top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-08-03

What Apple should tell you when you lose your iPhone

https://medium.com/@joonaski/this-is-what-apple-should-tell-you-when-you-lose-your-iphone-8f07cf73cf82#.t3ss245xk

10 years ago

625 upvotes – 212 comments

Not Saying Winter Is Coming, but Where’s Your Coat?

https://www.facebook.com/notes/kent-beck/not-saying-winter-is-coming-but-wheres-your-coat/1225914144108114

10 years ago

454 upvotes – 448 comments

React Native for Ubuntu

https://github.com/CanonicalLtd/react-native/blob/ubuntu/README.ubuntu

10 years ago

★ 944 JavaScript
380 upvotes – 138 comments

The first version of Voxel Quest (with source) has been released

http://www.voxelquest.com/news/first-release

10 years ago

310 upvotes – 31 comments

Why aren’t we using SSH for everything?

https://medium.com/swlh/ssh-how-does-it-even-9e43586e4ffc

10 years ago

308 upvotes – 114 comments

Vizceral Open Source

http://techblog.netflix.com/2016/08/vizceral-open-source.html

10 years ago

301 upvotes – 31 comments

When It Comes to China, Google’s Experience Still Says It All

https://backchannel.com/when-it-comes-to-china-googles-experience-still-says-it-all-bdc4eeedd32c?source=rss----d16afa0ae7c---4

10 years ago

277 upvotes – 264 comments

China has built an elevated bus that travels above car traffic

https://techcrunch.com/2016/08/02/china-has-actually-built-that-elevated-bus-that-travels-above-car-traffic/

10 years ago

252 upvotes – 189 comments

A Swede Returns to Silicon Valley from China

http://blog.traintracks.io/a-swede-returns-to-silicon-valley-from-china-2/

10 years ago

246 upvotes – 230 comments

Thoughts on Uber’s List of Postgres Limitations

http://blog.2ndquadrant.com/thoughts-on-ubers-list-of-postgres-limitations/

10 years ago

245 upvotes – 103 comments

Ask HN: How do I write a resume after five years of a startup?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12221051

10 years ago

245 upvotes – 127 comments

The Human Cost of Tech Debt

http://www.daedtech.com/human-cost-tech-debt/

10 years ago

234 upvotes – 94 comments

Writing an OS in Rust: Better Exception Messages

http://os.phil-opp.com/better-exception-messages.html

10 years ago

220 upvotes – 31 comments

Making Django CMS as easy to install as WordPress

https://www.django-cms.org/en/blog/2016/06/09/making-django-cms-as-easy-to-install-as-wordpress/

10 years ago

212 upvotes – 193 comments

A Guide to Employee Equity

http://themacro.com/articles/2016/08/a-guide-to-employee-equity/

10 years ago

200 upvotes – 96 comments

Comcast wants to sell your Web history to advertisers

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/08/03/comcast-wants-to-sell-your-web-history/

10 years ago

187 upvotes – 157 comments

The Canadian Housing Boom Fueled by China’s Billionaires

http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-vancouver-real-estate-market/

10 years ago

182 upvotes – 237 comments

Classic Shell hacked with compromised update that erases your partition table

http://www.classicshell.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=6434

10 years ago

175 upvotes – 105 comments

China, Not Silicon Valley, Is Cutting Edge in Mobile Tech

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/03/technology/china-mobile-tech-innovation-silicon-valley.html

10 years ago

169 upvotes – 199 comments

Federal health expert drop flossing from health guidelines

http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/08/dentists-forgot-to-study-flossing-for-a-century-recommended-it-anyway/

10 years ago

159 upvotes – 176 comments

Wal-Mart in Talks to Buy Web Retailer Jet.com for $3B

http://www.wsj.com/articles/wal-mart-in-talks-to-buy-web-retailer-jet-com-1470237311

10 years ago

159 upvotes – 186 comments

WebRender2 Lands in Servo

https://github.com/servo/webrender/pull/319

10 years ago

★ 3.3k Rust MPL-2.0
158 upvotes – 27 comments

LibreOffice 5.2 “fresh” Released, for Windows, Mac OS and GNU/Linux

https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2016/08/03/libreoffice-5-2-fresh-released-for-windows-mac-os-and-gnulinux/

10 years ago

155 upvotes – 148 comments

Hash Functions all the way down

http://aras-p.info/blog/2016/08/02/Hash-Functions-all-the-way-down/

10 years ago

148 upvotes – 30 comments

Macbook charger teardown: Complexity inside Apple's power adapter (2015)

http://www.righto.com/2015/11/macbook-charger-teardown-surprising.html?m=1

10 years ago

146 upvotes – 98 comments

Florida cut $100M from its mental hospitals – chaos followed

http://www.tampabay.com/projects/2015/investigations/florida-mental-health-hospitals/

10 years ago

145 upvotes – 109 comments

Why lack of confidence can make you a better programmer

http://codewithoutrules.com/2016/08/03/self-confidence/

10 years ago

142 upvotes – 53 comments

“Turkey coup plotters' use of 'amateur' app helped unveil their network”

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/aug/03/turkey-coup-gulen-movement-bylock-messaging-app

10 years ago

141 upvotes – 134 comments

In a Sign of Broader Ambitions, Facebook Opens Hardware Lab

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2016/08/03/technology/ap-us-tec-facebooks-hardware-ambitions.html

10 years ago

134 upvotes – 74 comments

DragonFly BSD 4.6 Released

https://www.dragonflybsd.org/release46/

10 years ago

129 upvotes – 25 comments

Singapore Is the Perfect Place to Test Self-Driving Cars

http://www.citylab.com/commute/2016/08/why-singapore-leads-in-self-driving-cars/494222/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheAtlanticCities+%28CityLab%29

10 years ago

116 upvotes – 101 comments

Show HN: Heartbeat – Transform REST Endpoints to Streaming APIs

https://heartbeat.appbase.io

10 years ago

111 upvotes – 24 comments

Appending to a file from multiple processes

http://nullprogram.com/blog/2016/08/03/

10 years ago

109 upvotes – 49 comments

Ask HN: Do you still play with VR actively?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12219043

10 years ago

105 upvotes – 108 comments

In His Own Words: Gary Kildall

http://www.computerhistory.org/_static/atchm/in-his-own-words-gary-kildall/

10 years ago

100 upvotes – 27 comments

How Silicon Valley helps spread the same sterile aesthetic across the world

http://www.theverge.com/2016/8/3/12325104/airbnb-aesthetic-global-minimalism-startup-gentrification

10 years ago

96 upvotes – 71 comments

Uber and Under: China’s Hometown Advantage Claims Another Victim

https://medium.com/backchannel/when-it-comes-to-china-googles-experience-still-says-it-all-bdc4eeedd32c#.tiz8d8qwn

10 years ago

93 upvotes – 47 comments

Learn Voraciously (2015)

http://www.arbing.co.uk/learn-voraciously/

10 years ago

90 upvotes – 30 comments

Hard disk hacking (2013)

https://spritesmods.com/?art=hddhack

10 years ago

89 upvotes – 4 comments

Using an API to build a $1,500/month side business in 4 months

https://medium.com/anymail-finder-blog/using-an-api-to-build-a-1-500-month-business-in-4-months-6573350291f#.nwywqjb6z

10 years ago

83 upvotes – 59 comments

Bitcoin Sinks After Hackers Steal $65M from Exchange

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-03/bitcoin-plunges-after-hackers-breach-h-k-exchange-steal-coins

10 years ago

77 upvotes – 53 comments

Massive new study lifts the lid on top websites’ tracking secrets

https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2016/08/03/massive-new-study-lifts-the-lid-on-top-websites-tracking-secrets/

10 years ago

73 upvotes – 25 comments

Adopting Feature Flag-Driven Releases

http://blog.launchdarkly.com/feature-flag-driven-releases/

10 years ago

71 upvotes – 39 comments

Wallarm (YC S16) Uses Incoming Hacker Attacks to Reveal Security Flaws

http://themacro.com/articles/2016/08/wallarm/

10 years ago

70 upvotes – 17 comments

The new Seattle, where everything looks the same

http://crosscut.com/2015/04/the-new-seattle-where-everything-looks-the-same/

10 years ago

68 upvotes – 54 comments

The Beginner’s Guide to Freelance

https://medium.com/code-like-a-girl/the-beginners-guide-to-freelance-ed89c4051c26#.83mxhvo08

10 years ago

67 upvotes – 14 comments

The Infinite Set: On '2001: A Space Odyssey'

http://reverseshot.org/symposiums/entry/2013/space_odyssey

10 years ago

64 upvotes – 24 comments

Feds give Google OK to test Project Wing drone deliveries

https://www.engadget.com/2016/08/02/feds-give-google-ok-to-test-project-wing-drone-deliveries/

10 years ago

62 upvotes – 38 comments

Has Wall Street Been Tamed?

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/07/magazine/has-wall-street-been-tamed.html

10 years ago

61 upvotes – 82 comments
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