top 50% 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

8 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

8 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

8 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

8 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

8 years ago

467 upvotes – 181 comments

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

http://www.timescale.com/

8 years ago

358 upvotes – 100 comments

Learn Regex the Easy Way

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

8 years ago

★ 46.1kMIT
323 upvotes – 66 comments

Ask HN: Which companies give programmers offices?

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

8 years ago

312 upvotes – 241 comments

The 1980 Citroën Karin

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

8 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

8 years ago

268 upvotes – 111 comments

Implementing Font-Size in Servo: An Unexpectedly Complex CSS Property

https://manishearth.github.io/blog/2017/08/10/font-size-an-unexpectedly-complex-css-property/

8 years ago

262 upvotes – 52 comments

Don't Take Security Advice from SEO Experts or Psychics

https://www.troyhunt.com/dont-take-security-advice-from-seo-experts-or-psychics-neil-patel/

8 years ago

261 upvotes – 129 comments

EasyList: Ad-serving domain removed due to DMCA takedown request

https://github.com/easylist/easylist/commit/a4d380ad1a3b33a0fab679a1a8c5a791321622b3

8 years ago

★ 2.9kAdblock Filter List
261 upvotes – 71 comments

Coinbase raises $100M Series D led by IVP

https://blog.coinbase.com/coinbase-raises-100m-series-d-led-by-ivp-f5f25cb51019

8 years ago

259 upvotes – 224 comments

Plasma: Scalable Autonomous Smart Contracts

https://www.plasma.io

8 years ago

252 upvotes – 137 comments

How I Used Deep Learning to Train a Chatbot to Talk Like Me

https://adeshpande3.github.io/How-I-Used-Deep-Learning-to-Train-a-Chatbot-to-Talk-Like-Me

8 years ago

220 upvotes – 33 comments

Serverless: A lesson learned the hard way

https://sourcebox.be/blog/2017/08/07/serverless-a-lesson-learned-the-hard-way/

8 years ago

204 upvotes – 133 comments

Show HN: Kozmos – A Personal Library

https://getkozmos.com/

8 years ago

197 upvotes – 72 comments

Show HN: Play rock-paper-scissors against your computer via webcam, neural nets

https://tenso.rs/demos/rock-paper-scissors/

8 years ago

196 upvotes – 33 comments

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X and 1920X Review

http://www.anandtech.com/show/11697/the-amd-ryzen-threadripper-1950x-and-1920x-review

8 years ago

192 upvotes – 150 comments

Coco: Framework for enterprise blockchain networks

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-microsoft-s-coco-framework-for-enterprise-blockchain-networks/

8 years ago

177 upvotes – 95 comments

Exploring strategies to decarbonize electricity

https://www.blog.google/topics/environment/exploring-strategies-decarbonize-electricity/

8 years ago

174 upvotes – 135 comments

Node 8.3.0 released

https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/master/doc/changelogs/CHANGELOG_V8.md#8.3.0

8 years ago

★ 116.9kJavaScript
172 upvotes – 82 comments

US diplomats mysteriously go deaf, Cuba suspected of using sonic weapons

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/cuba-us-diplomats-go-deaf-state-department-sonic-weapon-heather-nauert-donald-trump-raul-castro-a7885551.html

8 years ago

172 upvotes – 130 comments

Ask HN: Have you successfully moved away from Google search?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14979251

8 years ago

170 upvotes – 115 comments

Nuke Map: Interactive Nuclear Bomb Map

https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/

8 years ago

160 upvotes – 87 comments

Google blocked every one of the WSWS’s 45 top search terms

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/08/04/goog-a04.html

8 years ago

159 upvotes – 136 comments

Malware Encoded in DNA Can Hack Gene-Sequencing Software

https://www.wired.com/story/malware-dna-hack

8 years ago

157 upvotes – 46 comments

GNUstep LiveCD 2017

http://www.aiei.ch/gnustep/

8 years ago

156 upvotes – 95 comments

Snap Misses User-Growth Estimate as Facebook Copying Takes Toll

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-10/snap-falls-after-daily-active-users-miss-estimates

8 years ago

155 upvotes – 96 comments

Lyft’s Radical Experiment in Charging for Free Parking

https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2017-lyft-parking-experiment

8 years ago

148 upvotes – 138 comments

Jessamyn West, Technology Lady (2015)

https://medium.com/@jessamyn/transcription-jessamyn-west-technology-lady-6c6f5fefa507#.s75d93ntw

8 years ago

143 upvotes – 113 comments

Tilix: A tiling terminal emulator

https://gnunn1.github.io/tilix-web/

8 years ago

142 upvotes – 120 comments

Eighth Circuit: Citizens do not have a right to film public officials in public

http://krcgtv.com/news/local/eighth-circuit-citizens-do-not-have-a-right-to-film-public-officials-in-public

8 years ago

139 upvotes – 80 comments

Tonka beans – A delicious flavour with a toxic chemical

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170620-the-delicious-flavour-with-a-toxic-secret

8 years ago

130 upvotes – 96 comments

A pilot explains turbulence

http://www.businessinsider.com/pilot-explains-turbulence-safe-2017-8/?IR=T

8 years ago

125 upvotes – 72 comments

Metallic Glass Gears for NASA Robots

http://www.tribonet.org/metallic-glass-gears-for-nasa-robots/

8 years ago

124 upvotes – 41 comments

SoundCloud faces do-or-die vote by investors

https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/10/soundcloud-shut-down-possible/

8 years ago

124 upvotes – 119 comments

A New Way to Tell Your Airline You Hate It

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-10/furious-about-delays-and-lost-luggage-text-your-airline

8 years ago

117 upvotes – 86 comments

Show HN: Crackle – keyboard layout for programmers

https://medium.com/@jack_21924/crackle-keyboard-layout-for-special-characters-e4dd04838231

8 years ago

114 upvotes – 110 comments

Tableau acquires ClearGraph, a data analysis startup using natural language

https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/09/tableau-acquires-cleargraph-a-startup-that-lets-you-analyze-your-data-using-natural-language/

8 years ago

112 upvotes – 31 comments

Engineers in San Francisco Have Mediocre Take Home Pay

https://www.mytrove.com/ca/san-francisco/cheddar/software-application-developers

8 years ago

110 upvotes – 123 comments

2016 was third consecutive year of record global warmth

https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/reporting-state-climate-2016

8 years ago

104 upvotes – 88 comments

Google cancels meeting on gender controversy due to employee fears of harassment

https://www.recode.net/2017/8/10/16128380/google-cancels-all-hands-meeting-gender-controversy-due-to-employee-worries-online-harassment

8 years ago

101 upvotes – 60 comments

Hyper.sh: Container-native Cloud

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1nrfEcCITAofSDPFTIkiASLa4UvmCOUmgPE6ayFZBR0c/edit?usp=sharingl

8 years ago

99 upvotes – 29 comments

Jupyter C Kernel

https://github.com/brendan-rius/jupyter-c-kernel

8 years ago

★ 584PythonMIT
97 upvotes – 27 comments

Intel EOLs Atom Chip Used for Microsoft HoloLens

http://www.anandtech.com/show/11705/intel-eols-atom-chip-used-for-microsoft-hololens?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social

8 years ago

94 upvotes – 33 comments

Electric cars: The death of the internal combustion engine

https://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21726071-it-had-good-run-end-sight-machine-changed-world-death

8 years ago

93 upvotes – 154 comments

Investigating a ten-year-old estimate that “most social programmes don’t work”

https://80000hours.org/articles/effective-social-program/

8 years ago

90 upvotes – 82 comments

Inside Darpa’s Push to Make Artificial Intelligence Explain Itself

https://blogs.wsj.com/cio/2017/08/10/inside-darpas-push-to-make-artificial-intelligence-explain-itself/?mod=e2tw

8 years ago

88 upvotes – 47 comments

Introducing GraphQL Support for Insomnia

https://insomnia.rest/blog/introducing-graphql

8 years ago

84 upvotes – 26 comments

Man who made passwords hard regrets rules that 'drive people crazy'

http://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-wednesday-edition-1.4240252/man-who-made-passwords-hard-to-remember-regrets-rules-that-drive-people-crazy-1.4240255

8 years ago

79 upvotes – 82 comments

Shenzhen: China’s ‘skyscraper capital’

http://www.bbc.com/capital/gallery/20170809-inside-chinas-skyscraper-capital

8 years ago

77 upvotes – 40 comments

Show HN: Run Code Snippets in Any Language Inside Your Blog

https://tech.io/blog/runnable-code-snippets/

8 years ago

75 upvotes – 13 comments

Amazon paid just £15m in tax on European revenues of £19.5bn

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/aug/10/amazon-uk-halves-its-corporation-tax-to-74m-as-sales-soar-to-7bn

8 years ago

74 upvotes – 71 comments
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