top 20 hacker news stories for 2017-08-26

If the Waffle House is closed, it's Time to Panic (2016)

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/if-waffle-house-is-closed-its-time-to-panic/

8 years ago

380 upvotes – 97 comments

Storj: Not a Dropbox Killer

https://shitcoin.com/storj-not-a-dropbox-killer-1a9f27983d70

8 years ago

335 upvotes – 129 comments

Ask HN: What are your favourite self-hosted tools?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15105601

8 years ago

304 upvotes – 143 comments

Show HN: Moon – fast 7k Vue alternative

https://github.com/kbrsh/moon

8 years ago

★ 5.9kJavaScriptMIT
268 upvotes – 192 comments

Better management of discarded produce could help forests regrow

http://www.upworthy.com/a-juice-company-dumped-orange-peels-in-a-national-park-heres-what-it-looks-like-now

8 years ago

268 upvotes – 58 comments

Rumours swell over new kind of gravitational-wave sighting

http://www.nature.com/news/rumours-swell-over-new-kind-of-gravitational-wave-sighting-1.22482

8 years ago

258 upvotes – 137 comments

Bitcoin Energy Consumption Index

https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption

8 years ago

256 upvotes – 280 comments

New implementation of Git in OCaml

https://github.com/mirage/ocaml-git/pull/227

8 years ago

★ 370OCamlISC
245 upvotes – 124 comments

Fun vs. Computer Science (2016)

http://prog21.dadgum.com/221.html

8 years ago

221 upvotes – 181 comments

Is There Any Point to Protesting?

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/08/21/is-there-any-point-to-protesting

8 years ago

212 upvotes – 252 comments

Despite privacy outrage, AccuWeather still shares location data with ad firms

http://www.zdnet.com/article/accuweather-still-shares-precise-location-with-advertisers-tests-reveal/

8 years ago

199 upvotes – 66 comments

Maybe We All Need a Little Less Balance

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/22/well/mind/maybe-we-all-need-a-little-less-balance.html

8 years ago

197 upvotes – 82 comments

Honda system confused by Alonso taking Pouhon flat

https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/alonso-qualifying-spa-honda-mclaren-945396/

8 years ago

191 upvotes – 132 comments

MTuner is a C/C++ memory profiler and memory leak finder

https://github.com/milostosic/MTuner

8 years ago

★ 2.7kC++BSD-2-Clause
169 upvotes – 34 comments

Can we know what animals are thinking?

https://medium.economist.com/can-we-know-what-animals-are-thinking-83991bc994c4

8 years ago

166 upvotes – 226 comments

Facebook Figured Out My Family Secrets, and It Won't Tell Me How

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

8 years ago

154 upvotes – 122 comments

Destroy All Monsters: A Journey into the Caverns of Dungeons and Dragons (2006)

http://www.believermag.com/issues/200609/?read=article_lafarge

8 years ago

147 upvotes – 49 comments

Writing a formally-verified image browser in Coq and Haskell

http://www.michaelburge.us/2017/08/25/writing-a-formally-verified-porn-browser-in-coq.html

8 years ago

144 upvotes – 39 comments

Show HN: Park your domain name with just 2 DNS records

https://www.domdb.com/

8 years ago

131 upvotes – 92 comments

Where in Europe is electric car a good idea?

https://jakubmarian.com/where-in-europe-is-electric-car-a-good-idea/

8 years ago

126 upvotes – 165 comments
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