top 20 hacker news stories for 2016-08-27

4WD vs. AWD. What's the Difference?

http://www.outsideonline.com/2096381/4wd-vs-awd-whats-difference

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Breaking a myth: Data shows you don’t actually need a co-founder

https://techcrunch.com/2016/08/26/co-founders-optional

10 years ago

In rich and poor countries, researchers turn to Sci-Hub

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/04/whos-downloading-pirated-papers-everyone

10 years ago

Ntfy: A utility for sending notifications

https://github.com/dschep/ntfy

10 years ago

★ 4.9k Python GPL-3.0

What Slack might learn from its Open Source alternative

https://www.mattermost.org/what-slack-might-learn-from-its-open-source-alternative/

10 years ago

A FreeBSD 10 Desktop How-To

https://cooltrainer.org/a-freebsd-desktop-howto/

10 years ago

Fluid Simulation (with WebGL demo)

http://jamie-wong.com/2016/08/05/webgl-fluid-simulation/

10 years ago

Movfuscator – A single-instruction C compiler

https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/movfuscator/blob/master/README.md

10 years ago

★ 10.1k C

Short-selling as a way to profit from security vulnerabilities

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-25/in-an-unorthodox-move-hacking-firm-teams-up-with-short-sellers

10 years ago

Why China won’t own next-generation manufacturing

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2016/08/26/why-china-wont-own-next-generation-manufacturing/

10 years ago

Why should children program? A review of Seymour Papert's Mindstorms

http://dannas.github.io/2016/08/27/review-of-seymor-paperts-mindstorms.html

10 years ago

Majority of mathematicians hail from 24 scientific ‘families’

http://www.nature.com/news/majority-of-mathematicians-hail-from-just-24-scientific-families-1.20491

10 years ago

Uber's Failure in Japan

http://www.disruptingjapan.com/how-ubers-failure-in-japan-can-help-startups-everywhere/

10 years ago

Offer HN: Free logo design for an open source project

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12372118

10 years ago

Why Nearly Every Film Ends by Saying It’s Fiction

http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2016/08/26/the_bizarre_true_story_behind_the_this_is_a_work_of_fiction_disclaimer.html

10 years ago

Ask HN: Early signs that a company is failing?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12373794

10 years ago

HTTP Observatory: analyze your website and review available methods to secure it

https://github.com/mozilla/http-observatory

10 years ago

★ 1.8k Python MPL-2.0

A Surveillance Master Dissects a Murder from the Sky [video]

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-23/watch-this-surveillance-master-dissect-a-murder-from-the-sky?utm_content=business&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&cmpid%3D=socialflow-twitter-business

10 years ago

Ask HN: I am doing $2M annually as a solopreneur and need your help

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12374445

10 years ago

Amazon EC2 Beta (2006)

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon_ec2_beta/

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