top 20 hacker news stories for 2017-07-09

How to make a friend fast

https://happyturtlethings.net/how-to-make-a-friend-fast/

9 years ago

Counterintuitive problem: People in a room keep giving dollars to random others

http://www.decisionsciencenews.com/2017/06/19/counterintuitive-problem-everyone-room-keeps-giving-dollars-random-others-youll-never-guess-happens-next/

9 years ago

It's been 191 days since Google Drive worked for me

https://dynalist.io/d/wRIiJ0s0ONiB1w98ginB4g_n

9 years ago

DRM Is Toxic to Culture

https://meshedinsights.com/2017/07/09/drm-is-toxic-to-culture/

9 years ago

How startups such as Dropbox, Airbnb, Groupon acquired their first users

https://www.reddit.com/r/Entrepreneur/comments/2clqa3/how_startups_such_as_dropbox_airbnb_groupon_and/

9 years ago

Writing a Service Worker

https://www.hacklabo.com/your-first-service-worker/

9 years ago

BayesDB: A probabilistic programming platform

http://probcomp.csail.mit.edu/bayesdb/

9 years ago

Underrated Startup Success Factors

http://blog.capitalandgrowth.org/niko-bonatsos/

9 years ago

Startups that were massively funded that died in 2017

http://www.businessinsider.com/startups-that-raised-148-billion-have-shut-down-or-may-soon-2017-7/?r=AU&IR=T

9 years ago

A Detailed Elliptic Curve Cryptography Tutorial

https://www.johannes-bauer.com/compsci/ecc/

9 years ago

Show HN: Very basic blockchain-free cryptocurrency PoC in Python

https://github.com/DutchGraa/crackcoin

9 years ago

★ 599 Python

Beipanjiang Bridge, suspended 565m above China’s south-west mountains [video]

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20170531-chinas-impossible-engineering-feat

9 years ago

Verdi – Formally Verifying Distributed Systems (2016)

http://verdi.uwplse.org/

9 years ago

Abandoned Soviet Space Shuttles [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-q7ZVXOU3kM

9 years ago

Ask HN: What API do you wish you had while building your product?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14730958

9 years ago

Common Data Structures Explained with Videos and Exercises

https://medium.freecodecamp.org/10-common-data-structures-explained-with-videos-exercises-aaff6c06fb2b

9 years ago

Understanding Support Vector Machine via Examples

https://sadanand-singh.github.io/posts/svmpython/

9 years ago

Ask HN: What good alteratives are there to Google News?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14731816

9 years ago

Everybody lies: how Google search reveals our darkest secrets

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jul/09/everybody-lies-how-google-reveals-darkest-secrets-seth-stephens-davidowitz

9 years ago

Life

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/life/

9 years ago