top 50% 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

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

247 upvotes – 213 comments

Cracking the Adventure Time cipher

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

10 years ago

241 upvotes – 24 comments

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

238 upvotes – 16 comments

Server Side TLS

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

10 years ago

233 upvotes – 37 comments

Django 1.10 released

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

10 years ago

227 upvotes – 119 comments

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

226 upvotes – 30 comments

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

218 upvotes – 72 comments

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

197 upvotes – 94 comments

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

193 upvotes – 73 comments

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

186 upvotes – 49 comments

The vanishing civility: The game of jerks, bozos and assholes

https://stactivist.com/2016/08/01/the-vanishing-civility/

10 years ago

173 upvotes – 194 comments

Tips from the Pragmatic Programmer (2000)

https://pragprog.com/the-pragmatic-programmer/extracts/tips

10 years ago

165 upvotes – 72 comments

Only 9% of America Chose Trump and Clinton as the Nominees

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/08/01/us/elections/nine-percent-of-america-selected-trump-and-clinton.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=b-lede-package-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

10 years ago

160 upvotes – 262 comments

‘Bitcoin Browser’ Brave Raises $4.5M, Readies for 1.0 Launch

https://news.bitcoin.com/bitcoin-browser-brave-raises-4-5m/

10 years ago

158 upvotes – 123 comments

Reverse engineering and removing Pokémon GO’s certificate pinning

https://eaton-works.com/2016/07/31/reverse-engineering-and-removing-pokemon-gos-certificate-pinning/

10 years ago

145 upvotes – 58 comments

Atom 1.9 and 1.10 beta

http://blog.atom.io/2016/08/01/atom-1-9-and-1-10-beta.html

10 years ago

139 upvotes – 92 comments

DistroWatch Ubuntu Phone review

https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20160801#ubuntuphone

10 years ago

138 upvotes – 91 comments

FCC Reaches Settlement with TP-Link in Wi-Fi Router Investigation

http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2016/db0801/DOC-340564A1.pdf

10 years ago

134 upvotes – 67 comments

This Is Your Life, Brought to You by Private Equity

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/08/02/business/dealbook/this-is-your-life-private-equity.html

10 years ago

132 upvotes – 108 comments

A Regular Expression Matcher (2007)

http://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/spr09/cos333/beautiful.html

10 years ago

132 upvotes – 34 comments

AI is always less impressive than is claimed

http://jeffmcmahan.info/blog/ai-is-always-less-impressive-than-is-claimed/

10 years ago

128 upvotes – 80 comments

The NumPy array: a structure for efficient numerical computation (2011) [pdf]

https://hal.inria.fr/inria-00564007/document

10 years ago

126 upvotes – 31 comments

Netflix Billing Migration to AWS – Part III

http://techblog.netflix.com/2016/08/netflix-billing-migration-to-aws-part.html

10 years ago

124 upvotes – 69 comments

Ask HN: Location-independent entrepreneurs, where do you live and why?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12200084

10 years ago

122 upvotes – 116 comments

Farewell Kagi

http://www.kagi.com

10 years ago

114 upvotes – 60 comments

The History of Email

https://eager.io/blog/history-of-email/

10 years ago

111 upvotes – 21 comments

Is Earthly life premature from a cosmic perspective?

http://phys.org/news/2016-08-earthly-life-premature-cosmic-perspective.html

10 years ago

111 upvotes – 171 comments

Why Economic Growth Will Fall

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2016/08/18/why-economic-growth-will-fall/

10 years ago

104 upvotes – 170 comments

Ooh Ooh My Turn Why Lisp? (2008)

http://smuglispweeny.blogspot.com/2008/02/ooh-ooh-my-turn-why-lisp.html

10 years ago

99 upvotes – 157 comments

The headless web

https://paul.kinlan.me/the-headless-web/

10 years ago

91 upvotes – 22 comments

Spark 2.0.0 Released

https://spark.apache.org/news/spark-2-0-0-released.html

10 years ago

91 upvotes – 22 comments

Enhancing Download Protection in Firefox

https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2016/08/01/enhancing-download-protection-in-firefox/

10 years ago

91 upvotes – 37 comments

Killed by a Machine: The Therac-25

http://hackaday.com/2015/10/26/killed-by-a-machine-the-therac-25/

10 years ago

89 upvotes – 40 comments

Show HN: Bouncy Ball – A TodoMVC for web animation

http://sparkbox.github.io/bouncy-ball/

10 years ago

85 upvotes – 16 comments

Closed city

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed_city

10 years ago

84 upvotes – 27 comments

Elon Musk Reading List

http://www.canoneo.com/list/5Mom4oSgF5NoHEWqj

10 years ago

83 upvotes – 12 comments

Sentiment Analysis – Improving Bayesian Methods

https://github.com/kennycason/bayesian_sentiment_analysis

10 years ago

★ 222 Kotlin
83 upvotes – 16 comments
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