top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-08-15

Go 1.7 is released

https://blog.golang.org/go1.7

10 years ago

545 upvotes – 133 comments

Introducing Webpack Dashboard

https://formidable.com/blog/2016/08/15/introducing-webpack-dashboard/

10 years ago

441 upvotes – 54 comments

YC Tech Stacks

http://themacro.com/articles/2016/08/yc-tech-stacks/

10 years ago

336 upvotes – 99 comments

Jailbreaking the Kindle

https://github.com/sgayou/kindle-5.6.5-jailbreak/blob/master/doc/README.md

10 years ago

★ 436 Assembly Unlicense
306 upvotes – 86 comments

Startups in 13 Sentences (2009)

http://www.paulgraham.com/13sentences.html

10 years ago

306 upvotes – 78 comments

NoSQL Databases: A Survey and Decision Guidance

https://medium.com/baqend-blog/nosql-databases-a-survey-and-decision-guidance-ea7823a822d#.z0xgmd1a4

10 years ago

297 upvotes – 73 comments

Why didn't Larrabee fail?

http://tomforsyth1000.github.io/blog.wiki.html#%5B%5BWhy%20didn%27t%20Larrabee%20fail%3F%5D%5D

10 years ago

267 upvotes – 100 comments

Technical debt as an opportunity to accumulate technical wealth

http://firstround.com/review/forget-technical-debt-heres-how-to-build-technical-wealth/?_hsenc=p2ANqtz--kPw8wFvKVfV1GLca96jgrr2yWHIGRoFkCjsYzB1eY_6CWIsHTOIZp_ion68LPMGyONheMaUCanW0tA7FmqK5LF1XT6A&_hsmi=32846075

10 years ago

253 upvotes – 202 comments

Setup Keybase.io, GPG and Git to sign commits on GitHub

https://github.com/pstadler/keybase-gpg-github

10 years ago

★ 2.6k
247 upvotes – 118 comments

Equation Group Cyber Weapons Auction

https://theshadowbrokers.tumblr.com/

10 years ago

224 upvotes – 137 comments

Stories and Tips: Interviews with Facebook, Twitter, Amazon and Others

http://blog.robertelder.org/50-interviews-with-facebook-twitter-amazon-others/

10 years ago

219 upvotes – 85 comments

Extracting data from Wikipedia using curl, grep, cut and other bash commands

http://loige.co/extracting-data-from-wikipedia-using-curl-grep-cut-and-other-bash-commands/

10 years ago

218 upvotes – 70 comments

VeraCrypt to be audited

https://ostif.org/we-have-come-to-an-agreement-to-get-veracrypt-audited/

10 years ago

212 upvotes – 38 comments

LogicJS adds logic programming to JavaScript

https://github.com/mcsoto/LogicJS

10 years ago

★ 1k JavaScript MIT
209 upvotes – 72 comments

A look behind the scenes at an index fund with Vanguard's Gerry O'Reilly

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-15/vanguard-s-gerry-o-reilly-offers-a-rare-look-inside-an-index-fund

10 years ago

203 upvotes – 136 comments

Why don’t podcasts use VBR MP3s? Because iOS and macOS don’t accurately seek them

https://marco.org/2016/08/15/vbr-mp3-plea

10 years ago

202 upvotes – 85 comments

Why you should never use MongoDB (2013)

http://www.sarahmei.com/blog/2013/11/11/why-you-should-never-use-mongodb/

10 years ago

194 upvotes – 183 comments

Maintainers Wanted, open source projects looking for new maintainers

https://github.com/pickhardt/maintainers-wanted?

10 years ago

★ 481 MIT
180 upvotes – 32 comments

The SEC has temporarily halted trading of Neuromama Ltd.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-15/a-35-billion-stock-was-just-halted-on-manipulation-concerns

10 years ago

175 upvotes – 132 comments

GitTips

https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/GitTips

10 years ago

166 upvotes – 55 comments

A Container Is a Function Call

https://glyph.twistedmatrix.com/2016/08/defcontainer.html

10 years ago

152 upvotes – 67 comments

The Shame of Palo Alto: An Interview with Kate Downing on Affordable Housing

https://stanfordpolitics.com/the-shame-of-palo-alto-an-interview-with-kate-downing-on-affordable-housing-edddfe142d45#.60ip1iuro

10 years ago

149 upvotes – 199 comments

Release of Infinity for Game Boy Color in Unfinished Form

http://affinix.com/

10 years ago

147 upvotes – 29 comments

In Bungled Spying Operation, NSA Targeted Pro-Democracy Campaigner

https://theintercept.com/2016/08/14/nsa-gcsb-prism-surveillance-fullman-fiji/

10 years ago

146 upvotes – 58 comments

JetBrains IDE Remote Code Execution and Local File Disclosure

http://blog.saynotolinux.com/blog/2016/08/15/jetbrains-ide-remote-code-execution-and-local-file-disclosure-vulnerability-analysis/

10 years ago

145 upvotes – 33 comments

What’s New with “The Rust Programming Language”?

http://words.steveklabnik.com/whats-new-with-the-rust-programming-language

10 years ago

143 upvotes – 50 comments

Lifting the Shadows of the NSA’s Equation Group

https://www.riskbasedsecurity.com/2016/08/the-shadow-brokers-lifting-the-shadows-of-the-nsas-equation-group/

10 years ago

139 upvotes – 55 comments

Tavish’s excessively long programmer biography

https://github.com/tarmstrong/longcv/blob/master/bio.md

10 years ago

★ 232
137 upvotes – 48 comments

Billionaire founder of Free launches free coding college

http://arstechnica.com/business/2016/08/can-42-us-a-free-coding-school-run-by-a-french-billionaire-actually-work/

10 years ago

135 upvotes – 66 comments

ShiftJS – Swift to JavaScript transpiler

http://www.shiftjs.com

10 years ago

121 upvotes – 98 comments

Peter Thiel: The Online Privacy Debate Won’t End With Gawker

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/16/opinion/peter-thiel-the-online-privacy-debate-wont-end-with-gawker.html?_r=0

10 years ago

119 upvotes – 194 comments

Startups, let’s act: Make Nov 8 a Holiday

https://blog.amium.com/startups-lets-act-make-nov-8-a-holiday-529f1c63ab9c#.ef772eyxm

10 years ago

110 upvotes – 114 comments

Tyre – Typed regular expressions

https://drup.github.io/2016/08/12/tyre/

10 years ago

109 upvotes – 32 comments

Cuban Cartoonist Fled from Castro and Created 'Spy vs. Spy'

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/meet-the-cuban-expatriate-who-created-spy-vs-spy

10 years ago

109 upvotes – 26 comments

The Four Flaws of Haskell

http://neilmitchell.blogspot.com/2016/08/the-four-flaws-of-haskell.html

10 years ago

108 upvotes – 75 comments

There’s a $200k reward for anyone who proves Microsoft ripped off MS-DOS source

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2016/08/08/theres-a-200k-reward-for-anyone-who-proves-microsoft-ripped-off-ms-dos-source-code/

10 years ago

102 upvotes – 69 comments

Soros, the Open Society Foundations, and the Continued Political Hacks

https://www.riskbasedsecurity.com/2016/08/soros-the-open-society-foundations-and-the-continued-political-hacks/

10 years ago

101 upvotes – 77 comments

Acetaminophen use in pregnancy linked to child's behavioral problems

http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-acetaminophen-pregnancy-behavior-problems-20160815-snap-story.html

10 years ago

97 upvotes – 84 comments

How Home Loans Have Changed since 2000

http://www.zillow.com/research/conventional-mortgage-changes-12999/

10 years ago

97 upvotes – 115 comments

IBM model-M keyboard sound emulation to annoy co-workers

https://github.com/zevv/bucklespring/blob/master/README.md

10 years ago

★ 1.5k C GPL-2.0
94 upvotes – 165 comments

PINCE – A GDB front-end/reverse engineering tool focused on games

https://github.com/korcankaraokcu/PINCE

10 years ago

★ 2.8k Python
93 upvotes – 3 comments

Modular Moto Z Android phone supports DIY and RPi HAT add-ons

http://hackerboards.com/modular-moto-z-android-phone-supports-diy-and-rpi-hat-add-ons/

10 years ago

91 upvotes – 14 comments

A Texting Truth Often Forgotten in Politics: Your Phone Remembers Everything

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/12/nyregion/a-texting-truth-often-forgotten-in-politics-your-phone-remembers-everything.html

10 years ago

89 upvotes – 48 comments

My review of Dell XPS 15 as a developer laptop

https://peteris.rocks/blog/my-dell-xps-15-review/

10 years ago

83 upvotes – 157 comments

Canada’s tech sector is hemorrhaging talent [audio]

http://www.canadalandshow.com/podcast/ep-147-why-johnny-cant-innovate-canadas-tech-sector/

10 years ago

79 upvotes – 108 comments

Introducing #EdgeBug: File web platform bugs with a Tweet

https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2016/08/11/edgebug-twitter/

10 years ago

78 upvotes – 14 comments

A More Flexible Paxos

http://ssougou.blogspot.com/2016/08/a-more-flexible-paxos.html

10 years ago

77 upvotes – 21 comments

How Do Venture Capitalists Make Decisions?

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2801385

10 years ago

77 upvotes – 27 comments

The cost of small modules

https://nolanlawson.com/2016/08/15/the-cost-of-small-modules/

10 years ago

74 upvotes – 24 comments

DuoSkin – On-skin User Interfaces

http://duoskin.media.mit.edu/

10 years ago

73 upvotes – 4 comments

The awkward journey towards less back end

https://medium.com/@deepstreamIO/the-awkward-journey-towards-less-backend-a260a16095de#.jlwlwkp2r

10 years ago

70 upvotes – 27 comments

How Hyperloop One Went Off the Rails

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-15/how-hyperloop-one-went-off-the-rails

10 years ago

66 upvotes – 121 comments

Splitting Equity Among Founders

http://www.themacro.com/articles/2015/12/splitting-equity-among-founders/

10 years ago

61 upvotes – 39 comments
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