top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-08-23

Disconnect. Offline only

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

9 years ago

601 upvotes – 199 comments

iOS 11 Safari will automatically strip AMP links from shared URLs

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

9 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

9 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

9 years ago

427 upvotes – 288 comments

The Interface font family

https://rsms.me/interface/

9 years ago

410 upvotes – 86 comments

HackerNews Grid

http://hackernewsgrid.com/

9 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

9 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

9 years ago

332 upvotes – 385 comments

ThoughtWorks has been sold to private equity

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

9 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

9 years ago

310 upvotes – 134 comments

A history of branch prediction

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

9 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

9 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

9 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

9 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

9 years ago

257 upvotes – 75 comments

Rethinking the D-Bus Message Bus

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

9 years ago

253 upvotes – 138 comments

D as a Better C

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

9 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/

9 years ago

237 upvotes – 192 comments

Offline-Friendly Forms

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

9 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

9 years ago

217 upvotes – 207 comments

Billionaires and big ag are joining venture investors to fund lab-grown meat

https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/23/billionaires-and-big-ag-are-joining-venture-investors-to-fund-lab-grown-meat/

9 years ago

214 upvotes – 149 comments

New and improved bike routing, with low stress options

https://mapzen.com/blog/low-stress-bike-routing/

9 years ago

204 upvotes – 111 comments

Disney’s Choice

https://stratechery.com/2017/disneys-choice/

9 years ago

204 upvotes – 82 comments

Wading Through AccuWeather’s Response

https://daringfireball.net/2017/08/wading_through_accuweathers_bullshit_response

9 years ago

190 upvotes – 70 comments

Write a hash table in C

https://github.com/jamesroutley/write-a-hash-table

9 years ago

★ 4.3k MIT
189 upvotes – 52 comments

“This project violates the MIT license of Gemstash”

https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/google-cloud-gemserver/issues/36#issuecomment-324503159

9 years ago

★ 45 Ruby Apache-2.0
186 upvotes – 115 comments

Dangers of Sitting

https://www.bloomberg.com/quicktake/dangers-of-sitting

9 years ago

184 upvotes – 158 comments

Stencil – A reusable web component generator

https://stenciljs.com/

9 years ago

182 upvotes – 103 comments

Why I Still Use Vim

https://medium.com/@caspervonb/why-i-still-use-vim-67afd76b4db6

9 years ago

168 upvotes – 197 comments

1 in 3 Americans Have $0 Saved for Retirement (2016)

https://www.gobankingrates.com/retirement/1-3-americans-0-saved-retirement/

9 years ago

163 upvotes – 289 comments

Ex-lottery worker who rigged winnings gets 25 years in prison

http://money.cnn.com/2017/08/22/news/iowa-lottery-sentencing/index.html

9 years ago

158 upvotes – 242 comments

Web merchants routinely leak data about Bitcoin purchases

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/608716/bitcoin-transactions-arent-as-anonymous-as-everyone-hoped/

9 years ago

158 upvotes – 54 comments

We Live in Fear of the Online Mobs

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-08-22/we-live-in-fear-of-the-online-mobs

9 years ago

153 upvotes – 190 comments

FTC Approves of Amazon and Whole Foods Deal

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2017/08/statement-federal-trade-commissions-acting-director-bureau

9 years ago

152 upvotes – 65 comments

Beta Family: 50k Users to Test Your App

https://betafamily.com/

9 years ago

150 upvotes – 40 comments

Companies from Y Combinator’s Summer 2017 Demo Day (Day 2)

https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/22/yc-demo-day-s17-day-2/?utm_source=tcfbpage&sr_share=facebook

9 years ago

141 upvotes – 76 comments

How are PCA and SVD related?

https://intoli.com/blog/pca-and-svd/

9 years ago

139 upvotes – 15 comments

Neo – Desired Word Processor for Authors

http://www.hughhowey.com/neo-a-word-processor-for-authors/

9 years ago

134 upvotes – 110 comments

Google TPU Performance Analysis

http://www.anandtech.com/show/11749/hot-chips-google-tpu-performance-analysis-live-blog-3pm-pt-10pm-utc

9 years ago

129 upvotes – 27 comments

Building a Wooden Word Watch for My Roommates

http://imgur.com/a/TNoh2

9 years ago

124 upvotes – 17 comments

Aging Japan Wants Automation, Not Immigration

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-08-22/aging-japan-wants-automation-not-immigration

9 years ago

114 upvotes – 133 comments

Exploit broker Zerodium ups the ante with $500k to target Signal and WhatsApp

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/08/wanted-weaponized-exploits-that-hack-phones-will-pay-top-dollar/

9 years ago

110 upvotes – 67 comments

Researchers say Exxon duped public over climate concerns

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-23/exxon-duped-public-over-climate-concerns-harvard-research-says

9 years ago

110 upvotes – 9 comments

Kim Wall: Headless body identified as missing journalist

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-41021223

9 years ago

109 upvotes – 120 comments

Code Smells: Iteration

https://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2017/08/code-smells-iteration/

9 years ago

105 upvotes – 89 comments

Sun Flyer, an Electric Trainer Aircraft

http://spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace/aviation/cheaper-lighter-quieter-the-electrification-of-flight-is-at-hand

9 years ago

105 upvotes – 91 comments

ScienceBeam – using computer vision to extract PDF data

https://elifesciences.org/labs/5b56aff6/sciencebeam-using-computer-vision-to-extract-pdf-data

9 years ago

103 upvotes – 15 comments

Node.js is forked to Ayo.js (pronounced like “IO”)

https://github.com/ayojs/ayo

9 years ago

★ 1.6k JavaScript
101 upvotes – 138 comments

Nuclear fusion is on the brink of a milestone, but faces lack of funding [audio]

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-22/the-nuclear-tech-breakthrough-that-could-make-oil-obsolete

9 years ago

97 upvotes – 105 comments

Ask HN: How long did it take you to go from side project idea to launch?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15082901

9 years ago

96 upvotes – 89 comments

The Icewind Dale Problem

http://koaning.io/the-icewind-dale-problem.html

9 years ago

95 upvotes – 70 comments

Medium rolls out a payment model for writers based on engagement

https://www.poynter.org/2017/will-clap-for-food-medium-rolls-out-a-payment-model-for-writers-based-on-engagement/471110/

9 years ago

95 upvotes – 84 comments

Psilocybin-assisted group therapy for demoralization in long-term AIDS survivors

http://clinicaltrials.ucsf.edu/trial/NCT02950467

9 years ago

91 upvotes – 39 comments

Are You Downplaying Luck’s Role in Your Life?

http://nautil.us/blog/are-you-downplaying-lucks-role-in-your-life

9 years ago

90 upvotes – 108 comments

The Dark Side of Resilience

https://hbr.org/2017/08/the-dark-side-of-resilience

9 years ago

86 upvotes – 47 comments

Whalesong: a Racket to JavaScript compiler

http://www.hashcollision.org/whalesong/

9 years ago

81 upvotes – 10 comments
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