top 20 hacker news stories for 2017-08-23

Disconnect. Offline only

https://chris.bolin.co/offline/

8 years ago

601 upvotes – 199 comments

iOS 11 Safari will automatically strip AMP links from shared URLs

https://twitter.com/viticci/status/900396684844433409

8 years ago

534 upvotes – 420 comments

A Thorium-Salt Reactor Has Fired Up for the First Time in Four Decades

http://www.thoriumenergyworld.com/news/finally-worlds-first-tmsr-experiment-in-over-40-years-started

8 years ago

475 upvotes – 161 comments

Universities are broke – let’s cut the pointless admin and get back to teaching

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/aug/21/universities-broke-cut-pointless-admin-teaching

8 years ago

427 upvotes – 288 comments

The Interface font family

https://rsms.me/interface/

8 years ago

410 upvotes – 86 comments

HackerNews Grid

http://hackernewsgrid.com/

8 years ago

359 upvotes – 115 comments

Introducing Network Service Tiers

https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/08/introducing-Network-Service-Tiers-your-cloud-network-your-way.html

8 years ago

346 upvotes – 204 comments

Wall Street Banks Warn Downturn Is Coming

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-22/wall-street-banks-warn-winter-is-coming-as-business-cycle-peaks

8 years ago

332 upvotes – 385 comments

ThoughtWorks has been sold to private equity

https://martinfowler.com/articles/201708-tw-sale.html

8 years ago

319 upvotes – 185 comments

Inside Waymo's Secret World for Training Self-Driving Cars

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/08/inside-waymos-secret-testing-and-simulation-facilities/537648/?single_page=true

8 years ago

310 upvotes – 134 comments

A history of branch prediction

https://danluu.com/branch-prediction/

8 years ago

300 upvotes – 65 comments

Moving The New York Times Games Platform to Google App Engine

https://open.nytimes.com/moving-the-new-york-times-games-platform-to-google-app-engine-e9337f2c9444

8 years ago

297 upvotes – 143 comments

Apple Scales Back Its Ambitions for a Self-Driving Car

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/22/technology/apple-self-driving-car.html

8 years ago

272 upvotes – 419 comments

Why I haven't jumped ship from Common Lisp to Racket just yet

http://fare.livejournal.com/188429.html

8 years ago

270 upvotes – 99 comments

A ship that flips 90 degrees for precise scientific measurements

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/flip-ocean-research-platform-scripps

8 years ago

257 upvotes – 75 comments

Rethinking the D-Bus Message Bus

https://dvdhrm.github.io/rethinking-the-dbus-message-bus/

8 years ago

253 upvotes – 138 comments

D as a Better C

http://dlang.org/blog/2017/08/23/d-as-a-better-c/

8 years ago

242 upvotes – 184 comments

Amazon has as much office space in Seattle as the next 40 biggest employers

http://www.seattletimes.com/business/amazon/thanks-to-amazon-seattle-is-now-americas-biggest-company-town/

8 years ago

237 upvotes – 192 comments

Offline-Friendly Forms

https://mxb.at/blog/offline-forms/

8 years ago

236 upvotes – 63 comments

Alaska’s thawing soils are now pouring carbon dioxide into the air

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/05/08/alaskas-tundra-is-filling-the-atmosphere-with-carbon-dioxide-worsening-climate-change/?utm_term=.da7f3e23dc07

8 years ago

217 upvotes – 207 comments
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