top 50% 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

765 upvotes – 242 comments

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

555 upvotes – 240 comments

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

https://dynalist.io/d/wRIiJ0s0ONiB1w98ginB4g_n

9 years ago

500 upvotes – 230 comments

DRM Is Toxic to Culture

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

9 years ago

394 upvotes – 250 comments

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

251 upvotes – 49 comments

Writing a Service Worker

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

9 years ago

227 upvotes – 55 comments

BayesDB: A probabilistic programming platform

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

9 years ago

222 upvotes – 15 comments

Underrated Startup Success Factors

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

9 years ago

218 upvotes – 63 comments

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

216 upvotes – 107 comments

A Detailed Elliptic Curve Cryptography Tutorial

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

9 years ago

184 upvotes – 15 comments

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

https://github.com/DutchGraa/crackcoin

9 years ago

★ 599 Python
171 upvotes – 65 comments

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

169 upvotes – 101 comments

Verdi – Formally Verifying Distributed Systems (2016)

http://verdi.uwplse.org/

9 years ago

166 upvotes – 32 comments

Abandoned Soviet Space Shuttles [video]

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

9 years ago

159 upvotes – 40 comments

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

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

9 years ago

157 upvotes – 141 comments

Common Data Structures Explained with Videos and Exercises

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

9 years ago

156 upvotes – 15 comments

Understanding Support Vector Machine via Examples

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

9 years ago

142 upvotes – 0 comments

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

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

9 years ago

140 upvotes – 112 comments

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

139 upvotes – 47 comments

Life

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

9 years ago

133 upvotes – 60 comments

17th Century Shopping List Discovered Under Floorboards of English Home

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/seventeenth-century-shopping-list-discovered-under-floorboards-historic-english-home-180961986?no-ist

9 years ago

124 upvotes – 22 comments

Architect explains why large development in LA seems to be luxury development

https://www.reddit.com/r/LosAngeles/comments/6lvwh4/im_an_architect_in_la_specializing_in_multifamily/

9 years ago

123 upvotes – 59 comments

Grsecurity: Potential contributory infringement and breach of contract risk

http://perens.com/blog/2017/06/28/warning-grsecurity-potential-contributory-infringement-risk-for-customers/

9 years ago

121 upvotes – 120 comments

Postgres Job Queues and Failure by MVCC

https://brandur.org/postgres-queues

9 years ago

112 upvotes – 48 comments

Dos and don'ts on designing for accessibility (2016)

https://accessibility.blog.gov.uk/2016/09/02/dos-and-donts-on-designing-for-accessibility/

9 years ago

110 upvotes – 10 comments

Show HN: Using functions to construct Regex in Python

https://github.com/iogf/crocs

9 years ago

★ 517 Python Apache-2.0
105 upvotes – 55 comments

Ten years after first shipping Openmoko Neo1973

http://laforge.gnumonks.org/blog/20170709-10years_openmoko/

9 years ago

105 upvotes – 56 comments

Elevate your C programming skills by exploring the SQLite codebase

http://cppdepend.com/blog/?p=214

9 years ago

105 upvotes – 73 comments

How Strength Training Changes Your Body for Good

http://time.com/4824531/strength-training-women-exercise/

9 years ago

101 upvotes – 83 comments

U.S. Malaria Donations Saved Almost 2M African Children

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/26/health/us-foreign-aid-malaria.html?module=WatchingPortal&region=c-column-middle-span-region&pgType=Homepage&action=click&mediaId=thumb_square&state=standard&contentPlacement=6&version=internal&contentCollection=www.nytimes.com&contentId=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2017%2F06%2F26%2Fhealth%2Fus-foreign-aid-malaria.html&eventName=Watching-article-click

9 years ago

99 upvotes – 77 comments

Car Cost per Year - New vs Used

https://imgur.com/a/fKU8z#pUXtWq0

9 years ago

98 upvotes – 113 comments

Show HN: Crowdsourced visualization of neighborhoods in cities

https://hoodmaps.com

9 years ago

96 upvotes – 24 comments

California Health and Human Services Open Data Portal

https://data.chhs.ca.gov

9 years ago

96 upvotes – 12 comments

Pterodactyl – An Open-Source Game Server Management Panel

http://github.com/Pterodactyl/Panel

9 years ago

★ 8.8k PHP
90 upvotes – 24 comments

Children of the Opioid Epidemic Are Flooding Foster Homes

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/07/children-ohio-opioid-epidemic/

9 years ago

85 upvotes – 91 comments

Why I joined Microsoft

https://hackernoon.com/the-best-career-advice-ive-received-so-far-is-never-turn-down-an-interview-7586ca5b7ef8

9 years ago

84 upvotes – 45 comments

Using chip memory more efficiently

http://news.mit.edu/2017/using-chip-memory-more-efficiently-cache-hierarchies-0707

9 years ago

81 upvotes – 12 comments

Former Mt. Gox CEO Heads to Trial in Japan Over Missing Bitcoins

http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2017/07/09/former-mtgox-ceo-heads-trial-japan-over-missing-bitcoins

9 years ago

79 upvotes – 42 comments

Show HN: Console based email client with Lua scripting

https://lumail.org/

9 years ago

78 upvotes – 22 comments

An overview of gradient descent optimization algorithms

https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.04747

9 years ago

78 upvotes – 8 comments

A JavaScript browser library fails due to an adblocker blacklisting 'beacon.js'

https://github.com/ntzwrk/beacon/commit/17c20422b2912bed0c414093ebaaf672e1ea2a57

9 years ago

★ 31 TypeScript GPL-3.0
78 upvotes – 77 comments

The Disastrous Fyre Festival May Have Wrecked It for Everyone

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-06/how-do-you-insure-a-fyre-festival

9 years ago

73 upvotes – 36 comments

Future Pricing for Atlassian Cloud

https://www.atlassian.com/licensing/cloud/future-pricing

9 years ago

71 upvotes – 36 comments
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