top 20 hacker news stories for 2016-08-06

Superblocks: how Barcelona is taking city streets back from cars

http://www.vox.com/2016/8/4/12342806/barcelona-superblocks

10 years ago

Tabby's star is dimming at an incredible rate

http://www.sciencealert.com/we-just-got-even-weirder-results-about-the-alien-megastructure-star

10 years ago

The LHC “nightmare scenario” has come true

http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2016/08/the-lhc-nightmare-scenario-has-come-true.html

10 years ago

Sheriff Raids House to Find Anonymous Blogger Who Called Him Corrupt

https://theintercept.com/2016/08/04/sheriff-raids-house-to-find-anonymous-blogger-who-called-him-corrupt/

10 years ago

IBM Watson correctly diagnoses a form of leukemia

http://siliconangle.com/blog/2016/08/05/watson-correctly-diagnoses-woman-after-doctors-were-stumped/

10 years ago

A x64 OS #1: UEFI

http://kazlauskas.me/entries/x64-uefi-os-1.html

10 years ago

The 39th Root of 92

http://bit-player.org/2016/the-39th-root-of-92

10 years ago

Airbnb Files to Raise $850M at $30B Valuation

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-05/airbnb-files-to-raise-850-million-at-30-billion-valuation

10 years ago

From Linear Models to Machine Learning (draft) [pdf]

http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/draftregclass.pdf

10 years ago

Throughput vs. Latency and Lock-Free vs. Wait-Free

http://concurrencyfreaks.blogspot.com/2016/08/throughput-vs-latency-and-lock-free-vs.html

10 years ago

You Don’t Have “Plenty of Time”

http://startingstrength.com/training/you-dont-have-plenty-of-time

10 years ago

The brain's reward circuitry regulates immunity

http://www.nature.com/nm/journal/v22/n8/full/nm.4157.html

10 years ago

Lithium-air batteries: Their time has come

http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21703358-new-type-electrical-cell-may-displace-lithium-ion-design-their-time-has

10 years ago

Car Thieves Arrested After Using Laptop and Malware to Steal More Than 30 Jeeps

http://abc13.com/automotive/hpd-crooks-armed-with-laptop-stole-30-cars/1457015/

10 years ago

Frequent Password Changes Is a Bad Security Idea

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/08/frequent_passwo.html

10 years ago

Firejail – security sandbox

https://firejail.wordpress.com/

10 years ago

Show HN: Set of trained deep learning models for computer vision

https://github.com/fchollet/deep-learning-models

10 years ago

★ 7.3k Python MIT

DLS, the digital logic simulator game

https://makingartstudios.itch.io/dls

10 years ago

Kinesis Advantage 2

http://www.kinesis-ergo.com/shop/advantage2/

10 years ago

API providing threat analysis of any given IP address

https://fraudguard.io/

10 years ago