top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-08-29

24/192 Music Downloads Are Very Silly Indeed (2012)

https://xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html

8 years ago

647 upvotes – 428 comments

FizzleFade

http://fabiensanglard.net/fizzlefade/index.php

8 years ago

604 upvotes – 176 comments

When it comes to internet privacy, be afraid, analyst suggests

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2017/08/when-it-comes-to-internet-privacy-be-very-afraid-analyst-suggests/

8 years ago

500 upvotes – 255 comments

Python Data Science Handbook

https://jakevdp.github.io/PythonDataScienceHandbook/

8 years ago

455 upvotes – 27 comments

ARCore: Augmented reality at Android scale

https://www.blog.google/products/google-vr/arcore-augmented-reality-android-scale/

8 years ago

393 upvotes – 317 comments

Houston is experiencing its third ‘500-year’ flood in 3 years

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/08/29/houston-is-experiencing-its-third-500-year-flood-in-3-years-how-is-that-possible/?utm_term=.1ffa35d284d3

8 years ago

349 upvotes – 209 comments

The Marketing Behind MongoDB

https://www.nemil.com/mongo/3.html

8 years ago

322 upvotes – 221 comments

Backblaze's Hard Drive Stats for Q2 2017

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-failure-stats-q2-2017/

8 years ago

307 upvotes – 143 comments

My Institutional Review Board Nightmare

http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/08/29/my-irb-nightmare/

8 years ago

304 upvotes – 214 comments

What We Get Wrong About Technology

http://timharford.com/2017/08/what-we-get-wrong-about-technology/

8 years ago

297 upvotes – 122 comments

Burger King launches WhopperCoin crypto-cash in Russia

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-41082388

8 years ago

225 upvotes – 154 comments

KIA Dealership in Canada remotely disables car over $200 fee

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-man-fights-back-after-dealer-remotely-disables-car-over-200-fee-1.4265588

8 years ago

225 upvotes – 215 comments

DeepL Translator – AI Assistance for Language

https://www.deepl.com/translator

8 years ago

217 upvotes – 53 comments

Don’t Fall for Babylonian Trigonometry Hype

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/roots-of-unity/dont-fall-for-babylonian-trigonometry-hype/

8 years ago

216 upvotes – 94 comments

Uber's New CEO

https://stratechery.com/2017/ubers-new-ceo/

8 years ago

214 upvotes – 78 comments

U.S. probes Uber for possible bribery law violations

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-uber-probe-idUSKCN1B92TG

8 years ago

210 upvotes – 69 comments

How to Make Python Run as Fast as Julia (2015)

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/jfp/entry/Python_Meets_Julia_Micro_Performance?lang=en

8 years ago

203 upvotes – 120 comments

No One Fails Anymore – Everybody ‘Pivots’

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/08/29/magazine/in-our-cynical-age-no-one-fails-anymore-everybody-pivots.html

8 years ago

203 upvotes – 97 comments

Show HN: Make Medium Readable Again

https://github.com/thebaer/MMRA

8 years ago

★ 672JavaScriptMIT
193 upvotes – 153 comments

Multiple vulnerabilities in RubyGems

https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2017/08/29/multiple-vulnerabilities-in-rubygems/

8 years ago

189 upvotes – 36 comments

An adventure in trying to optimize math.Atan2 with Go assembly

http://agniva.me/go/2017/08/27/fun-with-go-assembly.html

8 years ago

185 upvotes – 73 comments

Roamer: A Plain-Text File Manager

https://github.com/abaldwin88/roamer

8 years ago

★ 603PythonMIT
174 upvotes – 66 comments

Coreboot and Skylake, Part 2: A Beautiful Game

https://puri.sm/posts/coreboot-on-the-skylake-librems-part-2/

8 years ago

171 upvotes – 42 comments

California ballot measure to decriminalize adult use of hallucinogenic mushrooms

http://www.latimes.com/politics/essential/la-pol-ca-essential-politics-updates-proposed-ballot-measure-could-1503707569-htmlstory.html

8 years ago

161 upvotes – 107 comments

Google to Comply with EU Search Demands to Avoid More Fines

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-29/google-faces-tuesday-deadline-as-clock-ticks-toward-new-eu-fines

8 years ago

152 upvotes – 155 comments

React-map-gl – React components for Mapbox GL JS

http://uber.github.io/react-map-gl/#/

8 years ago

148 upvotes – 27 comments

Houston’s Mayor Was Right to Not Evacuate

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/08/28/opinion/harvey-flooding-mayor-evacuation.html

8 years ago

148 upvotes – 163 comments

How Differential Steering Works (1937) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYAw79386WI&feature=youtu.be

8 years ago

145 upvotes – 41 comments

Show HN: Getting started with Puppeteer and Chrome Headless for Web Scraping

https://github.com/emadehsan/thal

8 years ago

★ 2.3kJavaScriptMIT
142 upvotes – 37 comments

Treating performance as a product: The technical story of Asana’s rewrite

https://blog.asana.com/2017/08/performance-asana-app-rewrite/

8 years ago

135 upvotes – 119 comments

Sailfish OS – Independent Mobile OS

https://sailfishos.org

8 years ago

126 upvotes – 100 comments

Ask HN: 6-figure freelancers of HN, what do you do?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15127912

8 years ago

126 upvotes – 102 comments

Japan Wakes to a Text Message: Missile Approaching

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/08/29/world/asia/japan-north-korea-missile-warning.html

8 years ago

126 upvotes – 116 comments

The Lost Pleasure of Reading Aloud

https://www.spectator.co.uk/2017/08/the-lost-pleasure-of-reading-aloud/

8 years ago

121 upvotes – 73 comments

Honey SQL – SQL as Clojure data structures

https://github.com/jkk/honeysql

8 years ago

★ 1.8kClojure
118 upvotes – 30 comments

Farewell, Solaris

https://engineering.mongodb.com/post/farewell-solaris

8 years ago

113 upvotes – 53 comments

Facebook is steering users to donate to the Center for Disaster Philanthropy

https://www.buzzfeed.com/mollyhensleyclancy/facebook-is-steering-harvey-relief-to-a-small-org-no-one?utm_term=.km2k7dXJWE#.jjovRxaGrO

8 years ago

112 upvotes – 66 comments

Ask HN: Programming is mentally overwhelming to me now. What to do?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15125949

8 years ago

103 upvotes – 102 comments

Houston is a sitting duck for the next big hurricane (2016)

https://www.propublica.org/article/hell-and-high-water-text

8 years ago

102 upvotes – 21 comments

Launching a Product with No Money and No Customers

https://www.indiehackers.com/@cmason/how-to-launch-a-product-with-no-money-and-no-customers

8 years ago

101 upvotes – 17 comments

Gigster raises $20M from investors including Marc Benioff and Michael Jordan

http://www.businessinsider.com/gigster-20-million-redpoint-ventures-marc-benioff-michael-jordan-2017-8

8 years ago

99 upvotes – 49 comments

The Difficulties of Running a Sex-Inspired Startup

https://www.fastcompany.com/3029634/the-difficulties-of-running-a-sex-inspired-startup

8 years ago

96 upvotes – 89 comments

North Korea Is Not Crazy

https://www.recordedfuture.com/north-korea-cyber-activity/

8 years ago

90 upvotes – 38 comments

Facebook’s GraphQL spec doesn’t grant a patent license

https://medium.com/@dwalsh.sdlr/using-graphql-why-facebook-now-owns-you-3182751028c9

8 years ago

88 upvotes – 13 comments

Low-fat diet could kill you, major study shows

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/08/29/low-fat-diet-linked-higher-death-rates-major-lancet-study-finds/amp/

8 years ago

85 upvotes – 76 comments

Design patterns implemented in Java

https://github.com/iluwatar/java-design-patterns

8 years ago

★ 93.9kJava
84 upvotes – 27 comments

Ethereum Price Climbs to $360; Crypto Market Cap Pierces $160B

https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/ethereum-price-climbs-360-crypto-market-cap-pierces-160-billion/

8 years ago

83 upvotes – 64 comments

Doing the FizzleFade effect using a Feistel network

http://antirez.com/news/113

8 years ago

82 upvotes – 16 comments

Quebec reaches lodging tax deal with Airbnb

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-airbnb-hotel-tax-1.4266355

8 years ago

80 upvotes – 60 comments

Base Rails 5.1 application with pre-configured tools and features

https://github.com/brunofacca/zen-rails-base-app

8 years ago

★ 666RubyMIT
75 upvotes – 40 comments

How Grammarly Grew to 6.9M Daily Users in 9 Years

https://producthabits.com/how-grammarly-quietly-grew-its-way-to-7-million-daily-users/

8 years ago

74 upvotes – 47 comments

“Clean code” isn't actually clean

https://sdegutis.com/blog/2017-08-28-clean-code-isnt-actually-clean/

8 years ago

73 upvotes – 53 comments
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