top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-07-30

Why I Ripped the Same CD 300 Times

https://john-millikin.com/%F0%9F%A4%94/why-i-ripped-the-same-cd-300-times

8 years ago

Learning Dexterity

https://blog.openai.com/learning-dexterity/

8 years ago

Uber shuts down self-driving trucks unit

https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/30/ubers-self-driving-trucks-division-is-dead-long-live-uber-self-driving-cars/

8 years ago

Some Amazon Reviews Are Too Good to Be Believed – They're Paid For

https://www.npr.org/2018/07/30/629800775/some-amazon-reviews-are-too-good-to-be-believed-theyre-paid-for

8 years ago

India's first RISC-V based Chip is Here: Linux boots on Shakti processor

http://www.geekdave.in/2018/07/indias-first-risc-v-is-here-linux-boots.html

8 years ago

Announcing TypeScript 3.0

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/typescript/2018/07/30/announcing-typescript-3-0/

8 years ago

Why the New V8 Is So Damn Fast

https://nodesource.com/blog/why-the-new-v8-is-so-damn-fast

8 years ago

Tom Tryniski digitized nearly 50M pages of newspapers in his living room

https://www.cjr.org/the_profile/tom-tryniski-fultonhistory.php

8 years ago

Bank of America questions customer’s citizenship, freezes accounts

http://www.kctv5.com/story/38753295/bank-of-america-questioning-customers-citizenship-freezing-accounts

8 years ago

How Britain beat the odds to achieve space flight, and then abandoned it

https://medium.com/lapsed-historian/an-empire-of-stars-d6b24f92cbc7

8 years ago

L-theanine, a constituent in tea, and its effect on mental state (2008) [pdf]

http://apjcn.nhri.org.tw/server/APJCN/17%20Suppl%201//167.pdf

8 years ago

Grain: A strongly-typed functional programming language for the modern web

https://grain-lang.org/

8 years ago

How F5Bot Slurps All of Reddit

https://intoli.com/blog/f5bot/

8 years ago

Computer science as a lost art (2015)

http://rubyhacker.com/blog2/20150917.html

8 years ago

Evolving the Firefox Brand

https://blog.mozilla.org/opendesign/evolving-the-firefox-brand/

8 years ago

Security Begins at the Home Router

https://insights.sei.cmu.edu/sei_blog/2018/07/security-begins-at-the-home-router.html

8 years ago

In Brazil, it is considered rude to be on time to a party

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20180729-why-brazilians-are-always-late

8 years ago

SICP Distilled – An Idiosyncratic Tour of SICP in Clojure

http://www.sicpdistilled.com

8 years ago

Elastic TabStops: A Better Way to Indent and Align Code (2017)

http://nickgravgaard.com/elastic-tabstops/

8 years ago

What Economists Still Don’t Get About the 2008 Crisis

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-07-29/what-economists-still-don-t-get-about-2008-crisis

8 years ago

Goodreads offloads DynamoDB tables to S3 and queries them with Athena

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/big-data/how-goodreads-offloads-amazon-dynamodb-tables-to-amazon-s3-and-queries-them-using-amazon-athena/

8 years ago

Hello World on z/OS

https://medium.com/@bellmar/hello-world-on-z-os-a0ef31c1e87f

8 years ago

Non-PhotoRealistic Quake (2002)

https://research.cs.wisc.edu/graphics/Gallery/NPRQuake/whatIsIt.html

8 years ago

Bandit Algorithms Book [pdf]

http://downloads.tor-lattimore.com/banditbook/book.pdf

8 years ago

Serverless, Inc. lands $10M Series A to build serverless dev platform

https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/30/serverless-inc-lands-10-m-series-a-to-build-serverless-developers-platform/

8 years ago

If monads are the solution, what is the problem?

http://danghica.blogspot.com/2018/07/haskell-if-monads-are-solution-what-is.html

8 years ago

Ask HN: What “dumbphones” are available and viable in the US?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17641613

8 years ago

Building an Inclusive Code Review Culture

https://blog.plaid.com/building-an-inclusive-code-review-culture/

8 years ago

To Persuade Someone, Look Emotional

http://nautil.us/blog/to-persuade-someone-look-emotional

8 years ago

Show HN: Owl, a new kind of parser generator

https://github.com/ianh/owl

8 years ago

★ 802 C MIT

A Taste of Linear Logic (1993) [pdf]

https://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/wadler/papers/lineartaste/lineartaste-revised.pdf

8 years ago

Apollo Accelerators – Amiga Classic accelerator boards

http://www.apollo-accelerators.com/

8 years ago

Facebook Lenses

https://stratechery.com/2018/facebook-lenses/

8 years ago

Practical Common Lisp (2009)

http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/

8 years ago

‘Lopping,’ ‘Tips’ and the ‘Z-List’: Bias Lawsuit Explores Harvard’s Admissions

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/29/us/harvard-admissions-asian-americans.html

8 years ago

Ferret: a Lisp implementation for real time embedded control systems

https://github.com/nakkaya/ferret

8 years ago

★ 1.1k Makefile BSD-2-Clause

Why isn’t someone using my software product or open source tool?

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/921921604140937216.html

8 years ago

The Pension Hole for U.S. Cities and States Is the Size of Japan’s Economy

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-pension-hole-for-u-s-cities-and-states-is-the-size-of-japans-economy-1532972501

8 years ago

One month from concept to $1000 in revenue

https://www.indiehackers.com/forum/week-2-one-month-from-concept-to-1000-revenue-bb7c736b9e

8 years ago

BitTorrent Is Now Part of TRON

http://blog.bittorrent.com/2018/07/23/its-official-bittorrent-is-now-part-of-tron/

8 years ago

How to read Plato (1995)

http://plato-dialogues.org/email/950404_1.htm

8 years ago

Accidents at Amazon: workers left to suffer after warehouse injuries

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/30/accidents-at-amazon-workers-left-to-suffer-after-warehouse-injuries

8 years ago

Augmenting Agile with Formal Methods

https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/augmenting-agile/

8 years ago

Do Our Questions Create the World?

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/do-our-questions-create-the-world/

8 years ago

MH370 Was ‘Manipulated’ Off Course to Its End, Report Says

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-30/mh370-investigation-unable-to-determine-cause-of-disappearance

8 years ago

The 4,000 Lines of Code Harvard Hopes Will Change Translation (2017)

https://slator.com/academia/4000-lines-code-harvard-hopes-will-change-translation/

8 years ago

Advice giving: A subtle pathway to power

https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=6779&context=lkcsb_research

8 years ago

Machine Learning for Drummers

http://blog.petersobot.com/machine-learning-for-drummers

8 years ago

Rapidstring: Maybe the fastest string library ever

https://github.com/boyerjohn/rapidstring

8 years ago

Inventory of CO2 available for terraforming Mars

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-018-0529-6

8 years ago

The Race to a Trillion

https://www.aboveavalon.com/notes/2018/7/11/the-race-to-a-trillion

8 years ago

When Ramjets Ruled Science Fiction

https://www.tor.com/2018/07/30/when-ramjets-ruled-science-fiction/

8 years ago

Showing a Craigslist scammer who's boss using Python [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtNYzv8gLbs&feature=youtu.be

8 years ago

Xinjiang - A Surveillance State Unlike Any the World Has Ever Seen

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/china-s-xinjiang-province-a-surveillance-state-unlike-any-the-world-has-ever-seen-a-1220174.html

8 years ago

A treasure trove of skate culture is being saved

https://www.huckmag.com/outdoor/rad-archive-dan-adams-skate-culture/

8 years ago

The Wisdom And/or Madness of Crowds

https://ncase.me/crowds/

8 years ago

A new security header: Feature Policy

https://scotthelme.co.uk/a-new-security-header-feature-policy/

8 years ago

Activist Publishes 11,000 Private DMs Between Wikileaks and Its Supporters

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/3kyv9n/activist-publishes-11000-wikileaks-twitter-direct-messages-dms

8 years ago

Launch HN: Toybox (YC S18) – Communicate changes to sites without writing code

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17645998

8 years ago

In India, Summer Heat May Soon Be Literally Unbearable

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/17/climate/india-heat-wave-summer.html

8 years ago

And Nobody Noticed It Was a Fake Cake

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/25/fashion/weddings/and-nobody-noticed-it-was-a-fake-cake.html

8 years ago

How the CIA’s Fake Vaccination Campaign Endangers Us All

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-cia-fake-vaccination-campaign-endangers-us-all/

8 years ago

Inducing People’s Employers to Fire Them Should Be a Civil Wrong

https://quillette.com/2018/07/28/inducing-peoples-employers-to-fire-them-should-be-a-civil-wrong/

8 years ago