top 20 hacker news stories for 2017-07-11

How Discord Scaled Elixir to 5M Concurrent Users

https://blog.discordapp.com/scaling-elixir-f9b8e1e7c29b

8 years ago

802 upvotes – 251 comments

Cloudflare’s fight with a “patent troll” could alter the game

https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/11/the-hunted-becomes-the-hunter-how-cloudflares-fight-with-a-patent-troll-could-alter-the-game/

8 years ago

723 upvotes – 274 comments

ECMAScript 2017 Language Specification

https://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-262.htm

8 years ago

600 upvotes – 241 comments

Math education: It’s not about numbers, it’s about learning how to think

http://www.nwaonline.com/news/2017/jul/03/slaying-the-math-monster-20170703/

8 years ago

565 upvotes – 330 comments

SFO near miss might have triggered aviation disaster

http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/07/10/exclusive-sfo-near-miss-might-have-triggered-greatest-aviation-disaster-in-history/

8 years ago

481 upvotes – 414 comments

Students Are Better Off Without a Laptop in the Classroom

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/students-are-better-off-without-a-laptop-in-the-classroom/

8 years ago

425 upvotes – 243 comments

3D scanning by dipping into a liquid

http://irc.cs.sdu.edu.cn/3dshape/

8 years ago

350 upvotes – 117 comments

Toward a Reasonably Secure Laptop

https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2017/07/08/toward-a-reasonably-secure-laptop/

8 years ago

344 upvotes – 100 comments

How to GraphQL – A Fullstack Tutorial for GraphQL

https://www.howtographql.com/?v1

8 years ago

298 upvotes – 79 comments

Exotic Data Structures (2011)

http://concatenative.org/wiki/view/Exotic%20Data%20Structures

8 years ago

293 upvotes – 24 comments

Tiny Apps

https://tinyapps.org/

8 years ago

266 upvotes – 111 comments

In Blow to Tech Industry, Trump Shelves Startup Immigrant Rule

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/10/technology/in-blow-to-tech-industry-trump-shelves-start-up-immigrant-rule.html?_r=0

8 years ago

240 upvotes – 239 comments

Ubuntu now available from the Windows store

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/2017/07/10/ubuntu-now-available-from-the-windows-store/

8 years ago

229 upvotes – 211 comments

Hard Drive Cost per Gigabyte

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-cost-per-gigabyte/

8 years ago

217 upvotes – 133 comments

Using Tesseract OCR with Python

http://www.pyimagesearch.com/2017/07/10/using-tesseract-ocr-python/

8 years ago

195 upvotes – 47 comments

Pentagon Tiling Proof Solves Century-Old Math Problem

https://www.quantamagazine.org/pentagon-tiling-proof-solves-century-old-math-problem-20170711/

8 years ago

191 upvotes – 42 comments

Avery’s laws of Wi-Fi reliability

http://apenwarr.ca/log/?m=201707

8 years ago

170 upvotes – 84 comments

Kaspersky Lab Has Been Working with Russian Intelligence

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-11/kaspersky-lab-has-been-working-with-russian-intelligence

8 years ago

165 upvotes – 66 comments

Paying Professors: Inside Google’s Academic Influence Campaign

https://www.wsj.com/articles/paying-professors-inside-googles-academic-influence-campaign-1499785286

8 years ago

161 upvotes – 91 comments

Fedora 26 released

https://fedoramagazine.org/fedora-26-is-here/

8 years ago

160 upvotes – 81 comments
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