top 10 hacker news stories for 2016-08-01

Why we lost Uber as a user

https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/5797D5A1.5030009%40agliodbs.com

10 years ago

1234 upvotes – 285 comments

Seymour Papert has died

http://www.media.mit.edu/people/in-memory/papert

10 years ago

820 upvotes – 137 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2016)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12202865

10 years ago

534 upvotes – 941 comments

Germany offers up to €30k for 6 months of working on OSS

http://prototypefund.de/?lang=en

10 years ago

512 upvotes – 150 comments

Uber to Sell China Business to Rival Didi After Losing Billions

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-01/uber-said-to-merge-china-business-with-didi-in-35-billion-deal

10 years ago

396 upvotes – 186 comments

Surprises of the Faraday Cage

https://sinews.siam.org/DetailsPage/TabId/900/ArtMID/2243/ArticleID/757/Surprises-of-the-Faraday-Cage.aspx

10 years ago

388 upvotes – 66 comments

YouTube's road to HTTPS

https://youtube-eng.blogspot.com/2016/08/youtubes-road-to-https.html

10 years ago

282 upvotes – 93 comments

Tesla and Solar City Combine

https://www.tesla.com/blog/tesla-and-solarcity-combine

10 years ago

275 upvotes – 139 comments

Salesforce buys word processing app Quip for $750M

https://techcrunch.com/2016/08/01/salesforce-buys-word-processing-app-quip-for-750m/

10 years ago

272 upvotes – 175 comments

Millennium Tower is tilting, sinking

http://sf.curbed.com/2016/8/1/12341914/millennium-tower-sinking

10 years ago

268 upvotes – 180 comments
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