Filament: Physically-based rendering engine https://google.github.io/filament/Filament.md.html

Learning from Terminals to Design the Future of User Interfaces https://brandur.org/interfaces

How did you get it to run on a Gameboy? http://20dollarlolita.tumblr.com/post/176285106968/the-actual-storys-so-much-cooler-than-that-i

The default OpenSSH key encryption is worse than plaintext https://latacora.singles/2018/08/03/the-default-openssh.html

Things they don’t teach you running a business by yourself https://docs.browserless.io/blog/2018/08/01/running-an-indie-business.html

Always-on Alibaba office app fuels backlash among Chinese workers https://www.businessinsider.com/r-ding-always-on-alibaba-office-app-fuels-backlash-among-chinese-workers-2018-8

Modern SAT solvers: fast, neat and underused https://codingnest.com/modern-sat-solvers-fast-neat-underused-part-1-of-n/

ThinkPad X220 MacOS High Sierra Installation http://x220.mcdonnelltech.com/

BYTE Magazine https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine

Systemisers are better at maths https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-30013-8

Show HN: Polyhedra Viewer https://polyhedra.tessera.li

Google’s Secret China Project Sparks Fury Among Workers https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-02/pichai-the-pragmatic-plows-into-china-and-google-workers-fume

Can I use a non-monospaced font in either Vim or gVim? https://vi.stackexchange.com/questions/588/can-i-use-a-non-monospaced-font-in-either-vim-or-gvim

YouTube Stars Turning Viewers Into Readers https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/31/books/booktubers-youtube.html

What Can Small Tech Companies Do About Patent Trolls? https://blogs.findlaw.com/technologist/2018/08/what-can-small-tech-companies-do-about-patent-trolls.html

The GENTLE Compiler Construction System http://gentle.compilertools.net/index.html

What does a robot accountant look like? http://timharford.com/2018/08/what-does-a-robot-accountant-look-like/

A Linux Auditd Rule Set Mapped to MITRE’s Attack Framework https://github.com/bfuzzy/auditd-attack

Indigenous community built a DIY drone to fight off illegal loggers (2016) https://qz.com/662530/a-tiny-forest-tribe-built-a-diy-drone-from-youtube-to-fight-off-illegal-loggers/

Kitten Programming Language http://kittenlang.org/

The French Language and Why We Learn It https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-useless-french-language-and-why-we-learn-it/

Coinbase Custody is exploring a range of new assets https://blog.coinbase.com/coinbase-custody-is-exploring-a-range-of-new-assets-e700496844be

Why Westerners Fear Robots and the Japanese Do Not https://www.wired.com/story/ideas-joi-ito-robot-overlords/

The Berkeley Pit https://www.topic.com/postcards-from-the-edge

John Tyndall’s blue sky apparatus http://www.rigb.org/our-history/iconic-objects/iconic-objects-list/tyndall-blue-sky

The Worm Ouroboros https://semantic-domain.blogspot.com/2018/08/the-worm-ouroboros.html

Japan still has great influence on global financial markets https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2018/08/02/japan-still-has-great-influence-on-global-financial-markets

JEP draft: Type operator expressions in the JVM http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/8204937

Fidelity Introduces Zero Expense Ratio Index Funds https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180801005635/en/Fidelity-Rewrites-Rules-Investing-Deliver-Unparalleled-Simplicity

How Numba and Cython speed up Python code https://rushter.com/blog/numba-cython-python-optimization/

The Round Houses, or Tulou’s, of Southern China (2012) http://www.beckyances.net/2012/02/the-round-houses-or-tulous-of-southern-china/

Periodic fasting starves cisplatin‐resistant cancers to death http://emboj.embopress.org/content/early/2018/06/06/embj.201899815

Show HN: A map that shows you how far you can go for a given time or distance https://oalley.net/

Firefox removes RSS support https://evertpot.com/firefox-rss/

Show HN: Shade – a quick-and-dirty glsl prototyping tool https://github.com/dancrn/shade

Google Maps is no longer a flat map https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/03/google-maps-is-no-longer-flatearth/

Should computer science researchers disclose negative social consequences? https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05791-w

Loop Recognition in C++/Java/Go/Scala (2011) [pdf] https://days2011.scala-lang.org/sites/days2011/files/ws3-1-Hundt.pdf

Progressive Neural Architecture Search https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.00559

Children learn best when engaged in the living world, not on screens https://aeon.co/essays/children-learn-best-when-engaged-in-the-living-world-not-on-screens

OPDS – A standard for digital content distribution http://opds.io

Deploying Elixir http://luk3thomas.com/notes/deploying-elixir/

AMD Creates Quad Core Zen SoC with 24 Vega CUs for Chinese Consoles https://www.anandtech.com/show/13153/amd-creates-quad-core-zen-soc-with-24-vega-cus-for-chinese-consoles

3M Knew About the Dangers of PFOA and PFOS Decades Ago, Internal Documents Show https://theintercept.com/2018/07/31/3m-pfas-minnesota-pfoa-pfos/

Some Bacteria Are Becoming ’More Tolerant’ of Hand Sanitizers, Study Finds https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2018/08/02/635017716/some-bacteria-are-becoming-more-tolerant-of-hand-sanitizers-study-finds

Spotify GDPR data export: user receives 250MB containing every interaction https://twitter.com/steipete/status/1025024813889478656

Rescale (YC W12) Is Hiring a Senior Front end Engineer https://jobs.lever.co/rescale/db57778b-268d-473d-9edf-111fb843265a

New York Becomes the City That Never Shuts Up https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/19/nyregion/new-york-becomes-the-city-that-never-shuts-up.html

Nearly Half of Americans Are Lonely https://www.advisory.com/research/care-transformation-center/care-transformation-center-blog/2018/07/loneliness-epidemic?WT.mc_id=Email%7CDailyBriefing+Headline%7CDBABBlog%7CDBA%7CDB%7C2018Aug01%7CATestDB2018Aug01%7C%7C%7C%7C&elq_cid=3850991&x_id=003C000002JooaKIAR

George P. Shultz on the Future of the International System [video] http://blog.longnow.org/02018/08/03/george-p-shultz-on-the-future-of-the-international-system/

Ugliness Is Underrated: In Defense of Ugly Paintings https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/07/31/ugliness-is-underrated-in-defense-of-ugly-paintings/

Trash piles up in US as China closes door to recycling https://phys.org/news/2018-07-trash-piles-china-door-recycling.html

Scientists present concept for the elimination of traffic jams https://techxplore.com/news/2018-08-scientists-concept-traffic.html

Starbucks drops major hint at plans to accept Bitcoin https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/03/starbucks-drops-major-hint-at-plans-to-accept-bitcoin/

HP Ink Printers Remote Code Execution https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c06097712

Show HN: HugeGraph – An open source fast and highly scalable graph database https://github.com/hugegraph/hugegraph

Machine-Generated Knowledge Bases https://blog.primer.ai/technology/2018/08/03/Quicksilver.html

How Does the Brain Represent the Objects We Touch? https://www.technologynetworks.com/neuroscience/articles/how-does-the-brain-represent-the-objects-we-touch-307051

Why Are Spaces in Science Fiction Not Wheelchair-Accessible? https://io9.gizmodo.com/staircases-in-space-why-are-places-in-science-fiction-1827966642

Apple’s $1T Milestone Reflects Rise of Powerful Megacompanies https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/02/business/apple-trillion.html

California’s Birds Are Testing New Survival Tactics on a Vast Scale https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/30/science/california-birds-climate-change.html

Compulsory Licensing of Backroom IT? http://www.overcomingbias.com/2018/07/compulsory-licensing-of-backroom-it.html

The Oldest Building in Every US State https://www.archdaily.com/898839/the-oldest-building-in-every-us-state

Goodbye Python, Hello Go https://thinkfaster.co/2018/07/goodbye-python-hello-go/

Reddit reinvents the chat room with subreddit chat https://www.wired.com/story/reddit-introduces-subreddit-chat/

One Year Without AMP https://www.alexkras.com/one-year-without-amp/

Office Hours with Michael Seibel https://blog.ycombinator.com/office-hours-with-michael-seibel/

Chrome 69 Beta: CSS tricks, and more https://blog.chromium.org/2018/08/chrome-69-beta-av1-video-decoder-css.html

Quantum Mechanics Toys that Didn’t Catch On https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-history/heroic-failures/for-some-reason-these-quantum-mechanics-toys-didnt-catch-on

Bob Beck: Adventures in OpenBSD Pledge – BSDCan 2018 (video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXO6nelFt-E

Angst Swells as Australian Population Nears 25M https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-31/angst-swells-as-australian-population-nears-25-million

Too Many Jobs Feel Meaningless Because They Are https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-08-01/too-many-jobs-feel-meaningless-because-they-are

GIMP 2.10.4 Released https://www.gimp.org/news/2018/07/04/gimp-2-10-4-released/

Bitcoin Whale’s Bad Trade Leaves Counterparties Holding the Bag https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-03/a-massive-losing-bet-on-bitcoin-futures-has-investors-buzzing

Fortnite Boycotts Google Play Store; Teaches Kids to Sideload https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/08/fortnite-on-android-may-drive-its-battle-bus-past-googles-30-cut/?comments=1

Xenko game engine 3.0 is now free and open-source https://xenko.com/blog/xenko-opensource-mit/

Doing Windows, Part 7: Third Time’s the Charm https://www.filfre.net/2018/08/doing-windows-part-7-third-times-the-charm/

DNC warns candidates: Don’t use ZTE or Huawei phones https://money.cnn.com/2018/08/03/technology/democratic-national-committee-zte-huawei/index.html

Google Is Still Planning ‘Smart City’ in Toronto Despite Major Privacy Concerns https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/xwkv9z/google-planning-smart-city-toronto-despite-privacy-concerns

Google struggles to contain uproar over China censorship plans https://theintercept.com/2018/08/03/google-search-engine-china-censorship-backlash/

Go checkout Andrew Moore’s slides on statistics http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~./awm/tutorials/list.html

DOJ and FCC request Supreme Court vacate 2016 net neutrality ruling https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/3/17649662/net-neutrality-justice-doj-fcc-supreme-court

Is This an Image? Or Is It a Gun? https://github.com/kauffj/liberator.png

New FPGA Development Boards Supported with Open Source Tools https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/alchitry/alchitry-digital-design-simplified?ref=7jcboi

An Introduction to WebAssembly with C++  https://medium.com/@cchaconsartori/introduction-to-webassembly-with-c-part-i-64bcfad7ecb4

After seven difficult years, a fine day for NASA and human spaceflight https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/08/after-seven-difficult-years-a-fine-day-for-nasa-and-human-spaceflight/

BBB gives fake Hamas “business” an a rating, charges for higher ratings https://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/business-bureau-best-ratings-money-buy/story?id=12123843

A surprising campus free speech problem: left-wingers fired for their opinions https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/8/3/17644180/political-correctness-free-speech-liberal-data-georgetown

The life of the doctor called to perform at the Hamilton-Burr duel https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/seeing-himself

Google reportedly in talks to bring its Cloud service to China https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/3/17649626/google-cloud-china-search-news-drive-docs

The Cost of JavaScript in 2018 https://medium.com/@addyosmani/the-cost-of-javascript-in-2018-7d8950fbb5d4

19 Machine Translation engines compared for 48 language pairs https://www.slideshare.net/KonstantinSavenkov/state-of-the-machine-translation-by-intento-july-2018

Julian Assange’s Chances of Extradition https://www.lawfareblog.com/if-assange-leaves-ecuadorian-embassy-what-next

Will Tech Companies Ever Take Ethics Seriously? https://medium.com/s/story/will-tech-companies-ever-take-ethics-seriously-35d991f9f839

Faced with Scala 2 and Scala 3, a long time contributor makes a choice https://medium.com/@fommil/scala-3-considered-as-a-new-programming-language-a335ff67e075

In search of my grandfather’s gold http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20180802-in-search-of-my-grandfathers-gold

The 2018 Top Programming Languages https://spectrum.ieee.org/at-work/innovation/the-2018-top-programming-languages

Reflection on one-year usage of OpenBSD https://nanxiao.me/en/reflection-on-one-year-usage-of-openbsd/

Peloton raises $550M at a valuation of $4B https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/03/peloton-raises-550m-at-a-valuation-of-4-billion/

Cookie policy notifications have ruined user experience on the web https://www.reddit.com/r/web_design/comments/93o0eg/cookie_policy_notifications_have_ruined_user/

Microsoft Widens Lead Over Amazon in Cloud Revenue https://www.forbes.com/sites/bobevans1/2018/08/03/1-microsoft-widens-lead-over-2-amazon-in-cloud-revenue-6-9-billion-to-6-1-billion/#5762d8f53fc0

Jeff Bezos’s $150B Fortune Is a Policy Failure https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2018/08/the-problem-with-bezos-billions/566552?single_page=true

Show HN: A mobile HTML editor that sucks less than all the others https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=56&v=InI_PEb9ORQ

Amazon pays £1.7m corporation tax in the UK https://www.bbc.com/news/business-45053528

SQL Tip: JSONB_AGG in PostgreSQL for simple one-to-many joins https://medium.com/@geekuillaume/sql-tip-jsonb-agg-in-postgresql-for-simple-one-to-many-joins-bde8caa30c46

Life lessons from differential equations (2015) https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2015/07/23/life-lessons-from-differential-equations/

Denialism: what drives people to reject the truth https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/aug/03/denialism-what-drives-people-to-reject-the-truth

Commit Often, Perfect Later, Publish Once: Git Best Practices https://sethrobertson.github.io/GitBestPractices/

A massive new study confirms a national energy grid would pay for itself https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2018/8/3/17638246/national-energy-grid-renewables-transmission

C# beats Java in 9 out of 10 benchmarks (benchmarks game) https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/faster/csharp.html

Birds Learn Safety from Other Kinds of Birds https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/birds-learn-safety-from-other-kinds-of-birds/

Epic CEO labels Google Play 30% revenue share “disproportionate” https://www.pocketgamer.biz/news/68713/epic-tim-sweeney-interview-fortnite-bypasses-google-play/

What It Takes to Be a Trial Lawyer If You’re Not a Man https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/09/female-lawyers-sexism-courtroom/565778/?single_page=true

3M Knew About the Dangers of PFOA and PFOS Decades Ago https://theintercept.com/2018/07/31/3m-pfas-minnesota-pfoa-pfos/

South Korea’s spy cam porn epidemic https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-45040968

ICE Announces Bakkt, a Global Platform and Ecosystem for Digital Assets http://fortune.com/longform/nyse-owner-bitcoin-exchange-startup/

Confirmed: Fortnite on Android will drive its bus past Google’s 30% cut https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/08/fortnite-on-android-may-drive-its-battle-bus-past-googles-30-cut/

A Japanese medical university lowered women’s test scores https://qz.com/1346588/tokyo-medical-university-lowered-womens-test-scores-because-it-was-a-necessary-evil/

React’s absurd growth rate https://www.reddit.com/r/reactjs/comments/93y88o/reacts_absurd_growth_rate/

Bio-engineered lungs are the first successful organs made in the lab https://www.newscientist.com/article/2175655-bio-engineered-lungs-are-the-first-successful-organs-made-in-the-lab/

Launch checkout page in 30s with 0% transaction fees. Announcing PaySwift https://www.indiehackers.com/forum/launch-a-checkout-page-in-30-seconds-with-0-transaction-fees-excited-to-announce-payswift-cde3e43c9e

Introducing Square Reader SDK https://medium.com/square-corner-blog/introducing-square-reader-sdk-939a9ec2d197

New York Times stands by new tech writer Sarah Jeong after racist tweets surface http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2018/08/02/new-york-times-stands-by-new-tech-writer-sarah-jeong-after-racist-tweets-surface.html

Nuitka: A Python compiler http://nuitka.net/

Apple Is Worth $1Tn. Two Decades Ago, It Was Almost Bankrupt https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/02/technology/apple-stock-1-trillion-market-cap.html

Amazon now pays the lowest taxes ever https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/amazon-now-pay-even-less-13023482

What Happened When I Tried Talking to Twitter Abusers http://www.everywhereist.com/what-happened-when-i-tried-talking-to-twitter-abusers/

Google maps is now a sphere Https://maps.google.com/maps?force=webgl