top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-08-05

There Have Always Existed People Who’ve Simply Wanted to Be Alone

http://hazlitt.net/feature/there-have-always-existed-people-whove-simply-wanted-be-alone-interview-michael-finkel

9 years ago

429 upvotes – 169 comments

Detecting Chrome headless

http://antoinevastel.github.io/bot%20detection/2017/08/05/detect-chrome-headless.html

9 years ago

375 upvotes – 157 comments

The Full 10-Page Anti-Diversity Screed Circulating Internally at Google

https://gizmodo.com/exclusive-heres-the-full-10-page-anti-diversity-screed-1797564320/amp

9 years ago

353 upvotes – 575 comments

832 TB – ZFS on Linux

http://www.jonkensy.com/832-tb-zfs-on-linux-project-cheap-and-deep-part-1/

9 years ago

320 upvotes – 157 comments

Kids Pass Just Reminded Us How Hard Responsible Disclosure Is

https://www.troyhunt.com/kids-pass-just-reminded-us-how-hard-responsible-disclosure-is/

9 years ago

281 upvotes – 89 comments

Can a Living Creature Be as Big as a Galaxy?

http://nautil.us/issue/51/limits/can-a-living-creature-be-as-big-as-a-galaxy-rp

9 years ago

269 upvotes – 189 comments

ThyssenKrupp Multi – world’s first rope-free elevator [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7QlAsxJP-g

9 years ago

248 upvotes – 196 comments

Bitcoin: Evidence of spoofing, wash trading, and a scheme known as ‘Tether’

https://medium.com/@bitfinexed/meet-spoofy-how-a-single-entity-dominates-the-price-of-bitcoin-39c711d28eb4

9 years ago

224 upvotes – 78 comments

More people riding bikes makes cycling safer for everyone, major new study finds

http://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/latest-news/more-people-riding-bikes-makes-cycling-safer-for-everyone-major-new-study-finds-344859

9 years ago

222 upvotes – 175 comments

Slight Street Sign Modifications Can Fool Machine Learning Algorithms

http://spectrum.ieee.org/cars-that-think/transportation/sensors/slight-street-sign-modifications-can-fool-machine-learning-algorithms

9 years ago

194 upvotes – 131 comments

Publii – Open Source CMS for Static Websites

https://getpublii.com

9 years ago

179 upvotes – 71 comments

The web, on this day 10 years ago

http://tenyearsago.io/

9 years ago

179 upvotes – 85 comments

Google Employee's Anti-Diversity Manifesto Goes 'Internally Viral'

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/kzbm4a/employees-anti-diversity-manifesto-goes-internally-viral-at-google

9 years ago

179 upvotes – 145 comments

Bitcoin breaks $3K to reach new all-time high

https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/04/bitcoin-3000

9 years ago

178 upvotes – 199 comments

Name-letter Effect

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name-letter_effect

9 years ago

165 upvotes – 71 comments

A Mysterious Military Spy Plane Has Been Flying Circles Over Seattle for Days

http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/13154/this-mysterious-military-spy-plane-has-been-flying-circles-over-seattle-for-days

9 years ago

160 upvotes – 88 comments

Fangle: create interactive documents from plain text

http://jotux.github.io/fangle/

9 years ago

154 upvotes – 16 comments

10 page anti-diversity screed circulating internally at Google

http://gizmodo.com/exclusive-heres-the-full-10-page-anti-diversity-screed-1797564320

9 years ago

151 upvotes – 148 comments

Node.js: Initial experimental implementation of HTTP/2

https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/14239/

9 years ago

★ 116.9k JavaScript
146 upvotes – 18 comments

Gedit is unmaintained, some thoughts

https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gedit-list/2017-July/msg00001.html

9 years ago

131 upvotes – 123 comments

Adobe Open Source

http://adobe.github.io/

9 years ago

129 upvotes – 23 comments

Now Hiring: Not You

http://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/now-hiring-not-you

9 years ago

124 upvotes – 69 comments

Redesigning the airport boarding pass (2010)

http://passfail.squarespace.com/

9 years ago

122 upvotes – 102 comments

Regarding Marcus Hutchins aka MalwareTech

https://doublepulsar.com/regarding-marcus-hutchins-aka-malwaretech-650c99e96594

9 years ago

119 upvotes – 125 comments

A Virtual LAN using NATS, written in Go

https://github.com/rapidloop/vlan-nats?

9 years ago

★ 360 Go Apache-2.0
110 upvotes – 14 comments

A library of React components to make SVG maps using d3-geo and topojson

https://www.react-simple-maps.io/

9 years ago

107 upvotes – 13 comments

How Amazon bought and killed PlanetAll, an early Facebook precursor

https://qz.com/1045588/amazon-ceo-jeff-bezos-bought-and-killed-off-the-website-poised-to-become-facebook/

9 years ago

106 upvotes – 42 comments

Anonymous LLC

https://www.l4sb.com/lpa/anonymous-llc/

9 years ago

103 upvotes – 69 comments

The Evolution of Lisp (1993) [pdf]

https://www.dreamsongs.com/Files/HOPL2-Uncut.pdf

9 years ago

103 upvotes – 17 comments

Emotional Intelligence Needs a Rewrite

http://nautil.us/issue/51/limits/emotional-intelligence-needs-a-rewrite

9 years ago

102 upvotes – 38 comments

Why nature prefers hexagons

http://nautil.us/issue/35/Boundaries/why-nature-prefers-hexagons

9 years ago

101 upvotes – 62 comments

Ask HN: Just made Director, now what?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14937290

9 years ago

98 upvotes – 38 comments

50+ Segmentation Faults per Hour: Continuing to Stress Ryzen

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ryzen-segv-continues

9 years ago

93 upvotes – 41 comments

They were partners in fighting crime. The only problem: Neither was a cop

https://magazine.atavist.com/not-fuzz-police-impersonator-santa-monica-steve-farzam

9 years ago

84 upvotes – 22 comments

Which Internet Registries Offer the Best Protection for Domain Owners?

https://www.eff.org/wp/which-internet-registries-offer-best-protection-domain-owners

9 years ago

82 upvotes – 19 comments

ACL2

http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/moore/acl2/

9 years ago

80 upvotes – 12 comments

Perfectionism versus Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-truisms-wellness/201612/perfectionism-vs-obsessive-compulsive-disorder

9 years ago

79 upvotes – 26 comments

Amazon Reviews

https://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?docId=1001250201

9 years ago

76 upvotes – 8 comments

Java blocking queues for concurrency beginners

http://www.geek-programmer.com/java-blocking-queues-explained/

9 years ago

75 upvotes – 20 comments

European Union Debt by Country

https://github.com/axibase/atsd-use-cases/blob/master/DataShorts/EU_Debt/README.md#european-union-debt-by-country-2005-2016

9 years ago

74 upvotes – 51 comments
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