top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-06-30

Silicon Valley Women, in Cultural Shift, Frankly Describe Sexual Harassment

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/30/technology/women-entrepreneurs-speak-out-sexual-harassment.html?_r=0

9 years ago

“Which word begins with “y” and looks like an axe in this picture?”

https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/395382/which-word-begins-with-y-and-looks-like-an-axe-in-this-picture

9 years ago

Scott's Cheap Flights: Growing a small side project into a booming business

https://www.indiehackers.com/businesses/scotts-cheap-flights-02

9 years ago

Why We Chose Typescript

https://redditblog.com/2017/06/30/why-we-chose-typescript/

9 years ago

Effectively Using Matplotlib

http://pbpython.com/effective-matplotlib.html

9 years ago

I ask 100 information questions to four digital assistants

https://vlad.d2dx.com/the-great-assistant-skills-comparison-google-alexa-siri-and-cortana-head-off/

9 years ago

Exactly-once Semantics: How Kafka Does it

https://www.confluent.io/blog/exactly-once-semantics-are-possible-heres-how-apache-kafka-does-it/

9 years ago

McClure steps back at 500Startups after internal sexual misconduct investigation

https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/30/mcclure-steps-back-at-500-startups-after-internal-sexual-misconduct-investigation

9 years ago

In the summer of 1962, the U.S. blew up a hydrogen bomb in outer space

http://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2010/07/01/128170775/a-very-scary-light-show-exploding-h-bombs-in-space

9 years ago

How do you cut a monolith in half?

http://programmingisterrible.com/post/162346490883/how-do-you-cut-a-monolith-in-half

9 years ago

Poverty is not a personal choice, but a reflection of society

https://theconversation.com/why-poverty-is-not-a-personal-choice-but-a-reflection-of-society-79552

9 years ago

How a 20-year-old kernel feature helped USDS improve VA’s network

https://medium.com/the-u-s-digital-service/how-a-20-year-old-kernel-feature-helped-usds-improve-vas-network-33109cbcb2e6

9 years ago

AMD Launches Ryzen PRO CPUs

http://www.anandtech.com/show/11591/amd-launches-ryzen-pro-cpus-enhanced-security-longer-warranty-better-quality

9 years ago

Benefits of named return values in Go

https://blog.minio.io/golang-internals-part-2-nice-benefits-of-named-return-values-1e95305c8687

9 years ago

The Life, Death, and Legacy of iPhone Jailbreaking

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/8xa4ka/iphone-jailbreak-life-death-legacy

9 years ago

Sony plans to make vinyl records again

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/06/30/vinyl-records-are-so-popular-that-sony-plans-to-make-them-again/

9 years ago

Home automation with Raspberry Pi, Node and React

https://viktorkirilov.me/post/home-automation-raspberry-pi/

9 years ago

IPFS, CoinList, and the Filecoin ICO [audio]

http://blog.ycombinator.com/ipfs-coinlist-and-the-filecoin-ico-with-juan-benet-and-dalton-caldwell/

9 years ago

Angular 2/4 Is Too Little Too Late

https://medium.com/@chriscordle/why-angular-2-4-is-too-little-too-late-ea86d7fa0bae

9 years ago

Petya: “I Want to Believe”

https://labsblog.f-secure.com/2017/06/29/petya-i-want-to-believe/

9 years ago

How do whales and dolphins sleep without drowning?

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-do-whales-and-dolphin/

9 years ago

RocketMQ – Open source distributed messaging and streaming data platform

https://rocketmq.incubator.apache.org/

9 years ago

Runway – Cash planning tool for startups

https://www.startuprunway.io/

9 years ago

Kubernetes 1.7: Security Hardening, Stateful Application Updates and Extensibility

http://blog.kubernetes.io/2017/06/kubernetes-1.7-security-hardening-stateful-application-extensibility-updates.html

9 years ago

Chris Lattner on the Realm WWDC 2017 Swift Panel

https://oleb.net/blog/2017/06/chris-lattner-wwdc-swift-panel/

9 years ago

Beating Floating Point at Its Own Game: Posit Arithmetic [pdf]

http://www.johngustafson.net/pdfs/BeatingFloatingPoint.pdf

9 years ago

Probabilistic programming from scratch

https://www.oreilly.com/learning/probabilistic-programming-from-scratch

9 years ago

The earliest known versions of Dennis Ritchie's first C compiler

https://github.com/mortdeus/legacy-cc

9 years ago

Do 20 pages of a book gives you 90% of its words?

https://blog.vocapouch.com/do-20-pages-of-a-book-gives-you-90-of-its-words-795a405afe70

9 years ago

Edge cases to keep in mind when working with text

https://www.thedroidsonroids.com/blog/edge-cases-to-keep-in-mind-part-1-text

9 years ago

With a single wiretap order, US authorities listened in on 3.3M phone calls

http://www.zdnet.com/article/one-federal-wiretap-order-recorded-millions-phone-calls/

9 years ago

Show HN: Visualizing 'Silhouettes' of Programming Languages

http://lelandbatey.com/projects/code_silhouette/

9 years ago

Anti-addiction drug maker found a captive market in the criminal justice system

https://www.propublica.org/article/vivitrol-opiate-crisis-and-criminal-justice

9 years ago

EPA: Pruitt will launch program to 'critique' climate science

https://www.eenews.net/stories/1060056858

9 years ago

The Turing Completeness of PowerPoint [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNjxe8ShM-8

9 years ago

AI’s big leap to tiny devices opens world of possibilities

https://blogs.microsoft.com/next/2017/06/29/ais-big-leap-tiny-devices-opens-world-possibilities/

9 years ago

Strange Noise in Gravitational-Wave Data Sparks Debate

https://www.quantamagazine.org/strange-noise-in-gravitational-wave-data-sparks-debate-20170630/

9 years ago

Precise User Tracking Based on TLS Client Certificate Authentication [pdf]

http://tma.ifip.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/tma2017_paper2.pdf

9 years ago

Efficient rollup tables with HyperLogLog in Postgres

https://www.citusdata.com/blog/2017/06/30/efficient-rollup-with-hyperloglog-on-postgres/

9 years ago

Peering into neural networks

http://news.mit.edu/2017/inner-workings-neural-networks-visual-data-0630

9 years ago

Rotate the World

http://richarddmorey.org/map/

9 years ago

The birth and rise of Ethernet: A history

https://insights.hpe.com/articles/the-birth-and-rise-of-ethernet-a-history-1706.html

9 years ago

Beyond Bitcoin: Truly Decentralized Banking

https://medium.com/@ersun.warncke/beyond-bitcoin-truly-decentralized-banking-d7793edc7d99

9 years ago

Signs that can reveal a fake photo

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170629-the-hidden-signs-that-can-reveal-if-a-photo-is-fake

9 years ago

2FA using a postcard

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2017/06/2fa-using-a-postcard/

9 years ago

Dan Ariely's Startup Lab

http://mailchi.mp/9924c041c258/dan-arielys-startup-lab-applications-open

9 years ago

Go func: Reducing cognitive load

https://www.antonlindstrom.com/2017/06/29/go-func-reducing-cognitive-load.html

9 years ago