top 50% 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

“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

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

Pascal at Apple

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

8 years ago

181 upvotes – 140 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

Show HN: End-to-end deep learning experimentation platform for Tensorflow

https://github.com/polyaxon/polyaxon/

8 years ago

★ 3.7kApache-2.0
151 upvotes – 21 comments

A Unified Theory of Garbage Collection (2004) [pdf]

http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~cs415/reading/bacon-garbage.pdf

8 years ago

151 upvotes – 22 comments

The Rise of Pirate Libraries (2016)

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-rise-of-illegal-pirate-libraries

8 years ago

143 upvotes – 64 comments

Teaching Robots to Understand Semantic Concepts

https://research.googleblog.com/2017/07/teaching-robots-to-understand-semantic.html

8 years ago

137 upvotes – 14 comments

Coq-based synthesis of Scala programs which are correct-by-construction [pdf]

https://cedric.cnam.fr/fichiers/art_4027.pdf

8 years ago

134 upvotes – 25 comments

Judge Rules Milwaukee Flouted U.S. Constitution in Response to Pokemon Go Craze

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/judge-rules-milwaukee-wisconsin-flouted-us-constitution-response-pokemon-go-craze-1023069

8 years ago

131 upvotes – 74 comments

A Student's Guide to Preparing for Data Science Interviews

http://www.acheronanalytics.com/acheron-blog/how-to-prepare-for-a-data-science-interview

8 years ago

129 upvotes – 59 comments

Iron Yard code school to close all campuses

http://blog.theironyard.com/2017/07/20/message-iron-yard/

8 years ago

127 upvotes – 124 comments

Abuses Hide in the Silence of Nondisparagement Agreements

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/21/technology/silicon-valley-sexual-harassment-non-disparagement-agreements.html

8 years ago

121 upvotes – 61 comments

The DAO, the Hack, the Soft Fork and the Hard Fork

https://www.cryptocompare.com/coins/guides/the-dao-the-hack-the-soft-fork-and-the-hard-fork/

8 years ago

114 upvotes – 106 comments

Paying people to preserve forests seems to work

https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/07/paying-people-to-preserve-forests-really-seems-to-work/

8 years ago

112 upvotes – 36 comments

Pure Go implementation of the NaCL set of APIs

https://github.com/kevinburke/nacl?hn

8 years ago

★ 552GoBSD-3-Clause
108 upvotes – 19 comments

Show HN: DeepForge – A Modern Development Environment for Deep Learning

http://deepforge.org/

8 years ago

108 upvotes – 11 comments

A Rare-Book Thief Who Looted College Libraries in the ’80s

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/james-shinn-book-thief

8 years ago

107 upvotes – 26 comments

ARKit + CoreLocation [video]

https://twitter.com/AndrewProjDent/status/886916872683343872

8 years ago

101 upvotes – 41 comments

$100k donation to the Internet Bug Bounty

https://github.com/blog/2403-helping-secure-foss-and-the-internet-our-100-000-donation-to-the-internet-bug-bounty

8 years ago

99 upvotes – 11 comments

Finding the Energy to Work on Your Side Hustle

https://www.startups.co/articles/finding-the-energy-to-work-on-your-sidehustle?ref=quuu&utm_content=buffer98172&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

8 years ago

95 upvotes – 23 comments

Bitcoin May Have Solved Its Scaling Problem

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/d3893y/bitcoin-may-have-just-solved-its-scaling-problem

8 years ago

94 upvotes – 93 comments

Parity's Wallet Bug Is Not Alone

http://hackingdistributed.com/2017/07/20/parity-wallet-not-alone/

8 years ago

91 upvotes – 18 comments

Buried tools and pigments tell a history of humans in Australia for 65,000 years

https://theconversation.com/buried-tools-and-pigments-tell-a-new-history-of-humans-in-australia-for-65-000-years-81021

8 years ago

91 upvotes – 50 comments

Training a neural net to generate British placenames

https://medium.com/@hondanhon/i-trained-a-neural-net-to-generate-british-placenames-9460e907e4e9

8 years ago

90 upvotes – 42 comments

Dropbox CTO Aditya Agarwal Is Leaving

https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/21/dropbox-cto-aditya-agarwal-is-leaving/

8 years ago

86 upvotes – 21 comments

Making Music and Art Through Machine Learning

https://blog.ycombinator.com/making-music-and-art-through-machine-learning-doug-eck-of-magenta/

8 years ago

86 upvotes – 43 comments

NASA Uploads Hundreds of Rare Aircraft Films to YouTube

http://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/nasa-uploads-hundreds-of-rare-aircraft-films-to-youtube-1797119276?utm_campaign=socialflow_gizmodo_twitter&utm_source=gizmodo_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow

8 years ago

79 upvotes – 3 comments

SaaS, PaaS and IaaS explained in one graphic

https://m.oursky.com/saas-paas-and-iaas-explained-in-one-graphic-d56c3e6f4606

8 years ago

78 upvotes – 21 comments

NTLM Hash Leaks: Ancient Microsoft Design Flaw

https://dylankatz.com/NTLM-Hashes-Microsoft%27s-Ancient-Design-Flaw/

8 years ago

78 upvotes – 22 comments
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