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August 2017 Archive
241.
Why I Was Fired by Google (wsj.com)
293 points by dpflan on Aug 11, 2017 | 440 comments
242.
A Review of Perl 6 (evanmiller.org)
293 points by jparise on Aug 13, 2017 | 164 comments
243.
Making Visible Watermarks More Effective (research.googleblog.com)
292 points by runesoerensen on Aug 17, 2017 | 96 comments
244.
Principles of Sharding for Relational Databases (citusdata.com)
292 points by tikhon on Aug 9, 2017 | 47 comments
245.
SF residents get a shock: Someone bought their street (sfchronicle.com)
291 points by mudil on Aug 7, 2017 | 224 comments
246.
Amazon recalls eclipse glasses (kgw.com)
290 points by alister on Aug 13, 2017 | 246 comments
247.
We Fight for the Users (dreamhost.com)
290 points by mdesq on Aug 14, 2017 | 237 comments
248.
The 1980 Citroën Karin (citroenet.org.uk)
290 points by dayve on Aug 10, 2017 | 186 comments
249.
VW engineering executive sentenced to 40-month prison term in diesel case (reuters.com)
288 points by rmason on Aug 25, 2017 | 217 comments
250.
Filecoin Suspends ICO After Raising $186M in One Hour (financemagnates.com)
287 points by ianopolous on Aug 11, 2017 | 360 comments
251.
Maybe today’s Navy is just not very good at driving ships (militarytimes.com)
287 points by smacktoward on Aug 28, 2017 | 342 comments
252.
A 2:15 Alarm, 2 Trains and a Bus Get Her to Work by 7 A.M (nytimes.com)
287 points by el_benhameen on Aug 17, 2017 | 301 comments
253.
Mastodon is big in Japan, and the reason why is uncomfortable (medium.com)
287 points by keehun on Aug 19, 2017 | 221 comments
254.
A tall chimney to facilitate heat exchange in the atmosphere (superchimney.org)
286 points by chr1 on Aug 4, 2017 | 190 comments
255.
JetBrains Web UI components open-sourced (blog.jetbrains.com)
286 points by uptown on Aug 4, 2017 | 90 comments
256.
Prodigy: A new tool for radically efficient machine teaching (explosion.ai)
286 points by Young_God on Aug 4, 2017 | 69 comments
257.
Intel CEO leaves American Manufacturing Council (blogs.intel.com)
285 points by RandVal30142 on Aug 15, 2017 | 371 comments
258.
What it feels like to be in the zone as a programmer (dopeboy.github.io)
285 points by dopeboy on Aug 20, 2017 | 113 comments
259.
Astronomers have found the stars responsible for an explosion recorded in 1437 (theatlantic.com)
285 points by curtis on Aug 31, 2017 | 60 comments
260.
Crafting Plausible Maps (2015) (m.mythcreants.com)
285 points by fanf2 on Aug 11, 2017 | 55 comments
261.
I’m Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
284 points by proberts on Aug 25, 2017 | 403 comments
262.
If SoundCloud Disappears, What Happens to Its Music Culture? (nytimes.com)
283 points by mcone on Aug 1, 2017 | 207 comments
263.
If I Made Another Monkey Island (2013) (grumpygamer.com)
283 points by denisw on Aug 13, 2017 | 86 comments
264.
Rustgo: Calling Rust from Go with near-zero overhead (blog.filippo.io)
282 points by FiloSottile on Aug 15, 2017 | 68 comments
265.
The Sims Game Design Documents (1997) (donhopkins.com)
282 points by doppp on Aug 13, 2017 | 18 comments
266.
U.R. Rao has died (nytimes.com)
282 points by sohkamyung on Aug 12, 2017 | 7 comments
267.
To Protect Voting, Use Open-Source Software (nytimes.com)
281 points by evanb on Aug 3, 2017 | 242 comments
268.
Announcing .NET Core 2.0 (blogs.msdn.microsoft.com)
281 points by benaadams on Aug 14, 2017 | 141 comments
269.
Kids Pass Just Reminded Us How Hard Responsible Disclosure Is (troyhunt.com)
281 points by ohjeez on Aug 5, 2017 | 89 comments
270.
Dumbo: CIA system to take over webcams, microphones (wikileaks.org)
280 points by givan on Aug 3, 2017 | 90 comments