top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-07-04

Youtube-dl: Command-line program to download videos

https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl

8 years ago

★ 140.1k Python Unlicense
581 upvotes – 248 comments

Itty Bitty: Sites contained within their own links

https://itty.bitty.site/#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

8 years ago

420 upvotes – 108 comments

Police search homes of Zwiebelfreunde board members and OpenLab in Augsburg

https://www.ccc.de/en/updates/2018/hausdurchsuchungen-bei-vereinsvorstanden-der-zwiebelfreunde-und-im-openlab-augsburg

8 years ago

339 upvotes – 128 comments

GitHub mirror compromise incident report

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Github/2018-06-28

8 years ago

311 upvotes – 114 comments

React Native: A retrospective from the mobile-engineering team at Udacity

https://engineering.udacity.com/react-native-a-retrospective-from-the-mobile-engineering-team-at-udacity-89975d6a8102

8 years ago

285 upvotes – 194 comments

Spanish Wikipedia also shuts down in protest at proposed EU copyright law

https://es.wikipedia.org/

8 years ago

272 upvotes – 96 comments

Plans for OCaml 4.08

https://blog.janestreet.com/plans-for-ocaml-408/

8 years ago

246 upvotes – 89 comments

Hawaii moves to ban sale of sunscreens with coral-harming chemicals

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hawaii-moves-to-ban-sale-of-sunscreens-with-coral-harming-chemicals/

8 years ago

204 upvotes – 77 comments

A collection of free datasets from Microsoft Research

https://msropendata.com/

8 years ago

196 upvotes – 40 comments

Chaos Computer Club criticizes police action

http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/hausdurchsuchungen-bei-netzaktivisten-chaos-computer-club-kritisiert-polizeivorgehen-a-1216463.html

8 years ago

195 upvotes – 31 comments

“I-Cut-You-Choose” Cake-Cutting Protocol Inspires Solution to Gerrymandering

https://www.cmu.edu/news/stories/archives/2017/november/i-cut-you-choose-cake-cutting-protocol-inspires-solution-to-gerrymandering.html

8 years ago

185 upvotes – 102 comments

Man Spends 23 Years Carving Sprawling Underground Temple Under His House

http://www.odditycentral.com/architecture/man-spends-23-years-carving-sprawling-underground-temple-under-his-house.html

8 years ago

167 upvotes – 65 comments

Slow Reading: the antithesis of speed reading

https://www.theindy.us/slow-reading/

8 years ago

165 upvotes – 63 comments

Analysis of USB fan given to journalists at North Korea-Singapore Summit [pdf]

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sps32/usb_fan_report.pdf

8 years ago

163 upvotes – 84 comments

Learning ‘Montezuma’s Revenge’ from a single demonstration

https://blog.openai.com/learning-montezumas-revenge-from-a-single-demonstration/

8 years ago

151 upvotes – 45 comments

The Whole of WordPress Compiled to .NET Core and a NuGet Package with PeachPie

https://www.hanselman.com/blog/TheWholeOfWordPressCompiledToNETCoreAndANuGetPackageWithPeachPie.aspx

8 years ago

146 upvotes – 98 comments

Why standard Indonesian is not spoken throughout Indonesia

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20180703-why-no-one-speaks-indonesias-language

8 years ago

142 upvotes – 157 comments

Jim Tcl version 0.78

http://jim.tcl.tk/index.html/doc/www/www/news/

8 years ago

140 upvotes – 25 comments

Consistency Models

https://jepsen.io/consistency

8 years ago

138 upvotes – 3 comments

In Q2 2018, Global VC Scales Tipped In Favor Of Chinese Startups Over American

https://news.crunchbase.com/news/in-q2-2018-global-vc-scales-tipped-in-favor-chinese-startups-over-north-america/

8 years ago

134 upvotes – 80 comments

If You Say Something Is “Likely,” How Likely Do People Think It Is?

https://hbr.org/2018/07/if-you-say-something-is-likely-how-likely-do-people-think-it-is

8 years ago

131 upvotes – 112 comments

The Pentagon Is Building a Team of Tech-Savvy Soldiers

https://www.wired.com/story/pentagon-dream-team-tech-savvy-soldiers/

8 years ago

127 upvotes – 61 comments

The Future of Computing: Logic or Biology (2003) [pdf]

https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/future-of-computing.pdf

8 years ago

126 upvotes – 47 comments

Coordinated raids of Zwiebelfreunde at various locations in Germany

https://blog.torservers.net/20180704/coordinated-raids-of-zwiebelfreunde-at-various-locations-in-germany.html

8 years ago

123 upvotes – 10 comments

Important database news from the last few months

https://winand.at/newsletter/2018-07/sql-over-the-cloud-fsyncgate

8 years ago

123 upvotes – 81 comments

Sony posts whole movie on YouTube in trailer's place

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-44711274?ocid=socialflow_twitter

8 years ago

122 upvotes – 63 comments

Testing Memory Allocators: ptmalloc2 vs. tcmalloc vs. hoard vs. jemalloc

http://ithare.com/testing-memory-allocators-ptmalloc2-tcmalloc-hoard-jemalloc-while-trying-to-simulate-real-world-loads/

8 years ago

121 upvotes – 42 comments

Jane Street Puzzles

https://www.janestreet.com/puzzles/current-puzzle/

8 years ago

117 upvotes – 14 comments

The relativistic discriminator: a key element missing from standard GAN

https://ajolicoeur.wordpress.com/RelativisticGAN/

8 years ago

98 upvotes – 30 comments

Scott and Scurvy (2010)

http://idlewords.com/2010/03/scott_and_scurvy.htm

8 years ago

96 upvotes – 10 comments

Tezos and Ocaml: A self-amending cryptographic ledger

https://github.com/tezos/tezos

8 years ago

★ 1.5k
90 upvotes – 16 comments

Ask HN: Best programming language or theory to learn before learning Rust?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17457898

8 years ago

89 upvotes – 66 comments

NES Emulator on the UEFI Shell Running Super Mario Bros [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZwN2YNdlKg

8 years ago

89 upvotes – 23 comments

Show HN: Snibox – Self-hosted snippets manager

https://github.com/snibox/snibox

8 years ago

★ 1.8k Ruby
84 upvotes – 18 comments

In 1914, a 200ft wave at Trinidad, California (2014)

https://briantissot.com/2014/12/31/the-giant-200-foot-wave-at-trinidad-california/

8 years ago

83 upvotes – 23 comments

Human ancestors walked on two feet but their children still had a backup plan

https://phys.org/news/2018-07-human-ancestors-feet-children-backup.html

8 years ago

81 upvotes – 19 comments

Show HN: Gurn – Use words, not bookmarks

https://www.gurn.io/

8 years ago

80 upvotes – 64 comments

Functional Reactive Programming

https://www.nexocode.com/blog/posts/reactive-programming/

8 years ago

79 upvotes – 39 comments

Tesla strikes another mammoth energy storage deal in California

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/07/california-utility-looks-to-add-gigawatt-hours-of-battery-storage-before-2020/

8 years ago

77 upvotes – 30 comments

NZ Court of Appeal Upholds Kim Dotcom Extradition Decision to the US

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12083480

8 years ago

77 upvotes – 44 comments

Is Firefox lying to users about viruses in downloads?

https://www.theindy.us/is-firefox-lying-to-users-about-viruses-in-downloads/

8 years ago

74 upvotes – 74 comments

Show HN: Axax – Async iterator extensions for JavaScript

https://github.com/jamiemccrindle/axax

8 years ago

★ 506 TypeScript MIT
74 upvotes – 48 comments
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