top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-07-30

Breakthrough solar cell captures CO2 and sunlight, produces burnable fuel

https://news.uic.edu/breakthrough-solar-cell-captures-co2-and-sunlight-produces-burnable-fuel

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Israel Proves the Desalination Era Is Here

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/israel-proves-the-desalination-era-is-here/

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America uses stealthy submarines to hack other countries’ systems

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/07/29/america-is-hacking-other-countries-with-stealthy-submarines/

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Ireland jails three top bankers over 2008 banking meltdown

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-ireland-banking-court-idUSKCN10912E

10 years ago

Love for TypeScript

https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/issues/10011

10 years ago

★ 108.6k TypeScript Apache-2.0

Ruby on Rails Tutorial

https://www.railstutorial.org/book

10 years ago

Show HN: Apple – Every Second

http://www.everysecond.io/apple/

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GIMP 2.9.4 and our vision for the future

http://girinstud.io/news/2016/07/gimp-2-9-4-and-our-vision-for-gimp-future/

10 years ago

Barliman: Prototype of a smart text editor

https://github.com/webyrd/Barliman

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★ 1k Scheme MIT

Using Code Snippets in Chrome Developer Tools

http://www.alexkras.com/using-code-snippets-to-test-save-and-reuse-javascript-code-in-chrome-developer-tools/

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Example-Driven Development

http://www.wilfred.me.uk/blog/2016/07/30/example-driven-development/

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FreeBSD Myths

https://wiki.freebsd.org/Myths

10 years ago

Ask HN: What's on your RSS reader?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12194875

10 years ago

How the food lobby fights sugar regulation in the EU [pdf]

http://corporateeurope.org/sites/default/files/a_spoonful_of_sugar_final.pdf

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Looking back on the Great Leap Forward

https://www.historytoday.com/frank-dik%C3%B6tter/looking-back-great-leap-forward

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Recalibrate Your Productivity Sensors

http://www.tombartel.de//2016/07/05/recalibrate-your-productivity-sensors/

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Debugging using system calls in Mac OS X

http://bryce.is/writing/code/macosx/debugging/udp/sockets/dtruss/dtrace/eaddrinuse/2016/07/30/debugging-using-system-calls.html

10 years ago

Doing Bayesian Data Analysis On the GPU: Examples

https://github.com/uncomplicate/bayadera/tree/master/test/clojure/uncomplicate/bayadera/examples/dbda

10 years ago

★ 369 Clojure EPL-1.0

Elsevier – My part in its downfall (2012)

https://gowers.wordpress.com/2012/01/21/elsevier-my-part-in-its-downfall/

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China’s Cheating Husbands Fuel an Industry of ‘Mistress Dispellers’

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/30/world/asia/china-marriage-affair-mistress.html?_r=0

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Prolog.c: a simple Prolog interpreter written in 200 LOC of C++ (2000)

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~am21/research/funnel/prolog.c

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“Should this even be released?” Deep learning tool that may be used for doxxing

https://github.com/mlpoll/machinematch/issues/1

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The Long Chase

http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-long-chase/

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The Security of Our Election Systems

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/07/the_security_of_11.html

10 years ago

The dark side of entrepreneurship

https://www.shopify.com/enterprise/the-dark-side-of-entrepreneurship-that-nobody-wants-to-talk-about

10 years ago

The law depends on compute power

https://medium.com/@jeremyjkun/the-law-depends-on-compute-power-29095fd58354

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Decomposing a function into its even and odd parts

http://blog.plover.com/math/even-odd.html

10 years ago

Differential dataflow roadmap

https://github.com/frankmcsherry/blog/blob/master/posts/2016-07-26.md

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★ 2.1k JavaScript

Dark Web OSINT with Python and OnionScan: Part One

http://www.automatingosint.com/blog/2016/07/dark-web-osint-with-python-and-onionscan-part-one/

10 years ago

Building a browser-based test automation server on the Google Cloud Platform

https://github.com/seleniumbase/SeleniumBase/blob/master/integrations/google_cloud/ReadMe.md

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★ 12.6k Python MIT

Debian .onion services

https://onion.debian.org/

10 years ago

The Blog That Disappeared

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/30/opinion/sunday/the-blog-that-disappeared.html

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Ratas – A hierarchical timer wheel

https://www.snellman.net/blog/archive/2016-07-27-ratas-hierarchical-timer-wheel/

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Uber Can’t Force Arbitration Over Pricing Antitrust Claim

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-07-29/uber-customer-avoids-arbitration-on-antitrust-claim-in-new-york

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Facebook Tax Bill Over Ireland Move Could Cost $5B

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-07-28/facebook-gets-3-5-billion-irs-tax-notice-over-ireland-move

10 years ago

Remove Firefox Hello from FF49

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1287827

10 years ago

Fact Follows Fiction: Real Bridges Based on Euro Banknote Artwork

http://99percentinvisible.org/article/fact-follows-fiction-real-bridges-based-euro-banknote-artwork/

10 years ago

Vik Muniz Painstakingly Reconstructs the Backs of Famous Paintings

http://hyperallergic.com/309086/vik-muniz-painstakingly-reconstructs-the-backs-of-famous-paintings/

10 years ago

Restoring an unusual vintage clock display

https://tinkerings.org/2016/05/21/restoring-an-unusual-vintage-clock-display/

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