top 20 hacker news stories for 2015-07-29

Newegg vs. Patent Trolls: When We Win, You Win

http://blog.newegg.com/newegg-vs-patent-trolls-when-we-win-you-win

11 years ago

704 upvotes – 151 comments

GitHub Raises $250M at $2B Valuation

http://www.wsj.com/article_email/github-raises-250-million-at-2-billion-valuation-1438206722-lMyQjAxMTA1NjI1OTEyNzk0Wj

11 years ago

569 upvotes – 389 comments

GitHub threatens to shut down a repository for using the word 'retard'

https://github.com/nixxquality/WebMConverter/commit/c1ac0baac06fa7175677a4a1bf65860a84708d67

11 years ago

★ 156 C# MIT
542 upvotes – 801 comments

How Google Translate squeezes deep learning onto a phone

http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2015/07/how-google-translate-squeezes-deep.html

11 years ago

403 upvotes – 92 comments

Microsoft’s new small print – how your personal data is abused

https://edri.org/microsofts-new-small-print-how-your-personal-data-abused/

11 years ago

348 upvotes – 181 comments

Windows 10 Free Upgrade Available in 190 Countries Today

http://blogs.windows.com/bloggingwindows/2015/07/28/windows-10-free-upgrade-available-in-190-countries-today/

11 years ago

308 upvotes – 384 comments

Take-home interviews

http://blog.triplebyte.com/take-home-interviews

11 years ago

271 upvotes – 285 comments

SSL tools we wish we'd known about earlier

https://certsimple.com/blog/new-ssl-tools

11 years ago

217 upvotes – 57 comments

Nóirín Plunkett has died

https://www.apache.org/memorials/noirin.html

11 years ago

211 upvotes – 48 comments

First Round 10 Year Project

http://10years.firstround.com

11 years ago

202 upvotes – 77 comments

Amazon details its plan for how drones can fly safely over U.S. skies

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2015/07/28/amazon-details-its-plan-for-how-drones-can-fly-safely-over-u-s-skies/?tid=HP_national?tid=HP_national

11 years ago

189 upvotes – 234 comments

Fragments of a wing washed up on Reunion could be wreckage from MH370

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/malaysia/11771229/MH370-wreckage-found-on-Reunion-matches-Malaysia-Airlines-flight.html

11 years ago

182 upvotes – 60 comments

Blockspring: Do anything in a spreadsheet

https://a16z.com/2015/07/29/blockspring/

11 years ago

170 upvotes – 78 comments

How to smuggle $1K into North Korea

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/07/north-korea-defector-smuggling-information-120639.html

11 years ago

167 upvotes – 81 comments

Secret TPP Talks Continue as the Deal Grows More Controversial

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/07/secret-tpp-talks-continue-hawaii-deal-grows-more-controversial

11 years ago

166 upvotes – 61 comments

Show HN: File.io – Ephemeral file sharing

https://www.file.io/

11 years ago

155 upvotes – 89 comments

Show HN: Walk around unusual geometries

http://parametricity.com/pages/diffgeo/Main.html

11 years ago

149 upvotes – 34 comments

Facebook Ordered by Hamburg Regulator to Allow Pseudonyms

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-07-28/facebook-ordered-by-hamburg-regulator-to-allow-pseudonyms

11 years ago

147 upvotes – 130 comments

Flux Architecture Visual Cheatsheet

http://danmaz74.me/2015/07/27/flux-architecture-visual-cheatsheet/

11 years ago

137 upvotes – 43 comments

RubySpec is Reborn

http://eregon.github.io/rubyspec/2015/07/29/rubyspec-is-reborn.html

11 years ago

135 upvotes – 19 comments
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