top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-10-17

Show HN: Metaballs

http://varun.ca/metaballs

9 years ago

673 upvotes – 93 comments

Vim after 15 Years

https://statico.github.io/vim3.html

9 years ago

590 upvotes – 173 comments

Just own the damn robots

http://thereformedbroker.com/2017/10/16/just-own-the-damn-robots/

9 years ago

474 upvotes – 342 comments

Falling through the KRACKs

https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2017/10/16/falling-through-the-kracks/

9 years ago

462 upvotes – 149 comments

The war to sell you a mattress

https://www.fastcompany.com/3065928/sleepopolis-casper-bloggers-lawsuits-underside-of-the-mattress-wars

9 years ago

432 upvotes – 225 comments

How to set up continuous deployment using free hosted tools

https://simonwillison.net/2017/Oct/17/free-continuous-deployment/

9 years ago

411 upvotes – 88 comments

Choosing between names and identifiers in URLs

https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/10/API-design-choosing-between-names-and-identifiers-in-URLs.html

9 years ago

396 upvotes – 153 comments

Bomb kills journalist who exposed Malta's ties to tax havens

https://apnews.com/eec3f8b5b9274e7e8e7545136b809c94/Bomb-kills-reporter-who-covered-Malta%27s-%27Panama-Papers%27-link?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=AP

9 years ago

386 upvotes – 157 comments

Why we switched from Python to Go

https://getstream.io/blog/switched-python-go/

9 years ago

380 upvotes – 397 comments

Introducing Surface Book 2

https://blogs.windows.com/devices/2017/10/17/introducing-surface-book-2-the-most-powerful-surface-book-ever/

9 years ago

374 upvotes – 502 comments

Creator of cURL wins Polhem Prize 2017

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2017/10/16/polhemspriset-2017/

9 years ago

373 upvotes – 39 comments

Flatiron School settles for operating without license, employment/salary claims

https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/ag-schneiderman-announces-375000-settlement-flatiron-computer-coding-school-operating

9 years ago

317 upvotes – 208 comments

MailChimp vs. Amazon SES – How I Reduced My Monthly Bill

https://coursetro.com/posts/other/95/MailChimp-vs.-Amazon-SES---How-I-Reduced-My-Monthly-Bill-by-92%

9 years ago

313 upvotes – 174 comments

Adding Kubernetes support to the Docker platform

https://www.docker.com/kubernetes

9 years ago

300 upvotes – 140 comments

Why I use Object Pascal

https://dubst3pp4.github.io/post/2017-10-03-why-i-use-object-pascal/

9 years ago

268 upvotes – 233 comments

In Colorado, opioid deaths fall following marijuana legalization

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/10/16/legal-marijuana-is-saving-lives-in-colorado-study-finds/

9 years ago

256 upvotes – 101 comments

Ohm: Parsing Made Easy

https://nextjournal.com/dubroy/ohm-parsing-made-easy

9 years ago

248 upvotes – 97 comments

My Google job was tedious and pointless

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2017/10/17/my-google-job-was-tedious-and-pointless/?tid=hybrid_collaborative_1_na&utm_term=.fc2705c5456a

9 years ago

231 upvotes – 327 comments

ACME Support in Apache HTTP Server Project

https://letsencrypt.org/2017/10/17/acme-support-in-apache-httpd.html

9 years ago

230 upvotes – 75 comments

The Forgotten Mystery of Inertia

https://www.americanscientist.org/article/the-forgotten-mystery-of-inertia

9 years ago

224 upvotes – 119 comments

Viking ‘Allah’ textile actually doesn't have Allah on it

https://twitter.com/stephenniem/status/919897406031978496

9 years ago

223 upvotes – 138 comments

Zsync: Differential file downloading over HTTP using the rsync algorithm (2010)

http://zsync.moria.org.uk/

9 years ago

215 upvotes – 46 comments

UK spies using social media data for mass surveillance

https://techcrunch.com/2017/10/17/uk-spies-using-social-media-data-for-mass-surveillance/

9 years ago

207 upvotes – 148 comments

Planets in Google Maps

https://www.blog.google/products/maps/space-out-planets-google-maps/

9 years ago

195 upvotes – 40 comments

Swift-Keylogger – Keylogger for MacOS written in Swift using HID

https://github.com/SkrewEverything/Swift-Keylogger

9 years ago

★ 1.1k Swift MIT
194 upvotes – 75 comments

Alphabet's Sidewalk Labs to turn 800 acres of Toronto into an “internet city”

https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/17/16488942/alphabet-sidewalk-labs-toronto-quayside

9 years ago

187 upvotes – 93 comments

Zig Programming Language 0.1.1: First beta release

http://ziglang.org/download/0.1.1/release-notes.html

9 years ago

184 upvotes – 113 comments

Google's 'Advanced Protection' Locks Down Accounts Like Never Before

https://www.wired.com/story/google-advanced-protection-locks-down-accounts

9 years ago

180 upvotes – 131 comments

The new Google Calendar for web

https://www.blog.google/products/g-suite/time-refresh-introducing-new-look-and-features-google-calendar-web/

9 years ago

174 upvotes – 112 comments

Pixel Visual Core: Google’s first custom-designed co-processor

https://www.blog.google/products/pixel/pixel-visual-core-image-processing-and-machine-learning-pixel-2/

9 years ago

172 upvotes – 95 comments

A convicted felon who became a Georgetown law professor

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/meet-a-convicted-felon-who-became-a-georgetown-law-professor/

9 years ago

164 upvotes – 147 comments

Haskell Typeclasses vs. C++ Classes

http://www.michaelburge.us/2017/10/15/haskell-typeclasses-vs-cpp-classes.html

9 years ago

155 upvotes – 79 comments

Most sushi fish isn't fresh

https://medium.com/torodex/the-sushi-you-eat-isnt-fresh-f3478c99eb2

9 years ago

150 upvotes – 127 comments

Hotswapping Haskell

http://simonmar.github.io/posts/2017-10-17-hotswapping-haskell.html

9 years ago

148 upvotes – 34 comments

30k medical studies may be invalid due to contaminated cell cultures

http://www.sciencealert.com/more-than-30-000-scientific-studies-could-be-wrong-due-to-contaminated-undying-cells

9 years ago

145 upvotes – 58 comments

Airbus buys majority stake in Bombardier CSeries passenger jet business

http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/bombardier-airbus-c-series-1.4357567

9 years ago

142 upvotes – 123 comments

Pixel 2 is hiding a custom Google SoC for image processing

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/10/the-pixel-2-contains-a-custom-google-soc-the-pixel-visual-core/

9 years ago

141 upvotes – 42 comments

The Crash of ’87, from the Wall Street Players Who Lived It

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-10-16/black-monday-at-30-wall-street-remembers-the-1987-stock-market-crash

9 years ago

138 upvotes – 160 comments

Show HN: BOOLR – A digital logic simulator

http://boolr.me

9 years ago

136 upvotes – 21 comments

The Transaction Costs of Tokenizing Everything

https://elaineou.com/2017/10/14/the-transaction-costs-of-tokenizing-everything/

9 years ago

133 upvotes – 56 comments

Show HN: Writing – A lightweight distraction-free editor (MathJax and Markdown)

https://github.com/josephernest/writing

9 years ago

★ 1.1k JavaScript
133 upvotes – 48 comments

Why the trial by ordeal was actually an effective test of guilt

https://aeon.co/ideas/why-the-trial-by-ordeal-was-actually-an-effective-test-of-guilt

9 years ago

131 upvotes – 134 comments

New Da Vinci bio portrays a man obsessed with knowledge, impossible to know

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/10/16/the-secret-lives-of-leonardo-da-vinci

9 years ago

127 upvotes – 71 comments

Generalization in Deep Learning [pdf]

https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.05468

9 years ago

126 upvotes – 16 comments

ICOs at the End of 2017: What We Think We Know and What We Don't Know

https://www.wsgr.com/WSGR/Display.aspx?SectionName=publications/PDFSearch/wsgralert-initial-coin-offerings-1017.htm

9 years ago

124 upvotes – 84 comments

Dropbox Professional

https://blogs.dropbox.com/dropbox/2017/10/new-plan-dropbox-professional/

9 years ago

111 upvotes – 121 comments

Ask HN: Why did delicious.com fail?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15493212

9 years ago

107 upvotes – 74 comments

Scientists narrow down the mechanism whereby cancer cells metabolise sugar

https://www.sciencealert.com/a-nine-year-study-has-just-shown-how-sugar-exacerbates-cancer

9 years ago

105 upvotes – 39 comments

Everything Is Crazy and the Markets Aren’t Freaking Out

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-16/a-crazy-stock-market-is-punishing-sellers

9 years ago

97 upvotes – 113 comments

Miscreant: a multi-language misuse resistant encryption library

https://tonyarcieri.com/introducing-miscreant-a-multi-language-misuse-resistant-encryption-library

9 years ago

97 upvotes – 29 comments

Object-oriented Programming in vanilla JavaScript

https://medium.com/@shlominissan/object-oriented-programming-in-vanilla-javascript-f3945b15f08a

9 years ago

95 upvotes – 55 comments

What Is QSB Stock and Why Does It Matter for Startups?

https://capitalandgrowth.org/questions/19/why-does-qsb-stock-matter.html?childToView=29#answer-29

9 years ago

94 upvotes – 21 comments

Machine Learning with TensorFlow Enabled Mobile Proof-Of-Purchase at Coca-Cola

https://developers.googleblog.com/2017/09/how-machine-learning-with-tensorflow.html

9 years ago

93 upvotes – 31 comments

Stellar collision confirms theoretical predictions about the periodic table

https://www.nature.com/news/colliding-stars-spark-rush-to-solve-cosmic-mysteries-1.22829

9 years ago

92 upvotes – 59 comments

Turning minor-key songs major

http://theweek.com/articles/467109/sad-songs-made-happy-amazing-art-turning-minorkey-songs-major

9 years ago

88 upvotes – 48 comments

Pure Operation-Based Replicated Data Types

https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.04469#

9 years ago

86 upvotes – 52 comments

WebDSP Media Library and WebAssembly Video Editor Demo

https://github.com/shamadee/web-dsp

9 years ago

★ 1.4k C++ MIT
85 upvotes – 15 comments

Clojurecademy is now open source

https://github.com/clojurecademy/clojurecademy

9 years ago

★ 592 Clojure MIT
83 upvotes – 20 comments

Linotype Typesetting (1960) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcp60z0E3ls

9 years ago

76 upvotes – 49 comments
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