top 20 hacker news stories for 2017-07-21

The New Firefox and Ridiculous Numbers of Tabs

https://metafluff.com/2017/07/21/i-am-a-tab-hoarder/

8 years ago

984 upvotes – 537 comments

A hacker stole $31M of Ether – how it happened, and what it means for Ethereum

https://medium.freecodecamp.org/a-hacker-stole-31m-of-ether-how-it-happened-and-what-it-means-for-ethereum-9e5dc29e33ce

8 years ago

520 upvotes – 414 comments

Show HN: $200 Solar Self-Sufficiency  Without Your Landlord Noticing

https://medium.com/@nikodunk/200-for-a-green-diy-self-sufficient-bedroom-that-your-landlord-wont-hate-b3b4cdcfb4f4

8 years ago

491 upvotes – 182 comments

Pass: A standard Unix password manager

https://www.passwordstore.org/

8 years ago

406 upvotes – 199 comments

Claude Shannon: How a Genius Thinks, Works, and Lives

https://medium.com/the-mission/10-000-hours-with-claude-shannon-12-lessons-on-life-and-learning-from-a-genius-e8b9297bee8f

8 years ago

362 upvotes – 100 comments

Monospaced Programming Fonts with Ligatures

https://www.hanselman.com/blog/MonospacedProgrammingFontsWithLigatures.aspx

8 years ago

359 upvotes – 233 comments

Emacs and Magit

https://lwn.net/Articles/727550/

8 years ago

274 upvotes – 174 comments

The Decline of Investment in San Francisco Startups

http://tomtunguz.com/sf-boom-over/

8 years ago

255 upvotes – 392 comments

Hedge Fund Uses Algae to Reap 21% Return

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-20/hedge-fund-quant-posting-21-return-says-biology-is-secret-sauce

8 years ago

211 upvotes – 117 comments

Show HN: Mesh IDE – a code editor that feels like a spreadsheet

https://github.com/chrispsn/mesh

8 years ago

★ 1.5kJavaScriptApache-2.0
199 upvotes – 30 comments

The non-linearity of productivity

http://blog.kenperlin.com/?p=18993

8 years ago

192 upvotes – 76 comments

How Did Anyone Do Math in Roman Numerals?

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/columns/straight-dope/article/20854121/how-did-anyone-do-math-in-roman-numerals

8 years ago

188 upvotes – 149 comments

Ask HN: Ubuntu Desktop Default Apps

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14819508

8 years ago

188 upvotes – 243 comments

gRPC in Production

https://about.sourcegraph.com/go/grpc-in-production-alan-shreve

8 years ago

186 upvotes – 56 comments

Extreme Commuting

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/21/realestate/extreme-commuting.html

8 years ago

183 upvotes – 297 comments

Pascal at Apple

http://blog.fogus.me/2017/07/20/pascal-at-apple/

8 years ago

181 upvotes – 140 comments

As California’s labor shortage grows, farmers replace workers with robots

http://www.latimes.com/projects/la-fi-farm-mechanization/?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark

8 years ago

181 upvotes – 165 comments

“We currently have no plans to support Xwayland”

https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/925605/linux/nvidia-364-12-release-vulkan-glvnd-drm-kms-and-eglstreams/post/5188874/#5188874

8 years ago

181 upvotes – 307 comments

Y Combinator raising $1B for new fund

https://www.axios.com/y-combinator-raising-1-billion-for-new-fund-2462693141.html

8 years ago

156 upvotes – 49 comments

What's so hard about histograms?

https://tinlizzie.org/histograms/

8 years ago

152 upvotes – 18 comments
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