top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-08-01

App sizes are out of control

https://trevore.com/blog/posts/app-sizes-are-out-of-control/

8 years ago

729 upvotes – 442 comments

How the Collison brothers turned ‘seven lines of code’ into Stripe

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-08-01/how-two-brothers-turned-seven-lines-of-code-into-a-9-2-billion-startup

8 years ago

594 upvotes – 182 comments

Malicious crossenv package on npm

https://twitter.com/o_cee/status/892306836199800836

8 years ago

578 upvotes – 228 comments

Krita Foundation in Trouble

https://krita.org/en/item/krita-foundation-in-trouble/

8 years ago

529 upvotes – 226 comments

NSA Unlawfully Surveiled Kim Dotcom in New Zealand

http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/344742-nsa-unlawfully-surveiled-kim-dotcom-in-new-zealand

8 years ago

455 upvotes – 125 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2017)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14901313

8 years ago

439 upvotes – 941 comments

Data Structures for Coding Interviews

https://www.interviewcake.com/article/python/data-structures-coding-interview

8 years ago

396 upvotes – 229 comments

Mozilla launches voice search, file-sharing and note-taking tools for Firefox

https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/01/mozilla-launches-experimental-voice-search-file-sharing-and-note-taking-tools-for-firefox/

8 years ago

386 upvotes – 204 comments

The first Bitcoin Cash block has been mined

http://blockdozer.com/insight/block/000000000000000000651ef99cb9fcbe0dadde1d424bd9f15ff20136191a5eec

8 years ago

373 upvotes – 327 comments

Why I Choose Delphi

https://csvelocity.wordpress.com/2017/07/27/why-i-choose-delphi/

8 years ago

313 upvotes – 300 comments

Message encryption a 'problem' – UK home secretary

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-40788180

8 years ago

308 upvotes – 267 comments

If SoundCloud Disappears, What Happens to Its Music Culture?

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/01/magazine/if-soundcloud-disappears-what-happens-to-its-music-culture.html

8 years ago

283 upvotes – 207 comments

Impossible Foods has raised $75M for its plant-based burgers

https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/01/impossible-foods-just-raised-75-million-for-its-plant-based-burgers

8 years ago

261 upvotes – 257 comments

Shoelace.css – A back to the basics CSS starter kit

https://shoelace.style/

8 years ago

257 upvotes – 122 comments

Kite telemetry code in Sublime package SideBarEnhancements

https://forum.sublimetext.com/t/rfc-default-package-control-channel-and-package-telemetry/30157

8 years ago

256 upvotes – 114 comments

S&P 500 to exclude Snap after voting rights debate

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-snap-s-p-idUSKBN1AH2RV

8 years ago

247 upvotes – 167 comments

Black Book of Graphics Programming, Special Edition (1997)

https://github.com/jagregory/abrash-black-book

8 years ago

★ 4.8kCSS
229 upvotes – 25 comments

TypeScripts Type System Is Turing Complete

https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/issues/14833

8 years ago

★ 108.6kTypeScriptApache-2.0
221 upvotes – 88 comments

Rust: Not So Great For Codec Implementing

https://codecs.multimedia.cx/?p=1246

8 years ago

215 upvotes – 278 comments

Apple Watch sales up over 50% since last year

https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/01/apple-watch-sales-up-over-50-since-last-year/

8 years ago

208 upvotes – 266 comments

Browser Extensions Standard

https://browserext.github.io/browserext/

8 years ago

206 upvotes – 79 comments

Second body cam video of Baltimore cops manufacturing evidence discovered

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/07/second-body-cam-video-of-baltimore-cops-manufacturing-evidence-discovered/?amp=1

8 years ago

202 upvotes – 86 comments

Ask HN: Starting blogging when you're not an expert?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14900376

8 years ago

185 upvotes – 118 comments

Slack using React Dev Build in Production

https://twitter.com/pankowecki/status/892294002040594434

8 years ago

181 upvotes – 103 comments

Why aren’t distributed systems engineers working on blockchain technology?

https://eng.paxos.com/why-arent-distributed-systems-engineers-working-on-blockchain-technology

8 years ago

179 upvotes – 200 comments

Real people don't need end-to-end encryption says UK Home Secretary

http://uk.businessinsider.com/home-secretary-amber-rudd-real-people-dont-need-end-to-end-encryption-terrorists-2017-8

8 years ago

175 upvotes – 82 comments

Race to discover Planet Nine using astronomy and new computational techniques

http://spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace/satellites/is-there-a-giant-planet-lurking-beyond-pluto

8 years ago

166 upvotes – 58 comments

The 'creepy Facebook AI' story that captivated the media

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-40790258

8 years ago

157 upvotes – 104 comments

July 2017 Hacker News Hiring Trends

https://www.hntrends.com/2017/july.html

8 years ago

154 upvotes – 43 comments

U.S. Nuclear Comeback Stalls as Two Reactors Are Abandoned

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/31/climate/nuclear-power-project-canceled-in-south-carolina.html

8 years ago

154 upvotes – 199 comments

200 terabyte proof demonstrates the potential of brute force math

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/padnvm/200-terabyte-proof-demonstrates-the-potential-of-brute-force-math

8 years ago

144 upvotes – 147 comments

Malta – Alphabet X’s latest grid-scale energy storage technology

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-31/alphabet-wants-to-fix-renewable-energy-s-storage-problem-with-salt

8 years ago

134 upvotes – 83 comments

Mailit: A Tiny Drop-In REST API to Send Emails

https://github.com/dthree/mailit

8 years ago

133 upvotes – 70 comments

The Decline of the American Laundromat

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/07/decline-american-laundromat-gentrification/535257/

8 years ago

129 upvotes – 201 comments

Firefox Send: Encrypt and send large files

https://testpilot.firefox.com/experiments/send

8 years ago

124 upvotes – 22 comments

Venezuelan Opposition Leaders Detained at Gunpoint in Raids

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-01/venezuelan-opposition-leader-lopez-taken-from-home-wife-says-j5t9dnl0

8 years ago

124 upvotes – 167 comments

An update on our commitment to fight terror content online

https://youtube.googleblog.com/2017/08/an-update-on-our-commitment-to-fight.html

8 years ago

122 upvotes – 226 comments

Mercedes kills their only electric car

https://electrek.co/2017/07/31/mercedes-kills-electric-b-class/

8 years ago

120 upvotes – 117 comments

Daylight Visualizer

http://www.velux.com/article/2016/daylight-visualizer

8 years ago

113 upvotes – 23 comments

Apple Reports Third Quarter Results

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2017/08/apple-reports-third-quarter-results/

8 years ago

113 upvotes – 44 comments

Coin Dance – Bitcoin Cash Hard Fork

https://cash.coin.dance/

8 years ago

108 upvotes – 70 comments

What I've Learned So Far as a Programmer

http://copygrammer.com/learned-far-programmer/

8 years ago

98 upvotes – 57 comments

Nearly All Binary Searches and Mergesorts Are Broken (2006)

https://research.googleblog.com/2006/06/extra-extra-read-all-about-it-nearly.html?m=1

8 years ago

98 upvotes – 86 comments

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2017)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14901315

8 years ago

97 upvotes – 214 comments

Using Open Source to Create a Video Thumbnails Service

http://blog.flavioribeiro.com/using-open-source-to-create-a-video-thumbnails-service/

8 years ago

96 upvotes – 25 comments

Saluting Walt Mossberg’s career

https://qz.com/1042984/recode-whatever-walt-mossbergs-next-adventure-may-be-tech-journalism-owes-him-everything/

8 years ago

91 upvotes – 31 comments

Hidden surprises in the Bitcoin blockchain and how they are stored (2014)

http://www.righto.com/2014/02/ascii-bernanke-wikileaks-photographs.html?m=1

8 years ago

88 upvotes – 33 comments

Google’s native ad blocker for Chrome shows up in Android developer build

https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/31/googles-native-ad-blocker-for-chrome-shows-up-in-android-developer-build/

8 years ago

88 upvotes – 89 comments

Theranos Reaches Settlement with Walgreens

https://news.theranos.com/2017/08/01/theranos-reaches-settlement-walgreens/

8 years ago

88 upvotes – 43 comments

Jane Austen shaped a vision of personal flourishing that still feels modern

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/09/jane-austen-is-everything/534186/?single_page=true

8 years ago

80 upvotes – 9 comments

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 Released

https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/red-hat-bridges-hybrid-multi-cloud-deployments-latest-version-red-hat-enterprise-linux-7

8 years ago

80 upvotes – 81 comments

A New Explanation for Ball Lightning

http://nautil.us/blog/-a-new-explanation-for-one-of-the-strangest-occurrences-in-natureball-lightning

8 years ago

75 upvotes – 28 comments
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