top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-07-28

Sandsifter: find undocumented instructions and bugs on x86 CPU

https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/sandsifter

9 years ago

★ 5k Python BSD-3-Clause
447 upvotes – 91 comments

Phoenix 1.3.0 Released

http://phoenixframework.org/blog/phoenix-1-3-0-released

9 years ago

437 upvotes – 138 comments

SpaceX Is Now One of the World’s Most Valuable Privately Held Companies

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/27/technology/spacex-is-now-one-of-the-worlds-most-valuable-privately-held-companies.html

9 years ago

423 upvotes – 294 comments

GNU Ring 1.0 released

https://ring.cx/en/news

9 years ago

421 upvotes – 187 comments

14 Years After Decriminalizing Drugs, Portugal’s Bold Risk Paid Off

https://mic.com/articles/120403/14-years-after-decriminalizing-drugs-one-chart-shows-why-portugal-s-experiment-has-worked

9 years ago

416 upvotes – 127 comments

A practical explanation of a Naive Bayes classifier

https://monkeylearn.com/blog/practical-explanation-naive-bayes-classifier/

9 years ago

350 upvotes – 41 comments

Bollinger B1: An electric truck with 360HP and up to 200 mile range

https://www.theverge.com/transportation/2017/7/27/16052118/bollinger-b1-electric-sport-truck-outdoors

9 years ago

315 upvotes – 274 comments

Wasabi – Simple storage solution

https://wasabi.com/product

9 years ago

311 upvotes – 155 comments

How I tried to get into game development and failed

http://enterprisecraftsmanship.com/2017/07/17/a-story-about-how-i-tried-to-get-into-game-development-and-failed/

9 years ago

295 upvotes – 168 comments

Higher-paid, faster-growing tech jobs are concentrating in 8 US hubs

http://www.hiringlab.org/2017/07/25/next-silicon-valley/

9 years ago

288 upvotes – 269 comments

Ask HN: How do you start giving tech talks?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14873503

9 years ago

222 upvotes – 89 comments

Is Amazon getting too big?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/is-amazon-getting-too-big/2017/07/28/ff38b9ca-722e-11e7-9eac-d56bd5568db8_story.html

9 years ago

212 upvotes – 197 comments

Windows Subsystem for Linux is out of beta

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/2017/07/28/windows-subsystem-for-linux-out-of-beta/

9 years ago

203 upvotes – 217 comments

Cicada: A Distributed Direct Democracy and Decentralized Application Platform

https://github.com/the-laughing-monkey/cicada-platform

9 years ago

★ 761
190 upvotes – 134 comments

LibreOffice 5.4 released with new features for Writer, Calc and Impress

https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2017/07/28/libreoffice-5-4/

9 years ago

178 upvotes – 63 comments

Thoughts on OpenAI, reinforcement learning, and killer robots

http://www.fast.ai/2017/07/28/killer-robots/

9 years ago

174 upvotes – 195 comments

I’ve supported myself for the past decade with my side project

https://www.indiehackers.com/@yvo/how-ive-lived-the-4-hour-work-week-for-a-decade

9 years ago

173 upvotes – 79 comments

Python Entry Points Explained

http://amir.rachum.com/blog/2017/07/28/python-entry-points/

9 years ago

167 upvotes – 13 comments

Ivy: a minimalist static site generator in Python

https://github.com/dmulholland/ivy

9 years ago

164 upvotes – 55 comments

Flush times for hackers in booming cyber security job market

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-cyber-conference-business-idUSKBN1AD001

9 years ago

162 upvotes – 71 comments

Scala 2.12.3 Released

https://github.com/scala/scala/releases/tag/v2.12.3

9 years ago

★ 14.4k Scala Apache-2.0
153 upvotes – 39 comments

CEO says iRobot will never sell your data

http://www.zdnet.com/article/exclusive-roomba-ceo-responds-to-spying-story/

9 years ago

152 upvotes – 136 comments

WebGL Insights book

http://webglinsights.com/?

9 years ago

146 upvotes – 8 comments

Update for customers with Bitcoin stored on Coinbase

https://blog.coinbase.com/update-for-customers-with-bitcoin-stored-on-coinbase-99e2d4790a53

9 years ago

142 upvotes – 108 comments

Metaclasses: Thoughts on generative C++

https://herbsutter.com/2017/07/26/metaclasses-thoughts-on-generative-c/

9 years ago

134 upvotes – 115 comments

Travel the path of the solar eclipse

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/mapping-the-2017-eclipse/

9 years ago

133 upvotes – 71 comments

Illegal and undocumented instructions found in every major vendor CPU

http://blog.koehntopp.info/index.php/2282-illegal-and-undocumented-instructions/

9 years ago

130 upvotes – 26 comments

Summers Are Getting Hotter

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/07/28/climate/100000005316272.mobile.html

9 years ago

124 upvotes – 127 comments

Redfin shares surge more than 30% in $138.5M real estate tech IPO

http://www.cnbc.com/2017/07/28/redfin-ipo-rdfn-stock-opening-trade.html

9 years ago

123 upvotes – 68 comments

Dear Floyd Mayweather, you’re why the SEC exists

https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/28/dear-floyd-mayweather-youre-why-the-sec-exists

9 years ago

121 upvotes – 78 comments

AMD Threadripper Delidded, with a Multi-Core Surprise Under the Hood

https://www.extremetech.com/computing/253248-amd-threadripper-delidded-multi-core-surprise-hood

9 years ago

119 upvotes – 53 comments

Chromium Windows builds now use Clang by default

https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/chromium-dev/Y3OEIKkdlu0

9 years ago

118 upvotes – 58 comments

Why we should learn German

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2017/jul/02/why-we-should-learn-german-john-le-carre

9 years ago

116 upvotes – 92 comments

Apple to discontinue iPod Nano and Shuffle

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/40749706/apple-to-discontinue-ipod-nano-and-shuffle

9 years ago

111 upvotes – 158 comments

A Closer Look at Swift Playgrounds for iPad

http://jordansmith.io/everyone-can-code/

9 years ago

104 upvotes – 48 comments

Inside Andy Rubin's Quest to Create an OS for Everything

https://www.wired.com/story/inside-andy-rubins-quest-to-create-an-os-for-everything/

9 years ago

103 upvotes – 92 comments

Intro to Graph APIs

https://zapier.com/engineering/graph-apis/

9 years ago

91 upvotes – 25 comments

Laurene Powell Jobs’s Organization to Take Majority Stake in The Atlantic

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/28/business/media/atlantic-media-emerson-collective-majority-stake.html?module=WatchingPortal&region=c-column-middle-span-region&pgType=Homepage&action=click&mediaId=thumb_square&state=standard&contentPlacement=7&version=internal&contentCollection=www.nytimes.com&contentId=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2017%2F07%2F28%2Fbusiness%2Fmedia%2Fatlantic-media-emerson-collective-majority-stake.html

9 years ago

91 upvotes – 37 comments

Realmode Assembly – Hello World Bootloader

https://0x00sec.org/t/realmode-assembly-writing-bootable-stuff-part-2/2992

9 years ago

89 upvotes – 11 comments

Wasabi Fire Alarm Alerts the Deaf with the Power of Scent

http://inventorspot.com/articles/wasabi_silent_fire_alarm_alerts__11514

9 years ago

88 upvotes – 47 comments

Peachpie – Open Source PHP Compiler to .NET and WordPress under ASP.NET Core

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

9 years ago

86 upvotes – 35 comments

Augur REP Token Critical Vulnerability Disclosure

https://blog.zeppelin.solutions/augur-rep-token-critical-vulnerability-disclosure-3d8bdffd79d2

9 years ago

84 upvotes – 20 comments

Vice: Go channels across many machines

https://medium.com/@matryer/introducing-vice-go-channels-across-many-machines-bcac1147d7e2

9 years ago

82 upvotes – 14 comments

Learning Machine Learning from 187 Quora Questions

https://unsupervisedmethods.com/learning-machine-learning-and-nlp-from-185-quora-questions-cebe42e47da8#fklj4

9 years ago

81 upvotes – 3 comments

How to Tell the Truth

https://a16z.com/2017/07/27/how-to-tell-the-truth/

9 years ago

80 upvotes – 62 comments

AltspaceVR is Closing Down

https://vrscout.com/news/altspacevr-is-closing-down/

9 years ago

80 upvotes – 27 comments

The Masochist’s Marathon

http://www.esquire.com/lifestyle/health/a55986/barkley-marathons/

9 years ago

80 upvotes – 20 comments

Samsung ends Intel's 2-decade-plus reign in microchips

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AS_SAMSUNG_INTEL?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2017-07-27-21-04-50

9 years ago

75 upvotes – 45 comments

Bitcoin Cash and a Critical Alert for Bitcoin Margin Traders

http://blog.kraken.com/post/1150/bitcoin-cash-and-a-critical-alert-for-bitcoin-margin-traders/

9 years ago

71 upvotes – 29 comments

Staedtler and Faber-Castell's productive pencil rivalry (2011)

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-13019777

9 years ago

71 upvotes – 11 comments
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