top 20 hacker news stories for 2016-07-20

Stack Overflow Outage Postmortem

http://stackstatus.net/post/147710624694/outage-postmortem-july-20-2016

10 years ago

862 upvotes – 316 comments

When a crow dies, the other crows investigate the cause of death (2015)

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/10/151003-animals-science-crows-birds-culture-brains/

10 years ago

626 upvotes – 228 comments

Alleged founder of world’s largest BitTorrent distribution site arrested

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/07/kickasstorrents-alleged-founder-artem-vaulin-arrested-in-poland/

10 years ago

378 upvotes – 347 comments

Why I won’t give talks about being a woman in tech

https://soledadpenades.com/2016/07/20/why-i-wont-talk-about-being-a-woman-in-tech-and-neither-should-you/

10 years ago

374 upvotes – 354 comments

Git for Windows accidentally creates NTFS alternate data streams

http://latkin.org/blog/2016/07/20/git-for-windows-accidentally-creates-ntfs-alternate-data-streams/

10 years ago

349 upvotes – 176 comments

Building an Open Core Company: Interview with GitLab's CEO

https://about.gitlab.com/2016/07/14/building-an-open-source-company-interview-with-gitlabs-ceo/

10 years ago

290 upvotes – 139 comments

Native encryption added to ZFS on Linux

https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/commit/0b04990a5de594659d2cf20458965277dd6efeb1

10 years ago

★ 12.1k C
280 upvotes – 140 comments

Dollar Shave Club and the Disruption of Everything

https://stratechery.com/2016/dollar-shave-club-and-the-disruption-of-everything/

10 years ago

237 upvotes – 200 comments

Reducing Adobe Flash Usage in Firefox

https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2016/07/20/reducing-adobe-flash-usage-in-firefox/

10 years ago

235 upvotes – 115 comments

On the fly SSL registration and renewal inside Nginx with Let's Encrypt

https://github.com/GUI/lua-resty-auto-ssl

10 years ago

★ 1.9k Lua MIT
234 upvotes – 46 comments

Google Cuts Its Giant Electricity Bill with DeepMind-Powered AI

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-07-19/google-cuts-its-giant-electricity-bill-with-deepmind-powered-ai

10 years ago

233 upvotes – 79 comments

Introducing Google Cloud Natural Language API, Speech API and New Data Center

https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/07/the-latest-for-Cloud-customers-machine-learning-and-west-coast-expansion.html

10 years ago

224 upvotes – 49 comments

Ask HN: Describing skills and competencies in a resume?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12127946

10 years ago

222 upvotes – 104 comments

Turkish government revokes ham radio licenses

http://yaesuft817.com/wp/turkey-gouvernement-revokes-19201-ham-radio-licenses/

10 years ago

216 upvotes – 130 comments

Gmail.js – JavaScript API for Gmail

https://github.com/KartikTalwar/gmail.js

10 years ago

★ 3.8k JavaScript MIT
202 upvotes – 49 comments

Kivy: Develop multi-touch enabled Python apps

http://kivy.org/

10 years ago

185 upvotes – 45 comments

Five million Danish ID numbers sent to Chinese firm by mistake

http://www.thelocal.dk/20160720/five-million-danish-id-numbers-sent-to-chinese-firm-by-mistake

10 years ago

184 upvotes – 79 comments

HSBC Currency Traders Got Greedy on Christmas

http://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-07-20/hsbc-currency-traders-got-greedy-on-christmas

10 years ago

173 upvotes – 57 comments

After the coup, Turkey turns against America

http://www.economist.com/news/europe/21702337-turkish-media-and-even-government-officials-accuse-america-being-plot-after

10 years ago

167 upvotes – 286 comments

Fresh work on the mathematics of bicycles in motion

http://www.nature.com/news/the-bicycle-problem-that-nearly-broke-mathematics-1.20281

10 years ago

165 upvotes – 95 comments
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