985
357
I fear App Review is getting too powerful (2015) [pdf]
https://judiciary.house.gov/uploadedfiles/015127.pdf
6 years ago
808
294
Dependency
https://xkcd.com/2347/
699
945
Apple to kill Epic’s accounts on Friday the 28th
https://twitter.com/EpicNewsroom/status/1295430127455596544
544
164
What’s Flying Above Us?
https://skycircl.es/donate/
508
762
Apple, Epic, and the App Store
https://stratechery.com/2020/apple-epic-and-the-app-store/
452
415
Google: Open Letter to Australians
https://about.google/intl/ALL_au/google-in-australia/an-open-letter/
439
220
Apple expands independent repair program to Mac after US antitrust investigation
https://techcrunch.com/2020/08/17/apple-expands-its-independent-repair-program-to-mac-after-us-antitrust-investigation-examined-companys-repair-policies/
436
169
Microsoft Put Off Fixing Zero Day for 2 Years
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/08/microsoft-put-off-fixing-zero-day-for-2-years/
377
260
Next-Generation IBM POWER10 Processor
https://newsroom.ibm.com/2020-08-17-IBM-Reveals-Next-Generation-IBM-POWER10-Processor
375
318
Response to Google open letter
https://www.accc.gov.au/media-release/response-to-google-open-letter
374
102
Karpathy's MinGPT
https://github.com/karpathy/minGPT
353
223
Death Valley soars to 130 degrees, Earth’s highest temperature since 1931
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2020/08/16/death-valley-heat-record/
340
288
Mindfulness and meditation can worsen depression and anxiety
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2251840-mindfulness-and-meditation-can-worsen-depression-and-anxiety/
282
146
Linux PinePhone has physical kill switches for its cameras, mic, data, BT, Wi-Fi
https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/08/15/this-smartphone-has-physical-kill-switches-for-its-cameras-microphone-data-bluetooth-and-wi-fi/
261
114
Show HN: Dropbase 2.0 – Turn offline files into live databases
https://www.dropbase.io/
254
139
Artificial eyespots on cattle reduce predation by large carnivores
https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-020-01156-0
238
32
A 35-year-old bug in Patch found in efforts to restore 29-year-old BSD
http://bsdimp.blogspot.com/2020/08/a-35-year-old-bug-in-patch-found-in.html
231
180
How China’s Expanding Fishing Fleet Is Depleting the World’s Oceans
https://e360.yale.edu/features/how-chinas-expanding-fishing-fleet-is-depleting-worlds-oceans
53
Nerves – Elixir Platform for IoT
https://www.nerves-project.org/
205
50
Spinning Up in Deep RL
https://spinningup.openai.com/en/latest/user/introduction.html
201
94
An Introduction to OpenBSD [video]
https://blog.lambda.cx/posts/openbsd-introduction-talk/
200
128
We should discuss soil as much as coal (2019)
https://www.gatesnotes.com/Energy/We-should-discuss-soil-as-much-as-coal
189
342
Rolling blackouts in California have power experts stumped
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/16/business/california-blackouts.html
183
28
The Case of the Top Secret iPod
https://tidbits.com/2020/08/17/the-case-of-the-top-secret-ipod/
177
88
Handmade: A Community for Self-Rolled Performant Software (2016)
https://handmade.network/manifesto
168
43
Understanding Recursive Queries in PostgreSQL
https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com/en/recursive-queries-postgresql/
73
The Computational Limits of Deep Learning
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.05558
165
70
Using a Yubikey as a touchless, magic unlock key for Linux
https://kliu.io/post/yubico-magic-unlock/
155
Show HN: Dungeon Map Doodler – Free online map drawing tool
https://dungeonmapdoodler.com/
154
58
Launch HN: Batch (YC S20) – Replays for event-driven systems
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24188214
150
109
How long since Google said a Google Drive Linux client is coming?
https://abevoelker.github.io/how-long-since-google-said-a-google-drive-linux-client-is-coming/
135
184
Ask HN: Parents, what are you doing for school this fall?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24189147
129
16
Idris 2 version 0.2.1
https://www.idris-lang.org/idris-2-version-021-released.html
122
Black Sky satellites return images just 58 hours after launch
https://techcrunch.com/2020/08/17/blackskys-latest-satellites-return-images-just-58-hours-after-spacex-launch/
120
A-Levels: The Model is not the Student
http://thaines.com/post/alevels2020
AtomVM: Erlang on Microcontrollers
https://github.com/bettio/AtomVM
119
14
Show HN: Search the text of articles submitted to HN, with live updating
https://hndex.ml/
118
82
US post office carriers "forced to work fewer hours," leaving "buckets of mail"
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/aug/16/usps-mail-delays-postmaster-general-changes-workers
87
A Twist on Schrödinger's Cat Paradox
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/this-twist-on-schroedingers-cat-paradox-has-major-implications-for-quantum-theory/
108
133
A $10B Experimental City Nearly Got Built in Rural Minnesota (2018)
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/how-10-billion-experimental-city-nearly-got-built-rural-minnesota-180968617/
105
42
A circuit-like notation for lambda calculus (2015)
https://csvoss.com/circuit-notation-lambda-calculus
60
Ask HN: Finding the Australian Aboriginal flag in all artworks
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24187794
95
1
Pibooth: A PhotoBooth application for Raspberry Pi and opencv compatible devices
https://github.com/pibooth/pibooth
Jobseekers face exploitation as online recruitment is riddled with fake news
https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/economy/2020/08/jobseekers-face-exploitation-online-recruitment-riddled-fake-news
The Hard Problem of Breakfast
http://nautil.us//issue/88/love--sex/the-hard-problem-of-breakfast
86
40
A Brief History of ClarisWorks (2003)
http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/bob/clarisworks.php
85
56
Show HN: Structopt for C++ – Parse command line arguments by defining a struct
https://github.com/p-ranav/structopt
