top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-06-17

European leaders call for open access to all scientific papers by 2020 (2016)

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/05/dramatic-statement-european-leaders-call-immediate-open-access-all-scientific-papers

9 years ago

756 upvotes – 102 comments

Tesla Autopilot

https://www.tesla.com/autopilot

9 years ago

449 upvotes – 340 comments

Classic Papers: Articles That Have Stood the Test of Time

https://scholar.googleblog.com/2017/06/classic-papers-articles-that-have-stood.html

9 years ago

353 upvotes – 52 comments

Reddit Is Raising Funds at a Valuation of $1.7B

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-17/reddit-said-to-be-raising-funds-valuing-startup-at-1-7-billion

9 years ago

348 upvotes – 290 comments

Ask HN: How much ad revenue you make from your side project?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14576677

9 years ago

308 upvotes – 174 comments

Stardust: GPU-Based Visualization Library

https://stardustjs.github.io/

9 years ago

233 upvotes – 36 comments

Thousands of bird sounds visualized using Google machine learning

https://aiexperiments.withgoogle.com/bird-sounds/view/

9 years ago

232 upvotes – 40 comments

Securing a laptop for travel to China

https://mricon.com/i/travel-laptop-setup.html

9 years ago

225 upvotes – 145 comments

European Parliament Draft to Enforce End-To-End Encryption for Citizens' Privacy

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-%2F%2FEP%2F%2FNONSGML%2BCOMPARL%2BPE-606.011%2B01%2BDOC%2BPDF%2BV0%2F%2FEN

9 years ago

218 upvotes – 76 comments

Curl doesn’t spew binary anymore

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2017/06/17/curl-doesnt-spew-binary-anymore/

9 years ago

208 upvotes – 95 comments

Firefox Network Monitor Reloaded – Part 1

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/06/network-monitor-reloaded/

9 years ago

194 upvotes – 23 comments

Attempt to Reverse a $55 Million Ether Heist

https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2017-the-ether-thief/

9 years ago

180 upvotes – 183 comments

Tensorflow v1.2 released

https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/blob/r1.2/RELEASE.md

9 years ago

★ 194.9k C++ Apache-2.0
174 upvotes – 43 comments

Wikileaks Documentary Makers Accuse Assange of Censorship

http://www.newsweek.com/wikileaks-documentary-makers-accuse-assange-censorship-626613

9 years ago

174 upvotes – 137 comments

Low-cost DIY electric car made from recycled parts

http://www.designboom.com/technology/low-cost-diy-electric-car-made-from-recycled-parts-380-mile-range-06-17-2017/

9 years ago

173 upvotes – 58 comments

Antarctica Is Melting, and Giant Ice Cracks Are Just the Start

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/07/antarctica-sea-level-rise-climate-change/

9 years ago

157 upvotes – 86 comments

Too many people have peed in the pool (2016)

http://www.stephenfry.com/2016/02/peedinthepool/

9 years ago

151 upvotes – 121 comments

What's Y Combinator's conversion rate?

http://statwonk.com/yc.nb.html

9 years ago

148 upvotes – 72 comments

History by lawsuit: the “inventor of e-mail” targets Techdirt

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/06/shivas-war-one-mans-quest-to-convince-the-world-that-he-invented-e-mail/

9 years ago

145 upvotes – 89 comments

Ask HN: Why TensorFlow instead of Theano for deep learning?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14575465

9 years ago

138 upvotes – 49 comments

Artist uses a computer model of his face to get a French National ID

http://www.raphaelfabre.com/#cni

9 years ago

136 upvotes – 99 comments

How Not to Die of Botulism (2013)

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/12/how-not-to-die-of-botulism/281649/?single_page=true

9 years ago

134 upvotes – 98 comments

Ask HN: Do you plan your next day ahead?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14577859

9 years ago

129 upvotes – 76 comments

Kazakhstan built a futuristic city to host Expo 2017, but attendance is low

https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/06/15/kazakhstan-spent-5-billion-on-a-death-star-and-it-doesnt-even-shoot-lasers/

9 years ago

127 upvotes – 98 comments

Making Humans a Multi-Planetary Species

http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/pdf/10.1089/space.2017.29009.emu

9 years ago

126 upvotes – 149 comments

The relationship between telomere length and diet (2016)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4944490/?report=classic

9 years ago

121 upvotes – 56 comments

A restored masterpiece unmasks Tokyo's underground gay subculture of the 1960s

http://bombmagazine.org/article/665269/toshio-masumoto-s-em-funeral-parade-of-roses-em

9 years ago

119 upvotes – 13 comments

Hey programmers, we need to talk (2013)

http://sealedabstract.com/rants/hey-programmers-we-need-to-talk/

9 years ago

115 upvotes – 49 comments

Counting Down to the New Ampere (2016)

https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2016/08/counting-down-new-ampere

9 years ago

112 upvotes – 32 comments

Instacart Tries to Hang on to Whole Foods as Amazon Swoops In

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-16/instacart-tries-to-hang-on-to-whole-foods-as-amazon-swoops-in

9 years ago

111 upvotes – 90 comments

Cloudflare's new Argo feature billing surprise

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14576005

9 years ago

106 upvotes – 40 comments

Aerospace companies find engineers at a college race-car competition

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-formula-sae-recruiting-20170618-story.html

9 years ago

100 upvotes – 35 comments

2017 Python Language Summit: Lightning Talks

https://lwn.net/Articles/723823/

9 years ago

92 upvotes – 13 comments

Ask HN: What are new applications that can be built on blockchains?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14573959

9 years ago

90 upvotes – 64 comments

The Contrast Rebellion

http://contrastrebellion.com/

9 years ago

86 upvotes – 46 comments

Minitel, the Open Network Before the Internet

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/06/minitel/530646/?single_page=true

9 years ago

86 upvotes – 53 comments

RTL MJIT – Register transfer language VM and JIT for Ruby

https://github.com/vnmakarov/ruby/tree/rtl_mjit_branch#readme

9 years ago

★ 206 Ruby
85 upvotes – 40 comments
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