1400
581
Google just deleted my nearly 10-year-old free and open-source Android app
https://medium.com/@mmathieum/google-just-deleted-my-nearly-10-year-old-free-open-source-android-app-7fbc52edc50a
6 years ago
741
275
John Carmack on the Joe Rogan Experience [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udlMSe5-zP8
586
242
Apple expands parts access to more independent repair businesses
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/08/apple-offers-customers-even-more-options-for-safe-reliable-repairs/
464
509
Software made me loathe my car
https://mikkel.hoegh.org/2019/08/29/how-software-made-me-loathe-my-luxury-car
399
410
Is Perl 6 Being Renamed?
http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2019/08/is-perl-6-being-renamed.html
372
254
Linux kernel drivers in Rust might become an option in the future
https://lwn.net/Articles/797828/
358
285
Flawed Algorithms Are Grading Millions of Students’ Essays
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/pa7dj9/flawed-algorithms-are-grading-millions-of-students-essays
312
506
Uber proposes policy that would pay drivers a minimum wage of $21 per hour
https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/28/uber-proposes-policy-that-would-pay-drivers-a-minimum-wage-of-21-per-hour/
303
86
Building a Raspberry Pi 3B+ full keyboard handheld
https://0x0f0f0f.github.io/posts/2019/08/building-a-raspberry-pi-3b-full-keyboard-handheld.-part-1/
296
128
3.8M-year-old skull of an early ape-like human ancestor discovered in Ethiopia
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-49486980
281
357
Wikipedia Is Now a Brave Verified Publisher
https://brave.com/wikipedia-verified-publisher/
213
Bontrager’s WaveCel material more effective at preventing concussions than MIPS
https://pelotonmagazine.com/gear/bontragers-new-wavecel-bests-mips-at-concussion-prevention/
240
214
Thank you, Chris
https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2019/08/29/thank-you-chris/
239
161
Emacs 26.3
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2019-08/msg00577.html
198
132
Microsoft Is Killing ePub Support in Edge Classic
https://www.thurrott.com/cloud/web-browsers/microsoft-edge/213350/microsoft-is-killing-epub-support-in-edge-classic
182
332
U.S. Surgeon General’s Advisory: Marijuana Use and the Developing Brain
https://www.hhs.gov/surgeongeneral/reports-and-publications/addiction-and-substance-misuse/advisory-on-marijuana-use-and-developing-brain/index.html
175
53
Introduction to Event-Driven Architectures with RabbitMQ
https://blog.theodo.com/2019/08/event-driven-architectures-rabbitmq/
67
Children of a Thailand tribe who see with clarity beneath the waves (2016)
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160229-the-sea-nomad-children-who-see-like-dolphins
The Mobility Trap: Why We'll Never Fix Congestion by Speeding Up Traffic
https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2019/8/28/the-mobility-trap-why-well-never-fix-congestion-by-speeding-up-traffic
158
9
A deep dive into Linux namespaces, part 4
http://ifeanyi.co/posts/linux-namespaces-part-4/
21
Understanding SAT by Implementing a Simple SAT Solver in Python (2014)
https://sahandsaba.com/understanding-sat-by-implementing-a-simple-sat-solver-in-python.html
147
59
What we get wrong about meetings, and how to make them worth attending
http://timharford.com/2019/08/what-we-get-wrong-about-meetings-and-how-to-make-them-worth-attending/
142
11
A Molecular Near Miss
http://isohedral.ca/a-molecular-near-miss/
140
88
How We Manage a Million Push Notifications an Hour
https://blog.gojekengineering.com/how-we-manage-a-million-push-notifications-an-hour-549a1e3ca2c2
29
Write Fuzzable Code
https://blog.regehr.org/archives/1687
138
114
Reasons Not to Use Google (2015)
https://stallman.org/google.html
134
48
Show HN: Real world (Jupyter notebook embed) way to assess data scientists
https://www.hackerrank.com/tests/7j6a5mhn6lb/78766bda888f6c08605024290c926550
41
Live Avatars with face-api.js
https://blog.pragli.com/live-avatars-with-faceapi-js/
125
103
Misinterpreting hurricane forecasts
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/29/opinion/hurricane-dorian-forecast-map.html
122
32
FileKit: An open source end-to-end encrypted cloud storage service in JavaScript
https://github.com/TankerHQ/sdk-js/tree/master/packages/filekit
119
82
Show HN: Zepel, a Jira alternative for product teams
https://zepel.io
118
63
Tooltips: Secret weapon for improving feature discovery
https://uxdesign.cc/tooltips-your-secret-weapon-for-improving-deature-discovery-e1c380562f2e
16
Show HN: ShapeForm – Schema Driven Forms for React
https://github.com/TakeShape/shape-form
110
38
Portugal Tax Authority: Bitcoin Trading and Payments Are Tax-Free
https://cointelegraph.com/news/portugal-tax-authority-bitcoin-trading-and-payments-are-tax-free/
108
71
Recap of the `funding` experiment
https://feross.org/funding-experiment-recap/
107
22
DDSketch: A fast, fully-mergeable quantile sketch with relative-error guarantees
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.10693
92
14
Scaling Static Analyses at Facebook
https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2019/8/238344-scaling-static-analyses-at-facebook/fulltext
89
68
Duty, Democracy and the Threat of Tribalism
https://www.wsj.com/articles/jim-mattis-duty-democracy-and-the-threat-of-tribalism-11566984601?mod=rsswn
49
A New Algorithm for Controlled Randomness
https://probablydance.com/2019/08/28/a-new-algorithm-for-controlled-randomness/
87
Growing up in post-communist Romania – thoughts on learning English
https://viorel.me/2019/thoughts-on-learning-english/
Ask HN: What type of restrictions does your employer have on side gigs?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20831105
83
24
Universal algorithm set to boost microscopes
https://actu.epfl.ch/news/universal-algorithm-set-to-boost-microscopes/
Robotic thread is designed to slip through the brain's blood vessels
https://techxplore.com/news/2019-08-robotic-thread-brain-blood-vessels.html
76
5
“That is either genius, or a seriously diseased mind.” – Linus Torvalds
https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/3/20/845
1
Deep Reinforcement Learning
https://blog.dominodatalab.com/deep-reinforcement-learning/
75
SSB Rooms: a new server type for Scuttlebutt
https://www.manyver.se/blog/announcing-ssb-rooms
74
Why spiky shapes seem angry and round sounds are calming
https://digest.bps.org.uk/2019/08/28/heres-why-spiky-shapes-seem-angry-and-round-sounds-are-calming/
What we get wrong about meetings, and how to make them worth attending