top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-08-29

Scammed By A Silicon Valley Startup

https://medium.com/@PennyKim/i-got-scammed-by-a-silicon-valley-startup-574ced8acdff#.hkgnuhiny

10 years ago

How I Built a Custom Camper Van (2015)

http://syntheti.cc/van-build/

10 years ago

The Myth of RAM (2014)

http://www.ilikebigbits.com/blog/2014/4/21/the-myth-of-ram-part-i

10 years ago

Academic Torrents: A distributed system for sharing enormous datasets

http://academictorrents.com/

10 years ago

Hunter S. Thompson on Finding Your Purpose (1958)

http://tranquilmonkey.com/hunter-s-thompsons-extraordinary-letter-on-finding-your-purpose/

10 years ago

Rotoscoped Animation of Filmed Parkour

https://moral.net.au/writing/2016/08/27/animation/

10 years ago

Gene Wilder Has Died

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-37215553

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Seven Puzzles You Think You Must Not Have Heard Correctly (2006) [pdf]

https://math.dartmouth.edu/~pw/solutions.pdf

10 years ago

SRL – Simple Regex Language

https://simple-regex.com/

10 years ago

How a Technical Co-Founder Spends His Time

http://jdlm.info/articles/2016/07/04/cto-time-minute-by-minute.html

10 years ago

Google Cast is now built-in to Chrome

https://chrome.googleblog.com/2016/08/google-cast-is-now-built-in-to-chrome.html

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Warned of a Crash, Startups in Silicon Valley Narrow Their Focus

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/29/technology/warned-of-a-crash-start-ups-narrowed-their-focus.html

10 years ago

Principles for Programming Languages for Learners

http://cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm/203554-five-principles-for-programming-languages-for-learners/fulltext

10 years ago

How I Used and Abused My Tesla – What a Tesla Looks Like After 100,000 Miles

https://medium.com/@SteveSasman/how-i-used-abused-my-tesla-what-a-tesla-looks-like-after-100-000-miles-a-48-state-road-trip-6b6ae66b3c10#.mgqlymg7c

10 years ago

The first autonomous, entirely soft robot

http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2016/08/the-first-autonomous-entirely-soft-robot/

10 years ago

FBI says foreign hackers penetrated state election systems

https://www.yahoo.com/news/fbi-says-foreign-hackers-penetrated-000000175.html

10 years ago

A giant pyramid hidden inside a mountain

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160812-the-giant-pyramid-hidden-inside-a-mountain

10 years ago

A Sneak Peek Comparison of x264, x265, and libvpx

http://techblog.netflix.com/2016/08/a-large-scale-comparison-of-x264-x265.html

10 years ago

90% of software developers in the US work outside Silicon Valley

http://qz.com/729293/90-of-software-developers-work-outside-silicon-valley/

10 years ago

Fork: Fast and Friendly Git Client for Mac

https://git-fork.com

10 years ago

Sierra Gets Creative

http://www.filfre.net/2016/08/sierra-gets-creative/

10 years ago

Advanced Deanonymization Attacks

https://www.whonix.org/blog/advanced-deanonymization-attacks

10 years ago

The target=“_blank” vulnerability by example

https://dev.to/ben/the-targetblank-vulnerability-by-example

10 years ago

Decoupled Neural Interfaces Using Synthetic Gradients

https://deepmind.com/blog#decoupled-neural-interfaces-using-synthetic-gradients

10 years ago

Btree vs. LSM

https://github.com/wiredtiger/wiredtiger/wiki/Btree-vs-LSM

10 years ago

★ 2.3k C

DTrace and Python

https://github.com/pyconsk/2016-slides/blob/master/Python_and_DTrace/DTrace%20-%20pyconSK.pdf

10 years ago

★ 102 Python

Browser Bloat (1996)

http://www.miken.com/winpost/jun96/bbloat.htm

10 years ago

Can smiling make you happier?

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/cover_story/2016/08/can_smiling_make_you_happier_maybe_maybe_not_we_have_no_idea.html

10 years ago

Ruby Deoptimization Engine

https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/1419

10 years ago

★ 23.5k Ruby

Google recruitment mistakes: part 3

https://asylum.madhouse-project.org/blog/2016/08/29/recruitment-mistakes-3/

10 years ago

Hacked: Investigating an Intrusion on My Server

https://thedarkside.frantzmiccoli.com/tricks/2016/08/27/hacked-investigating-intrusion-on-server.html

10 years ago

Play along with NSA: The RAFTER unintentional radio emissions how-to

http://phasenoise.livejournal.com/4919.html

10 years ago

Indian ISPs Speed Up BitTorrent by ‘Peering’ with a Torrent Site

https://torrentfreak.com/indian-isps-speed-bittorrent-peering-torrent-site-160828/

10 years ago

The Anthropocene epoch: scientists declare dawn of human-influenced age

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/aug/29/declare-anthropocene-epoch-experts-urge-geological-congress-human-impact-earth

10 years ago

The Greater Honeyguide, a Bird That Understands Humans

http://www.audubon.org/news/meet-greater-honeyguide-bird-understands-humans

10 years ago

Apple facing record bill for Irish tax

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-37216176

10 years ago

Major next steps for fusion energy based on the spherical tokamak design

http://www.pppl.gov/news/2016/08/major-next-steps-fusion-energy-based-spherical-tokamak-design

10 years ago

Why Electric Cars Will Be Here Sooner Than You Think

http://www.wsj.com/articles/why-electric-cars-will-be-here-sooner-than-you-think-1472402674

10 years ago

My @JFK Twitter account “has been suspended and will not be restored”

https://medium.com/@john_43250/death-of-jfk-or-why-twitter-permanently-suspended-the-only-thing-that-made-me-cool-2a4bb9420d82#.x6muu4kyy

10 years ago

Maquette – Pure and simple virtual DOM library

http://maquettejs.org/

10 years ago

Open Source Motion Comic Done Entirely with Blender, Krita and GNU/Linux

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/pepper-and-carrot-motion-comic#/

10 years ago

Terminal Charts with Victory CLI

https://formidable.com/blog/2016/08/29/terminal-charts-with-victory-cli/

10 years ago

The Plan to Save a Life by Head Transplant

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/09/the-audacious-plan-to-save-this-mans-life-by-transplanting-his-head/492755/?single_page=true

10 years ago

Basic income doesn't emphasize divisions between poor and working people

http://www.basicincomecanada.org/basic_income_doesn_t_emphasize_divisions_between

10 years ago

A federal carbon tax is imminent in the USA, and Exxon is pushing it

https://electrek.co/2016/08/29/a-federal-carbon-tax-is-imminent-in-the-usa-and-exxon-is-pushing-it/

10 years ago

GitHub Issues Do's and Don'ts

https://medium.com/@jhchen/45-github-issues-dos-and-donts-dfec9ab4b612/

10 years ago