top 50% 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

In Conversation: Trent Reznor

http://www.vulture.com/2017/07/trent-reznor-nine-inch-nails.html

8 years ago

175 upvotes – 28 comments

ZFS on Linux v0.7.0 released

http://list.zfsonlinux.org/pipermail/zfs-announce/2017-July/000015.html

8 years ago

174 upvotes – 88 comments

I’ve Had a Cyberstalker Since I Was 12 (2016)

https://www.wired.com/2016/02/ive-had-a-cyberstalker-since-i-was-12/?mbid=social_tw_backchannel

8 years ago

171 upvotes – 103 comments

Bitcoin Cash: Why It's Forking the Blockchain and What That Means

https://www.coindesk.com/coindesk-explainer-bitcoin-cash-forking-blockchain/

8 years ago

170 upvotes – 157 comments

A survey of BSD kernel vulnerabilities [pdf]

https://media.defcon.org/DEF%20CON%2025/DEF%20CON%2025%20presentations/DEFCON-25-Ilja-van-Sprundel-BSD-Kern-Vulns.pdf

8 years ago

169 upvotes – 47 comments

Twitter Fails to Grow Its Audience Again

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-27/twitter-s-revenue-tops-estimates-monthly-user-growth-evaporates

8 years ago

169 upvotes – 219 comments

Facebook with Adblocker makes 2000+ requests

https://twitter.com/ArentWyatt/status/890584334620545024

8 years ago

169 upvotes – 70 comments

Slack Is Raising $250M from SoftBank, Others

https://www.bloomberg.com//news/articles/2017-07-26/slack-is-raising-250-million-from-softbank-others

8 years ago

159 upvotes – 154 comments

AMD Ryzen 3 1300X and Ryzen 3 1200 CPU Review

http://www.anandtech.com/show/11658/the-amd-ryzen-3-1300x-ryzen-3-1200-cpu-review

8 years ago

154 upvotes – 88 comments

What is Windows doing while hogging that lock?

https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2017/07/27/what-is-windows-doing-while-hogging-that-lock/

8 years ago

154 upvotes – 33 comments

Porting a historic Python2 module to Python3

http://lucasg.github.io/2017/07/21/Porting-an-historic-Python2-module-into-Python3/

8 years ago

153 upvotes – 114 comments

Show HN: Nuclino – A unified real-time workspace for teams

https://www.nuclino.com/

8 years ago

133 upvotes – 84 comments

JavaScript Fatigue: Realities of Our Industry

http://lucasfcosta.com/2017/07/17/The-Ultimate-Guide-to-JavaScript-Fatigue.html

8 years ago

132 upvotes – 101 comments

GPL Violations Related to Combining ZFS and Linux (2016)

https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2016/feb/25/zfs-and-linux/

8 years ago

131 upvotes – 94 comments

Map of coins

http://mapofcoins.com/bitcoin

8 years ago

129 upvotes – 31 comments

Project Snowflake: Non-blocking safe manual memory management in .NET

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/project-snowflake-non-blocking-safe-manual-memory-management-net/#

8 years ago

126 upvotes – 22 comments

Show HN: A 2D Physics Simulator in JavaScript

http://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://github.com/aguaviva/Physics/blob/master/RigidBodyChainVSstack.html

8 years ago

126 upvotes – 62 comments

A WWII Vet Was Docked Pay for Escaping His German Captors

http://taskandpurpose.com/andy-ramotnik-docked-pay-for-escaping-german-captors-wwii/

8 years ago

125 upvotes – 62 comments

Ruby on Rails is out: major coding bootcamp ditches it, due to waning interest

https://thenextweb.com/dd/2017/07/26/ruby-rails-major-coding-bootcamp-ditches-due-waning-interest/

8 years ago

125 upvotes – 125 comments

Hill for the data scientist: an xkcd story

http://livefreeordichotomize.com/2016/12/15/hill-for-the-data-scientist-an-xkcd-story/

8 years ago

122 upvotes – 11 comments

What are potential disadvantages of functional programming?

https://www.reddit.com/r/compsci/comments/6pnq7e/what_are_potential_disadvantages_of_functional/

8 years ago

119 upvotes – 127 comments

Ask HN: What language/framework do you plan to use in your next project?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14864389

8 years ago

119 upvotes – 257 comments

China Is Engineering Genius Babies (2013)

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/5gw8vn/chinas-taking-over-the-world-with-a-massive-genetic-engineering-program

8 years ago

116 upvotes – 135 comments

Birkenstock CEO accuses Amazon of ‘modern-day piracy’

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/birkenstock-ceo-accuses-amazon-of-modern-day-piracy/2017/07/25/24fa7644-7086-11e7-8f39-eeb7d3a2d304_story.html?utm_term=.40914f0db30c

8 years ago

113 upvotes – 139 comments

AWS is having widespread issues

https://twitter.com/chafikhnini/status/890574129426026497

8 years ago

111 upvotes – 64 comments

In the Face of Constant Censorship, Bulgakov Kept Writing

http://lithub.com/in-the-face-of-constant-censorship-bulgakov-kept-writing/

8 years ago

107 upvotes – 55 comments

Google Home Is 6 Times More Likely to Answer Your Question Than Amazon Alexa

http://www.adweek.com/digital/google-home-is-6-times-more-likely-to-answer-your-question-than-amazon-alexa/

8 years ago

106 upvotes – 48 comments

Forgotten Religions That Worshipped Electricity

http://www.ozy.com/flashback/the-forgotten-religions-that-worshipped-electricity/79554

8 years ago

103 upvotes – 47 comments

College students lost access to legal pot and started getting better grades

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/07/25/these-college-students-lost-access-to-legal-pot-and-started-getting-better-grades/

8 years ago

95 upvotes – 117 comments

ZeppelinOS: tools for smart contract applications

https://blog.zeppelin.solutions/introducing-zeppelinos-the-operating-system-for-smart-contract-applications-82b042514aa8

8 years ago

93 upvotes – 36 comments

Ask HN: What are the 5 websites you visit almost daily?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14869932

8 years ago

92 upvotes – 92 comments

The Deal That Jeff Bezos Got on Basecamp

https://m.signalvnoise.com/the-deal-jeff-bezos-got-on-basecamp-b7a1cb39179e

8 years ago

89 upvotes – 16 comments

Adventures in Outsourcing: Cooking with TaskRabbit

https://mtlynch.io/taskrabbit-cooking/

8 years ago

86 upvotes – 62 comments

The Hijacking of the Brillante Virtuoso

https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2017-hijacking-of-brillante-virtuoso/

8 years ago

85 upvotes – 12 comments

A Drone Company That Fell to Earth

https://www.wired.com/story/the-drone-company-that-fell-to-earth/

8 years ago

84 upvotes – 35 comments

State of Elm 2017 Results

https://www.brianthicks.com/post/2017/07/27/state-of-elm-2017-results/

8 years ago

83 upvotes – 73 comments

Ether Tokens Are Likely Securities (2016)

http://decentralizedlegal.com/ether-is-a-security/

8 years ago

83 upvotes – 62 comments
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