top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-08-22

Inside a fast CSS engine

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/08/inside-a-super-fast-css-engine-quantum-css-aka-stylo/

9 years ago

660 upvotes – 141 comments

Let Consumers Sue Companies

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/22/opinion/let-consumers-sue-companies.html

9 years ago

576 upvotes – 269 comments

Why is this C++ code faster than my hand-written assembly (2016)

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40354978/why-is-this-c-code-faster-than-my-hand-written-assembly-for-testing-the-collat

9 years ago

431 upvotes – 188 comments

Chrome Enterprise

https://www.blog.google/topics/connected-workspaces/introducing-chrome-enterprise/

9 years ago

418 upvotes – 262 comments

Show HN: The best time to visit any city

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15074526

9 years ago

395 upvotes – 118 comments

Hackers nab $500k as Enigma is compromised weeks before its ICO

https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/21/hack-enigma-500000-ico/

9 years ago

307 upvotes – 240 comments

Studying how Firefox can collect additional data in a privacy-preserving way

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.governance/81gMQeMEL0w

9 years ago

278 upvotes – 428 comments

CrashPlan is exiting the consumer market

https://blog.code42.com/data-protection-needs-diverge/

9 years ago

274 upvotes – 334 comments

Sonos: users must accept new privacy policy or devices may “cease to function”

http://www.zdnet.com/article/sonos-accept-new-privacy-policy-speakers-cease-to-function/

9 years ago

271 upvotes – 248 comments

UK Government's Payment Infrastructure Is Now Open Source

https://govukpay-docs.cloudapps.digital/#contribute

9 years ago

258 upvotes – 101 comments

All 50 startups from Y Combinator’s Summer 2017 Demo Day 1

https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/21/y-combinator-summer-2017/

9 years ago

235 upvotes – 199 comments

Show HN: Pdf-Bot, an API/CLI for Generating PDFs Using Headless Chrome

https://github.com/esbenp/pdf-bot

9 years ago

★ 2.6k JavaScript MIT
235 upvotes – 79 comments

The Beauty of Bresenham's Algorithm

http://members.chello.at/~easyfilter/bresenham.html

9 years ago

218 upvotes – 41 comments

A glut has used-car depreciation accelerating

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-21/your-car-is-now-worth-less-than-you-think

9 years ago

174 upvotes – 364 comments

A Brief Survey of Deep Reinforcement Learning

https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.05866

9 years ago

174 upvotes – 3 comments

Build-a-Coin Cryptocurrency Creator

http://build-a-co.in/

9 years ago

148 upvotes – 45 comments

The Enduring Legacy of Zork

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/608670/the-enduring-legacy-of-zork/

9 years ago

145 upvotes – 48 comments

Things about programming I learned with Go

http://mjk.space/5-things-about-programming-learned-with-go/

9 years ago

143 upvotes – 153 comments

Show HN: RNN that generates Game of Thrones text

https://www.github.com/zackthoutt/got-book-6

9 years ago

★ 962 Jupyter Notebook MIT
143 upvotes – 38 comments

Apple IIe Design Guidelines (1982) [pdf]

http://www.apple2scans.net/files/1982-A2F2116-m-a2e-aiiedg.pdf

9 years ago

142 upvotes – 34 comments

Typing with pleasure, and low latency

https://pavelfatin.com/typing-with-pleasure/#summary

9 years ago

141 upvotes – 68 comments

Sensor tracks who's driving in your neighbourhood

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-41008141

9 years ago

140 upvotes – 187 comments

China’s Bitmain dominates Bitcoin mining, wants to cash in on AI

https://qz.com/1053799/chinas-bitmain-dominates-bitcoin-mining-now-it-wants-to-cash-in-on-artificial-intelligence/

9 years ago

139 upvotes – 58 comments

Mathematicians Tame Rogue Waves, Illuminating Future of LED Lighting

https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematicians-tame-rogue-waves-illuminating-future-of-led-lighting-20170822/

9 years ago

136 upvotes – 44 comments

Cuberite – A lightweight, fast and extensible game server for Minecraft

https://cuberite.org/

9 years ago

134 upvotes – 25 comments

Show HN: Idea Generator That Uses YC as Data

http://ycremix.com/

9 years ago

132 upvotes – 40 comments

People Start Hating Their Jobs at Age 35

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-21/people-start-hating-their-jobs-at-age-35

9 years ago

130 upvotes – 102 comments

Cyborg bacteria outperform plants when turning sunlight into useful compounds

https://phys.org/news/2017-08-cyborg-bacteria-outperform-sunlight-compounds.html

9 years ago

127 upvotes – 42 comments

What I look for in a pitch

https://news.greylock.com/what-do-i-look-for-in-a-pitch-866355bddb3

9 years ago

116 upvotes – 22 comments

The Book He Wasn't Supposed to Write

https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/08/the-secret-life-of-a-book-manuscript/536982/?single_page=true

9 years ago

114 upvotes – 27 comments

US Income Inequality: All for the Top 1%

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/08/07/opinion/leonhardt-income-inequality.html?mcubz=1

9 years ago

114 upvotes – 99 comments

Harmful Consequences of Postel's Maxim

https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-thomson-postel-was-wrong-01

9 years ago

110 upvotes – 74 comments

Cracking random number generators (xoroshiro128+)

https://lemire.me/blog/2017/08/22/cracking-random-number-generators-xoroshiro128/

9 years ago

109 upvotes – 56 comments

“We are working on getting Sublime Text 3.0 final ready to launch”

https://forum.sublimetext.com/t/is-sublime-no-longer-updated/30712/11

9 years ago

108 upvotes – 126 comments

Portugal Dominated Angola for Centuries. Now the Roles Are Reversed

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/22/world/europe/angola-portugal-money-laundering.html

9 years ago

107 upvotes – 73 comments

Answers from 2017 Common Lisp experts

https://blog.teknik.io/phoe/p/365

9 years ago

104 upvotes – 43 comments

Recognizing when two arithmetic expressions are essentially the same

https://blog.plover.com/math/24-puzzle-2.html

9 years ago

102 upvotes – 36 comments

Microsoft Announces Age of Empires IV

https://thenextweb.com/gaming/2017/08/22/microsoft-announces-age-of-empires-iv/

9 years ago

99 upvotes – 59 comments

SEC Is Studying Spotify's Plan to Bypass IPO in NYSE Listing

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-21/sec-is-said-to-study-spotify-plan-to-bypass-ipo-in-nyse-listing

9 years ago

96 upvotes – 135 comments

Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Could Have Caused 2 Years of Darkness

http://astrobiology.com/2017/08/dinosaur-killing-asteroid-could-have-caused-2-years-of-darkness.html

9 years ago

91 upvotes – 61 comments

Winner-take-all effects in autonomous cars

http://ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2017/8/20/winner-takes-all

9 years ago

89 upvotes – 85 comments

What Is Trump Worth to Twitter? One Analyst Estimates $2B

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-17/what-is-trump-worth-to-twitter-one-analyst-estimates-2-billion

9 years ago

89 upvotes – 88 comments

The World Belongs to Those Who Create

https://www.sophiaellis.co/blog/the-world-belongs-to-those-who-create-vs-those-who-consume

9 years ago

89 upvotes – 78 comments

Dealing with IPv6 fragmentation in the DNS

https://blog.apnic.net/2017/08/22/dealing-ipv6-fragmentation-dns/

9 years ago

87 upvotes – 42 comments

Bitdefender Anti-Virus: Heap Buffer Overflow via 7z LZMA

https://landave.io/2017/08/bitdefender-heap-buffer-overflow-via-7z-lzma/

9 years ago

83 upvotes – 58 comments

Professors’ unprofessional programs have created a new profession

https://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21695377-professors-unprofessional-programs-have-created-new-profession-more

9 years ago

81 upvotes – 100 comments

Exploring bump mapping with WebGL

http://apoorvaj.io/exploring-bump-mapping-with-webgl.html

9 years ago

80 upvotes – 15 comments

MS: Bitcoin mining uses as much electricity as 1M US homes

https://twitter.com/FatTailCapital/status/899714838796148745

9 years ago

79 upvotes – 95 comments

What’s Your Heart-Rate Variability? It May Be Time to Find Out

https://www.wsj.com/articles/whats-your-heart-rate-variability-it-may-be-time-to-find-out-1498442460

9 years ago

78 upvotes – 37 comments

Harpy, a “Fire and Forget” autonomous weapon drone

http://www.iai.co.il/2013/36694-16153-en/Business_Areas_Land.aspx

9 years ago

76 upvotes – 46 comments

Reverse Engineering My Home Security System: Decompiling Firmware Updates

https://markclayton.github.io/reverse-engineering-my-home-security-system-decompiling-firmware-updates.html

9 years ago

76 upvotes – 19 comments

Verizon’s good unlimited data plan is now three bad unlimited plans

https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/22/16181362/verizon-new-unlimited-data-plan-video-throttling-net-neutrality

9 years ago

73 upvotes – 69 comments

Red Over Red, the Failure of U.S. Navy Leadership

http://gcaptain.com/editorial-red-red-us-naval-leadership-not-command/

9 years ago

71 upvotes – 70 comments

Effective immediately I am stepping down from the Nodejs TSC

https://medium.com/@mylesborins/effective-immediately-i-am-stepping-down-from-the-nodejs-tsc-3df37c6ccbae

9 years ago

71 upvotes – 128 comments

The Neurodiversity Case for Free Speech

http://quillette.com/2017/07/18/neurodiversity-case-free-speech/

9 years ago

67 upvotes – 70 comments

Single-Molecule Transistors at Room Temperature

http://engineering.columbia.edu/news/latha-venkataraman-single-molecule-transistor

9 years ago

64 upvotes – 20 comments

Gaps in basic knowledge of deep sea life

https://phys.org/news/2017-08-gaps-basic-knowledge-deep-sea.html

9 years ago

58 upvotes – 6 comments

R7RS Considered Unifier of Previous Standards (2015) [pdf]

http://andykeep.com/SchemeWorkshop2015/papers/sfpw1-2015-clinger.pdf

9 years ago

57 upvotes – 22 comments

From Julian to Gregorian Calendar

https://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/julian-gregorian-switch.html

9 years ago

56 upvotes – 31 comments
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