top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-08-19

The Cuban CDN

https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-cuban-cdn/

10 years ago

832 upvotes – 136 comments

Megaprocessor – A micro-processor built large

http://www.megaprocessor.com

10 years ago

731 upvotes – 88 comments

Less stress, more productivity: working fewer hours is good for you and your boss

https://codewithoutrules.com/2016/08/18/productive-programmer/

10 years ago

605 upvotes – 296 comments

Curl author asks Microsoft to remove 'curl' and 'wget' aliases from PowerShell

https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/pull/1901

10 years ago

★ 53.1k C# MIT
475 upvotes – 341 comments

Ask HN: Best passive income method for a solo developer?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12318449

10 years ago

427 upvotes – 244 comments

The Difference Between AI, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning

https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2016/07/29/whats-difference-artificial-intelligence-machine-learning-deep-learning-ai/

10 years ago

288 upvotes – 101 comments

The Hacker's Manifesto (1986)

https://www.usc.edu/~douglast/202/lecture23/manifesto.html

10 years ago

248 upvotes – 146 comments

Kubernetes the Hard Way

https://github.com/kelseyhightower/kubernetes-the-hard-way/blob/master/README.md

10 years ago

★ 48k Apache-2.0
240 upvotes – 79 comments

Former employee sues startup for financials in order to value granted stock

http://www.wsj.com/articles/legal-fight-escalates-over-tech-startups-financials-1471512602

10 years ago

231 upvotes – 66 comments

Lawsuit could be the beginning of the end for DRM

https://www.defectivebydesign.org/blog/lawsuit_could_be_beginning_end_drm

10 years ago

230 upvotes – 205 comments

Show HN: A Multiplayer Geography Game Using WebSockets

https://github.com/abrenaut/posio

10 years ago

★ 676 Python MIT
220 upvotes – 69 comments

U.S. Army fudged its accounts by trillions of dollars, auditor finds

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-audit-army-idUSKCN10U1IG

10 years ago

204 upvotes – 205 comments

Deutsche Bank Whistle-Blower Spurns $8M SEC Reward

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-19/deutsche-bank-whistle-blower-spurns-8-million-reward-from-sec

10 years ago

198 upvotes – 45 comments

From Chrome Apps to the Web

http://blog.chromium.org/2016/08/from-chrome-apps-to-web.html

10 years ago

195 upvotes – 104 comments

Zika Infection May Affect Adult Brain Cells

http://newswire.rockefeller.edu/2016/08/18/zika-infection-may-affect-adult-brain-cells-suggesting-risk-may-not-be-limited-to-pregnant-women/

10 years ago

189 upvotes – 66 comments

PHP the Wrong Way

http://www.phpthewrongway.com/

10 years ago

178 upvotes – 186 comments

All of Google's cloud database services are now out of beta

https://techcrunch.com/2016/08/16/all-of-googles-cloud-database-services-are-now-out-of-beta-and-nearline-cold-storage-gets-faster/

10 years ago

173 upvotes – 74 comments

Judge grants Happy Birthday lawyers $4.6M, citing “unusually positive results”

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/08/lawyers-who-nixed-happy-birthday-copyright-will-get-4-6m-in-fees/

10 years ago

173 upvotes – 94 comments

New batteries could make phones, drones, and electric cars last twice as long

http://news.mit.edu/2016/lithium-metal-batteries-double-power-consumer-electronics-0817

10 years ago

171 upvotes – 107 comments

We Shouldn’t Wait Another 15 Years for a Conversation About Government Hacking

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/08/we-shouldnt-wait-another-fifteen-years-conversation-about-government-hacking

10 years ago

165 upvotes – 37 comments

Satellites auto detect buildings in OpenStreetMap

https://medium.com/@astrodigital/satellites-auto-detect-buildings-in-openstreetmap-b5bfb8840114#.ux0i1hboo

10 years ago

163 upvotes – 33 comments

'Flash Boys' IEX stock exchange opens for business

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-capital-group-iex-20160815-snap-story.html

10 years ago

160 upvotes – 147 comments

Writing a JPEG Decoder in Rust – Part 2: Implementation I

https://mht.technology/post/jpeg-rust-2/#

10 years ago

158 upvotes – 80 comments

Ao is a tool for programmatic computer-aided design using Scheme

http://www.mattkeeter.com/projects/ao/

10 years ago

148 upvotes – 43 comments

Researcher Grabs VPN Password with Tool from NSA Dump

https://motherboard.vice.com/read/researcher-grabs-cisco-vpn-password-with-tool-from-nsa-dump

10 years ago

147 upvotes – 52 comments

Physics, Topology, Logic and Computation: A Rosetta Stone (2009) [pdf]

http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/rosetta.pdf

10 years ago

132 upvotes – 10 comments

Game Theory – Prison Breakthrough

http://www.economist.com/news/economics-brief/21705308-fifth-our-series-seminal-economic-ideas-looks-nash-equilibrium-prison

10 years ago

130 upvotes – 27 comments

Microsoft Has Broken Millions of Webcams with Windows 10 Anniversary Update

https://www.thurrott.com/windows/windows-10/76719/microsoft-broken-millions-webcams-windows-10-anniversary-update

10 years ago

128 upvotes – 103 comments

Machine Learning Unconference

https://openai.com/blog/machine-learning-unconference/

10 years ago

125 upvotes – 17 comments

​72 Hours of Pwnage: A Paranoid N00b Goes to Def Con

https://motherboard.vice.com/read/72-hours-of-pwnage-a-paranoid-n00b-goes-to-def-con

10 years ago

117 upvotes – 45 comments

Lyft Is Said to Seek a Buyer, Without Success

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/20/technology/lyft-is-said-to-fail-to-find-a-buyer-despite-talks-with-several-companies.html?_r=0

10 years ago

115 upvotes – 174 comments

Show HN: Replify – Create a REPL for any command

https://gist.github.com/danielrw7/bb88e3dad565c0d8ee54031f6b758a09

10 years ago

112 upvotes – 18 comments

The Open Source Data Science Masters

http://datasciencemasters.org/

10 years ago

95 upvotes – 31 comments

The world’s most liveable cities

http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2016/08/daily-chart-14

10 years ago

93 upvotes – 145 comments

Online LLVM-based C++ REPL

http://fiddle.jyt.io

10 years ago

90 upvotes – 17 comments

Realize – Go build system with file watchers, live reload and output streams

https://github.com/tockins/realize

10 years ago

★ 4.4k Go GPL-3.0
88 upvotes – 14 comments

Did the US Plan a Nuclear First Strike Against Russia in the Early 1960s?

http://www.unz.com/runz/american-pravda-did-the-us-plan-a-nuclear-first-strike-against-russia-in-the-early-1960s/

10 years ago

87 upvotes – 132 comments

NASA plans to hand over the ISS to a private corporation

https://www.engadget.com/2016/08/19/nasa-to-hand-over-iss-to-private-companies/

10 years ago

85 upvotes – 105 comments

The Shadow Brokers EPICBANANAS and EXTRABACON Exploits

https://blogs.cisco.com/security/shadow-brokers

10 years ago

83 upvotes – 29 comments

A Bosnian pine growing in Greece has been dated to be more than 1000 years old

http://sciencebulletin.org/archives/4438.html

10 years ago

82 upvotes – 24 comments

Emerging Technologies of 2016

http://blogs.wsj.com/cio/2016/08/18/the-top-ten-emerging-technologies-of-2016/

10 years ago

80 upvotes – 37 comments

Python Lists vs. Tuples

http://nedbatchelder.com//blog/201608/lists_vs_tuples.html

10 years ago

79 upvotes – 122 comments

The stuff we need is getting more expensive, other stuff is getting cheaper

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/08/17/the-stuff-we-really-need-is-getting-more-expensive-other-stuff-is-getting-cheaper

10 years ago

75 upvotes – 102 comments

Man’s paralyzed hand moves again 18 months after surgery

http://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/ottawa-mans-paralyzed-hand-moves-again-18-months-after-landmark-surgery

10 years ago

70 upvotes – 8 comments

What’s Next for Artificial Intelligence

http://www.wsj.com/articles/whats-next-for-artificial-intelligence-1465827619

10 years ago

64 upvotes – 63 comments

Ask HN: How to best interview a candidate?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12319687

10 years ago

63 upvotes – 78 comments
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