top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-08-25

Epistle 3

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

8 years ago

470 upvotes – 177 comments

Catching the Great American Eclipse at 35,000 Feet

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

8 years ago

455 upvotes – 116 comments

Whatruns: Identify technologies used on any website

https://www.whatruns.com/

8 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/

8 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

8 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

8 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

8 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

8 years ago

265 upvotes – 61 comments

Beginners Guide to Vulkan

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

8 years ago

248 upvotes – 74 comments

How to Write Your Own Compiler (2009)

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

8 years ago

246 upvotes – 42 comments

Let’s kill no-reply

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

8 years ago

233 upvotes – 105 comments

Designing a Tree Diff Algorithm Using Dynamic Programming and A*

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

8 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

8 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

8 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

8 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

8 years ago

201 upvotes – 197 comments

GIMP 2.9.6 Released

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

8 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/

8 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/

8 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/

8 years ago

163 upvotes – 57 comments

'Environmental Nightmare' After Thousands of Atlantic Salmon Escape Fish Farm

http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/08/24/545619525/environmental-nightmare-after-thousands-of-atlantic-salmon-escape-fish-farm

8 years ago

163 upvotes – 180 comments

Decommissioned mobile devices as cheap energy-efficient compute nodes

https://www.usenix.org/conference/hotcloud17/program/presentation/shahrad

8 years ago

160 upvotes – 72 comments

X-Seed 4000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Seed_4000

8 years ago

150 upvotes – 64 comments

Same day ACH: moving payments faster in the USA

https://www.nacha.org/rules/same-day-ach-moving-payments-faster-phase-2

8 years ago

150 upvotes – 165 comments

An ancient Babylonian tablet may contain the first evidence of trigonometry

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/08/ancient-babylonian-tablet-may-contain-first-evidence-trigonometry

8 years ago

141 upvotes – 26 comments

Pybind11 — Seamless operability between C++11 and Python

https://github.com/pybind/pybind11

8 years ago

★ 17.8kC++
135 upvotes – 117 comments

A Preview of C# 8 [video]

https://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Seth-Juarez/A-Preview-of-C-8-with-Mads-Torgersen

8 years ago

125 upvotes – 98 comments

Suing California for Throwing Out 45k Ballots Over Handwriting 'Mismatches'

https://www.aclu.org/blog/voting-rights/fighting-voter-suppression/were-suing-california-because-it-threw-out-more-45000

8 years ago

125 upvotes – 104 comments

What do you get if you publish a paper in a highly-ranked journal?

http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2017/08/25/publish-and-prosper

8 years ago

122 upvotes – 82 comments

Goby: A new Ruby-inspired language written in Go

https://github.com/goby-lang/goby

8 years ago

★ 3.5kGoMIT
119 upvotes – 43 comments

Launch HN: NextDrop Technologies (YC S17) – Water Marketplace for Urban India

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15100051

8 years ago

114 upvotes – 54 comments

Humanscale, the Classic Design Tool, Gets a Second Life

https://www.wired.com/story/humanscale-the-classic-design-tool-gets-a-second-life/

8 years ago

111 upvotes – 10 comments

Reimplementation of Racket to run on top of Chez Scheme

https://github.com/racket/racket7

8 years ago

★ 168Racket
99 upvotes – 16 comments

How to make your first steps in Open Source contributing

https://blog.checkio.org/how-to-make-your-first-steps-in-open-source-contributing-2afc1f45eb45

8 years ago

96 upvotes – 5 comments

It rains solid diamonds on Uranus and Neptune

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2017/08/25/it-rains-solid-diamonds-on-uranus-and-neptune

8 years ago

95 upvotes – 69 comments

The prior can generally only be understood in the context of the likelihood

https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.07487

8 years ago

94 upvotes – 20 comments

Judge orders tech company to release Web user data from anti-Trump website

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/judge-orders-tech-company-to-release-web-user-data-from-anti-trump-website/2017/08/24/19abeac4-88e7-11e7-a50f-e0d4e6ec070a_story.html

8 years ago

92 upvotes – 113 comments

Dreamwidth Banned by PayPal in 2008 for Refusing to Censor Users

https://dw-news.dreamwidth.org/38065.html

8 years ago

90 upvotes – 104 comments

Mercury Protocol: Communication Platform Built on the Ethereum Blockchain

https://www.mercuryprotocol.com/

8 years ago

87 upvotes – 54 comments

Carbon Nanotubes Excluding Salt from Seawater

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/08/170824182653.htm

8 years ago

82 upvotes – 17 comments

Leaving Python for JavaScript

http://hire.jonasgalvez.com.br/2017/Aug/25/Leaving-Python-for-JavaScript?

8 years ago

81 upvotes – 103 comments

Some wealthy people are injecting blood from teenagers to gain ‘immortality’

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/item/347828f8-6e7f-4a9b-92ab-95f637a9dc2e

8 years ago

77 upvotes – 55 comments

Facebook Figured Out a Family Secret and Won't Tell Me How

http://gizmodo.com/facebook-figured-out-my-family-secrets-and-it-wont-tel-1797696163

8 years ago

73 upvotes – 42 comments

Tanker becomes first to cross Arctic without icebreaker

http://money.cnn.com/2017/08/25/news/arctic-ice-tanker-ship/index.html

8 years ago

68 upvotes – 19 comments

Nvidia Jetson TX1 Developer Kit SE

https://www.nvidia.com/object/JetsonTX1DeveloperKitSE.html

8 years ago

67 upvotes – 37 comments

Erlang Garbage Collection Details and Why It Matters

https://hamidreza-s.github.io/erlang%20garbage%20collection%20memory%20layout%20soft%20realtime/2015/08/24/erlang-garbage-collection-details-and-why-it-matters.html

8 years ago

66 upvotes – 24 comments

Ask HN: What online communities offer a high level of discussion?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15098066

8 years ago

66 upvotes – 68 comments

Y Combinator Fall Tour 2017

https://blog.ycombinator.com/y-combinator-fall-tour-2017

8 years ago

64 upvotes – 27 comments

Pigouvian taxes: When the interests of individuals and society do not coincide

https://www.economist.com/news/economics-brief/21726709-what-do-when-interests-individuals-and-society-do-not-coincide-fourth

8 years ago

64 upvotes – 5 comments

Metformin Promises to Extend Life for a Nickel a Pill

https://www.wired.com/story/this-pill-promises-to-extend-life-for-a-nickel-a-pop/

8 years ago

63 upvotes – 48 comments

In-Depth View of Wave Computing’s DPU Architecture, Systems

https://www.nextplatform.com/2017/08/23/first-depth-view-wave-computings-dpu-architecture-systems/

8 years ago

62 upvotes – 9 comments
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