top 20 hacker news stories for 2017-08-18

Firefox Focus – A new private browser for iOS and Android

https://blog.mozilla.org/firefox/lightweight-browser-focus-does-less-which-is-much-more/

9 years ago

E-commerce will evolve next month as Amazon loses the 1-Click patent

https://thirtybees.com/blog/e-commerce-will-change-forever/

9 years ago

Why the Brain Needs More Downtime (2013)

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/mental-downtime/

9 years ago

Docker Is Raising Funding at $1.3B Valuation

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-09/docker-is-said-to-be-raising-funding-at-1-3-billion-valuation

9 years ago

Towards a JavaScript Binary AST

https://yoric.github.io/post/binary-ast-newsletter-1/

9 years ago

Opioid makers made payments to one in 12 U.S. doctors

https://news.brown.edu/articles/2017/08/opioids-influence

9 years ago

Try Out Rust IDE Support in Visual Studio Code

https://users.rust-lang.org/t/try-out-rust-ide-support-in-visual-studio-code/12407

9 years ago

GitHub CEO Chris Wanstrath To Step Down After Finding Replacement

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2017/08/17/github-ceo-chris-wanstrath-to-step-down/?c=0#33c9269eadd3

9 years ago

Google's stance on neo-Nazis 'dangerous', says EFF

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-40974069

9 years ago

YouTube admits 'wrong call' over deletion of Syrian war crime videos

http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/youtube-admits-wrong-call-over-deletion-syrian-war-crime-videos-1140126078

9 years ago

Fighting Neo-Nazis and the Future of Free Expression

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/08/fighting-neo-nazis-future-free-expression

9 years ago

Se­cu­rity Keys

https://www.imperialviolet.org/2017/08/13/securitykeys.html

9 years ago

Introducing WAL-G: Faster Disaster Recovery for Postgres

https://www.citusdata.com/blog/2017/08/18/introducing-wal-g-faster-restores-for-postgres/

9 years ago

Neural Nets Can Learn Function Type Signatures from Binaries [pdf]

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

9 years ago

HelenOS: portable microkernel-based multiserver operating system

http://www.helenos.org/

9 years ago

Superhuman is what Gmail would be if built today

https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/18/rapportive-founders-new-startup-superhuman-is-what-gmail-would-be-if-built-today/

9 years ago

Reasonable Scala Compiler

https://github.com/twitter/reasonable-scala#

9 years ago

★ 1.2k Scala Apache-2.0

A CEO Who Pays Employees to De-Locate from the Bay

https://blog.ycombinator.com/the-ceo-who-pays-employees-to-de-locate-from-the-bay/

9 years ago

An Electronic Voting Firm Exposes 1.8M Chicagoans

https://www.upguard.com/breaches/cloud-leak-chicago-voters

9 years ago

My last name makes me invisible to Computers (2015)

https://www.wired.com/2015/11/null#tpw

9 years ago