top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-07-13

The Fight for the “Right to Repair”

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/fight-right-repair-180959764/?no-ist

10 years ago

704 upvotes – 318 comments

A Course in Machine Learning

http://ciml.info

10 years ago

402 upvotes – 19 comments

Nintendo Developer Portal

https://developer.nintendo.com

10 years ago

399 upvotes – 162 comments

On Being a Black Man

https://blog.devcolor.org/on-being-a-black-man-42ecb7946fe0#.fe75utkuy

10 years ago

370 upvotes – 310 comments

Unity raises $181M round at a reported $1.5B valuation

https://techcrunch.com/2016/07/13/unity-announces-181-million-monster-round-led-by-dfj-growth/

10 years ago

312 upvotes – 197 comments

React: Mixins Considered Harmful

https://facebook.github.io/react/blog/2016/07/13/mixins-considered-harmful.html

10 years ago

287 upvotes – 199 comments

Startup Technical Diligence Is a Waste of Time

http://codingvc.com/why-startup-technical-diligence-is-a-waste-of-time/

10 years ago

287 upvotes – 160 comments

Asciinema 1.3 Switches from Go Back to Python

http://blog.asciinema.org/post/and-now-for-something-completely-different/

10 years ago

282 upvotes – 200 comments

Highly Available Block Storage

https://www.digitalocean.com/features/storage/

10 years ago

262 upvotes – 140 comments

U.S. judge throws out cell phone 'stingray' evidence

http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN0ZS2VI

10 years ago

223 upvotes – 107 comments

Harmony Explained: Progress Towards a Scientific Theory of Music

https://arxiv.org/abs/1202.4212

10 years ago

213 upvotes – 148 comments

Vine isn’t growing and most of its top executives have left

http://www.recode.net/2016/7/12/12150660/vine-growth-departures-hannah-donovan-app-future

10 years ago

203 upvotes – 166 comments

Body count rises as Philippines president calls for drug addicts to be killed

https://asiancorrespondent.com/2016/07/philippines-duterte-drug-addicts/

10 years ago

203 upvotes – 334 comments

Let's Play a Game – find bugs in popular open-source projects

https://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2015/04/24/lets-play-a-game-find-bugs-in-popular-open-source-projects

10 years ago

202 upvotes – 69 comments

Bayesian Machine Learning Explained

http://fastml.com/bayesian-machine-learning/

10 years ago

201 upvotes – 6 comments

Porting Python to GRUB: “Networking without an operating system”

https://lwn.net/Articles/692638/

10 years ago

186 upvotes – 45 comments

The Tor Project Elects New Board of Directors

https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-project-elects-new-board%C2%A0-directors

10 years ago

180 upvotes – 28 comments

WebAssembly Specification Prototype

https://github.com/WebAssembly/spec/blob/md-proto/md-proto/WebAssembly.md

10 years ago

★ 3.4k WebAssembly
179 upvotes – 107 comments

Critical Behavior from Deep Dynamics: A Hidden Dimension in Natural Language

http://arxiv.org/abs/1606.06737v2

10 years ago

175 upvotes – 44 comments

Hyperuniformity Found In Birds, Math And Physics

https://www.quantamagazine.org/20160712-hyperuniformity-found-in-birds-math-and-physics/

10 years ago

174 upvotes – 41 comments

NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Sends First In-orbit View

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasa-s-juno-spacecraft-sends-first-in-orbit-view

10 years ago

173 upvotes – 98 comments

Virtual Box 5.1

https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog

10 years ago

158 upvotes – 63 comments

WhatsApp Blocking Encrypted Calls to All Saudi Numbers

https://gist.github.com/kaepora/152d9a30650c8828d9d4c21a0910bd19

10 years ago

156 upvotes – 84 comments

Show HN: Polybit – Build, Deploy, Host Node.js APIs

https://polybit.com/

10 years ago

151 upvotes – 49 comments

Show HN: Turn a markdown document into an interactive tutorial

https://stacktile.io

10 years ago

148 upvotes – 60 comments

Scottish Tech Map

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1dAWR1pabLYIMMuZs5noi7OIOV-g8fzTl-FdzVXVYoCU/edit?pref=2&pli=1

10 years ago

140 upvotes – 41 comments

Gluon: A static, type inferred and embeddable language written in Rust

https://github.com/Marwes/gluon

10 years ago

★ 1 Rust MIT
136 upvotes – 48 comments

Tesla Model S Autopilot Reliability – Why Americans Should Love Tesla

http://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/news/a29944/leave-tesla-alone/

10 years ago

130 upvotes – 184 comments

Transforming NYC's Payphones into a 'Personalized Propaganda Engine'

http://www.villagevoice.com/news/google-is-transforming-nycs-payphones-into-a-personalized-propaganda-engine-8822938

10 years ago

125 upvotes – 119 comments

Most Used SDKs in Top 200 Free iOS Apps

http://mightysignal.com/top-ios-sdks

10 years ago

121 upvotes – 29 comments

Likely hack of U.S. banking regulator FDIC by China covered up: probe

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-cyber-fdic-china-idUSKCN0ZT20M

10 years ago

115 upvotes – 30 comments

What's wrong with deep learning? (2015) [pdf]

http://www.pamitc.org/cvpr15/files/lecun-20150610-cvpr-keynote.pdf

10 years ago

114 upvotes – 7 comments

Fast Transaction Log: Windows

http://ayende.com/blog/174785/fast-transaction-log-windows

10 years ago

109 upvotes – 34 comments

An Introduction to Model-Based Machine Learning

https://blog.dominodatalab.com/an-introduction-to-model-based-machine-learning/

10 years ago

108 upvotes – 31 comments

A Future for R: A Comprehensive Overview

https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/future/vignettes/future-1-overview.html

10 years ago

106 upvotes – 38 comments

Actually, Slack really sucks

https://medium.com/@chrisjbatts/actually-slack-really-sucks-625802f1420a#.yz78a6rku

10 years ago

94 upvotes – 41 comments

Nightcode 2.0.0 released

https://github.com/oakes/Nightcode/releases/tag/2.0.0

10 years ago

★ 1.4k Clojure Unlicense
93 upvotes – 24 comments

Autism as a Disorder of High Intelligence

http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnins.2016.00300/full

10 years ago

90 upvotes – 34 comments

PewDiePie and other YouTubers took money from Warner Bros

http://www.theverge.com/2016/7/12/12157310/pewdiepie-youtubers-sponsored-videos-ftc-warner-bros

10 years ago

89 upvotes – 54 comments

The takeover: how police ended up running a paedophile site

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/jul/13/shining-a-light-on-the-dark-web-how-the-police-ended-up-running-a-paedophile-site

10 years ago

87 upvotes – 86 comments

The Space Station Is Becoming a Spy Satellite for Wildlife

http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/07/the-international-space-station-becoming-a-spy-satellite-for-tiny-animals/490112/?single_page=true

10 years ago

87 upvotes – 23 comments

Lyft losing as much as $50M a month, president confirms

http://www.siliconbeat.com/2016/07/12/lyft-losing-much-50-million-month-president-confirms/

10 years ago

85 upvotes – 112 comments

An Almost Acquisition Story

http://www.astronomer.io/blog/an-almost-acquisition-story

10 years ago

81 upvotes – 11 comments

Police Camera Footage Will No Longer Be Made Public in North Carolina

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/police-camera-footage-will-no-longer-be-made-public-in-north-carolina/ar-BBug3AV?ocid=ansmsnnews11

10 years ago

79 upvotes – 39 comments

Deep learning is creating computer systems we don't fully understand

http://www.theverge.com/2016/7/12/12158238/first-click-deep-learning-algorithmic-black-boxes

10 years ago

77 upvotes – 73 comments

How America Could Go Dark

http://www.wsj.com/articles/how-america-could-go-dark-1468423254

10 years ago

73 upvotes – 66 comments

An Architecture for Millions of Things

http://blog.cityboundsim.com/an-architecture-for-millions-of-things/

10 years ago

72 upvotes – 21 comments

Half of all US food produce is thrown away, new research suggests

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jul/13/us-food-waste-ugly-fruit-vegetables-perfect

10 years ago

68 upvotes – 43 comments

The Habitat of Hardware Bugs

https://www.embeddedrelated.com/showarticle/988.php

10 years ago

67 upvotes – 18 comments

SYN Flood Mitigation with synsanity

http://githubengineering.com/syn-flood-mitigation-with-synsanity/

10 years ago

67 upvotes – 17 comments

Idiomatic React Testing Patterns

https://gist.github.com/joshdover/235714771d94509a83609b16d232014a

10 years ago

64 upvotes – 25 comments

Headphones Everywhere

http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/headphones-everywhere

10 years ago

62 upvotes – 99 comments

A Saudi Arabia Telecom's Surveillance Pitch (2013)

https://moxie.org/blog/saudi-surveillance/

10 years ago

59 upvotes – 17 comments

Cloudflare's “Flexible SSL” Traffic Is Being MITMed by an Indian ISP

https://medium.com/@karthikb351/airtel-is-sniffing-and-censoring-cloudflares-traffic-in-india-and-they-don-t-even-know-it-90935f7f6d98#.dniin5tz9

10 years ago

57 upvotes – 4 comments

Skype for Linux Alpha and Calling on Chrome and Chromebooks

https://community.skype.com/t5/Linux/Skype-for-Linux-Alpha-and-calling-on-Chrome-amp-Chromebooks/td-p/4434299

10 years ago

56 upvotes – 34 comments

Q&A with Aaron Levie

http://www.themacro.com/articles/2016/07/aaron-levie/

10 years ago

55 upvotes – 18 comments

Uber to suspend operations in Hungary due to govt legislation

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-uber-hungary-exit-idUSKCN0ZT0RS

10 years ago

53 upvotes – 62 comments

An Atlas of Fantasy

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

10 years ago

52 upvotes – 15 comments
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