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August 2017 Archive
421.
The Incredible Shrinking Airline Seat (bloomberg.com)
225 points by JumpCrisscross on Aug 17, 2017 | 433 comments
422.
KIA Dealership in Canada remotely disables car over $200 fee (cbc.ca)
225 points by breitling on Aug 29, 2017 | 215 comments
423.
Burger King launches WhopperCoin crypto-cash in Russia (bbc.com)
225 points by colinscape on Aug 29, 2017 | 154 comments
424.
Cruise is running an autonomous ride hailing service for employees in SF (techcrunch.com)
224 points by edward on Aug 8, 2017 | 175 comments
425.
Bitcoin: Evidence of spoofing, wash trading, and a scheme known as ‘Tether’ (medium.com)
224 points by Artemis2 on Aug 5, 2017 | 78 comments
426.
Hardening the Kernel in Android Oreo (android-developers.googleblog.com)
223 points by ingve on Aug 30, 2017 | 103 comments
427.
When an experiment with existing technology does a “good enough” job (medium.com)
223 points by xelfer on Aug 28, 2017 | 92 comments
428.
More people riding bikes makes cycling safer for everyone, major new study finds (cyclingweekly.com)
222 points by okket on Aug 5, 2017 | 175 comments
429.
Understanding the math behind 0x5f3759df and the fast inverse square root (2012) (h14s.p5r.org)
222 points by ColinWright on Aug 16, 2017 | 19 comments
430.
Fun vs. Computer Science (2016) (prog21.dadgum.com)
221 points by Tomte on Aug 26, 2017 | 181 comments
431.
Noam Chomsky Joins Faculty at University of Arizona (uanews.arizona.edu)
221 points by incan1275 on Aug 19, 2017 | 169 comments
432.
TypeScripts Type System Is Turing Complete (github.com)
221 points by supermdguy on Aug 1, 2017 | 88 comments
433.
Dwarf Fortress starting during apt-get upgrade (askubuntu.com)
221 points by rayalez on Aug 16, 2017 | 53 comments
434.
Uber Gets Run Over by Its Own Subprime Auto Leases (wolfstreet.com)
220 points by SQL2219 on Aug 9, 2017 | 121 comments
435.
Show HN: Short-term rental estimate for sites like Airbnb (eliotandme.com)
220 points by edouard1234567 on Aug 7, 2017 | 97 comments
436.
How I Used Deep Learning to Train a Chatbot to Talk Like Me (adeshpande3.github.io)
220 points by adeshpandedsfd on Aug 10, 2017 | 33 comments
437.
An MNIST-like fashion product dataset (github.com)
220 points by kashifr on Aug 28, 2017 | 21 comments
438.
We Need to Nationalise Google, Facebook and Amazon (theguardian.com)
219 points by kawera on Aug 30, 2017 | 226 comments
439.
Reducing Python's startup time (lwn.net)
219 points by vanni on Aug 30, 2017 | 161 comments
440.
Cathleen Morawetz has died (nytimes.com)
219 points by dnetesn on Aug 12, 2017 | 19 comments
441.
Se­cu­rity Keys (imperialviolet.org)
218 points by ikeboy on Aug 18, 2017 | 137 comments
442.
The Beauty of Bresenham's Algorithm (members.chello.at)
218 points by jacquesm on Aug 22, 2017 | 41 comments
443.
Alaska’s thawing soils are now pouring carbon dioxide into the air (washingtonpost.com)
217 points by Mz on Aug 23, 2017 | 207 comments
444.
China's New Wave of Internet Censorship: Name Verification for Online Commenting (thediplomat.com)
217 points by malloryerik on Aug 27, 2017 | 202 comments
445.
Introducing WAL-G: Faster Disaster Recovery for Postgres (citusdata.com)
217 points by craigkerstiens on Aug 18, 2017 | 65 comments
446.
DeepL Translator – AI Assistance for Language (deepl.com)
217 points by floqqi on Aug 29, 2017 | 53 comments
447.
Clarity Icons: open source icons (vmware.github.io)
217 points by johnewo on Aug 24, 2017 | 41 comments
448.
A programming language from scratch: 3 steps to an interpreter (francisstokes.wordpress.com)
217 points by FrancisStokes on Aug 17, 2017 | 33 comments
449.
Cooling the Earth with a cloud of small spacecraft near the inner Lagrange point (pnas.org)
216 points by abecedarius on Aug 25, 2017 | 248 comments
450.
Oni: An IDE powered by Neovim (github.com)
216 points by bsg75 on Aug 20, 2017 | 105 comments