top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-08-07

To Remember Everything You Learn, Surrender to This Algorithm (2008)

https://www.wired.com/2008/04/ff-wozniak/

8 years ago

Facebook Wanted Gizmodo to Kill Investigative Tool

https://gizmodo.com/facebook-wanted-us-to-kill-this-investigative-tool-1826620111

8 years ago

EPA is allowing asbestos back into manufacturing

https://archpaper.com/2018/08/epa-asbestos-manufacturing/

8 years ago

Facebook Field Guide to Machine Learning – video series

https://research.fb.com/the-facebook-field-guide-to-machine-learning-video-series

8 years ago

Power Worth Less Than Zero Spreads as Green Energy Floods the Grid

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-06/negative-prices-in-power-market-as-wind-solar-cut-electricity

8 years ago

How I gained commit access to Homebrew in 30 minutes

https://medium.com/@vesirin/how-i-gained-commit-access-to-homebrew-in-30-minutes-2ae314df03ab

8 years ago

Taking Tesla Private

https://www.tesla.com/blog/taking-tesla-private

8 years ago

Startup School 2018 – Curriculum

https://blog.ycombinator.com/startup-school-2018-curriculum/

8 years ago

Seaweed could be scrubbing more carbon from the atmosphere than expected (2017)

https://oceana.org/blog/seaweed-could-be-scrubbing-way-more-carbon-atmosphere-we-expected

8 years ago

Musk mulls taking Tesla private, Saudi sovereign fund builds $2B stake

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-07/tesla-jumps-on-report-of-saudis-building-about-2-billion-stake

8 years ago

Dungeons Tome – Tool for generating dungeons for RPGs

https://www.dungeonstome.com

8 years ago

Unix Syscalls

https://john-millikin.com/unix-syscalls

8 years ago

Voting system to be used in West Virginia elections is vulnerable

https://twitter.com/GossiTheDog/status/1026603800365330432

8 years ago

Engineers teach a drone to herd birds away from airports autonomously

https://techxplore.com/news/2018-08-drone-herd-birds-airports-autonomously.html

8 years ago

Announcing Dart 2 Stable and the Dart Web Platform

https://medium.com/dartlang/dart-2-stable-and-the-dart-web-platform-3775d5f8eac7

8 years ago

Very few owners of Alexa-powered devices use them for shopping

https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/06/surprise-no-one-buys-things-via-alexa/

8 years ago

Cracking WPA-2 Just Got a Whole Lot Easier

https://medium.com/@billbuchanan_27654/the-beginning-of-the-end-of-wpa-2-cracking-wpa-2-just-got-a-whole-lot-easier-55d7775a7a5a

8 years ago

Internal Facebook Note: Here Is A “Psychological Trick” To Target Teens

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/facebooks-teens-tbh-psychological-trick-memo

8 years ago

Speech-to-Text Benchmark: Framework for benchmarking speech-to-text engines

https://github.com/Picovoice/stt-benchmark

8 years ago

★ 689 Python Apache-2.0

Luna Studio – Visual and textual functional programming language

https://github.com/luna/luna-studio

8 years ago

Leaked white paper proposes U.S. Congressional regulation of social media

https://www.cjr.org/the_new_gatekeepers/congress-white-paper-platforms.php

8 years ago

Sadly, I must say goodbye to Leaf, my programming language

https://mortoray.com/2018/08/07/sadly-i-must-say-goodbye-to-leaf-my-programming-language/

8 years ago

Why You Should Build a Hackintosh

https://martinhering.me/post/why-you-should-build-a-hackintosh

8 years ago

Nim partners with Status.im

https://nim-lang.org/blog/2018/08/07/nim-partners-with-status.html?ref=hn

8 years ago

Upwork Freelancers Who Want Guaranteed Pay Have to Opt in to Tracking Software

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/carolineodonovan/upwork-freelancers-work-diary-keystrokes-screenshot

8 years ago

G Suite Happy Ending

http://lawgimenez.me/2018/08/07/g-suite-happy-ending/

8 years ago

We Wanted Safer Banks, We Got More Inequality

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-08-06/inequality-why-bank-rules-and-fed-rates-hurt-middle-class

8 years ago

The next ten years of Instapaper

http://blog.instapaper.com/post/176732408411

8 years ago

M3: Uber's Open Source Large-Scale Metrics Platform for Prometheus

https://ubr.to/2ALH8Ak

8 years ago

Bringing Vulkan everywhere

http://gfx-rs.github.io/2018/04/09/vulkan-portability.html

8 years ago

Sclack: The best CLI client for Slack, because everything is terrible

https://github.com/haskellcamargo/sclack

8 years ago

★ 2.4k Python GPL-3.0

What can defend against off-the-shelf drone weapons?

https://www.dw.com/en/what-can-defend-against-off-the-shelf-drone-weapons/a-44970742

8 years ago

Dart 2.0 is now available

https://www.dartlang.org/dart-2

8 years ago

Business writers, please stop comparing market value to GDP

https://www.cjr.org/business_of_news/business-writers-please-stop-comparing-market-value-to-gdp.php

8 years ago

New York’s success provides road map for others taking aim at pedestrian deaths

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/new-york-s-vision-zero-success-provides-road-map-for-others-taking-aim-at-pedestrian-deaths-1.4771286

8 years ago

Android Pie SDK is now more Kotlin-friendly

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2018/08/android-pie-sdk-is-now-more-kotlin.html

8 years ago

Why the tech sector may not solve America’s looming automation crisis

https://pudding.cool/2018/08/retraining/

8 years ago

Domino-effect of climate events could move Earth into a ‘hothouse’ state

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/aug/06/domino-effect-of-climate-events-could-push-earth-into-a-hothouse-state

8 years ago

Ask HN: How to find contract work in Bay Area?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17710597

8 years ago

V8 release v6.9

https://v8project.blogspot.com/2018/08/v8-release-69.html

8 years ago

Hydrogen derived from ammonia could open up new export market for Australia

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-08-08/hydrogen-fuel-breakthrough-csiro-game-changer-export-potential/10082514

8 years ago

Saudi sovereign fund builds 3 to 5 percent stake in Tesla

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tesla-stake/saudi-sovereign-fund-builds-3-to-5-percent-stake-in-tesla-ft-idUSKBN1KS1UG

8 years ago

Securing Web Sites Made Them Less Accessible

https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2018/08/07/securing-sites-made-them-less-accessible/

8 years ago