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August 2017 Archive
2101.
Time-Travelling with Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary (newyorker.com)
41 points by shawndumas on Aug 10, 2017 | 2 comments
2102.
Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber by James Damore [pdf] (assets.documentcloud.org)
41 points by calpaterson on Aug 8, 2017 | 0 comments
2103.
Fired Engineer James Damore: I Feel Google Betrayed Me (bloomberg.com)
41 points by taytus on Aug 10, 2017 | 0 comments
2104.
A Non-Interactive Zero-Knowledge Capture the Flag Platform (arxiv.org)
41 points by seadog007 on Aug 22, 2017 | 0 comments
2105.
Ask HN: One thing you wish would happen in the next 10 years?
40 points by juliansamarjiev on Aug 17, 2017 | 87 comments
2106.
Voyager's 'Cosmic Map' of Earth's Location Is Hopelessly Wrong (forbes.com)
40 points by Alexey_Nigin on Aug 18, 2017 | 66 comments
2107.
The job no one wants: young people won't work in logging (theguardian.com)
40 points by hecubus on Aug 24, 2017 | 66 comments
2108.
Fans Watch Taylor Swift. Economists Watch the Fans (bloomberg.com)
40 points by kawera on Aug 31, 2017 | 65 comments
2109.
What SimpliFlying learned from forcing staff to take regular vacation time (hbr.org)
40 points by pc86 on Aug 17, 2017 | 56 comments
2110.
What Is Ray Kurzweil Up to at Google? (wired.com)
40 points by mcone on Aug 2, 2017 | 54 comments
2111.
Ask HN: What are real Ruby on Rails alternatives in 2017?
40 points by rubyfan on Aug 9, 2017 | 53 comments
2112.
New Uber CEO Says Company Could Go Public in 18 Months (wsj.com)
40 points by uptown on Aug 30, 2017 | 52 comments
2113.
Ask HN: Is having videogames in your portfolio/GitHub a bad move?
40 points by samwestdev on Aug 19, 2017 | 49 comments
2114.
Python Oddities (twitter.com)
40 points by happy-go-lucky on Aug 6, 2017 | 36 comments
2115.
Banks are rolling out cryptocurrencies to move funds between them (qz.com)
40 points by jenny8lee on Aug 31, 2017 | 33 comments
2116.
You don't need a tutorial for every-freaking-thing (goshakkk.name)
40 points by swah on Aug 22, 2017 | 20 comments
2117.
A Summary of the Metaclasses Proposal for C++ (fluentcpp.com)
40 points by PleaseHelpMe on Aug 7, 2017 | 18 comments
2118.
The Whole Truth (thesunmagazine.org)
40 points by mcone on Aug 2, 2017 | 16 comments
2119.
The human cost of the pressures of postdoctoral research (theguardian.com)
40 points by denzil_correa on Aug 14, 2017 | 15 comments
2120.
The Life of a South Central Statistic (newyorker.com)
40 points by wallflower on Aug 17, 2017 | 13 comments
2121.
The Return of the Cray files (2011) (modularcircuits.com)
40 points by mr_tyzic on Aug 27, 2017 | 13 comments
2122.
Show HN: Scratchwork – a tool for drawing technical equations and diagrams (scratchworktool.com)
40 points by jstogin on Aug 2, 2017 | 11 comments
2123.
“In defending me as a woman, you’ve insulted me as someone who works in STEM” (medium.com)
40 points by kathyqian on Aug 14, 2017 | 11 comments
2124.
Censorship or Protectionism? Reassessing China’s Regulation of Internet Industry [pdf] (ijssh.org)
40 points by lainon on Aug 27, 2017 | 10 comments
2125.
Launch HN: ShiftDoc (YC S17) – On-demand healthcare staffing marketplace
40 points by pshah817 on Aug 16, 2017 | 9 comments
2126.
Fingerprint Extraction Using Smartphone Camera (arxiv.org)
40 points by lainon on Aug 5, 2017 | 7 comments
2127.
Elon Musk leads 116 experts calling for outright ban on killer robots (theguardian.com)
40 points by lukaa on Aug 20, 2017 | 7 comments
2128.
Wetware computer (en.wikipedia.org)
40 points by knivets on Aug 26, 2017 | 6 comments
2129.
Insect eyes inspire new solar cell design (techxplore.com)
40 points by dnetesn on Aug 31, 2017 | 4 comments
2130.
A Deep Dive into Qualcomm’s Centriq 2400 for Windows Server and Linux (anandtech.com)
40 points by msh on Aug 20, 2017 | 3 comments