top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-07-29

Apple Removes Apps from China Store That Help Internet Users Evade Censorship

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/29/technology/china-apple-censorhip.html

9 years ago

433 upvotes – 424 comments

P&G Cuts More Than $100M in ‘Largely Ineffective’ Digital Ads

https://www.wsj.com/articles/p-g-cuts-more-than-100-million-in-largely-ineffective-digital-ads-1501191104

9 years ago

326 upvotes – 267 comments

Robot cracks open safe live on Def Con's stage

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-40760648

9 years ago

325 upvotes – 112 comments

How Shor's Algorithm works (2007)

http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=208

9 years ago

293 upvotes – 17 comments

'Using Emacs' Series

https://cestlaz.github.io/stories/emacs/

9 years ago

262 upvotes – 102 comments

Millennials are keeping libraries alive

https://qz.com/1039294/millennials-are-the-ones-keeping-libraries-alive/

9 years ago

255 upvotes – 230 comments

How to present a GitHub project for your resume (2016)

https://thehftguy.com/2016/10/24/heres-how-to-make-a-good-github-project-for-your-resume/

9 years ago

254 upvotes – 84 comments

Tesla Model 3 First Drive Review

http://www.motortrend.com/cars/tesla/model-3/2018/exclusive-tesla-model-3-first-drive-review/

9 years ago

229 upvotes – 204 comments

Targeting HTTP's Hidden Attack-Surface

http://blog.portswigger.net/2017/07/cracking-lens-targeting-https-hidden.html?m=1

9 years ago

207 upvotes – 13 comments

Netboot Linux over the internet

https://netboot.xyz

9 years ago

204 upvotes – 48 comments

Visualizing the Math Behind Logistic Regression and Newton's Method

http://thelaziestprogrammer.com/sharrington/math-of-machine-learning/solving-logreg-newtons-method

9 years ago

191 upvotes – 29 comments

Artificial Intelligence Is Stuck

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/29/opinion/sunday/artificial-intelligence-is-stuck-heres-how-to-move-it-forward.html

9 years ago

187 upvotes – 183 comments

DuoCopter

http://www.research-drone.com/en/DuoCopter.html

9 years ago

180 upvotes – 41 comments

Addict: An Active Directory REST API

https://github.com/dthree/addict/blob/master/readme.md

9 years ago

168 upvotes – 28 comments

Qbrt – Cross-platform HTML/JS desktop apps using the Firefox Gecko runtime

https://mykzilla.org/2017/03/15/introducing-qbrt/

9 years ago

165 upvotes – 92 comments

Baltimore State Attorney Drops Dozens of Cases: Body Cam Shows Drug-Planting

http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2017/07/28/34-cases-dropped-police-body-cams/

9 years ago

162 upvotes – 85 comments

Mathematicians Bridge Finite-Infinite Divide

https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematicians-bridge-finite-infinite-divide-20160524

9 years ago

157 upvotes – 44 comments

Jeff Bezos Escapes Scrutiny from His Own Paper–and Its Rivals

http://fair.org/home/worlds-richest-person-escapes-scrutiny-from-his-own-paper-and-its-rivals/

9 years ago

151 upvotes – 92 comments

Gallery of Data Visualization: the Best and Worst of Statistical Graphics

http://www.datavis.ca/gallery/

9 years ago

149 upvotes – 10 comments

Shenzhen's never-ending skyscraper boom

http://edition.cnn.com/2017/07/23/architecture/shenzhen-skyscraper/index.html

9 years ago

144 upvotes – 102 comments

The case against Kotlin

https://medium.com/@Pinterest_Engineering/the-case-against-kotlin-2c574cb87953

9 years ago

142 upvotes – 105 comments

Rendering beautiful math images with Python

https://github.com/neozhaoliang/pywonderland

9 years ago

★ 4.2k Python MIT
132 upvotes – 3 comments

Ask HN: Do you have a side project that you would like to sell?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14881425

9 years ago

116 upvotes – 102 comments

Drawdown: The most comprehensive plan ever proposed to reverse Global Warming

http://www.drawdown.org/

9 years ago

115 upvotes – 76 comments

Manipulate Functions with the J Language

http://www.adamtornhill.com/articles/jlang/beyondfunctional.html

9 years ago

112 upvotes – 31 comments

Why the feds took down one of Bitcoin’s largest exchanges

https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/29/16060344/btce-bitcoin-exchange-takedown-mt-gox-theft-law-enforcement

9 years ago

110 upvotes – 137 comments

A binary coder for Swift

https://www.mikeash.com/pyblog/friday-qa-2017-07-28-a-binary-coder-for-swift.html

9 years ago

108 upvotes – 23 comments

Programming in the 1960s

https://www.slideshare.net/lenbass/programming-in-the-1960s

9 years ago

102 upvotes – 42 comments

Backdooring the Lottery [pdf]

https://media.defcon.org/DEF%20CON%2025/DEF%20CON%2025%20presentations/DEFCON-25-Gus-Frischie-and-Evan-Teitelman-Backdooring-the-Lottery.pdf

9 years ago

99 upvotes – 34 comments

Going down the rabbit hole with go-fuzz

https://mijailovic.net/2017/07/29/go-fuzz/

9 years ago

98 upvotes – 14 comments

Robust Physical-World Attacks on Machine Learning Models

https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.08945

9 years ago

97 upvotes – 14 comments

Ask HN: Protect loved ones from online scams?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14879756

9 years ago

97 upvotes – 60 comments

Apple Removes VPN Apps from China App Store

https://www.expressvpn.com/blog/china-ios-app-store-removes-vpns/

9 years ago

97 upvotes – 1 comments

Google News Archive

https://news.google.com/newspapers

9 years ago

96 upvotes – 7 comments

Toyplot – A plotting toolkit for Python

http://toyplot.readthedocs.io/en/stable/index.html

9 years ago

84 upvotes – 10 comments

Tesla Model 3 Delivery Event Livestream

https://livestream.tesla.com/

9 years ago

81 upvotes – 76 comments

Exactly-once or not, atomic broadcast is still impossible in Kafka

http://the-paper-trail.org/blog/exactly-not-atomic-broadcast-still-impossible-kafka/

9 years ago

79 upvotes – 31 comments

Timeline of the ChainCoin Scam – Massive Cryptocurrency Pump and Dump Scheme

https://storeofvalue.github.io/posts/timeline-of-the-chaincoin-scam/

9 years ago

78 upvotes – 16 comments

The Most Anthologized Poems of the Last 25 Years

http://lithub.com/the-most-anthologized-poems-of-the-last-25-years/

9 years ago

77 upvotes – 21 comments
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