top 20 hacker news stories for 2017-08-31

Criticizing Google got me fired

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2017/08/31/i-criticized-google-it-got-me-fired-thats-how-corporate-power-works/?hpid=hp_no-name_opinion-card-f%3Ahomepage%2Fstory

9 years ago

Announcing Rust 1.20

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2017/08/31/Rust-1.20.html

9 years ago

ESPN Football Analyst Walks Away, Disturbed by Brain Trauma on Field

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/30/sports/espn-ed-cunningham-football-concussions.html

9 years ago

Interview with Ryan Dahl, Creator of Node.js

https://www.mappingthejourney.com/single-post/2017/08/31/Episode-8-Interview-with-Ryan-Dahl-Creator-of-Nodejs

9 years ago

What's Functional Programming All About?

http://www.lihaoyi.com/post/WhatsFunctionalProgrammingAllAbout.html

9 years ago

The FCC.gov Website Lets You Upload Malware Using Its Own Public API Key

https://hackernoon.com/the-fcc-gov-website-lets-you-upload-documents-and-host-them-there-bdcd5c1a5b8b

9 years ago

Astronomers have found the stars responsible for an explosion recorded in 1437

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/08/a-cosmic-whodunit/538482/?single_page=true

9 years ago

Transformer: A Novel Neural Network Architecture for Language Understanding

https://research.googleblog.com/2017/08/transformer-novel-neural-network.html

9 years ago

Tesla Model S battery degradation data

https://steinbuch.wordpress.com/2015/01/24/tesla-model-s-battery-degradation-data/

9 years ago

Harvard and the Making of the Unabomber (2000)

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2000/06/harvard-and-the-making-of-the-unabomber/378239/?single_page=true

9 years ago

Blum: “The proof is wrong. I shall elaborate precisely what the mistake is.”

https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.03486v2

9 years ago

Your load is too heavy: Zork deep reading

http://blog.zarfhome.com/2017/08/your-load-is-too-heavy-zork-deep-reading.html

9 years ago

Iowa's handout to Apple illustrates the folly of corporate welfare deals

http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-apple-iowa-welfare-20170829-story.html

9 years ago

A Bourne-style shell built from scratch in 35 minutes [video]

https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/screencasts/catalog/shell-from-scratch

9 years ago

A Guide to Crypto Currencies

https://mycrypto.guide

9 years ago

Mailable Live Animals

https://pe.usps.com/text/pub52/pub52c5_008.htm

9 years ago

LogDevice: a distributed data store for logs

https://code.facebook.com/posts/357056558062811/logdevice-a-distributed-data-store-for-logs/

9 years ago

Tesla Model S Hits 300k Miles with less than $11k maintenance costs

http://www.tesloop.com/blog/2017/8/30/tesla-model-s-hits-300k-miles-with-less-than-11k-maintenance-costs

9 years ago

CIA 'Angelfire' covert Windows malware system

https://wikileaks.org/vault7/#Angelfire

9 years ago

Object detection: an overview in the age of Deep Learning

https://tryolabs.com/blog/2017/08/30/object-detection-an-overview-in-the-age-of-deep-learning/

9 years ago