top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-10-18

Documenting the Web together

https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2017/10/18/documenting-web-together-mdn-web-docs

8 years ago

1210 upvotes – 203 comments

AlphaGo Zero: Learning from scratch

https://deepmind.com/blog/alphago-zero-learning-scratch/

8 years ago

923 upvotes – 311 comments

75% decline over 27 years in total flying insect biomass in protected areas

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0185809

8 years ago

901 upvotes – 432 comments

New law bans California employers from asking applicants their prior salary

http://m.sfgate.com/business/networth/article/New-law-bans-California-employers-from-asking-12274431.php

8 years ago

835 upvotes – 651 comments

Napa.js: A multi-threaded JavaScript runtime

https://github.com/Microsoft/napajs

8 years ago

★ 9.1kC++
419 upvotes – 204 comments

Blockchains explained visually (part 1 of 2)

https://unwttng.com/what-is-a-blockchain

8 years ago

397 upvotes – 45 comments

Students learn more effectively from print textbooks than screens, study says

http://www.businessinsider.com/students-learning-education-print-textbooks-screens-study-2017-10

8 years ago

393 upvotes – 172 comments

Feynman’s Breakthrough: Disregard Others

https://stepsandleaps.wordpress.com/2017/10/17/feynmans-breakthrough-disregard-others/

8 years ago

375 upvotes – 122 comments

Selling My Bootstrapped SaaS Business

https://www.indiehackers.com/@tylertringas/selling-my-bootstrapped-saas-business-26c8406e1d

8 years ago

311 upvotes – 120 comments

It Takes Just $1k to Track Someone's Location with Mobile Ads

https://www.wired.com/story/track-location-with-mobile-ads-1000-dollars-study

8 years ago

292 upvotes – 102 comments

Problems with MacBook butterfly switch keyboards

https://theoutline.com/post/2402/the-new-macbook-keyboard-is-ruining-my-life

8 years ago

290 upvotes – 286 comments

Word vectors are awesome but you don’t need a neural network to find them

http://multithreaded.stitchfix.com/blog/2017/10/18/stop-using-word2vec/

8 years ago

276 upvotes – 66 comments

Why You Can Focus in a Coffee Shop but Not in Your Open Office

https://hbr.org/2017/10/why-you-can-focus-in-a-coffee-shop-but-not-in-your-open-office

8 years ago

249 upvotes – 150 comments

A Neural Network in 11 Lines of Python (2015)

http://iamtrask.github.io/2015/07/12/basic-python-network/

8 years ago

234 upvotes – 26 comments

Dollar General Hits a Gold Mine in Rural America

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-10-11/dollar-general-hits-a-gold-mine-in-rural-america

8 years ago

227 upvotes – 311 comments

CKEditor 5: New approach to rich text editing on the web

https://ckeditor.com/blog/CKEditor-5-A-new-era-for-rich-text-editing/

8 years ago

219 upvotes – 97 comments

The “Happy Path” to HTTPS

https://www.troyhunt.com/the-6-step-happy-path-to-https/

8 years ago

205 upvotes – 86 comments

Goodbye Uncanny Valley [video]

https://vimeo.com/237568588

8 years ago

197 upvotes – 104 comments

Front-End Checklist

https://github.com/thedaviddias/Front-End-Checklist

8 years ago

★ 72.5kCC0-1.0
193 upvotes – 81 comments

U.S. Stood by as Indonesia Killed a Half-Million People, Papers Show

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/18/world/asia/indonesia-cables-communist-massacres.html

8 years ago

184 upvotes – 162 comments

Unsafe RSA primes conjectured

https://mathoverflow.net/questions/283767/

8 years ago

180 upvotes – 54 comments

The Mars company has sponsored hundreds of studies to show cocoa is good

https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/10/18/15995478/chocolate-health-benefits-heart-disease

8 years ago

178 upvotes – 122 comments

How MDMA Went from Club Drug to ‘Breakthrough Therapy’

https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-mdma-went-from-club-drug-to-breakthrough-therapy-1508332237

8 years ago

165 upvotes – 91 comments

TiDB – a global scale distributed DB

https://pingcap.github.io/blog/2017/10/17/announcement/

8 years ago

163 upvotes – 39 comments

Practical Public Key Cryptography

https://hackaday.com/2017/10/18/practical-public-key-cryptography/

8 years ago

153 upvotes – 35 comments

The Looming Decline of the Public Research University

https://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/septemberoctober-2017/the-looming-decline-of-the-public-research-university/

8 years ago

152 upvotes – 146 comments

WePay's (YC S09) next chapter

https://blog.wepay.com/2017/10/17/wepays-next-chapter/

8 years ago

147 upvotes – 81 comments

Tesla “Camper Mode” (2016)

https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-tesla-camper-mode/

8 years ago

144 upvotes – 123 comments

Intel Delivers 17-Qubit Superconducting Chip

https://newsroom.intel.com/news/intel-delivers-17-qubit-superconducting-chip-advanced-packaging-qutech/

8 years ago

138 upvotes – 75 comments

Hey Siri: An On-Device DNN-Powered Voice Trigger for Apple’s Personal Assistant

https://machinelearning.apple.com/2017/10/01/hey-siri.html

8 years ago

134 upvotes – 81 comments

MIT Economist Has a New Theory of Finance

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-16/mit-economist-andrew-lo-has-a-new-theory-of-finance

8 years ago

129 upvotes – 59 comments

Ask HN: Why does my credit union check if I'm logged into Steam and Reddit?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15499917

8 years ago

129 upvotes – 64 comments

On the pleasures of stumbling upon books in the wrong places

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2017/10/17/happy-accidents/

8 years ago

123 upvotes – 39 comments

How to launch, startup playbook and cost calculator

https://www.howmuchtolaunchastartup.com/

8 years ago

117 upvotes – 21 comments

URG

http://blog.mecheye.net/2017/10/urg/

8 years ago

115 upvotes – 11 comments

Dyslexia: scientists claim cause of condition may lie in the eyes

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/oct/18/dyslexia-scientists-claim-cause-of-condition-may-lie-in-the-eyes

8 years ago

113 upvotes – 55 comments

The Soviet Union’s Flawed Rival to Concorde

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20171018-the-soviet-unions-flawed-rival-to-concorde

8 years ago

107 upvotes – 129 comments

C0, an Imperative Programming Language for Novice Computer Scientists (2010) [pdf]

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.480.8484&rep=rep1&type=pdf

8 years ago

106 upvotes – 111 comments

Stealing Sensitive Browser Data with the W3C Ambient Light Sensor API

https://blog.lukaszolejnik.com/stealing-sensitive-browser-data-with-the-w3c-ambient-light-sensor-api/

8 years ago

105 upvotes – 26 comments

There Are “Weinsteins” Lurking in Every Profession – Including Tech

https://code.likeagirl.io/there-are-weinsteins-lurking-in-every-profession-including-tech-d833d7d92758

8 years ago

105 upvotes – 29 comments

Intel Shipping Nervana Neural Network Processor First Silicon Before Year End

https://www.anandtech.com/show/11942/intel-shipping-nervana-neural-network-processor-first-silicon-before-year-end

8 years ago

103 upvotes – 26 comments

Browser security beyond sandboxing

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/mmpc/2017/10/18/browser-security-beyond-sandboxing/

8 years ago

101 upvotes – 17 comments

Ask HN: How do you measure performance of your client-side application?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15497837

8 years ago

94 upvotes – 33 comments

Facebook and Google Helped Anti-Refugee Campaign in Swing States

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-18/facebook-and-google-helped-anti-refugee-campaign-in-swing-states

8 years ago

89 upvotes – 129 comments

Select Transform: JSON template over JSON

https://selecttransform.github.io/site/

8 years ago

89 upvotes – 75 comments

Data Center TCP: TCP Congestion Control for Data Centers

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8257

8 years ago

87 upvotes – 15 comments

I totally mean it: Inflation never solved the flatness problem

http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2017/10/i-totally-mean-it-inflation-never.html

8 years ago

83 upvotes – 30 comments
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