top 50% 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

EFF Urges Supreme Court to Take on Unconstitutional NSA Surveillance

https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-urges-supreme-court-take-unconstitutional-nsa-surveillance-reverse-dangerous

9 years ago

152 upvotes – 19 comments

Predict the future with Machine Learning

https://www.zeroequalsfalse.press/2017/08/10/ml/

9 years ago

147 upvotes – 45 comments

Reverse Engineering Malware 102

https://securedorg.github.io/RE102/

9 years ago

140 upvotes – 8 comments

TRAPPIST-1 Is Older Than Our Solar System

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/trappist-1-is-older-than-our-solar-system

9 years ago

132 upvotes – 56 comments

Why an eight-hour bus ride from Los Angeles to San Francisco might beat a flight

https://www.economist.com/blogs/gulliver/2017/08/life-slow-lane?fsrc=scn/fb/te/bl/ed/whyaneighthourbusridefromlosangelestosanfranciscomightbeataflight

9 years ago

126 upvotes – 112 comments

The Next Moon Landing Is Near, Thanks to Pioneering Engineers

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/08/space-race-moon-google-lunar-xprize/

9 years ago

126 upvotes – 66 comments

What is it like to understand advanced mathematics?

https://www.quora.com/What-is-it-like-to-understand-advanced-mathematics-Does-it-feel-analogous-to-having-mastery-of-another-language-like-in-programming-or-linguistics/answers/873950?share=1

9 years ago

122 upvotes – 53 comments

Immutable Data Structures That Are Compatible with Normal JS Arrays and Objects

https://github.com/rtfeldman/seamless-immutable

9 years ago

★ 5.3k JavaScript BSD-3-Clause
121 upvotes – 39 comments

Stocks with Outperform Ratings Beat the Market

http://blog.ayoungprogrammer.com/2017/05/stocks-with-outperform-ratings-beats-market.html/

9 years ago

119 upvotes – 65 comments

URL obfuscation (2002)

http://www.pc-help.org/obscure.htm

9 years ago

117 upvotes – 25 comments

“With $80B in Value Created, Techstars Is the #1 Global Accelerator”

http://blog.capitalandgrowth.org/david-cohen/

9 years ago

107 upvotes – 27 comments

Does OO really match the way we think (1997) [pdf]

http://www.leshatton.org/Documents/OO_IS698.pdf

9 years ago

104 upvotes – 239 comments

Pony Performance Cheatsheet

https://www.ponylang.org/reference/pony-performance-cheatsheet/

9 years ago

98 upvotes – 35 comments

A year with Notmuch mail (2016)

https://lwn.net/Articles/705856/

9 years ago

96 upvotes – 18 comments

What I Didn't Say (2013)

http://www.paulgraham.com/wids.html

9 years ago

96 upvotes – 26 comments

I'm a woman in computer science. Let me ladysplain the Google memo to you

https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/8/11/16130452/google-memo-women-tech-biology-sexism

9 years ago

93 upvotes – 47 comments

Perspective: Google API that detects toxic comments

http://perspectiveapi.com/

9 years ago

92 upvotes – 119 comments

NetRunner: a web browser catering to powerusers

https://netrunner.cc/

9 years ago

91 upvotes – 51 comments

R interface to Keras

https://rstudio.github.io/keras/

9 years ago

89 upvotes – 1 comments
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