August 2015 Archive
931.
China Moves to Devalue Yuan (wsj.com)
932.
Bertrand's Paradox (web.mit.edu)
933.
Show HN: Forms – Easy custom database applications (sonadier.com)
934.
Remove anti-privacy, anti-security, and general nuisance “features” from Win 10 (github.com)
935.
Chimpanzees and monkeys use stone tools (bbc.com)
936.
The Weird Abandoned Spaces of Virtual Worlds (killscreendaily.com)
937.
Crowdfunding Is Driving a Board Game Renaissance (fivethirtyeight.com)
938.
What It Looks Like to Use the Internet for the First Time (motherboard.vice.com)
939.
Bronze Age Greek city found underwater (speroforum.com)
940.
We Can’t Get Over Ourselves: Reasons we fail to understand others (nautil.us)
941.
Randexp.js: Create random strings that match a given regular expression (github.com)
942.
Remind HN: The Perseid meteor shower peaks tonight ()
943.
What is a kubelet? (kamalmarhubi.com)
944.
Distributed consensus reloaded: ZooKeeper and replication in Kafka (confluent.io)
945.
Why You’re Biased About Being Biased (nautil.us)
946.
Lenovo modifying Windows OS files from BIOS to install Lenovo software (arstechnica.com)
947.
Vim: Takeaways from One Year of Typing (sankho.github.io)
948.
I No Longer Have Any Trust in the Nest Protect (phoronix.com)
949.
Are “Better” Ideas More Likely to Succeed? An Analysis of Startup Evaluation [pdf] (hbs.edu)
950.
What the Dunning-Kruger effect is and isn’t (2010) (talyarkoni.org)
951.
Facebook shuts down swedish pro kurdish page (rojavakommitteerna.com)
952.
Show HN: Stackie – A tiny stack machine for texture generation (fingswotidun.com)
953.
The Birth of Standard Error (2013) (spinellis.gr)
954.
A Minimal Architecture for General Cognition [pdf] (axon.cs.byu.edu)
955.
A new role for Qasar (blog.ycombinator.com)
956.
How TCP backlog works in Linux (veithen.github.io)
957.
Physically Based Shading in Theory and Practice (blog.selfshadow.com)
958.
Diet Advice That Ignores Hunger (nytimes.com)
959.
Renting in America Has Never Been This Expensive (bloomberg.com)
960.
Study of Holocaust survivors finds trauma passed on to children's genes (theguardian.com)