top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-07-25

“We will stop updating and distributing the Flash Player at the end of 2020”

https://blogs.adobe.com/conversations/2017/07/adobe-flash-update.html

9 years ago

How Fear and Outrage Are Sold for Profit

https://medium.com/the-mission/the-enemy-in-our-feeds-e86511488de

9 years ago

Here be dragons: the same 3D scene implemented with 10 different 3D APIs

https://github.com/kosua20/herebedragons

9 years ago

★ 1.8k C MIT

Elixir 1.5 released

https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/releases/tag/v1.5.0

9 years ago

★ 26.3k Elixir Apache-2.0

MS Paint is here to stay

https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2017/07/24/ms-paint-stay/

9 years ago

SEC Issues Report Concluding DAO Tokens, a Digital Asset, Were Securities

https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2017-131

9 years ago

Social Media Is the New Smoking

https://theroamingmind.com/2017/03/06/social-media-is-the-new-smoking/

9 years ago

Flash will be EOL by 2020

https://blogs.adobe.com/conversations/2017/07/adobe-flash-update.html

9 years ago

Amazon raised Prime Day prices, misleading consumers, says vendor

http://www.foxbusiness.com/features/2017/07/24/amazon-jacked-up-prime-day-prices-misleading-consumers-says-vendor.html

9 years ago

Ten Years of Worthless Side Projects

https://medium.com/@LastZactionHero/ten-years-of-worthless-side-projects-f44aa9edb028

9 years ago

Stylo shipping in Firefox Nightly

https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/6p9t83/psa_you_can_try_out_stylo_in_firefox_nightly_now/

9 years ago

The End of Arduino 101: Intel Leaves Maker Market

http://hackaday.com/2017/07/25/the-end-of-arduino-101-intel-leaves-maker-market/

9 years ago

Pseudo-public space in London

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/jul/24/revealed-pseudo-public-space-pops-london-investigation-map

9 years ago

Snowman: native code to C/C++ decompiler

https://derevenets.com/

9 years ago

Firefox’s speed with large numbers of tabs leaves Chrome in the dust

http://www.techradar.com/news/firefoxs-blazing-speed-with-huge-numbers-of-tabs-leaves-chrome-in-the-dust

9 years ago

The Acceleration of Addictiveness (2010)

http://www.paulgraham.com/addiction.html

9 years ago

Linux Graphics Demystified (2014) [pdf]

https://keyj.emphy.de/files/linuxgraphics_en.pdf

9 years ago

Show HN: AI Grant – Non-profit, distributed AI research lab

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14851806

9 years ago

110 N.F.L. Brains

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/07/25/sports/football/nfl-cte.html

9 years ago

Girl Scouts Embraces STEM and Adds New Badges

http://www.girlscouts.org/en/about-girl-scouts/girl-scouts-and-stem.html

9 years ago

Convoy raises $62M from Bill Gates and other luminaries to transform trucking

https://www.geekwire.com/2017/convoy-raises-62m-bill-gates-luminaries-transform-trucking-industry-technology/

9 years ago

Hacker Steals $8.4M Worth of Ethereum from Veritaseum Platform

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hacker-steals-8-4-million-worth-of-ethereum-from-veritaseum-platform/

9 years ago

Deep Learning for NLP Best Practices

http://ruder.io/deep-learning-nlp-best-practices/

9 years ago

How to create a private Ethereum network

https://omarmetwally.wordpress.com/2017/07/25/how-to-create-a-private-ethereum-network/

9 years ago

How Microsoft brought SQL Server to Linux

https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/17/how-microsoft-brought-sql-server-to-linux/

9 years ago

Buying time promotes happiness

http://pnas.org/content/early/2017/07/18/1706541114.full

9 years ago

Psychology of Intelligence Analysis (1999)

https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/books-and-monographs/psychology-of-intelligence-analysis/

9 years ago

Sweden Leaks the Personal Information of Millions of Its Own Citizens

http://gizmodo.com/sweden-leaks-the-personal-information-of-millions-of-it-1797208092

9 years ago

42% of California’s STEM Workforce Hails from Outside the U.S

http://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/at-work/tech-careers/fortytwo-percent-of-californias-stem-workforce-hails-from-outside-the-us

9 years ago

Show HN: Dharma – Programmable Peer-To-Peer Loans Using Ethereum Smart Contracts

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14850259

9 years ago

Fastnetmon DDoS analyzer now available as an official Debian package

https://packages.debian.org/sid/fastnetmon

9 years ago

SQL on Ethereum Blockchain with Presto

https://github.com/xiaoyao1991/presto-ethereum

9 years ago

★ 472 Java Apache-2.0

How to Make a Wireless Sensor Live for a Year on One Tiny Coin Cell Battery

http://www.thingsquare.com/blog/articles/sensortag-power/

9 years ago

Trust Issues: Exploiting TrustZone TEEs

https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2017/07/trust-issues-exploiting-trustzone-tees.html

9 years ago

Lessons Learned from Benchmarking Fast Machine Learning Algorithms

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/machinelearning/2017/07/25/lessons-learned-benchmarking-fast-machine-learning-algorithms/

9 years ago

A Guide to Synthesizing Adversarial Examples

http://www.anishathalye.com/2017/07/25/synthesizing-adversarial-examples/

9 years ago

Deep Learning in Robotics: A Review of Recent Research

https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.07217

9 years ago

U.S. Defense Budget May Help Fund “Hacking for Defense” Classes at Universities

http://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/at-work/education/us-defense-budget-may-help-fund-university-hacking-for-defense-classes

9 years ago

How Kids See the World Depends a Lot on Genetics

https://directorsblog.nih.gov/2017/07/25/how-kids-see-the-world-depends-a-lot-on-genetics/

9 years ago

Elon Musk’s Tunnel Plan Isn’t as Crazy as SpaceX or Tesla

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-24/elon-musk-s-tunnel-plan-isn-t-as-crazy-as-spacex-or-tesla

9 years ago

Show HN: Online family tree maker built with React

http://plantafamilytree.com/

9 years ago

Building lattice reduction (LLL) intuition

https://kel.bz/post/lll/

9 years ago

Schleuder: A GPG-enabled mailinglist with remailing-capabilities

https://schleuder.nadir.org/

9 years ago