top 10 hacker news stories for 2017-08-10

Four Earth-sized planets detected orbiting the nearest sun-like star

https://news.ucsc.edu/2017/08/tau-ceti-planets.html

9 years ago

641 upvotes – 295 comments

Outraged about the Google diversity memo?

http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2017/08/outraged-about-google-diversity-memo-i.html

9 years ago

571 upvotes – 800 comments

A rising sentiment that IBM’s Watson can’t deliver on its promises

http://gizmodo.com/why-everyone-is-hating-on-watson-including-the-people-w-1797510888

9 years ago

503 upvotes – 278 comments

Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14978631

9 years ago

488 upvotes – 569 comments

Benchmark Capital Sues Travis Kalanick for Fraud

https://www.axios.com/benchmark-capital-sues-travis-kalanick-for-fraud-2471455477.html

9 years ago

467 upvotes – 181 comments

Timescale, an open-source time-series SQL database for PostgreSQL

http://www.timescale.com/

9 years ago

358 upvotes – 100 comments

Learn Regex the Easy Way

https://github.com/zeeshanu/learn-regex

9 years ago

★ 46.1k MIT
323 upvotes – 66 comments

Ask HN: Which companies give programmers offices?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14979718

9 years ago

312 upvotes – 241 comments

The 1980 Citroën Karin

http://www.citroenet.org.uk/prototypes/karin/karin.html

9 years ago

290 upvotes – 186 comments

First large-scale deep-sea floating offshore wind farm

https://www.statoil.com/en/what-we-do/hywind-where-the-wind-takes-us.html

9 years ago

268 upvotes – 111 comments
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