top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-07-31

Out of all major energy sources, nuclear is the safest

https://ourworldindata.org/what-is-the-safest-form-of-energy/

8 years ago

655 upvotes – 639 comments

Show HN: TensorFire

https://tenso.rs/demos/fast-neural-style/

8 years ago

564 upvotes – 83 comments

Elm in Production: 25K Lines Later

https://charukiewi.cz/posts/elm/

8 years ago

449 upvotes – 267 comments

Reddit raises $200M at a $1.8B valuation

https://www.recode.net/2017/7/31/16037126/reddit-funding-200-million-valuation-steve-huffman-alexis-ohanian

8 years ago

416 upvotes – 439 comments

GitHub was down

https://status.github.com/messages?ts=mon-jul-31-2017

8 years ago

395 upvotes – 241 comments

3D metal printing is about to go mainstream

http://newatlas.com/desktop-metal-3d-printing/50654/

8 years ago

391 upvotes – 158 comments

Introverts, Emotional Processing, Self-Esteem and Salary Negotiations

http://www.cliffc.org/blog/2017/07/30/introverts-emotional-processing-self-esteem-and-salary-negotiations/

8 years ago

390 upvotes – 118 comments

LinkedIn: It’s illegal to scrape our website without permission

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/07/linkedin-its-illegal-to-scrape-our-website-without-permission/

8 years ago

374 upvotes – 287 comments

Elixir School

https://elixirschool.com

8 years ago

360 upvotes – 40 comments

Hacking Voting Machines at Defcon

https://blog.horner.tj/post/hacking-voting-machines-def-con-25

8 years ago

303 upvotes – 238 comments

Why Are Human Teeth So Messed Up?

https://aeon.co/ideas/its-not-that-your-teeth-are-too-big-your-jaw-is-too-small

8 years ago

294 upvotes – 159 comments

Scientists Edge Closer To Lab Test For Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/07/31/540565526/scientists-edge-closer-to-elusive-lab-test-for-chronic-fatigue-syndrome

8 years ago

284 upvotes – 172 comments

Joy of Elixir

https://joyofelixir.com

8 years ago

241 upvotes – 84 comments

Announcing the `http` crate

https://users.rust-lang.org/t/announcing-the-http-crate/12123

8 years ago

240 upvotes – 61 comments

Apple’s Silence in China Sets a Dangerous Precedent

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/31/technology/apple-vpn-china-dangerous-precedent.html

8 years ago

210 upvotes – 197 comments

FCC says its cybersecurity measures to prevent DDoS attacks must remain secret

https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/31/fcc-says-its-cybersecurity-measures-to-prevent-ddos-attacks-must-remain-secret

8 years ago

210 upvotes – 32 comments

Implementing State Machines in PostgreSQL

http://felixge.de/2017/07/27/implementing-state-machines-in-postgresql.html

8 years ago

199 upvotes – 86 comments

It is easy to expose users' secret web habits, say researchers

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-40770393

8 years ago

198 upvotes – 182 comments

Show HN: Compile-time HTML parsing in C++14

https://github.com/rep-movsd/see-phit

8 years ago

★ 393C++LGPL-3.0
175 upvotes – 81 comments

Dell XPS 15 9560 Review

http://www.anandtech.com/show/11670/the-dell-xps-15-9560-review-infinity-edge-part-two

8 years ago

174 upvotes – 210 comments

Google Search: Inurl:server Filetype:key “-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----”

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=inurl:server+filetype:key+%22-----BEGIN+RSA+PRIVATE+KEY-----%22

8 years ago

172 upvotes – 56 comments

Plastic Micro-Particle Patch Bigger Than Mexico Found in Pacific

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/07/ocean-plastic-patch-south-pacific-spd/

8 years ago

163 upvotes – 106 comments

Google’s new program to track shoppers sparks a federal privacy complaint

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/07/30/googles-new-program-to-track-shoppers-sparks-a-federal-privacy-complaint/

8 years ago

160 upvotes – 132 comments

Nearby Connections 2.0: offline high bandwidth peer to peer device communication

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2017/07/announcing-nearby-connections-20-fully.html

8 years ago

150 upvotes – 49 comments

AMD unveils its Vega 10 GPU architecture

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-radeon-rx-vega-64-specs-availability,35112.html

8 years ago

139 upvotes – 86 comments

With 200M daily users, Giphy will soon test sponsored GIFs

https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/31/with-200m-daily-users-giphy-will-soon-test-sponsored-gifs/

8 years ago

139 upvotes – 114 comments

Rezoom.SQL: Statically typed SQL for F#

https://github.com/rspeele/Rezoom.SQL

8 years ago

★ 676F#MIT
138 upvotes – 20 comments

One Billion Dollars Short, Bill Ackman, and the Siege Of Herbalife (2015)

http://fortune.com/2015/09/09/the-siege-of-herbalife/

8 years ago

138 upvotes – 136 comments

1.1B taxi rides benchmark on the GPU- and PostgreSQL-powered BrytlytDB

http://tech.marksblogg.com/billion-nyc-taxi-rides-aws-ec2-p2-16xlarge-brytlytdb.html

8 years ago

136 upvotes – 2 comments

Image Classification using Deep NN: beginner-friendly approach using TensorFlow

https://medium.com/@tifa2up/image-classification-using-deep-neural-networks-a-beginner-friendly-approach-using-tensorflow-94b0a090ccd4

8 years ago

136 upvotes – 2 comments

Teenagers who read news online may be a criminals, according to the DoJ (2013)

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/04/are-you-teenager-who-reads-news-online-according-justice-department-you-may-be

8 years ago

130 upvotes – 37 comments

Apple Pulls 60 VPNs from China App Store

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-40772375

8 years ago

127 upvotes – 81 comments

Can QML become the next standard for web UI?

https://blog.kutny.net/2017/07/29/can-qml-become-the-next-standard-for-web-ui/

8 years ago

125 upvotes – 118 comments

Hacker News is more interested in Bitcoin when there's a bubble forming

http://incoherency.co.uk/blog/stories/hacker-news-bitcoin.html

8 years ago

124 upvotes – 81 comments

History of the IBM PC, part two: The DOS empire strikes

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/07/ibm-pc-history-part-2/

8 years ago

122 upvotes – 44 comments

Tesla factory workers pushing for a union send demands to Tesla's Board

http://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-union-fremont-board-demands-2017-7

8 years ago

117 upvotes – 119 comments

A Comparison of Distributed Machine Learning Platforms

http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2017/07/a-comparison-of-distributed-machine.html

8 years ago

116 upvotes – 12 comments

Scaling Blockchains with Apache Kafka

https://blog.gridplus.io/scaling-blockchains-with-apache-kafka-814c85781c6

8 years ago

113 upvotes – 13 comments

Ask HN: Experiences going part time?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14890758

8 years ago

110 upvotes – 77 comments

Ask HN: Resources for learning advanced JavaScript and React

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14891287

8 years ago

109 upvotes – 43 comments

Netflix is $20B in debt. Can it keep borrowing its way to success?

http://www.latimes.com/business/hollywood/la-fi-ct-netflix-debt-spending-20170729-story.html

8 years ago

105 upvotes – 112 comments

Release Announcement for Racket 6.10

https://download.racket-lang.org/v6.10.html

8 years ago

100 upvotes – 27 comments

The R. Kelly ‘cult’ story and the ‘Gawker Effect’

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/that-r-kelly-cult-story-almost-never-ran-thank-hulk-hogan-for-that/2017/07/30/19e1f8ea-72c5-11e7-8839-ec48ec4cae25_story.html

8 years ago

95 upvotes – 177 comments

Show HN: Anonymous interview evals of strong software/ML engineering candidates

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14895848

8 years ago

95 upvotes – 47 comments

Show HN: A perceptron with stochastic gradient descent in Go

https://github.com/made2591/go-perceptron-go

8 years ago

★ 171GoGPL-3.0
94 upvotes – 19 comments

Spotify preps to go public with 60M subscribers

https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/31/spotify-vs-apple-music/?ncid=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29

8 years ago

88 upvotes – 70 comments

Lack of cohesion in Uber's search for a new CEO

https://www.recode.net/2017/7/30/16066332/uber-ceo-search-travis-kalanick-meg-whitman-steve-jobs-board

8 years ago

86 upvotes – 82 comments

GraalVM – Polyglot: From the Very Old to the Very New [video]

https://eventil.com/presentations/1Gskd8

8 years ago

83 upvotes – 9 comments
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