top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-08-10

G is for Google

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2015/08/google-alphabet.html

11 years ago

2228 upvotes – 562 comments

Ask HN: I will help your startup in exchange for food and a place to stay

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10032299

11 years ago

584 upvotes – 278 comments

Show HN: Big List of Naughty Strings for testing user-input data

https://github.com/minimaxir/big-list-of-naughty-strings

11 years ago

★ 47.6k Python MIT
514 upvotes – 79 comments

Presumption of stupidity

http://www.aaronkharris.com/presumption-of-stupitidy

11 years ago

510 upvotes – 178 comments

The Hamburger Menu Doesn't Work

http://deep.design/the-hamburger-menu/

11 years ago

484 upvotes – 174 comments

CS for All

http://www.cs.hmc.edu/csforall/

11 years ago

439 upvotes – 63 comments

Windows 10 phones home when you search your start menu, even with Bing disabled

https://up1.ca/#Dpl7PlGX6DHUqQ8B9p9oAQ

11 years ago

436 upvotes – 274 comments

How yuppies hacked the hacker ethos

http://aeon.co/magazine/technology/how-yuppies-hacked-the-original-hacker-ethos/

11 years ago

291 upvotes – 213 comments

Google reveals details about its datacenters

http://highscalability.com/blog/2015/8/10/how-google-invented-an-amazing-datacenter-network-only-they.html/

11 years ago

281 upvotes – 53 comments

Coca-Cola Funds Scientists Who Shift Blame for Obesity Away from Bad Diets

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/08/09/coca-cola-funds-scientists-who-shift-blame-for-obesity-away-from-bad-diets/?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0

11 years ago

280 upvotes – 191 comments

AWS S3 Outage

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10033172

11 years ago

268 upvotes – 131 comments

60 years ago: The famous Boeing 707 prototype barrel roll over Lake Washington

http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/60-years-ago-the-famous-boeing-707-barrel-roll-over-lake-washington/

11 years ago

201 upvotes – 61 comments

Employees at Google, Yahoo, and Amazon lose nothing if they unionize

https://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2015/08/08/employees-at-google-yahoo-and-amazon-lose-nothing-if-they-unionize-heres-why/

11 years ago

180 upvotes – 145 comments

Miyazaki's Beautiful Anti-War Dreams

https://medium.com/dan-sanchez/miyazaki-s-beautiful-antiwar-dreams-44951be1be11

11 years ago

179 upvotes – 101 comments

Database versioning best practices

http://enterprisecraftsmanship.com/2015/08/10/database-versioning-best-practices/

11 years ago

171 upvotes – 70 comments

Algorithmic Trading: The Play-at-Home Version

http://www.wsj.com/articles/an-algo-and-a-dream-for-day-traders-1439160100?

11 years ago

166 upvotes – 116 comments

The Container Ship Tourism Industry

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-container-ship-tourism-industry

11 years ago

145 upvotes – 41 comments

The Unique Weapons of Ancient Japan

http://www.tofugu.com/2015/08/07/katana-rocket-launchers-unique-weapons-ancient-japan/

11 years ago

141 upvotes – 43 comments

Quantum weirdness is everywhere in life

http://aeon.co/magazine/science/quantum-biology-the-uncanny-order-of-life/

11 years ago

137 upvotes – 83 comments

Google Hangouts 4.0: now simpler, faster, more beautiful

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2015/08/google-hangouts-now-simpler-faster-more.html?m=0

11 years ago

136 upvotes – 105 comments

Kicked out of the US: 33 hours of hell

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11494827

11 years ago

135 upvotes – 87 comments

U.S.A., Land of Limitations?

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/09/opinion/sunday/nicholas-kristof-usa-land-of-limitations.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share

11 years ago

133 upvotes – 127 comments

Mathematical software wish list

http://mathoverflow.net/q/213266/7580

11 years ago

132 upvotes – 16 comments

Ignition: V8 Interpreter

https://docs.google.com/document/d/11T2CRex9hXxoJwbYqVQ32yIPMh0uouUZLdyrtmMoL44/edit?pli=1#heading=h.6jz9dj3bnr8t

11 years ago

131 upvotes – 38 comments

New design could finally help to bring fusion power closer to reality

http://phys.org/news/2015-08-fusion-power-closer-reality.html

11 years ago

127 upvotes – 49 comments

Reversing NvAPI to Programmatically Overclock Nvidia GPUs

https://1vwjbxf1wko0yhnr.wordpress.com/2015/08/10/overclocking-tools-for-nvidia-gpus-suck-i-made-my-own/

11 years ago

124 upvotes – 21 comments

Ask HN: How do you deal with getting older?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10034622

11 years ago

108 upvotes – 128 comments

Go and Rust – objects without class (2013)

https://lwn.net/Articles/548560/

11 years ago

105 upvotes – 31 comments

Lag Compensation Technique for Quake 3

http://www.ra.is/unlagged/

11 years ago

104 upvotes – 19 comments

AWS S3 Having Problems Again? (Monday 12PM Pacific)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10036601

11 years ago

99 upvotes – 58 comments

Branch Prediction and the Performance of Interpreters – Don’t Trust Folklore

https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01100647/document

11 years ago

97 upvotes – 52 comments

Gnomes per second in Vulkan and OpenGL ES

http://blog.imgtec.com/powervr/gnomes-per-second-in-vulkan-and-opengl-es

11 years ago

96 upvotes – 42 comments

Run Python Bytecode in Your Browser

https://github.com/pybee/batavia

11 years ago

★ 1.3k JavaScript
91 upvotes – 15 comments

Compilers Are Databases [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48js0H6ooBY

11 years ago

84 upvotes – 35 comments

Bohr's trip about spin

http://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2013/05/eisenbahnnet-bohrs-trip-about-spin.html

11 years ago

84 upvotes – 3 comments

When running for exercise was for weirdos

http://www.vox.com/2015/8/9/9115981/running-jogging-history

11 years ago

77 upvotes – 75 comments

Study of Ad-Blocking Software Suggests Wide Use

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/08/10/study-of-ad-blocking-software-suggests-wide-use/?ref=technology

11 years ago

77 upvotes – 135 comments

Why Dropbox is Failing

http://www.quora.com/What-is-it-like-to-be-a-Product-Manager-at-Dropbox/answers/14460156?srid=TBE&share=1

11 years ago

77 upvotes – 30 comments

Show HN: AWS S3 outage test from across the world

https://pulse.turbobytes.com/results/55c8751aecbe400bf80005f2/

11 years ago

77 upvotes – 30 comments

Building a desktop application with Electron

https://medium.com/@bojzi/building-a-desktop-application-with-electron-204203eeb658

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 16 comments

Google Shares Spike 6% After ‘Alphabet’ Restructuring

http://techcrunch.com/2015/08/10/google-shares-spike-5-after-alphabet-restucturing/

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 20 comments

A Conversation with Sam Altman

http://techcrunch.com/2015/08/09/ycombinate/

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 30 comments

Watch: Richard Feynman on why he can't tell you how magnets work

http://www.sciencealert.com/watch-richard-feynman-on-why-he-can-t-tell-you-how-magnets-work

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 73 comments

Getting Garbage Collection for Free

http://v8project.blogspot.com/2015/08/getting-garbage-collection-for-free.html

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 9 comments

Caltech announces discovery in fundamental physics

http://phys.org/news/2015-08-caltech-discovery-fundamental-physics.html

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 30 comments

War in Space May Be Closer Than Ever

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/war-in-space-may-be-closer-than-ever/

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 72 comments

Zirtual may have just abruptly shut down

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10033517

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 22 comments

Put.io API design issues

https://miki.it/blog/2015/8/10/put-io-api-design-issues/

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 8 comments

Nf: A minimal programming language for a custom x64 OS, inspired by Forth

https://bitbucket.org/qx89l4/nf/src

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 7 comments

Too Fragile to Open, World’s Oldest Multicolor Printed Book Is Digitized

http://hyperallergic.com/228207/too-fragile-to-open-worlds-oldest-multicolor-printed-book-is-digitized/

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 12 comments
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