top 20 hacker news stories for 2018-08-06

Let's Encrypt Root Trusted by All Major Root Programs

https://letsencrypt.org/2018/08/06/trusted-by-all-major-root-programs.html

7 years ago

1532 upvotes – 144 comments

Iā€™m a very slow thinker (2016)

https://sivers.org/slow

7 years ago

604 upvotes – 224 comments

Facebook has asked U.S. banks to share financial information about customers

https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-to-banks-give-us-your-data-well-give-you-our-users-1533564049

7 years ago

597 upvotes – 213 comments

AWS icon quiz

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdnEEo0o2JgnIt8VOGffhkcYj-C2h9m5_NFzM0Q1AU-P8d0zA/viewform

7 years ago

580 upvotes – 185 comments

What happens when you ask people to draw a bike (2016)

http://www.gianlucagimini.it/prototypes/velocipedia.html

7 years ago

566 upvotes – 187 comments

FCC admits it was never actually hacked

https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/06/fcc-admits-it-was-never-actually-hacked/

7 years ago

494 upvotes – 148 comments

Introducing Android 9 Pie

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2018/08/introducing-android-9-pie.html

7 years ago

481 upvotes – 357 comments

The Structure of Stand-Up Comedy

https://pudding.cool/2018/02/stand-up/

7 years ago

444 upvotes – 93 comments

Where Vim Came From

https://twobithistory.org/2018/08/05/where-vim-came-from.html

7 years ago

420 upvotes – 259 comments

My experience with Sarah Jeong, Jason Koebler, and Vice Magazine

https://medium.com/@therealsexycyborg/shenzhen-tech-girl-naomi-wu-my-experience-with-sarah-jeong-jason-koebler-and-vice-magazine-3f4a32fda9b5

7 years ago

418 upvotes – 144 comments

Ask HN: What are the most interesting emerging fields in computer science?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17696271

7 years ago

381 upvotes – 177 comments

Horrors of Using Azure Kubernetes Service in Production

https://movingfulcrum.com/horrors-of-using-azure-kubernetes-service-in-production/

7 years ago

371 upvotes – 136 comments

Nile: decentralized, commission-free, local-economy focused Amazon alternative

https://github.com/open-source-ideas/open-source-ideas/issues/78

7 years ago

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342 upvotes – 201 comments

Pi-Hole: Why You Need a Network-Wide Ad-Blocker

https://blog.cryptoaustralia.org.au/2018/08/06/why-you-need-network-wide-ad-blocker-pi-hole/

7 years ago

337 upvotes – 288 comments

Study Finds Increased Incarceration Has Marginal-To-Zero Impact on Crime

https://eji.org/news/study-finds-increased-incarceration-does-not-reduce-crime

7 years ago

325 upvotes – 182 comments

DoD: Turn Off Your Fitbit, Garmin, Apple Watch GPS

https://breakingdefense.com/2018/08/turn-off-your-fitbit-garmin-apple-watch-gps-now/

7 years ago

292 upvotes – 210 comments

OpenAI Five Benchmark: Results

https://blog.openai.com/openai-five-benchmark-results/

7 years ago

281 upvotes – 122 comments

Plan to replicate 50 high-impact cancer papers shrinks to just 18

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/07/plan-replicate-50-high-impact-cancer-papers-shrinks-just-18

7 years ago

253 upvotes – 191 comments

The world is losing the war against climate change

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2018/08/02/the-world-is-losing-the-war-against-climate-change

7 years ago

241 upvotes – 311 comments

SpiderOak removes its warrant canary

https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/94nspi/spideroak_cans_its_warrant_canary_suffers/

7 years ago

235 upvotes – 93 comments
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