top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-07-18

The Myth of Drug Expiration Dates

https://www.propublica.org/article/the-myth-of-drug-expiration-dates

9 years ago

609 upvotes – 263 comments

Google launches Hire, a new service for helping businesses recruit

https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/18/google-launches-hire-a-new-service-for-helping-businesses-recruit/

9 years ago

529 upvotes – 341 comments

Google relaunches Glass for businesses

https://blog.x.company/a-new-chapter-for-glass-c7875d40bf24?e=f

9 years ago

484 upvotes – 264 comments

Master Card, Cisco, and Scotiabank Join the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance

https://entethalliance.org/enterprise-ethereum-alliance-becomes-worlds-largest-open-source-blockchain-initiative/

9 years ago

448 upvotes – 163 comments

Terminal and shell performance

https://danluu.com/term-latency/

9 years ago

404 upvotes – 204 comments

Show HN: Cinc – GitHub for recipes

https://www.cinc.kitchen

9 years ago

363 upvotes – 152 comments

Build a burner phone with Twilio and Kotlin

https://www.twilio.com/blog/2017/07/building-a-fully-featured-burner-phone-with-kotlin.html

9 years ago

312 upvotes – 117 comments

Transmit 5

https://panic.com/transmit/

9 years ago

306 upvotes – 146 comments

Apollo – An open autonomous driving platform

https://github.com/ApolloAuto/apollo

9 years ago

★ 26.5k C++ Apache-2.0
246 upvotes – 72 comments

The future of deep learning

https://blog.keras.io/the-future-of-deep-learning.html

9 years ago

242 upvotes – 69 comments

Law enforcement took more stuff from people than burglars did last year (2015)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/11/23/cops-took-more-stuff-from-people-than-burglars-did-last-year

9 years ago

235 upvotes – 38 comments

Elevation Control

http://www.redblobgames.com/x/1728-elevation-control/

9 years ago

231 upvotes – 16 comments

How to Get Your First 1,000 Customers

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/how-to-get-your-first-1000-customers/

9 years ago

218 upvotes – 29 comments

Red Programming Language 0.6.3

http://www.red-lang.org/2017/07/063-macos-gui-backend.html

9 years ago

215 upvotes – 54 comments

Multi-Task Learning in Atari Video Games with Emergent Tangled Program Graphs

https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3071303

9 years ago

210 upvotes – 44 comments

Show HN: An API for scraping recipe web pages

http://choppingboard.recipes/

9 years ago

208 upvotes – 105 comments

Project Common Voice

https://voice.mozilla.org/

9 years ago

205 upvotes – 57 comments

Yandex open sources CatBoost, a gradient boosting ML library

https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/18/yandex-open-sources-catboost-a-gradient-boosting-machine-learning-librar/

9 years ago

202 upvotes – 28 comments

Go's work-stealing scheduler

https://rakyll.org/scheduler/

9 years ago

200 upvotes – 69 comments

Building a tiny blockchain

https://medium.com/crypto-currently/lets-build-the-tiniest-blockchain-e70965a248b

9 years ago

187 upvotes – 57 comments

Without Flash the current web tech stack might look different

https://trzeci.eu/thank-you-adobe-marcomedia-for-flash/

9 years ago

184 upvotes – 195 comments

How paywalled sites permit access to visitors from social media sites and apps

https://elaineou.com/2017/01/19/how-the-twitter-app-bypasses-paywalls/

9 years ago

184 upvotes – 94 comments

Android Backdoor GhostCtrl Can Silently Record Your Audio, Video, and More

https://blog.trendmicro.com/trendlabs-security-intelligence/android-backdoor-ghostctrl-can-silently-record-your-audio-video-and-more/

9 years ago

179 upvotes – 64 comments

Robust Adversarial Examples

https://blog.openai.com/robust-adversarial-inputs/

9 years ago

166 upvotes – 47 comments

Fuse

https://www.fusetools.com

9 years ago

163 upvotes – 93 comments

Wall Street Profits by Putting Investors in the Slow Lane

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/18/opinion/wall-street-brokers-rebates-kickbacks.html

9 years ago

160 upvotes – 221 comments

Japan's zero-gravity space drone sends first pictures from ISS

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-40640039

9 years ago

158 upvotes – 81 comments

The Mill CPU Architecture: Switches [video]

http://millcomputing.com/docs/switches

9 years ago

156 upvotes – 73 comments

Eye in the Sky

https://www.1843magazine.com/culture/the-daily/eye-in-the-sky

9 years ago

154 upvotes – 23 comments

A quick guide to Stripe’s culture

https://stripe.com/us/jobs/candidate-info?a=1#culture

9 years ago

146 upvotes – 100 comments

Show HN: Open Source Search Engine to Learn Anything

https://learn-anything.xyz/

9 years ago

145 upvotes – 16 comments

Interpreting neurons in an LSTM network

http://yerevann.github.io/2017/06/27/interpreting-neurons-in-an-LSTM-network/

9 years ago

141 upvotes – 1 comments

Ask HN: When has switching the language/framework made an important difference?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14799998

9 years ago

140 upvotes – 146 comments

Ask HN: Coping with Loneliness

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14800579

9 years ago

138 upvotes – 121 comments

TensorForce: A TensorFlow library for applied reinforcement learning

https://reinforce.io/blog/introduction-to-tensorforce/

9 years ago

136 upvotes – 8 comments

Everyday Life and Fatal Hazard in Sixteenth-Century England

http://tudoraccidents.history.ox.ac.uk/?page_id=177

9 years ago

134 upvotes – 37 comments

The System Bottleneck Shifts to PCI-Express

https://www.nextplatform.com/2017/07/14/system-bottleneck-shifts-pci-express/

9 years ago

131 upvotes – 62 comments

Desktop Metal gets $115M in funding to deliver metal 3D printing

https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/18/desktop-metal-gets-115-million-in-funding-to-deliver-metal-3d-printing-for-manufacturing/?ncid=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29

9 years ago

128 upvotes – 55 comments

LWJGL: Lightweight Java Game Library 3

https://www.lwjgl.org/

9 years ago

122 upvotes – 62 comments

Anyprint: use any language's print statements in Python

https://github.com/kragniz/anyprint

9 years ago

★ 403 Python WTFPL
113 upvotes – 72 comments

Drug Companies and Doctors: A Story of Corruption (2009)

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2009/01/15/drug-companies-doctorsa-story-of-corruption/

9 years ago

111 upvotes – 22 comments

As Workouts Intensify, a Harmful Side Effect Grows More Common

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/17/well/move/as-workouts-intensify-a-harmful-side-effect-grows-more-common.html

9 years ago

110 upvotes – 88 comments

Fastest Way to Delete Large Folders in Windows (2015)

http://mattpilz.com/fastest-way-to-delete-large-folders-windows/

9 years ago

109 upvotes – 107 comments

ITER fusion energy pushed back beyond 2050

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-40558758

9 years ago

106 upvotes – 155 comments

Jeff Sessions Announces Justice Department Will Increase Asset Forfeiture

http://reason.com/blog/2017/07/17/sessions-announces-justice-department-wi

9 years ago

102 upvotes – 88 comments

What is “Open Recursion”?

http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2013/08/26/what-is-open-recursion/

9 years ago

101 upvotes – 58 comments

Back to the Future: Lisp as a Base for a Statistical Computing System [pdf]

https://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/%7Eihaka/downloads/Compstat-2008.pdf

9 years ago

98 upvotes – 39 comments

Rankings of required skills in software development job listings

https://www.latitude.work/trends/july-2017

9 years ago

97 upvotes – 51 comments

Introducing Transfer Appliance: Sneakernet for the cloud era

https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/07/introducing-Transfer-Appliance-Sneakernet-for-the-cloud-era.html

9 years ago

95 upvotes – 47 comments

VFsync – Secure file synchronization system

https://vfsync.org/index.html

9 years ago

93 upvotes – 12 comments

Model F Keyboards project – Bringing back the buckling spring keyboard

http://www.popularmechanics.com/ibm-model-f-keyboard-buckling-spring

9 years ago

89 upvotes – 99 comments

Ask HN: What questions did you ask (or wish you asked) your cofounder?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14797338

9 years ago

88 upvotes – 42 comments

Development on Remix OS and related consumer products is being discontinued

http://www.jide.com/

9 years ago

84 upvotes – 62 comments

Alienation 101: On Chinese Students in the American Midwest

https://www.1843magazine.com/features/alienation-101

9 years ago

83 upvotes – 76 comments

India is rolling out trains with solar-powered coaches

https://qz.com/1030696/india-is-rolling-out-trains-with-solar-powered-coaches-thatll-save-thousands-of-litres-of-diesel/

9 years ago

79 upvotes – 53 comments

Stop writing PHP like it's 2009

https://florianlaplantif.wordpress.com/2017/07/18/stop-writing-php-like-its-2009/

9 years ago

78 upvotes – 102 comments

A Collection of North Korean Stories and the Mystery of Their Origins

http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/a-collection-of-north-korean-stories-and-the-mystery-of-their-origins

9 years ago

74 upvotes – 0 comments

Sensible Defaults

https://www.pgcli.com/sensible-defaults.html

9 years ago

74 upvotes – 27 comments

The New Server Economies of Scale for AMD

https://www.nextplatform.com/2017/07/13/new-server-economies-scale-amd/

9 years ago

72 upvotes – 4 comments

Ask HN: What tools do you use to manage your life?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14799300

9 years ago

72 upvotes – 79 comments

Linkarchiver, a new bot to back up tweeted links

https://parkerhiggins.net/2017/07/linkarchiver-a-new-bot-to-back-up-tweeted-links/

9 years ago

71 upvotes – 6 comments
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