top 20 hacker news stories for 2017-08-12

YouTube AI deletes war crimes evidence as 'extremist material'

http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/youtube-criticised-after-middle-east-video-taken-down-over-extremist-content-1244893230

9 years ago

674 upvotes – 320 comments

Show HN: Extension-blocking domains removed by threat from other blacklists

https://github.com/paulgb/BarbBlock

9 years ago

★ 646 JavaScript MIT
614 upvotes – 155 comments

Annual note to self: most of the world exists outside the tech bubble

https://steveblank.com/2017/08/12/working-outside-the-tech-bubble/

9 years ago

596 upvotes – 354 comments

Time.gif

https://hookrace.net/blog/time.gif

9 years ago

563 upvotes – 104 comments

Big brother is here, and his name is Facebook

https://thenextweb.com/contributors/2017/08/11/big-brother-name-facebook/

9 years ago

504 upvotes – 293 comments

Ask HN: What free resources did you use to learn how to program ML/AI?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14998352

9 years ago

415 upvotes – 51 comments

Tesla raises $1.8B

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-bonds-tesla-idUSKBN1AR28M

9 years ago

323 upvotes – 194 comments

Crown shyness

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_shyness

9 years ago

307 upvotes – 36 comments

Papers I like

https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2017/08/12/papers-i-like-part-1/

9 years ago

294 upvotes – 7 comments

U.R. Rao has died

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/11/world/asia/ur-rao-dead-india-space-program.html

9 years ago

282 upvotes – 7 comments

Motive.c: The Soul of the Sims (1997)

http://www.donhopkins.com/home/images/Sims/

9 years ago

255 upvotes – 41 comments

Cathleen Morawetz has died

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/11/science/cathleen-morawetz-dead-nyu-mathematician.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fscience&action=click&contentCollection=science&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=sectionfront&_r=0

9 years ago

219 upvotes – 19 comments

Memories of Kurt Gödel

http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2012/08/01/memories-of-kurt-godel/

9 years ago

206 upvotes – 57 comments

Hard Lessons in Living Off the Grid

https://longreads.com/2017/08/08/hard-lessons-in-living-off-the-grid/

9 years ago

195 upvotes – 117 comments

My grandfather at Dunkirk

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-40852280

9 years ago

193 upvotes – 66 comments

The Legion Lonely

http://hazlitt.net/longreads/legion-lonely

9 years ago

192 upvotes – 136 comments

Worldbuilding

http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/worldbuilding.php

9 years ago

187 upvotes – 36 comments

An Average Guy Who Spent 6,000 Hours Trying to Be a Professional Golfer

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/08/the-dan-plan/536592/?single_page=true

9 years ago

182 upvotes – 92 comments

Don’t ruin streaming by turning it into cable

https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/11/dont-ruin-streaming-by-turning-it-into-cable/

9 years ago

161 upvotes – 146 comments

Biggest amateur-built sub sinks – owner is suspected of killing passenger

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/08/biggest-amateur-built-sub-sinks-owner-is-suspected-of-killing-passenger/

9 years ago

159 upvotes – 145 comments
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