top 50% 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

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

https://arxiv.org/abs/1110.1556

9 years ago

156 upvotes – 170 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

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

Physics, Topology, Logic and Computation: A Rosetta Stone (2009) [pdf]

https://arxiv.org/abs/0903.0340

9 years ago

146 upvotes – 31 comments

Australian police sting brings down paedophile forum on dark web

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/oct/07/australian-police-sting-brings-down-paedophile-forum-on-dark-web

9 years ago

142 upvotes – 108 comments

Show HN: Hacker News desktop application in Kotlin/Swing

https://github.com/westoncb/HNDesktop

9 years ago

★ 81 Kotlin MIT
141 upvotes – 90 comments

A scientist who spots fake videos

https://www.nature.com/news/the-scientist-who-spots-fake-videos-1.22784

9 years ago

138 upvotes – 35 comments

Why can't the IT industry deliver large, faultless projects quickly?

https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/158640/why-cant-the-it-industry-deliver-large-faultless-projects-quickly-as-in-other

9 years ago

127 upvotes – 84 comments

Rich Hickey's response to “On whose authority?”

https://www.reddit.com/r/Clojure/comments/73yznc/on_whose_authority/do1olag/

9 years ago

124 upvotes – 77 comments

Driving the “Worst Car Ever Built” (2015)

https://jalopnik.com/what-its-like-to-drive-the-worst-car-ever-built-1735448480

9 years ago

121 upvotes – 65 comments

Asset prices are high across the board

https://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21730019-ultra-loose-monetary-policy-coming-end-it-best-tread-carefully-asset-prices-are

9 years ago

117 upvotes – 74 comments

Tips for finding security issues in GitHub projects

https://gist.github.com/EdOverflow/922549f610b258f459b219a32f92d10b

9 years ago

115 upvotes – 7 comments

Scam baiter: Why I risk death threats to expose online cons

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-41518352

9 years ago

114 upvotes – 43 comments

Apple2fpga: Reconstructing an Apple II+ on an FPGA (2008)

http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~sedwards/apple2fpga/

9 years ago

114 upvotes – 21 comments

React, Inline Functions, and Performance

https://cdb.reacttraining.com/react-inline-functions-and-performance-bdff784f5578

9 years ago

105 upvotes – 26 comments

Time Travel Debugging

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/debugger/time-travel-debugging-overview

9 years ago

100 upvotes – 49 comments

Are Hunter-Gatherers The Happiest Humans To Inhabit Earth?

http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2017/10/01/551018759/are-hunter-gatherers-the-happiest-humans-to-inhabit-earth

9 years ago

99 upvotes – 131 comments

Confessions of a Failed Female Coder

https://hackernoon.com/confessions-of-a-failed-female-coder-956cbe138c69

9 years ago

97 upvotes – 125 comments

How we run NPM packages in the browser

https://scrimba.com/c/c6azJtG

9 years ago

97 upvotes – 30 comments
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