top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-08-17

Essential Phone, available now

https://www.essential.com/blog/essential-phone-available-now

8 years ago

818 upvotes – 672 comments

Afraid of Makefiles? Don't be

https://matthias-endler.de/2017/makefiles/

8 years ago

502 upvotes – 272 comments

Peanut allergy cured in majority of children in immunotherapy trial

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/aug/17/peanut-allergy-cured-in-majority-of-children-in-immunotherapy-trial?CMP=twt_gu

8 years ago

479 upvotes – 169 comments

Ask HN: What mistakes in your experience does management keep making?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15033156

8 years ago

451 upvotes – 379 comments

Blood Test That Spots Tumor-Derived DNA in Early-Stage Cancers

http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/media/releases/scientists_develop_blood_test_that_spots_tumor_derived_dna_in_people_with_early_stage_cancers

8 years ago

361 upvotes – 63 comments

Elixir in Depth – Reading and personal notes

http://digitalfreepen.com/2017/08/16/elixir-in-depth-notes.html

8 years ago

337 upvotes – 146 comments

Wekan: An open-source Trello-like kanban

https://wekan.github.io/

8 years ago

306 upvotes – 92 comments

Making Visible Watermarks More Effective

https://research.googleblog.com/2017/08/making-visible-watermarks-more-effective.html

8 years ago

292 upvotes – 96 comments

A 2:15 Alarm, 2 Trains and a Bus Get Her to Work by 7 A.M

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/17/business/economy/san-francisco-commute.html

8 years ago

287 upvotes – 301 comments

Show HN: Product Graveyard – Commemorating the most memorable dead products

http://productgraveyard.com/?ref=hn

8 years ago

265 upvotes – 126 comments

John Scalzi: Being Poor (2005)

http://whatever.scalzi.com/2005/09/03/being-poor/

8 years ago

262 upvotes – 237 comments

A big, successful trial of probiotics

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/08/at-last-a-big-successful-trial-of-probiotics/537093/?single_page=true

8 years ago

260 upvotes – 65 comments

John Carmack on Functional Programming (2013) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PhArSujR_A

8 years ago

258 upvotes – 84 comments

BYTE Magazine's Lisp issue (1979) [pdf]

https://ia902603.us.archive.org/30/items/byte-magazine-1979-08/1979_08_BYTE_04-08_LISP.pdf

8 years ago

250 upvotes – 151 comments

Assume positive intent

https://rickmanelius.com/article/assume-positive-intent

8 years ago

237 upvotes – 131 comments

The Incredible Shrinking Airline Seat

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-08-17/what-s-stopping-airlines-from-making-your-seat-more-miserable

8 years ago

225 upvotes – 433 comments

A programming language from scratch: 3 steps to an interpreter

https://francisstokes.wordpress.com/2017/08/16/programming-language-from-scratch/

8 years ago

217 upvotes – 33 comments

LSU Sues Elsevier for Breach of Contract

http://www.arl.org/news/community-updates/4264-louisiana-state-university-sues-elsevier-for-breach-of-contract

8 years ago

211 upvotes – 56 comments

X: The First Fully Modular Software Disaster

http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/unix-haters/x-windows/disaster.html

8 years ago

206 upvotes – 136 comments

FBI pushes private sector to cut ties with Kaspersky

https://www.cyberscoop.com/fbi-kaspersky-private-sector-briefings-yarovaya-laws/

8 years ago

190 upvotes – 77 comments

Concurrency in Swift: One possible approach

https://gist.github.com/lattner/31ed37682ef1576b16bca1432ea9f782

8 years ago

188 upvotes – 103 comments

Computer Age Statistical Inference: Algorithms, Evidence and Data Science

https://web.stanford.edu/~hastie/CASI/index.html

8 years ago

183 upvotes – 27 comments

Hacker claims to have decrypted Apple's Secure Enclave firmware

http://www.techrepublic.com/article/hacker-claims-to-have-decrypted-apples-secure-enclave-destroying-key-piece-of-ios-mobile-security/

8 years ago

181 upvotes – 43 comments

72% of Consumers Don't Know What Net Neutrality Is

http://exstreamist.com/72-of-consumers-dont-know-what-net-neutrality-is/

8 years ago

181 upvotes – 130 comments

Home computing for $5/month

http://pandoricity.blogspot.com/2017/08/home-computing-for-5month.html

8 years ago

174 upvotes – 149 comments

iOS 11 has a feature to temporarily disable Touch ID

https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/17/16161758/ios-11-touch-id-disable-emergency-services-lock

8 years ago

162 upvotes – 83 comments

Investor Bulletin, July 25: Initial Coin Offerings

https://www.sec.gov/oiea/investor-alerts-and-bulletins/ib_coinofferings

8 years ago

160 upvotes – 48 comments

Concrete-free washing machines are lighter to transport, just as good in a spin

http://newatlas.com/plastic-counterweight-washing-machine-concrete/50769/

8 years ago

154 upvotes – 161 comments

The Matasano Crypto Challenges (2013)

https://blog.pinboard.in/2013/04/the_matasano_crypto_challenges/

8 years ago

151 upvotes – 29 comments

Why Elixir (2014)

http://theerlangelist.com/article/why_elixir

8 years ago

150 upvotes – 57 comments

WebRender newsletter

https://mozillagfx.wordpress.com/2017/08/16/webrender-newsletter-1/

8 years ago

142 upvotes – 15 comments

Dilution of whisky – the molecular perspective

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-06423-5

8 years ago

134 upvotes – 68 comments

Living on Mars: The Stuff You Never Thought About

http://hackaday.com/2017/08/17/living-on-mars-the-stuff-you-never-thought-about/

8 years ago

123 upvotes – 130 comments

Peer-to-Peer Communication Across Network Address Translators (2005)

http://www.brynosaurus.com/pub/net/p2pnat/

8 years ago

119 upvotes – 45 comments

An 80s Girl Talks About Computers: A Reminiscence

https://medium.com/@wordsandcode/-2653446e40ae

8 years ago

114 upvotes – 65 comments

Thai activist jailed under lese majeste laws for sharing an article on Facebook

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/08/thai-activist-jailed-crime-sharing-article-facebook

8 years ago

112 upvotes – 89 comments

Twenty Questions for Donald Knuth (2014)

http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=2213858&WT.mc_id=Author_Knuth_20Questions

8 years ago

111 upvotes – 17 comments

Desktop Kit

http://facebook.design/desktopkit

8 years ago

105 upvotes – 18 comments

Why Is Google Building a New Operating System from Scratch?

https://www.fastcompany.com/3063006/why-on-earth-is-google-building-a-new-operating-system-from-scratch?_utm_source=1-2-2

8 years ago

103 upvotes – 89 comments

Ericsson is reportedly planning to cut 25,000 jobs in response to crisis

http://nordic.businessinsider.com/ericsson-is-reportedly-planning-to-cut-25000-jobs-in-brutal-response-to-crisis-2017-8/

8 years ago

101 upvotes – 36 comments

The Tor Project Defends the Human Rights Racists Oppose

https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-project-defends-human-rights-racists-oppose

8 years ago

96 upvotes – 122 comments

Video is Coming to Reddit

https://redditblog.com/2017/08/17/video-is-coming-to-reddit/

8 years ago

96 upvotes – 109 comments

Forever Labs preserves young stem cells

https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/17/forever-labs-preserves-young-stem-cells-to-prevent-your-older-self-from-aging

8 years ago

91 upvotes – 18 comments

Python Threading Beginners Tutorial [video]

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGKQkV4guDKEv1DoK4LYdo2ZPLo6cyLbm

8 years ago

90 upvotes – 15 comments

Launch HN: PullRequest (YC S17) – On-Demand Code Review

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15036563

8 years ago

90 upvotes – 65 comments

Store your zsh history into a sqlite3 database

https://github.com/larkery/zsh-histdb

8 years ago

★ 1.3kShellMIT
85 upvotes – 16 comments

Trezor hardware Bitcoin wallet – Security glitches reveal private keys

https://medium.com/@Zero404Cool/trezor-security-glitches-reveal-your-private-keys-761eeab03ff8

8 years ago

83 upvotes – 46 comments

The ZX80 manuals and inserts

https://medium.com/@leoferres/the-lemo-lam-manual-and-inserts-de06ab9974d1

8 years ago

81 upvotes – 18 comments

Cisco's Feud with Former Star Executive Turns Personal and Costly

http://www.foxbusiness.com/features/2017/08/17/ciscos-feud-with-former-star-executive-turns-2.html

8 years ago

80 upvotes – 57 comments

Show HN: Appster – Free Bootstrap 4 App Landing Page Template

https://wireddots.com/products/appster

8 years ago

79 upvotes – 34 comments

When Government Rules by Software, Citizens Are Left in the Dark

https://www.wired.com/story/when-government-rules-by-software-citizens-are-left-in-the-dark

8 years ago

79 upvotes – 29 comments

The Attention Economy and the Net (1997)

http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/519/440

8 years ago

73 upvotes – 6 comments

Reverse Engineering x86 Processor Microcode [pdf]

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/usenixsecurity17/sec17-koppe.pdf

8 years ago

73 upvotes – 9 comments

Serverless Event Gateway

https://serverless.com/blog/introducing-serverless-event-gateway/

8 years ago

72 upvotes – 20 comments

How Reliable Are FinFETs?

https://semiengineering.com/how-reliable-are-finfets/

8 years ago

72 upvotes – 28 comments

Ask HN: What's it like to work at Mozilla these days?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15035743

8 years ago

71 upvotes – 78 comments

Optimizing React Apps in Practice

http://marmelab.com/blog/2017/02/06/react-is-slow-react-is-fast.html

8 years ago

70 upvotes – 9 comments
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