top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-08-24

Planet Found in Habitable Zone Around Nearest Star

https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1629/

10 years ago

Show HN: Carbide – A New Programming Environment

https://alpha.trycarbide.com/

10 years ago

A few HTML tips

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2016/08/a-few-html-tips/

10 years ago

Types

https://gist.github.com/garybernhardt/122909856b570c5c457a6cd674795a9c?

10 years ago

Why GNU grep is fast (2010)

https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2010-August/019310.html

10 years ago

Text Summarization with TensorFlow

https://research.googleblog.com/2016/08/text-summarization-with-tensorflow.html

10 years ago

Ask HN: Failed interview, feeling unemployable and depressed – what do I do?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12348756

10 years ago

Ways Your Wi-Fi Router Can Spy on You

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/08/wi-fi-surveillance/497132/?utm_source=feed&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&single_page=true

10 years ago

Why People Should Learn Python

https://iluxonchik.github.io/why-you-should-learn-python/

10 years ago

The Imposter's Handbook

https://impostershandbook.com/

10 years ago

How AI and Machine Learning Work at Apple

https://backchannel.com/an-exclusive-look-at-how-ai-and-machine-learning-work-at-apple-8dbfb131932b

10 years ago

Some of the most important deep learning papers

https://adeshpande3.github.io/adeshpande3.github.io/The-9-Deep-Learning-Papers-You-Need-To-Know-About.html

10 years ago

Does a compiler use all x86 instructions? (2010)

http://pepijndevos.nl/2016/08/24/x86-instruction-distribution.html

10 years ago

Linux is 25 today

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.os.minix/dlNtH7RRrGA%5B1-25%5D

10 years ago

Undebt: How We Refactored 3M Lines of Code

http://engineeringblog.yelp.com/2016/08/undebt-how-we-refactored-3-million-lines-of-code.html

10 years ago

Dinosaur and Lisp

http://vito.sdf.org/dino.html

10 years ago

Giant ‘Arrows’ Seen From Space Point to a Vanished World

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/08/desert-kites-out-of-eden-walk-uzbekistan-iron-age-saiga/

10 years ago

More, less, and a story of typical Unix fossilization

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/MoreAndUnixFossilization

10 years ago

Vesper, Adieu

http://daringfireball.net/2016/08/vesper_adieu

10 years ago

Startups that launched at Y Combinator S16 Demo Day 2

https://techcrunch.com/2016/08/23/yc-demo-day/

10 years ago

Baidu Takes FPGA Approach to Accelerating SQL at Scale

http://www.nextplatform.com/2016/08/24/baidu-takes-fpga-approach-accelerating-big-sql/

10 years ago

IBM’s 24-core Power9 chip

http://www.nextplatform.com/2016/08/24/big-blue-aims-sky-power9/

10 years ago

Kung Fu, Once Central to Hong Kong Life, Is Waning

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/23/world/asia/hong-kong-kung-fu.html

10 years ago

The Macaroni in ‘Yankee Doodle’ Is Not What You Think

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-macaroni-in-yankee-doodle-is-not-what-you-think

10 years ago

Sweet32: Birthday attacks on 64-bit block ciphers in TLS and OpenVPN

https://sweet32.info

10 years ago

Credo: Static code analysis for Elixir with a focus on consistency and teaching

https://github.com/rrrene/credo

10 years ago

★ 5.1k Elixir MIT

The One Second Dash

http://ridiculousfish.com/blog/posts/The-one-second-dash.html

10 years ago

Trollala – Fight patent trolls by banding together confidentially

http://trollala.com

10 years ago

Reactotron – CLI and OS X app for inspecting React Native and JS apps

https://github.com/reactotron/reactotron

10 years ago

★ 15.5k TypeScript MIT

Zhou Qunfei

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhou_Qunfei

10 years ago

Language contains human biases, and so will machines trained on language corpora

https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/randomwalker/language-necessarily-contains-human-biases-and-so-will-machines-trained-on-language-corpora/

10 years ago

Practical Guide to PostgreSQL Optimizations

https://tech.lendinghome.com/practical-guide-to-postgresql-optimizations-d7b9c2ad6a22#.d4s9e879m

10 years ago

The Loomio Cooperative Handbook: How we run a worker-owned tech startup

http://loomio.coop

10 years ago

Uber launches flat fares in San Francisco through subscription

https://www.uber.com/info/plus/sanfrancisco/

10 years ago

Building a Real-Time Recommendation Engine

https://neo4j.com/blog/real-time-recommendation-engine-data-science/

10 years ago

GitMonitor on Elixir

https://blog.gitmonitor.com/gitmonitor-on-elixir-92a87c7eb382#.hyboj7wc8

10 years ago

Four Big Banks to Create a New Digital Currency for Inter-Bank Transactions

https://news.bitcoin.com/four-banks-create-new-digital-currency/

10 years ago

The implosion of the daily fantasy industry

http://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/17374929/otl-investigates-implosion-daily-fantasy-sports-leaders-draftkings-fanduel

10 years ago

Factoring may be easier than we think

http://math.mit.edu/~cohn/Thoughts/factoring.html

10 years ago

Turning Instagram into a Radically Unfiltered Travel Guide

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/28/magazine/turning-instagram-into-a-radically-unfiltered-travel-guide.html

10 years ago

Massimo Pigliucci on Stoicism

http://fivebooks.com/interview/massimo-pigliucci-stoicism/

10 years ago

The Neuroscience Behind Bad Decisions

https://www.quantamagazine.org/20160823-the-neuroscience-behind-bad-decisions/

10 years ago

ME Analyzer – Intel Engine Firmware Analysis Tool

https://github.com/platomav/MEAnalyzer

10 years ago

★ 1.2k Python BSD-2-Clause-Patent

Singapore to require public servants to access internet from separate PCs

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/aug/24/singapore-to-cut-off-public-servants-from-the-internet

10 years ago

Liberal, Moderate or Conservative? See How Facebook Labels You

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/24/us/politics/facebook-ads-politics.html

10 years ago

Open source 25-core chip can be stringed into a 200,000-core computer

http://www.pcworld.com/article/3111693/open-source-25-core-chip-can-be-stringed-into-a-200000-core-computer.html?href=

10 years ago

Artist Peter Doig victorious as court agrees '$10m' painting is not his work

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/aug/24/artist-peter-doig-landscape-painting-lawsuit

10 years ago

Unix: An Oral History (1989)

https://www.princeton.edu/~hos/frs122/unixhist/finalhis.htm

10 years ago

Plan to Send Probes to the Nearest Star

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/100-million-plan-will-send-probes-to-the-nearest-star1/

10 years ago

Evolution of shells in Linux (2011)

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-linux-shells/

10 years ago

SWEET32: Birthday attacks on 64-bit block ciphers in TLS and OpenVPN

https://sweet32.info

10 years ago

Animation That Explains Multi-GPU Algorithms [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czoZKjmYY6g

10 years ago

Checking the C# Source Code of MSBuild with PVS-Studio

https://medium.com/@sofiafateeva93/checking-the-source-code-of-msbuild-with-pvs-studio-36d71762d705

10 years ago

Gene name errors are widespread in the scientific literature

http://genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13059-016-1044-7

10 years ago

Basic CS Reading List – M. Douglas McIlroy (2010)

http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~doug/booklist

10 years ago

Docker isn't serverless

https://serverlesscode.com/post/docker-isnt-serverless/

10 years ago