top 50% 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

435 upvotes – 232 comments

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

375 upvotes – 171 comments

The LHC “nightmare scenario” has come true

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

10 years ago

311 upvotes – 196 comments

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

299 upvotes – 77 comments

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

271 upvotes – 76 comments

A x64 OS #1: UEFI

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

10 years ago

224 upvotes – 66 comments

The 39th Root of 92

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

10 years ago

217 upvotes – 118 comments

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

169 upvotes – 171 comments

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

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

10 years ago

151 upvotes – 23 comments

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

146 upvotes – 31 comments

You Don’t Have “Plenty of Time”

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

10 years ago

139 upvotes – 43 comments

The brain's reward circuitry regulates immunity

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

10 years ago

136 upvotes – 34 comments

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

134 upvotes – 87 comments

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

131 upvotes – 81 comments

Frequent Password Changes Is a Bad Security Idea

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

10 years ago

130 upvotes – 58 comments

Firejail – security sandbox

https://firejail.wordpress.com/

10 years ago

128 upvotes – 32 comments

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
127 upvotes – 15 comments

DLS, the digital logic simulator game

https://makingartstudios.itch.io/dls

10 years ago

121 upvotes – 35 comments

API providing threat analysis of any given IP address

https://fraudguard.io/

10 years ago

121 upvotes – 77 comments

Kinesis Advantage 2

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

10 years ago

121 upvotes – 156 comments

PlayStation Vita Exploit Reverse Engineering Challenge

http://yifan.lu/2016/08/05/henkaku-koth-challenge/

10 years ago

113 upvotes – 11 comments

Binary Ninja – A new kind of reversing platform

http://binary.ninja

10 years ago

109 upvotes – 56 comments

Americans Don't Care About Prison Phone Exploitation, Says FCC Official

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/fcc-official-most-americans-dont-care-about-prison-phone-exploitation

10 years ago

102 upvotes – 87 comments

Avalonia Alpha 4 – A cross-platform .NET UI framework

http://grokys.github.io/avalonia/avalonia-alpha4/

10 years ago

95 upvotes – 18 comments

What I learned from the Chinese about our Indian online market

http://reverieinc.com/chinese-indian-online-market/?utm_source=ycombinator&utm_medium=distribution&utm_campaign=whatIlearnedfromtheChinese

10 years ago

95 upvotes – 70 comments

Implementation of various string similarity and distance algorithms in Java

https://github.com/tdebatty/java-string-similarity

10 years ago

★ 2.7k Java
88 upvotes – 27 comments

Every Year on August 5th, the Curiosity Rover Sings a Lonely Birthday Song

https://curiosity.com/memes/every-year-the-curiosity-rover-sings-a-lonely-birthday-song-curiosity/?shrink=1&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_content=meme&utm_campaign=20160805fbk00CRSTcuriositybday#meme-nasa-happy-birthday-curiosity-nasa-goddard

10 years ago

87 upvotes – 35 comments

The Despair of Poor White Americans

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/09/the-original-underclass/492731/?single_page=true

10 years ago

86 upvotes – 128 comments

Show HN: Make Slack Bots in Java

https://github.com/ramswaroop/botkit

10 years ago

★ 1.2k Java GPL-3.0
81 upvotes – 25 comments

Show HN: Checkup – OSS tool for simple, self-hosted health checks

https://text.sourcegraph.com/announcing-checkup-simple-self-hosted-health-checks-c5707cf729ab

10 years ago

79 upvotes – 16 comments

Eskil – a GUI front end to diff

http://eskil.tcl.tk/

10 years ago

76 upvotes – 30 comments

Desktop privacy & security of web browsers on Linux part 1: concepts and theory

https://www.nexlab.net/2016/08/06/desktop-laptop-privacy-security-of-web-browsers-on-linux-part-1-concepts-and-theory/

10 years ago

76 upvotes – 11 comments

IDI Has Built a Profile on Every American Adult

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-05/this-company-has-built-a-profile-on-every-american-adult?cmpid=BBD080516_BIZ

10 years ago

71 upvotes – 52 comments

Edward Snowden Tweets Cryptic Code: Was It a Dead Man’s Switch?

http://sputniknews.com/news/20160806/1044011551/snowden-twitter-leaks-dead-kidnapped.html

10 years ago

68 upvotes – 7 comments

Love in Translation: Learning about culture, communication, and intimacy

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/08/08/lauren-collins-learns-to-love-in-french

10 years ago

68 upvotes – 18 comments

South Koreans use emoji to express playful sentiments they wouldn’t utter aloud

https://www.1843magazine.com/technology/the-curious-adventures-of-con-and-frodo

10 years ago

66 upvotes – 25 comments

High-Fidelity Quantum Logic Gates

http://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.060504

10 years ago

64 upvotes – 10 comments

The Code: A declassified hostage rescue story (2015)

http://www.theverge.com/2015/1/7/7483235/the-code-colombian-army-morsecode-hostages

10 years ago

62 upvotes – 8 comments
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