top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-08-11

Indie Hackers: Learn how developers are making money

https://www.indiehackers.com

10 years ago

Zero-cost futures in Rust

http://aturon.github.io/blog/2016/08/11/futures/

10 years ago

What I learned as a hired consultant to autodidact physicists

https://aeon.co/ideas/what-i-learned-as-a-hired-consultant-for-autodidact-physicists

10 years ago

React Server

https://react-server.io/

10 years ago

Fuchsia, a new operating system

https://github.com/fuchsia-mirror

10 years ago

Why we won't be selling Genuino or Arduino any more

http://blog.pimoroni.com/why-we-wont-be-selling-genuino-arduino-any-more/

10 years ago

AWS Application Load Balancer

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-aws-application-load-balancer/

10 years ago

New “Leaf” Is More Efficient Than Natural Photosynthesis

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-bionic-leaf-is-roughly-10-times-more-efficient-than-natural-photosynthesis/?wt.mc=SA_Twitter-Share

10 years ago

Unsafe levels of toxic chemicals found in drinking water for 6M Americans

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/press-releases/toxic-chemicals-drinking-water/

10 years ago

How the Arab World Came Apart

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/08/11/magazine/isis-middle-east-arab-spring-fractured-lands.html

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George Orwell, “Politics and the English Language” (1946)

https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/orwell46.htm

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The People’s Code

https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2016/08/08/peoples-code

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The Rise and Fall of the Gopher Protocol

https://www.minnpost.com/business/2016/08/rise-and-fall-gopher-protocol

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Top Deep Learning Projects

https://github.com/aymericdamien/TopDeepLearning

10 years ago

★ 6.1k Python MIT

Why Buyers Shunned the World's Largest Diamond

http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/08/why-buyers-shunned-the-worlds-largest-diamond

10 years ago

GNU founder Stallman: ‘Open source is not free software’

http://siliconangle.com/blog/2016/04/28/gnu-founder-stallman-open-source-is-not-free-software/

10 years ago

The fight to cheat death is heating up

http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21704788-fight-cheat-death-hotting-up-adding-ages

10 years ago

Seagate Introduces a 60TB SSD – Is a 3.6PB Storage Pod Next?

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/seagate-60tb-ssd-36pb-storage-pod-next/

10 years ago

Show HN: Beaker – A browser for IPFS and Dat

http://pfrazee.github.io/2016/08/10/beaker-browser-0.1.html

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Five languages that came from English

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20160811-how-english-gave-birth-to-surprising-new-languages

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DEA regularly mines Americans' travel records to seize millions in cash

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2016/08/10/dea-travel-record-airport-seizures/88474282/

10 years ago

DDoSCoin: Cryptocurrency with malicious proof of work

https://www.usenix.org/conference/woot16/workshop-program/presentation/wustrow

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IPv6 Support for Amazon S3

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/now-available-ipv6-support-for-amazon-s3/

10 years ago

Greenland shark found to be at least 272 years old

http://www.nature.com/news/near-blind-shark-is-world-s-longest-lived-vertebrate-1.20406

10 years ago

Extracting city blocks from OpenStreetMap data

https://peteris.rocks/blog/openstreetmap-city-blocks-as-geojson-polygons/

10 years ago

FCC loses court battle to let cities build their own broadband

http://www.theverge.com/2016/8/10/12426672/fcc-municipal-broadband-order-overturned-appellate-court

10 years ago

DeepRegex: Neural Generation of Regular Expressions from Natural Language

http://arxiv.org/abs/1608.03000

10 years ago

Secure Boot snafu: Microsoft leaks backdoor key, firmware flung wide open

http://arstechnica.co.uk/security/2016/08/microsoft-secure-boot-firmware-snafu-leaks-golden-key/

10 years ago

How to Prototype a Game in Under 7 Days (2005)

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/130848/how_to_prototype_a_game_in_under_7_.php

10 years ago

Why I Live in IRC (2015)

https://aaronparecki.com/2015/08/29/8/why-i-live-in-irc

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Responsive HTML Email Templates

http://htmlemail.io/

10 years ago

Microsoft Readies Azure GPUs

https://www.virtualizationpractice.com/microsoft-readies-azure-gpus-38918/

10 years ago

Cheap, fast, wireless connectivity won’t happen without more fiber

https://backchannel.com/the-next-generation-of-wireless-5g-is-all-hype-1790239b8ca8#.oz3rmbyil

10 years ago

Netflix and Fill

http://techblog.netflix.com/2016/08/netflix-and-fill.html

10 years ago

Automattic open sources Simplenote

https://simplenote.com/2016/08/11/ios-android-and-macos-apps-now-open-source/

10 years ago

Mapping the World of Music Using Machine Learning: Part 1

https://tech.iheart.com/mapping-the-world-of-music-using-machine-learning-part-1-9a57fa67e366

10 years ago

New Measurement Deepens Proton Puzzle

https://www.quantamagazine.org/20160811-new-measurement-deepens-proton-radius-puzzle/

10 years ago

Looks Can Kill: The Deadly Results of Flawed Design

https://www.propublica.org/article/looks-can-kill-the-deadly-results-of-flawed-design

10 years ago

Ingesting MySQL data at scale – Part 1

https://engineering.pinterest.com/blog/tracker-ingesting-mysql-data-scale-part-1

10 years ago

How connected car tech is eroding personal privacy

http://www.bbc.com/autos/story/20160809-your-car-is-not-your-friend?ocid=ww.social.link.twitter

10 years ago

YC Office Hours in 11 Countries This Fall

https://blog.ycombinator.com/yc-office-hours-in-11-countries-this-fall

10 years ago

UEFI on top of U-Boot on ARM

http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2016-February/244378.html

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Trans-Neptunian object discovered in the outer solar system

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2100700-mystery-object-in-weird-orbit-beyond-neptune-cannot-be-explained/

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Now is a really good time to buy a helicopter

http://qz.com/755787/now-is-a-really-good-time-to-buy-a-helicopter/

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By 2030, 56 countries will have more people aged 65+ than children under 15

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-11/more-old-than-young-a-population-plague-spreads-around-the-globe

10 years ago

El Chapo and the History of the Heroin Crisis

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a46918/heroin-mexico-el-chapo-cartels-don-winslow/

10 years ago

Recursions without names: Introduction to the Y combinator in JavaScript

http://blog.klipse.tech/lambda/2016/08/10/almost-y-combinator-javascript.html

10 years ago

Toyota Gives University of Michigan $22M for Robotics, AV Research

http://www.freep.com/story/money/cars/2016/08/10/toyota-gives-u-m-22m-robotics-av-research/88483712/

10 years ago

A Sea Worth Its Salt

http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/sea-worth-salt/

10 years ago

I Just Drove Eight Hours on Tesla Autopilot

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-10/i-just-drove-8-hours-on-tesla-autopilot-and-lived-to-tell-the-tale

10 years ago

Can Psychiatry Turn Itself Around?

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/mind-guest-blog/can-psychiatry-turn-itself-around/

10 years ago

The Fall of Schwinn (1993)

http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/19931009/ISSUE01/100018007/the-fall-of-schwinn-pt-1-of-2

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