top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-07-11

How Discord Scaled Elixir to 5M Concurrent Users

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

9 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/

9 years ago

723 upvotes – 274 comments

ECMAScript 2017 Language Specification

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

9 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/

9 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/

9 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/

9 years ago

425 upvotes – 243 comments

3D scanning by dipping into a liquid

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

9 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/

9 years ago

344 upvotes – 100 comments

How to GraphQL – A Fullstack Tutorial for GraphQL

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

9 years ago

298 upvotes – 79 comments

Exotic Data Structures (2011)

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

9 years ago

293 upvotes – 24 comments

Tiny Apps

https://tinyapps.org/

9 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

9 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/

9 years ago

229 upvotes – 211 comments

Hard Drive Cost per Gigabyte

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

9 years ago

217 upvotes – 133 comments

Using Tesseract OCR with Python

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

9 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/

9 years ago

191 upvotes – 42 comments

Avery’s laws of Wi-Fi reliability

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

9 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

9 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

9 years ago

161 upvotes – 91 comments

Fedora 26 released

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

9 years ago

160 upvotes – 81 comments

The farthest star

http://www.syfy.com/syfywire/the-farthest-star

9 years ago

159 upvotes – 30 comments

Testing an SD Card's true capacity

http://blog.nothinguntoward.eu/?p=238

9 years ago

159 upvotes – 47 comments

Google bans its ads on sites that use annoying ‘pop-unders’

https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/11/google-bans-its-ads-on-sites-that-use-those-annoying-pop-unders

9 years ago

158 upvotes – 72 comments

Apple and Google embody two alternative models of capitalism

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/07/apple-google-capitalism/532995/?single_page=true

9 years ago

158 upvotes – 117 comments

SAFEs are not bad for entrepreneurs

https://blog.ycombinator.com/safes-are-not-bad-for-entrepreneurs/

9 years ago

157 upvotes – 112 comments

Study finds Lumosity users show no improvements in cognitive performance

https://arstechnica.co.uk/science/2017/07/lumosity-doesnt-improve-brain-function/

9 years ago

156 upvotes – 75 comments

Build a Serverless Web Applicaion

https://aws.amazon.com/serverless/build-a-web-app/

9 years ago

153 upvotes – 148 comments

China Tells Carriers to Block Access to Personal VPNs by February

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-10/china-is-said-to-order-carriers-to-bar-personal-vpns-by-february

9 years ago

152 upvotes – 124 comments

Fedora Loves Python

https://fedoralovespython.org/

9 years ago

151 upvotes – 84 comments

The History of GeoWorks, Microsoft Windows’ Upstart ’90s Competitor (2016)

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-history-of-geoworks-microsoft-windows-upstart-90s-competitor

9 years ago

148 upvotes – 64 comments

Lifesaving advice from a black woman held at gunpoint by police

https://theundefeated.com/features/lifesaving-advice-from-a-black-woman-held-at-gunpoint-by-police/

9 years ago

147 upvotes – 95 comments

Sizing Up Servers: Intel's Skylake-SP Xeon versus AMD's EPYC 7000

http://www.anandtech.com/show/11544/intel-skylake-ep-vs-amd-epyc-7000-cpu-battle-of-the-decade/

9 years ago

144 upvotes – 43 comments

Why Single-Payer Health Care Saves Money

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/07/upshot/why-single-payer-health-care-saves-money.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0

9 years ago

140 upvotes – 198 comments

MIOpen: AMD's Machine Intelligence Library

https://github.com/ROCmSoftwarePlatform/MIOpen

9 years ago

★ 1.1k Assembly
131 upvotes – 22 comments

Elon Musk confirms that he just bought back X.com, the domain he owned in 1999

https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/10/elon-musk-x-dot-com

9 years ago

131 upvotes – 63 comments

Blogger discredits claim Amelia Earhart was taken prisoner by Japan

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jul/11/blogger-discredits-claim-amelia-earhart-was-taken-prisoner-by-japan

9 years ago

131 upvotes – 89 comments

Babel-preset-php: PHP7 to ES7 syntax translator

https://gitlab.com/kornelski/babel-preset-php

9 years ago

★ 172 MIT
130 upvotes – 63 comments

A Huge Diamond Mine That Helped Build The Soviet Union (2014)

http://gizmodo.com/the-nearly-mile-wide-diamond-mine-that-helped-build-the-1593234924

9 years ago

126 upvotes – 57 comments

Introducing Gradient Ventures

https://gradient.google

9 years ago

125 upvotes – 28 comments

Show HN: BotEngine – Easy tool for creating chatbots

https://botengine.ai/

9 years ago

124 upvotes – 59 comments

Saying Sorry When Things Go Wrong [pdf]

http://www.nhsla.com/Claims/Documents/Saying%20Sorry%20-%20Leaflet.pdf

9 years ago

121 upvotes – 59 comments

Visual Studio Code 1.14 released

https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_14

9 years ago

111 upvotes – 28 comments

Show HN: Xcessiv – Fully managed web application for automated machine learning

https://github.com/reiinakano/xcessiv

9 years ago

★ 1.2k Python Apache-2.0
108 upvotes – 5 comments

I do whatever I want at work and I haven’t been fired yet

https://m.signalvnoise.com/i-do-whatever-i-want-at-work-and-i-havent-been-fired-yet-7aae85aa3586

9 years ago

106 upvotes – 69 comments

JDK 9: Pitfalls for the Unwary

https://www.azul.com/jdk-9-pitfalls-for-the-unwary/

9 years ago

106 upvotes – 29 comments

MDN’s new design is in Beta

https://blog.mozilla.org/opendesign/mdns-new-design-beta/

9 years ago

106 upvotes – 83 comments

Transit Detection of a Starshade at the Inner Lagrange Point of an Exoplanet

https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.01285

9 years ago

106 upvotes – 66 comments

How to get press for a startup (2015)

https://medium.com/user-acquisition-for-hackers/how-to-get-press-for-your-startup-the-complete-guide-b79c57318113#.8gvv4jvzn

9 years ago

103 upvotes – 9 comments

How to actually get a remote job as an intermediate developer?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14744976

9 years ago

101 upvotes – 74 comments

Launching Today: CircleCI 2.0 Reaches General Availability

https://circleci.com/blog/launching-today-circleci-2-0-reaches-general-availability/

9 years ago

98 upvotes – 72 comments

Crypto-currencies have lost 30% of their value in the last 3 weeks

https://coinmarketcap.com/charts/

9 years ago

93 upvotes – 101 comments

Bind broker

http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/bind-broker

9 years ago

90 upvotes – 11 comments

Pressure on startups is building with IPOs and sales stalled in a funk

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-10/silicon-valley-s-overstuffed-startups-risk-messy-blowout

9 years ago

89 upvotes – 47 comments

Dropbox Drops Photo Galleries

https://www.dropbox.com/help/photos-videos/photos-page

9 years ago

87 upvotes – 77 comments

Is Ruby Too Slow for Web-Scale?

https://www.speedshop.co/2017/07/11/is-ruby-too-slow-for-web-scale.html

9 years ago

84 upvotes – 94 comments

Writing Good Code Is a Lot Like Writing Prose

https://www.alexkras.com/writing-code-is-a-lot-like-writing-prose/

9 years ago

76 upvotes – 33 comments

Feudalism and the “Algorithmic Economy”

https://medium.com/@ebonstorm/feudalism-and-the-algorithmic-economy-62d6c5d90646

9 years ago

75 upvotes – 45 comments

Programming won't be automated, or it already has been

https://dev.to/mortoray/programming-wont-be-automated-or-it-already-has-been

9 years ago

72 upvotes – 63 comments
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