top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-07-08

Facebook’s Piracy Problem

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2015/07/freebooting_stolen_youtube_videos_going_viral_on_facebook.html

11 years ago

439 upvotes – 236 comments

DigitalOcean Raises $83M in Series B Funding

https://www.digitalocean.com/company/blog/series-b-funding-writing-a-new-chapter-in-the-digitalocean-story/

11 years ago

328 upvotes – 185 comments

NYSE/NYSE MKT has temporarily suspended trading in all symbols

https://www.nyse.com/market-status/history

11 years ago

326 upvotes – 136 comments

Why does Gmail hate my domain?

https://bitbin.de/blog/2015/07/gmail-hate/

11 years ago

310 upvotes – 142 comments

Why We Shut Down Reddit’s ‘Ask Me Anything’ Forum

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/08/opinion/why-we-shut-down-reddits-ask-me-anything-forum.html

11 years ago

302 upvotes – 305 comments

Humans can sense the polarization of light with the naked eye

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2015/07/01/sixth-sense/#.VZRESKbTHKM

11 years ago

282 upvotes – 49 comments

Mapping the U.S. By Property Value Instead of Land Area

http://www.citylab.com/housing/2015/07/mapping-the-us-by-property-value-instead-of-land-area/397841/

11 years ago

272 upvotes – 164 comments

Microsoft Now OpenBSD Foundation Gold Contributor

http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20150708134520

11 years ago

267 upvotes – 117 comments

React on ES6+

http://babeljs.io/blog/2015/06/07/react-on-es6-plus/

11 years ago

260 upvotes – 93 comments

Microsoft to Cut Jobs, Take $7.6B Nokia Writedown

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-07-08/microsoft-to-cut-7-800-jobs-as-it-restructures-phone-business

11 years ago

201 upvotes – 232 comments

Running a Dark Web pedophile honeypot

http://geekslop.com/2015/catching-pedophiles-running-secret-dark-web-tor-honeypot

11 years ago

185 upvotes – 172 comments

China Trade Halts Locks Up $2.2 Trillion of Shares, Freezing Market

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-07-08/china-trade-halts-hit-2-2-trillion-as-state-intervention-fails

11 years ago

180 upvotes – 128 comments

Go GC: Solving the Latency Problem in Go 1.5

https://sourcegraph.com/blog/live/gophercon2015/123574706480

11 years ago

179 upvotes – 128 comments

Time Warner Cable owes $229K to woman it would not stop calling

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/07/07/us-twc-robocalls-idUSKCN0PH2H920150707

11 years ago

158 upvotes – 96 comments

Why Can’t We Fall Asleep?

http://www.newyorker.com/science/maria-konnikova/why-cant-we-fall-asleep

11 years ago

152 upvotes – 110 comments

Homemade Memristor (2011)

http://sparkbangbuzz.com/memristor/memristor.htm

11 years ago

152 upvotes – 23 comments

Russ Cox: Go, Open Source, Community

http://blog.golang.org/open-source

11 years ago

149 upvotes – 70 comments

Understanding Neural Networks Through Deep Visualization

http://yosinski.com/deepvis

11 years ago

139 upvotes – 27 comments

Go 1.5 Beta

http://golang.org/dl/

11 years ago

137 upvotes – 80 comments

App Engine for Go Now in General Availability

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/google-appengine-go/as9wUqT77YU/discussion

11 years ago

134 upvotes – 85 comments

When ‘int’ is the new ‘short’

http://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2015/07/when-int-is-new-short.html

11 years ago

128 upvotes – 99 comments

Datomic Best Practices

http://docs.datomic.com/best-practices.html

11 years ago

120 upvotes – 31 comments

Live-Coding Blender with Hy

http://mccormick.cx/news/entries/live-coding-blender-with-hy

11 years ago

116 upvotes – 30 comments

Ruby Is Defined by Terrible Tools

http://devblog.avdi.org/2015/07/08/ruby-is-defined-by-terrible-tools/

11 years ago

115 upvotes – 100 comments

CRISPR Gene Editing

http://andrew.gibiansky.com/blog/genetics/crispr/

11 years ago

108 upvotes – 43 comments

OpenBSD on Digital Ocean

http://www.tubsta.com/2015/04/openbsd-on-digital-ocean/

11 years ago

105 upvotes – 22 comments

Tilt Has Raised Around $30M at a $400M Valuation

http://techcrunch.com/2015/07/08/tilt-raised-30m-at-a-400m-valuation-in-its-most-recent-funding-round/

11 years ago

101 upvotes – 20 comments

The state of Web Components

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2015/06/the-state-of-web-components/

11 years ago

98 upvotes – 20 comments

RPerl – optimizing compiler for Perl 5

https://github.com/wbraswell/rperl

11 years ago

★ 277 Perl
93 upvotes – 24 comments

United Airlines System-Wide Computer Problem

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/united-airlines-mileageplus/1693331-shares-down.html

11 years ago

92 upvotes – 116 comments

The Long-Term Future of Artificial Intelligence [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYQrNfSmQ0M&feature=

11 years ago

89 upvotes – 36 comments

Debugging Lisp Part 1: Recompilation

http://malisper.me/2015/07/07/debugging-lisp-part-1-recompilation/

11 years ago

88 upvotes – 8 comments

Some Functional Programmers Are Arrogant

http://www.devjoy.com/2015/07/some-functional-programmers-are-arrogant/

11 years ago

88 upvotes – 212 comments

Show HN: Potbox – A premium cannabis subscription club

https://www.potbox.com/?ref=hn

11 years ago

87 upvotes – 53 comments

Choosing a Linux Tracer

http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2015-07-08/choosing-a-linux-tracer.html

11 years ago

87 upvotes – 2 comments

Norse Attack Map

http://map.norsecorp.com/

11 years ago

80 upvotes – 46 comments

The Work We Do While We Sleep

http://www.newyorker.com/science/maria-konnikova/why-we-sleep

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 29 comments

The cat's miaow

http://www.economist.com/news/obituary/21656623-tama-stationmaster-kishi-station-and-vice-president-wakayama-electric-railway-died

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 33 comments

China Tries Japan's Approach to a Stock Bubble

http://newsletters.briefs.bloomberg.com/document/25z1bq1xnb2zkmlet8/view-china-tries-japans-approach

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 59 comments

Skit: A pure JavaScript front end for building better web clients

http://skitjs.com/

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 17 comments

Atlas General Availability

https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/atlas-general-availability.html

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 36 comments

Rare system of five stars discovered

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-33428506

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 35 comments

How technology could kill the art of lying

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2015/07/08/how-technology-could-kill-the-art-of-lying/

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 48 comments

Céu: Structured Synchronous Reactive Programming

http://www.ceu-lang.org/

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 23 comments

Dash: A company card for every employee

http://venturebeat.com/2015/07/08/karmic-labs-gets-5m-to-give-every-employee-a-company-card/

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 49 comments

Show HN: Rubik's Cube

http://slides.com/tobipch/how-to-solve-the-rubiks-cube-1#/

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 32 comments

Beware of “async void” in C#

http://theburningmonk.com/2012/10/c-beware-of-async-void-in-your-code/

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 22 comments

An Apple Push Notifications Debugging Story

https://thelig.ht/apns3/

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 5 comments

Why Information Grows

http://paulromer.net/why-information-grows/

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 11 comments

Tetris blocks traumatic flashbacks even after the memory is fixed

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn27846-tetris-blocks-traumatic-flashbacks-even-after-the-memory-is-fixed.html#.VZxsVJN3lsM

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 11 comments

I Spent Spring Break Teaching Girls to Code

https://medium.com/bright/amazing-story-ef14cf2ddf84

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 93 comments

Lebanon’s forgotten space programme (2013)

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-24735423

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 15 comments

Oracle nabs Xamarin as a cloud partner

http://uk.businessinsider.com/oracle-nabs-xamarin-as-a-cloud-partner-2015-7?r=US

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 26 comments

Three Days on the Startup Bus

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/07/the-secret-lives-of-hackathon-junkies/397895/?single_page=true

11 years ago

49 upvotes – 10 comments

A report from PGCon 2015

http://lwn.net/Articles/648973/

11 years ago

46 upvotes – 3 comments

Transcend (YC S15) Launches an Extra-Efficient LED Light for Indoor Farmers

http://techcrunch.com/2015/07/08/yc-backed-transcend-launches-an-extra-efficient-led-light-for-indoor-farmers/

11 years ago

45 upvotes – 60 comments

Algebraic Data Types in JavaScript

http://w3future.com/weblog/stories/2008/06/16/adtinjs.xml

11 years ago

45 upvotes – 5 comments
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