top 20 hacker news stories for 2017-08-16

Why We Terminated Daily Stormer

https://blog.cloudflare.com/why-we-terminated-daily-stormer/

9 years ago

857 upvotes – 1526 comments

Andrew Ng is raising a $150M AI Fund

https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/15/andrew-ng-is-raising-a-150m-ai-fund/

9 years ago

470 upvotes – 148 comments

Kubernetes at GitHub

https://githubengineering.com/kubernetes-at-github/

9 years ago

413 upvotes – 137 comments

Puppeteer: Headless Chrome Node API

https://github.com/GoogleChrome/puppeteer

9 years ago

★ 94.2k TypeScript Apache-2.0
406 upvotes – 100 comments

Facebook – You are the Product

https://www.lrb.co.uk/v39/n16/john-lanchester/you-are-the-product

9 years ago

387 upvotes – 303 comments

How Postgres Makes Transactions Atomic

https://brandur.org/postgres-atomicity

9 years ago

374 upvotes – 48 comments

Google AMP is bad for e-commerce

https://thirtybees.com/blog/amp-is-bad-for-e-commerce/

9 years ago

367 upvotes – 152 comments

ProtonMail Now Supports Bitcoin Payments

https://protonmail.com/blog/bitcoin-secure-email/

9 years ago

336 upvotes – 183 comments

Intel Reveals Post-8th Gen. Core Architecture 10nm+ Ice Lake

http://www.anandtech.com/show/11722/intel-reveals-ice-lake-core-architecture-10nm-plus

9 years ago

326 upvotes – 237 comments

ATLAS sees first direct evidence of light-by-light scattering at high energy

https://atlas.cern/updates/press-statement/atlas-sees-first-direct-evidence-light-light-scattering-high-energy

9 years ago

253 upvotes – 79 comments

More on Dota 2

https://blog.openai.com/more-on-dota-2/

9 years ago

252 upvotes – 96 comments

Migrating 1200 databases from MySQL to Postgres

http://psyenix.blogspot.com/2017/08/migrating-1200-db-from-mysql-to-postgres.html

9 years ago

250 upvotes – 82 comments

The Token Effect

https://blog.ycombinator.com/the-token-effect

9 years ago

247 upvotes – 154 comments

When did software go off the rails?

http://blog.jasonhanley.com/2017/08/when-did-software-go-off-rails.html

9 years ago

244 upvotes – 323 comments

Passive event listeners

https://github.com/WICG/EventListenerOptions/blob/gh-pages/explainer.md

9 years ago

★ 1.1k JavaScript
235 upvotes – 60 comments

Understanding the math behind 0x5f3759df and the fast inverse square root (2012)

http://h14s.p5r.org/2012/09/0x5f3759df.html

9 years ago

222 upvotes – 19 comments

Dwarf Fortress starting during apt-get upgrade

https://askubuntu.com/questions/938606/dwarf-fortress-starting-during-apt-get-upgrade

9 years ago

221 upvotes – 53 comments

Robocalls Flooding Your Cellphone? Here’s How to Stop Them

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/11/smarter-living/stop-robocalls.html?sl_rec=mostpopular_sample_dedup&contentCollection=smarter-living&mData=articles%255B%255D%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fwww.nytimes.com%252F2017%252F08%252F14%252Fsmarter-living%252Fsolar-eclipse-watch-time-location.html%253Fsl_rec%253Dmostpopular_sample_dedup%2526sl_l%253D1%26articles%255B%255D%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fwww.nytimes.com%252F2017%252F05%252F11%252Fsmarter-living%252Fstop-robocalls.html

9 years ago

215 upvotes – 303 comments

Songbird: Spatial Audio Encoding on the Web

https://google.github.io/songbird/

9 years ago

201 upvotes – 42 comments

Terms of Service; Didn't Read

https://tosdr.org/

9 years ago

197 upvotes – 62 comments
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