top 20 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

It’s not ok for billion-dollar companies to crowdfund

http://www.androidauthority.com/billion-dollar-company-crowdfunding-804008/

9 years ago

185 upvotes – 76 comments

Adafruit acquires RadioShack?

https://twitter.com/adafruit/status/916473322203992064

9 years ago

183 upvotes – 57 comments

Using Binary Diffing to Discover Windows Kernel Memory Disclosure Bugs

https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2017/10/using-binary-diffing-to-discover.html

9 years ago

180 upvotes – 79 comments

An introduction to North Korean graphic design

https://www.creativereview.co.uk/north-korea-graphic-design-book-phaidon/

9 years ago

178 upvotes – 54 comments

Overweight and obesity are linked to cancer

https://www.cdc.gov/media/dpk/cancer/cancer-obesity/index.html

9 years ago

175 upvotes – 129 comments

Show HN: Generate avatars from user initials

https://ui-avatars.com

9 years ago

164 upvotes – 96 comments

What's the ultimate way to defy depression, disease and early death? Exercise

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/oct/03/exercise-depression-disease-death-sit-less-move-more

9 years ago

157 upvotes – 127 comments

Testing Cliqz in Firefox

https://blog.mozilla.org/press-uk/2017/10/06/testing-cliqz-in-firefox/

9 years ago

156 upvotes – 159 comments

These problems were designed to prevent Jewish people from passing (2011)

https://arxiv.org/abs/1110.1556

9 years ago

156 upvotes – 170 comments

In Mysterious Pattern, Math and Nature Converge

https://www.quantamagazine.org/in-mysterious-pattern-math-and-nature-converge-20130205/

9 years ago

152 upvotes – 8 comments
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