top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-08-16

Fake Linus Torvalds' Key Found in the Wild, No More Short-IDs

https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/8/15/445

10 years ago

701 upvotes – 127 comments

Optimism

https://github.com/raganwald/presentations/blob/master/optimism.md

10 years ago

★ 751 MIT
617 upvotes – 160 comments

This Is Your Life in Silicon Valley

https://medium.com/@subes01/this-is-your-life-in-silicon-valley-933091235095

10 years ago

480 upvotes – 173 comments

Snowden: Hack of an NSA server is not unprecedented, publication of the take is

https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/765513662597623808

10 years ago

387 upvotes – 229 comments

Colorized man pages

http://boredzo.org/blog/archives/2016-08-15/colorized-man-pages-understood-and-customized

10 years ago

358 upvotes – 98 comments

Sam Altman talks with Mark Zuckerberg about how to build the future [video]

http://themacro.com/articles/2016/08/mark-zuckerberg-future-interview/

10 years ago

341 upvotes – 250 comments

Intel Licenses ARM Technology to Boost Foundry Business

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-16/intel-licenses-arm-technology-in-move-to-boost-foundry-business

10 years ago

317 upvotes – 119 comments

Google Duo, a simple 1-to-1 video calling app

https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2016/08/meet-google-duo-simple-1-to-1-video.html?m=1

10 years ago

311 upvotes – 364 comments

The traits of a proficient programmer

https://www.oreilly.com/ideas/the-traits-of-a-proficient-programmer

10 years ago

305 upvotes – 136 comments

Debian turns 23

https://bits.debian.org/2016/08/debian-turns-23.html

10 years ago

271 upvotes – 52 comments

Lonnie Johnson: The father of the Super Soaker

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-37062579

10 years ago

257 upvotes – 34 comments

Looking at your program’s structure in Go 1.7

https://pauladamsmith.com/blog/2016/08/go-1.7-ssa.html

10 years ago

238 upvotes – 53 comments

Ideas for getting started in the Linux kernel

http://www.labbott.name/blog/2016/08/15/ideas-for-getting-started-in-the-linux-kernel

10 years ago

207 upvotes – 45 comments

Nanorobots That Can Travel Down the Bloodstream and Precisely Target Tumors

http://sciencenewsjournal.com/scientists-created-nanorobots-can-travel-bloodstream-precisely-target-cancerous-tumors/

10 years ago

204 upvotes – 88 comments

Age differences in learning from an insufficient representation of uncertainty

http://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms11609

10 years ago

200 upvotes – 88 comments

My favorite day of the month is bank statement day at my company

https://medium.com/@yanismydj/the-worlds-most-epic-bank-statement-6-months-later-6e749c100435#.p00hj1asb

10 years ago

199 upvotes – 107 comments

Pesticide link to long-term wild bee decline in 18 year study

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-37089385

10 years ago

191 upvotes – 99 comments

Pinker: “News is a misleading way to understand the world”

http://www.vox.com/2016/8/16/12486586/2016-worst-year-ever-violence-trump-terrorism

10 years ago

176 upvotes – 87 comments

The Age of Absurdity: Why Modern Life Makes It Hard to Be Happy (2010)

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/feb/21/the-age-of-absurdity-foley

10 years ago

176 upvotes – 180 comments

Pendulum – Python datetimes made easy

https://github.com/sdispater/pendulum

10 years ago

★ 6.6k Python MIT
172 upvotes – 73 comments

Dropbox Is in Talks with Advisers for Possible 2017 IPO

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-15/dropbox-said-to-discuss-possible-2017-ipo-in-talks-with-advisers

10 years ago

167 upvotes – 174 comments

Twitch is acquiring popular video game community and software maker Curse

https://techcrunch.com/2016/08/16/twitch-is-acquiring-popular-video-game-community-and-software-maker-curse/

10 years ago

166 upvotes – 103 comments

Show HN: New time and daylight application

https://chronozone.xyz/

10 years ago

150 upvotes – 34 comments

Are Rotisserie Chickens a Bargain?

https://priceonomics.com/are-rotisserie-chickens-a-bargain/

10 years ago

147 upvotes – 123 comments

EquationGroup Tool Leak – ExtraBacon Demo

https://xorcatt.wordpress.com/2016/08/16/equationgroup-tool-leak-extrabacon-demo/

10 years ago

147 upvotes – 33 comments

How America Converted Its 1980 Olympic Village into a Prison

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-time-that-the-us-turned-an-olympic-village-into-a-prison

10 years ago

146 upvotes – 82 comments

Correcting Intel's Deep Learning Benchmark Mistakes

https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2016/08/16/correcting-some-mistakes/

10 years ago

141 upvotes – 37 comments

Nvidia stuffs desktop GTX 1080, 1070, 1060 into laptops, drops the “M”

http://arstechnica.co.uk/gadgets/2016/08/nvidia-pascal-laptop-specs-gtx-1080/

10 years ago

138 upvotes – 77 comments

Think before you Mongo

http://blog.runnable.com/post/149000201856/think-before-you-mongo

10 years ago

124 upvotes – 96 comments

A Magnetic Wormhole (2015)

http://www.nature.com/articles/srep12488

10 years ago

106 upvotes – 72 comments

We're Bullish on AMP

https://trackchanges.postlight.com/were-bullish-on-amp-abfc6e1f10a1

10 years ago

104 upvotes – 105 comments

Show HN: Thyme, a simple CLI to measure human time and focus

https://text.sourcegraph.com/thyme-a-simple-cli-to-measure-human-time-and-focus-577b87337b9c

10 years ago

99 upvotes – 18 comments

Go Proposal: first-class support for sorting slices

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/16721

10 years ago

★ 133.6k Go BSD-3-Clause
89 upvotes – 104 comments

Open Source PaaS Built on Docker

https://github.com/ooyala/atlantis

10 years ago

★ 391 Go Apache-2.0
87 upvotes – 33 comments

Fast Document Rectification and Enhancement

https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech/2016/08/fast-document-rectification-and-enhancement/

10 years ago

87 upvotes – 6 comments

OpenAI Team Update

https://openai.com/blog/team-update-august/

10 years ago

86 upvotes – 14 comments

I am very saddened to announce that I am quitting Tor

https://shiromarieke.github.io/tor

10 years ago

79 upvotes – 46 comments

Scientists found Zenkerella, one of the most ancient and mysterious mammals

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2016/08/16/scientists-finally-found-zenkerella-the-worlds-most-mysterious-mammal/

10 years ago

77 upvotes – 22 comments

The Write Stuff: How the Humble Pencil Conquered the World

http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/a21567/history-of-the-pencil

10 years ago

76 upvotes – 16 comments

Higher-order abstract syntax

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higher-order_abstract_syntax

10 years ago

76 upvotes – 19 comments

Gradle 3.0 Release Notes

https://docs.gradle.org/current/release-notes

10 years ago

75 upvotes – 37 comments

Visualizing Clusters of Clickbait Headlines Using Spark, Word2vec, and Plotly

http://minimaxir.com/2016/08/clickbait-cluster/

10 years ago

74 upvotes – 6 comments

Rare implementation of RC5/RC6 in ShadowBrokers dump connects them to Equation

https://securelist.com/blog/incidents/75812/the-equation-giveaway/

10 years ago

71 upvotes – 20 comments

A Guide to Co-Founder Fit

https://fundersclub.com/blog/2016/08/03/finding-your-cofounder/?utm_campaign=Mattermark+Daily+Weekend+Edition&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=32890852&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_aVCVozPQZiC3LoHaqCw20N0BDLvY2scuWUCGL6FxBywqPFHvvvCzJcT-fQpU-cFJwyAC0xNl8Ap0F4siam39xvfgPXA&_hsmi=32890852

10 years ago

71 upvotes – 19 comments

Olympic medals per capita

http://www.medalspercapita.com/

10 years ago

70 upvotes – 74 comments

Intro to Multicriteria Optimization

http://blog.sigopt.com/post/149041563563/sigopt-in-depth-intro-to-multicriteria

10 years ago

69 upvotes – 44 comments

Toray carbon fiber to carry SpaceX's Mars ambitions

http://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Deals/Toray-carbon-fiber-to-carry-SpaceX-s-Mars-ambitions

10 years ago

67 upvotes – 38 comments

Ask HN: How have you left Google's services?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12298059

10 years ago

66 upvotes – 89 comments
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