top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-10-07

Farm grows vegetables in a desert using sun and seawater

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2108296-first-farm-to-grow-veg-in-a-desert-using-only-sun-and-seawater/

10 years ago

543 upvotes – 184 comments

Brain training exercises might just make you better at brain training exercises

https://digest.bps.org.uk/2016/10/07/brain-training-exercises-just-make-you-better-at-brain-training-exercises/

10 years ago

523 upvotes – 211 comments

IP Spoofing

https://idea.popcount.org/2016-09-20-strange-loop---ip-spoofing/

10 years ago

513 upvotes – 132 comments

Shenzhen I/O

http://www.zachtronics.com/shenzhen-io/

10 years ago

456 upvotes – 131 comments

A Brief History of Who Ruined Burning Man

http://journal.burningman.org/2016/10/philosophical-center/tenprinciples/a-brief-history-of-who-ruined-burning-man/

10 years ago

443 upvotes – 241 comments

How We Built the World’s Prettiest Auto-Generated Transit Maps

https://medium.com/transit-app/how-we-built-the-worlds-prettiest-auto-generated-transit-maps-12d0c6fa502f

10 years ago

432 upvotes – 60 comments

Lawsuit: Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer led illegal purge of male workers

http://www.mercurynews.com/2016/10/06/yahoo-ceo-marissa-mayer-led-illegal-purge-of-male-employees-lawsuit-charges/?utm_campaign=Echobox&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook#link_time=1475791811

10 years ago

425 upvotes – 368 comments

Foundations of Data Science [pdf]

https://www.cs.cornell.edu/jeh/book2016June9.pdf

10 years ago

419 upvotes – 122 comments

Graph-Powered Machine Learning at Google

https://research.googleblog.com/2016/10/graph-powered-machine-learning-at-google.html

10 years ago

371 upvotes – 66 comments

RethinkDB, SageMath, Andreessen-Horowitz, Basecamp and Open Source Software

http://sagemath.blogspot.com/2016/10/rethinkdb-sagemath-andreessen-horowitz.html

10 years ago

331 upvotes – 120 comments

Tim Berners-Lee just gave us an opening to stop DRM in Web standards

https://www.defectivebydesign.org/blog/tim_bernerslee_just_gave_us_opening_stop_drm_web_standards

10 years ago

318 upvotes – 214 comments

Hurricane Matthew Visualization

https://www.ventusky.com/?p=26.33;-79.10;6&l=gust&t=20161007/08&w=0xIAb9A9A

10 years ago

310 upvotes – 37 comments

RethinkDB needs a new home

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc1yY2qy25viVc8MiM0XCsyMCpbalgzXrpT3MQAd_d3C1-jhA/viewform?c=0&w=1

10 years ago

302 upvotes – 97 comments

Mark Zuckerberg's virtual reality demo [video]

https://www.facebook.com/zuck/videos/vb.4/10103154531425531/?type=2&theater

10 years ago

286 upvotes – 140 comments

Paul Erdős: a life that added up to something (1996)

https://people.math.osu.edu/nevai.1/AT/ERDOS/erdos_washington_post.html

10 years ago

246 upvotes – 64 comments

Silkworms that eat carbon nanotubes and graphene spin tougher silk

http://cen.acs.org/articles/94/web/2016/10/Silkworms-eat-carbon-nanotubes-graphene.html

10 years ago

237 upvotes – 70 comments

Why we are suing Apple for better HTML5 support in iOS

https://www.nexedi.com/blog/NXD-Apple.Lawsuit.Blog

10 years ago

208 upvotes – 231 comments

Ask HN: Team for Hire?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12660702

10 years ago

206 upvotes – 102 comments

Microsoft Stream

https://stream.microsoft.com/en-us/

10 years ago

202 upvotes – 88 comments

Netflix and Ch-Ch-Chilly

https://backchannel.com/the-internet-really-has-changed-everything-here-s-the-proof-928eaead18a8#.vrhmwhsi2

10 years ago

189 upvotes – 29 comments

OVH to establish North American headquarters and first U.S. data center

http://governor.virginia.gov/newsroom/newsarticle?articleId=17975

10 years ago

187 upvotes – 94 comments

Keegan – Personal photo coach

https://keegan.regaind.io/

10 years ago

179 upvotes – 137 comments

Backpage Raided, CEO Arrested on Sex-Trafficking Charges

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/backpage-raided-ceo-arrested-texas-42630540

10 years ago

172 upvotes – 287 comments

U.S. government accuses Russia of hacking campaign to influence elections

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-government-officially-accuses-russia-of-hacking-campaign-to-influence-elections/2016/10/07/4e0b9654-8cbf-11e6-875e-2c1bfe943b66_story.html

10 years ago

168 upvotes – 335 comments

Suiron – Machine Learning for RC Cars

https://github.com/kendricktan/suiron/

10 years ago

★ 708 Python MIT
156 upvotes – 59 comments

Fall cleaning: Optimizing V8 memory consumption

http://v8project.blogspot.com/2016/10/fall-cleaning-optimizing-v8-memory.html

10 years ago

152 upvotes – 39 comments

Type-Safe Unions in C++ and Rust

http://genbattle.bitbucket.org/blog/2016/10/07/Type-Safe-Unions-in-C-and-Rust/

10 years ago

148 upvotes – 136 comments

Battlecode – AI Programming Competition

http://www.battlecode.org/contestants/

10 years ago

143 upvotes – 36 comments

Panama: The Hidden Trillions

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2016/10/27/panama-the-hidden-trillions/

10 years ago

138 upvotes – 165 comments

TOX – A New Kind of Instant Messaging

https://tox.chat/

10 years ago

138 upvotes – 107 comments

Mylan overcharged Medicaid for EpiPen for years, despite warnings

https://www.statnews.com/pharmalot/2016/10/05/mylan-overcharged-medicaid-epipen/

10 years ago

132 upvotes – 125 comments

The Nobel Peace Prize 2016: Juan Manuel Santos

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2016/press.html

10 years ago

123 upvotes – 117 comments

Texture – As open as LaTeX and as simple as a classic word processor

http://substance.io/texture/

10 years ago

112 upvotes – 39 comments

The smallest transistor reported to date

http://sciencebulletin.org/archives/6094.html

10 years ago

109 upvotes – 43 comments

As DNA reveals its secrets, scientists are assembling a new picture of humanity

https://www.statnews.com/2016/10/07/dna-genome-sequencing-new-maps/

10 years ago

109 upvotes – 30 comments

Mylan to Settle EpiPen Overpricing Case for $465M

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/08/business/epipen-mylan-justice-department-settlement.html

10 years ago

104 upvotes – 83 comments

History of Xenix – Microsoft's Forgotten Unix-Based Operating System

https://fossbytes.com/xenix-history-microsoft-unix-operating-system/

10 years ago

103 upvotes – 117 comments

Comcast's 1TB data caps start to roll out nationwide

https://www.engadget.com/2016/10/06/comcasts-1tb-data-caps-start-to-roll-out-nationwide/

10 years ago

100 upvotes – 94 comments

ARM in Your Ear: Computers, Not Hearing Aids

http://superpowered.com/ear-computing-apple-w1-processing-computation

10 years ago

94 upvotes – 15 comments

Verizon wants $1B off Yahoo sale price

http://www.siliconbeat.com/2016/10/06/yahoo-scandals-verizon-wants-1-billion-off-sale-price-report-says/

10 years ago

92 upvotes – 24 comments

The Genius of Learning

http://nautil.us/issue/40/learning/the-genius-of-learning-rp

10 years ago

90 upvotes – 16 comments

Spanish Boy Racks Up €100K Bill, Google Cancels The Charge

https://freshasfuck.net/2016/10/07/spanish-boy-makes-100000-euro-bill-google-cancels-the-charge/

10 years ago

85 upvotes – 53 comments

Hacker News London Meetup, October 2016 – Review

https://thoeni.io/post/hacker-news-london-october-2016/

10 years ago

85 upvotes – 30 comments

Cape Adare

http://idlewords.com/2016/10/cape_adare.htm

10 years ago

82 upvotes – 5 comments

Show HN: Insight AI – 7 week fellowship for scientists and engineers

http://insightdata.ai

10 years ago

81 upvotes – 28 comments

StructuredQueries.jl – A generic data manipulation framework

http://julialang.org/blog/2016/10/StructuredQueries

10 years ago

77 upvotes – 19 comments

Liquid assets: how the business of bottled water went mad

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/oct/06/liquid-assets-how--business-bottled-water-went-mad

10 years ago

75 upvotes – 83 comments

Developing as a developer: a journey through learning

https://blog.ragnarson.com/2016/10/07/developing-as-a-developer.html

10 years ago

73 upvotes – 7 comments
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