top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-10-13

Steve Wozniak announces tech education platform Woz U

https://techcrunch.com/2017/10/13/steve-wozniak-announces-tech-education-platform-woz-u/

9 years ago

578 upvotes – 114 comments

Handmade Hero – A complete game live-coded from scratch

https://handmadehero.org/

9 years ago

536 upvotes – 77 comments

An anarchist takes on Big Pharma by teaching patients to make their own meds

https://www.statnews.com/2017/10/12/michael-laufer-drug-prices/

9 years ago

371 upvotes – 273 comments

The Intuitive Guide to Data Structures and Algorithms

https://www.interviewcake.com/data-structures-and-algorithms-guide

9 years ago

362 upvotes – 62 comments

What If We Put Warnings on IoT Devices?

https://www.troyhunt.com/what-would-it-look-like-if-we-put-warnings-on-iot-devices-like-we-do-cigarette-packets/

9 years ago

313 upvotes – 154 comments

Open Source Game Clones

http://osgameclones.com/

9 years ago

309 upvotes – 78 comments

ChrysaLisp – A 64-bit Lisp OS with GUI

https://github.com/vygr/ChrysaLisp

9 years ago

★ 1.6k C++ GPL-2.0
306 upvotes – 121 comments

Dear Postgres

http://www.craigkerstiens.com/2017/10/12/dear-postgres/

9 years ago

300 upvotes – 59 comments

Two scientists quietly revolutionising the study and practice of interrogation

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/oct/13/the-scientists-persuading-terrorists-to-spill-their-secrets

9 years ago

290 upvotes – 231 comments

ProseMirror 1.0

http://marijnhaverbeke.nl/blog/prosemirror-1.html

9 years ago

287 upvotes – 66 comments

Silicon Valley Is Not Your Friend

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/10/13/opinion/sunday/Silicon-Valley-Is-Not-Your-Friend.html

9 years ago

275 upvotes – 207 comments

Someone Created a Tor Hidden Service to Phish My Tor Hidden Service

http://incoherency.co.uk/blog/stories/hidden-service-phishing.html

9 years ago

273 upvotes – 87 comments

Colorizing black and white photos with deep learning

https://blog.floydhub.com/colorizing-b&w-photos-with-neural-networks/

9 years ago

247 upvotes – 51 comments

Twitter Is Crawling with Bots and Lacks Incentive to Expel Them

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-13/twitter-is-crawling-with-bots-and-lacks-incentive-to-expel-them

9 years ago

236 upvotes – 183 comments

What’s Inside Every iPhone, from Retina Displays to Cameras

https://www.bloomberg.com/features/apple-iphone-guts/

9 years ago

232 upvotes – 93 comments

Finish your stuff

http://250bpm.com/blog:50

9 years ago

232 upvotes – 99 comments

Questions to ask in interviews

https://cternus.net/blog/2017/10/10/questions-i-m-asking-in-interviews-2017/

9 years ago

231 upvotes – 104 comments

Psilocybin for treatment-resistant depression: fMRI-measured brain mechanisms [pdf]

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-13282-7.pdf

9 years ago

227 upvotes – 108 comments

Clojure/Conj 2017 – Opening Keynote by Rich Hickey [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2V1FtfBDsLU

9 years ago

216 upvotes – 176 comments

Ask HN: Developers who became engineering managers, how was the experience?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15463612

9 years ago

211 upvotes – 72 comments

Is there an upside to having no social life?

http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20171011-is-there-an-upside-to-having-no-social-life

9 years ago

196 upvotes – 140 comments

Dutch Data Protection Authority: Microsoft breaches law with Windows 10

https://autoriteitpersoonsgegevens.nl/en/news/dutch-dpa-microsoft-breaches-data-protection-law-windows-10

9 years ago

193 upvotes – 50 comments

Gameboy hello world

http://pp.feeb.dog/gb_z80_helloworld.txt

9 years ago

188 upvotes – 22 comments

Tesla fires hundreds from headquarters, factory

http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/10/13/4819750/

9 years ago

184 upvotes – 244 comments

Peer-to-peer social networking with Rotonde and Beaker

https://louis.center/p2p-social-networking/

9 years ago

181 upvotes – 71 comments

Tech Giants, Once Seen as Saviors, Are Now Viewed as Threats

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/12/technology/tech-giants-threats.html

9 years ago

176 upvotes – 123 comments

The Thoughts of Chairman Xi

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/Thoughts_Chairman_Xi

9 years ago

175 upvotes – 99 comments

Ask HN: Are Glassdoor reviews a reliable indicator of a company's culture?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15465252

9 years ago

172 upvotes – 153 comments

Dietary Carbohydrates Impair Healthspan and Promote Mortality

http://www.cell.com/cell-metabolism/fulltext/S1550-4131%2817%2930562-4#.WeA77GhVXhk.reddit

9 years ago

158 upvotes – 114 comments

Show HN: CoinMall Alpha: A Crypto Marketplace for Digital Goods

https://medium.com/@coinmallio/announcing-coinmall-alpha-db6e7f4659a6

9 years ago

156 upvotes – 1 comments

SmallerC – Small, Simple, Self-Compiling, Single Pass C Compiler

https://github.com/alexfru/SmallerC

9 years ago

★ 1.5k C BSD-2-Clause
155 upvotes – 59 comments

Five Minute Guide to Software Security

https://oneupsecurity.com/research/five-minute-guide-to-software-security?tr=hn

9 years ago

142 upvotes – 35 comments

Scientists Are Just Starting to Understand Earth’s Eighth Continent, Zealandia

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/zealandia-continent-expedition-new-zealand-cores-tectonics

9 years ago

127 upvotes – 44 comments

Using Haskell to debug a C chess engine

http://www.michaelburge.us/2017/09/27/delta-debugging-in-haskell.html

9 years ago

125 upvotes – 5 comments

Purism Collaborates with Cryptocurrency Monero to Enable Mobile Payments

https://puri.sm/posts/purism-collaborates-with-cryptocurrency-monero-to-enable-mobile-payments/

9 years ago

117 upvotes – 31 comments

Show HN: 1 KB JavaScript library for building applications

https://github.com/JorgeBucaran/hyperapp

9 years ago

★ 19.2k JavaScript MIT
116 upvotes – 8 comments

Analysing C# code on GitHub with BigQuery

http://www.mattwarren.org/2017/10/12/Analysing-C-code-on-GitHub-with-BigQuery/

9 years ago

109 upvotes – 85 comments

Reverse proxy grapher

https://paranoidbeavers.ca/rev-proxy-grapher.html

9 years ago

106 upvotes – 11 comments

HPAT – A compiler-based framework for big data in Python

https://github.com/IntelLabs/hpat

9 years ago

★ 643 Python BSD-2-Clause
104 upvotes – 9 comments

Basic Survival Methods in R

https://github.com/pavopax/gists/blob/master/survival-in-R.md

9 years ago

103 upvotes – 15 comments

Google is building an anti-Amazon alliance, and Target is the latest to join

https://www.recode.net/2017/10/12/16464132/google-target-retailers-amazon-walmart-assistant-alexa-home-echo-augmented-reality

9 years ago

101 upvotes – 117 comments

DIY recipes to make your own expensive pharma drugs

https://fourthievesvinegar.org/

9 years ago

100 upvotes – 73 comments

No Comments

https://alxdavids.xyz/2017/10/09/no-comments/

9 years ago

99 upvotes – 22 comments

Updates to DevTools in Chrome 62

https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/08/devtools-release-notes

9 years ago

95 upvotes – 39 comments

How the Benzene Tree Polluted the World

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/10/benzene-tree-organic-compounds/530655/?single_page=true

9 years ago

95 upvotes – 31 comments

Stretching Spokes

https://githubengineering.com/stretching-spokes/

9 years ago

92 upvotes – 1 comments

Live: Finnair flight 666 to HEL on Friday 13th at 13h

https://www.flightradar24.com/FIN6KC/f31526e

9 years ago

88 upvotes – 20 comments

The Radioactive Boy Scout (1999)

http://www.dangerouslaboratories.org/radscout.html?resub

9 years ago

87 upvotes – 34 comments

Ask HN: UK Startups – Are You Thinking of Leaving the UK Because of Brexit?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15464885

9 years ago

86 upvotes – 188 comments

Intel ME: The Way of Static Analysis

http://blog.ptsecurity.com/2017/04/intel-me-way-of-static-analysis.html

9 years ago

85 upvotes – 25 comments

Multiple Heap Buffer Overflows In the Windows DNS Client

https://www.bishopfox.com/blog/2017/10/a-bug-has-no-name-multiple-heap-buffer-overflows-in-the-windows-dns-client/

9 years ago

83 upvotes – 30 comments

A Lisp that runs Python (2016)

http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu/blog/2016/03/30/OMG-A-Lisp-that-runs-python/

9 years ago

81 upvotes – 25 comments

Starting a Web Design Firm from Scratch

https://medium.com/thejournal/starting-a-web-design-firm-from-scratch-c7d88caf5764

9 years ago

79 upvotes – 41 comments

ZeroMe – Decentralized Microblogging on ZeroNet

https://bluishcoder.co.nz/2017/10/12/zerome-decentralized-microblogging-on-zeronet.html

9 years ago

79 upvotes – 37 comments

Multipath TCP Check

http://amiusingmptcp.de

9 years ago

78 upvotes – 22 comments

Why Isn’t It a Crime to Kill a Cyclist with a Car?

https://nextcity.org/features/view/how-much-is-a-cyclists-life-worth-anyway

9 years ago

78 upvotes – 172 comments

Quantifying Decentralization

https://news.21.co/quantifying-decentralization-e39db233c28e

9 years ago

74 upvotes – 5 comments

BigQuery: Required Reading List

https://medium.com/@thetinot/bigquery-required-reading-list-71945444477b

9 years ago

72 upvotes – 22 comments

Content Marketing Tips from Experts at First Round Capital and A16Z

http://blog.ycombinator.com/content-marketing-tips-from-experts-at-first-round-capital-and-andreessen-horowitz/

9 years ago

71 upvotes – 21 comments
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