top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-07-05

Making a virtual machine in Google Sheets

https://briansteffens.github.io/2017/07/03/google-sheets-virtual-machine.html

9 years ago

1074 upvotes – 113 comments

I'm not a Woman in Tech

https://communequation.wordpress.com/2017/07/05/im-not-a-woman-in-tech/

9 years ago

876 upvotes – 578 comments

It is as if you were doing work

https://pippinbarr.github.io/itisasifyouweredoingwork/

9 years ago

752 upvotes – 205 comments

Antisocial Coding: My Year at GitHub

http://where.coraline.codes/blog/my-year-at-github/

9 years ago

711 upvotes – 529 comments

Show HN: A virtual machine made with Google Sheets formulas (no script)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14703098

9 years ago

620 upvotes – 37 comments

Tesla Model 3 Hits Production

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/07/03/business/tesla-model-3-elon-musk.html?action=click&module=Discovery&pgtype=Homepage

9 years ago

401 upvotes – 209 comments

Let's Code a TCP/IP Stack: TCP Retransmission

http://www.saminiir.com/lets-code-tcp-ip-stack-5-tcp-retransmission/

9 years ago

385 upvotes – 30 comments

US military intelligence agencies have influenced over 1,800 movies and TV shows

https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/exclusive-documents-expose-direct-us-military-intelligence-influence-on-1-800-movies-and-tv-shows-36433107c307

9 years ago

381 upvotes – 207 comments

EU Parliament calls for longer lifetime for products

http://www.eubusiness.com/news-eu/durable-products.47bf

9 years ago

291 upvotes – 233 comments

Top accessibility complaints from people with disabilities

https://axesslab.com/accessibility-according-to-pwd/

9 years ago

279 upvotes – 132 comments

A set of best practices for JavaScript projects

https://github.com/wearehive/project-guidelines

9 years ago

★ 29.4k JavaScript MIT
265 upvotes – 145 comments

I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14703052

9 years ago

238 upvotes – 321 comments

How we made compiler warnings fatal in Firefox

https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/2017/07/05/how-we-made-compiler-warnings-fatal-in-firefox/

9 years ago

235 upvotes – 115 comments

Two Decades of Recommender Systems at Amazon.com

https://www.computer.org/csdl/mags/ic/2017/03/mic2017030012.html

9 years ago

230 upvotes – 74 comments

Impossibly Hungry Judges

http://nautil.us/blog/impossibly-hungry-judges

9 years ago

226 upvotes – 70 comments

What the brain's wiring looks like

http://www.bbc.com/news/health-40488545

9 years ago

214 upvotes – 114 comments

NASA Revives Plan to Put Nuclear Reactors on Mars

https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/nasa-revives-plan-put-nuclear-reactors-mars-ncna778536

9 years ago

204 upvotes – 153 comments

How ‘Critical User Journeys’ can help a product take off

https://medium.com/initialized-capital/what-to-do-if-your-product-isnt-growing-7eb9d158fc

9 years ago

194 upvotes – 34 comments

Bitcoin, Ethereum, Blockchain, Tokens, ICOs: Why Should Anyone Care?

https://medium.com/@preethikasireddy/bitcoin-ethereum-blockchain-tokens-icos-why-should-anyone-care-890b868cec06

9 years ago

177 upvotes – 106 comments

Rust's 2017 roadmap, six months in

http://blog.rust-lang.org/2017/07/05/Rust-Roadmap-Update.html

9 years ago

175 upvotes – 60 comments

Tesla drops 7% after Goldman Sachs says the stock is worth $180

https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/05/tesla-drops-7-after-goldman-sachs-says-the-stock-is-worth-180

9 years ago

173 upvotes – 289 comments

Volvo signals 'end of the solely combustion engine-powered car'

http://www.autonews.com/article/20170705/COPY01/307069997/volvo-steers-toward-electrified-future

9 years ago

171 upvotes – 140 comments

Why I’m leaving 18F

https://medium.com/@noahkunin/why-im-leaving-18f-48970131d547

9 years ago

165 upvotes – 34 comments

VCs should stop abusing nondisparagement and nondisclosure agreements

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-03/if-silicon-valley-wants-to-be-decent-it-should-give-up-ndas

9 years ago

158 upvotes – 54 comments

Signatures of extra dimensions in gravitational waves

https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.07392

9 years ago

155 upvotes – 31 comments

Rebass – Functional React UI component library built with styled-components

http://jxnblk.com/rebass/

9 years ago

146 upvotes – 64 comments

Undefined Behavior in 2017

https://blog.regehr.org/archives/1520

9 years ago

143 upvotes – 113 comments

Amelia Earhart May Have Survived Crash-Landing, Newly Discovered Photo Suggests

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/amelia-earhart-may-have-survived-crash-landing-never-seen-photo-n779591?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma

9 years ago

142 upvotes – 42 comments

Global Foundries discloses 7nm process detail

https://www.semiwiki.com/forum/content/6879-exclusive-globalfoundries-discloses-7nm-process-detail.html?utm_content=buffere2e76&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

9 years ago

139 upvotes – 60 comments

China's bloggers, filmmakers feel chill of internet crackdown

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-internet-content-idUSKBN19O21X

9 years ago

138 upvotes – 94 comments

How to optimize React applications that use Redux

https://reactrocket.com/post/react-redux-optimization/

9 years ago

130 upvotes – 74 comments

Introducing HumbleNet: Cross-Platform Networking Library for the Browser

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/06/introducing-humblenet-a-cross-platform-networking-library-that-works-in-the-browser/

9 years ago

123 upvotes – 18 comments

Response to “Unexpected mutations after CRISPR-Cas9 editing in vivo”

http://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/07/05/159707

9 years ago

121 upvotes – 49 comments

US Lifts Laptop Ban on Etihad, Emirates and Turkish Airlines

https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/05/us-lifts-laptop-ban-on-airline-passengers-flying-with-etihad-emirates-and-turkish/

9 years ago

116 upvotes – 85 comments

How to Murder a Byzantine Emperor

http://www.medievalists.net/2017/06/murder-byzantine-emperor/

9 years ago

115 upvotes – 41 comments

Blue Apron falls 9% on fourth day as a public company

https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/05/blue-apron-falls-9-on-fourth-day-as-a-public-company

9 years ago

103 upvotes – 209 comments

Running feature specs with Capybara and Chrome headless

https://drivy.engineering/running-capybara-headless-chrome/

9 years ago

101 upvotes – 34 comments

Lessons learned building a toy compiler

https://jaseemabid.github.io/2017/07/04/compiler.html

9 years ago

101 upvotes – 22 comments

RailCar: Rust implementation of oci-runtime

https://github.com/oracle/railcar

9 years ago

★ 1.1k Rust
99 upvotes – 23 comments

Chinese plan for “traffic-straddling bus” ended after 32 people were arrested

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/04/world/asia/china-bus-road-straddling.html

9 years ago

98 upvotes – 115 comments

Others are speaking up about discrimination at Tesla

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jul/05/tesla-sexual-harassment-discrimination-engineer-fired

9 years ago

96 upvotes – 92 comments

Focus on Infants During Childbirth Leaves U.S. Moms in Danger

http://www.npr.org/2017/05/12/527806002/focus-on-infants-during-childbirth-leaves-u-s-moms-in-danger

9 years ago

96 upvotes – 87 comments

Pattern Matching with TypeScript

https://pattern-matching-with-typescript.alabor.me/

9 years ago

95 upvotes – 51 comments

Thinking Parallel, Part I: Collision Detection on the GPU (2012)

https://devblogs.nvidia.com/parallelforall/thinking-parallel-part-i-collision-detection-gpu/

9 years ago

93 upvotes – 9 comments

Show HN: Bringing Pull Requests to Ship, a macOS native client for GitHub Issues

https://www.realartists.com/blog/pull-requests.html

9 years ago

89 upvotes – 49 comments

Florence Nightingale saved people with her grasp of numbers

http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/alan-finkel-ao/florence-nightingale-saved-far-more-people-with-her-grasp-of-num_a_23014858/

9 years ago

86 upvotes – 11 comments
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