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August 2015 Archive
1501.
Bright (YC W15) raises $4M to bring solar to the developing world (medium.com)
51 points by sethbannon on Aug 5, 2015 | 24 comments
1502.
Neanderthals had outsize effect on human biology (nature.com)
51 points by rms on Aug 5, 2015 | 23 comments
1503.
The Architecture of a Cryptocurrency (github.com)
51 points by kushti on Aug 7, 2015 | 22 comments
1504.
Tracing JITs and modern CPUs part 3: A bad case (github.com)
51 points by nkurz on Aug 9, 2015 | 22 comments
1505.
On rump kernels and the Rumprun unikernel (blog.xenproject.org)
51 points by fcambus on Aug 7, 2015 | 18 comments
1506.
Why FreeBSD should not adopt launchd (blog.darknedgy.net)
51 points by vezzy-fnord on Aug 27, 2015 | 13 comments
1507.
C++ Hints (cpphints.com)
51 points by PVS-Studio on Aug 24, 2015 | 9 comments
1508.
Announcing the Computation Graph Toolkit (joschu.github.io)
51 points by phreeza on Aug 25, 2015 | 0 comments
1509.
Lenovo Is Laying Off 3,200 (techcrunch.com)
50 points by ghosh on Aug 13, 2015 | 69 comments
1510.
Companies That May Be the Next $1B Startups (bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
50 points by dankohn1 on Aug 24, 2015 | 53 comments
1511.
Resize.ly – Images resized, responsive, and retina ready (resize.ly)
50 points by jsingleton on Aug 13, 2015 | 50 comments
1512.
Open the Music Industry’s Black Box (nytimes.com)
50 points by stuartmemo on Aug 2, 2015 | 48 comments
1513.
Where Are Chernobyl’s Children? (medium.com)
50 points by bwang29 on Aug 27, 2015 | 45 comments
1514.
Windows 10 now wants you to pay for Solitaire (cnbc.com)
50 points by codewithcheese on Aug 1, 2015 | 40 comments
1515.
Why Does Tap Water Go Stale Overnight? (wired.com)
50 points by LukeB_UK on Aug 22, 2015 | 39 comments
1516.
The worst impacts of climate change are starting to happen faster than expected (rollingstone.com)
50 points by cryptoz on Aug 5, 2015 | 31 comments
1517.
Another toll of the drought: Land is sinking in San Joaquin Valley (latimes.com)
50 points by 11thEarlOfMar on Aug 22, 2015 | 31 comments
1518.
The Easiest Hard Problem (2002) (americanscientist.org)
50 points by te on Aug 7, 2015 | 30 comments
1519.
What things compute? (researchblogs.cs.bham.ac.uk)
50 points by theaeolist on Aug 31, 2015 | 29 comments
1520.
Blackphone 2 – Coming Soon (silentcircle.com)
50 points by mike-cardwell on Aug 17, 2015 | 21 comments
1521.
Post-quantum cryptography (en.wikipedia.org)
50 points by drallison on Aug 22, 2015 | 21 comments
1522.
A Guide to the Apple Newton (512pixels.net)
50 points by ingve on Aug 18, 2015 | 20 comments
1523.
How the UK found Japanese speakers in a hurry in WW2 (bbc.com)
50 points by samaysharma on Aug 12, 2015 | 19 comments
1524.
1491 (2002) (theatlantic.com)
50 points by primroot on Aug 5, 2015 | 18 comments
1525.
FireTcl: Tcl embedded in Firefox browser (wiki.tcl.tk)
50 points by blacksqr on Aug 19, 2015 | 18 comments
1526.
NAND Flash: Dealing with a Flawed Medium (cushychicken.github.io)
50 points by cushychicken on Aug 23, 2015 | 15 comments
1527.
Strictly Tagged Clojure (arrdem.com)
50 points by jonnybgood on Aug 5, 2015 | 13 comments
1528.
Git for Windows 2.5.0 (github.com)
50 points by chadly on Aug 18, 2015 | 13 comments
1529.
Resflash – Resilient OpenBSD images for flash memory (github.com)
50 points by zdw on Aug 13, 2015 | 11 comments
1530.
Easy parallel Python with concurrent.futures (gist.github.com)
50 points by edward on Aug 15, 2015 | 11 comments