top 50% 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

684 upvotes – 335 comments

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

602 upvotes – 223 comments

Why the Brain Needs More Downtime (2013)

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

9 years ago

436 upvotes – 106 comments

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

321 upvotes – 275 comments

Towards a JavaScript Binary AST

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

9 years ago

310 upvotes – 205 comments

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

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

9 years ago

270 upvotes – 98 comments

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

265 upvotes – 82 comments

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

264 upvotes – 49 comments

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

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

9 years ago

253 upvotes – 363 comments

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

241 upvotes – 138 comments

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

233 upvotes – 180 comments

Se­cu­rity Keys

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

9 years ago

218 upvotes – 137 comments

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

217 upvotes – 65 comments

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

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

9 years ago

213 upvotes – 43 comments

HelenOS: portable microkernel-based multiserver operating system

http://www.helenos.org/

9 years ago

201 upvotes – 67 comments

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

189 upvotes – 164 comments

Reasonable Scala Compiler

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

9 years ago

★ 1.2k Scala Apache-2.0
183 upvotes – 154 comments

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

174 upvotes – 223 comments

An Electronic Voting Firm Exposes 1.8M Chicagoans

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

9 years ago

173 upvotes – 73 comments

My last name makes me invisible to Computers (2015)

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

9 years ago

166 upvotes – 135 comments

Life and death in Apple’s forbidden city

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jun/18/foxconn-life-death-forbidden-city-longhua-suicide-apple-iphone-brian-merchant-one-device-extract

9 years ago

164 upvotes – 81 comments

Naming things (2015) [pdf]

http://www2.stat.duke.edu/~rcs46/lectures_2015/01-markdown-git/slides/naming-slides/naming-slides.pdf

9 years ago

157 upvotes – 57 comments

Former Harvard Money Manager Is Launching a Digital-Currency Hedge Fund

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-17/ex-harvard-money-manager-is-said-to-launch-digital-currency-fund

9 years ago

143 upvotes – 98 comments

Life Aboard the Longest Train Ride Through India

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/destinations/asia/india/life-on-the-longest-train-ride-through-india/

9 years ago

141 upvotes – 30 comments

Agorakit, an open source groupware for citizens

http://www.agorakit.org

9 years ago

135 upvotes – 20 comments

GOP lawmakers shamed on billboards for trying to repeal net neutrality rules

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/08/pro-net-neutrality-billboards-shame-lawmakers-who-want-to-repeal-rules

9 years ago

134 upvotes – 122 comments

NBC’s Snapchat news show gains 29+ million viewers in its first month

https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/18/nbcs-snapchat-news-show-gains-29-million-viewers-in-its-first-month

9 years ago

131 upvotes – 79 comments

Leading elephant conservationist shot dead in Tanzania

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/aug/17/leading-elephant-conservationist-ivory-shot-dead-in-tanzania

9 years ago

128 upvotes – 31 comments

Getting an Amiga 1000 Online

https://amigalove.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=300

9 years ago

127 upvotes – 41 comments

The Cult of the Costco Surfboard

http://www.newyorker.com/news/sporting-scene/the-cult-of-the-costco-surfboard

9 years ago

127 upvotes – 63 comments

The Art of Teaching Math and Science

https://www.quantamagazine.org/math-and-science-teachers-pencils-down-20161011/

9 years ago

120 upvotes – 10 comments

The ACLU Asks in 1934: Shall We Defend Free Speech for Nazis in America?

http://documents.latimes.com/aclu-asks-1934-shall-we-defend-free-speech-nazis-america/

9 years ago

114 upvotes – 142 comments

Infosys CEO Vishal Sikka Resigns

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/infosys-ceo-vishal-sikka-resigns/articleshow/60113725.cms

9 years ago

109 upvotes – 68 comments

Python Practices for Efficient Code: Performance, Memory, and Usability

https://www.codementor.io/satwikkansal/python-practices-for-efficient-code-performance-memory-and-usability-aze6oiq65

9 years ago

109 upvotes – 42 comments

What a Border Collie Taught a Linguist About Language

https://www.wired.com/story/what-a-border-collie-taught-a-linguist-about-language/

9 years ago

107 upvotes – 64 comments

Show HN: Minimal build system using just /bin/sh

https://notabug.org/akkartik/basic-build

9 years ago

100 upvotes – 63 comments

Nvidia-Docker – Build and Run Docker Containers Leveraging Nvidia GPUs

https://github.com/NVIDIA/nvidia-docker

9 years ago

★ 17.5k Apache-2.0
99 upvotes – 32 comments

0x – A Protocol for Trading Tokens

https://0xproject.com/otc

9 years ago

93 upvotes – 28 comments

Launch HN: Plasticity (YC S17) – APIs for human-like natural language interfaces

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15047929

9 years ago

93 upvotes – 47 comments

Where the Wild Things Go: The remarkable travel itineraries of animals

http://nautil.us/issue/51/limits/where-the-wild-things-go

9 years ago

91 upvotes – 0 comments

Muesli – An alternative approach to Soylent

https://github.com/l29ah/muesli

9 years ago

★ 186 Haskell
91 upvotes – 100 comments

Essential Phone review: An arcane artifact from an unrealized future

https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/18/16165040/essential-phone-review-android-andy-rubin

9 years ago

90 upvotes – 66 comments

qBitcoin – Proposal for a decentralized online quantum cash system

https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.04955

9 years ago

88 upvotes – 40 comments

Alt-social network Gab booted from Google Play Store for hate speech

https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/17/alt-social-network-gab-booted-from-google-play-store-for-hate-speech

9 years ago

86 upvotes – 153 comments

Tech companies: make remote work part of your diversity and inclusion efforts

https://medium.com/@margotcodes/tech-companies-make-remote-work-part-of-your-diversity-and-inclusion-efforts-b100ab74bf97

9 years ago

80 upvotes – 65 comments

Why Type Systems Matter

http://matthias-endler.de/2017/why-type-systems-matter/

9 years ago

79 upvotes – 100 comments

How to 2X Your Salary as a Software Engineer

http://youexec.com/articles/how-to-2x-your-salary-as-a-software-engineer

9 years ago

78 upvotes – 44 comments

Go 1.9 Release Party [slides]

http://talks.godoc.org/github.com/davecheney/go-1.9-release-party/presentation.slide

9 years ago

77 upvotes – 10 comments

OpenAI Baselines: ACKTR and A2C

https://blog.openai.com/baselines-acktr-a2c/

9 years ago

75 upvotes – 6 comments

Python code to generate text using a pretrained character-based RNN

https://github.com/minimaxir/textgenrnn

9 years ago

★ 4.9k Python
75 upvotes – 10 comments

Washington man facing prison after foraging for wild psilocybin mushrooms

https://www.psymposia.com/magazine/washington-man-facing-prison-foraging-wild-mushrooms/

9 years ago

71 upvotes – 52 comments
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