top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-09-01

Insane state of today's advertising part 3

https://plus.google.com/+ArtemRussakovskii/posts/53n5LdCYTbF

9 years ago

961 upvotes – 420 comments

The art of over-engineering your side projects

https://elsyms.com/the-art-of-over-engineering-your-side-projects/

9 years ago

869 upvotes – 257 comments

Yes, Google Uses Its Power to Quash Ideas It Doesn’t Like

http://gizmodo.com/yes-google-uses-its-power-to-quash-ideas-it-doesn-t-li-1798646437

9 years ago

605 upvotes – 190 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2017)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15148885

9 years ago

573 upvotes – 965 comments

Juicero Is Shutting Down

http://fortune.com/2017/09/01/juicero-is-shutting-down/

9 years ago

415 upvotes – 394 comments

Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2017 – Show and tell

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15148804

9 years ago

292 upvotes – 239 comments

Great Ideas in Theoretical Computer Science

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~aada/courses/15251f15/www/schedule.html

9 years ago

290 upvotes – 58 comments

It’s Okay to “Forget” What You Read

https://medium.com/the-polymath-project/its-okay-to-forget-what-you-read-f4ef1c34cc01

9 years ago

275 upvotes – 58 comments

US government halts study on health effects of coal mining

https://www.nature.com/news/closure-of-us-coal-study-marks-an-alarming-precedent-1.22512

9 years ago

266 upvotes – 92 comments

Bad UX: How Booking.com deceives clients

https://medium.com/@ilyadoroshin/bad-ux-how-booking-com-deceives-clients-5dc9e9485f32

9 years ago

263 upvotes – 145 comments

Internet Censorship Bill Could Spell Disaster for Speech and Innovation

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/08/internet-censorship-bill-would-spell-disaster-speech-and-innovation

9 years ago

235 upvotes – 74 comments

Read This Before You Build Uber for X

https://blog.ycombinator.com/read-this-before-you-build-uber-for-x/

9 years ago

231 upvotes – 232 comments

Rapid release at massive scale

https://code.facebook.com/posts/270314900139291/rapid-release-at-massive-scale/

9 years ago

220 upvotes – 97 comments

Lu Ban's axe and working with your Chinese suppliers

https://hackaday.com/2017/08/30/lu-bans-axe-and-working-with-your-chinese-suppliers/

9 years ago

203 upvotes – 155 comments

Supporting Hypothesis

https://stripe.com/blog/hypothesis

9 years ago

199 upvotes – 34 comments

Gnu Privacy Guard relies on one underfunded person (2015)

https://www.propublica.org/article/the-worlds-email-encryption-software-relies-on-one-guy-who-is-going-broke

9 years ago

199 upvotes – 70 comments

Mathematics of Machine Learning (2016)

http://datascience.ibm.com/blog/the-mathematics-of-machine-learning/

9 years ago

191 upvotes – 25 comments

U.S. Employers Struggle to Match Workers with Open Jobs

http://www.npr.org/2017/08/31/547646709/u-s-employers-struggle-to-match-workers-with-open-jobs

9 years ago

190 upvotes – 382 comments

Ask HN: How did you get started in Network Security/Penetration Testing?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15152957

9 years ago

185 upvotes – 64 comments

Making a GTK Video Player with Haskell

https://lettier.github.io/posts/2017-08-30-haskell-gtk-video-player.html

9 years ago

183 upvotes – 39 comments

De-Anonymizing Programmers via Code Stylometry (2015) [pdf]

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/usenixsecurity15/sec15-paper-caliskan-islam.pdf

9 years ago

173 upvotes – 52 comments

Children's books with humans have greater moral impact than animals, study finds

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/sep/01/only-childrens-books-with-humans-have-moral-impact-study-finds

9 years ago

172 upvotes – 60 comments

Tanzania becomes the latest country to use Zipline drones for medical deliveries

https://www.iafrikan.com/2017/08/31/tanzania-becomes-the-latest-country-to-use-zipline-drones-for-medical-supplies-deliveries/

9 years ago

171 upvotes – 40 comments

The Huge Premium Intel Is Charging for Skylake Xeons

https://www.nextplatform.com/2017/09/01/huge-premium-intel-charging-skylake-xeons/

9 years ago

170 upvotes – 149 comments

Redesigning Python's named tuples

https://lwn.net/Articles/731423/

9 years ago

165 upvotes – 128 comments

Alphabet Finishes Reorganization with New XXVI Company

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-01/alphabet-wraps-up-reorganization-with-a-new-company-called-xxvi

9 years ago

149 upvotes – 113 comments

Linux desktop market share over 3%

https://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qprid=9&qpcustomb=0

9 years ago

146 upvotes – 157 comments

How to Escape Saddle Points Efficiently

http://bair.berkeley.edu/blog/2017/08/31/saddle-efficiency/

9 years ago

144 upvotes – 38 comments

Michael Dell Pledges $36M in Harvey Relief

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/01/business/michael-dell-foundation-harvey.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Ftechnology&action=click&contentCollection=technology&region=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=sectionfront

9 years ago

138 upvotes – 68 comments

Why we moved from Angular 2 to Vue.js and why we didn’t choose React

https://medium.com/reverdev/why-we-moved-from-angular-2-to-vue-js-and-why-we-didnt-choose-react-ef807d9f4163

9 years ago

138 upvotes – 143 comments

Twitter Bots Use Likes, RTs for Intimidation

http://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/08/twitter-bots-use-likes-rts-for-intimidation/

9 years ago

125 upvotes – 39 comments

LangPro: Natural Language Theorem Prover

https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.09417

9 years ago

122 upvotes – 13 comments

Simple Techniques for Lowering the Cost of Zero-Energy Homes

http://www.greenbuildingadvisor.com/blogs/dept/guest-blogs/simple-techniques-lowering-cost-zero-energy-homes

9 years ago

121 upvotes – 87 comments

Ask HN: Do you do any mentoring outside of work?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15147606

9 years ago

113 upvotes – 132 comments

SIDH in Go for quantum-resistant TLS 1.3

https://blog.cloudflare.com/sidh-go/

9 years ago

107 upvotes – 19 comments

Introducing Exclusive Features to GitLab.com Bronze, Silver and Gold Plans

https://about.gitlab.com/2017/09/01/gitlab-com-paid-features/

9 years ago

104 upvotes – 80 comments

Ask HN: Who's mentoring?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15148619

9 years ago

103 upvotes – 40 comments

An update on the state of the Reddit repositories

https://www.reddit.com/r/changelog/comments/6xfyfg/an_update_on_the_state_of_the_redditreddit_and/

9 years ago

98 upvotes – 45 comments

Principles of Automated Testing

http://www.lihaoyi.com/post/PrinciplesofAutomatedTesting.html

9 years ago

97 upvotes – 8 comments

Dear Twitter, Please Make AMP Optional

https://www.alexkras.com/dear-twitter-please-make-amp-optional/

9 years ago

95 upvotes – 66 comments

The DUNGEON (Zork I) source

https://github.com/devshane/zork

9 years ago

★ 643 C
94 upvotes – 50 comments

‘This is crazy,’ sobs Utah hospital nurse as cop arrests her for doing her job

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/09/01/this-is-crazy-sobs-utah-hospital-nurse-as-cop-roughs-her-up-arrests-her-for-doing-her-job/

9 years ago

93 upvotes – 77 comments

Uber for X Startups that Failed

http://nextjuggernaut.com/blog/11-uber-for-x-startups-that-failed-are-you-making-the-same-mistakes/

9 years ago

92 upvotes – 38 comments

Reverse Engineering X86 Processor Microcode

https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity17/technical-sessions/presentation/koppe

9 years ago

91 upvotes – 12 comments

Elon Musk Describes What Great Communication Looks Like

https://www.inc.com/justin-bariso/this-email-from-elon-musk-to-tesla-employees-descr.html

9 years ago

90 upvotes – 20 comments

C compiler undefined behavior: calls never-called function

https://gcc.godbolt.org/#%7B%22version%22%3A3%2C%22filterAsm%22%3A%7B%22labels%22%3Atrue%2C%22directives%22%3Atrue%2C%22commentOnly%22%3Atrue%7D%2C%22compilers%22%3A%5B%7B%22sourcez%22%3A%22MQSwdgxgNgrgJgUwAQB4IGcAucogEYB8AUEZgJ4AOCiAZkuJkgBQBUAYjJJiAPZgCUTfgG4SWAIbcISDl15gkAER6iiEqfTCMAogCdx6BAEEoUIUgDeRJEl0JMMXQvRksCALZMARLvdIAtLp0APReIkQAviQAbjwgcEgAcgjRCLoAwuKm1OZWNspIALxIegbGpsI2kSQMSO7i4LnWtvaOCspCohFAA%3D%3D%22%2C%22compiler%22%3A%22%2Fopt%2Fclang%2Bllvm-3.4.1-x86_64-unknown-ubuntu12.04%2Fbin%2Fclang%2B%2B%22%2C%22options%22%3A%22-Os%20-std%3Dc%2B%2B11%20-Wall%22%7D%5D%7D

9 years ago

87 upvotes – 83 comments

CAPH – High level dataflow programming for FPGAs

http://caph.univ-bpclermont.fr/CAPH/CAPH.html

9 years ago

87 upvotes – 2 comments

Sile – Simon's Improved Layout Engine

https://github.com/simoncozens/sile

9 years ago

★ 1.7k Lua MIT
85 upvotes – 27 comments

Drones Are Speeding Hurricane Harvey Response

http://3dinsider.com/drones-hurricane-harvey/

9 years ago

84 upvotes – 36 comments

“this code very fast” pull request to remove whitespace from linux kernel

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/437

9 years ago

★ 231k C
83 upvotes – 55 comments

Reporter: Google successfully pressured me to take down critical story

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/09/reporter-google-successfully-pressured-me-to-take-down-critical-story/#p3

9 years ago

82 upvotes – 22 comments

LuaTeX Comes of Age

https://lwn.net/Articles/731581/

9 years ago

81 upvotes – 28 comments

Work at the edge of your range

http://blog.ayjay.org/at-the-edge-of-your-range/

9 years ago

80 upvotes – 39 comments
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