top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-10-18

Shame on Y Combinator

http://www.marco.org/2016/10/17/shame-on-y-combinator

10 years ago

1280 upvotes – 1321 comments

Researchers reach human parity in conversational speech recognition

http://blogs.microsoft.com/next/2016/10/18/historic-achievement-microsoft-researchers-reach-human-parity-conversational-speech-recognition/#sm.0001iqs780it2ea2s2f1rb1k04g5c

10 years ago

468 upvotes – 155 comments

Google Flights will now tell you when fares will increase

https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/17/google-flights-will-now-tell-you-when-fares-will-increase-help-you-find-cheaper-tickets/

10 years ago

435 upvotes – 163 comments

The Government’s Addiction to ‘Secret Law’

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/18/opinion/the-governments-addiction-to-secret-law.html

10 years ago

426 upvotes – 153 comments

Introducing Rust Language Server

https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/introducing-rust-language-server-source-release/4209

10 years ago

406 upvotes – 104 comments

How breakpoints are set

http://majantali.net/2016/10/how-breakpoints-are-set/

10 years ago

396 upvotes – 66 comments

Air India Taking Advantage of Tailwinds

https://blog.flightradar24.com/blog/air-india-taking-advantage-of-tailwinds/

10 years ago

361 upvotes – 130 comments

Response from Google Tech Lead, Re: “Google May Be Stealing Your Mobile Traffic”

https://www.alexkras.com/google-may-be-stealing-your-mobile-traffic/#comment-55336

10 years ago

342 upvotes – 195 comments

Node v6.9.0 (LTS)

https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v6.9.0/

10 years ago

309 upvotes – 90 comments

Leo Beranek, an engineer who helped build Arpanet, has died

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/18/business/leo-beranek-dead.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0

10 years ago

290 upvotes – 29 comments

Americans Work 25% More Than Europeans, Study Finds

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-18/americans-work-25-more-than-europeans-study-finds

10 years ago

273 upvotes – 396 comments

The Linux Foundation Unites the JavaScript Community for Open Web Development

https://js.foundation/announcements/2016/10/17/Linux-Foundation-Unites-JavaScript-Community-Open-Web-Development/

10 years ago

265 upvotes – 129 comments

London Is Still Paying Rent to the Queen on a Property Leased in 1211

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/london-is-still-paying-rent-to-the-queen-on-a-property-leased-in-1211

10 years ago

223 upvotes – 122 comments

Deep work in practice: reimagining my workflow for radically less distraction

https://alexdenning.com/deep-work-in-practice/

10 years ago

220 upvotes – 72 comments

“The Depressed Person” by David Foster Wallace (1998) [pdf]

http://harpers.org/wp-content/uploads/HarpersMagazine-1998-01-0059425.pdf

10 years ago

212 upvotes – 150 comments

Double Solitude

http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/double-solitude

10 years ago

210 upvotes – 42 comments

Introducing Nomulus: an open source top-level domain name registry

https://opensource.googleblog.com/2016/10/introducing-nomulus-open-source.html

10 years ago

202 upvotes – 48 comments

Virtual Forest

http://virtualforest.io/faq.html

10 years ago

198 upvotes – 60 comments

Awesome .NET – A collection of .NET libraries, tools, frameworks, and software

https://github.com/quozd/awesome-dotnet

10 years ago

★ 21.2k CC0-1.0
198 upvotes – 30 comments

Phasing Out SHA-1 on the Public Web

https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2016/10/18/phasing-out-sha-1-on-the-public-web/

10 years ago

197 upvotes – 101 comments

Dropping Linux capabilities to improve container security

http://rhelblog.redhat.com/2016/10/17/secure-your-containers-with-this-one-weird-trick/

10 years ago

175 upvotes – 52 comments

Doudou Linux – For children from 2 to 12 years old

http://www.doudoulinux.org/web/english/index.html

10 years ago

168 upvotes – 94 comments

JDK 9 release schedule

http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk9-dev/2016-October/005092.html

10 years ago

159 upvotes – 160 comments

NoSQL Data Modeling Techniques

https://highlyscalable.wordpress.com/2012/03/01/nosql-data-modeling-techniques/

10 years ago

157 upvotes – 5 comments

Postgres Count Performance

https://www.citusdata.com/blog/2016/10/12/count-performance?source=pg_weekly

10 years ago

153 upvotes – 31 comments

My observations during the explosion at Trinity (1945)

http://fermatslibrary.com/s/my-observations-during-the-explosion-at-trinity

10 years ago

153 upvotes – 46 comments

Show HN: Swip.js, a library to create multi device experiments

https://github.com/paulsonnentag/swip

10 years ago

★ 2k JavaScript MIT
152 upvotes – 17 comments

Amex for Developers

https://developer.americanexpress.com/home

10 years ago

152 upvotes – 86 comments

AI•ON: Artificial Intelligence Open Network

http://ai-on.org/

10 years ago

151 upvotes – 17 comments

Mercurial 4.0 Sprint Notes

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.version-control/nh4fITFlEMk

10 years ago

148 upvotes – 127 comments

Scrypt is Maximally Memory-Hard

http://eprint.iacr.org/2016/989

10 years ago

147 upvotes – 74 comments

Ecuador acknowledges it has "temporarily restricted" Assange's communications

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/6f997f97c5f140a29f385ea05f1b642c/wikileaks-assanges-internet-link-severed-state-actor

10 years ago

137 upvotes – 191 comments

Is This Economist Too Far Ahead of His Time?

http://www.chronicle.com/article/is-this-economist-too-far/238050

10 years ago

136 upvotes – 116 comments

Bedrock – Rock-solid distributed data

http://bedrockdb.com/

10 years ago

134 upvotes – 109 comments

Fusion – One-stop prototyping service for PCBs

https://www.seeedstudio.com/new-fusion-pcb.html

10 years ago

130 upvotes – 52 comments

What If the Newspaper Industry Made a Colossal Mistake?

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/10/newspapers-digital-first-214363

10 years ago

121 upvotes – 160 comments

Ecuador Says It Still Backs Assange, but WikiLeaks Says It Cut His Internet

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/19/world/europe/julian-assange-embassy.html?partner=IFTTT&_r=1

10 years ago

111 upvotes – 216 comments

Mirai Botnets

http://blog.level3.com/security/grinch-stole-iot/

10 years ago

108 upvotes – 36 comments

Background on Attempts to Frame Assange as a Pedophile and Russian Spy

https://www.wikileaks.org/Background-and-Documents-on-Attempts-to-Frame-Assange-as-a-Pedophile-and.html

10 years ago

108 upvotes – 104 comments

Google Pixel: the Android iPhone you've been waiting for

http://www.wsj.com/articles/google-pixel-review-the-android-iphone-youve-been-waiting-for-1476795541

10 years ago

108 upvotes – 208 comments

Silicon Valley Cozies Up to Washington, Outspending Wall Street 2-1

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-18/outspending-wall-street-2-to-1-silicon-valley-takes-washington

10 years ago

102 upvotes – 48 comments

Scientists Discover Efficient Process to Turn CO2 into Ethanol

http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/green-tech/a23417/convert-co2-into-ethanol/

10 years ago

93 upvotes – 68 comments

Shame on Y Combinator

https://marco.org/2016/10/17/shame-on-y-combinator

10 years ago

91 upvotes – 1 comments

Mark Zuckerburg comments on Peter Thiel controversy regarding Trump donation

https://s13.postimg.org/ohe1sci6f/mmexport1476831885441.jpg

10 years ago

89 upvotes – 51 comments

Codebender is closing down

https://codebender.cc/next-chapter

10 years ago

89 upvotes – 26 comments

Cops Have a Database of 117M Faces

https://www.wired.com/2016/10/cops-database-117m-faces-youre-probably/

10 years ago

88 upvotes – 25 comments

Privacy Policy on DigitalOcean

https://www.digitalocean.com/legal/privacy/

10 years ago

82 upvotes – 22 comments

Tile Studio: development utility for graphics of tile-based games

http://tilestudio.sourceforge.net/

10 years ago

80 upvotes – 30 comments

On the wikileak-ed emails from Tanden on Lessig

http://lessig.tumblr.com/post/151983995587/on-the-wikileak-ed-emails-between-tanden-and

10 years ago

80 upvotes – 70 comments

Driving on electricity is cheaper than gas in all 50 states

https://www.pluglesspower.com/learn/driving-electricity-cheaper-gas-50-states/

10 years ago

77 upvotes – 77 comments

Analysis Shows Hotels Are Not Losing Share to Airbnb

https://travel.hostfully.com/analysis-shows-hotels-are-not-losing-share-to-airbnb-f0bcd7dcf4be#.ox6m7z5jf

10 years ago

76 upvotes – 85 comments

Show HN: Skeletal Animation in Your Browser via Dual Quaternion Linear Blending

http://chinedufn.github.io/collada-dae-parser/

10 years ago

75 upvotes – 21 comments

Educating towards a circular economy

http://blogs.ibo.org/blog/2016/10/16/educating-towards-a-circular-economy

10 years ago

75 upvotes – 36 comments

Contra Costa: Judge jails judicial reform advocate who discussed divorce online

http://www.eastbaytimes.com/2016/10/16/contra-costa-judge-jails-judicial-reform-advocate-who-discussed-divorce-online/

10 years ago

72 upvotes – 7 comments

The real Soylent sickness

http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/the-real-soylent-sickness

10 years ago

70 upvotes – 181 comments

Denormalization for Performance: Don't Blame the Relational Model

http://www.dbdebunk.com/2014/02/the-costly-denormalization-for.html

10 years ago

70 upvotes – 62 comments

History of Actors

https://eighty-twenty.org/2016/10/18/actors-hopl

10 years ago

69 upvotes – 9 comments

Twitter is now worth less than its Chinese clone

https://www.techinasia.com/twitter-worth-less-than-weibo-ouch

10 years ago

69 upvotes – 64 comments
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