
https://nbremer.github.io/planet-globe/
436
326
The not so hidden cost of sharing code between iOS and Android
https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech/2019/08/the-not-so-hidden-cost-of-sharing-code-between-ios-and-android/
397
245
WebKit Tracking Prevention Policy
https://webkit.org/blog/9507/announcing-the-webkit-tracking-prevention-policy/
395
634
Yield Curves Invert in U.S., U.K
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-14/u-k-yield-curve-inverts-for-first-time-since-financial-crisis
387
92
Anime4K: Real time high quality video upscaling
https://github.com/bloc97/Anime4K
330
The We Company S-1
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1533523/000119312519220499/d781982ds1.htm
328
220
Attorney General Barr and Encryption
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/08/attorney_genera.html
295
71
Huawei Technicians Helped African Governments Spy on Political Opponents
https://www.wsj.com/articles/huawei-technicians-helped-african-governments-spy-on-political-opponents-11565793017?mod=rsswn
285
Lisp is not based on the Lambda Calculus
https://danielsz.github.io/blog/2019-08-05T21_14.html
248
149
Danish bank launches negative interest rate mortgage
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2019/aug/13/danish-bank-launches-worlds-first-negative-interest-rate-mortgage
242
186
Amazon wants to control third-party sellers’ product pricing
https://www.modernretail.co/platforms/a-slippery-slope-amazon-wants-to-control-third-party-sellers-product-pricing/
212
168
WeWork IPO Shows It's the Most Magical Unicorn
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-08-14/wework-ipo-shows-it-s-the-most-magical-unicorn
211
106
Plastic particles falling out of sky with snow in Arctic
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-49295051
205
101
A Primer on Shooting in Manual Mode: Aperture, Shutter Speed, and ISO [video]
https://petapixel.com/2019/08/14/a-primer-on-shooting-in-manual-mode-aperture-shutter-speed-and-iso/
204
224
What It Takes to Hire 10 Employees in San Francisco
https://www.kapwing.com/blog/what-it-takes-to-hire-10-employees-in-san-francisco/
200
274
India Shut Down Kashmir’s Internet Access
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/14/technology/india-kashmir-internet.html
193
67
Show HN: StoryTime – Create stories about your code instead of documentation
https://storytime.dev
189
240
Watch Out Google, YouTubers Are Unionizing
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-08-14/german-union-ig-metall-is-backing-youtubers-fighting-google
141
Launch HN: Dex (YC S19) – personal CRM that reminds you to keep in touch
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20699923
185
155
Google Forcing Nest Cameras’ Visual Indicator Light To Be On
https://www.mattcrampton.com/blog/Google_forcing_nest_cameras_visual_indicator_light_to_be_on/
177
103
Tumblr
https://avc.com/2019/08/tumblr-2/
164
Mapped: The world’s coal power plants
https://www.carbonbrief.org/mapped-worlds-coal-power-plants
161
86
Credit Karma glitch exposed users to other people’s accounts
https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/14/credit-karma-glitch-accounts/
146
54
Major breach found in biometrics system used by banks, police and defence firms
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/aug/14/major-breach-found-in-biometrics-system-used-by-banks-uk-police-and-defence-firms
142
126
What Germans Are Reading
https://www.the-american-interest.com/2019/08/03/what-germans-are-reading/
139
370
Netflix’s biggest bingers get hit with higher internet costs
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2019-08-13/netflixs-biggest-bingers-get-hit-with-higher-internet-costs
138
The electric car as a talisman of false hope
https://www.jussipasanen.com/electric-cars-promise-change-without-changing/
130
91
The 1619 Project
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/1619-america-slavery.html
128
88
A Novel Concept: Silent Book Clubs Offer Introverts a Space to Socialize
https://www.npr.org/2019/08/12/740897970/a-novel-concept-silent-book-clubs-offer-introverts-a-space-to-socialize
125
Ask HN: Why is everyone here so obsessed with Lisp?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20697493
121
32
Mitre Systems Engineering Guide (2014) [pdf]
http://www.mitre.org/sites/default/files/publications/se-guide-book-interactive.pdf
120
315
Texas Power Prices Briefly Surpass $9k Amid Scorching Heat
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-12/searing-texas-heat-pushes-power-prices-to-near-record-levels
118
58
Tumblr the Day After
https://ma.tt/2019/08/tumblr-the-day-after/
115
90
Do we need to worry about artificial stupidity?
https://www.thinkautomation.com/automation-ethics/do-we-need-to-worry-about-artificial-stupidity/
112
34
Project Mu – A modular UEFI environment for building modern devices
https://microsoft.github.io/mu/
107
52
It's raining plastic: microscopic fibers fall from the sky in Rocky Mountains
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/12/raining-plastic-colorado-usgs-microplastics
105
16
Scientists reverse aging process in rat brain stem cells
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2019-08-scientists-reverse-aging-rat-brain.html
20
The Feynman Lectures on Physics: The Principle of Least Action (1963)
http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/II_19.html
102
50
Embodied energy of digital technology
https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2009/06/embodied-energy-of-digital-technology.html
53
Counterintuitive physics property found to be widespread in living organisms
https://phys.org/news/2019-08-counterintuitive-physics-property-widespread.html
98
60
Rachmaninoff – Little Red Riding Hood [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXmL55DwuaQ
97
9
Visible Lisp Computer
http://www.technoblogy.com/show?2ODQ
96
173
The Population Bust
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/review-essay/2019-08-12/population-bust?spJobID=1701558439&spMailingID=60132624&spReportId=MTcwMTU1ODQzOQS2&spUserID=NTA0ODQwNzg0NDcS1&sp_mid=60132624&sp_rid=cm9iZXJ0QHRoZWJyb3dzZXIuY29tS0&utm_campaign=so_2019&utm_content=20190813&utm_medium=newsletters&utm_source=press_release
29
Advances in NLP to better connect people
https://ai.facebook.com/blog/new-advances-in-natural-language-processing-to-better-connect-people/
17
Crokage: A New Way to Search Stack Overflow
https://stackoverflow.blog/2019/08/14/crokage-a-new-way-to-search-stack-overflow/
89
11
Diagnostics with Tracing, a Unified Instrumentation System for Rust
https://tokio.rs/blog/2019-08-tracing/
84
5
Dosing time matters
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/365/6453/547
83
75
Jeffrey Epstein's Death Was on 4Chan Before Officials Announced It
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/janelytvynenko/fdny-review-jeffrey-epstein-4chan-post
81
Georgia Southern QB: roadside drug test wrongly showed bird droppings as cocaine
http://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/i-team/georgia-southern-qb-says-roadside-drug-test-wrongly-showed-bird-droppings-as-cocaine
14
OpenBSD -stable binary packages
https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-announce&m=156577865917831&w=2
Launch HN: Lofty AI (YC S19) – Real estate investment with alternative data
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20697449
80
59
Doc Martens’s vegan boot business is thriving
https://qz.com/quartzy/1686773/doc-martenss-vegan-boot-business-is-thriving/
76
95
It's Gotten Too Hard to Strike It Rich in America
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-08-14/it-s-gotten-too-hard-to-strike-it-rich-in-america
26
WeWork Gave Founder Loans as It Paid Him Rent, IPO Filing Shows
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-14/wework-gave-founder-loans-as-it-paid-him-rent-ipo-filing-shows
22
Show HN: A list of no-code software, by category, with real-world examples
https://x.workandwhistle.co/no-code-list
74
27
The Nightmare of Valve’s self-organizing “utopia” (2018)
https://medium.com/dunia-media/the-nightmare-of-valves-self-organizing-utopia-6d32d329ecdb
72
Recycling of plastics enabled by dynamic covalent diketoenamine bonds (2018) [pdf]
http://ipo.lbl.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/2018/03/Helms-Closed-Loop-Recycling-Nature-Materials.pdf
69
31
Causal Analytics
https://blog.clearbrain.com/posts/introducing-causal-analytics
25
The world is running out of sand and there’s a violent black market (2018)
https://globalnews.ca/news/4274233/world-running-out-of-sand-black-market/
62
Teen's tweets from her smart fridge go viral after mother confiscates phone
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/aug/13/teen-smart-fridge-twitter-grounded
A Primer on Shooting in Manual Mode: Aperture, Shutter Speed, and ISO [video]