top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-07-14

Cloud9 Acquired by Amazon

https://c9.io/blog/great-news/

10 years ago

627 upvotes – 242 comments

Lepton image compression: saving 22% losslessly from images at 15MB/s

https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech/2016/07/lepton-image-compression-saving-22-losslessly-from-images-at-15mbs/

10 years ago

582 upvotes – 190 comments

Nintendo re-releases NES as mini console

http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2016/07/nintendo_entertainment_system_nes_classic_edition_coming_this_november_ships_with_30_games

10 years ago

542 upvotes – 262 comments

A Single Div

http://a.singlediv.com/

10 years ago

535 upvotes – 106 comments

Interviewing my mother, a mainframe COBOL programmer

https://medium.com/@Svenskunganka/interviewing-my-mother-a-mainframe-cobol-programmer-c693d40d88f7#.66qbnhd8p

10 years ago

534 upvotes – 273 comments

Gimp 2.9.4 Released

http://www.gimp.org/news/2016/07/13/gimp-2-9-4-released/

10 years ago

504 upvotes – 225 comments

Show HN: Swiss Army Knife for Mac OS X

https://github.com/rgcr/m-cli

10 years ago

★ 9.8k Shell MIT
388 upvotes – 62 comments

Atlassian Acquires StatusPage

https://techcrunch.com/2016/07/14/atlassian-acquires-statuspage/

10 years ago

384 upvotes – 124 comments

Our Handbook is open source: here's why

https://about.gitlab.com/2016/07/12/our-handbook-is-open-source-heres-why/

10 years ago

347 upvotes – 101 comments

Blind-tested soloists unable to tell Stradivarius from modern violins

http://www.thestrad.com/cpt-latests/blind-tested-soloists-unable-to-tell-stradivarius-violins-from-modern-instruments/

10 years ago

310 upvotes – 246 comments

The Power of Ten – Rules for Developing Safety Critical Code

http://spinroot.com/gerard/pdf/P10.pdf

10 years ago

287 upvotes – 149 comments

Django REST framework 3.4 Released

http://www.django-rest-framework.org/topics/3.4-announcement/

10 years ago

278 upvotes – 87 comments

Hammerspoon – Powerful automation of OS X with Lua

http://www.hammerspoon.org

10 years ago

266 upvotes – 122 comments

Airtel is sniffing and censoring CloudFlare’s traffic in India

https://medium.com/@karthikb351/airtel-is-sniffing-and-censoring-cloudflares-traffic-in-india-and-they-don-t-even-know-it-90935f7f6d98#.df27ssdof

10 years ago

258 upvotes – 62 comments

Announcing GenStage

http://elixir-lang.org/blog/2016/07/14/announcing-genstage/

10 years ago

224 upvotes – 35 comments

Multiple Bugs in OpenBSD Kernel

http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=146853062403622&w=2

10 years ago

199 upvotes – 63 comments

Shedding light on the dark web

http://www.economist.com/news/international/21702176-drug-trade-moving-street-online-cryptomarkets-forced-compete

10 years ago

174 upvotes – 186 comments

Citigroup fined $7m after legit transactions mistaken for test data for 15 years

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/07/13/coding_error_costs_citigroup_7m

10 years ago

163 upvotes – 108 comments

Reviews of neural network research papers for art generation

https://github.com/tensorflow/magenta/tree/master/magenta/reviews

10 years ago

★ 19.7k Python Apache-2.0
160 upvotes – 6 comments

Three Puzzles Inspired by Ramanujan

https://www.quantamagazine.org/20160714-three-puzzles-inspired-by-ramanujan/

10 years ago

159 upvotes – 17 comments

Biodiversity falls below ‘safe levels’ globally

http://sciencebulletin.org/archives/3219.html

10 years ago

156 upvotes – 86 comments

Microsoft wins federal appeal over warrants for data held outside US

https://www.rt.com/usa/351052-microsoft-emails-ireland-server/

10 years ago

153 upvotes – 31 comments

Starcraft Html5 project revived on GitHub without all copyrighted materials

https://github.com/gloomyson/SC_Js

10 years ago

★ 590 JavaScript MIT
150 upvotes – 52 comments

Learning to code as a 30-year-old kid with Apple’s Swift Playgrounds

http://arstechnica.com/apple/2016/07/hands-on-with-swift-playgrounds-apples-attempt-to-get-kids-to-code/

10 years ago

143 upvotes – 69 comments

The Future of Standard ML (2013) [pdf]

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rwh/talks/mlw13.pdf

10 years ago

138 upvotes – 79 comments

Santa Monica convicts its first Airbnb host under tough home-sharing laws

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-santa-monica-airbnb-conviction-20160713-snap-story.html

10 years ago

126 upvotes – 193 comments

If You Can’t Follow Directions, You’ll End Up on Null Island

http://www.wsj.com/articles/if-you-cant-follow-directions-youll-end-up-on-null-island-1468422251

10 years ago

122 upvotes – 54 comments

Up to 70% of people in developed countries 'have seen incomes stagnate'

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/jul/14/up-to-70-per-cent-people-developed-countries-seen-income-stagnate

10 years ago

116 upvotes – 113 comments

Emails from a CEO Who Just Has a Few Changes to the Website

https://medium.com/slackjaw/emails-from-a-ceo-who-just-has-a-few-changes-to-the-website-43ccb7b31709

10 years ago

115 upvotes – 41 comments

Biomedical Data Science

http://genomicsclass.github.io/book/

10 years ago

112 upvotes – 8 comments

How (Not) to Write an iOS SDK

https://realm.io/news/altconf-conrad-kramer-writing-iOS-sdk/

10 years ago

112 upvotes – 35 comments

How becoming a pilot made me a better programmer

http://nathanmarz.com/blog/how-becoming-a-pilot-made-me-a-better-programmer.html

10 years ago

111 upvotes – 62 comments

Vagus nerve stimulation significantly reduces rheumatoid arthritis symptoms

https://www.northwell.edu/about/news/breakthrough-first-human-study-shows-vagus-nerve-stimulation-significantly-reduces

10 years ago

111 upvotes – 34 comments

Google Unfairly Curbs Web Ads and Skews Search, EU Alleges

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-07-14/google-gets-eu-antitrust-complaints-on-advertising-search-iqm59p2j

10 years ago

106 upvotes – 178 comments

Advanced Forth Programming Topics

http://www.mosaic-industries.com/embedded-systems/sbc-single-board-computers/freescale-hcs12-9s12-c-language/instrument-control/forth-language-program-development

10 years ago

105 upvotes – 28 comments

Germany enlists machine learning to boost renewables revolution

http://www.nature.com/news/germany-enlists-machine-learning-to-boost-renewables-revolution-1.20251

10 years ago

99 upvotes – 25 comments

Lightning Network: Scalable, Instant Bitcoin/Blockchain Transactions

http://lightning.network/

10 years ago

99 upvotes – 108 comments

Musical preferences mainly shaped by a person’s cultural upbringing

http://www.nature.com/news/poor-musical-taste-blame-your-upbringing-1.20256

10 years ago

93 upvotes – 76 comments

Tearful Mom Thanks Pokémon Go for Changing Autistic Boy’s Life

http://www.thememo.com/2016/07/14/autism-advice-asd-advice-pokemon-go-mum-thanks-nintendo/

10 years ago

92 upvotes – 14 comments

Teaching an AI to write Python code with Python code

http://www.benjamintd.com/blog/spynet/

10 years ago

91 upvotes – 22 comments

Is Peter Thiel still a Y Combinator partner?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12097606

10 years ago

90 upvotes – 10 comments

So Many Research Scientists, So Few Openings as Professors

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/14/upshot/so-many-research-scientists-so-few-openings-as-professors.html?hpw&rref=upshot&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0

10 years ago

89 upvotes – 113 comments

Peter Thiel will speak at GOP convention

http://www.theverge.com/2016/7/14/12187326/peter-thiel-gop-convention-speaking

10 years ago

88 upvotes – 121 comments

Why Windows 10 Sucks

http://itvision.altervista.org/why-windows-10-sucks.html

10 years ago

87 upvotes – 84 comments

Cache coherency primer (2014)

https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2014/07/07/cache-coherency/

10 years ago

83 upvotes – 6 comments

Reactors, Channels, and Event Streams for Composable Distributed Programming

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/290195429_Reactors_Channels_and_Event_Streams_for_Composable_Distributed_Programming

10 years ago

83 upvotes – 8 comments

Five Years of Drought

https://adventuresinmapping.wordpress.com/2016/07/12/five-years-of-drought/

10 years ago

79 upvotes – 19 comments

Zillow CEO Overpaid for His Los Angeles Home, According to Zillow

http://la.curbed.com/2016/7/11/12157338/zillow-ceo-brentwood-home-zestimate-overpaid

10 years ago

73 upvotes – 51 comments

Enabling Secure HTTP for BBC Online

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/internet/entries/f6f50d1f-a879-4999-bc6d-6634a71e2e60

10 years ago

68 upvotes – 62 comments
show: top 10top 20top 50%
go to date: prev next
sort by: datescorecomments