top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-08-21

Android Oreo

https://www.android.com/versions/oreo-8-0/

9 years ago

778 upvotes – 641 comments

Ellen Pao: My lawsuit failed. Others won’t

https://www.thecut.com/2017/08/ellen-pao-silicon-valley-sexism-reset-excerpt.html

9 years ago

682 upvotes – 538 comments

How JavaScript works: inside the V8 engine

https://blog.sessionstack.com/how-javascript-works-inside-the-v8-engine-5-tips-on-how-to-write-optimized-code-ac089e62b12e

9 years ago

481 upvotes – 110 comments

Examining a vintage RAM chip, I find a counterfeit with a different die inside

http://www.righto.com/2017/08/inside-fake-ram-chip-i-found-something.html

9 years ago

462 upvotes – 137 comments

Analyzing Cryptocurrency Markets Using Python

https://blog.patricktriest.com/analyzing-cryptocurrencies-python/?utm_source=hackernews

9 years ago

349 upvotes – 52 comments

Firefox 55 and Selenium IDE

https://seleniumhq.wordpress.com/2017/08/09/firefox-55-and-selenium-ide/

9 years ago

294 upvotes – 120 comments

Love it or hate it, truckers say they can’t stop listening to public radio

https://current.org/2017/08/love-it-or-hate-it-truckers-say-they-cant-stop-listening-to-public-radio/

9 years ago

279 upvotes – 270 comments

Statistics Professor Just Banned by Google: Here Is His Story

http://investingchannel.com/article/433394/One-Statistics-Professor-Was-Just-Banned-By-Google-Here-Is-His-Story

9 years ago

258 upvotes – 197 comments

Serverless Raspberry Pi Cluster with Docker

https://blog.alexellis.io/your-serverless-raspberry-pi-cluster/

9 years ago

247 upvotes – 75 comments

The ‘here is’ key

https://dave.cheney.net/2017/08/21/the-here-is-key

9 years ago

241 upvotes – 54 comments

Going Multi-Cloud with AWS and GCP: Lessons Learned at Scale

https://metamarkets.com/2017/big-cloud-data-aws-and-gcp/

9 years ago

229 upvotes – 54 comments

Initial Hammer2 filesystem implementation

http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/users/2017-August/313558.html

9 years ago

228 upvotes – 68 comments

Aging Parents with Lots of Stuff, and Children Who Don’t Want It

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/18/your-money/aging-parents-with-lots-of-stuff-and-children-who-dont-want-it.html

9 years ago

195 upvotes – 254 comments

A Stroke of Genius: Striving for Greatness in All You Do (1993)

http://www.mccurley.org/advice/hamming_advice.html

9 years ago

175 upvotes – 40 comments

California teaches inmates code; some states ban them from teaching themselves

https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2017/aug/17/prisons-coding-ban/

9 years ago

173 upvotes – 113 comments

Brian Aldiss has died

https://www.curtisbrown.co.uk/news/announcement-of-the-death-of-brian-aldiss-obe

9 years ago

161 upvotes – 54 comments

Introducing Android 8.0 Oreo

https://www.blog.google/products/android/android-oreo-superpowers-coming-device-near-you/

9 years ago

160 upvotes – 8 comments

A supercompiler pass for Erlang

https://github.com/fenollp/erlscp

9 years ago

★ 93 Erlang
152 upvotes – 29 comments

Statistics professor at Columbia and Georgetown banned from all Google services

https://twitter.com/salilstatistics/status/898906185969139714

9 years ago

148 upvotes – 90 comments

Vue.js and Brunch: Webpack Alternative

https://vuejsdevelopers.com/2017/08/20/vue-js-brunch/?jsdojo_id=reddit_vpb

9 years ago

147 upvotes – 108 comments

Let’s hear it for the four-hour working day

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/aug/11/oliver-burkeman-four-hour-working-day

9 years ago

146 upvotes – 78 comments

Does the world need polymaths?

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-40865986

9 years ago

142 upvotes – 80 comments

Rise and fall of JVM languages

https://blog.frankel.ch/rise-fall-jvm-languages/#gsc.tab=0

9 years ago

141 upvotes – 229 comments

Why a Dutch court stopped high school students from exchanging schools

https://medium.com/popular-choice/why-a-dutch-court-stopped-high-school-students-from-exchanging-schools-1315303a48b6

9 years ago

139 upvotes – 108 comments

Zsh Configuration from the Ground Up

https://zanshin.net/2013/02/02/zsh-configuration-from-the-ground-up/

9 years ago

133 upvotes – 23 comments

YC Summer 2017 Stats

https://blog.ycombinator.com/yc-summer-2017-stats/

9 years ago

128 upvotes – 113 comments

The Windows App Store Is Full of Pirate Streaming Apps

https://torrentfreak.com/the-windows-app-store-is-full-of-pirate-streaming-apps-170820/

9 years ago

124 upvotes – 60 comments

Intel Launches 8th Generation CPUs, Starting with Kaby Lake Refresh

http://www.anandtech.com/show/11738/intel-launches-8th-generation-cpus-starting-with-kaby-lake-refresh-for-15w-mobile

9 years ago

121 upvotes – 111 comments

Async/Await will make code simpler

https://blog.patricktriest.com/what-is-async-await-why-should-you-care/

9 years ago

107 upvotes – 92 comments

Awesome Linux Software

https://github.com/LewisVo/Awesome-Linux-Software

9 years ago

★ 24.9k HTML
106 upvotes – 27 comments

Sperm Count in Western Men Has Dropped Over 50 Percent Since 1973, Paper Finds

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/16/health/male-sperm-count-problem.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=0

9 years ago

105 upvotes – 138 comments

The Hardest Program I've Ever Written (2015)

http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2015/09/08/the-hardest-program-ive-ever-written/?sort

9 years ago

105 upvotes – 48 comments

Student mistook examples of unsolved math problems for homework, solves them

http://www.snopes.com/college/homework/unsolvable.asp

9 years ago

105 upvotes – 22 comments

Why didn't electricity immediately change manufacturing?

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-40673694

9 years ago

102 upvotes – 22 comments

Custom Elements v1: Reusable Web Components

https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/architecture/building-components/customelements

9 years ago

101 upvotes – 36 comments

Winning the War on Error: Solving the Halting Problem and Curing Cancer [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdmQUlD7P40

9 years ago

99 upvotes – 14 comments

Voyager antenna operator: 'I was the first human to see images from Neptune'

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/08/21/voyager_2_40th_anniversary_meet_richard_stephenson_radio_operator/

9 years ago

96 upvotes – 10 comments

Ask HN: What does deliberate practice look like for computer programming?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15068455

9 years ago

92 upvotes – 33 comments

The Michelson Language

https://www.michelson-lang.com/

9 years ago

92 upvotes – 11 comments

On almost every indicator, Germany’s south is doing better than its north

https://www.economist.com/blogs/kaffeeklatsch/2017/08/explaining-munich-miracle

9 years ago

87 upvotes – 38 comments

Crinkler secrets, 4k intro executable compressor at its best (2010)

https://code4k.blogspot.com/2010/12/crinkler-secrets-4k-intro-executable.html

9 years ago

86 upvotes – 4 comments

Conversational Speech Recognition System [pdf]

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/ms_swbd17-2.pdf

9 years ago

82 upvotes – 11 comments

Status: Investigating reports of connectivity issues

https://status.github.com/messages/2017-08-21

9 years ago

77 upvotes – 40 comments

“Bing is bigger than you think,” Microsoft boasts, at 33% of US searches

https://www.onmsft.com/news/bing-ads-tweets-search-market-share-numbers-bing-is-bigger-than-you-think

9 years ago

76 upvotes – 136 comments

Danish Submarine Inventor Says He Buried Swedish Journalist at Sea

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/21/world/europe/swedish-journalist-peter-madsen-danish.html

9 years ago

74 upvotes – 83 comments

Preact : a smaller, faster React alternative

https://blog.logrocket.com/introduction-to-preact-a-smaller-faster-react-alternative-ad5532eb6d79

9 years ago

74 upvotes – 48 comments

A Short History of Complex Numbers (2006) [pdf]

http://www.math.uri.edu/~merino/spring06/mth562/ShortHistoryComplexNumbers2006.pdf

9 years ago

73 upvotes – 8 comments

How Hate Groups Forced Online Platforms to Reveal Their True Nature

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/21/magazine/how-hate-groups-forced-online-platforms-to-reveal-their-true-nature.html

9 years ago

73 upvotes – 103 comments

Solar Eclipse live stream

https://www.nasa.gov/eclipselive/#NASA+TV+Public+Channel

9 years ago

73 upvotes – 6 comments

HTC Vive Price Cut

https://blog.vive.com/us/2017/08/21/htc-vive-announces-price-drop/

9 years ago

72 upvotes – 57 comments

Experiments in NES JIT Compilation

https://bheisler.github.io/post/experiments-in-nes-jit-compilation/

9 years ago

71 upvotes – 10 comments
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