top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-06-05

Ask HN: What language-agnostic programming books should I read?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14486657

9 years ago

927 upvotes – 337 comments

Apple adds a tracker blocker to desktop Safari

https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/05/apple-adds-a-tracker-blocker-to-desktop-safari/

9 years ago

517 upvotes – 286 comments

WSJ Ends Google Users' Free Ride, Then Fades in Search Results

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-05/wsj-ends-google-users-free-ride-then-fades-in-search-results

9 years ago

469 upvotes – 387 comments

Ask HN: Women in tech, how do you find non-toxic work environments?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14490333

9 years ago

459 upvotes – 474 comments

Comparing Bandwidth Costs of Amazon, Google and Microsoft Cloud Computing

https://www.arador.com/ridiculous-bandwidth-costs-amazon-google-microsoft/

9 years ago

453 upvotes – 216 comments

You can probably use deep learning even if you don't have a lot of data

http://beamandrew.github.io/deeplearning/2017/06/04/deep_learning_works.html

9 years ago

417 upvotes – 78 comments

Manualslib – Database of More Than 2.6M Manuals

https://www.manualslib.com/

9 years ago

417 upvotes – 64 comments

Google Brain Residency

http://tinyclouds.org/residency/

9 years ago

337 upvotes – 55 comments

JSC loves ES6

https://webkit.org/blog/7536/jsc-loves-es6/

9 years ago

318 upvotes – 185 comments

HEIF – High Efficiency Image File Format

https://nokiatech.github.io/heif/

9 years ago

317 upvotes – 112 comments

Ask HN: What code samples should programmers read?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14486099

9 years ago

310 upvotes – 148 comments

L.A.'s crisis: High rents, low pay, and $2k doesn't buy much

http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-lopez-renters-struggle-06042017-story.html

9 years ago

300 upvotes – 439 comments

Google’s Environmental Report

https://environment.google/

9 years ago

282 upvotes – 144 comments

Isro’s new GSLV Mk III rocket places GSAT-19 communication satellite in orbit

http://m.timesofindia.com/india/isros-most-powerful-rocket-gslv-mk-iii-places-gsat-19-communication-satellite-in-orbit/articleshow/59001591.cms

9 years ago

274 upvotes – 51 comments

iPad Pro

https://www.apple.com/ipad/

9 years ago

269 upvotes – 386 comments

Netflix Leaving Battle for Net Neutrality Shows Why We Need It

https://www.inverse.com/article/32361-netflix-reed-hastings-net-neutrality

9 years ago

267 upvotes – 84 comments

A peek under Bitcoin’s hood: Writing a client that can create a transaction

http://www.samlewis.me/2017/06/a-peek-under-bitcoins-hood/

9 years ago

241 upvotes – 63 comments

Linux Container Internals

http://rabbitstack.github.io/operating%20systems/linux-containers-internals-part-i/

9 years ago

235 upvotes – 21 comments

The far-reaching effects of air conditioning

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-39735802

9 years ago

216 upvotes – 179 comments

A Study That Bolsters the Lead-Crime Hypothesis

http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2017/06/powerful-study-lead-crime-hypothesis

9 years ago

210 upvotes – 121 comments

The great self-esteem con

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/jun/03/quasi-religious-great-self-esteem-con

9 years ago

210 upvotes – 194 comments

Stop trying to ‘be original’ and be prolific instead (2016)

http://prolifiko.com/prolific/

9 years ago

203 upvotes – 133 comments

Comma Separated Vulnerabilities

https://www.contextis.com/resources/blog/comma-separated-vulnerabilities/

9 years ago

201 upvotes – 25 comments

Show HN: Search engine for lectures

https://www.findlectures.com/

9 years ago

200 upvotes – 38 comments

Apple Teases Upcoming Space Gray iMac Pro, "the most powerful Mac ever"

https://9to5mac.com/2017/06/05/apple-teases-upcoming-space-gray-imac-pro-the-most-powerful-mac-ever/

9 years ago

194 upvotes – 288 comments

Nasa Aeronautics Book Series (2015)

https://www.nasa.gov/connect/ebooks/unlimited_horizons_detail.html

9 years ago

188 upvotes – 9 comments

Why aren’t Google and Facebook enriching our lives more?

http://blogs.harvard.edu/philg/2017/06/05/why-arent-google-and-facebook-enriching-our-lives

9 years ago

179 upvotes – 90 comments

An Advanced Intro to GnuPG

https://begriffs.com/posts/2016-11-05-advanced-intro-gnupg.html

9 years ago

177 upvotes – 22 comments

Astronomers Find Planet Hotter Than Most Stars

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2017-160

9 years ago

175 upvotes – 55 comments

Apple Announces macOS High Sierra

https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/05/apple-announces-macos-high-sierra/

9 years ago

169 upvotes – 167 comments

Apple enters the augmented reality fray with ARKit for iOS

https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/05/apple-enters-the-augmented-reality-fray-with-arkit-for-ios/

9 years ago

169 upvotes – 100 comments

Human Interface Guidelines

https://developer.apple.com/design/

9 years ago

165 upvotes – 47 comments

Funciton – A graphical programming language

https://esolangs.org/wiki/Funciton

9 years ago

165 upvotes – 77 comments

Optimizations which made Python 3.6 faster than Python 3.5 [video]

http://pyvideo.org/pycon-us-2017/optimizations-which-made-python-36-faster-than-python-35.html

9 years ago

163 upvotes – 51 comments

Oculus founder Palmer Luckey is developing border surveillance technology

https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/04/palmer-luckey-border-surveillance-technology/

9 years ago

163 upvotes – 161 comments

Faster, Better, Cheaper – The Art of Making Software

http://jrsinclair.com/articles/2017/faster-better-cheaper-art-of-making-software/

9 years ago

154 upvotes – 23 comments

Making Photos Smaller Without Quality Loss

https://engineeringblog.yelp.com/2017/06/making-photos-smaller.html

9 years ago

149 upvotes – 50 comments

How Command Line Parameters Are Parsed (2016)

http://daviddeley.com/autohotkey/parameters/parameters.htm

9 years ago

147 upvotes – 41 comments

Shipments of almonds, walnuts, and pistachios are being stolen in California

https://www.outsideonline.com/2186526/nut-job

9 years ago

144 upvotes – 58 comments

How to Learn Solidity: The Ultimate Ethereum Coding Guide

https://blockgeeks.com/guides/how-to-learn-solidity/

9 years ago

133 upvotes – 53 comments

Svgi – An SVG inspection tool

https://angelmmiguel.github.io/svgi/

9 years ago

133 upvotes – 15 comments

Mice fed a time-restricted, high-fat diet show reduced metabolic disease (2012)

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1550413112001891

9 years ago

123 upvotes – 85 comments

Microsoft leak reveals new Windows 10 Workstation edition for power users

https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/5/15739192/microsoft-windows-10-pro-for-workstations-advanced-pcs-features

9 years ago

123 upvotes – 190 comments

Apple HomePod

https://www.apple.com/homepod

9 years ago

121 upvotes – 104 comments

The IBM PC, Part 1 (2012)

http://www.filfre.net/2012/05/the-ibm-pc-part-1/

9 years ago

116 upvotes – 43 comments

IBM’s world-first 5nm chip indicates EUV lithography is ready for primetime

https://arstechnica.co.uk/gadgets/2017/06/ibm-5nm-chip/

9 years ago

114 upvotes – 33 comments

VCs need one large exit to see good profits

https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/01/the-meeting-that-showed-me-the-truth-about-vcs/

9 years ago

106 upvotes – 44 comments

Harvard withdraws 10 acceptances for ‘offensive’ memes in private group chat

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/06/05/harvard-withdraws-10-acceptances-for-offensive-memes-in-private-chat/

9 years ago

105 upvotes – 352 comments

Async IO on Linux: select, poll, and epoll

https://jvns.ca/blog/2017/06/03/async-io-on-linux--select--poll--and-epoll/

9 years ago

103 upvotes – 17 comments

Safari 11.0

https://developer.apple.com/library/content/releasenotes/General/WhatsNewInSafari/Safari_11_0/Safari_11_0.html

9 years ago

103 upvotes – 31 comments

Foundations of deep learning

https://github.com/pauli-space/foundations_for_deep_learning

9 years ago

101 upvotes – 12 comments

Crispr’s Next Big Debate: How Messy Is Too Messy?

https://www.wired.com/2017/06/crispr-mutations/

9 years ago

96 upvotes – 24 comments

Cash for Math: The Erdős Prizes Live On

https://www.quantamagazine.org/cash-for-math-the-erdos-prizes-live-on-20170605/

9 years ago

95 upvotes – 9 comments

Supreme Court to Hear Case on Cellphone Location Data

https://www.wsj.com/articles/supreme-court-to-hear-case-on-cellphone-location-data-1496671579

9 years ago

91 upvotes – 42 comments

How political data teams game Google to fool people

https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2017/06/how-the-trump-russia-data-machine-games-google-to.html

9 years ago

90 upvotes – 69 comments

Apple Events – WWDC Keynote, June 2017 [video]

https://www.apple.com/apple-events/june-2017/

9 years ago

88 upvotes – 68 comments

We Bought a Crack House

http://torontolife.com/real-estate/parkdale-reno-hell/

9 years ago

88 upvotes – 114 comments

Top Secret NSA Report Details Russian Hacking Effort Days Before 2016 Election

https://theintercept.com/2017/06/05/top-secret-nsa-report-details-russian-hacking-effort-days-before-2016-election/

9 years ago

86 upvotes – 36 comments
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