587
277
IBM Open-Sources Power Chip Instruction Set
https://www.nextplatform.com/2019/08/20/big-blue-open-sources-power-chip-instruction-set/
6 years ago
541
208
Hundreds of extreme self-citing scientists revealed in new database
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02479-7
484
285
Time to Get Serious about Tick-Borne Diseases
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/its-time-to-get-serious-about-tick-borne-diseases/
422
361
People love working remotely
https://usefyi.com/remote-work-report/
403
303
Juul, Philip Morris Sued Under Racketeer Act for Targeting Kids
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-19/juul-philip-morris-sued-under-racketeer-act-for-targeting-kids
379
163
Most startup theory is ex-post, therefore bs
https://shafyy.com/post/startup-theory-ex-post/
374
352
‘They Get Fired All the Time. And They Have No Idea Why’
https://www.institutionalinvestor.com/article/b1gq9tqwk8z108/They-Get-Fired-All-the-Time-And-They-Have-No-Idea-Why
371
162
A Beginner’s Introduction to Python Web Frameworks (2018)
https://stxnext.com/blog/2018/09/27/beginners-introduction-python-frameworks/
357
355
Sunsetting Mercurial Support in Bitbucket
https://bitbucket.org/blog/sunsetting-mercurial-support-in-bitbucket
336
269
Google's software mistreats or harms the user
https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/malware-google.html
335
302
IRS budget cuts cost $34.3B in lost revenue from big business
https://www.accountingtoday.com/news/irs-budget-cuts-mean-34-3b-in-lost-revenue-from-big-business
332
107
Rest-client gem is hijacked
https://github.com/rest-client/rest-client/issues/713
315
130
Why ElementaryOS Left Medium
https://blog.elementary.io/welcome-to-the-new-blog/
286
71
Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music
http://music.ishkur.com/
273
151
My Sudden Trip to Hell
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/my-sudden-trip-hell-mark-attila-opauszky/
268
133
The GitHub registry public beta is live
https://help.github.com/en/articles/about-github-package-registry
264
33
Pagemap: A mini map for your website
https://larsjung.de/pagemap/
263
175
Yubico launches its dual USB-C and Lightning two-factor security key
https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/20/yubikey-dual-usb-c-lightning/
250
188
Scientists Have Been Underestimating the Pace of Climate Change
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/scientists-have-been-underestimating-the-pace-of-climate-change/
248
145
Walmart sues Tesla over fires at stores fitted with its solar panels
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-walmart-tesla-solar-lawsuit/walmart-sues-tesla-over-fires-at-stores-fitted-with-its-solar-panels-idUSKCN1VA26B
246
194
The WeWork IPO
https://stratechery.com/2019/the-wework-ipo/
243
34
A Primer on Bézier Curves (2013)
https://pomax.github.io/bezierinfo/
236
134
GCP to introduce an additional charge for publicly addressed VM instances
https://cloud.google.com/compute/all-pricing#ipaddress
229
79
New Life Found That Lives Off Electricity (2016)
https://www.quantamagazine.org/electron-eating-microbes-found-in-odd-places-20160621/
220
214
A World Without Power (2013)
https://jacquesmattheij.com/a-world-without-power/
216
42
Chandrayaan-2 Update: Lunar Orbit Insertion
https://www.isro.gov.in/update/20-aug-2019/chandrayaan-2-update-lunar-orbit-insertion
204
255
Ultra marathon runner earns awards for both first place woman and overall winner
https://www.runnersworld.com/uk/news/a28720398/ellie-pell-wins-green-lakes-endurance-run-50k/
193
338
Elizabeth Warren Came Up with a Plan to Break Up Big Tech
https://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/how-elizabeth-warren-came-up-with-a-plan-to-break-up-big-tech
192
19
Where do interrupts happen?
https://travisdowns.github.io/blog/2019/08/20/interrupts.html
58
On-disk format robustness requirements for new filesystems
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/796687/a7a91ffcc9b7d52a/
184
90
Open Location Code: An Open Source Standard for Addresses
https://github.com/google/open-location-code/blob/master/docs/olc_definition.adoc
180
44
Cathay CEO lists self instead of giving names to CCP
https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3765103
179
105
Bulk Data Structures C++
https://gamasutra.com/blogs/NiklasGray/20190724/347232/Data_Structures_Part_1_Bulk_Data.php
169
140
Startups from Y Combinator’s S19 Demo Day 1
https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/19/all-84-startups-from-y-combinators-s19-demo-day-1/
167
4
Machine Learning and Data Science Applications in Industry
https://github.com/firmai/industry-machine-learning
166
139
Off-Facebook Activity
https://www.facebook.com/off-facebook-activity
41
Court Rules That “Patent Troll” Is Opinion, Not Defamation
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/08/court-rules-phrase-patent-troll-opinion-not-defamation
161
The Essential Tools of Scientific Machine Learning
http://www.stochasticlifestyle.com/the-essential-tools-of-scientific-machine-learning-scientific-ml/
160
93
GPT-2: 6-Month Follow-Up
https://openai.com/blog/gpt-2-6-month-follow-up/
72
Announcing Notqmail
https://schmonz.com/2019/08/20/announcing-notqmail/
155
Julia v1.2
https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-v1-2-0-has-been-released/27742
146
70
Subsurface – An open source scuba dive logging platform
https://subsurface-divelog.org/
144
18
Airframe – Open-Source Dashboard Template
https://github.com/0wczar/airframe-react
172
Apple Accidentally Unpatches Vulnerability, Leading to New iOS 12.4 Jailbreak
https://www.macrumors.com/2019/08/19/ios-12-4-vulnerability-leads-to-jailbreak/
129
81
The Financialization of the American Elite
https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2019/08/the-financialization-of-the-american-elite/
126
59
Hydrophilic disc uses solar power to separate salt from water
https://newatlas.com/solar-steam-generator-water-desalination/60726/
118
Rising rural BMI is the main driver of the global obesity epidemic in adults
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1171-x
109
181
Apple Card launches today for all US customers
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/08/apple-card-launches-today-for-all-us-customers/
106
Real world location virtually recreated to scale in minutes [video]
https://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2019/08/volumetric-mirror-world-mapping-6d_ai.html
New Species May Evolve from Cancers
https://www.quantamagazine.org/can-new-species-evolve-from-cancers-maybe-heres-how-20190819/
102
28
Show HN: A few simple games not only for kids
https://easylang.online/games/
97
Chorded keyboard
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorded_keyboard
94
Microsoft Edge preview builds are ready to try
https://www.microsoftedgeinsider.com/en-us/?form=MO12FY&OCID=MO12FY
92
104
Why we lie about being retired
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-48882195
53
'Matrix 4' officially a go with Keanu Reeves
https://variety.com/2019/film/news/matrix-4-keanu-reeves-carrie-anne-moss-lana-wachowski-1203307955/
91
11
Open-Source Code for Hand Gesture Recognition – Sign Language Translation
https://github.com/google/mediapipe/blob/master/mediapipe/docs/hand_tracking_mobile_gpu.md
157
Typical U.S. households don’t use most of their bandwidth
https://www.wsj.com/graphics/faster-internet-not-worth-it/?mod=rsswn
116
Homemade Electric Motorcycle Stopped on M25 in Hertfordshire
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-49393998
86
6
A Topographic Map of the Moon
http://tabletopwhale.com/2019/08/19/a-topographic-map-of-the-moon.html
83
49
Todo.txt: Future-proof task tracking in a file you control
http://todotxt.org/
82
30
Blocking Untrusted USB Devices
https://roussos.cc/2019/08/19/usbguard/
78
21
China’s Soft-Power Fail: Condemning Hong Kong’s Protests
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/20/business/china-hong-kong-social-media-soft-power.html
8
Show HN: Dashboard – self-hosted accounts, orgs and subscriptions for web apps
https://github.com/userdashboard/dashboard
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