1387
241
Africa declared free of wild polio
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-53887947
6 years ago
724
313
How to Write in Plain English
http://www.plainenglish.co.uk/how-to-write-in-plain-english.html
719
327
Please read the paper before you comment
https://buttondown.email/hillelwayne/archive/please-read-the-paper-before-you-comment/
545
379
Kindle collects a surprisingly large amount of data
https://nullsweep.com/kindle-collects-a-surprisingly-large-amount-of-data/
459
795
Gallup: 81% of Black Americans Want Police to Retain Local Presence
https://news.gallup.com/poll/316571/black-americans-police-retain-local-presence.aspx
415
84
Openwifi: Linux mac80211 compatible full-stack 802.11/Wi-Fi design based on SDR
https://github.com/open-sdr/openwifi
409
291
Firefox 80
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/80.0/releasenotes/
625
Apple ordered to not block Epic’s Unreal Engine, Fortnite to stay off App Store
https://techcrunch.com/2020/08/24/apple-ordered-to-not-block-epic-games-unreal-engine-but-fortnite-to-stay-off-app-store/
399
203
2,000-year-old redwoods survive wildfire at California's oldest state park
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/2-000-year-old-redwoods-survive-wildfire-california-s-oldest-n1237949
364
180
OpenZFS Merged to FreeBSD
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=364746
345
150
Global Mass Surveillance – The Fourteen Eyes
https://www.privacytools.io/providers/#ukusa
339
253
Want people to do the right thing? Save them the guilt trip
https://psyche.co/ideas/you-want-people-to-do-the-right-thing-save-them-the-guilt-trip
319
106
Optimal Peanut Butter and Banana Sandwiches
https://www.ethanrosenthal.com/2020/08/25/optimal-peanut-butter-and-banana-sandwiches/
299
92
Syllabus for Eric's PhD Students
https://docs.google.com/document/d/11D3kHElzS2HQxTwPqcaTnU5HCJ8WGE5brTXI4KLf4dM/edit
270
172
Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh is stepping down after 21 years
https://footwearnews.com/2020/business/executive-moves/zappos-ceo-tony-hsieh-steps-down-1203045974/
255
213
New facts about the leadup to the Beirut explosion
https://www.occrp.org/en/investigations/a-hidden-tycoon-african-explosives-and-a-loan-from-a-notorious-bank-questionable-connections-surround-beirut-explosion-shipment
249
87
Signifier – a Brutalist response to 17th century typefaces
https://klim.co.nz/blog/signifier-design-information/
236
209
What the interns have wrought, 2020 edition
https://blog.janestreet.com/what-the-interns-have-wrought-2020/
233
156
Cat vs. panel heater: which is better?
https://www.oneroof.co.nz/news/38319
226
A Chrome feature is creating load on global root DNS servers
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/08/a-chrome-feature-is-creating-enormous-load-on-global-root-dns-servers/
225
111
Amazon drops Linux support for generating Kindle ebooks
https://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/?docId=1000765211
214
Building a Home Lab Beginners Guide
https://haydenjames.io/home-lab-beginners-guide-hardware/
202
204
Expert predicts a major hurricane hitting Houston would be “America’s Chernobyl”
https://www.texasmonthly.com/news/houston-hurricane-ship-channel-orourke/
199
129
Draft of OCaml Scientific Computing book
https://discuss.ocaml.org/t/ann-draft-of-ocaml-scientific-computing-book
Palantir S-1
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1321655/000119312520230013/d904406ds1.htm
198
‘Better Yield on 5nm Than 7nm’: TSMC Update on Defect Rates for N5
https://www.anandtech.com/show/16028/better-yield-on-5nm-than-7nm-tsmc-update-on-defect-rates-for-n5
193
48
Scots language Wikipedia is edited primarily by someone who doesn't know Scots
https://www.reddit.com/r/linguistics/comments/igbbh2/the_scots_language_wikipedia_is_edited_primarily/
190
120
Beating Google ReCaptcha and the funCaptcha using AWS Rekognition
https://bitbucket.org/Pirates-of-Silicon-Hills/voightkampff
184
Searching for 'VK' shows only a single result on DuckduckGo. Why?
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=vk
344
Japan facing credit card number shortage
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20200821/p2a/00m/0bu/025000c
178
104
The longest train ride in the world (2019)
https://basementgeographer.com/the-longest-train-ride-in-the-world/
175
144
WebBundles harmful to content blocking, security tools, and the open web
https://brave.com/webbundles-harmful-to-content-blocking-security-tools-and-the-open-web/
170
72
What happens when you load a URL? (2015)
https://danluu.com/navigate-url/
165
151
Jacksonpollock.org (2003)
https://jacksonpollock.org/
164
83
The Rapier Physics Engine
https://www.dimforge.com/blog/2020/08/25/announcing-the-rapier-physics-engine/
162
40
A log/event processing pipeline you can't have (2019)
https://apenwarr.ca/log/20190216
161
89
Impact of Go AI on the professional Go world
https://medium.com/@hajinlee/impact-of-go-ai-on-the-professional-go-world-f14cf201c7c2
160
207
Boom Supersonic hopes to test-fly its supersonic plane in 2021
https://www.engadget.com/boom-supersonic-xb-1-2021-130025910.html
159
243
US home construction surges 22.6%, third monthly increase
https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/us-home-construction-surges-226-straight-increase-72440918
152
33
Show HN: Will It CORS? – an automatic CORS explainer
http://willitcors.com
143
27
Show HN: Shift-Ctrl-F: Search a webpage with natural language and TensorFlowJS
https://github.com/model-zoo/shift-ctrl-f
138
43
Understanding DNS: Anatomy of a BIND zone file
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/08/understanding-dns-anatomy-of-a-bind-zone-file/
135
125
Coronavirus: Germany puts on crowded concerts to study risks
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-53875370
132
101
Chrome just got faster with Profile Guided Optimization
https://blog.chromium.org/2020/08/chrome-just-got-faster-with-profile.html
128
26
DIY Single-Chip 2D Retro Game Console
http://www.voja.rs/PROJECTS/GAME_HTM/1_intro.htm
127
35
Creating a Common Lisp implementation, part 1 [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wa81OJnlsoI
122
85
Clover: An all-in-one notebook
https://cloverapp.co/
118
Amazon is delivering nearly two-thirds of its own packages
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/13/amazon-is-delivering-nearly-two-thirds-of-its-own-packages.html
115
252
Firefox Android Build that caused issues is working as intended
https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/25/firefox_android_update/
53
AWS Controllers for Kubernetes
https://github.com/aws/aws-controllers-k8s
39
Amazon: A New Kind of Antitrust Risk
https://diff.substack.com/p/amazon-a-new-kind-of-antitrust-risk
15
Boston Dynamics' Handle Robot Recreated with Raspberry Pi
https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/boston-dynamics-handle-robot-recreated-with-raspberry-pi/
102
44
SourMint Malicious SDK
https://snyk.io/research/sour-mint-malicious-sdk/
13
Keeping CALM: When Distributed Consistency Is Easy
https://m-cacm.acm.org/magazines/2020/9/246941-keeping-calm/fulltext
99
67
Show HN: HyScale – An abstraction framework over Kubernetes
https://github.com/hyscale/hyscale
95
130
My AI Timelines Have Sped Up
https://www.alexirpan.com/2020/08/18/ai-timelines.html
Reddit Shuts Down AMA from Former NSA Technical Director Bill Binney
https://old.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/iggp4z/reddit_shuts_down_ama_from_former_nsa_technical/
94
166
How to not fear your death: An Epicurean perspective
https://psyche.co/guides/how-to-use-philosophy-to-overcome-the-fear-of-your-own-death
91
65
User's Kindle eBook collection revoked by Amazon (2012)
https://www.bekkelund.net/2012/10/22/outlawed-by-amazon-drm/
What Is the Small Web?
https://ar.al/2020/08/07/what-is-the-small-web/
86
62
Evgeny Kuznetsov practices with Bauer stick that has hole in the blade
https://russianmachineneverbreaks.com/2020/07/17/evgeny-kuznetsov-practices-with-bauer-stick-that-has-hole-in-the-blade/
49
Slack Incident Resolved – Degraded service affecting multiple features
https://status.slack.com/2020-08/960bbb3c9d49a3cc
Topicctl – an easier way to manage Kafka topics
https://segment.com/blog/easier-management-of-Kafka-topics-with-topicctl/
