top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-06-16

Amazon to Acquire Whole Foods for $13.7B

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-16/amazon-to-buy-whole-foods?cmpid=socialflow-twitter-business&utm_content=business&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social

9 years ago

1687 upvotes – 824 comments

Standard Ebooks: Free and liberated ebooks, carefully produced

https://standardebooks.org/

9 years ago

441 upvotes – 96 comments

Supercharge your Computer Vision models with the TensorFlow Object Detection API

https://research.googleblog.com/2017/06/supercharge-your-computer-vision-models.html

9 years ago

350 upvotes – 59 comments

Startup School 2017 Presentations

https://www.startupschool.org/presentations/

9 years ago

322 upvotes – 96 comments

The Calibre Content Server

https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/server.html

9 years ago

314 upvotes – 140 comments

How I Stole a User's Siacoin

https://mtlynch.io/stole-siacoins/

9 years ago

292 upvotes – 71 comments

A Startup Making Paper Out of Stone, Not Trees

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-15/the-former-used-car-salesman-who-s-squeezing-paper-from-a-stone

9 years ago

276 upvotes – 173 comments

Switching to the Mutt Email Client

http://nullprogram.com/blog/2017/06/15/

9 years ago

263 upvotes – 241 comments

Amazon has a patent to keep people from comparison shopping in stores

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2017/06/16/amazon-has-a-patent-to-keep-you-from-comparison-shopping-while-youre-in-its-stores/

9 years ago

219 upvotes – 151 comments

Cell – A self-driving web app framework

http://www.celljs.org/

9 years ago

207 upvotes – 86 comments

Polynesian people used a kind of binary number system 600 years ago (2013)

https://www.nature.com/news/polynesian-people-used-binary-numbers-600-years-ago-1.14380

9 years ago

190 upvotes – 115 comments

Open source deep learning models that programmers can download and run first try

https://github.com/samdeeplearning/The-Terrible-Deep-Learning-List

9 years ago

★ 2.1k HTML
181 upvotes – 39 comments

New Evidence That All Stars Are Born in Pairs

https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/2017-19

9 years ago

165 upvotes – 105 comments

Walmart to Buy Bonobos, Men’s Wear Company, for $310M

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/16/business/walmart-bonobos-merger.html

9 years ago

164 upvotes – 134 comments

Justin Kan Raises $10M for New Legal Startup

https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/15/justin-kan-atrium-lts-funding/

9 years ago

161 upvotes – 98 comments

Elon Musk Publishes Plans for Colonizing Mars

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/elon-musk-publishes-plans-for-colonizing-mars/

9 years ago

155 upvotes – 246 comments

Org-mode reference card [pdf]

http://orgmode.org/orgcard.pdf

9 years ago

153 upvotes – 28 comments

How to Get Hired at CircleCI

https://circleci.com/blog/how-to-get-hired-at-circleci/

9 years ago

143 upvotes – 146 comments

Linode Turns 14

https://blog.linode.com/2017/06/16/linode-turns-14/

9 years ago

142 upvotes – 67 comments

Chinese scientists test quantum entanglement over unprecedented distance

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/china-shatters-ldquo-spooky-action-at-a-distance-rdquo-record-preps-for-quantum-internet/

9 years ago

138 upvotes – 78 comments

Microsoft Surface Laptop Teardown

https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Microsoft+Surface+Laptop+Teardown/92915

9 years ago

137 upvotes – 153 comments

One Tiny German Town, Seven Big Michelin Stars (2013)

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/07/magazine/one-tiny-german-town-seven-big-michelin-stars.html?pagewanted=all

9 years ago

133 upvotes – 21 comments

Facebook exposed identities of moderators to suspected terrorists

https://theguardian.com/technology/2017/jun/16/facebook-moderators-identity-exposed-terrorist-groups

9 years ago

130 upvotes – 34 comments

Atom 1.18 released

http://blog.atom.io/2017/06/13/atom-1-18.html

9 years ago

126 upvotes – 122 comments

Ante: a compile-time language

https://github.com/jfecher/ante

9 years ago

★ 2.2k Rust MIT
122 upvotes – 37 comments

The Artful Propaganda of Soviet Children’s Literature

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/soviet-childrens-books-propaganda

9 years ago

109 upvotes – 103 comments

Someone cloned my website and is using it to scam people

http://incoherency.co.uk/blog/stories/anonymousbtcsms-scam.html

9 years ago

109 upvotes – 60 comments

Attacks on Encrypted Databases [pdf]

http://eprint.iacr.org/2017/468.pdf

9 years ago

106 upvotes – 26 comments

America’s new tobacco crisis: The rich stopped smoking, the poor didn’t

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/americas-new-tobacco-crisis-the-rich-stopped-smoking-the-poor-didnt/2017/06/13/a63b42ba-4c8c-11e7-9669-250d0b15f83b_story.html

9 years ago

106 upvotes – 184 comments

Is SHA-3 slow?

http://keccak.noekeon.org/is_sha3_slow.html

9 years ago

106 upvotes – 81 comments

Analyzing Token Sale Models

http://vitalik.ca/general/2017/06/09/sales.html

9 years ago

104 upvotes – 42 comments

Hard Questions

https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2017/06/hard-questions/

9 years ago

103 upvotes – 35 comments

16nm ARMv8 SoC for servers and workstations

http://www.anandtech.com/show/11189/appliedmicro-x-gene-3-soc-starts-sampling

9 years ago

99 upvotes – 24 comments

What American universities can learn from Germany (2016)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-theory/wp/2016/07/27/heres-what-american-universities-can-learn-from-germany/

9 years ago

96 upvotes – 94 comments

Ask HN: Tech-cofounder feeling lost/burned-out. What to do?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14567823

9 years ago

90 upvotes – 58 comments

Palm-sized Apple II Computer

http://www.vintageisthenewold.com/the-cutest-palm-sized-apple-ii-computer-it-actually-works/

9 years ago

88 upvotes – 35 comments

US Senate bill on “any digital exchanger or tumbler of digital currency”

https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/1241/text#toc-idea0e9489fc8f46379f95bb56c8bbbda5

9 years ago

87 upvotes – 87 comments

Towards a Better Notation for Mathematics (2010) [pdf]

https://christopherolah.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/mathnotation-chrisolah.pdf

9 years ago

81 upvotes – 32 comments

Calibre 3 released

https://calibre-ebook.com/new-in/twelve

9 years ago

78 upvotes – 1 comments

Evolution Runs Faster on Short Timescales

https://www.quantamagazine.org/evolution-runs-faster-on-short-timescales-20170314/

9 years ago

78 upvotes – 17 comments

How we got 1,500 GitHub stars by mixing time-tested technology with a fresh UI

https://medium.freecodecamp.com/how-we-got-1-500-github-stars-by-mixing-time-tested-technology-with-a-fresh-ui-b310551cba22

9 years ago

77 upvotes – 30 comments

Garry Kasparov: Why the world should embrace AI [video]

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170616-garry-kasparov-why-the-world-should-embrace-ai

9 years ago

73 upvotes – 54 comments

Jobs That Artificial Intelligence Will Create

http://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/will-ai-create-as-many-jobs-as-it-eliminates/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sm-direct

9 years ago

73 upvotes – 58 comments

Iran 1953 Covert History Quietly Released

https://fas.org/blogs/secrecy/2017/06/iran-frus-release/

9 years ago

71 upvotes – 5 comments

The cruel Catch-22 of being poor with no ID

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/what-happens-to-people-who-cant-prove-who-they-are/2017/06/14/fc0aaca2-4215-11e7-adba-394ee67a7582_story.html

9 years ago

71 upvotes – 87 comments

The Use of Subroutines in Programmes (1951) [pdf]

http://www.laputan.org/pub/papers/wheeler.pdf

9 years ago

68 upvotes – 16 comments

A Technique for Drawing Directed Graphs (1993) [pdf]

http://www.graphviz.org/Documentation/TSE93.pdf

9 years ago

68 upvotes – 11 comments
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