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August 2016 Archive
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Rate Limits (letsencrypt.org)
175 points by beardicus on Aug 17, 2016 | 115 comments
482.
Classic Shell hacked with compromised update that erases your partition table (classicshell.net)
175 points by megalomaniac443 on Aug 3, 2016 | 105 comments
483.
Microsoft, Sony, and others still use illegal warranty-void-if-removed stickers (extremetech.com)
175 points by doener on Aug 7, 2016 | 55 comments
484.
How Nextdoor reduced racist posts (fusion.net)
174 points by pavel_lishin on Aug 26, 2016 | 155 comments
485.
SpaceX successfully lands its sixth Falcon 9 rocket after launch (theverge.com)
174 points by molecule on Aug 14, 2016 | 55 comments
486.
The vanishing civility: The game of jerks, bozos and assholes (stactivist.com)
173 points by azuajef on Aug 1, 2016 | 194 comments
487.
Judge grants Happy Birthday lawyers $4.6M, citing “unusually positive results” (arstechnica.com)
173 points by Tomte on Aug 19, 2016 | 94 comments
488.
All of Google's cloud database services are now out of beta (techcrunch.com)
173 points by smb06 on Aug 19, 2016 | 74 comments
489.
Reality is a Shared Hallucination (1997) (reactor-core.org)
173 points by MichaelAO on Aug 30, 2016 | 66 comments
490.
Bunnie Huang and Edward Snowden’s Malware-Detecting Smartphone Case (pubpub.org)
173 points by elijahparker on Aug 26, 2016 | 62 comments
491.
Italy Quake Rescuers Ask Locals to Unlock their Wi-Fi (bbc.com)
172 points by yitchelle on Aug 26, 2016 | 130 comments
492.
The piracy paradox at Udemy (2015) (troyhunt.com)
172 points by walterbell on Aug 28, 2016 | 78 comments
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Pendulum – Python datetimes made easy (github.com)
172 points by sdispater on Aug 16, 2016 | 73 comments
494.
Probabilistic Programming and Bayesian Methods for Hackers (2015) (camdavidsonpilon.github.io)
172 points by dacm on Aug 21, 2016 | 10 comments
495.
Are Index Funds Eating the World? (blogs.wsj.com)
171 points by petethomas on Aug 26, 2016 | 156 comments
496.
How to make Slack less bad for you (robertheaton.com)
171 points by hardmath123 on Aug 25, 2016 | 138 comments
497.
Organisms might be quantum machines (bbc.com)
171 points by mouzogu on Aug 18, 2016 | 119 comments
498.
New batteries could make phones, drones, and electric cars last twice as long (news.mit.edu)
171 points by SergeAx on Aug 19, 2016 | 107 comments
499.
Why should children program? A review of Seymour Papert's Mindstorms (dannas.github.io)
171 points by dannas on Aug 27, 2016 | 105 comments
500.
Majority of mathematicians hail from 24 scientific ‘families’ (nature.com)
171 points by philip1209 on Aug 27, 2016 | 83 comments
501.
Building a Modern Computer from First Principles (nand2tetris.org)
171 points by josh-wrale on Aug 22, 2016 | 26 comments
502.
Uber's Failure in Japan (disruptingjapan.com)
170 points by jmadsen on Aug 27, 2016 | 135 comments
503.
US ready to 'hand over' the internet's naming system (bbc.co.uk)
170 points by dcminter on Aug 18, 2016 | 133 comments
504.
Your battery status may be used to track you online (theguardian.com)
170 points by randomname2 on Aug 2, 2016 | 98 comments
505.
Open MCT – Open-Source Mission Control Software (nasa.github.io)
170 points by taylorbuley on Aug 22, 2016 | 14 comments
506.
China, Not Silicon Valley, Is Cutting Edge in Mobile Tech (nytimes.com)
169 points by nstj on Aug 3, 2016 | 199 comments
507.
Airbnb Files to Raise $850M at $30B Valuation (bloomberg.com)
169 points by tekacs on Aug 6, 2016 | 171 comments
508.
Purely Functional Linux with NixOS [video] (begriffs.com)
169 points by begriffs on Aug 8, 2016 | 142 comments
509.
Decentralization is about diversity (sandstorm.io)
169 points by ingve on Aug 18, 2016 | 93 comments
510.
Seagate Introduces a 60TB SSD – Is a 3.6PB Storage Pod Next? (backblaze.com)
169 points by ingve on Aug 11, 2016 | 75 comments