top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-08-17

“It's The Future”

https://circleci.com/blog/its-the-future

10 years ago

1323 upvotes – 521 comments

Writing Less Code

http://www.heydonworks.com/article/on-writing-less-damn-code

10 years ago

583 upvotes – 200 comments

What Great Listeners Actually Do

https://hbr.org/2016/07/what-great-listeners-actually-do

10 years ago

521 upvotes – 198 comments

With Windows 10, Microsoft Disregards User Choice and Privacy

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/08/windows-10-microsoft-blatantly-disregards-user-choice-and-privacy-deep-dive

10 years ago

465 upvotes – 398 comments

Cisco to lay off about 14,000 employees

http://reuters.com/article/businessNews/idUSKCN10S05D

10 years ago

349 upvotes – 277 comments

Users You Don’t Want

http://themacro.com/articles/2016/08/users-you-dont-want/

10 years ago

292 upvotes – 177 comments

Simpler GitHub Pages publishing

https://github.com/blog/2228-simpler-github-pages-publishing

10 years ago

275 upvotes – 63 comments

NPR Website to Get Rid of Comments

http://www.npr.org/sections/ombudsman/2016/08/17/489516952/npr-website-to-get-rid-of-comments

10 years ago

271 upvotes – 433 comments

30K Page Views for $0.21: A Serverless Story

https://fmlnerd.com/2016/08/16/30k-page-views-for-0-21-a-serverless-story/

10 years ago

238 upvotes – 73 comments

Humble Book Bundle: The Joy of Coding

https://www.humblebundle.com/books/joy-of-coding-book-bundle

10 years ago

223 upvotes – 87 comments

Bitcoin 0.13.0 Binary Safety Warning

https://bitcoin.org/en/alert/2016-08-17-binary-safety

10 years ago

216 upvotes – 108 comments

Evidence on how to find the right career

https://80000hours.org/career-guide/personal-fit/

10 years ago

214 upvotes – 61 comments

15 Page Tutorial for R

http://www.studytrails.com/blog/15-page-tutorial-for-r/

10 years ago

194 upvotes – 29 comments

Git Workflow Basics

https://blog.codeminer42.com/git-workflow-basics-d405746f6205#.g648r8nuy

10 years ago

187 upvotes – 75 comments

Nvidia – significant increases in parental benefits for employees

https://virtuallyvisual.wordpress.com/2016/08/17/nvidia-significant-increases-in-parental-benefits-for-employees/

10 years ago

181 upvotes – 170 comments

Rate Limits

https://letsencrypt.org/docs/rate-limits/

10 years ago

175 upvotes – 115 comments

‘Shadow Brokers’ Leak Raises Question of whether the N.S.A. was Hacked

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/17/us/shadow-brokers-leak-raises-alarming-question-was-the-nsa-hacked.html

10 years ago

157 upvotes – 87 comments

Chinese Tech Firms Forced to Choose Market: Home or Everywhere Else

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/10/technology/china-homegrown-internet-companies-rest-of-the-world.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur

10 years ago

150 upvotes – 126 comments

Aetna CEO Threatened Obamacare Pullout If Feds Opposed Humana Merger

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/aetna-obamacare-pullout-humana-merger_us_57b3d747e4b04ff883996a13

10 years ago

142 upvotes – 343 comments

Show HN: GPU-Accelerated Digit Recognition with WebGL

https://erkaman.github.io/regl-cnn/src/demo

10 years ago

135 upvotes – 57 comments

Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance SNMP Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20160817-asa-snmp

10 years ago

134 upvotes – 127 comments

A Conflict-Free Replicated JSON Datatype

http://arxiv.org/abs/1608.03960

10 years ago

132 upvotes – 59 comments

Walmart’s Crime Problem

https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-walmart-crime/

10 years ago

130 upvotes – 195 comments

First Tesla Taxi in America after 100k miles

https://electrek.co/2016/08/16/first-tesla-taxi-in-america-after-100000-miles-why-every-taxi-driver-should-consider-going-electric/

10 years ago

126 upvotes – 203 comments

How to Set Up and Deploy to a 1000-Node Docker Swarm

http://blog.nimbleci.com/2016/08/17/how-to-set-up-and-deploy-to-a-1000-node-docker-swarm/

10 years ago

117 upvotes – 41 comments

Patagonia's CEO Explains How to Make On-Site Child Care Pay for Itself

http://www.fastcompany.com/3062792/second-shift/patagonias-ceo-explains-how-to-make-onsite-child-care-pay-for-itself

10 years ago

117 upvotes – 100 comments

Hololens Commercial Suite

https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-hololens/en-us/commercial-suite

10 years ago

113 upvotes – 23 comments

The worst predicted impacts of climate change are starting to happen (2015)

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-point-of-no-return-climate-change-nightmares-are-already-here-20150805?print=true

10 years ago

112 upvotes – 24 comments

Bringing Nixie tubes back to life

http://www.daliborfarny.com/

10 years ago

108 upvotes – 23 comments

React Enlightenment

http://www.reactenlightenment.com/

10 years ago

106 upvotes – 40 comments

Saudi Aramco Plans World's Biggest IPO

https://www.bloomberg.com/quicktake/saudi-aramco

10 years ago

104 upvotes – 95 comments

Context aware MySQL pools via HAProxy

http://githubengineering.com/context-aware-mysql-pools-via-haproxy/

10 years ago

103 upvotes – 24 comments

Information, Physics and Computation (2009)

https://web.stanford.edu/~montanar/RESEARCH/BOOK/book.html

10 years ago

100 upvotes – 14 comments

My Letter to the Tor Project

https://www.oneeyedman.net/?p=2581

10 years ago

100 upvotes – 16 comments

ZeroNet and IPFS: uncensorable auto-scaling BitTorrent powered websites

https://www.turnkeylinux.org/blog/p2p-web-hosting

10 years ago

97 upvotes – 24 comments

Intel Announces Knights Mill: A Xeon Phi for Deep Learning

http://www.anandtech.com/show/10575/intel-announces-knights-mill-a-xeon-phi-for-deep-learning

10 years ago

94 upvotes – 56 comments

The Search For Class:0x00000027b59290

https://chrisarcand.com/the-search-for-class0x0000001ab51700/

10 years ago

91 upvotes – 22 comments

Building Soundcloud's iOS App; in-depth retrospective

http://www.michaelevensen.com/

10 years ago

89 upvotes – 28 comments

Attracting Early Stage Investors: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment (2015)

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2432044

10 years ago

89 upvotes – 38 comments

New steel treatment could enable lighter, stronger, cheaper cars (2015)

http://newatlas.com/flash-bainite-automotive-testing/40774/?li_source=LI&li_medium=default-widget

10 years ago

85 upvotes – 43 comments

Turn Off Cortana Completely in Windows 10 Anniversary Update

http://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-10-tip-turn-off-cortana-completely/

10 years ago

85 upvotes – 64 comments

Fork() without exec() is dangerous in large programs

http://www.evanjones.ca/fork-is-dangerous.html

10 years ago

84 upvotes – 101 comments

Airlander 10: Maiden flight at last for longest aircraft

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-37111527

10 years ago

82 upvotes – 67 comments

New Startup Aims to Commercialize a Brain Prosthetic to Improve Memory

http://spectrum.ieee.org/the-human-os/biomedical/bionics/new-startup-aims-to-commercialize-a-brain-prosthetic-to-improve-memory

10 years ago

80 upvotes – 47 comments

A History of Palm, Part 1: Before the PalmPilot

http://lowendmac.com/2016/a-history-of-palm-part-1-before-the-palmpilot/

10 years ago

78 upvotes – 23 comments

Surfingkeys – Expand your browser with javascript and keyboard

https://github.com/brookhong/Surfingkeys

10 years ago

★ 6k JavaScript MIT
77 upvotes – 26 comments

Show HN: Realtime, self-hosted monitoring for Node.js inspired by GitHub Status

https://github.com/RafalWilinski/express-status-monitor

10 years ago

★ 3.6k JavaScript MIT
75 upvotes – 19 comments

The Future of Planet Mozilla

http://exple.tive.org/blarg/2016/08/17/the-future-of-the-planet/

10 years ago

74 upvotes – 35 comments

The misleading stream of articles about scientific studies

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-theory/wp/2016/08/17/the-media-is-ruining-science/

10 years ago

72 upvotes – 55 comments

Show HN: Amazon Search on Steroids

http://www.jeviz.com/

10 years ago

71 upvotes – 54 comments

Harvard Museums Releases Online Catalogue of 32,000 Bauhaus Works

http://www.archdaily.com/793507/harvard-museums-releases-online-catalogue-of-32000-bauhaus-works

10 years ago

70 upvotes – 11 comments

Using Feature Queries in CSS

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2016/08/using-feature-queries-in-css/

10 years ago

70 upvotes – 17 comments
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