top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-08-14

Brains Sweep Themselves Clean of Toxins During Sleep (2013)

http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2013/10/18/236211811/brains-sweep-themselves-clean-of-toxins-during-sleep

11 years ago

445 upvotes – 184 comments

Edward Snowden at IETF 93

https://gist.github.com/mnot/382aca0b23b6bf082116

11 years ago

442 upvotes – 139 comments

Rust in 2016

http://blog.rust-lang.org/2015/08/14/Next-year.html

11 years ago

371 upvotes – 149 comments

Blinking Commits

http://blog.annharter.com/2015/08/12/blinking-commits.html

11 years ago

340 upvotes – 97 comments

The US digital service

http://blog.samaltman.com/the-us-digital-service

11 years ago

326 upvotes – 292 comments

VW Has Spent Two Years Trying to Hide a Big Security Flaw

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-08-14/vw-has-spent-two-years-trying-to-hide-a-big-security-flaw

11 years ago

309 upvotes – 221 comments

Stop Looking for a Cofounder

http://dontscale.com/stop-looking-for-a-cofounder/

11 years ago

280 upvotes – 152 comments

DEFCON 23 Badge Challenge

http://potatohatsecurity.tumblr.com/post/126411303994/defcon-23-badge-challenge

11 years ago

271 upvotes – 44 comments

OpenBSD removes support for non-UTF8 locales

http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=143956261214725&w=2

11 years ago

236 upvotes – 180 comments

A Simple Fix for Drunken Driving: Modest, Immediate Penalties

http://www.wsj.com/articles/a-simple-fix-for-drunken-driving-1439564251

11 years ago

229 upvotes – 249 comments

Apes may be closer to speaking than many scientists think

http://news.wisc.edu/23941

11 years ago

196 upvotes – 103 comments

Russian antivirus firm faked malware to harm rivals, say ex-employees

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/08/14/us-kaspersky-rivals-idUSKCN0QJ1CR20150814

11 years ago

194 upvotes – 98 comments

CS224d: Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing

http://cs224d.stanford.edu/syllabus.html

11 years ago

192 upvotes – 30 comments

Beginner's Guide to Blockchain Technology

http://blockstrap.com/en/a-complete-beginners-guide-to-blockchain-technology/

11 years ago

185 upvotes – 25 comments

Oxford University Machine Learning Course

https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/nando.defreitas/machinelearning

11 years ago

185 upvotes – 18 comments

I Will Kill You [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FdHq3WfJgs

11 years ago

159 upvotes – 16 comments

How California Is Winning the Drought

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/16/opinion/sunday/how-california-is-winning-the-drought.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=opinion-c-col-right-region&region=opinion-c-col-right-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-right-region&_r=0

11 years ago

148 upvotes – 191 comments

The Desk of Haruki Murakami

http://www.harukimurakami.com/author

11 years ago

138 upvotes – 72 comments

Show HN: Myra – AI based personal assistant you can text

http://www.getmyra.co

11 years ago

137 upvotes – 88 comments

Show HN: Algebra.js – Build, display, and solve algebraic equations

http://algebra.js.org/

11 years ago

132 upvotes – 30 comments

First Time User Experiences

http://firsttimeux.tumblr.com/

11 years ago

116 upvotes – 12 comments

Why the Greenwich meridian moved

http://leapsecond.com/pages/meridian/

11 years ago

113 upvotes – 30 comments

Documents confirm Apple is building self-driving car

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/aug/14/apple-self-driving-car-project-titan-sooner-than-expected

11 years ago

112 upvotes – 70 comments

Runit – a Unix init scheme with service supervision

http://smarden.org/runit/

11 years ago

110 upvotes – 65 comments

GSMem: Data Exfiltration from Air-Gapped Computers Over GSM Frequencies [pdf]

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/usenixsecurity15/sec15-paper-guri-update.pdf

11 years ago

110 upvotes – 46 comments

Microsoft quietly rewrites its activation rules for Windows 10

http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-quietly-rewrites-its-activation-rules-for-windows-10/

11 years ago

108 upvotes – 96 comments

Modified yeast produce opiates from sugar

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/349/6249/677.full

11 years ago

102 upvotes – 47 comments

How RED Cameras Changed the Game

https://www.nyfa.edu/student-resources/how-red-cameras-changed-the-game/

11 years ago

91 upvotes – 63 comments

Pros and Cons of using immutability with React.js

http://reactkungfu.com/2015/08/pros-and-cons-of-using-immutability-with-react-js/

11 years ago

90 upvotes – 29 comments

Netflix to Shut Down Last Datacenter

http://blogs.wsj.com/cio/2015/08/13/netflix-to-pull-plug-on-final-data-center/

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 81 comments

The definitive list of lists (of lists) curated on GitHub

https://github.com/jnv/lists

11 years ago

★ 11.1k CC0-1.0
80 upvotes – 15 comments

Markhor (YC S15) Takes the Middleman Out of Designer Shoemaking

http://techcrunch.com/2015/08/11/markhor-takes-the-middleman-out-of-designer-shoemaking/#

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 40 comments

Oberon – The Overlooked Jewel (2000) [pdf]

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.90.7173&rep=rep1&type=pdf

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 23 comments

Rosetta's big day in the Sun

http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Rosetta/Rosetta_s_big_day_in_the_Sun

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 19 comments

Building CircleCI's Front End with Om [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNtQPSUi1iQ

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 2 comments

Lovin' their elevator: why Germans are loopy about paternosters

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/14/elevator-germans-loopy-revolving-lifts-paternosters

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 56 comments

Purple Planet Royalty Free Music

http://www.purple-planet.com

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 12 comments

Strongtalk: A high-speed Smalltalk with incremental, optional strong typing

http://www.strongtalk.org/

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 5 comments

Show HN: Lua in Python

https://github.com/scoder/lupa

11 years ago

★ 1.1k Python
57 upvotes – 7 comments

I am tech – Real stories from women in technology

https://mixpanel.com/i-am-tech/

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 68 comments

Developing Backbone.js Applications – a Creative Commons book

http://addyosmani.github.io/backbone-fundamentals/

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 21 comments

Germans are so scared of surveillance they microwave their ID cards

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/08/14/germans-are-so-scared-of-surveillance-they-microwave-their-id-cards/

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 53 comments

Does Music Help You Become More Productive?

http://facilethings.com/blog/en/music-and-productivity

11 years ago

49 upvotes – 44 comments

Tianjin Explosion Seen by Himawari and Other Weather Satellites

http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/goes/blog/archives/19209

11 years ago

49 upvotes – 43 comments

The Ethos Operating System

http://www.ethos-os.org/

11 years ago

49 upvotes – 10 comments

Parallel Out-Of-Core Dataframes in Python: Dask and OpenStreetMap

https://jakevdp.github.io/blog/2015/08/14/out-of-core-dataframes-in-python/

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 8 comments

Microkernels in a Bit More Depth (2007) [pdf]

https://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~cs9242/07/lectures/04-uk.pdf

11 years ago

46 upvotes – 4 comments

BrainFuck to Kernel

https://github.com/Hullu2000/BFTK

11 years ago

★ 31 C MIT
45 upvotes – 4 comments

The fixed_point C++ Class Template

https://github.com/johnmcfarlane/SG14/blob/fp_docs/Docs/fixed_point.md#the-fixed_point-class-template

11 years ago

★ 34 C++
45 upvotes – 21 comments

Tehran’s Promise: The revolution’s midlife crisis and the nuclear deal

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/27/tehrans-promise

11 years ago

45 upvotes – 36 comments

The C2 Programming Language

http://c2lang.org/

11 years ago

44 upvotes – 49 comments

Living Off the Grid Under the Sun

http://sdbr.net/post/Living-Off-the-Grid-Under-the-Sun/

11 years ago

43 upvotes – 33 comments
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