top 20 hacker news stories for 2017-08-25

Epistle 3

http://www.marclaidlaw.com/epistle-3/

9 years ago

470 upvotes – 177 comments

Catching the Great American Eclipse at 35,000 Feet

https://blog.alaskaair.com/alaska-airlines/solar-eclipse/

9 years ago

455 upvotes – 116 comments

Whatruns: Identify technologies used on any website

https://www.whatruns.com/

9 years ago

430 upvotes – 233 comments

How ACH works: A developer perspective (2014)

http://engineering.gusto.com/how-ach-works-a-developer-perspective-part-1/

9 years ago

364 upvotes – 219 comments

VW engineering executive sentenced to 40-month prison term in diesel case

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-volkswagen-emissions-sentencing-idUSKCN1B51YP

9 years ago

288 upvotes – 217 comments

I’m Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15098930

9 years ago

284 upvotes – 403 comments

As Coding Boot Camps Close, the Field Faces a Reality Check

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/24/technology/coding-boot-camps-close.html

9 years ago

265 upvotes – 277 comments

Mental processes of chess masters revealed how people become experts (2016) [pdf]

http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~tymerski/ece101/Expert_mind_scientificamerican0806-64.pdf

9 years ago

265 upvotes – 61 comments

Beginners Guide to Vulkan

https://www.khronos.org/blog/beginners-guide-to-vulkan

9 years ago

248 upvotes – 74 comments

How to Write Your Own Compiler (2009)

http://staff.polito.it/silvano.rivoira/HowToWriteYourOwnCompiler.htm

9 years ago

246 upvotes – 42 comments

Let’s kill no-reply

https://medium.com/@iffy/lets-kill-no-reply-d451c80ba8be

9 years ago

233 upvotes – 105 comments

Designing a Tree Diff Algorithm Using Dynamic Programming and A*

http://thume.ca/2017/06/17/tree-diffing/

9 years ago

230 upvotes – 21 comments

Cooling the Earth with a cloud of small spacecraft near the inner Lagrange point

http://www.pnas.org/content/103/46/17184.full

9 years ago

216 upvotes – 248 comments

Rod Vagg's statement on the request to be removed from the Node.js CTC

https://github.com/nodejs/CTC/issues/165#issuecomment-324798494

9 years ago

★ 80
214 upvotes – 170 comments

Alaska’s Permafrost Is Thawing

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/08/23/climate/alaska-permafrost-thawing.html

9 years ago

209 upvotes – 139 comments

The U.S. is risking an academic brain drain

https://www.axios.com/trumps-political-uncertainty-risks-an-american-brain-drain-2474420200.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=technology

9 years ago

201 upvotes – 197 comments

GIMP 2.9.6 Released

https://www.gimp.org/news/2017/08/24/gimp-2-9-6-released/

9 years ago

191 upvotes – 81 comments

Aetna accidentally exposed customer HIV statuses in clear envelope windows

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/08/25/aetna-accidentally-exposed-customer-hiv-statuses-in-clear-envelope-windows/

9 years ago

168 upvotes – 121 comments

Stop Using the Cup of Coffee vs. $0.99 App Analogy

http://www.joshlehman.com/thoughts/stop-using-the-cup-of-coffee-vs-0-99-cent-app-analogy/

9 years ago

167 upvotes – 108 comments

Build Uber-for-X within a day using HyperTrack

https://blog.hypertrack.com/2017/08/24/build-uber-for-x-hypertrack/

9 years ago

163 upvotes – 57 comments
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