top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-10-22

After the end of the startup era

https://techcrunch.com/2017/10/22/ask-not-for-whom-the-deadpool-tolls/

8 years ago

418 upvotes – 297 comments

A newly discovered moon tunnel

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2017/10/21/a-newly-discovered-moon-tunnel-could-be-the-perfect-place-for-a-colony-scientists-say/

8 years ago

416 upvotes – 180 comments

Termux: terminal emulator and Debian-style userland as an Android app

https://termux.com/

8 years ago

338 upvotes – 139 comments

Too much fructose can damage your liver, just like too much alcohol

http://sugarscience.ucsf.edu/the-toxic-truth/

8 years ago

289 upvotes – 156 comments

Simple Ways to Be Better at Remembering

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/19/smarter-living/simple-ways-to-be-better-at-remembering.html

8 years ago

280 upvotes – 37 comments

Chevy Bolt: the First Practical, Mass-Market Electric Vehicle

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/chevy-bolt-meet-the-first-practical-mass-market-electric-vehicle-2017-10-22

8 years ago

278 upvotes – 287 comments

How Retailers Use Personalized Prices

https://hbr.org/2017/10/how-retailers-use-personalized-prices-to-test-what-youre-willing-to-pay

8 years ago

257 upvotes – 146 comments

C++ Tips of the Week

https://abseil.io/tips/

8 years ago

212 upvotes – 34 comments

Tech workers worry about age discrimination at age 40: Study

https://www.theladders.com/p/29083/older-tech-workers-fear-age-discrimination

8 years ago

211 upvotes – 300 comments

Interview with Susan Fowler

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/21/style/susan-fowler-uber.html

8 years ago

210 upvotes – 113 comments

The Xerox Alto, Smalltalk, and Rewriting a Running GUI

http://www.righto.com/2017/10/the-xerox-alto-smalltalk-and-rewriting.html

8 years ago

199 upvotes – 56 comments

Getting the Most Out of Sqlite3 with Python

https://remusao.github.io/posts/2017-10-21-few-tips-sqlite-perf.html

8 years ago

191 upvotes – 33 comments

Rust to WebAssembly Made Easier

https://lord.io/blog/2017/wargo/#

8 years ago

182 upvotes – 78 comments

Why I'm Productive in Clojure (2013)

http://yogthos.net/posts/2013-08-18-Why-I-m-Productive-in-Clojure.html

8 years ago

182 upvotes – 246 comments

Deep C (2011)

http://www.pvv.org/~oma/DeepC_slides_oct2011.pdf

8 years ago

166 upvotes – 59 comments

Blue Origin has hot fired its BE-4 rocket engine for the first time

https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/10/blue-origin-has-successfully-tested-its-powerful-be-4-rocket-engine/

8 years ago

160 upvotes – 58 comments

Social Media Endangers Knowledge

https://www.wired.com/story/wikipedias-fate-shows-how-the-web-endangers-knowledge/

8 years ago

147 upvotes – 76 comments

SoftBank Plans a New $200B Fund

https://www.wsj.com/articles/japans-softbank-plans-a-second-giant-technology-fund-1508502097?mg=prod/accounts-wsj

8 years ago

146 upvotes – 59 comments

Google terminating YouTube channels and videos (2016)

https://www.maxlaumeister.com/blog/google-is-deleting-your-favorite-youtube-videos/

8 years ago

141 upvotes – 85 comments

Learning Diverse Skills via Maximum Entropy Deep Reinforcement Learning

http://bair.berkeley.edu/blog/2017/10/06/soft-q-learning

8 years ago

139 upvotes – 15 comments

What Everybody Gets Wrong About Jekyll and Hyde (2012)

http://www.tor.com/blogs/2012/06/what-everybody-gets-wrong-about-jekyll-and-hyde

8 years ago

138 upvotes – 85 comments

In Estonia virtually every process is digitized

http://fortune.com/2017/04/27/estonia-digital-life-tech-startups/

8 years ago

137 upvotes – 96 comments

Sloyd

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sloyd

8 years ago

131 upvotes – 38 comments

Fact Checks

https://developers.google.com/search/docs/data-types/factcheck

8 years ago

126 upvotes – 100 comments

Show HN: Ruby static type checker – proof of concept

https://github.com/stereobooster/diamondback-ruby/tree/master/examples

8 years ago

★ 70RubyBSD-3-Clause
115 upvotes – 24 comments

Micron now has a 11TB SSD

https://www.micron.com/parts/solid-state-storage/ssd/mtfdhal11tatcw-1ar1zab?pc={407C8554-7C81-43AF-8055-717A23E71B02}

8 years ago

113 upvotes – 56 comments

The advertising industry has been living a lie

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-advertising-industry-has-been-living-a-lie-2017-10

8 years ago

107 upvotes – 46 comments

Oroville Dam: Cost to repair spillways nearly doubles in price to $500M

http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/10/19/cost-of-repairing-oroville-dams-spillway-nearly-doubles-in-price-to-500-million/

8 years ago

102 upvotes – 111 comments

Please Request Your Personal Data Held by Cambridge Analytica

http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2017/10/uk-and-us-citizens-please-request-your.html

8 years ago

101 upvotes – 21 comments

If all cars were autonomous

https://www.volvocars.com/en-om/about/our-innovation-brands/intellisafe/intellisafe-autopilot/changing-the-world/if-all-cars-were-autonomous

8 years ago

95 upvotes – 107 comments

More containers on Chrome OS

https://chromeunboxed.com/news/containers-and-chromebooks-the-future-of-chrome-os/

8 years ago

95 upvotes – 13 comments

Why can’t we cure the common cold?

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/oct/06/why-cant-we-cure-the-common-cold?utm_source=pocket&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=pockethits

8 years ago

92 upvotes – 95 comments

TensorFlow 101

https://mubaris.com/2017-10-21/tensorflow-101

8 years ago

92 upvotes – 10 comments

Speeding Up a Fat Web Client

https://engineering.linkedin.com/blog/2017/10/sleek-and-fast--speeding-up-your-fat-web-client

8 years ago

89 upvotes – 28 comments

Tesla has created a customized insurance package

http://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-liberty-mutual-create-customize-insurance-package-2017-10?r=US&IR=T

8 years ago

84 upvotes – 57 comments

Debunking the Java Performance Myth

https://medium.com/@elliot_f/debunking-the-java-performance-myth-29b842955a24

8 years ago

82 upvotes – 97 comments

Parents are exhausting their children. An eighth-grade boy explains how

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2017/10/20/parents-are-exhausting-their-children-an-eighth-grade-boy-explains-how/

8 years ago

81 upvotes – 92 comments

A technique for alleviating pain may help disable nerves that spread cancer

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23631480-200-how-hitting-our-nervous-system-could-let-us-defeat-cancer/

8 years ago

79 upvotes – 19 comments

TAOS Operating System

http://www.uruk.org/emu/Taos.html

8 years ago

79 upvotes – 21 comments

Could cryptocurrency mining kill online advertising?

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/could-cryptocurrency-kill-online-advertising-carl-whalley/

8 years ago

79 upvotes – 65 comments

Reusable and type-safe options for Go APIs

https://derekchiang.com/posts/reusable-and-type-safe-options-for-go-apis/

8 years ago

79 upvotes – 31 comments

How Los Angeles Banned Some of Its Most Popular Building Types

https://urbanize.la/post/forbidden-city-how-los-angeles-banned-some-its-most-popular-buildings

8 years ago

78 upvotes – 20 comments

Show HN: Appraise – Visual test automation

https://github.com/AppraiseQA/appraise

8 years ago

★ 647JavaScriptMIT
78 upvotes – 22 comments

China Bans Foreign Waste – What Will Happen to the World's Recycling?

https://theconversation.com/china-bans-foreign-waste-but-what-will-happen-to-the-worlds-recycling-85924

8 years ago

73 upvotes – 63 comments

Yosemite bolt replacement and Death Block removal (2012)

http://www.planetmountain.com/en/news/climbing/yosemite-bolt-replacement-and-death-block-removal.html

8 years ago

70 upvotes – 18 comments

Break free from traditional email - Host your own server

http://blog.mkucz.com/2017/10/how-to-host-your-own-email-server.html

8 years ago

69 upvotes – 79 comments
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