top 20 hacker news stories for 2016-08-08

Moving 12 years of email from GMail to FastMail

https://cpbotha.net/2016/08/06/moving-12-years-of-email-from-gmail-to-fastmail/

10 years ago

649 upvotes – 365 comments

“I Want to Know What Code Is Running Inside My Body”

https://backchannel.com/i-want-to-know-what-code-is-running-inside-my-body-ff9a159da34b#.gait3xuzi

10 years ago

536 upvotes – 211 comments

Why I'm not a big fan of Scrum

http://okigiveup.net/not-big-fan-of-scrum/

10 years ago

483 upvotes – 380 comments

A Generation Lost in the Bazaar (2012)

http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2349257

10 years ago

444 upvotes – 341 comments

Confirmed: Walmart buys Jet.com for $3B in cash

https://techcrunch.com/2016/08/08/confirmed-walmart-buys-jet-com-for-3b-in-cash/

10 years ago

429 upvotes – 254 comments

Notes on Distributed Systems for Young Bloods (2013)

https://www.somethingsimilar.com/2013/01/14/notes-on-distributed-systems-for-young-bloods/

10 years ago

386 upvotes – 133 comments

Image Kernels explained visually

http://setosa.io/ev/image-kernels/

10 years ago

363 upvotes – 47 comments

Why do CPUs have multiple cache levels?

https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2016/08/07/why-do-cpus-have-multiple-cache-levels/

10 years ago

309 upvotes – 121 comments

Trial by Jury, a Hallowed American Right, Is Vanishing

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/08/nyregion/jury-trials-vanish-and-justice-is-served-behind-closed-doors.html

10 years ago

215 upvotes – 188 comments

TLS Everywhere, not https: URIs (2015)

https://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Security-NotTheS.html

10 years ago

207 upvotes – 91 comments

CSS mix-blend-mode is bad for your browsing history

https://lcamtuf.blogspot.com/2016/08/css-mix-blend-mode-is-bad-for-keeping.html

10 years ago

196 upvotes – 40 comments

It’s hard work printing nothing

http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/its-hard-work-printing-nothing

10 years ago

179 upvotes – 74 comments

Quadrooter: New Vulnerabilities Affecting Over 900M Android Devices [pdf]

https://www.checkpoint.com/downloads/resources/quadRooter-vulnerability-research-report.pdf

10 years ago

175 upvotes – 124 comments

Purely Functional Linux with NixOS [video]

https://begriffs.com/posts/2016-08-08-intro-to-nixos.html?hn=1

10 years ago

169 upvotes – 142 comments

Ecological Wealth of Nations

http://www.footprintnetwork.org/ecological_footprint_nations/index.html

10 years ago

152 upvotes – 131 comments

Research indicates that only about half of perceived friendships are mutual

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/07/opinion/sunday/do-your-friends-actually-like-you.html?action=click&contentCollection=U.S.&module=Trending&version=Full&region=Marginalia&pgtype=article

10 years ago

150 upvotes – 151 comments

Emperor Akihito of Japan Raises Possibility of Leaving Throne

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/09/world/asia/japan-emperor-akihito-retirement.html

10 years ago

147 upvotes – 181 comments

Version 11 of Mathematica

http://blog.wolfram.com/2016/08/08/today-we-launch-version-11/

10 years ago

146 upvotes – 99 comments

Printable 1:24000 topographic maps for the entire US

http://www.natgeomaps.com/trail-maps/pdf-quads

10 years ago

141 upvotes – 37 comments

The Update Framework

https://theupdateframework.github.io/

10 years ago

140 upvotes – 30 comments
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