top 20 hacker news stories for 2016-08-21

Introducing OpenStreetView

https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/mvexel/diary/39274

10 years ago

A year of Rust and DNS

http://bluejekyll.github.io/blog/rust/dns/2016/08/21/a-year-of-rust-and-dns.html

10 years ago

Massachusetts to tax ride-hailing apps, give the money to taxis

http://reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSKCN10U1ST

10 years ago

An American Doctor Experiences the NHS Again

https://drjengunter.wordpress.com/2016/08/20/an-american-doctor-experiences-the-nhs-again/

10 years ago

The Long, Remarkable History of the GIF

http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/a21457/the-gif-is-dead-long-live-the-gif/

10 years ago

Goodbye Mac OS Forge, hello GitHub

https://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-dev/2016-August/033405.html

10 years ago

Probabilistic Programming and Bayesian Methods for Hackers (2015)

https://camdavidsonpilon.github.io/Probabilistic-Programming-and-Bayesian-Methods-for-Hackers/

10 years ago

What Golang Is and Is Not

http://danmux.com/posts/what_golang_isnt/

10 years ago

Learning from Ada

http://www.monkeysnatchbanana.com/2016/02/22/learning-from-ada/

10 years ago

The Amiga Boing Ball Explained

http://amiga.lychesis.net/artist/DaleLuck/Boing.html

10 years ago

Everyday ‘Placebo Buttons’ Create Semblance of Control

http://99percentinvisible.org/article/user-illusion-everyday-placebo-buttons-create-semblance-control/

10 years ago

Training a Recurrent Neural Network to Compose Music

https://maraoz.com/2016/02/02/abc-rnn/

10 years ago

Unreal: The Backstory

https://www.facebook.com/AlexanderBrandonMusic/posts/10153814555037621

10 years ago

Registered Replication Report – Facial Feedback Hypothesis [pdf]

https://www.psychologicalscience.org/pdf/StrackRRR_manuscript_accepted.pdf

10 years ago

Facebook AI Research Open Sources fastText

https://research.facebook.com/blog/fasttext/

10 years ago

The Mystery of the Missing Hotel Toothpaste (2013)

http://www.slate.com/articles/life/culturebox/2013/07/toothpaste_in_hotels_why_do_they_provide_shampoo_soap_and_high_end_toiletries.single.html?src=longreads&utm_content=buffer9fc8b&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

10 years ago

I Botched a Perl 6 Release

http://perl6.party/post/I-Botched-A-Perl-6-Release-And-Now-A-Robot-Is-Taking-My-Job

10 years ago

On the State of Pony

https://pony.groups.io/g/user/message/618?p=Created,0,,20,2,0,6182872&offset=0

10 years ago

The meaning of trust in the age of Airbnb

http://timharford.com/2016/08/the-meaning-of-trust-in-the-age-of-airbnb/

10 years ago

NeXT vs. Sun (1991) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGhfB-NICzg

10 years ago