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August 2017 Archive
31.
The Internet Archive has digitized 25,000 78rpm Gramophone records (archive.org)
699 points by yurisagalov on Aug 8, 2017 | 97 comments
32.
Salesforce fires red team staffers who gave Defcon talk (zdnet.com)
698 points by stevekillian on Aug 9, 2017 | 290 comments
33.
An Intro to Compilers (nicoleorchard.com)
687 points by luu on Aug 13, 2017 | 104 comments
34.
Firefox Focus – A new private browser for iOS and Android (blog.mozilla.org)
684 points by happy-go-lucky on Aug 18, 2017 | 335 comments
35.
Ellen Pao: My lawsuit failed. Others won’t (thecut.com)
682 points by gkanai on Aug 21, 2017 | 538 comments
36.
The world in which IPv6 was a good design (apenwarr.ca)
677 points by dbenamy on Aug 11, 2017 | 191 comments
37.
YouTube AI deletes war crimes evidence as 'extremist material' (middleeasteye.net)
674 points by jacobr on Aug 12, 2017 | 320 comments
38.
Arrest of WannaCry researcher sends chill through security community (thehill.com)
664 points by rbanffy on Aug 4, 2017 | 334 comments
39.
A Solution of the P versus NP Problem? (arxiv.org)
662 points by fahrbach on Aug 14, 2017 | 286 comments
40.
Inside a fast CSS engine (hacks.mozilla.org)
660 points by rbanffy on Aug 22, 2017 | 141 comments
41.
Ideal OS: Rebooting the Desktop Operating System (joshondesign.com)
656 points by daureg on Aug 20, 2017 | 340 comments
42.
24/192 Music Downloads Are Very Silly Indeed (2012) (xiph.org)
647 points by Ivoah on Aug 29, 2017 | 428 comments
43.
SVG can do that? (slides.com)
645 points by funspectre on Aug 15, 2017 | 197 comments
44.
Let's Remove the Global Interpreter Lock (morepypy.blogspot.com)
644 points by TiredOfLife on Aug 14, 2017 | 315 comments
45.
Four Earth-sized planets detected orbiting the nearest sun-like star (news.ucsc.edu)
641 points by mrfusion on Aug 10, 2017 | 295 comments
46.
A checklist of marketing ideas for side projects (sideprojectchecklist.com)
632 points by karlhughes on Aug 6, 2017 | 66 comments
47.
Ask HN: What maths are critical to pursuing ML/AI?
628 points by chrisherd on Aug 28, 2017 | 135 comments
48.
Hy – A Lisp-flavored Python (hy.readthedocs.io)
625 points by tosh on Aug 2, 2017 | 215 comments
49.
Linux Load Averages: Solving the Mystery (brendangregg.com)
623 points by dmit on Aug 8, 2017 | 86 comments
50.
Bitcoin Exchange Had Too Many Bitcoins (bloomberg.com)
620 points by dsri on Aug 2, 2017 | 219 comments
51.
Show HN: Extension-blocking domains removed by threat from other blacklists (github.com)
614 points by paulgb on Aug 12, 2017 | 155 comments
52.
Cheap Beijing Flights With a Dangerous Catch (seat31b.com)
604 points by msh on Aug 6, 2017 | 248 comments
53.
FizzleFade (fabiensanglard.net)
604 points by pietrofmaggi on Aug 29, 2017 | 176 comments
54.
DeepMind and Blizzard Open StarCraft II as an AI Research Environment (deepmind.com)
603 points by nijynot on Aug 9, 2017 | 270 comments
55.
E-commerce will evolve next month as Amazon loses the 1-Click patent (thirtybees.com)
602 points by themaveness on Aug 18, 2017 | 223 comments
56.
Disconnect. Offline only (chris.bolin.co)
601 points by danmeade on Aug 23, 2017 | 199 comments
57.
Mozilla’s Send makes it easy to send a file from one person to another (theverge.com)
598 points by Tomte on Aug 3, 2017 | 318 comments
58.
Annual note to self: most of the world exists outside the tech bubble (steveblank.com)
596 points by chmaynard on Aug 12, 2017 | 354 comments
59.
How the Collison brothers turned ‘seven lines of code’ into Stripe (bloomberg.com)
594 points by coloneltcb on Aug 1, 2017 | 182 comments
60.
Internet Draft: Let 'localhost' be localhost (tools.ietf.org)
594 points by beliu on Aug 7, 2017 | 167 comments