top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-10-08

Designing Data-Intensive Applications

https://dataintensive.net/

9 years ago

598 upvotes – 59 comments

Deutsche Bank makes source code publicly available for the first time

https://www.db.com/newsroom_news/2017/deutsche-bank-makes-its-computer-code-publicly-available-for-the-first-time-en-11674.htm

9 years ago

482 upvotes – 201 comments

Show HN: A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to find, written in Rust

https://github.com/sharkdp/fd

9 years ago

★ 42.7k Rust Apache-2.0
456 upvotes – 215 comments

Tensorflow sucks

http://nicodjimenez.github.io/2017/10/08/tensorflow.html

9 years ago

399 upvotes – 125 comments

No Bitcoin-based protocol can handle more than 20M users per month

https://runeksvendsen.github.io/blog/posts/2017-10-08-no-bitcoin-based-protocol-can-handle-more-than-20m-users-per-month.html

9 years ago

276 upvotes – 190 comments

On the devastating effects of a year in space

https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/world/north-america/astronaut-scott-kelly-on-the-devastating-effects-of-a-year-in-space-20170922-gyn9iw.html

9 years ago

259 upvotes – 130 comments

EPA photos show what US looked like before pollution regulation

http://www.businessinsider.com/photos-america-before-epa-documerica-2017-10/#many-of-these-photos-simply-show-life-in-america-at-the-time-but-a-number-also-document-concerning-environmental-issues-1

9 years ago

236 upvotes – 183 comments

Thoughts on Microsoft's Time-Travel Debugger

http://robert.ocallahan.org/2017/10/thoughts-on-microsofts-time-travel.html

9 years ago

233 upvotes – 72 comments

In 1973, I invented Baileys

https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/in-1973-i-invented-a-girly-drink-called-baileys-1.3240945?mode=amp

9 years ago

221 upvotes – 104 comments

Show HN: An API for filling out PDF forms

https://formapi.io

9 years ago

209 upvotes – 85 comments

Ask HN: Why Isn't the Construction of CRUD Web UIs 90% Automated?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15429616

9 years ago

201 upvotes – 186 comments

Internet speed guarantees must be realistic, says Ofcom

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-41524650

9 years ago

199 upvotes – 187 comments

Profits Without Prosperity (2014)

https://hbr.org/2014/09/profits-without-prosperity

9 years ago

194 upvotes – 85 comments

Visualizations for machine learning datasets

https://github.com/PAIR-code/facets

9 years ago

★ 7.3k Jupyter Notebook Apache-2.0
178 upvotes – 7 comments

Fairchild Semiconductor: 60th Anniversary

https://medium.com/chmcore/fairchild-semiconductor-the-60th-anniversary-of-a-silicon-valley-legend-d4355ea15cb5

9 years ago

173 upvotes – 27 comments

Ask HN: Best hard scifi AI novels?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15428558

9 years ago

170 upvotes – 99 comments

Menuet – A pre-emptive, real-time and multiprocessor OS written in assembly

http://www.menuetos.net

9 years ago

164 upvotes – 71 comments

The Seven Deadly Sins of AI Predictions

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/609048/the-seven-deadly-sins-of-ai-predictions

9 years ago

155 upvotes – 87 comments

Changing Lanes

https://99percentinvisible.org/article/changing-lanes-watch-median-movers-cone-collectors-rapidly-modify-roads/

9 years ago

152 upvotes – 64 comments

Testing FIDO U2F security keys

https://www.imperialviolet.org/2017/10/08/securitykeytest.html

9 years ago

151 upvotes – 58 comments

Wikimedia Foundation's runaway spending growth

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_Macon/Wikipedia_has_Cancer

9 years ago

150 upvotes – 121 comments

Origins and History of Unix, 1969-1995 (2003)

http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/taoup/html/ch02s01.html

9 years ago

147 upvotes – 36 comments

Ask HN: Learning NoSQL, papers and books

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15427932

9 years ago

142 upvotes – 43 comments

Mill CPU Inter-Process Communication

https://millcomputing.com/topic/inter-process-communication/

9 years ago

125 upvotes – 76 comments

A Closer Look at the $13B Premium Eyewear Market

https://www.businessoffashion.com/articles/intelligence/a-closer-look-at-the-13-billion-premium-eyewear-market

9 years ago

124 upvotes – 135 comments

StackOverflow Architecture (2016)

https://nickcraver.com/blog/2016/02/17/stack-overflow-the-architecture-2016-edition/

9 years ago

122 upvotes – 37 comments

Rowing across the Atlantic in 48 days

https://clem.travelmap.net

9 years ago

118 upvotes – 32 comments

A ski resort used a 1-star review in its ads, so now I’m inspired

https://medium.com/words-for-life/a-ski-resort-used-a-1-star-review-in-its-brilliant-ads-so-now-im-inspired-945ba7f31fe9

9 years ago

112 upvotes – 50 comments

Linux Kernel LTS release is now for 6 years instead of 2

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/09/android-users-rejoice-linux-kernel-lts-releases-are-now-good-for-6-years/

9 years ago

110 upvotes – 73 comments

Persisting state between AWS EC2 spot instances

https://peteris.rocks/blog/persisting-state-between-aws-ec2-spot-instances/

9 years ago

109 upvotes – 77 comments

Personal Observations on Reliability of Shuttle (1986)

https://history.nasa.gov/rogersrep/v2appf.htm

9 years ago

109 upvotes – 15 comments

Min – A smarter web browser

https://minbrowser.github.io/min/

9 years ago

101 upvotes – 72 comments

The 7th Continent: An ambitious Choose Your Own Adventure-inspired board game

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/10/the-7th-continent-review-a-board-game-unlike-anything-youve-ever-played/

9 years ago

99 upvotes – 35 comments

Lightning aircraft crash at Hatfield (2013)

https://fearoflanding.com/photography/the-story-behind-an-unbelievable-photograph/

9 years ago

92 upvotes – 5 comments

Concentrated Wealth Is Strangling Prosperity

http://evonomics.com/insanely-concentrated-wealth-strangling-prosperity/

9 years ago

86 upvotes – 78 comments

Livepython: Visually trace your Python code in real time

https://github.com/agermanidis/livepython

9 years ago

★ 2.5k JavaScript MIT
84 upvotes – 3 comments
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