816
478
A man who destroyed his multimillion dollar company in 10 seconds (2018)
https://thehustle.co/gerald-ratners-billion-dollar-speech
6 years ago
655
575
MacBook Pro Keyboard Drives Me Crazy
https://ryanbigg.com/2019/08/can-apple-please-design-a-laptop-that-has-a-functional-keyboard-for-the-love-of-all-that-is-precious
518
174
WTF – A personal information dashboard for your terminal
https://wtfutil.com
454
271
exFAT in the Linux kernel
https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/opensource/2019/08/28/exfat-linux-kernel/
406
189
Hong Kong ISP Association’s Statement on Selective Blocking of Internet Services
https://www.hkispa.org.hk/139-urgent-statement-of-hkispa-on-selective-blocking-of-internet-services.html
378
126
Lessons from Stripe
https://markmcgranaghan.com/lessons-from-stripe
362
112
Firefox 70 released for Firefox Quantum: Developer Edition
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/developer/
359
108
Fracking in North America could be partly to blame for methane spike – study
https://www.newsweek.com/fracking-u-s-canada-worldwide-atmospheric-methane-spike-1454205
337
136
IBM has released the Power Architecture instruction set to the Linux Foundation
https://www.eejournal.com/article/ibm-gives-away-powerpc-goes-open-source/
324
51
Words that do Handstands
http://hardmath123.github.io/ambigrams.html
301
151
CamScanner, a malicious Android app with more than 100M downloads in Google Play
https://www.kaspersky.com/blog/camscanner-malicious-android-app/28156/
295
204
TypeScript 3.6
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/announcing-typescript-3-6/
293
172
Thunderbird 68.0
https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/68.0/releasenotes/
285
66
Kubernetes Academy, a free product-agnostic education platform
https://kubernetes.academy/
280
100
Show HN: I created Postwoman, an online, open-source API request builder
https://www.indiehackers.com/post/17788d573f
163
Tell HN: Skype on web does not support Firefox
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20818750
268
144
Python rounds float values by converting them to string and then back
https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/master/Objects/floatobject.c#L965-L972
120
Ask HN: How do you handle logging?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20818106
264
28
Pastel: A command-line tool to generate, analyze, convert and manipulate colors
https://github.com/sharkdp/pastel
254
217
What Happens When You ACH a Dead Person?
https://www.moderntreasury.com/journal/what-happens-when-you-ach-a-dead-person
239
88
GCC null pointer check removed
https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=90949
224
99
The Myth of Consumer-Grade Security
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/08/the_myth_of_con.html
222
141
China’s CCTV network took just 7 minutes to capture BBC reporter (2017)
https://techcrunch.com/2017/12/13/china-cctv-bbc-reporter/
209
171
Software Engineering Grads Lack the Skills Startups Need
https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-institute/ieee-member-news/software-engineering-grads-lack-the-skills-startups-need
155
Feds ordered Google location dragnet to solve Wisconsin bank robbery
https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/28/20836855/reverse-location-search-warrant-dragnet-bank-robbery-fbi
200
24
Natural Language Processing: The Age of Transformers
https://blog.scaleway.com/2019/building-a-machine-reading-comprehension-system-using-the-latest-advances-in-deep-learning-for-nlp/
101
Possible detection of a black hole with a mass that was thought to be impossible
https://www.quantamagazine.org/possible-detection-of-a-black-hole-so-big-it-should-not-exist-20190828/
179
237
Have You Ever Tried to Sell a Diamond? (1982)
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1982/02/have-you-ever-tried-to-sell-a-diamond/304575/
64
Exploring Weight Agnostic Neural Networks
https://ai.googleblog.com/2019/08/exploring-weight-agnostic-neural.html
169
175
Harvard Student Says He Was Barred From U.S. Over Friends’ Social Media Posts
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/27/us/harvard-student-ismail-ajjawi.html
166
307
Vegan takeaway orders quadruple over past two years
https://www.bighospitality.co.uk/Article/2019/08/28/Vegan-takeaway-orders-quadruple-over-past-two-years
157
245
Rust is the future, C is the new Assembly: Josh Triplett (Intel)
https://hub.packtpub.com/rust-is-the-future-of-systems-programming-c-is-the-new-assembly-intel-principal-engineer-josh-triplett/
153
25
Julia's Release Process
https://julialang.org/blog/2019/08/release-process
54
Show HN: I Built a “Google Alerts” for Hacker News
https://pipedream.com/@marc/google-alerts-for-hacker-news-p_jmCzVJ/readme
145
2
Google will shut down Google Hire in 2020
https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/27/google-will-kill-off-google-hire-in-2020/
241
Rich Families Are Legally Separating from Their Kids to Pay Less for College
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/9kxe87/rich-families-are-legally-separating-from-their-kids-to-pay-less-for-college
140
43
Western officials say Chinese agents contact foreign citizens using LinkedIn
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/27/world/asia/china-linkedin-spies.html
139
20
A 2019 Guide to Speech Synthesis with Deep Learning
https://heartbeat.fritz.ai/a-2019-guide-to-speech-synthesis-with-deep-learning-630afcafb9dd
79
Most software companies ignore user behavior
https://www.reifyworks.com/writing/2019-08-26-a-most-software-companies
Ring has partnered with 400 police forces
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/08/28/doorbell-camera-firm-ring-has-partnered-with-police-forces-extending-surveillance-reach/
63
Tufts Ph.D. ‘Punished’ for Reporting Adviser’s Fabricated Research: Lawsuit
https://www.thedailybeast.com/kristy-meadows-tufts-university-graduate-punished-for-reporting-advisers-fabricated-research-lawsuit
135
35
16-bit RISC-V processor made with carbon nanotubes
https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/08/16-bit-risc-v-processor-made-with-carbon-nanutubes/
133
31
Math That Takes Newton into the Quantum World
http://nautil.us/issue/69/patterns/the-math-that-takes-newton-into-the-quantum-world
131
77
Fairphone 3 Launch [video]
https://www.fairphone.com/en/special-event/
80
Mainlanders don't all view Hong Kong the same way
http://www.chinafile.com/reporting-opinion/viewpoint/chinas-government-wants-you-think-all-mainlanders-view-hong-kong-same
113
API Gateway Identity Crisis – are they replaced by service mesh?
https://medium.com/solo-io/api-gateways-are-going-through-an-identity-crisis-d1d833a313d7
29
Learning SIMD with Rust by Finding Planets (2018)
https://medium.com/@Razican/learning-simd-with-rust-by-finding-planets-b85ccfb724c3
111
56
The Broken Chain Problem
https://seekingquestions.blogspot.com/2017/03/four-parables-one-lesson-broken-chain.html
110
85
No Silver Bullet (1986) [pdf]
http://worrydream.com/refs/Brooks-NoSilverBullet.pdf
104
Pay a visit to Cambridge’s computer museum
https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/2019/08/28/pay-a-visit-to-cambridges-computer-museum/
49
The Death of Alexander the Great: One of History's Great Unsolved Mysteries
https://lithub.com/the-death-of-alexander-the-great-one-of-historys-great-unsolved-mysteries/
40
Shipping wind turbines is not a breeze
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/shipping-wind-turbines-is-not-a-breeze
98
Maybe Warren Buffett Is Warning Us About Something
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-08-26/maybe-warren-buffett-is-quietly-warning-us-about-stocks
Uber And Lyft take more from drivers than they say: survey
https://jalopnik.com/uber-and-lyft-take-a-lot-more-from-drivers-than-they-sa-1837450373
95
156
Fake-branded bars slip dirty gold into world markets
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-gold-swiss-fakes-exclusive/exclusive-fake-branded-bars-slip-dirty-gold-into-world-markets-idUSKCN1VI0DD
94
69
YouTube should stop recommending garbage videos to users
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/08/youtube-should-stop-recommending-garbage-videos-to-users/
92
Improving Siri's Privacy Protection
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/08/improving-siris-privacy-protections/
91
Craig Wright ordered to hand over half of his alleged Bitcoin holdings
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/aug/28/australian-who-says-he-invented-bitcoin-ordered-to-hand-over-up-to-5bn
Sacklers Would Give Up Ownership of Purdue Pharma Under Settlement Proposal
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/27/health/sacklers-purdue-pharma-opioid-settlement.html
90
75
Stop Calling It “Military-Grade Encryption”
https://blog.signata.net/military-grade-encryption/
46
SmartyKit Apple I replica
http://apple1.smartykit.org/
67
UK Government to Ask Queen to Suspend Parliament
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-49493632
84
33
The Economics of Kenneth Arrow
https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/full/10.1146/annurev-economics-080218-030323
57
How we reduced deployment times by 95%
https://blog.plaid.com/how-we-reduced-deployment-times-by-95/
82
6
Jesse Combs (of Mythbusters) Killed in Land-Speed Record Crash
https://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/a28843412/jessi-combs-killed-in-land-speed-record-crash/
81
12
Entropic: A federated package registry for anything
https://github.com/entropic-dev/entropic
74
Show HN: I built a site to compare fees and rates for sending money abroad
https://transfr.io
Pastel: A command-line tool to generate, analyze, convert and manipulate colors