top 10 hacker news stories for 2017-10-07

'Our minds can be hijacked': tech insiders who fear a smartphone dystopia

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/oct/05/smartphone-addiction-silicon-valley-dystopia

9 years ago

878 upvotes – 386 comments

Five minute guide to better typography

http://pierrickcalvez.com/journal/a-five-minutes-guide-to-better-typography

9 years ago

868 upvotes – 126 comments

Sorting Visualizations

https://imgur.com/gallery/RM3wl

9 years ago

651 upvotes – 35 comments

Google accused of racketeering in lawsuit

http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/10/06/google-accused-of-racketeering-in-lawsuit-claiming-pattern-of-trade-secrets-theftt/

9 years ago

417 upvotes – 187 comments

A Branchless UTF-8 Decoder

http://nullprogram.com/blog/2017/10/06/

9 years ago

303 upvotes – 107 comments

A Simple Approach to Building a Real-Time Collaborative Text Editor

http://digitalfreepen.com/2017/10/06/simple-real-time-collaborative-text-editor.html

9 years ago

250 upvotes – 23 comments

A Comparison of Four Algorithms Textbooks (2016)

https://porgionesanke.wordpress.com/2016/07/11/a-comparison-of-four-algorithms-textbooks/

9 years ago

239 upvotes – 46 comments

Show HN: A platform for sharing DIY solar projects

http://sunboxlabs.com

9 years ago

236 upvotes – 61 comments

London Cutaways

http://londonist.com/london/transport/london-cutaways

9 years ago

230 upvotes – 16 comments

Optical Effects in User Interfaces

https://medium.muz.li/optical-effects-9fca82b4cd9a

9 years ago

200 upvotes – 23 comments
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