top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-08-16

Why We Terminated Daily Stormer

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

8 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/

8 years ago

470 upvotes – 148 comments

Kubernetes at GitHub

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

8 years ago

413 upvotes – 137 comments

Puppeteer: Headless Chrome Node API

https://github.com/GoogleChrome/puppeteer

8 years ago

★ 94.2kTypeScriptApache-2.0
406 upvotes – 100 comments

Facebook – You are the Product

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

8 years ago

387 upvotes – 303 comments

How Postgres Makes Transactions Atomic

https://brandur.org/postgres-atomicity

8 years ago

374 upvotes – 48 comments

Google AMP is bad for e-commerce

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

8 years ago

367 upvotes – 152 comments

ProtonMail Now Supports Bitcoin Payments

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

8 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

8 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

8 years ago

253 upvotes – 79 comments

More on Dota 2

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

8 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

8 years ago

250 upvotes – 82 comments

The Token Effect

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

8 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

8 years ago

244 upvotes – 323 comments

Passive event listeners

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

8 years ago

★ 1.1kJavaScript
235 upvotes – 60 comments

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

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

8 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

8 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

8 years ago

215 upvotes – 303 comments

Songbird: Spatial Audio Encoding on the Web

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

8 years ago

201 upvotes – 42 comments

Terms of Service; Didn't Read

https://tosdr.org/

8 years ago

197 upvotes – 62 comments

DOJ Demands Files on Anti-Trump Activists, and DreamHost Resists

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/08/15/543782396/doj-demands-files-on-anti-trump-activists-and-a-web-hosting-company-resists

8 years ago

193 upvotes – 138 comments

Build your own Linux

http://www.buildyourownlinux.com/

8 years ago

187 upvotes – 48 comments

Draw.io releases open source desktop versions

https://www.facebook.com/drawioapp/posts/1628618103829386

8 years ago

184 upvotes – 46 comments

83 percent of Bay Area renters plan to leave, says survey

https://sf.curbed.com/2017/8/15/16150828/survey-bay-area-leave-sf-renters

8 years ago

176 upvotes – 218 comments

How to become a Bayesian in eight easy steps: An annotated reading list

https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/ph6sw

8 years ago

168 upvotes – 12 comments

'Body Brokers' Get Kickbacks to Lure People with Addictions to Bad Rehab

http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/08/15/542630442/body-brokers-get-kickbacks-to-lure-people-with-addictions-to-bad-rehab

8 years ago

167 upvotes – 79 comments

Inception movie explained programmatically with C and assembly

https://github.com/karthick18/inception

8 years ago

★ 780C
165 upvotes – 87 comments

Rowhammer-like attack on SSDs can provide root privileges to attacker

http://www.myce.com/news/ibm-researchers-rowhammer-like-attack-ssds-can-provide-root-privileges-attacker-82386/

8 years ago

161 upvotes – 72 comments

How to Pick Your Next Gig: Evaluating Startups

http://www.samvitjain.com/blog/evaluating-startups/

8 years ago

158 upvotes – 33 comments

On Norbert Blum’s claimed proof that P does not equal NP

https://lucatrevisan.wordpress.com/2017/08/15/on-norbert-blums-claimed-proof-that-p-does-not-equal-np/

8 years ago

139 upvotes – 68 comments

The Problem with F# Evangelism

https://thomasbandt.com/the-problem-with-fsharp-evangelism

8 years ago

131 upvotes – 197 comments

Casually removing root files

https://ervinb.github.io/2017/08/16/casually-removing-root-files/

8 years ago

128 upvotes – 55 comments

PyGraphistry – A library to extract, transform, and visually explore big graphs

https://github.com/graphistry/pygraphistry

8 years ago

★ 2.4kPythonBSD-3-Clause
125 upvotes – 27 comments

App pays users to line up outside new restaurants

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2017/08/16/see-the-hipsters-lined-up-outside-that-new-restaurant-this-app-pays-them-to-stand-there/

8 years ago

125 upvotes – 108 comments

TunnelBear Publishes Security Audit

https://www.tunnelbear.com/blog/tunnelbear_public_security_audit/

8 years ago

121 upvotes – 58 comments

Trump Strategic and Policy Forum, Which Included IBM and GM CEOs, Disbands

https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/16/trump-strategic-and-policy-forum-which-included-ibm-and-gm-ceos-disbands

8 years ago

118 upvotes – 111 comments

Ask HN: Self-taught developers, what repo helped land your first job?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15025578

8 years ago

116 upvotes – 114 comments

How we built the unbeatable Dota 2 bot

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

8 years ago

103 upvotes – 33 comments

Netflix Plans to Spend $7B on Content in 2018

https://www.streamingobserver.com/netflix-plans-to-spend-7-billion-on-original-content-in-2018/

8 years ago

95 upvotes – 165 comments

A Primer on Neural Network Models for Natural Language Processing (2016) [pdf]

https://www.jair.org/media/4992/live-4992-9623-jair.pdf

8 years ago

94 upvotes – 8 comments

Despite Proven Technology, Attempts to Make Table Saws Safer Drag On

http://www.npr.org/2017/08/10/542474093/despite-proven-technology-attempts-to-make-table-saws-safer-drag-on

8 years ago

92 upvotes – 217 comments

PAPAC-00, a Do-It-Yourself Paper Computer (1958)

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?reload=true&arnumber=5222588

8 years ago

90 upvotes – 12 comments

Announcing Blockstream Satellite

https://blockstream.com/2017/08/15/announcing-blockstream-satellite.html

8 years ago

85 upvotes – 74 comments

Unsupervised machine learning with basket clusters

https://hackernoon.com/unsupervised-machine-learning-for-fun-profit-with-basket-clusters-17a1161e7aa1

8 years ago

83 upvotes – 38 comments

Google updates Docs, Sheets and Slides with new collaboration features

https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/16/google-updates-docs-sheets-and-slides-with-new-collaboration-features

8 years ago

76 upvotes – 14 comments

Cloudflare has dropped the Daily Stormer

https://twitter.com/mattsheffield/status/897873969897975808

8 years ago

74 upvotes – 108 comments

Google acquires AIMatter, maker of the Fabby computer vision app

https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/16/google-acquires-aimatter-maker-of-the-fabby-computer-vision-app/

8 years ago

71 upvotes – 12 comments

Automatic Mapping of NES Games with Mappy

https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.03908

8 years ago

71 upvotes – 28 comments

United States Camel Corps

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

8 years ago

70 upvotes – 19 comments

Path-breaking Papers About Image Classification

http://blog.paralleldots.com/technology/deep-learning/must-read-path-breaking-papers-about-image-classification

8 years ago

69 upvotes – 29 comments

Show/Ask HN: Anonymous Global Product Manager Salary List

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1miQZp0_ckiPgkxH5_PUTdkUgf6tCzKIzVYplNyAjkhM/edit#gid=0

8 years ago

68 upvotes – 20 comments
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