top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-07-28

The End of Gmane?

https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2016/07/28/the-end-of-gmane/

10 years ago

489 upvotes – 100 comments

Scipy Lecture Notes – Learn numerics, science, and data with Python

http://www.scipy-lectures.org/

10 years ago

473 upvotes – 17 comments

Photographer Suing Getty Images for $1B

http://petapixel.com/2016/07/27/photographer-suing-getty-images-1-billion/

10 years ago

408 upvotes – 159 comments

What Marissa Mayer Brought to Yahoo That Can’t Be Bought or Sold

https://medium.com/@jelenawoehr/what-marissa-mayer-brought-to-yahoo-that-cant-be-bought-or-sold-4ee82382e4ee

10 years ago

305 upvotes – 255 comments

Building a software-defined radio from scratch

http://electronics.kitchen/misc/freesrp/

10 years ago

283 upvotes – 46 comments

How Magic Leap Works – From Field of View to GPU

http://gpuofthebrain.com/blog/2016/7/22/how-magic-leap-will-work

10 years ago

249 upvotes – 76 comments

The Public Shaming of England’s First Umbrella User

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-public-shaming-of-englands-first-umbrella-user

10 years ago

244 upvotes – 150 comments

Dark Patterns are designed to confuse and enroll

http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/07/dark-patterns-are-designed-to-trick-you-and-theyre-all-over-the-web/

10 years ago

240 upvotes – 183 comments

Special projects

https://openai.com/blog/special-projects/

10 years ago

235 upvotes – 194 comments

Oracle Buys NetSuite for $9.3B

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-07-28/oracle-buys-netsuite-in-deal-valued-at-about-9-3-billion

10 years ago

225 upvotes – 134 comments

My Interviews with Amazon

https://thesocietea.org/2016/07/my-interviews-with-amazon/

10 years ago

222 upvotes – 259 comments

Hair

http://lithub.com/hair/

10 years ago

217 upvotes – 8 comments

Re: Why Uber Engineering Switched from Postgres to MySQL

https://ayende.com/blog/175137/re-why-uber-engineering-switched-from-postgres-to-mysql

10 years ago

215 upvotes – 67 comments

John Carmack: Steps to Avoid Aliasing in VR

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1818885715012604&id=100006735798590

10 years ago

213 upvotes – 85 comments

What Makes Work Meaningful or Meaningless

http://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/what-makes-work-meaningful-or-meaningless

10 years ago

208 upvotes – 68 comments

The Dreaded Weekly Status Email

http://eleganthack.com/the-dreaded-weekly-status-email/

10 years ago

201 upvotes – 98 comments

Google Profits Surge on Strong Ad Demand

http://www.wsj.com/articles/google-profits-surge-on-strong-ad-demand-1469736762

10 years ago

197 upvotes – 167 comments

Microsoft to Cut 2,850 More Jobs in Exit from Phone Business

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-07-28/microsoft-to-cut-2-850-more-jobs-in-exit-from-phone-business

10 years ago

196 upvotes – 203 comments

Unexecute

http://emacshorrors.com/posts/unexecute.html

10 years ago

195 upvotes – 116 comments

Nasal Bacteria Pump Out a Potential New Antibiotic That Kills MRSA

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasal-bacteria-pump-out-a-potential-new-antibiotic-that-kills-mrsa/

10 years ago

195 upvotes – 91 comments

Show HN: A simple infinite world in WebGL

https://erkaman.github.io/wireframe-world/www/demo.html

10 years ago

181 upvotes – 56 comments

Citibank IT guy deliberately wiped routers, shut down 90% of firm’s US networks

http://www.tripwire.com/state-of-security/featured/citibank-it-guy-deliberately-wiped-routers-shut-down-90-of-firms-networks-across-america/

10 years ago

174 upvotes – 181 comments

Python Internals: PyObject

http://www.gahcep.com/python-internals-pyobject/

10 years ago

169 upvotes – 30 comments

Stuck in negotiations? Try Hootsuite's steak dinner clause

https://medium.com/@invoker/how-to-use-the-steak-clause-to-win-your-next-negotiation-55b4dafbea94#.209lnhyg8

10 years ago

160 upvotes – 58 comments

Amazon Posts Another Blockbuster Profit

http://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-posts-another-blockbuster-profit-1469736704

10 years ago

160 upvotes – 110 comments

A Peek into F# 4.1

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2016/07/25/a-peek-into-f-4-1/

10 years ago

157 upvotes – 28 comments

Harvard Study: Biggest Factor in Divorce Is Husband's Employment Status

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-07-28/don-t-blame-divorce-on-money-ask-did-the-husband-have-a-job?utm_content=business&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&cmpid%3D=socialflow-twitter-business

10 years ago

154 upvotes – 176 comments

Introduction to Scientific Python

https://web.stanford.edu/~arbenson/cme193.html

10 years ago

151 upvotes – 9 comments

GitHub was down

https://status.github.com/

10 years ago

143 upvotes – 89 comments

FreeBSD Q2 2016 Status Report

https://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-2016-04-2016-06.html

10 years ago

139 upvotes – 67 comments

UAE introduces federal law banning the use of VPNs to access blocked services

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/if-you-get-caught-using-vpn-uae-you-will-face-fines-545000-1572888

10 years ago

121 upvotes – 57 comments

Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Likely a Massive Heat Source

http://www.nasa.gov/feature/jupiter-s-great-red-spot-likely-a-massive-heat-source

10 years ago

112 upvotes – 35 comments

Writing kernels that boot with Qemu and Grub – a tutorial

http://www.cs.vu.nl/~herbertb/misc/writingkernels.txt

10 years ago

111 upvotes – 24 comments

Image-diff – Create an image differential between two images

https://github.com/uber/image-diff

10 years ago

★ 2.4k JavaScript MIT
110 upvotes – 25 comments

Chinese satellite is one giant step for the quantum internet

http://www.nature.com/news/chinese-satellite-is-one-giant-step-for-the-quantum-internet-1.20329

10 years ago

101 upvotes – 28 comments

The 2016 Top Programming Languages

http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/the-2016-top-programming-languages

10 years ago

101 upvotes – 79 comments

Coq to Rust Program Extraction

https://github.com/pirapira/coq2rust

10 years ago

★ 226 OCaml LGPL-2.1
99 upvotes – 18 comments

The Babysitters Club

http://reallifemag.com/the-babysitters-club/

10 years ago

95 upvotes – 41 comments

The Deconstructed Standard Model Equation

http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/the-deconstructed-standard-model-equation

10 years ago

86 upvotes – 54 comments

Preemptive Scheduling of Erlang NIFs

http://hansihe.com/erlang/elixir/c/2016/07/26/erlang-nif-preemptive-scheduling.html

10 years ago

81 upvotes – 10 comments

Physicist Fotini Markopoulou traded quantum gravity for industrial design

http://nautil.us/issue/38/noise/this-physics-pioneer-walked-away-from-it-all

10 years ago

80 upvotes – 32 comments

The Man Who Invented Intelligent Traffic Control a Century Too Early

http://spectrum.ieee.org/geek-life/history/the-man-who-invented-intelligent-traffic-control-a-century-too-early

10 years ago

75 upvotes – 39 comments

On the boundaries of GPL enforcement

https://lwn.net/Articles/694890/

10 years ago

75 upvotes – 23 comments

Kickstarter's Economic Impact Measured at $5B

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jul/28/from-virtual-communities-to-real-life-enterprises-how-kickstarter-generated-more-than-5bn

10 years ago

74 upvotes – 12 comments

Ask HN: Improve C language skills after K&R?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12182499

10 years ago

70 upvotes – 39 comments

Ask HN: Help me see why everyone seems to love TDD?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12179756

10 years ago

67 upvotes – 85 comments

Detecting malicious behaviour using system calls

http://repository.tudelft.nl/islandora/object/uuid:c71c85bc-d742-449b-88e7-33e172392ec2

10 years ago

64 upvotes – 19 comments

Tcl/Tk 8.6.6 Released

http://tcl.tk/software/tcltk/8.6.html

10 years ago

60 upvotes – 41 comments

Navy to Name Ship After Gay Rights Activist Harvey Milk

https://news.usni.org/2016/07/28/navy-name-ship-gay-rights-activist-harvey-milk

10 years ago

57 upvotes – 45 comments
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