top 50% 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

Releasing jsfunfuzz and DOMFuzz

https://www.squarefree.com/2015/07/28/releasing-jsfunfuzz-and-domfuzz/

11 years ago

118 upvotes – 14 comments

96 MacBook Pro’s in one server rack

https://simbimbo.wordpress.com/2015/07/24/well-im-at-it-again-this-time-with-macbook-pros/

11 years ago

118 upvotes – 154 comments

Y Combinator Fellowship 2015 Application Videos

http://www.topchart.io/lists/ycombinator-fellowship-2015-founder-videos?newlink

11 years ago

114 upvotes – 55 comments

MIRI's Approach – Machine Intelligence Research Institute

https://intelligence.org/2015/07/27/miris-approach/

11 years ago

113 upvotes – 75 comments

Why Open Offices?

http://acesounderglass.com/2015/07/27/why-open-offices-synchronicity/

11 years ago

107 upvotes – 162 comments

How Many Times Has Your Personal Information Been Exposed to Hackers?

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/07/29/technology/personaltech/what-parts-of-your-information-have-been-exposed-to-hackers-quiz.html

11 years ago

106 upvotes – 33 comments

Sleeping Through a Revolution

https://medium.com/aspen-ideas/sleeping-through-a-revolution-8c4b147463e5

11 years ago

102 upvotes – 85 comments

Modals in React

http://reactjsnews.com/modals-in-react/

11 years ago

93 upvotes – 34 comments

I run a university. I’m also an Uber driver

https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/07/29/i-run-a-university-im-also-an-uber-driver/

11 years ago

93 upvotes – 33 comments

Focusing on Developer Happiness with Humane Development

http://blog.fogcreek.com/focusing-on-developer-happiness-with-humane-development-interview-with-ernie-miller/

11 years ago

93 upvotes – 27 comments

Open-Source Data Explorer by Keen IO

https://github.com/keen/explorer

11 years ago

★ 746 TypeScript MIT
89 upvotes – 3 comments

The Factory of Ideas: Working at Bell Labs [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFK6RG47bww

11 years ago

88 upvotes – 23 comments

Why Can't Streaming Services Get Classical Music Right?

http://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2015/06/04/411963624/why-cant-streaming-services-get-classical-music-right

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 82 comments

Twilio announces $130M series E round

https://www.twilio.com/blog/2015/07/announcing-twilio-series-e-funding.html

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 33 comments

Shoring up Tor

http://newsoffice.mit.edu/2015/tor-vulnerability-0729

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 12 comments

Google Straps Aclima Sensors to Street View Cars to Map Air Pollution

http://techcrunch.com/2015/07/28/software-eats-smog/?ncid=rss

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 24 comments

Mobile Safari's Performance Is Not the Problem

http://tjvantoll.com/2015/07/27/mobile-safari-performance/

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 61 comments

On how Jet.com chose F#

http://techgroup.jet.com/blog/2015/03-22-on-how-jet-chose/

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 49 comments

Visualizing GoogLeNet Classes

http://auduno.com/post/125362849838/visualizing-googlenet-classes

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 9 comments

Show HN: Graphql-java – A complete Java implementation of the GraphQL spec

https://github.com/andimarek/graphql-java

11 years ago

Java MIT
65 upvotes – 3 comments

An annotation of the Rust standard library

https://github.com/brson/annotated-std-rs

11 years ago

★ 71
65 upvotes – 6 comments

A Well Known but Forgotten Trick: Object Pooling

http://highscalability.com/blog/2015/7/29/a-well-known-but-forgotten-trick-object-pooling.html

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 55 comments

QUIC experiments [pdf]

https://www.ietf.org/proceedings/93/slides/slides-93-hopsrg-6.pdf

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 19 comments

The Supreme Court's Crucial Mistake About Sex Crime Statistics

https://casetext.com/posts/the-supreme-courts-crucial-mistake-about-sex-crime-statistics

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 28 comments

Show HN: Play20Back – MTV as It Looked 20 Years Ago

http://www.play20back.com/?hn123

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 37 comments

Transactions in Redis

http://www.dr-josiah.com/2015/07/transactions-in-redis.html

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 7 comments

Radius announces $50M round of funding

http://venturebeat.com/2015/07/29/predictive-marketer-radius-lands-50m-so-companies-can-optimize-for-the-world-they-want/

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 8 comments

Eating Our Own Dog Food: Behind the Scenes at Cloud9

https://c9.io/blog/always-eat-your-own-dogfood/

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 29 comments

Scheme in a Grid (2000)

http://siag.nu/siag/?version=new

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 6 comments

DHI Group Plans to Sell Slashdot and SourceForge

http://www.nasdaq.com/article/dhi-group-q2-results-beats-view-plans-to-sell-slashdot-media--quick-facts-20150728-00501

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 51 comments

The Old, Innovative Nokia Is Back

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-07-29/nokia-s-virtual-reality-ambitions-could-restore-its-tech-luster

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 38 comments

PgTAP: Unit Testing for PostgreSQL

http://pgtap.org/

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 21 comments

Pliny the Elder on Dolphins (77 CE)

http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/sea/mans-best-friend

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 23 comments

The Itanium processor, part 3: The Windows calling convention

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2015/07/29/10631311.aspx

11 years ago

49 upvotes – 11 comments

Three quick tips from two years with Celery

https://library.launchkit.io/three-quick-tips-from-two-years-with-celery-c05ff9d7f9eb

11 years ago

47 upvotes – 19 comments

Foxpass (YC S15) helps companies manage employee access to internal systems

http://venturebeat.com/2015/07/29/y-combinator-backed-foxpass-helps-small-companies-manage-employee-access-to-internal-systems/

11 years ago

47 upvotes – 12 comments
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