top 20 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

Seymour Papert has died

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

10 years ago

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2016)

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

10 years ago

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

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

10 years ago

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

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

YouTube's road to HTTPS

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

10 years ago

Tesla and Solar City Combine

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

10 years ago

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

Millennium Tower is tilting, sinking

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

10 years ago

Olympic executives cash in on a ‘Movement’ that keeps athletes poor

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/olympics/olympic-executives-cash-in-on-a-movement-that-keeps-athletes-poor/2016/07/30/ed18c206-5346-11e6-88eb-7dda4e2f2aec_story.html

10 years ago

Cracking the Adventure Time cipher

http://aaronrandall.com/blog/cracking-the-adventure-time-cipher/

10 years ago

Raw footage of the Japanese games industry

http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/JohnSzczepaniak/20160726/277925/Unprecedented_raw_footage_of_the_Japanese_games_industry.php

10 years ago

Server Side TLS

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Server_Side_TLS

10 years ago

Django 1.10 released

https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2016/aug/01/django-110-released/

10 years ago

Gh-ost: GitHub's online schema migration tool for MySQL

http://githubengineering.com/gh-ost-github-s-online-migration-tool-for-mysql/

10 years ago

How to use your full brain when writing code

http://chrismm.com/blog/how-to-use-your-full-brain-when-writing-code/?

10 years ago

The hidden base that could have ended the world

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160729-the-hidden-base-that-could-have-ended-the-world

10 years ago

Losing our business – we didn’t see it coming

https://medium.com/@Kev_Reframed/losing-our-business-we-didnt-see-it-coming-ab08bf839882

10 years ago

Google’s QUIC protocol: moving the web from TCP to UDP

https://ma.ttias.be/googles-quic-protocol-moving-web-tcp-udp/

10 years ago