top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-08-06

From a million miles away, NASA camera shows moon crossing face of Earth

http://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/from-a-million-miles-away-nasa-camera-shows-moon-crossing-face-of-earth/

11 years ago

437 upvotes – 153 comments

Windows Bridge for iOS

https://github.com/Microsoft/WinObjC

11 years ago

★ 6.2k C MIT
417 upvotes – 142 comments

Tesla unveils new car-charging robo-snake

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2015/08/06/tesla-unveils-weird-new-car-charging-robo-snake/

11 years ago

401 upvotes – 197 comments

Privacy Badger – Block spying ads and invisible trackers

https://www.eff.org/pb

11 years ago

322 upvotes – 109 comments

Insufficient Sleep Is a Public Health Epidemic

http://www.cdc.gov/features/dssleep/

11 years ago

302 upvotes – 223 comments

X86 rootkit

https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/sinkhole

11 years ago

★ 855 Assembly BSD-3-Clause
256 upvotes – 47 comments

Tinder and the Dawn of the “Dating Apocalypse”

http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2015/08/tinder-hook-up-culture-end-of-dating

11 years ago

182 upvotes – 207 comments

MIT claims to have found a “language universal” that ties all languages together

http://arstechnica.co.uk/science/2015/08/mit-claims-to-have-found-a-language-universal-that-ties-all-languages-together/

11 years ago

181 upvotes – 94 comments

A curated list of data science blogs

https://github.com/rushter/data-science-blogs

11 years ago

★ 6.3k Python
176 upvotes – 26 comments

Prove Raft Correct

https://github.com/uwplse/verdi/pull/16

11 years ago

★ 622 Rocq Prover BSD-2-Clause
173 upvotes – 27 comments

EFF Guide to Street Level Surveillance

https://www.eff.org/sls

11 years ago

166 upvotes – 26 comments

Fuzzing a DNS parser written in Go

https://blog.cloudflare.com/dns-parser-meet-go-fuzzer/

11 years ago

165 upvotes – 39 comments

New Trans-Pacific Partnership Leak Means ‘Significant Overhaul’ for Canadian Law

http://motherboard.vice.com/en_ca/read/new-trans-pacific-partnership-leak-means-significant-overhaul-for-canadian-law

11 years ago

160 upvotes – 94 comments

Eating Spicy Food Linked to a Longer Life

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/08/04/spicy-food-linked-to-lower-risk-of-death/

11 years ago

159 upvotes – 119 comments

The gimp.org domain has expired

http://www.gimp.org/

11 years ago

156 upvotes – 92 comments

The Humble Programmer

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?TheHumbleProgrammer

11 years ago

131 upvotes – 64 comments

How experts stay safe at the Black Hat security conference

http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2015/08/03/black-hat-defcon-computer-security/31016809/

11 years ago

128 upvotes – 76 comments

Freight Startups Attract Silicon Valley’s Attention

http://www.wsj.com/articles/freight-startups-attract-silicon-valleys-attention-1438875678

11 years ago

127 upvotes – 51 comments

Building Resilient Services with Go

http://blog.fogcreek.com/building-resilient-services-with-go-tech-talk/

11 years ago

110 upvotes – 19 comments

Standard Treasury Acquired by Silicon Valley Bank

http://blog.zactownsend.com/standard-treasury-joins-silicon-valley-bank

11 years ago

106 upvotes – 31 comments

Intel Skylake Review

http://anandtech.com/show/9483/intel-skylake-review-6700k-6600k-ddr4-ddr3-ipc-6th-generation

11 years ago

102 upvotes – 87 comments

Patching Rails Performance

http://engineering.heroku.com/blogs/2015-08-06-patching-rails-performance/

11 years ago

102 upvotes – 26 comments

National Raisin Reserve

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Raisin_Reserve

11 years ago

100 upvotes – 40 comments

Leaked Uber financials from 2012 to 2014

http://recode.net/2015/08/05/yes-uber-lost-a-lot-of-money-and-it-will-lose-more/

11 years ago

98 upvotes – 101 comments

Why Red Means Red in Almost Every Language

http://nautil.us/issue/26/color/why-red-means-red-in-almost-every-language-rd

11 years ago

97 upvotes – 66 comments

In search of the perfect URL validation regex

https://mathiasbynens.be/demo/url-regex

11 years ago

97 upvotes – 77 comments

Why debugging is all about understanding

http://futurice.com/blog/why-debugging-is-all-about-understanding

11 years ago

96 upvotes – 79 comments

Pulsar: Concurrent framework for Python

http://quantmind.github.io/pulsar/

11 years ago

95 upvotes – 29 comments

Improving Equity Compensation at Coinbase

https://medium.com/@barmstrong/improving-equity-compensation-at-coinbase-8749979409c3

11 years ago

93 upvotes – 41 comments

Ask HN: What are the tax implications of exercising startup options?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10020063

11 years ago

93 upvotes – 64 comments

“I have already used the name for my programming language” (2009)

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/9

11 years ago

★ 133.6k Go BSD-3-Clause
91 upvotes – 74 comments

A Submerged Monolith Near Sicily: Evidence for Mesolithic Human Activity

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352409X15300535

11 years ago

91 upvotes – 43 comments

A Beginner’s Guide to Restricted Boltzmann Machines

http://deeplearning4j.org/restrictedboltzmannmachine.html

11 years ago

90 upvotes – 11 comments

To combat falling ratings, TV networks are increasing ads up to 10%

http://www.businessinsider.com/bernstein-report-confirms-tv-networks-are-increasing-ad-stuffing-2015-8

11 years ago

87 upvotes – 120 comments

Artificial Intelligence Is Already Weirdly Inhuman

http://nautil.us/issue/27/dark-matter/artificial-intelligence-is-already-weirdly-inhuman

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 77 comments

OCaml Compiler Hacking: how to add a primitive

http://cedeela.fr/ocaml-compiler-hacking-how-to-add-a-primitive.html

11 years ago

76 upvotes – 30 comments

Crystal-Lang – Beauty of Ruby, Faster Than Go

http://crystal-lang.org/?utm=source-temp

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 31 comments

The Brain Is Particularly Vulnerable to Trauma at Two Distinct Ages

http://qz.com/470751/your-brain-is-particularly-vulnerable-to-trauma-at-two-distinct-ages/

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 14 comments

An experiment in porting the Android init system to GNU/Linux

http://blog.darknedgy.net/technology/2015/08/05/0-androidinit/

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 10 comments

NSA tried Stuxnet cyber-attack on North Korea five years ago but failed

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/29/us-stuxnet-cyber-attack-north-korea-failure

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 28 comments

Reddit: A Nine-Year Case Study in Absentee Management

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2015-08-06/reddit-a-nine-year-case-study-in-absentee-management

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 73 comments

Taking the 'D' Out of CRUD with Soft Updates

http://scottsmerchek.com/2015/08/04/taking-the-d-out-of-crud-with-soft-updates

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 58 comments

AWS Device Farm adds support for iOS

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2015/08/aws-device-farm-adds-support-for-ios-test-your-ios-android-and-fire-os-apps-against-real-devices-in-the-aws-cloud/

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 19 comments

Ask HN: Which JavaScript frameworks do you use?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10016028

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 67 comments

Printer's key

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printer%27s_key

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 15 comments

Commodities Are Crashing Like It's 2008 All Over Again

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-08-05/commodities-meltdown-hits-2008-levels-of-bearishness

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 64 comments

Warning after security experts hack Tesla car

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-33802344

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 65 comments

Go 1.5 Release Candidate 1 is released

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/golang-announce/X0KwHwE1vp4

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 17 comments

Google plans monthly security updates for Nexus phones

https://threatpost.com/google-plans-monthly-security-updates-for-nexus-phones/114148

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 68 comments

A superconducting shield for astronauts

http://home.web.cern.ch/about/updates/2015/08/superconducting-shield-astronauts

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 27 comments

The Case for Controlled Side Effects

http://two-wrongs.com/the-case-for-controlled-side-effects

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 58 comments

Show HN: Free Company Autocomplete API

http://blog.clearbit.com/company-autocomplete-api

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 25 comments

How the Hiroshima bombing is taught around the world

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/08/06/how-the-hiroshima-bombing-is-taught-around-the-world/

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 54 comments

Show HN: Watch strangers talk on Omegle with a MitM attack

https://github.com/olegberman/mitm-omegle

11 years ago

★ 144 CoffeeScript
48 upvotes – 19 comments

The Surprising History of Copyright and the Promise of a Post-Copyright World

http://questioncopyright.org/promise

11 years ago

47 upvotes – 98 comments

The Chinese Lingerie Venders of Egypt

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/08/10/learning-to-speak-lingerie

11 years ago

46 upvotes – 25 comments

Show HN: gockerize - easily build and package Go binaries into Docker

https://www.aerofs.com/blog/introducing-gockerize/

11 years ago

46 upvotes – 2 comments

How an Australian team won the robot soccer world championships

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/how-an-australian-team-won-the-robot-soccer-world-championships-20150806-gitl5s.html

11 years ago

44 upvotes – 8 comments

ProseMirror document model

http://prosemirror.net/demos.html

11 years ago

44 upvotes – 5 comments

Ask HN: Do you work in a company that will fire you for average performance?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10016665

11 years ago

44 upvotes – 73 comments

For DNSSEC

http://blog.easydns.org/2015/08/06/for-dnssec/

11 years ago

43 upvotes – 77 comments

Retention Is the Key

http://jacquesmattheij.com/retention-is-the-key

11 years ago

41 upvotes – 36 comments

C2 Lang design (2014) [pdf]

http://c2lang.org/docs/c2lang_design.pdf

11 years ago

41 upvotes – 21 comments
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