top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-08-23

Web Scraping in 2016

https://franciskim.co/2016/08/24/dont-need-no-stinking-api-web-scraping-2016-beyond/

10 years ago

852 upvotes – 387 comments

July was the hottest month ever recorded, according to Nasa

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/08/20/sunday-review/climate-change-hot-future.html?_r=1

10 years ago

381 upvotes – 502 comments

Instapaper is joining Pinterest

http://blog.instapaper.com/post/149374303661

10 years ago

373 upvotes – 208 comments

Python JITs are coming

https://lwn.net/Articles/691070/

10 years ago

318 upvotes – 160 comments

Don't Read the Comments

http://blog.samaltman.com/dont-read-the-comments

10 years ago

304 upvotes – 173 comments

Neural network spotted deep inside Samsung's Galaxy S7 silicon brain

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/08/22/samsung_m1_core/

10 years ago

269 upvotes – 99 comments

New Tesla Model S Now the Quickest Production Car

https://www.tesla.com/blog/new-tesla-model-s-now-quickest-production-car-world

10 years ago

269 upvotes – 209 comments

HoloLens secret sauce: A 28nm customized 24-core DSP engine built by TSMC

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/08/22/microsoft_hololens_hpu/

10 years ago

267 upvotes – 132 comments

gRPC: Internet-scale RPC framework is now 1.0

https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/08/gRPC-a-true-Internet-scale-RPC-framework-is-now-1-and-ready-for-production-deployments.html

10 years ago

266 upvotes – 108 comments

Why Do We Judge Parents for Putting Kids at Perceived But Unreal Risk?

http://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2016/08/22/490847797/why-do-we-judge-parents-for-putting-kids-at-perceived-but-unreal-risk?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20160822

10 years ago

243 upvotes – 271 comments

4 a.m. Is the Most Productive Hour

http://www.wsj.com/articles/why-4-a-m-is-the-most-productive-hour-1471971861?mod=e2fb

10 years ago

235 upvotes – 216 comments

Google Brain releases two large datasets for robotics research

https://plus.google.com/+VincentVanhoucke/posts/8T7DSJhGY3u

10 years ago

230 upvotes – 15 comments

Secret Cameras Record Baltimore’s Every Move from Above

https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-baltimore-secret-surveillance/

10 years ago

230 upvotes – 87 comments

Technologies in HN “Who is Hiring?” threads

https://blog.whoishiring.io/hacker-news-who-is-hiring-thread-part-3/

10 years ago

214 upvotes – 59 comments

NLRB rules graduate students are employees

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2016/08/23/are-they-students-or-are-they-employees-nlrb-rules-that-graduate-students-are-employees/

10 years ago

213 upvotes – 141 comments

Pokémon Go loses its luster, sheds more than 10M users

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2016/08/pokemon-go-sheds-more-than-10m-users/

10 years ago

209 upvotes – 241 comments

When Big O Fools You

https://jackmott.github.io/programming/2016/08/20/when-bigo-foolsya.html

10 years ago

205 upvotes – 130 comments

Understanding VCs

http://avc.com/2016/08/understanding-vcs/

10 years ago

202 upvotes – 63 comments

Deutsche Bank’s $10B Scandal

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/08/29/deutsche-banks-10-billion-scandal

10 years ago

200 upvotes – 52 comments

Thor – A minimalistic operating system in assembly and C++

https://github.com/wichtounet/thor-os#thor-os

10 years ago

★ 1.7k C++ MIT
189 upvotes – 146 comments

Show HN: Workq – Job Server in Go

https://github.com/iamduo/workq

10 years ago

★ 1.5k Go MPL-2.0
185 upvotes – 59 comments

OpenLambda, a system for serverless computing

http://www.open-lambda.org/index.htm

10 years ago

167 upvotes – 64 comments

SOLID Go Design

http://dave.cheney.net/2016/08/20/solid-go-design

10 years ago

161 upvotes – 76 comments

Startups that launched at Y Combinator S16 Demo Day 1

https://techcrunch.com/2016/08/22/y-combinator-demo-day-summer-2016/

10 years ago

155 upvotes – 125 comments

455 Tb of live streaming were transferred during the Olympic Games Rio 2016

https://leandromoreira.com.br/2016/08/23/455-tb-of-live-streaming-were-transferred-during-the-olympic-games-rio-2016/

10 years ago

147 upvotes – 94 comments

Zen Stories

http://nkanaev.github.io/zen101/en/

10 years ago

145 upvotes – 44 comments

Having attained middle-income status, Vietnam aims higher

http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21703376-having-attained-middle-income-status-vietnam-aims-higher-good-afternoon-vietnam

10 years ago

134 upvotes – 92 comments

Overselling A.D.H.D.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/28/books/review/adhd-nation-alan-schwarz.html

10 years ago

133 upvotes – 218 comments

Nasa Establishes Contact with STEREO Mission

http://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/nasa-establishes-contact-with-stereo-mission

10 years ago

124 upvotes – 18 comments

It’s time to bring more realistic models of human behaviour into economic policy

https://bankunderground.co.uk/2016/08/23/its-time-to-bring-more-realistic-models-of-human-behaviour-into-economic-policy-and-regulation/

10 years ago

122 upvotes – 45 comments

Duet Display – Ex-Apple Engineers Turn Your iPad into an Extra Display

http://www.duetdisplay.com/

10 years ago

120 upvotes – 66 comments

The Age of the Never-Ending Performance Review

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-08-22/the-age-of-the-never-ending-performance-review

10 years ago

110 upvotes – 103 comments

Stop the inner struggle over whether your thoughts and feelings are “right”

http://www.businessinsider.com/harvard-psychologist-key-to-being-happier-2016-8

10 years ago

99 upvotes – 67 comments

Leonard Guarente's Anti-Aging Pill

http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2016/08/is-elysium-healths-basis-the-fountain-of-youth.html

10 years ago

92 upvotes – 49 comments

The TPP Deal Won’t Improve Our Security

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/23/opinion/why-the-tpp-deal-wont-improve-our-security.html?_r=0

10 years ago

87 upvotes – 25 comments

Privacy Implications for OpenStreetView

https://karp.id.au/a/2016/08/23/privacy-implications-for-openstreetview/

10 years ago

82 upvotes – 38 comments

Show HN: Igloos That Don't Melt

http://icewall.com.au/?hn

10 years ago

81 upvotes – 35 comments

AFLFast vs. Erlang

http://mindscope.pw/afl-fast-vs-erlang/

10 years ago

81 upvotes – 18 comments

Notes on Startup Engineering Management for Young Bloods (2015)

http://www.elidedbranches.com/2015/10/notes-on-startup-engineering-management.html?m=1

10 years ago

80 upvotes – 10 comments

How Many Resources Shared on Social Media Have Been Lost? (2012)

https://arxiv.org/abs/1209.3026

10 years ago

80 upvotes – 48 comments

Reeling from Effects of Climate Change, Alaskan Village Votes to Relocate

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/20/us/shishmaref-alaska-elocate-vote-climate-change.html

10 years ago

76 upvotes – 27 comments

Distinguishing Bolts from Screws (2012) [pdf]

https://www.cbp.gov/sites/default/files/assets/documents/2016-Apr/icp013_3.pdf

10 years ago

76 upvotes – 65 comments

Setting Up Your Development Environment with Docker Compose

http://blog.dubizzle.com/boilerroom/2016/08/18/setting-development-environment-docker-compose/

10 years ago

76 upvotes – 27 comments

Show HN: SecretCrypt – Keeping secrets in plain sight

http://zemanta.github.io/2016/08/09/keeping-secrets-in-plain-sight/

10 years ago

75 upvotes – 35 comments

Robot Octopus Points the Way to Soft Robotics

http://spectrum.ieee.org/robotics/robotics-hardware/robot-octopus-points-the-way-to-soft-robotics-with-eight-wiggly-arms

10 years ago

73 upvotes – 2 comments

Ramen noodles 'are most valuable US prison commodity', study finds

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-37162373

10 years ago

73 upvotes – 79 comments

V8: Firing Up the Ignition Interpreter

http://v8project.blogspot.com/2016/08/firing-up-ignition-interpreter.html

10 years ago

71 upvotes – 18 comments

Building a data center in a nuclear fallout shelter

https://blog.online.net/2016/08/23/c14-story-part-1-meet-our-nuclear-fallout-shelter/

10 years ago

68 upvotes – 23 comments

America’s First Offshore Wind Farm

http://nytimes.com/2016/08/23/science/americas-first-offshore-wind-farm-may-power-up-a-new-industry.html

10 years ago

68 upvotes – 85 comments

Div Turakhia has sold his seventh business, Media.net, for $900M

https://backchannel.com/two-decades-ago-he-borrowed-500-from-his-dad-ef20be70f8f9#.3cruvxn7l

10 years ago

67 upvotes – 20 comments

Health Care Is a Business, Not a Right

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-08-23/health-care-is-a-business-not-a-right

10 years ago

65 upvotes – 69 comments

The Nature of the Firm (1937)

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-0335.1937.tb00002.x/full

10 years ago

61 upvotes – 14 comments

Announcing InfluxDB, Telegraf, Kapacitor and Enterprise 1.0 RC1

https://influxdata.com/blog/announcing-influxdb-telegraf-kapacitor-and-enterprise-1-0-rc1/

10 years ago

60 upvotes – 9 comments

Double Arm Transplant Surgery

https://www.statnews.com/2016/08/23/double-arm-transplant/

10 years ago

60 upvotes – 9 comments
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