top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-08-30

A camera that snaps a GIF and ejects a cartridge that displays it

http://imgur.com/gallery/CG9w4

9 years ago

Headless mode in Firefox

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox/Headless_mode

9 years ago

Google Critic Ousted from Think Tank Funded by the Tech Giant

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/30/us/politics/eric-schmidt-google-new-america.html

9 years ago

How Not to Sort by Average Rating (2009)

http://www.evanmiller.org/how-not-to-sort-by-average-rating.html

9 years ago

How the GDPR Will Disrupt Google and Facebook

https://pagefair.com/blog/2017/gdpr_risk_to_the_duopoly/

9 years ago

Intro to Low-Level Graphics on Linux

http://betteros.org/tut/graphics1.php

9 years ago

Bitcoin's Academic Pedigree

http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3136559

9 years ago

Concurrent JavaScript: It can work

https://webkit.org/blog/7846/concurrent-javascript-it-can-work/

9 years ago

The life and death of a startup

https://cecinestpasun.com/entries/autopsy-of-a-slow-train-wreck/

9 years ago

Hardening the Kernel in Android Oreo

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2017/08/hardening-kernel-in-android-oreo.html

9 years ago

Reducing Python's startup time

https://lwn.net/Articles/730915/

9 years ago

We Need to Nationalise Google, Facebook and Amazon

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/aug/30/nationalise-google-facebook-amazon-data-monopoly-platform-public-interest

9 years ago

Berlin Is Becoming a Sponge City [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWjGGvY65jk

9 years ago

PhD Productivity Strategy: Do Deep Work in Less Hours

http://www.nextscientist.com/phd-productivity-strategy-deep-work/

9 years ago

Candy Japan total sales cross $1M

https://www.candyjapan.com/behind-the-scenes/sales-cross-million-dollars

9 years ago

A Floating Mass of Fire Ants in Texas

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/08/fire-ants-flooding-hurricane-harvey/538365/?single_page=true

9 years ago

Repeating Radio Signals Coming from Distant Galaxy Detected

http://www.newsweek.com/frb-fast-radio-bursts-deep-space-breakthrough-listen-657144

9 years ago

Introducing .NET IL Linker

https://github.com/dotnet/announcements/issues/30

9 years ago

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Lisk: Blockchain development in JavaScript

https://blog.lisk.io/what-is-lisk-and-what-it-isnt-e7b6b6188211

9 years ago

Today is the last chance to comment on the proposal to kill net neutrality

https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/30/today-is-your-last-chance-to-comment-on-the-proposal-to-kill-net-neutrality

9 years ago

Terry Pratchett's unfinished novels destroyed by steamroller

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/aug/30/terry-pratchett-unfinished-novels-destroyed-streamroller

9 years ago

Drone Building 101

https://airfield.io

9 years ago

TensorFlow Tutorial and Examples for beginners

https://github.com/aymericdamien/TensorFlow-Examples

9 years ago

★ 43.7k Jupyter Notebook

Show HN: A neural net that critiques your logo

http://brandmark.io/logo-rank/

9 years ago

Java.­math.­BigDecimal toString is not thread safe

http://vmlens.com/articles/java-math-BigDecimal-toString-is-not-threadsafe/

9 years ago

New t-shirt sewing robot can make as many shirts per hour as 17 factory workers

https://qz.com/1064679/a-new-t-shirt-sewing-robot-can-make-as-many-shirts-per-hour-as-17-factory-workers/

9 years ago

How V8 handles JavaScript properties internally

http://v8project.blogspot.com/2017/08/fast-properties.html

9 years ago

The Development of the C Language

https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/chist.html

9 years ago

Deploying a global, private CDN

https://blog.edgemesh.com/deploy-a-global-private-cdn-on-your-lunch-break-7550e9a9ad7e

9 years ago

Ask HN: What are some good sources of climate data to analyze?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15132145

9 years ago

Epsilon: Graphing calculator operating system

https://github.com/numworks/epsilon

9 years ago

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Restic Cryptography

https://blog.filippo.io/restic-cryptography/

9 years ago

What on earth possessed me... (2008)

http://fontforge.github.io/ff-history.html

9 years ago

The Why and How of Google AMP at Condé Nast

https://technology.condenast.com/story/the-why-and-how-of-google-amp-at-conde-nast

9 years ago

Rayton Solar: Legitimate Investment or Scam?

https://medium.com/truth-review/rayton-solar-legitimate-scam-in-between-7c8e5295265d

9 years ago

Naval Ravikant on Time [audio]

https://factordaily.com/outliers-6-naval-ravikant-monk-valley-tells-us-hes-ruthless-time/

9 years ago

Google Cloud Networking Incident

https://status.cloud.google.com/incident/cloud-networking/17002

9 years ago

Engineering Uber's Self-Driving Car Visualization Platform for the Web

https://eng.uber.com/atg-dataviz/

9 years ago

The Software Engineering Rule of 3

https://erikbern.com/amp/2017/08/29/the-software-engineering-rule-of-3.html

9 years ago

My smartphone as a shortcut helper

http://www.mathieupassenaud.fr/my-smartphone-as-a-shortcut-helper/

9 years ago

Humble Book Bundle: Data Science

https://www.humblebundle.com/books/data-science-books

9 years ago

Ancient whales were predators not gentle giants

https://phys.org/news/2017-08-ancient-whales-predators-gentle-giants.html

9 years ago

A backlash against the herbicide Dicamba

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/this-miracle-weed-killer-was-supposed-to-save-farms-instead-its-devastating-them/2017/08/29/33a21a56-88e3-11e7-961d-2f373b3977ee_story.html

9 years ago

Show HN: An API to provision custom hostnames with SSL

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15135552

9 years ago

U.S. stock valuations haven’t been this extreme since 1929 and 2000

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/us-stock-valuations-havent-been-this-extreme-since-1929-and-2000-2017-08-22?link=sfmw_fb

9 years ago

AMD’s Epyc Pummels Intel’s New Xeon-W Workstation CPUs

https://www.semiaccurate.com/2017/08/29/amds-epyc-pummels-intels-new-xeon-w-workstation-cpus/

9 years ago

Laser Products I Hate

http://www.funraniumlabs.com/2017/08/laser-products-hate/

9 years ago

Alexa and Cortana now work together

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/30/technology/amazon-alexa-microsoft-cortana.html

9 years ago