top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-06-08

A subway-style diagram of the major Roman roads, based on the Empire ca. 125 AD

http://sashat.me/2017/06/03/roman-roads/

9 years ago

752 upvotes – 101 comments

Ask HN: What are we doing about Facebook, Google, and the closed internet?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14516538

9 years ago

609 upvotes – 424 comments

Redditors design worst volume sliders possible

https://www.designernews.co/stories/84443-redditors-design-worst-volume-sliders-possible

9 years ago

447 upvotes – 84 comments

Rust Performance Pitfalls

https://llogiq.github.io/2017/06/01/perf-pitfalls.html

9 years ago

424 upvotes – 109 comments

Why Infrastructure Is So Expensive

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2017/6/4/this-is-why-infrastructure-is-so-expensive

9 years ago

409 upvotes – 195 comments

Amazon Drive removing unlimited storage plan

https://www.amazon.com/b?node=16591160011

9 years ago

352 upvotes – 312 comments

The Benefits of Talking to Yourself

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/08/smarter-living/benefits-of-talking-to-yourself-self-talk.html

9 years ago

349 upvotes – 142 comments

How MIT OpenCourseWare transformed a learner's life

http://mailchi.mp/mit/how-ocw-transformed-a-learners-life

9 years ago

349 upvotes – 69 comments

Working with time in Postgres

http://www.craigkerstiens.com/2017/06/08/working-with-time-in-postgres/

9 years ago

343 upvotes – 120 comments

Ask HN: People who completed a bootcamp 3+ years ago: what are you doing now?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14518093

9 years ago

314 upvotes – 332 comments

Powering Twitch and Medium, Algolia (YC W14) raises $53M

https://venturebeat.com/2017/06/08/powering-twitch-and-medium-search-startup-algolia-raises-53-million/

9 years ago

278 upvotes – 107 comments

Chinese authorities detain Apple employees suspected of selling customer data

https://www.hongkongfp.com/2017/06/08/china-uncovers-massive-underground-network-apple-employees-selling-customers-personal-data/

9 years ago

263 upvotes – 103 comments

Apple is struggling to become an AI powerhouse

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/06/05/why-apple-is-struggling-to-become-an-artificial-intelligence-powerhouse/?utm_term=.7607d61ec928

9 years ago

224 upvotes – 252 comments

Announcing Rust 1.18

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2017/06/08/Rust-1.18.html

9 years ago

218 upvotes – 29 comments

How to Version an API

https://fly.io/articles/pragmatic-api-versioning/

9 years ago

215 upvotes – 76 comments

MIT Gets $140M Pledge from Anonymous Donor

https://www.wsj.com/articles/mit-gets-140-million-pledge-from-anonymous-donor-1496866275

9 years ago

199 upvotes – 137 comments

Show HN: Retool: Excel-like, with higher order primitives

https://retool.in

9 years ago

190 upvotes – 73 comments

Former Silicon Valley CEO Indicted for Allegedly Defrauding Employees of StartUp

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-silicon-valley-ceo-indicted-allegedly-defrauding-employees-tech-company-start

9 years ago

182 upvotes – 76 comments

Social media bubbles may threaten democracy

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-06-08/democracy-never-faced-a-threat-like-facebook

9 years ago

180 upvotes – 129 comments

Intelligent Tracking Prevention

https://webkit.org/blog/7675/intelligent-tracking-prevention/

9 years ago

177 upvotes – 107 comments

Show HN: A password manager using Keybase for encryption and storage

https://github.com/woodruffw/kbsecret

9 years ago

★ 434 Ruby MIT
172 upvotes – 40 comments

Mathematicians looking to make elections in the US more representative

http://www.nature.com/news/the-mathematicians-who-want-to-save-democracy-1.22113

9 years ago

155 upvotes – 128 comments

Optimizing things in the USSR (2016)

http://chris-said.io/2016/05/11/optimizing-things-in-the-ussr/

9 years ago

153 upvotes – 171 comments

Analyzing Django requirement files on GitHub

https://pyup.io/posts/analyzing-django-requirement-files-on-github/

9 years ago

143 upvotes – 30 comments

Mathematical Chronology

http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Chronology/full.html

9 years ago

139 upvotes – 55 comments

JavaScript Power Tools: Real-World Redux-Saga Patterns

http://formidable.com/blog/2017/real-world-redux-saga-patterns/

9 years ago

138 upvotes – 41 comments

Local and distributed query processing in CockroachDB

https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/local-and-distributed-processing-in-cockroachdb/#

9 years ago

136 upvotes – 36 comments

Ultraconserved words in use since the last Ice Age

http://www.dailygrail.com/Hidden-History/2017/5/Study-Uncovered-Common-Words-Appear-Have-Survived-Mother-Language-Existed

9 years ago

128 upvotes – 101 comments

Writing a Forth in Haskell

http://reinvanderwoerd.nl/blog/2017/06/08/writing-a-forth/

9 years ago

127 upvotes – 52 comments

Speeding Up Rendering Rails Pages with render_async

https://semaphoreci.com/blog/2017/06/08/speeding-up-rails-pages-with-render-async.html

9 years ago

127 upvotes – 46 comments

U.S. Pays Farmers Billions to Save Soil, But It's Blowing Away

http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/06/07/531894461/u-s-pays-farmers-billions-to-save-the-soil-but-its-blowing-away

9 years ago

121 upvotes – 135 comments

Celebrate the web by using another browser than Google’s Chrome

https://m.signalvnoise.com/celebrate-the-web-by-using-another-browser-than-googles-chrome-174a45991c42

9 years ago

121 upvotes – 99 comments

UK sees longest period of negative power prices

http://www.argusmedia.com/news/article/?id=1474697

9 years ago

119 upvotes – 128 comments

Words growing or shrinking in Hacker News titles: a tidy analysis

http://varianceexplained.org/r/hn-trends/

9 years ago

118 upvotes – 14 comments

Google Cloud Public Datasets now hosts EPA and OpenAQ air quality data

https://cloud.google.com/blog/big-data/2017/06/us-epa-and-openaq-air-quality-data-now-available-in-bigquery

9 years ago

115 upvotes – 5 comments

AI and Robotics in Agriculture in Japan [video]

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/vod/rising/20170608/

9 years ago

108 upvotes – 80 comments

Germany’s dividend-stripping tax scandal

http://www.zeit.de/wirtschaft/2017-06/cum-ex-scandal-tax-evasion-dividend-stripping-germany

9 years ago

100 upvotes – 88 comments

Accelerating Neural Networks with Binary Arithmetic

https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/accelerating-neural-networks-with-binary-arithmetic

9 years ago

99 upvotes – 12 comments

The Future of the Word Processor (2016)

https://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-future-of-the-worlds-most-boring-software-the-word-processor

9 years ago

99 upvotes – 87 comments

Living in 80 square feet (2010)

http://unschooled.org/2010/03/living-in-80-square-feet/

9 years ago

96 upvotes – 98 comments

Fiduciary Rule Fight Brews While Bad Financial Advisers Multiply

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-06-07/fiduciary-rule-fight-brews-while-bad-financial-advisers-multiply

9 years ago

95 upvotes – 86 comments

Scalable and Sustainable Deep Learning via Randomized Hashing

https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.08194

9 years ago

92 upvotes – 4 comments

Data structure for triangle meshes

http://www.redblobgames.com/x/1722-b-rep-triangle-meshes/

9 years ago

92 upvotes – 12 comments

Interview with Drew Houston, CEO of Dropbox

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-08/drew-houston-on-how-dropbox-bounced-back

9 years ago

91 upvotes – 94 comments

Essential Raises $300M

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-07/android-creator-s-phone-startup-raises-300-million

9 years ago

90 upvotes – 61 comments

“Platinum” malware continues to evolve, find ways to maintain invisibility

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/mmpc/2017/06/07/platinum-continues-to-evolve-find-ways-to-maintain-invisibility/

9 years ago

88 upvotes – 17 comments

XSS Attacks: The Next Wave

https://snyk.io/blog/xss-attacks-the-next-wave/

9 years ago

88 upvotes – 43 comments

The transgenic petunia carnage of 2017

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/05/how-transgenic-petunia-carnage-2017-began

9 years ago

86 upvotes – 20 comments

'Scam baiters' get a kick out of conning the con artists

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-39884625

9 years ago

84 upvotes – 77 comments

“Make Our Planet Great Again”

https://www.makeourplanetgreatagain.fr

9 years ago

83 upvotes – 20 comments

Doing things the wrong way to get the right result

https://madebymany.com/stories/swallow-your-developer-s-pride-and-just-do-stuff

9 years ago

79 upvotes – 37 comments

Visual Studio Code 1.13

https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_13

9 years ago

79 upvotes – 6 comments

Many Canadians are living on credit rather than staying within their means

https://thewalrus.ca/canadas-middle-class-is-on-the-brink-of-ruin/

9 years ago

74 upvotes – 143 comments
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