top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-07-20

Scientists Reverse Brain Damage in Drowned Toddler?

http://www.newsweek.com/eden-carlson-brain-damage-reversed-drowning-638628

9 years ago

Ethereum from scratch – Part 1: Ping

https://ocalog.com/post/10/

9 years ago

80-year Harvard study has been showing how to live a healthy and happy life

http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2017/04/over-nearly-80-years-harvard-study-has-been-showing-how-to-live-a-healthy-and-happy-life/

9 years ago

On Password Managers

https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2017/07/16/On-Password-Managers

9 years ago

Ways a VC says no without saying no

https://unsupervisedmethods.com/15-ways-a-venture-capitalist-says-no-68632ba021c3#63748

9 years ago

Things to learn in React before using Redux

https://www.robinwieruch.de/learn-react-before-using-redux/

9 years ago

Announcing Rust 1.19

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2017/07/20/Rust-1.19.html

9 years ago

Say Goodbye to Spain's Three-Hour Lunch Break

https://www.citylab.com/life/2017/07/say-goodbye-to-spains-glorious-three-hour-lunch-break/534120/

9 years ago

Underground Hansa Market taken over and shut down

https://www.politie.nl/en/news/2017/july/20/underground-hansa-market-taken-over-and-shut-down.html

9 years ago

Why isn't everything normally distributed?

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2015/03/09/why-isnt-everything-normally-distributed/

9 years ago

ShareLaTeX Joins Overleaf

https://www.sharelatex.com/blog/2017/07/20/sharelatex-joins-overleaf.html

9 years ago

Hanging S3 downloads

https://www.snellman.net/blog/archive/2017-07-20-s3-mystery/

9 years ago

How an ex-FBI profiler helped put an innocent man behind bars

http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-profiler-wrongful-conviction-20170720-htmlstory.html

9 years ago

How I Tricked Symantec with a Fake Private Key

https://blog.hboeck.de/archives/888-How-I-tricked-Symantec-with-a-Fake-Private-Key.html

9 years ago

TCP BBR congestion control comes to GCP

https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/07/TCP-BBR-congestion-control-comes-to-GCP-your-Internet-just-got-faster.html

9 years ago

How the Web Became Unreadable (2016)

https://www.wired.com/2016/10/how-the-web-became-unreadable/?mbid=social_tw_backchannel

9 years ago

Peek Behind Bret Victor's Lab at YC HARC

https://limn.it/utopian-hacks/?doing_wp_cron=1498868053.3908839225769042968750

9 years ago

Writing code with multiple overlapping side effects with a straight face

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20170719-00/?p=96645

9 years ago

Google to add 'news feed' to website and app

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-40656033

9 years ago

EditorConfig – file format for defining coding styles and text editor plugins

http://editorconfig.org/

9 years ago

Apollo Server 1.0  – GraphQL Server for Node.js Frameworks

https://dev-blog.apollodata.com/apollo-server-1-0-a-graphql-server-for-all-node-js-frameworks-2b37d3342f7c

9 years ago

How Checkers Was Solved

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/07/marion-tinsley-checkers/534111/?single_page=true

9 years ago

Plenty, Indoor Farming Startup, Raises $200M

https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/19/billionaires-make-it-rain-on-plenty-the-indoor-farming-startup/?ncid=rss&utm_source=tcfbpage&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29&utm_content=FaceBook&sr_share=facebook

9 years ago

Hidden dungeons of the London Underground

http://www.michalpaszkiewicz.co.uk/blog/tflhiddendungeons/

9 years ago

Why Cutting Carbs Is So Tough

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/19/well/eat/are-you-a-carboholic-why-cutting-carbs-is-so-tough.html

9 years ago

Elon Musk says he has a green light to build a NY-Philly-Baltimore-DC hyperloop

https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/20/16003766/elon-musk-boring-company-hyperloop-nyc-philadelphia-baltimore-dc

9 years ago

The Rise of Python for Embedded Systems

https://www.zerynth.com/blog/the-rise-of-python-for-embedded-systems/

9 years ago

Front-End Walkthrough: Building a Single Page Application from Scratch

https://blog.poki.com/front-end-walkthrough-building-a-single-page-application-from-scratch-d47c35fdc830

9 years ago

ArangoDB 3.2 GA RocksDB, Pregel, Fault-Tolerant Foxx and Satellite Collections

https://www.arangodb.com/2017/07/arangodb-3-2-rocksdb-pregel-fault-tolerant-foxx-satellite-collections/

9 years ago

Introducing Bluetooth Mesh Networking

https://blog.bluetooth.com/introducing-bluetooth-mesh-networking

9 years ago

NIST Random Beacon

https://www.nist.gov/programs-projects/nist-randomness-beacon

9 years ago

The rise of passive investors

https://theconversation.com/these-three-firms-own-corporate-america-77072

9 years ago

The Company Isn't a Family

https://m.signalvnoise.com/the-company-isnt-a-family-d24f26c3f3fe

9 years ago

The best defense against malicious AI is AI

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/608288/ai-fight-club-could-help-save-us-from-a-future-of-super-smart-cyberattacks/

9 years ago

Cosette: An Automated SQL Solver

http://cosette.cs.washington.edu/

9 years ago

On Being a Science Writer and Managing a Mental Illness

http://www.theopennotebook.com/2017/07/18/on-being-a-science-writer-and-managing-a-mental-illness/

9 years ago

AlphaBay, the Largest Online 'Dark Market,' Shut Down

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/alphabay-largest-online-dark-market-shut-down

9 years ago

Growth Guide: How to Set Up, Staff and Scale a Growth Program

https://blog.ycombinator.com/growth-guide2017/

9 years ago

Daydream Labs: Teaching Skills in VR

https://www.blog.google/products/google-vr/daydream-labs-teaching-skills-vr/

9 years ago

Anomaly Detection of Time Series Data Using Machine Learning and Deep Learning

https://www.xenonstack.com/blog/anomaly-detection-of-time-series-data-using-machine-learning-deep-learning

9 years ago

The long-term cost of sexual harassment

https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/20/the-long-term-cost-of-sexual-harassment/

9 years ago

New homes will now require solar panels in South Miami

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/south-miami/article162307863.html

9 years ago

Motion Stills – Now on Android

https://research.googleblog.com/2017/07/motion-stills-now-on-android.html

9 years ago

Bitcoin Transaction Malleability

https://eklitzke.org/bitcoin-transaction-malleability

9 years ago

A Baltimore police officer accidentally recorded himself planting drugs

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/7/19/15999806/baltimore-police-body-camera

9 years ago

Dreaming of prime numbers in short intervals

https://www.quantamagazine.org/kaisa-matomaki-dreams-of-primes-20170720/

9 years ago

A Prisoner’s Only Writing Machine

http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/how-one-of-the-last-american-typewriter-companies-survives

9 years ago

Show HN: Elixir Tab – Little bit of Elixir in every new tab

https://github.com/efexen/elixir-tab

9 years ago

★ 106 JavaScript MIT

Consumer expenditure survey illustrating the income divide

http://erikrood.com/Posts/consumer_expenditures.html

9 years ago

Quantum Computing Explained Simply

http://www.searchtrack.co/guide/485/quantum-computing-explained-for-beginners---part-1

9 years ago

Intel shuts down group working on wearables and fitness trackers

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/07/intel-shuts-down-group-working-on-wearables-and-fitness-trackers/

9 years ago

Lifestyle changes can reduce dementia risk, study says

http://www.bbc.com/news/health-40655566

9 years ago

Bitcoin swings as civil war looms

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-40654194

9 years ago

I am the fifth dimension

https://www.lrb.co.uk/v39/n15/bee-wilson/i-am-the-fifth-dimension

9 years ago

The Metaphysics of the Hangover

http://iasc-culture.org/THR/THR_article_2017_Summer_Edmundson.php

9 years ago

Ask HN: How to tell someone they are not doing well at work?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14812089

9 years ago

We can weaponize fiction, but how do we monetize truth?

https://modernmythology.net/we-can-weaponize-fiction-but-how-do-we-monetize-truth-ef9ffb52299e

9 years ago