top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-09-08

“Dear Mark. I am writing this to inform you that I shall not comply”

http://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/kommentar/Dear-Mark-I-am-writing-this-to-inform-you-that-I-shall-not-comply-with-your-requirement-to-remove-this-picture-604156b.html

10 years ago

WaveNet: A Generative Model for Raw Audio

https://deepmind.com/blog/wavenet-generative-model-raw-audio/

10 years ago

The End of Headphone Jacks, the Rise of DRM

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/09/end-headphone-jacks-rise-drm

10 years ago

How to Test Drive Your Business Idea Before Quitting Your Job

https://blog.ladder.io/business-idea/

10 years ago

A scammer stole $500 from me and in the end begged me not to tell his parents

https://blog.haschek.at/2016/how-a-scammer-stole-500-dollars-from-me

10 years ago

How to Write a Spelling Corrector

http://norvig.com/spell-correct.html

10 years ago

Sophisticated OS X Backdoor Discovered

https://securelist.com/blog/research/75990/the-missing-piece-sophisticated-os-x-backdoor-discovered/

10 years ago

Visual Studio Code 1.5

https://code.visualstudio.com/updates?

10 years ago

A bite of Python

https://access.redhat.com/blogs/766093/posts/2592591

10 years ago

Why is printing “B” dramatically slower than printing “#”? (2014)

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21947452/why-is-printing-b-dramatically-slower-than-printing?noredirect=1&lq=1

10 years ago

Regular Expression That Checks If A Number Is Prime

https://iluxonchik.github.io/regular-expression-check-if-number-is-prime/

10 years ago

It’s Tough Being Over 40 in Silicon Valley

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-09-08/silicon-valley-s-job-hungry-say-we-re-not-to-old-for-this

10 years ago

VotePlz – The Easiest Way to Vote

https://voteplz.org

10 years ago

Incremental Compilation

http://blog.rust-lang.org/2016/09/08/incremental.html

10 years ago

Google to acquire Apigee

https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/09/Google-to-acquire-apigee.html

10 years ago

Fasting triggers stem cell regeneration of damaged, old immune system (2014)

http://news.usc.edu/63669/fasting-triggers-stem-cell-regeneration-of-damaged-old-immune-system/

10 years ago

How Dropbox hacks your mac

http://applehelpwriter.com/2016/07/28/revealing-dropboxs-dirty-little-security-hack/

10 years ago

Proposal of a new concurrency model for Ruby 3 [pdf]

http://www.atdot.net/fp_store/f.iu25do/file.2016_rubykaigi.pdf

10 years ago

500 Lines or Less – A Python Interpreter Written in Python

http://www.aosabook.org/en/500L/a-python-interpreter-written-in-python.html

10 years ago

Nintendo Soars as Super Mario Mobile Game Comes to the iPhone

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-09-07/nintendo-soars-as-super-mario-mobile-game-comes-to-the-iphone

10 years ago

Introducing “Ask a Female Engineer”

http://themacro.com/articles/2016/09/introducing-ask-a-female-engineer

10 years ago

There Are No Truffles in Truffle Oil (2014)

https://priceonomics.com/there-are-no-truffles-in-truffle-oil/

10 years ago

Japan home to 541,000 young recluses

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/09/07/national/japan-home-541000-young-recluses-survey-finds/#.V9CqR1t961s

10 years ago

The OPM Data Breach [pdf]

https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/The-OPM-Data-Breach-How-the-Government-Jeopardized-Our-National-Security-for-More-than-a-Generation.pdf

10 years ago

People are still bad at gauging their own interview performance

http://blog.interviewing.io/people-are-still-bad-at-gauging-their-own-interview-performance-heres-the-data/

10 years ago

Evidence Rebuts Chomsky's Theory of Language Learning

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/evidence-rebuts-chomsky-s-theory-of-language-learning/

10 years ago

Browser Fingerprinting

https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/Home/chromium-security/client-identification-mechanisms

10 years ago

We’re in the Middle of a Data Engineering Talent Shortage

https://blog.stitchdata.com/new-research-were-in-the-middle-of-a-data-engineering-talent-shortage-bdd59673608c

10 years ago

The longer passwords in the Last.fm database

https://www.leakedsource.com/i/lastfmlong.txt

10 years ago

Attention and Augmented Recurrent Neural Networks

http://distill.pub/2016/augmented-rnns/

10 years ago

InfluxDB 1.0 GA Released: A Retrospective and What’s Next

https://www.influxdata.com/influxdb-1-0-ga-released-a-retrospective-and-whats-next/

10 years ago

Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) Darpa Funding

https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=1606a253407e8773bdd1a9e884cc5293

10 years ago

Courage

https://techcrunch.com/2016/09/07/courage/

10 years ago

Airbnb Adopts Rules in Effort to Fight Discrimination by Its Hosts

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/09/technology/airbnb-anti-discrimination-rules.html?_r=0

10 years ago

Google and Box Announce Partnership

http://googleforwork.blogspot.com/2016/09/Google-and-Box-partner-to-transform-work-in-the-cloud.html

10 years ago

Show HN: Materia – A modern dev environment to build mobile and web applications

https://getmateria.com

10 years ago

Moving Towards a More Secure Web

http://blog.chromium.org/2016/09/moving-towards-more-secure-web.html

10 years ago

Show HN: cookies.js, making cookies a delight to work with on the front-end

https://github.com/franciscop/cookies.js

10 years ago

★ 2.3k JavaScript

This Is What Python Beginners Have to Deal With

http://pythonforengineers.com/this-is-what-python-beginners-have-to-deal-with/

10 years ago

A collection of links that cover what happened during ElixirConf 2016

https://github.com/poteto/elixirconf-2016

10 years ago

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Ask HN: What happened to Facebook graph search?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12452499

10 years ago

Malicious ZIP archives found in the AKP leak on the Wikileaks site

https://github.com/bontchev/wlscrape/wiki

10 years ago

★ 102 Python MIT

Ten million Raspberry Pis

https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/ten-millionth-raspberry-pi-new-kit/

10 years ago

A curated list of resources dedicated to recurrent neural networks

https://github.com/kjw0612/awesome-rnn

10 years ago

★ 6.2k

Open-Sourcing Yahoo's Pulsar, Pub-Sub Messaging at Scale

https://yahooeng.tumblr.com/post/150078336821/open-sourcing-pulsar-pub-sub-messaging-at-scale

10 years ago

DNA confirms cause of 1665 London's Great Plague

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-37287715

10 years ago

Easy Parsing with Parser Combinators

http://www.lihaoyi.com/post/EasyParsingwithParserCombinators.html

10 years ago

Video Games Aren't Art, We're Better

http://jeff-vogel.blogspot.com/2016/09/no-video-games-arent-art-were-better.html

10 years ago

Show HN: Share your Unix shell with people you trust

https://github.com/gravitational/teleconsole

10 years ago

★ 2.7k Go Apache-2.0

A curated list of awesome .NET Performance resources

https://github.com/adamsitnik/awesome-dot-net-performance

10 years ago

★ 3.2k MIT

Install GPU TensorFlow from Sources with Ubuntu 16.04 and Cuda 8.0 RC

https://alliseesolutions.wordpress.com/2016/09/08/install-gpu-tensorflow-from-sources-w-ubuntu-16-04-and-cuda-8-0-rc/

10 years ago

Ask HN: Remote-only job boards

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12449146

10 years ago

Microsoft .NET Core and ASP.NET Core Bug Bounty

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/msrc/2016/09/01/announcing-an-ongoing-microsoft-net-core-and-asp-net-core-bug-bounty/

10 years ago

Mailtrain Newsletter #8 – Bundled MTA

https://mailtrain.org/archive/rJayV7kh/EysIv8sAx/SklBfpME?track=no

10 years ago

Once dismissed as fake, Maya calendar is Americas’ oldest manuscript

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/09/08/once-dismissed-as-fake-maya-calendar-is-americas-oldest-manuscript-say-brown-university-scientists/

10 years ago

Show HN: Find a movie to watch the lazy way

http://lazydayapp.com

10 years ago

Don't Blame a 'Skills Gap' for Lack of Hiring in Manufacturing

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/dont-blame-a-skills-gap-for-lack-of-hiring-in-manufacturing/

10 years ago

Home Is Where the Parking Lot Is [video]

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/06/opinion/long-term-parking.html

10 years ago

Show HN: EmbedBox, an Open-Source UI to Get Your Embed Code Installed

http://embedbox.io

10 years ago