top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-08-07

Show HN: Is the stock market going to crash?

https://isthestockmarketgoingtocrash.com/

8 years ago

813 upvotes – 325 comments

Internet Draft: Let 'localhost' be localhost

https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-west-let-localhost-be-localhost-04

8 years ago

594 upvotes – 167 comments

Jeff Dean’s Lecture for YC AI [video]

http://blog.ycombinator.com/jeff-deans-lecture-for-yc-ai?src=hn

8 years ago

439 upvotes – 56 comments

Eager to Burst His Own Bubble, a Techie Made Apps to Randomize His Life

http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2017/06/08/531796329/eager-to-burst-his-own-bubble-a-techie-made-apps-to-randomize-his-life

8 years ago

410 upvotes – 170 comments

A Tech Lead’s New Project Checklist

https://insimpleterms.blog/2017/08/07/the-tech-leads-new-project-checklist/

8 years ago

378 upvotes – 42 comments

How to Pick Your Life Partner (2014)

https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/02/pick-life-partner.html?utm_source=Main+List&utm_campaign=a28c8308c6-&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5b568bad0b-a28c8308c6-54155229&mc_cid=a28c8308c6&mc_eid=507e56c683

8 years ago

362 upvotes – 209 comments

The BitTorrent Protocol Specification v2

http://bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0052.html

8 years ago

319 upvotes – 112 comments

Prostitution decriminalized: Rhode Island’s experiment

http://www.newsworks.org/index.php/local/item/105393-prostitution-decriminalized-rhode-islands-experiment

8 years ago

312 upvotes – 249 comments

SF residents get a shock: Someone bought their street

http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/matier-ross/article/Rich-SF-residents-get-a-shock-Someone-bought-11738236.php

8 years ago

291 upvotes – 224 comments

Ferret – A free software Clojure implementation

http://ferret-lang.org/

8 years ago

266 upvotes – 79 comments

Dijkstra was right – recursion should not be difficult

https://blog.angularindepth.com/learn-recursion-in-10-minutes-e3262ac08a1

8 years ago

261 upvotes – 167 comments

How the NSA tracks people [video]

https://media.ccc.de/v/SHA2017-402-how_the_nsa_tracks_you

8 years ago

260 upvotes – 78 comments

Tinychain: a pocket-sized implementation of Bitcoin

https://github.com/jamesob/tinychain

8 years ago

★ 1.4kPythonMIT
250 upvotes – 42 comments

Knolling

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knolling

8 years ago

249 upvotes – 76 comments

Show HN: Short-term rental estimate for sites like Airbnb

https://www.eliotandme.com/estimator

8 years ago

220 upvotes – 97 comments

Proof of Work Without All the Work

https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.01285

8 years ago

208 upvotes – 115 comments

On managing outrage in Silicon Valley

https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/06/on-managing-outrage-in-silicon-valley/

8 years ago

200 upvotes – 406 comments

TFHE: Fast Fully-Homomorphic Encryption Over the Torus

https://tfhe.github.io/tfhe/

8 years ago

196 upvotes – 94 comments

Pygorithm – A Python module for learning major algorithms

https://github.com/OmkarPathak/pygorithm

8 years ago

★ 4.3kPythonMIT
191 upvotes – 41 comments

Apple MacBook Pro lasts 135 minutes longer on battery in full screen mode

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Apple-MacBook-Pro-lasts-135-minutes-longer-on-battery-in-full-screen-mode.239966.0.html

8 years ago

182 upvotes – 137 comments

Why I left Academia: Part I

https://www.allisonharbin.com/post-phd/why-i-left-academia-part-1

8 years ago

170 upvotes – 80 comments

IT is the cause of rising income and wealth inequality since the 1970s [pdf]

http://economistsview.typepad.com/files/formation-of-capital-and-wealth-draft-5-07-2017.pdf

8 years ago

160 upvotes – 190 comments

New York’s Subways Are Not Just Delayed, Some Trains Don’t Run at All

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/08/07/nyregion/new-yorks-subways-are-not-just-delayed-some-trains-dont-run-at-all.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=photo-spot-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

8 years ago

159 upvotes – 158 comments

The Dutch Have Solutions to Rising Seas

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/06/15/world/europe/climate-change-rotterdam.html

8 years ago

156 upvotes – 66 comments

“Podcasting patent” is totally dead, appeals court rules

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/08/appeals-court-upholds-invalidation-of-podcasting-patent/

8 years ago

151 upvotes – 14 comments

Preventing server overload: limit requests being processed

http://www.evanjones.ca/prevent-server-overload.html

8 years ago

151 upvotes – 67 comments

PyTorch v0.2.0 released

https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/releases/tag/v0.2.0

8 years ago

★ 99.4kPython
150 upvotes – 14 comments

Show HN: AsciiDots – a 2D esoteric language inspired by circuits

https://github.com/aaronduino/asciidots/

8 years ago

★ 1.1kPythonAGPL-3.0
148 upvotes – 33 comments

For software that is cross platform and accessible, forget about Qt

https://blind.guru/qta11y.html

8 years ago

147 upvotes – 79 comments

OpenSSL in Debian Unstable drops TLS 1.0/1.1 support

https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2017/08/msg00004.html

8 years ago

147 upvotes – 64 comments

In Earth's hottest place, life has been found in strong acid

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170803-in-earths-hottest-place-life-has-been-found-in-pure-acid

8 years ago

146 upvotes – 48 comments

Beyond the boring blockchain bubble

https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/06/beyond-the-boring-blockchain-bubble/

8 years ago

139 upvotes – 148 comments

Many Smart Contract Use Cases Are Impossible (2016)

https://www.coindesk.com/three-smart-contract-misconceptions/

8 years ago

134 upvotes – 36 comments

Linear Algebra for Deep Learning: Matrix Algebra

https://www.quantstart.com/articles/matrix-algebra-linear-algebra-for-deep-learning-part-2

8 years ago

131 upvotes – 8 comments

Members of Congress rake FCC over the coals in official net neutrality comment

https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/06/10-members-of-congress-rake-fcc-over-the-coals-in-official-net-neutrality-comment/

8 years ago

125 upvotes – 23 comments

Why Women Leave Engineering (2011) [pdf]

https://energy.gov/sites/prod/files/NSF_Stemming%20the%20Tide%20Why%20Women%20Leave%20Engineering.pdf

8 years ago

114 upvotes – 90 comments

Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon review

https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/7/16105800/lenovo-thinkpad-x1-carbon-review-ultraportable-laptop

8 years ago

110 upvotes – 130 comments

Euclid's Elements (1997)

http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/elements/toc.html

8 years ago

106 upvotes – 58 comments

Ask HN: Is Anyone Living “The 4-Hour Work Week”?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14951671

8 years ago

105 upvotes – 92 comments

Porting a Chrome Extension to Firefox

https://shinglyu.github.io/web/2017/08/07/porting-chrome-extension-to-firefox.html

8 years ago

104 upvotes – 19 comments

Git v2.14.0 released

https://lwn.net/Articles/729918/

8 years ago

102 upvotes – 51 comments

How to Stop Apologizing for My Stutter, and Other Important Lessons

https://longreads.com/2017/08/04/how-to-stop-apologizing-for-my-stutter-and-other-important-lessons/

8 years ago

102 upvotes – 55 comments

CouchDB 2.1.0

http://docs.couchdb.org/en/2.1.0/whatsnew/2.1.html

8 years ago

101 upvotes – 23 comments

Tesla seeks to raise $1.5B to fund Model 3 production

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tesla-offering-idUSKBN1AN13I

8 years ago

99 upvotes – 123 comments

Highlighting prime numbers with CSS

https://github.com/xieranmaya/blog/issues/12

8 years ago

★ 1.7kHTML
97 upvotes – 21 comments

Choose Your Paradox – the downside of the Axiom of Choice

https://billwadge.wordpress.com/2017/06/12/thanks-axiom-of-choice-the-banachtarski-paradox/

8 years ago

97 upvotes – 25 comments

The asteroid impact which led to the extinction of the dinosaurs

http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2017/08/ten-minutes-difference-that-doomed-the-dinosaurs.html

8 years ago

93 upvotes – 25 comments

LSTM trained on HN

https://medium.com/@hondanhon/i-trained-an-lstm-neural-net-to-generate-hacker-news-submissions-9213e1225208

8 years ago

91 upvotes – 13 comments

An attack of carnivorous Sea Fleas at a Melbourne beach

http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/flesheating-bugs-at-brighton-beach-what-really-ate-sam-and-why-20170807-gxqsab.html

8 years ago

90 upvotes – 23 comments

Less Weird Quaternions Using Geometric Algebra

https://probablydance.com/2017/08/05/intuitive-quaternions/

8 years ago

90 upvotes – 41 comments

Let Forest Fires Burn

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/06/science/let-forest-fires-burn-what-the-black-backed-woodpecker-knows.html

8 years ago

90 upvotes – 109 comments

Generate energy with kites

http://kitex.tech/

8 years ago

88 upvotes – 56 comments

One 18th-Century Horse Eclipsed All the Others

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/eclipse-famous-racehorse-gambling

8 years ago

77 upvotes – 18 comments
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