top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-02-08

The web sucks if you have a slow connection

https://danluu.com/web-bloat/

9 years ago

1269 upvotes – 598 comments

Introducing Keybase Chat

https://keybase.io/blog/keybase-chat

9 years ago

990 upvotes – 192 comments

The most mentioned books on Stack Overflow

http://www.dev-books.com

9 years ago

644 upvotes – 246 comments

Fluid Paint Simulation

http://david.li/paint/

9 years ago

605 upvotes – 87 comments

Thousands of deadly U.S. military airstrikes have gone unreported

http://www.militarytimes.com/articles/airstrikes-unreported-syria-iraq-afghanistan-islamic-state-al-qaeda-taliban

9 years ago

568 upvotes – 307 comments

Redash – Connect to any data source, easily visualize and share your data

https://github.com/getredash/redash

9 years ago

★ 28.5k Python BSD-2-Clause
463 upvotes – 90 comments

I am going to eradicate the inbound Windows Support scam

http://jollyrogertelephone.com/i-am-going-to-eradicate-the-inbound-windows-support-scam/

9 years ago

331 upvotes – 151 comments

10GHz at under 1V by 2005 - The future of Intel’s manufacturing processes [2000]

http://www.anandtech.com/show/680/6

9 years ago

278 upvotes – 164 comments

London’s Lonely Unicorn: Two Frugal Expats and Their Billion-Dollar Startup

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-06-13/london-s-lonely-unicorn-two-frugal-expats-and-their-billion-dollar-startup

9 years ago

276 upvotes – 180 comments

Optimizations in Syntax Highlighting

https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2017/02/08/syntax-highlighting-optimizations

9 years ago

257 upvotes – 54 comments

TensorFlow Image Recognition on a Raspberry Pi

http://svds.com/tensorflow-image-recognition-raspberry-pi/

9 years ago

251 upvotes – 28 comments

Why are all Windows drivers dated June 21, 2006?

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20170208-00/?p=95395

9 years ago

245 upvotes – 106 comments

The AWS and MongoDB Infrastructure of Parse

https://medium.com/baqend-blog/parse-is-gone-a-few-secrets-about-their-infrastructure-91b3ab2fcf71#.ctvj6t498

9 years ago

223 upvotes – 93 comments

Electronics robust enough for Venus

http://physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/PT.5.7345/full/

9 years ago

210 upvotes – 56 comments

Evernote’s transition to Google Cloud Platform

https://blog.evernote.com/tech/2017/02/08/part-1-evernote-service-options-migrate-google-cloud-platform-gcp/

9 years ago

204 upvotes – 137 comments

What happened when Swedes tried six-hour days?

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-38843341

9 years ago

203 upvotes – 243 comments

PICO-8 lighting, part 1: thin dark line

https://medium.com/@krajzeg/pico-8-lighting-part-1-thin-dark-line-8ea15d21fed7#.2prysaoe5

9 years ago

197 upvotes – 30 comments

Search at Slack

https://slack.engineering/search-at-slack-431f8c80619e#.cqkhzbv5d

9 years ago

197 upvotes – 91 comments

Regex: badly needs fuzzing

https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/12818

9 years ago

193 upvotes – 170 comments

Mark Cuban on Why You Need to Study Artificial Intelligence

https://bothsidesofthetable.com/mark-cuban-on-why-you-need-to-study-artificial-intelligence-or-youll-be-a-dinosaur-in-3-years-db3447bea1b4

9 years ago

191 upvotes – 130 comments

New GM Cruise Self-Driving Video Shows More Mastery of SF Roads

https://www.driverless.id/news/video-analysis-new-gm-cruise-self-driving-video-shows-more-mastery-sf-roads-0176178/

9 years ago

186 upvotes – 171 comments

Dakota Access Pipeline to win US Army permit for completion

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38901498

9 years ago

177 upvotes – 185 comments

Grappling with Go

https://blog.ntpsec.org/2017/02/07/grappling-with-go.html

9 years ago

155 upvotes – 116 comments

HTTP throughput regression from Go 1.7.5 to 1.8

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/18964

9 years ago

★ 133.6k Go BSD-3-Clause
152 upvotes – 65 comments

NeXT: Steve Jobs’ Dot.com IPO That Never Happened

http://www.computerhistory.org/atchm/next-steve-jobs-dot-com-ipo-that-never-happened/

9 years ago

150 upvotes – 98 comments

Why many Indian politicians have a criminal record

http://www.economist.com/news/books-and-arts/21716019-penchant-criminality-electoral-asset-india-worlds-biggest

9 years ago

139 upvotes – 111 comments

BSDploy – FreeBSD jail provisioning

http://docs.bsdploy.net/en/latest/

9 years ago

136 upvotes – 85 comments

Legacy systems are everywhere

https://trackchanges.postlight.com/legacy-systems-are-everywhere-dddccf08bf6e

9 years ago

133 upvotes – 17 comments

RegExr: Learn, Build, and Test RegEx

http://regexr.com/

9 years ago

131 upvotes – 31 comments

Joyous Africans Take to the Rails, with China’s Help

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/07/world/africa/africa-china-train.html

9 years ago

131 upvotes – 108 comments

E.U. Agrees to Cross-Border Access to Streaming Services

http://variety.com/2017/digital/news/e-u-see-as-you-travel-online-cross-border-access-1201980748/

9 years ago

131 upvotes – 64 comments

Five arrests in 'fully loaded' Kodi streaming box raids

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-38906561

9 years ago

127 upvotes – 256 comments

More on GVFS

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/bharry/2017/02/07/more-on-gvfs/

9 years ago

127 upvotes – 77 comments

Do People View All 360°?

https://blog.vrtigo.io/do-people-view-all-360-f60b858059fe

9 years ago

123 upvotes – 69 comments

Facebook releases ResNeXt for image classification and object detection

https://github.com/facebookresearch/ResNeXt

9 years ago

★ 1.9k Lua
118 upvotes – 11 comments

Networking Zine [pdf]

http://jvns.ca/networking-zine.pdf

9 years ago

114 upvotes – 14 comments

Recommend a Founder for YC

https://blog.ycombinator.com/recommend-a-founder-for-yc/

9 years ago

112 upvotes – 113 comments

Ask HN: Does anyone dream of code?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13597369

9 years ago

104 upvotes – 139 comments

How MooTools was built

https://betweenthewires.org/between-the-wires-mootools-7ac80d4ca28f#.tsiemucc9

9 years ago

102 upvotes – 23 comments

WireGuard Presentation at FOSDEM17 [video]

https://www.wireguard.io/presentations/#february-5-2017-fosdem-brussels-belgium

9 years ago

100 upvotes – 36 comments

Show HN: Bdash – A simple business intelligence application

https://github.com/bdash-app/bdash

9 years ago

★ 1.5k TypeScript MIT
100 upvotes – 26 comments

Show HN: OneView Calendar – My zoomable calendar app just got a big facelift

http://app.oneviewcalendar.com

9 years ago

96 upvotes – 31 comments

New GitHub Terms of Service

https://github.com/blog/2314-new-github-terms-of-service

9 years ago

87 upvotes – 79 comments

Building software to identify trends in unsolved murders

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-02-08/serial-killers-should-fear-this-algorithm

9 years ago

87 upvotes – 20 comments

The top international cities for software engineers

https://techbeacon.com/top-12-international-cities-software-engineers

9 years ago

87 upvotes – 51 comments

Free Barrett Brown donors sue DOJ, FBI for right to give anonymously

https://freebarrettbrown.org/2017/02/07/donors-sue-doj-fbi-right-give-anonymously/

9 years ago

81 upvotes – 23 comments

Intel to invest $7B in factory in Arizona, employ 3,000

http://www.cnbc.com/2017/02/08/trump-meets-intel-ceo-brian-krzanich.html

9 years ago

78 upvotes – 46 comments

All Twitter Mobile Traffic Is Now Powered by Node.js

https://twitter.com/necolas/status/829128165314306048

9 years ago

75 upvotes – 15 comments

Before Straight and Gay: The discreet, disorienting passions of the Victorian era

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/03/before-straight-and-gay/513812/?single_page=true

9 years ago

71 upvotes – 118 comments
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