top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-07-15

Maryam Mirzakhani, first woman and Iranian to win Fields Medal, has died

https://thewire.in/158018/maryam-mirzakhani-fields-medal-rouhani/

9 years ago

614 upvotes – 105 comments

Monolith First (2015)

https://martinfowler.com/bliki/MonolithFirst.html

9 years ago

430 upvotes – 163 comments

Turkish GSM networks currently play a message of the President on any phone call

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14779286

9 years ago

425 upvotes – 173 comments

TIO: Try it online

https://tio.run/#

9 years ago

352 upvotes – 92 comments

Tokyo street fashion and culture: 1980 – 2017

https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/beta/exhibit/ogKCPmGdPtB7Iw

9 years ago

298 upvotes – 50 comments

Brazil to open 860K acres of protected Amazon rainforest to logging, mining, etc

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/illegal-logging-national-forest-of-jamanxim-brazil-amazon-br-163-protests-deforestation-gisele-a7842796.html

9 years ago

281 upvotes – 64 comments

A 32-year-old state senator is trying to get patent trolls out of Massachusetts

https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/14/this-32-year-old-state-senator-is-trying-to-get-patent-trolls-out-of-massachusetts/

9 years ago

276 upvotes – 44 comments

I Have No Enemies: My Final Statement (2009)

https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2010/xiaobo-lecture.html

9 years ago

227 upvotes – 212 comments

Australian PM Calls for End-To-End Encryption Ban

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/07/australian-pm-calls-end-end-encryption-ban-says-laws-mathematics-dont-apply-down

9 years ago

222 upvotes – 150 comments

Broadcom BCM43xx Wi-Fi chips allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-9417

9 years ago

220 upvotes – 42 comments

50 days of postmarketOS

https://ollieparanoid.github.io/post/50-days-of-postmarketOS

9 years ago

219 upvotes – 55 comments

Close encounters of the classified kind

http://www.thespacereview.com/article/3277/1

9 years ago

213 upvotes – 40 comments

On being the employee who “needs improvement”

http://www.virtuouscode.com/2017/07/14/on-being-the-employee-who-needs-improvement/

9 years ago

206 upvotes – 190 comments

Goldman Sachs relaxes dress code for techs in fight for talent

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-goldman-sachs-technology-idUSKBN19Y17J

9 years ago

194 upvotes – 221 comments

Ask HN: What is your password management solution?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14776620

9 years ago

192 upvotes – 301 comments

A link-aggregator for writing-related articles

https://write.narwhal.space/

9 years ago

179 upvotes – 25 comments

Facebook relicenses RocksDB under Apache 2 license

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-303

9 years ago

173 upvotes – 16 comments

Universal Jinja: a crazy idea for a Python-ready front end

https://whatisjasongoldstein.com/writing/universal-jinja/

9 years ago

171 upvotes – 124 comments

Beginner-Friendly Vulkan Tutorials

http://stephaniehurlburt.com/blog/2017/7/14/beginner-friendly-vulkan-tutorials

9 years ago

171 upvotes – 35 comments

America's Cult of Ignorance (1980) [pdf]

http://aphelis.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/ASIMOV_1980_Cult_of_Ignorance.pdf

9 years ago

169 upvotes – 113 comments

Why I can’t have conversations using Twitter (2014)

http://antirez.com/news/82

9 years ago

166 upvotes – 74 comments

Idaho has made it easier for companies to enforce noncompete agreements

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/14/business/economy/boise-idaho-noncompete-law.html

9 years ago

152 upvotes – 159 comments

Why MAC address randomization is not enough (2016) [pdf]

http://papers.mathyvanhoef.com/asiaccs2016.pdf

9 years ago

132 upvotes – 10 comments

Data Science: Performance of Python vs. Pandas vs. Numpy

http://machinelearningexp.com/data-science-performance-of-python-vs-pandas-vs-numpy/

9 years ago

118 upvotes – 40 comments

DHS Goes Biometric, Says Travelers Can Opt Out of Face Scans by Not Traveling

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170713/07133237778/dhs-goes-biometric-says-travelers-can-opt-out-face-scans-not-traveling.shtml

9 years ago

118 upvotes – 51 comments

Working from Home Can Make You Happier and More Productive

https://www.inc.com/geoffrey-james/working-from-home-makes-you-happier-less-likely-to.html

9 years ago

114 upvotes – 84 comments

Show HN: Eul – a lightweight desktop client for Skype, Slack, Gmail, and more

https://eul.im

9 years ago

111 upvotes – 96 comments

Beyond public key encryption

https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2017/07/02/beyond-public-key-encryption/

9 years ago

105 upvotes – 12 comments

Replacing My Kid’s College Fund with a “Start Something” Fund

https://unsupervisedmethods.com/replacing-my-kids-college-fund-with-a-start-something-fund-3b51c8c96501#4t3qgaf

9 years ago

104 upvotes – 113 comments

Quirks of the arXiv

http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/quirks-of-the-arxiv

9 years ago

99 upvotes – 21 comments

That’s a Big Microscope

https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=4937

9 years ago

95 upvotes – 32 comments

Vint Cerf savours a life of Claude Shannon

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v547/n7662/full/547159a.html

9 years ago

93 upvotes – 12 comments

Trump Administration to Slash Green Cards by 50%, Affecting H1-B/EB

http://alcorn.law/immigration/trump-to-slash-green-cards-by-half/

9 years ago

92 upvotes – 112 comments

Tardigrades can survive until the end of the Earth, astrophysicists say

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2017/07/14/these-animals-can-survive-until-the-end-of-the-earth-astrophysicists-say/

9 years ago

92 upvotes – 38 comments

Ravens attribute visual access to unseen competitors

https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms10506

9 years ago

91 upvotes – 11 comments

Audio processing in TensorFlow

https://medium.com/towards-data-science/audio-processing-in-tensorflow-208f1a4103aa

9 years ago

89 upvotes – 14 comments

The Lawyer, the Addict

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/15/business/lawyers-addiction-mental-health.html?ribbon-ad-idx=5&rref=business&module=Ribbon&version=origin&region=Header&action=click&contentCollection=Business%20Day&pgtype=article

9 years ago

89 upvotes – 32 comments

Did Airbnb Kill the Mountain Town?

https://www.outsideonline.com/2198726/did-airbnb-kill-mountain-town

9 years ago

89 upvotes – 87 comments

The man who helped Facebook beat Snapchat

http://www.cnbc.com/2017/07/15/instagram-kevin-weil-helped-facebook-beat-snapchat.html

9 years ago

88 upvotes – 80 comments

Trip report: Summer ISO C++ standards meeting in Toronto

https://herbsutter.com/2017/07/15/trip-report-summer-iso-c-standards-meeting-toronto/

9 years ago

82 upvotes – 15 comments

FinTech 101: How financial technology affects everyday life [video]

http://www.reuters.com/article/usa-fintech-videoexplainer-idUSKBN19X2ZK

9 years ago

82 upvotes – 6 comments

Frankfurt Is the Big Winner in Battle for Brexit Bankers

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2017-brexit-bankers/

9 years ago

78 upvotes – 156 comments
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