top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-08-24

“Learning How to Learn,” the most popular course on Coursera

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/04/education/edlife/learning-how-to-learn-barbara-oakley.html?hpw&rref=education&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well

9 years ago

848 upvotes – 183 comments

Feather: Open-source icons

https://feathericons.com

9 years ago

844 upvotes – 140 comments

Ask HN: What is your favorite CS paper?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15089476

9 years ago

793 upvotes – 257 comments

Windy.com

https://www.windy.com/

9 years ago

580 upvotes – 103 comments

Right to Privacy a Fundamental Right, Says Indian Supreme Court

https://thewire.in/170303/supreme-court-aadhaar-right-to-privacy/

9 years ago

527 upvotes – 202 comments

Water Found Deep Inside the Moon

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/07/water-moon-formed-volcanoes-glass-space-science/

9 years ago

477 upvotes – 267 comments

The Librem 5: A Matrix-Native FLOSS Smartphone

https://matrix.org/blog/2017/08/24/the-librem-5-from-purism-a-matrix-native-smartphone/

9 years ago

421 upvotes – 161 comments

I spent my career in tech, but wasn’t prepared for its effect on my kids

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/parenting/wp/2017/08/24/melinda-gates-i-spent-my-career-in-technology-i-wasnt-prepared-for-its-effect-on-my-kids/

9 years ago

406 upvotes – 372 comments

Go 1.9 is released

https://blog.golang.org/go1.9

9 years ago

394 upvotes – 128 comments

Weird Python Integers

https://kate.io/blog/2017/08/22/weird-python-integers/

9 years ago

367 upvotes – 146 comments

Amazon cuts Whole Foods prices

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/business/wp/2017/08/24/amazons-takeover-of-whole-foods-begins-monday-and-youll-see-changes-right-away/?utm_term=.f02c44b3de6a

9 years ago

343 upvotes – 246 comments

The Web in 2050

http://jacquesmattheij.com/the-web-in-2050

9 years ago

333 upvotes – 153 comments

Billionaire Porn King Reinvents Himself as Japan's Startup Guru

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-23/billionaire-porn-king-reinvents-himself-as-japan-s-startup-guru

9 years ago

308 upvotes – 98 comments

Tesla’s Push to Build a Self-Driving Car Sparks Dissent Among Its Engineers

https://www.wsj.com/articles/teslas-push-to-build-a-self-driving-car-sparks-dissent-among-its-engineers-1503593742

9 years ago

245 upvotes – 383 comments

Deep Learning for Siri’s Voice

https://machinelearning.apple.com/2017/08/06/siri-voices.html

9 years ago

234 upvotes – 90 comments

Clarity Icons: open source icons

https://vmware.github.io/clarity/icons/clarity-icons

9 years ago

217 upvotes – 41 comments

Making your first dollar from a SaaS project

https://www.indiehackers.com/@czue/what-actually-goes-into-making-your-first-dollar-from-a-saas-project-49d98f7d45

9 years ago

209 upvotes – 79 comments

How did “Handbook for Mortals” get on the NYT bestseller list?

http://www.pajiba.com/book_reviews/did-this-book-buy-its-way-onto-the-new-york-times-bestseller-list.php

9 years ago

208 upvotes – 79 comments

A straight talk about btrfs

https://www.suse.com/communities/blog/butter-bei-die-fische/

9 years ago

204 upvotes – 162 comments

Ask HN: How much do developers earn in Europe?

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScTh14SV6qbMvGrGz5-XQz0aGp04j5M4P_4ciaSOXsTBfzvGA/viewform

9 years ago

201 upvotes – 180 comments

Rules for new FPGA designers

http://zipcpu.com/blog/2017/08/21/rules-for-newbies.html

9 years ago

190 upvotes – 74 comments

Debian reproducibility statistics

https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/reproducible.html

9 years ago

188 upvotes – 70 comments

Teacher builds $50M a year business with learning materials

http://www.ocregister.com/2017/08/23/orange-county-teacher-builds-50-million-a-year-business-with-learning-materials/

9 years ago

186 upvotes – 14 comments

Good News for Young Strivers: Networking Is Overrated

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/24/opinion/sunday/networking-connections-business.html

9 years ago

176 upvotes – 108 comments

Practicing Elixir or any programming language

https://ericdouglas.github.io/2017/08/24/practicing-the-elixir-language/

9 years ago

173 upvotes – 58 comments

Off-main-thread HTML parsing in Servo

https://blog.servo.org/2017/08/24/gsoc-parsing/

9 years ago

165 upvotes – 42 comments

An algorithm that recreates 3D objects from tiny 2D images

https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/23/this-algorithm-cleverly-recreates-3d-objects-from-tiny-2d-images

9 years ago

161 upvotes – 34 comments

JavaScript is Eating the World

https://dev.to/anthonydelgado/javascript-is-eating-the-world

9 years ago

160 upvotes – 311 comments

Generic GPU Kernels in Julia

http://mikeinnes.github.io/2017/08/24/cudanative.html

9 years ago

157 upvotes – 14 comments

How Google Could Collapse

https://hackernoon.com/how-google-collapsed-b6ffa82198ee

9 years ago

155 upvotes – 128 comments

Gtk-rs: The huge and long awaited release is finally here

http://gtk-rs.org/blog/2017/08/20/new-release.html

9 years ago

147 upvotes – 44 comments

Don't mine Bitcoin, mine Altcoins

https://hackcabin.com/post/dont-mine-bitcoin-mine-altcoins/

9 years ago

140 upvotes – 130 comments

Susan Fowler files amicus briefs to challenge class action waivers

https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/23/susan-fowlers-lawyers-just-told-the-supreme-court-why-tech-cos-should-eliminate-arbitration-agreements/

9 years ago

139 upvotes – 31 comments

Titan in depth: Security in plaintext

https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/08/Titan-in-depth-security-in-plaintext.html

9 years ago

129 upvotes – 40 comments

I'm giving up on HPKP

https://scotthelme.co.uk/im-giving-up-on-hpkp/

9 years ago

127 upvotes – 71 comments

Gut Microbes May Talk to the Brain Through Cortisol

http://neurosciencenews.com/gut-microbes-cortisol-7338/

9 years ago

124 upvotes – 27 comments

Trying to corner the market on legal marijuana

https://www.gq.com/story/the-great-pot-monopoly-mystery

9 years ago

124 upvotes – 64 comments

Introducing App Engine Firewall

https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/08/introducing-App-Engine-firewall-an-easy-way-to-control-access-to-your-app.html

9 years ago

114 upvotes – 33 comments

GCC tiny

http://thinkingeek.com/gcc-tiny/

9 years ago

111 upvotes – 16 comments

Rich Hickey's Greatest Hits (2013)

https://changelog.com/posts/rich-hickeys-greatest-hits

9 years ago

109 upvotes – 21 comments

VW Strike in Slovakia Exposes a European Divide

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-06-21/a-strike-in-slovakia-exposes-a-european-divide

9 years ago

105 upvotes – 93 comments

State Supreme Court Says Digital Cameras Can't Be Searched Without a Warrant

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170821/10485338053/state-supreme-court-says-digital-phones-cant-be-searched-without-warrant.shtml

9 years ago

104 upvotes – 26 comments

Ethereum White Paper – annotated version (2015)

http://fermatslibrary.com/s/ethereum-a-next-generation-smart-contract-and-decentralized-application-platform#email-newsletter

9 years ago

102 upvotes – 15 comments

Ask HN: How to move past 150k/200k in compensation?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15093160

9 years ago

100 upvotes – 64 comments

Turing.jl: A Fresh Approach to Probabilistic Programming in Julia

http://turing.guru/

9 years ago

93 upvotes – 14 comments

Uber, Mired in Corporate Scandals, Sees Uptick in Bookings

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/23/technology/uber-mired-in-corporate-scandals-sees-uptick-in-bookings.html

9 years ago

90 upvotes – 93 comments
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