top 50% 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

99 Bottles of OOP

http://www.sandimetz.com/99bottles

10 years ago

164 upvotes – 71 comments

Inside the Obama Tech Surge as It Hacks the Pentagon and VA

https://backchannel.com/inside-the-obama-tech-surge-as-it-hacks-the-pentagon-and-va-8b439bc33ed1

10 years ago

162 upvotes – 142 comments

Unstructured Datatypes in Postgres – Hstore vs. JSON vs. JSONB

https://www.citusdata.com/blog/2016/07/14/choosing-nosql-hstore-json-jsonb/

10 years ago

157 upvotes – 43 comments

Skype finalizes its move to the cloud, ignores the elephant in the room

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/07/skype-finalizes-its-move-to-the-cloud-ignores-the-elephant-in-the-room/

10 years ago

155 upvotes – 125 comments

Pokémon Go data usage draws attention of House Energy and Commerce Committee [pdf]

https://democrats-energycommerce.house.gov/sites/democrats.energycommerce.house.gov/files/JohnHanke.Niantic.%20Pokemon%20Go%20Letter.2016.07.19.pdf

10 years ago

155 upvotes – 159 comments

Grace Hopper explains nanoseconds [video]

https://youtube.com/watch?v=JEpsKnWZrJ8&feature=youtu.be?

10 years ago

152 upvotes – 19 comments

Ethereum hard fork successful with mining majority

http://fork.ethstats.net/

10 years ago

149 upvotes – 131 comments

Japan Will Make Its Last VCR This Month

http://mentalfloss.com/article/83427/japan-will-make-its-last-ever-vcr-month

10 years ago

139 upvotes – 131 comments

Apple Remote Code Execution with Image Files

http://blog.talosintel.com/2016/07/apple-image-rce.html

10 years ago

133 upvotes – 40 comments

Gatsby – A Static Site Generator for React

https://github.com/gatsbyjs/gatsby

10 years ago

★ 55.9k JavaScript MIT
129 upvotes – 69 comments

Microsoft reports $22.6B in Q4 revenue

https://techcrunch.com/2016/07/19/microsofts-q4-earnings-beat-with-22-6b-in-revenue-0-69-eps/

10 years ago

128 upvotes – 92 comments

Show HN: I connected my house lights to video games

https://www.stavros.io/posts/wifi-enabled-rgb-led-strip-controller/

10 years ago

127 upvotes – 31 comments

Windows 10 “Developer Mode”

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/Windows10DeveloperMode.aspx

10 years ago

127 upvotes – 81 comments

Usenet Tradecraft: Survival in an Extremely Adversarial Environment (2013)

https://grugq.github.io/blog/2013/12/01/yardbirds-effective-usenet-tradecraft/

10 years ago

125 upvotes – 46 comments

Unilever Buys Dollar Shave Club for $1B

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/20/business/dealbook/unilever-dollar-shave-club.html

10 years ago

116 upvotes – 93 comments

Fewer Allergies: A Possible Upside of Thumb Sucking and Nail Biting

http://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/upside-thumb-sucking-nail-biting-2016071910032

10 years ago

114 upvotes – 40 comments

Show HN: Convert PDF files into structured data

https://docparser.com?utm_source=hn&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=showhn

10 years ago

107 upvotes – 23 comments

AngularDart is going all Dart

http://news.dartlang.org/2016/07/angulardart-is-going-all-dart.html

10 years ago

104 upvotes – 92 comments

Gravity.js

https://valentinvichnal.github.io/gravity.js/

10 years ago

103 upvotes – 40 comments

Windows Hello face recognition is vulnerable to the Jedi mind trick

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20160719-00/?p=93905

10 years ago

103 upvotes – 36 comments

The Product Development Triathlon

https://www.facebook.com/notes/kent-beck/the-product-development-triathlon/1215075478525314

10 years ago

100 upvotes – 13 comments

Court restricts U.S. Navy use of whale-killing sonar

http://www.wired.com/2016/07/sea-will-get-lot-quieter-without-navys-whale-killing-sonar/

10 years ago

95 upvotes – 34 comments

Be nice to nerds

http://www.economist.com/news/business/21702183-forget-cool-kids-geeks-are-now-shaping-new-products-and-services-be-nice-nerds

10 years ago

93 upvotes – 68 comments

BT fault hits broadband users and banks

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-36844712

10 years ago

90 upvotes – 65 comments

DIY Scanning Electron Microscope

http://hackaday.com/2011/03/23/diy-scanning-electron-microscope/

10 years ago

87 upvotes – 17 comments

Dataflow as database

https://github.com/frankmcsherry/blog/blob/master/posts/2016-07-17.md

10 years ago

★ 2.1k JavaScript
86 upvotes – 10 comments

Very Long Proofs

https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2016/05/28/very-long-proofs/

10 years ago

86 upvotes – 56 comments

Awkward – A Node.js-based terminal emulator

https://github.com/iostreamer-X/Awkward

10 years ago

★ 458 CoffeeScript MIT
76 upvotes – 62 comments

Housing can’t be a good investment and affordable

http://cityobservatory.org/housing-cant-be-a-good-investment-and-affordable/

10 years ago

76 upvotes – 52 comments

The solo-bootstrapped SaaS sales challenge

https://www.linguaquote.com/translation-news/the-solo-bootstrapped-saas-sales-challenge

10 years ago

74 upvotes – 10 comments

50 Shades of System Calls

https://sysdig.com/blog/50-shades-of-system-calls/

10 years ago

72 upvotes – 18 comments

Performance without Compromise: React.js for TV UIs

http://techblog.netflix.com/2016/03/performance-without-compromise.html

10 years ago

66 upvotes – 9 comments

The last living member of the German moon rocket team

http://www.al.com/news/huntsville/index.ssf/2015/05/german_rocket_team_member_101.html

10 years ago

62 upvotes – 19 comments

Peter Thiel’s Embrace of Trump Has Silicon Valley Squirming

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/21/technology/peter-thiels-embrace-of-trump-has-silicon-valley-squirming.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=span-ab-lede-package-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0

10 years ago

62 upvotes – 211 comments

Feds Seize KickassTorrents Domains, Arrest Owner

https://torrentfreak.com/feds-seize-kickasstorrents-domains-charge-owner-160720/

10 years ago

61 upvotes – 1 comments

The new science of cute

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/19/kumamon-the-new-science-of-cute

10 years ago

61 upvotes – 44 comments

CrypTech: Making the Internet a Little Bit Safer

https://cryptech.is/

10 years ago

59 upvotes – 13 comments
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