top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-08-09

uBlock Origin Maintainer on Chrome vs. Firefox WebExtensions

https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/support-ublock-origin/6746/451

8 years ago

776 upvotes – 324 comments

Salesforce fires red team staffers who gave Defcon talk

http://www.zdnet.com/article/salesforce-fires-red-team-staffers-who-gave-defcon-talk/

8 years ago

698 upvotes – 290 comments

DeepMind and Blizzard Open StarCraft II as an AI Research Environment

https://deepmind.com/blog/deepmind-and-blizzard-open-starcraft-ii-ai-research-environment/

8 years ago

603 upvotes – 270 comments

The Google memo isn’t sexist or anti-diversity, it’s science

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/no-the-google-manifesto-isnt-sexist-or-anti-diversity-its-science/article35903359

8 years ago

592 upvotes – 637 comments

The Kolmogorov option

http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=3376

8 years ago

537 upvotes – 464 comments

JavaScript for People Who Hate JavaScript

https://zachholman.com/posts/javacript-haters

8 years ago

429 upvotes – 331 comments

Benefits of a Lifestyle Business

https://bugfender.com/blog/why-a-lifestyle-business-beats-a-startup/

8 years ago

406 upvotes – 266 comments

Why GitHub Can't Host the Linux Kernel Community

http://blog.ffwll.ch/2017/08/github-why-cant-host-the-kernel.html

8 years ago

395 upvotes – 236 comments

VPN Report – Reviews of the top VPNs

https://vpnreport.org

8 years ago

319 upvotes – 223 comments

Americans Are Dying Younger, Saving Corporations Billions

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-08/americans-are-dying-younger-saving-corporations-billions

8 years ago

313 upvotes – 306 comments

Monsanto Was Its Own Ghostwriter for Some Safety Reviews

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-09/monsanto-was-its-own-ghostwriter-for-some-safety-reviews

8 years ago

300 upvotes – 42 comments

Principles of Sharding for Relational Databases

https://www.citusdata.com/blog/2017/08/09/principles-of-sharding-for-relational-databases/

8 years ago

292 upvotes – 47 comments

Americans don’t need fast home Internet service, FCC suggests

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/08/maybe-americans-dont-need-fast-home-internet-service-fcc-suggests/?comments=1

8 years ago

277 upvotes – 188 comments

Swift 5: start your engines

https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-evolution/Week-of-Mon-20170807/038645.html

8 years ago

274 upvotes – 176 comments

As a Woman in Tech, I Realized: These Are Not My People

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-08-09/as-a-woman-in-tech-i-realized-these-are-not-my-people

8 years ago

272 upvotes – 207 comments

Lazarus – A Delphi-compatible cross-platform IDE

http://www.lazarus-ide.org

8 years ago

236 upvotes – 181 comments

To Protect Voting, Use Open-Source Software

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/08/03/opinion/open-source-software-hacker-voting.html

8 years ago

228 upvotes – 229 comments

How to confirm a Google user’s specific email address

http://www.tomanthony.co.uk/blog/confirm-google-users-email/

8 years ago

227 upvotes – 68 comments

Website load and speed analyzer

https://varvy.com/pagespeed/

8 years ago

226 upvotes – 68 comments

Uber Gets Run Over by Its Own Subprime Auto Leases

http://wolfstreet.com/2017/08/09/uber-gets-run-over-by-its-own-subprime-auto-leases/

8 years ago

220 upvotes – 121 comments

New York Subway X-Ray Area Maps

http://www.projectsubwaynyc.com/x-ray-area-maps/

8 years ago

216 upvotes – 45 comments

The New Copycats: How Facebook Squashes Competition From Startups

http://news.morningstar.com/all/dow-jones/us-markets/2017080910924/the-new-copycats-how-facebook-squashes-competition-from-startups.aspx

8 years ago

212 upvotes – 96 comments

Indian government bans archive.org

http://imgur.com/a/2tD8B?

8 years ago

209 upvotes – 43 comments

269 people join class-action lawsuit against Google claiming age discrimination

https://www.bizjournals.com/bizwomen/news/latest-news/2017/08/nearly-300-have-joined-google-age-case.html?page=all

8 years ago

201 upvotes – 127 comments

WebAssembly: A New Hope

https://pspdfkit.com/blog/2017/webassembly-a-new-hope/

8 years ago

199 upvotes – 109 comments

What Is Cryptocurrency Game Theory: A Basic Introduction

https://blockgeeks.com/guides/cryptocurrency-game-theory/

8 years ago

198 upvotes – 52 comments

Why We Said “No” to a $40M Round

https://blog.parse.ly/post/6282/why-we-said-no-vc-money/

8 years ago

192 upvotes – 48 comments

Hello WebAssembly

http://www.mono-project.com/news/2017/08/09/hello-webassembly/

8 years ago

189 upvotes – 49 comments

Netlify Raises $12M from A16Z

https://www.netlify.com/blog/2017/08/09/netlify-raises-12m-from-a16z/

8 years ago

185 upvotes – 94 comments

Richard Stallman Explains [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUibaPTXSHk

8 years ago

181 upvotes – 194 comments

Netflix Lands the Coen Brothers’ Western TV Series

https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/09/netflix-lands-the-coen-brothers-western-tv-series

8 years ago

177 upvotes – 33 comments

Children work in Congolese mines where cobalt is extracted for smartphones

http://news.sky.com/story/meet-dorsen-8-who-mines-cobalt-to-make-your-smartphone-work-10784120

8 years ago

175 upvotes – 106 comments

Show HN: Transformation Invariant Reverse Image Search

https://pippy360.github.io/transformationInvariantImageSearch/

8 years ago

166 upvotes – 30 comments

Why does Sattolo's algorithm produce a permutation with exactly one cycle?

https://danluu.com/sattolo/

8 years ago

156 upvotes – 18 comments

Cal State will no longer require math and English placement exams

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-cal-state-remedial-requirements-20170803-story.html

8 years ago

150 upvotes – 263 comments

United States Expatriation at an All-Time High

https://axibase.github.io/atsd-use-cases/Expatriation_Q2/

8 years ago

139 upvotes – 139 comments

.NET Standard 2.0 is final

https://github.com/dotnet/announcements/issues/24

8 years ago

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134 upvotes – 66 comments

How to Determine If Candidates Will Thrive in a Remote Work Environment

https://hackernoon.com/how-to-determine-if-candidates-will-thrive-in-a-remote-work-environment-d538d1e8f831

8 years ago

132 upvotes – 74 comments

How big oil will die

https://shift.newco.co/amp/p/38b843bd4fe0

8 years ago

131 upvotes – 159 comments

Designing Zachtronics' TIS-100 (2015)

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/244969/Things_we_create_tell_people_who_we_are_Designing_Zachtronics_TIS100.php?print=1

8 years ago

126 upvotes – 33 comments

Pytest 3.2.0 released

https://docs.pytest.org/en/latest/changelog.html#pytest-3-2-0-2017-07-30

8 years ago

124 upvotes – 35 comments

Chrome's geolocation fails daily due to API limit

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=753242

8 years ago

117 upvotes – 25 comments

Music Fandom Maps

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/08/07/upshot/music-fandom-maps.html

8 years ago

116 upvotes – 51 comments

Git: Using Advanced Rebase Features for a Clean Repository

https://mtyurt.net/2017/08/08/git-using-advanced-rebase-features-for-a-clean-repository/

8 years ago

114 upvotes – 84 comments

The SRE model at Google

https://medium.com/@rakyll/the-sre-model-6e19376ef986

8 years ago

112 upvotes – 5 comments

Implementing Backup

https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/implementing-backup/#

8 years ago

112 upvotes – 19 comments

Jordan Peterson Interviews James Damore

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEDuVF7kiPU&t=43s

8 years ago

111 upvotes – 66 comments

The incentives of academia naturally select for less reliable results (2016)

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/09/the-inevitable-evolution-of-bad-science/500609/?single_page=true

8 years ago

106 upvotes – 51 comments

The man who wrote the book on password management regrets the error

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-man-who-wrote-those-password-rules-has-a-new-tip-n3v-r-m1-d-1502124118

8 years ago

103 upvotes – 139 comments

Bitcoin Makes Even Smart People Feel Dumb

https://www.wired.com/story/bitcoin-makes-even-smart-people-feel-dumb

8 years ago

101 upvotes – 102 comments

Aadhaar: Ushering in a Commercialized Era of Surveillance in India

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/05/aadhaar-ushering-commercialized-era-surveillance-india

8 years ago

97 upvotes – 39 comments

What Nassim Taleb can teach us

https://mises.org/blog/what-nassim-taleb-can-teach-us

8 years ago

94 upvotes – 45 comments

GnuPG 2.1.23 released

https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2017q3/000412.html

8 years ago

82 upvotes – 22 comments

More than 60 women consider suing Google, claiming sexism and a pay gap

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/aug/08/google-women-discrimination-class-action-lawsuit

8 years ago

82 upvotes – 115 comments
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