Hacker News on 6 August 2016

• Superblocks: how Barcelona is taking city streets back from cars
• Tabby's star is dimming at an incredible rate
• The LHC “nightmare scenario” has come true
• Sheriff Raids House to Find Anonymous Blogger Who Called Him Corrupt
• IBM Watson correctly diagnoses a form of leukemia
• A x64 OS #1: UEFI
• The 39th Root of 92
• Airbnb Files to Raise $850M at $30B Valuation
• From Linear Models to Machine Learning (draft) [pdf]
• Throughput vs. Latency and Lock-Free vs. Wait-Free