top 20 hacker news stories for 2017-07-27

Sci-Hub’s cache of pirated papers is so big, subscription journals are doomed

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/07/sci-hub-s-cache-pirated-papers-so-big-subscription-journals-are-doomed-data-analyst

8 years ago

632 upvotes – 241 comments

Show HN: The JavaScript Way, a book for learning modern JavaScript from scratch

https://github.com/bpesquet/thejsway/#

8 years ago

★ 7.8kCSS
545 upvotes – 110 comments

Ravens OL John Urschel, 26, retires abruptly, two days after CTE study

http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/20170808

8 years ago

487 upvotes – 336 comments

How Chrome OS, Termux, YubiKey and Duo Mobile make for great usable security

https://blog.lessonslearned.org/building-a-more-secure-development-chromebook/

8 years ago

468 upvotes – 171 comments

Jeff Bezos Surpasses Bill Gates as World's Richest Person

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-27/bezos-surpasses-gates-as-world-s-richest-ahead-of-amazon-results

8 years ago

462 upvotes – 406 comments

BTC-e and its founder charged in 21-count indictment over hack of Mt. Gox

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/russian-national-and-bitcoin-exchange-charged-21-count-indictment-operating-alleged

8 years ago

458 upvotes – 243 comments

The Evolution of Trust

http://ncase.me/trust/

8 years ago

440 upvotes – 73 comments

Amazon Hub

https://thehub.amazon.com/

8 years ago

431 upvotes – 332 comments

Apple’s refusal to support Progressive Web Apps is a detriment to the web

https://medium.com/philly-dev-shop/apples-refusal-to-support-progressive-web-apps-is-a-serious-detriment-to-future-of-the-web-e81b2be29676

8 years ago

370 upvotes – 443 comments

Successful Solo Founders

https://medium.com/@haftrm/successful-solo-founders-5c7f60ef6a0e

8 years ago

302 upvotes – 60 comments

Where’s all my CPU and memory gone? The answer: Slack

https://medium.com/@matt.at.ably/wheres-all-my-cpu-and-memory-gone-the-answer-slack-9e5c39207cab

8 years ago

275 upvotes – 277 comments

Age of Empires: Definitive Edition Beta

https://www.ageofempires.com/games/aoe/

8 years ago

247 upvotes – 124 comments

Show HN: Hacking an ultrasound probe with a Raspberry Pi and low-cost hardware

https://kelu124.gitbooks.io/echomods/content/RPI.html

8 years ago

227 upvotes – 31 comments

Ghost 1.0

https://blog.ghost.org/1-0/

8 years ago

226 upvotes – 94 comments

Tech is the best industry for women

https://medium.com/@lilychendances/tech-is-the-best-industry-for-women-f15a95a84d6f

8 years ago

218 upvotes – 173 comments

Kerbal Space Oddities

https://aphyr.com/posts/345-kerbal-space-oddities

8 years ago

208 upvotes – 89 comments

High refined sugar intake linked to a 23% higher risk of mental disorders

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0717/27072017_sugar_mental

8 years ago

203 upvotes – 72 comments

Launch HN: Sunu (YC S17) – Sonar wristband helping blind people navigate

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14867312

8 years ago

199 upvotes – 74 comments

OpenBSD switches the default compiler on amd64 and i386 to clang

http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=150109829003860&w=2

8 years ago

195 upvotes – 97 comments

I Almost Left Tech Today

https://code.likeagirl.io/i-almost-left-tech-today-heres-why-6d146a2f7cf2

8 years ago

177 upvotes – 188 comments
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