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August 2018 Archive
751.
The Bell System Technical Journal (archive.org)
148 points by walrus01 on Aug 13, 2018 | 19 comments
752.
The Paradox of Karl Popper (blogs.scientificamerican.com)
147 points by lainon on Aug 25, 2018 | 78 comments
753.
How Amsterdam’s Airport Is Fighting Noise Pollution with Land Art (amusingplanet.com)
147 points by jath2 on Aug 19, 2018 | 62 comments
754.
The Performance Cost Of Spectre/Meltdown/Foreshadow Mitigations On Linux (phoronix.com)
147 points by rbanffy on Aug 30, 2018 | 32 comments
755.
Rackjure (docs.racket-lang.org)
147 points by tosh on Aug 1, 2018 | 29 comments
756.
Arduino command line interface (github.com)
147 points by braxxox on Aug 24, 2018 | 29 comments
757.
Growers Are Beaming Over the Success of Lasers to Stave Off Birds (npr.org)
146 points by ryan_j_naughton on Aug 12, 2018 | 142 comments
758.
OpenStreetMap for the dyslexic (osm4dys.org)
146 points by thinkingemote on Aug 20, 2018 | 64 comments
759.
Criticisms of EU plans for copyright censorship machines removed from Google (juliareda.eu)
146 points by dgtlmoon on Aug 18, 2018 | 33 comments
760.
Practical Web Cache Poisoning (portswigger.net)
146 points by 4kevinking on Aug 10, 2018 | 10 comments
761.
Why startups are leaving Silicon Valley (economist.com)
145 points by nopinsight on Aug 30, 2018 | 190 comments
762.
$100M Was Once Big Money for a Startup. Now, It’s Common (nytimes.com)
145 points by prostoalex on Aug 15, 2018 | 153 comments
763.
Stop Payment: A homeowner’s revolt against the banks (2012) (harpers.org)
145 points by wglb on Aug 21, 2018 | 122 comments
764.
Greyston Bakery hires on a first-come, first-served basis, no questions asked (fastcompany.com)
145 points by adwmayer on Aug 20, 2018 | 75 comments
765.
Google Data Collection research (digitalcontentnext.org)
145 points by pjf on Aug 22, 2018 | 46 comments
766.
Why Kakoune – The quest for a better code editor (kakoune.org)
145 points by tosh on Aug 17, 2018 | 45 comments
767.
Researchers have observed the Lyman-alpha transition in the antihydrogen atom (home.cern)
145 points by sohkamyung on Aug 23, 2018 | 38 comments
768.
Designing Solo, a new U2F/FIDO2 Token (conorpp.com)
144 points by ecesena on Aug 23, 2018 | 93 comments
769.
How Companies Make Millions Charging Prisoners to Send an Email (wired.com)
144 points by SQL2219 on Aug 4, 2018 | 84 comments
770.
Making $25k/month selling chocolate dicks (failory.com)
144 points by Redoubts on Aug 18, 2018 | 53 comments
771.
M3: Uber's Open Source Large-Scale Metrics Platform for Prometheus (ubr.to)
144 points by mkvorwerck on Aug 7, 2018 | 33 comments
772.
Show HN: Permafrost Engine – OpenGL 3.3 Real Time Strategy Engine in C (github.com)
144 points by epermyakov on Aug 31, 2018 | 25 comments
773.
Lerna relicences to protest ICE (github.com)
143 points by wwwigham on Aug 29, 2018 | 151 comments
774.
Bringing Vulkan everywhere (gfx-rs.github.io)
143 points by doppioandante on Aug 7, 2018 | 63 comments
775.
Stockholm’s deepest subway station is also an ecological wonder (atlasobscura.com)
143 points by DoreenMichele on Aug 18, 2018 | 26 comments
776.
The short history of the “about:” URL (2013) (montulli.org)
143 points by johnmw on Aug 19, 2018 | 21 comments
777.
Ask HN: Can engineers from Google or Facebook solve whiteboard questions easily?
142 points by franzwong on Aug 14, 2018 | 199 comments
778.
F-35 Program Cutting Corners to “Complete” Development (pogo.org)
142 points by tomkat0789 on Aug 30, 2018 | 198 comments
779.
Bankruptcy Booms Among Older Americans (nytimes.com)
142 points by mooreds on Aug 6, 2018 | 169 comments
780.
Why the Future of Data Storage Is Still Magnetic Tape (spectrum.ieee.org)
142 points by sohkamyung on Aug 29, 2018 | 155 comments