top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-08-26

“I Had a Baby and Cancer When I Worked at Amazon”

https://medium.com/@jcheiffetz/i-had-a-baby-and-cancer-when-i-worked-at-amazon-this-is-my-story-9eba5eef2976

11 years ago

458 upvotes – 297 comments

Bernie Sanders' 404 page

https://berniesanders.com/404

11 years ago

434 upvotes – 262 comments

Who Hacked Ashley Madison?

http://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/08/who-hacked-ashley-madison/

11 years ago

410 upvotes – 293 comments

Unity Comes to Linux: Experimental Build Now Available

http://blogs.unity3d.com/2015/08/26/unity-comes-to-linux-experimental-build-now-available/

11 years ago

377 upvotes – 129 comments

Amazon Underground

https://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=1003016361

11 years ago

350 upvotes – 131 comments

M, a personal digital assistant inside Facebook Messenger

http://www.wired.com/2015/08/how-facebook-m-works/

11 years ago

324 upvotes – 169 comments

A Woman Who Spent Six Years Fighting a Traffic Stop

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2015/08/10/the-woman-who-spent-six-years-fighting-a-traffic-stop

11 years ago

284 upvotes – 124 comments

How to Onboard Software Engineers

http://blog.fogcreek.com/how-to-onboard-software-engineers-interview-with-kate-heddleston/

11 years ago

280 upvotes – 111 comments

Apple Loses German Top Court Case on Swipe-to-Unlock Patent

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-08-25/apple-loses-german-top-court-case-over-swipe-to-unlock-patent

11 years ago

250 upvotes – 127 comments

YC Stats

http://blog.ycombinator.com/yc-stats

11 years ago

249 upvotes – 135 comments

How companies make millions off lead-poisoned, poor blacks

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/social-issues/how-companies-make-millions-off-lead-poisoned-poor-blacks/2015/08/25/7460c1de-0d8c-11e5-9726-49d6fa26a8c6_story.html

11 years ago

249 upvotes – 246 comments

A heads up display for git

https://github.com/michaeldfallen/git-radar

11 years ago

★ 2.5k Shell MIT
242 upvotes – 60 comments

Important Notice Regarding Public Availability of Stable Patches

https://grsecurity.net/announce.php

11 years ago

235 upvotes – 114 comments

A Russian Family Was Isolated for 40 Years, Unaware of WWII (2013)

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/for-40-years-this-russian-family-was-cut-off-from-all-human-contact-unaware-of-world-war-ii-7354256/

11 years ago

226 upvotes – 58 comments

The Beauty of Clojure

http://owenrh.me.uk/blog/2015/08/24/

11 years ago

217 upvotes – 170 comments

Potentially Reprogramming Cancer Cells Back to Normal Cells

http://neurosciencenews.com/mirna-cancer-cell-reprogramming-2491/

11 years ago

208 upvotes – 40 comments

WebExtensions FAQ

https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebExtensions/FAQ

11 years ago

177 upvotes – 126 comments

Sandstorm App Market

https://github.com/sandstorm-io/sandstorm-app-market

11 years ago

★ 139 HTML Apache-2.0
171 upvotes – 69 comments

A Computational Introduction to Number Theory and Algebra

http://www.shoup.net/ntb/

11 years ago

163 upvotes – 17 comments

Secretive fusion company claims reactor breakthrough

http://news.sciencemag.org/physics/2015/08/secretive-fusion-company-makes-reactor-breakthrough

11 years ago

163 upvotes – 93 comments

How security flaws work: the buffer overflow

http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/08/how-security-flaws-work-the-buffer-overflow/

11 years ago

154 upvotes – 45 comments

NeXTBSD aka FreeBSD X

http://www.slideshare.net/iXsystems/nextbsd-aka-freebsd-x

11 years ago

154 upvotes – 70 comments

Windows 10 Review

http://www.anandtech.com/show/9543/the-windows-10-review

11 years ago

146 upvotes – 248 comments

A Dubious Deal with the NSA

http://www.zeit.de/digital/datenschutz/2015-08/xkeyscore-nsa-domestic-intelligence-agency

11 years ago

137 upvotes – 37 comments

Lantern – Open Internet for Everyone

https://getlantern.org/

11 years ago

134 upvotes – 46 comments

Why Do Colleges Give Honorary Degrees?

http://priceonomics.com/why-do-colleges-give-out-honorary-degrees/

11 years ago

123 upvotes – 123 comments

Vulcan-74 – A 6502 Retro MegaProject

http://forum.6502.org/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=3329

11 years ago

114 upvotes – 25 comments

How to support PGP encryption in Gmail

http://conorpp.com/blog/How-to-support-PGP-encryption-in-Gmail/

11 years ago

113 upvotes – 49 comments

Rovio to Cut 260 Jobs as the Angry Birds Franchise Becomes Irrelevant

http://techcrunch.com/2015/08/26/rovio-to-cut-260-jobs-as-the-angry-birds-franchise-becomes-irrelevant/

11 years ago

109 upvotes – 123 comments

Python Extension Proposal 498: Literal String Formatting

https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0498/

11 years ago

107 upvotes – 97 comments

Network handover in Google Fi

http://nicholasarmstrong.com/2015/08/network-handover-google-fi/

11 years ago

107 upvotes – 51 comments

Prenav "hello world" drone drawing cubes inside a building [video]

http://www.prenav.com/blog/2015/8/26/hello-world

11 years ago

104 upvotes – 20 comments

How developers search for code: a case study

https://research.google.com/pubs/pub43835.html

11 years ago

103 upvotes – 13 comments

The Uber endgame: privatized public transit

http://www.theawl.com/2015/08/ubiquity

11 years ago

102 upvotes – 152 comments

PyPy Vectorization

http://pypyvecopt.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-end-of-summer-pypy-simd.html

11 years ago

99 upvotes – 8 comments

Inside the Fight Over Bitcoin’s Future

http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/inside-the-fight-over-bitcoins-future?intcid=mod-yml

11 years ago

93 upvotes – 49 comments

A Word Is Worth a Thousand Vectors

http://multithreaded.stitchfix.com/blog/2015/03/11/word-is-worth-a-thousand-vectors/

11 years ago

88 upvotes – 13 comments

Paxos Made Moderately Complex

http://paxos.systems

11 years ago

85 upvotes – 29 comments

Mr. Wizard, Television's Original Science Guy

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/meet-mr-wizard-science-guy-inspired-bill-nye-180956371/

11 years ago

84 upvotes – 28 comments

Xhyve hypervisor, a port of bhyve to OS X

https://github.com/mist64/xhyve/

11 years ago

★ 6.4k C
83 upvotes – 13 comments

A new role for Qasar

http://blog.ycombinator.com/a-new-role-for-qasar

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 9 comments

Quantitative Economic Modeling in Python and Julia

http://quant-econ.net/

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 10 comments

The Contiki OS Version 3.0 Released

http://contiki-os.blogspot.com/2015/08/contiki-30-released-new-hardware-from.html

11 years ago

77 upvotes – 19 comments

Tesla owner drives 452 miles on single charge

http://techcrunch.com/2015/08/25/programmer-drives-his-tesla-model-s-a-record-breaking-452-8-miles-on-a-single-charge/?ncid=rss&cps=gravity_1730_-7755888158177957146

11 years ago

76 upvotes – 62 comments

Making Ocean Water Drinkable

http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/infrastructure/a17040/how-it-works-desalinating-ocean-water/

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 55 comments

3D printing titanium: Learning to learn from success

http://pencerw.com/feed/2015/8/6/3d-printing-titanium-learning-to-learn-from-success

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 35 comments

Tsunami Warnings, Written in Stone (2011)

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/21/world/asia/21stones.html

11 years ago

66 upvotes – 10 comments

Joseph Traub, Who Helped Bring Computer Science to Universities, Dies at 83

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/27/science/joseph-traub-who-helped-bring-computer-science-to-universities-dies-at-83.html?hpw&rref=science&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 3 comments

Show HN: EtherPot – A decentralized, autonomous, provably fair lottery

http://etherpot.github.io/

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 25 comments

The Problem with Problems

http://000fff.org/the-problem-with-problems/

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 19 comments

Almost None of the Women in the Ashley Madison Database Ever Used the Site

http://gizmodo.com/almost-none-of-the-women-in-the-ashley-madison-database-1725558944

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 12 comments

My wife found my email in the Ashley Madison database

https://evan.atavist.com/my-wife-found-my-email-in-the-ashley-madison-database

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 63 comments

KittyCam – Cat Facial Recognition Powered by Raspberry Pi

https://github.com/girliemac/RPi-KittyCam

11 years ago

★ 598 JavaScript MIT
59 upvotes – 13 comments

Google Vision APIs for Android provide face detection and barcode scanning

https://developers.google.com/vision/?hl=en

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 19 comments

Stop using React for everything

https://medium.com/p/c8297ac1a644

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 57 comments

The Melting of Mark Zuckerberg’s $100MM Donation to Newark Schools

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/27/business/dealbook/the-melting-of-mark-zuckerbergs-donation-to-newark-schools.html?smid=tw-share

11 years ago

56 upvotes – 88 comments

Emulating exceptions in C: a case study

http://sevko.io/articles/exceptions-in-c/

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 27 comments

BlackRock acquires FutureAdvisor

https://www.futureadvisor.com/content/blog/announcement-blackrock-acquires-futureadvisor

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 6 comments

Unix command line queue utility

https://github.com/chneukirchen/nq

11 years ago

★ 3.1k C
52 upvotes – 19 comments

Legendary Deep-Sea Fish Sighting Continues to Be Debated After 60 Years

http://nautil.us/blog/this-legendary-deep_sea-fish-sighting-continues-to-be-debated-after-60-years

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 0 comments
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