top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-08-30

Google Takes on Uber with New Ride-Share Service

http://www.wsj.com/articles/google-takes-on-uber-with-new-ride-share-service-1472584235

10 years ago

596 upvotes – 461 comments

Victory for Net Neutrality in Europe

https://juliareda.eu/2016/08/victory-for-net-neutrality/

10 years ago

547 upvotes – 174 comments

Commission says Ireland granted undue tax benefits of up to €13B to Apple

http://www.rte.ie/news/2016/0830/812819-apple-tax-ireland/

10 years ago

417 upvotes – 419 comments

AWS S3 open source alternative written in Go

https://minio.io

10 years ago

405 upvotes – 131 comments

Facebook recommended that a psychiatrist’s patients friend each other

http://fusion.net/story/339018/facebook-psychiatrist-privacy-problems/

10 years ago

346 upvotes – 220 comments

Talk of a Split from Docker

http://thenewstack.io/docker-fork-talk-split-now-table/

10 years ago

323 upvotes – 204 comments

A Message to the Apple Community in Europe

http://www.apple.com/ie/customer-letter/

10 years ago

316 upvotes – 417 comments

California bans ITT tech from accepting new students

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-itt-tech-aid-20160826-snap-story.html?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark

10 years ago

293 upvotes – 312 comments

Jessica Livingston: How to Build the Future

http://www.ycombinator.com/future/jessica/

10 years ago

290 upvotes – 84 comments

SEC awards $22M to Monsanto whistleblower

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-sec-monsanto-whistleblower-idUSKCN1152KG

10 years ago

285 upvotes – 119 comments

Infrastructure for Deep Learning

https://openai.com/blog/infrastructure-for-deep-learning/

10 years ago

278 upvotes – 67 comments

Chinese CA WoSign faces revocation after possibly issuing fake certificates

http://www.percya.com/2016/08/chinese-ca-wosign-faces-revocation.html

10 years ago

272 upvotes – 110 comments

“Baffling” “signal” “from HD 164595” is probably none of the above

https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=80193

10 years ago

234 upvotes – 41 comments

Paddle: Baidu's open source deep learning framework

https://github.com/baidu/paddle

10 years ago

★ 23.8k C++ Apache-2.0
230 upvotes – 19 comments

Gonorrhea Is Becoming Untreatable, U.N. Health Officials Warn

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/08/30/491969011/u-n-health-officials-warn-gonorrhea-is-becoming-untreatable

10 years ago

212 upvotes – 183 comments

Startup accused of scamming employees scrubs its online presence

https://techcrunch.com/2016/08/30/wrkriot-vanishes-after-scam-accusation/

10 years ago

208 upvotes – 52 comments

Google+ Redesigned

https://plus.google.com/+DanielleBuckley/posts/AnaA1XCANWm

10 years ago

194 upvotes – 273 comments

Former Sequoia partners: The Midwest is the future of startups

http://venturebeat.com/2016/08/28/in-5-years-the-midwest-will-have-more-startups-than-silicon-valley/

10 years ago

175 upvotes – 260 comments

Reality is a Shared Hallucination (1997)

http://reactor-core.org/reality-hallucination.html

10 years ago

173 upvotes – 66 comments

Micro v1.0 – a terminal-based text editor written in Go

https://github.com/zyedidia/micro/releases/tag/v1.0

10 years ago

★ 28.4k Go MIT
161 upvotes – 44 comments

Doc2text – Detect text blocks and OCR poorly scanned PDFs in bulk

https://github.com/jlsutherland/doc2text

10 years ago

★ 1.2k Python MIT
161 upvotes – 19 comments

Paid $75k to Love a Brand on Instagram – Is It an Ad?

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/30/business/media/instagram-ads-marketing-kardashian.html

10 years ago

160 upvotes – 152 comments

Ruminations on D: An Interview with Walter Bright

https://dlang.org/blog/2016/08/30/ruminations-on-d-an-interview-with-walter-bright/

10 years ago

156 upvotes – 78 comments

Born to Rest

http://harvardmagazine.com/2016/09/born-to-rest

10 years ago

153 upvotes – 149 comments

Principles of Calm Technology

http://www.calmtech.com/

10 years ago

147 upvotes – 66 comments

FSU research team makes Zika drug breakthrough

https://news.fsu.edu/news/science-technology/2016/08/29/fsu-research-team-makes-zika-drug-breakthrough/

10 years ago

147 upvotes – 21 comments

Mathematician Says Big Data Is Causing a ‘Silent Financial Crisis’

http://time.com/4471451/cathy-oneil-math-destruction/

10 years ago

146 upvotes – 106 comments

CloudFlare, SSL and unhealthy security absolutism

https://www.troyhunt.com/cloudflare-ssl-and-unhealthy-security-absolutism/

10 years ago

141 upvotes – 114 comments

Teaching AI to race using NNs and genetic algorithms

http://ml-games.tomasz-rewak.com/

10 years ago

141 upvotes – 42 comments

A Brief History of the College Textbook Pricing Racket

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/a-brief-history-of-the-college-textbook-pricing-racket

10 years ago

137 upvotes – 93 comments

Show HN: Poor man's Google Docs

https://github.com/delight-im/HTML-Sheets-of-Paper?hn=2016-08-30

10 years ago

★ 1.2k CSS MIT
136 upvotes – 90 comments

How and why I made a zine

http://jvns.ca/blog/2016/08/29/how-i-made-a-zine/

10 years ago

126 upvotes – 19 comments

Job Descriptions Should Be Better

http://blog.professorbeekums.com/2016/07/job-descriptions-should-be-better.html

10 years ago

121 upvotes – 65 comments

Hardening Compiler Flags for NixOS

https://blog.mayflower.de/5800-Hardening-Compiler-Flags-for-NixOS.html

10 years ago

113 upvotes – 32 comments

Malware that uses USB drives to covertly jump airgaps

http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/08/meet-usbee-the-malware-that-uses-usb-drives-to-covertly-jump-airgaps/

10 years ago

111 upvotes – 44 comments

New Digital Currency Spikes as Drug Dealers Get More Secrecy

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-29/new-digital-currency-spikes-after-giving-criminals-more-secrecy

10 years ago

105 upvotes – 56 comments

The CIA’s Venture-Capital Firm, Like Its Sponsor, Operates in the Shadows

http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-cias-venture-capital-firm-like-its-sponsor-operates-in-the-shadows-1472587352

10 years ago

104 upvotes – 41 comments

Lightning Strike Kills More Than 300 Reindeer in Norway

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/30/world/europe/hardangervidda-norway-lightning-reindeer.html

10 years ago

104 upvotes – 42 comments

Blazing Fast HTML: Elm vs. React vs. Angular vs. Ember

http://elm-lang.org/blog/blazing-fast-html-round-two

10 years ago

100 upvotes – 54 comments

Are we really so modern?

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/09/05/the-dream-of-enlightenment-by-anthony-gottlieb

10 years ago

99 upvotes – 153 comments

How Mathematicians Cut Cake

https://priceonomics.com/how-do-mathematicians-cut-cake/

10 years ago

98 upvotes – 43 comments

Babili: An ES6+ aware minifier based on Babel

http://babeljs.io/blog/2016/08/30/babili?exports=guy

10 years ago

94 upvotes – 44 comments

Record-Breaking Galaxy Cluster Discovered

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/chandra/record-breaking-galaxy-cluster-discovered.html

10 years ago

90 upvotes – 26 comments

SESHAT: Handwritten math expression parser

https://github.com/falvaro/seshat

10 years ago

★ 695 C++ GPL-3.0
84 upvotes – 23 comments

Profile of Qasar Younis and YC Investor Day

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/08/29/inside-one-of-silicon-valleys-most-celebrated-rituals-raising-cash/

10 years ago

83 upvotes – 17 comments

The Software Behind YC’s Investor Day

http://themacro.com/articles/2016/08/investor-day-software/

10 years ago

81 upvotes – 9 comments

Arduino-Based Home Weather Station on the Elastic Stack

https://www.elastic.co/blog/arduino-based-home-weather-station-on-the-elastic-stack?ultron=aug-2016&blade=newsletter&hulk=email&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWlRVMFpHTmhNVGt3WVRBMiIsInQiOiJNTStwaXZqVFkxQk9GWit5XC9kUTZldmN1N0VFSFwvV0RoMXpldlR3MmR2Qkc0aXdrNTRHM0lCOVlZNHp6ZkJxbWJrN2dCSWt0SzNXNVN6anRZMm1vYjFEMXpVdzltZGlpXC9JN2l2RDBYRjZyTT0ifQ%3D%3D

10 years ago

81 upvotes – 39 comments

Ideas that Have Harmed Mankind (1946)

http://www.panarchy.org/russell/ideas.1946.html

10 years ago

80 upvotes – 40 comments

Show HN: War on Ether

http://waronether.com

10 years ago

76 upvotes – 36 comments

How to Expose an Eavesdropper (1984)

http://fermatslibrary.com/s/how-to-expose-an-eavesdropper

10 years ago

76 upvotes – 5 comments

Are PhD Students Irrational?

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/phd-students-irrational/#!

10 years ago

75 upvotes – 71 comments

The Up-To-Date Sandwich Book (1909)

http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/the-up-to-date-sandwich-book-400-ways-to-make-a-sandwich-1909/

10 years ago

68 upvotes – 22 comments

Kim Dotcom permitted to livestream his appeal against extradition on Youtube

http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/312095/dotcom-given-go-ahead-to-livestream-appeal

10 years ago

66 upvotes – 29 comments

SSL/TLS and PKI History

https://www.feistyduck.com/ssl-tls-and-pki-history/

10 years ago

65 upvotes – 11 comments

FPGAs and Deep Machine Learning

https://fpgasite.wordpress.com/2016/08/25/deep-machine-learning-with-fpgas/

10 years ago

65 upvotes – 26 comments

US ready to 'hand over' the internet's naming system

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-37114313

10 years ago

62 upvotes – 22 comments

Lessons Learned While Building Microservices

http://blog.runnable.com/post/149676042396/lessons-learned-while-building-microservices

10 years ago

60 upvotes – 25 comments

The Fall of Avalon Hill (1998)

http://home.earthlink.net/~pdr4455/fah.html

10 years ago

60 upvotes – 53 comments

Announcing TypeScript 2.0 RC

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/typescript/2016/08/30/announcing-typescript-2-0-rc/

10 years ago

59 upvotes – 5 comments

What Killed the Jingle?

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/08/what-killed-the-jingle/497291/?single_page=true

10 years ago

57 upvotes – 60 comments

The Marriage of DevOps and SecOps

http://cloudsentry.evident.io/the-marriage-of-devops-secops/

10 years ago

56 upvotes – 30 comments
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