top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-11-03

Web fonts, boy, I don't know

http://meowni.ca/posts/web-fonts/

10 years ago

690 upvotes – 323 comments

Signs that a startup is focused on stuff that doesn’t matter

https://www.groovehq.com/blog/startups-playing-startup

10 years ago

594 upvotes – 273 comments

MicroG Project: A re-implementation of Google's Android apps and libraries

https://microg.org/?=

10 years ago

430 upvotes – 163 comments

Browsers, not apps, are the future of mobile

https://blog.intercom.com/browsers-not-apps-are-the-future-of-mobile/

10 years ago

378 upvotes – 185 comments

How Steve Jobs Became a Billionaire

http://fortune.com/steve-jobs-pixar-apple-lawrence-levy/

10 years ago

344 upvotes – 217 comments

BearSSL – Smaller SSL/TLS

https://bearssl.org/

10 years ago

338 upvotes – 195 comments

Visual Studio Code 1.7 overloaded npmjs.org, release reverted

https://code.visualstudio.com/updates#_17-rollback

10 years ago

302 upvotes – 85 comments

StackOverflow Importer – Import code from Stack Overflow as Python modules

https://github.com/drathier/stack-overflow-import

10 years ago

★ 3.7k Python
301 upvotes – 84 comments

Slack may regret its letter to Microsoft

http://www.theverge.com/2016/11/3/13504932/slack-microsoft-teams-letter-wtf

10 years ago

295 upvotes – 288 comments

Org mode 9.0 released

http://orgmode.org/Changes.html

10 years ago

285 upvotes – 109 comments

Securing PostgreSQL [pdf]

http://thebuild.com/presentations/pgconfeu-2016-securing-postgresql.pdf

10 years ago

241 upvotes – 71 comments

Visual Studio Code 1.7.1

http://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_7#_171-recovery-build

10 years ago

233 upvotes – 140 comments

Why America Needs India’s Rockets

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-11-01/why-america-needs-india-s-rockets

10 years ago

226 upvotes – 164 comments

Scala 2.12.0 is now available

http://www.scala-lang.org/news/2.12.0

10 years ago

223 upvotes – 75 comments

The Steve Jobs email that outlined Apple’s strategy a year before his death

http://qz.com/196005/the-steve-jobs-email-that-outlined-apples-strategy-a-year-before-his-death/

10 years ago

216 upvotes – 163 comments

Why a federal high-tech start-up is a money loser

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2016/11/02/why-a-federal-high-tech-start-up-is-a-money-loser

10 years ago

216 upvotes – 204 comments

Flv.js – An HTML5 Flash Video Player

https://github.com/Bilibili/flv.js

10 years ago

★ 23.2k JavaScript Apache-2.0
204 upvotes – 37 comments

Writing more legible SQL

http://www.craigkerstiens.com/2016/01/08/writing-better-sql/

10 years ago

195 upvotes – 162 comments

Udacity the new ITT Tech?

https://tech.masters3d.com/udacity-the-new-itt-tech-ce26018c3f2

10 years ago

186 upvotes – 96 comments

British Government loses Article 50 court fight

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-37857785

10 years ago

171 upvotes – 304 comments

GoPro shows its vulnerability after horrific Q3 earnings

https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/03/gopro-trading-halted-as-company-misses-revenue-expectations-by-23/

10 years ago

170 upvotes – 205 comments

Show HN: Portainer – A lightweight management UI for Docker

http://portainer.io

10 years ago

146 upvotes – 50 comments

Safer to Puff, E-Cigarettes Can’t Shake Their Reputation as a Menace

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/02/health/e-cigarette-vape-njoy-bankruptcy.html

10 years ago

145 upvotes – 264 comments

How Uber Manages a Million Writes per Second

http://highscalability.com/blog/2016/9/28/how-uber-manages-a-million-writes-per-second-using-mesos-and.html

10 years ago

133 upvotes – 56 comments

The secret world of microwave networks

http://arstechnica.co.uk/information-technology/2016/11/private-microwave-networks-financial-hft/

10 years ago

124 upvotes – 32 comments

How to get the wine you really want

http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21709491-how-get-wine-you-really-want-war-terroir

10 years ago

124 upvotes – 158 comments

Social media shutdown in Turkey

https://turkeyblocks.org/2016/11/04/social-media-shutdown-turkey/

10 years ago

123 upvotes – 74 comments

Steven Pinker on Language, Reason, and the Future of Violence

https://medium.com/conversations-with-tyler/steven-pinker-language-instinct-evolutionary-psychology-darwin-chomsky-linguistics-b792d7cd2a05#.pr8d00o74

10 years ago

122 upvotes – 49 comments

Identity/Persona Shutdown Guidelines for Reliers

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Identity/Persona_Shutdown_Guidelines_for_Reliers

10 years ago

118 upvotes – 49 comments

Why hardware development is hard, part 1: Verilog is weird (2013)

https://danluu.com/why-hardware-development-is-hard/

10 years ago

112 upvotes – 112 comments

Silicon Valley’s “megacommute” even worse than L.A

http://www.mercurynews.com/2016/11/02/job-boom-intensifies-traffic-and-housing-woes/

10 years ago

110 upvotes – 283 comments

Tech firms shell out to hire and hoard talent

http://www.economist.com/news/business/21709574-tech-firms-battle-hire-and-hoard-talented-employees-huge-pay-packages-silicon-valley

10 years ago

107 upvotes – 127 comments

Migrating Pinterest profiles to React

https://engineering.pinterest.com/blog/migrating-pinterest-profiles-react

10 years ago

104 upvotes – 43 comments

The etcd operator: Simplify etcd cluster configuration and management

https://coreos.com/blog/introducing-the-etcd-operator.html

10 years ago

100 upvotes – 35 comments

Curiosity Mars Rover Checks Odd-Looking Iron Meteorite

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=6667

10 years ago

99 upvotes – 22 comments

Introducing Unified Update Platform

https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2016/11/03/introducing-unified-update-platform-uup/

10 years ago

97 upvotes – 69 comments

Silicon Beach: Los Angeles booms as startup hub

http://www.economist.com/news/business/21709564-cheaper-location-tech-companies-takes-los-angeles-booms-startup-hub

10 years ago

93 upvotes – 95 comments

Battery Status API being Removed from Firefox due to Privacy Concerns

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/software/battery-status-api-being-removed-from-firefox-due-to-privacy-concerns/

10 years ago

89 upvotes – 46 comments

Mars: Inside the High-Risk, High-Stakes Race to the Red Planet

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2016/11/spacex-elon-musk-exploring-mars-planets-space-science/

10 years ago

89 upvotes – 99 comments

A.I. accurately predicted the full baseball post-season back in July

http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/ai-makes-yet-another-remarkable-prediction-2172570.htm

10 years ago

85 upvotes – 68 comments

Variational Inference for Machine Learning [pdf]

http://shakirm.com/papers/VITutorial.pdf

10 years ago

79 upvotes – 40 comments

Korg Monologue – Monophonic Analogue Synthesizer

http://www.korg.com/us/products/synthesizers/monologue/

10 years ago

78 upvotes – 45 comments

Show HN: Sodaphonic – record and edit audio in the browser

https://sodaphonic.com

10 years ago

77 upvotes – 17 comments

ASML Buys Stake in Carl Zeiss Unit for $1.1B

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-03/asml-buys-stake-in-carl-zeiss-unit-for-1-1-billion-in-euv-step

10 years ago

69 upvotes – 26 comments

JavaScript and the Web Platform with Brendan Eich

https://javascriptair.com/episodes/2016-11-02/

10 years ago

68 upvotes – 1 comments

New Macbook Pro can't walk and chew gum at same time (watch wifi and USB = fail)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYVjIjBMx6o

10 years ago

64 upvotes – 21 comments

Want to Know What Virtual Reality Might Become? Look to the Past

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/06/magazine/want-to-know-what-virtual-reality-might-become-look-to-the-past.html

10 years ago

63 upvotes – 38 comments

Apollo Client 0.5

https://dev-blog.apollodata.com/apollo-client-0-5-f1eb3f122ace

10 years ago

62 upvotes – 21 comments
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