top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-01-19

Google Has Started Penalizing Mobile Websites with Intrusive Pop-Up Ads

https://www.scribblrs.com/google-now-penalizing-mobile-ads/

9 years ago

880 upvotes – 386 comments

NHTSA’s full investigation into Tesla’s Autopilot shows 40% crash rate reduction

https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/19/nhtsas-full-final-investigation-into-teslas-autopilot-shows-40-crash-rate-reduction/?ncid=rss

9 years ago

808 upvotes – 314 comments

Removing Python 2.x support from Django for version 2.0

https://github.com/django/django/pull/7867/files

9 years ago

★ 87.3kPythonBSD-3-Clause
720 upvotes – 392 comments

Stepping into math: Open-sourcing our step-by-step solver

https://blog.socratic.org/stepping-into-math-open-sourcing-our-step-by-step-solver-9b5da066ae36

9 years ago

554 upvotes – 176 comments

Too much sitting, too little exercise may accelerate biological aging

http://sciencebulletin.org/archives/9448.html

9 years ago

457 upvotes – 311 comments

How Discord Stores Billions of Messages Using Cassandra

https://blog.discordapp.com/how-discord-stores-billions-of-messages-7fa6ec7ee4c7#.dzqq7q4o7

9 years ago

438 upvotes – 155 comments

How Do You Measure Leadership?

https://blog.ycombinator.com/how-do-you-measure-leadership/

9 years ago

376 upvotes – 150 comments

Staying with the US Digital Service

https://www.mattcutts.com/blog/join-the-us-digital-service/

9 years ago

330 upvotes – 236 comments

Don’t Tell Your Friends They’re Lucky

http://nautil.us/issue/44/luck/dont-tell-your-friends-theyre-lucky

9 years ago

327 upvotes – 294 comments

Introducing ProtonMail's Tor hidden service

https://protonmail.com/blog/tor-encrypted-email/

9 years ago

322 upvotes – 103 comments

Why I don't believe in Uber's Success

http://blog.benjamin-encz.de/post/why-i-dont-believe-in-ubers-success/

9 years ago

314 upvotes – 398 comments

How Do I Declare a Function Pointer in C?

http://fuckingfunctionpointers.com

9 years ago

291 upvotes – 106 comments

Japanese toilet industry agrees to standardize complex bidet controls

http://www.theverge.com/2017/1/17/14306464/japanese-toilet-control-icons-meaning-standard

9 years ago

290 upvotes – 229 comments

Who is Anna-Senpai, the Mirai Worm Author?

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/01/who-is-anna-senpai-the-mirai-worm-author

9 years ago

269 upvotes – 18 comments

Curl hearts Mozilla

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2017/01/18/curl-hearts-mozilla/

9 years ago

267 upvotes – 45 comments

A trip down the League of Legends graphics pipeline

https://engineering.riotgames.com/news/trip-down-lol-graphics-pipeline

9 years ago

261 upvotes – 111 comments

Distributing NixOS with IPFS

https://sourcediver.org/blog/2017/01/18/distributing-nixos-with-ipfs-part-1/

9 years ago

241 upvotes – 75 comments

Turbo Pascal Compiler (2013)

https://www.teamten.com/lawrence/projects/turbo_pascal_compiler/

9 years ago

234 upvotes – 93 comments

Interview with Chris Lattner [audio]

http://atp.fm/episodes/205

9 years ago

221 upvotes – 43 comments

Ask HN: The WSJ paywall workaround no longer works. Why are their links allowed?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13434938

9 years ago

208 upvotes – 96 comments

Facebook’s Zuckerberg sues to force land sales

http://www.staradvertiser.com/2017/01/18/business/facebooks-zuckerberg-sues-to-force-land-sales

9 years ago

196 upvotes – 183 comments

Things I learned creating my own Messenger chatbot

https://kilianvalkhof.com/2017/chatbots/6-things-i-learned-creating-my-own-messenger-chatbot/

9 years ago

195 upvotes – 18 comments

Make Firefox support moz://a

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1331968

9 years ago

193 upvotes – 169 comments

FAP80, a retro computer without the retro baggage

https://github.com/dekuNukem/fap80

9 years ago

★ 489CMIT
191 upvotes – 91 comments

Some Colleges Have More Students From the Top 1 Percent Than the Bottom 60

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/01/18/upshot/some-colleges-have-more-students-from-the-top-1-percent-than-the-bottom-60.html

9 years ago

188 upvotes – 165 comments

Dafny – A programming language with a program verifier

https://github.com/Microsoft/dafny/blob/master/README.md

9 years ago

★ 3.3kC#
165 upvotes – 58 comments

Most Winning A/B Test Results Are Illusory [pdf]

http://www.qubit.com/sites/default/files/pdf/mostwinningabtestresultsareillusory_0.pdf

9 years ago

163 upvotes – 105 comments

PSA: LastPass Does Not Encrypt Everything in Your Vault

https://hackernoon.com/psa-lastpass-does-not-encrypt-everything-in-your-vault-8722d69b2032#

9 years ago

161 upvotes – 157 comments

Learn Elixir with a Rubyist (IV) – Types, Data Structures and Pattern Matching

http://joaomdmoura.com/articles/learn-elixir-with-a-rubyist-episode-iv

9 years ago

158 upvotes – 59 comments

How We’re Building a Business to Last

https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/how-were-building-a-business-to-last/

9 years ago

154 upvotes – 50 comments

WeChat's App Revolution

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-01-19/wechat-s-app-revolution

9 years ago

131 upvotes – 101 comments

Eventually Consistent: How to Make a Mobile-First Distributed System

https://realm.io/news/eventually-consistent-making-a-mobile-first-distributed-system/

9 years ago

120 upvotes – 38 comments

Jack Ma's theory of how America went wrong over the past 30 years

http://www.businessinsider.com/alibaba-jack-ma-davos-america-history-globalization-2017-1

9 years ago

119 upvotes – 124 comments

How to Land the Space Shuttle from Space [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jb4prVsXkZU

9 years ago

116 upvotes – 21 comments

Neural Architecture Search with Reinforcement Learning

https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.01578

9 years ago

116 upvotes – 38 comments

Show HN: An app for your older relatives, helping them find the right cables

https://www.dongledaddy.com

9 years ago

113 upvotes – 62 comments

Show HN: CloudBoost – Open-Source Parse, Firebase and Algolia Combined into One

https://github.com/CloudBoost/cloudboost

9 years ago

★ 1.4kJavaScriptApache-2.0
113 upvotes – 42 comments

The declining authority of statistics and the experts who analyse them

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/jan/19/crisis-of-statistics-big-data-democracy

9 years ago

104 upvotes – 114 comments

FizzBuzz in J, Explained

https://wycd.net/posts/2017-01-19-fizz-buzz-and-triangles-in-j.html

9 years ago

103 upvotes – 51 comments

Quick, How Might the Alien Spacecraft Work?

https://backchannel.com/i-had-one-night-to-invent-interstellar-travel-b2466882ef5c#.ie10oyemi

9 years ago

102 upvotes – 74 comments

The Impacts of Video Games on Cognition (2015) [pdf]

http://greenlab.psych.wisc.edu/documents/Policy_Insights_from_the_Behavioral_and_Brain_Sciences-2015-Green-101-10.pdf

9 years ago

101 upvotes – 84 comments

Theranos closes last blood-testing lab after reportedly failing an inspection

https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/17/theranos-last-lab-inspection-test-fail/?ncid=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29&utm_content=FaceBook&sr_share=facebook

9 years ago

100 upvotes – 59 comments

How Space Weather Could Trigger a Future Economic Crisis

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-01-19/how-space-could-trigger-a-future-economic-crisis

9 years ago

99 upvotes – 58 comments

Student Debt Payback Far Worse Than Believed

http://www.wsj.com/articles/student-debt-payback-far-worse-than-believed-1484777880?mod=e2fb

9 years ago

94 upvotes – 131 comments

Samsung chief staves off arrest, prosecutor keeps chasing

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-southkorea-politics-samsung-lee-idUSKBN1522UY

9 years ago

90 upvotes – 27 comments

Automatic HTTPS Enforcement for New Executive Branch .gov Domains

https://cio.gov/automatic-https-enforcement-new-executive-branch-gov-domains/

9 years ago

88 upvotes – 78 comments

Silicon Valley’s Ultimate Exit (2013)

https://genius.com/Balaji-srinivasan-silicon-valleys-ultimate-exit-annotated

9 years ago

87 upvotes – 47 comments

How Does the SQL Server Query Optimizer Work?

http://xameeramir.github.io/How-SQL-Server-Query-Optimizer-Works/#.WIEaVWGMEKY.hackernews

9 years ago

86 upvotes – 49 comments

Ready for Realtime and Scale: Announcing Realm Mobile Platform 1.0

https://realm.io/news/realm-mobile-platform-1-0-general-availability/

9 years ago

82 upvotes – 28 comments

Apache Kudu – Fast Analytics on Fast Data

http://kudu.apache.org/

9 years ago

80 upvotes – 15 comments

Self-segregation: how a personalized world is dividing Americans

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jan/13/self-segregation-military-facebook-college-diversity

9 years ago

77 upvotes – 78 comments
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