Hacker News new | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit | 2016-08-01 login
Stories from August 1, 2016
Go back a day, month, or year. Go forward a day, month, or year.
1. Seymour Papert has died (media.mit.edu)
820 points by j4mie on Aug 1, 2016 | 137 comments
2. Why we lost Uber as a user (postgresql.org)
1234 points by areski on Aug 1, 2016 | 285 comments
3. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2016)
534 points by whoishiring on Aug 1, 2016 | 941 comments
4. Surprises of the Faraday Cage (siam.org)
388 points by leephillips on Aug 1, 2016 | 66 comments
5. Germany offers up to €30k for 6 months of working on OSS (prototypefund.de)
512 points by haraball on Aug 1, 2016 | 150 comments
6. YouTube's road to HTTPS (youtube-eng.blogspot.com)
282 points by seanwatson on Aug 1, 2016 | 93 comments
7. Salesforce buys word processing app Quip for $750M (techcrunch.com)
272 points by rhc2104 on Aug 1, 2016 | 175 comments
8. Uber to Sell China Business to Rival Didi After Losing Billions (bloomberg.com)
396 points by igonvalue on Aug 1, 2016 | 186 comments
9. Why I stopped hacking the Amazon Dash button and learned to solder (medium.com/ecaron)
253 points by ecaron on July 31, 2016 | 124 comments
10. Millennium Tower is tilting, sinking (curbed.com)
268 points by lelf on Aug 1, 2016 | 180 comments
11. Gh-ost: GitHub's online schema migration tool for MySQL (githubengineering.com)
226 points by samlambert on Aug 1, 2016 | 30 comments
12. The vanishing civility: The game of jerks, bozos and assholes (stactivist.com)
173 points by azuajef on Aug 1, 2016 | 194 comments
13. FCC Reaches Settlement with TP-Link in Wi-Fi Router Investigation (fcc.gov)
134 points by pentago on Aug 1, 2016 | 67 comments
14. Django 1.10 released (djangoproject.com)
227 points by hrayr on Aug 1, 2016 | 119 comments
15. Is Earthly life premature from a cosmic perspective? (phys.org)
111 points by dnetesn on Aug 1, 2016 | 171 comments
16. Enhancing Download Protection in Firefox (blog.mozilla.org)
91 points by ehPReth on Aug 1, 2016 | 37 comments
17. Reverse engineering and removing Pokémon GO’s certificate pinning (eaton-works.com)
145 points by mkane848 on Aug 1, 2016 | 58 comments
18. The hidden base that could have ended the world (bbc.com)
197 points by yitchelle on Aug 1, 2016 | 94 comments
19. Raw footage of the Japanese games industry (gamasutra.com)
238 points by Mauricio_ on Aug 1, 2016 | 16 comments
20. Harnessing the Immune System to Fight Cancer (nytimes.com)
171 points by e15ctr0n on July 31, 2016 | 30 comments
21. Tips from the Pragmatic Programmer (2000) (pragprog.com)
165 points by gasull on Aug 1, 2016 | 72 comments
22. Netflix Billing Migration to AWS – Part III (netflix.com)
124 points by samber on Aug 1, 2016 | 69 comments
23. A Regular Expression Matcher (2007) (princeton.edu)
132 points by _acme on Aug 1, 2016 | 34 comments
24. List of IPython Notebooks by Peter Norvig (norvig.com)
234 points by tu7001 on July 31, 2016 | 12 comments
25. Late Bronze Age Shipwreck Excavation (nauticalarch.org)
53 points by onderkalaci on Aug 1, 2016 | 23 comments
26. Closed city (wikipedia.org)
84 points by lelf on Aug 1, 2016 | 27 comments
27. ‘Bitcoin Browser’ Brave Raises $4.5M, Readies for 1.0 Launch (bitcoin.com)
158 points by 3eto on Aug 1, 2016 | 123 comments
28. How to use your full brain when writing code (chrismm.com)
218 points by innerspirit on Aug 1, 2016 | 72 comments
29. Olympic executives cash in on a ‘Movement’ that keeps athletes poor (washingtonpost.com)
247 points by vmateixeira on Aug 1, 2016 | 213 comments
30. Franz Liszt: Musician, Celebrity, Superstar (theguardian.com)
72 points by tintinnabula on Aug 1, 2016 | 42 comments

Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: