top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-10-23

Show HN: Arxiv Vanity – Read academic papers from Arxiv as responsive web pages

https://www.arxiv-vanity.com/

9 years ago

721 upvotes – 134 comments

Stripe Atlas: Getting your first 10 customers

https://stripe.com/atlas/guides/starting-sales

9 years ago

598 upvotes – 130 comments

Why ProtonMail is more secure than Gmail

https://protonmail.com/blog/protonmail-vs-gmail-security/

9 years ago

440 upvotes – 300 comments

Games Look Bad: HDR and Tone Mapping

https://ventspace.wordpress.com/2017/10/20/games-look-bad-part-1-hdr-and-tone-mapping/

9 years ago

374 upvotes – 215 comments

Bay Area hammered by loss of jobs: Lack of affordable housing strangles hiring

http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/10/20/san-jose-san-francisco-oakland-job-losses-hammer-bay-area-employers-slash-thousands-of-jobs/

9 years ago

365 upvotes – 656 comments

Seven habits of effective text editing (2000)

http://moolenaar.net/habits.html

9 years ago

323 upvotes – 237 comments

United States Census Bureau APIs

https://www.census.gov/developers/

9 years ago

322 upvotes – 40 comments

Insects Are in Serious Trouble

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/10/oh-no/543390/?single_page=true

9 years ago

292 upvotes – 159 comments

Tesla Strikes Deal With Shanghai to Build Factory in China

https://www.wsj.com/articles/tesla-strikes-deal-with-shanghai-to-build-factory-in-china-1508670181?mod=e2fb&mg=prod/accounts-wsj

9 years ago

292 upvotes – 179 comments

Date/Time Inputs Enabled on Firefox Nightly

https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2017/06/12/datetime-inputs-enabled-on-nightly/

9 years ago

265 upvotes – 201 comments

Paw – macOS HTTP client for testing and describing APIs

https://paw.cloud/client

9 years ago

264 upvotes – 118 comments

Google's latest iPhone rival off to a rocky start

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-google-pixel/googles-latest-iphone-rival-off-to-a-rocky-start-idUSKBN1CS2P6

9 years ago

249 upvotes – 649 comments

Why Are Hearing Aids So Expensive?

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/20/well/live/why-are-hearing-aids-so-expensive.html

9 years ago

244 upvotes – 252 comments

No human genome has ever been completely sequenced

https://www.statnews.com/2017/06/20/human-genome-not-fully-sequenced/

9 years ago

241 upvotes – 86 comments

Biggest drop in Facebook organic reach we have seen

https://medium.com/@filip_struharik/biggest-drop-in-organic-reach-weve-ever-seen-b2239323413

9 years ago

231 upvotes – 132 comments

Don’t Quit When It Gets Hard

http://dariusforoux.com/i-quit/

9 years ago

230 upvotes – 141 comments

Riot – Full-text search engine in Go

https://github.com/go-ego/riot

9 years ago

★ 6k Go Apache-2.0
221 upvotes – 66 comments

Welp, there go my Git signatures

http://karl.kornel.us/2017/10/welp-there-go-my-git-signatures/

9 years ago

204 upvotes – 46 comments

An ode to pack: gzip’s forgotten decompressor

http://www.vidarholen.net/contents/blog/?p=691

9 years ago

200 upvotes – 52 comments

My personal site is a terminal

http://karlsteltenpohl.com

9 years ago

193 upvotes – 133 comments

The Long Way Round (2014)

http://lapsedhistorian.com/long-way-round-part-1/

9 years ago

191 upvotes – 27 comments

The Linux Scheduler: A Decade of Wasted Cores (2016)

https://blog.acolyer.org/2016/04/26/the-linux-scheduler-a-decade-of-wasted-cores/

9 years ago

179 upvotes – 35 comments

Filesystem error handling

https://danluu.com/filesystem-errors/

9 years ago

158 upvotes – 46 comments

AWS bastions and assume-role

https://engineering.coinbase.com/you-need-more-than-one-aws-account-aws-bastions-and-assume-role-23946c6dfde3

9 years ago

157 upvotes – 66 comments

Stephen Hawking's Ph.D. Thesis Crashes Cambridge Site After It's Posted Online

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/10/23/559582380/stephen-hawkings-ph-d-thesis-crashes-cambridge-site-after-it-s-posted-online

9 years ago

157 upvotes – 55 comments

Returning to Second Life

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/10/returning-to-second-life/

9 years ago

157 upvotes – 67 comments

Swagger is now the OpenAPI Specification

https://buildazure.com/2017/10/20/swagger-is-now-the-openapi-specification/

9 years ago

156 upvotes – 74 comments

11-year-old girl inspired by Flint water crisis creates cheap kit to test lead

http://abcnews.go.com/Lifestyle/11-year-girl-inspired-flint-water-crisis-creates/story?id=50559884

9 years ago

152 upvotes – 96 comments

Please Stop Writing Secure Messaging Tools (2015)

https://dymaxion.org/essays/pleasestop.html

9 years ago

151 upvotes – 68 comments

Cray and Microsoft Bring Supercomputing to Azure

http://investors.cray.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=98390&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=2310378

9 years ago

148 upvotes – 56 comments

An experimental software development environment

https://isomorf.io/

9 years ago

145 upvotes – 65 comments

Newfound Wormhole Allows Information to Escape Black Holes

https://www.quantamagazine.org/newfound-wormhole-allows-information-to-escape-black-holes-20171023/

9 years ago

128 upvotes – 36 comments

Paying for Dirt: Where Have Home Values Detached from Construction Costs?

https://www.buildzoom.com/blog/paying-for-dirt-where-have-home-values-detached-from-construction-costs

9 years ago

123 upvotes – 116 comments

WeWork has bought Flatiron School

https://www.fastcompany.com/40484965/wework-just-bought-nyc-coding-bootcamp-flatiron-school

9 years ago

119 upvotes – 48 comments

Soylent can no longer ship to Canada

https://faq.soylent.com/hc/en-us/articles/115005267426

9 years ago

114 upvotes – 192 comments

Google Payments API

https://developers.google.com/payments/

9 years ago

110 upvotes – 25 comments

A Theory of Sequence Memory in Neocortex

https://blog.acolyer.org/2017/10/23/why-neurons-have-thousands-of-synapses-a-theory-of-sequence-memory-in-neocortex/

9 years ago

109 upvotes – 31 comments

Singapore to Stop Adding Cars in February 2018

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-23/singapore-to-stop-adding-cars-on-its-roads-from-february-2018

9 years ago

108 upvotes – 76 comments

Properties of expanding universes (1966)

https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/251038

9 years ago

105 upvotes – 16 comments

Readspike – Simple news aggregator

https://readspike.com/

9 years ago

92 upvotes – 54 comments

Launch HN: Cashfree (YC S17) – Automated Payouts and Bank Transfers for India

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15530862

9 years ago

91 upvotes – 42 comments

Turning Corners into Cameras: Principles and Methods

http://people.csail.mit.edu/klbouman/cornercameras.html

9 years ago

87 upvotes – 14 comments

The Anatomy of a Thousand Typefaces

https://medium.com/@getflourish/the-anatomy-of-a-thousand-typefaces-f7b9088eed1

9 years ago

86 upvotes – 12 comments

Scientists make rare achievement in study of antimatter

https://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/scientists-make-rare-achievement-in-study-of-antimatter

9 years ago

82 upvotes – 26 comments

Photons pair up like superconducting electrons

http://www.nature.com/news/photons-pair-up-like-superconducting-electrons-1.22868

9 years ago

82 upvotes – 11 comments

Ask HN: Why is software quality an afterthought for many people/companies?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15532085

9 years ago

80 upvotes – 97 comments

Show HN: JSRobot – A platform game you play by coding in JavaScript

https://github.com/reaalkhalil/JSRobot

9 years ago

★ 473 JavaScript
79 upvotes – 34 comments

Android getting “DNS over TLS” support

https://www.xda-developers.com/android-dns-over-tls-website-privacy/

9 years ago

79 upvotes – 66 comments

Business Reporter: How to get more value from data by using GPU databases

http://www.brytlyt.com/blog/business-reporter-interview/

9 years ago

78 upvotes – 4 comments

Hardening C/C++ Programs: Stack Protector

http://www.productive-cpp.com/hardening-cpp-programs-stack-protector/

9 years ago

77 upvotes – 19 comments

Tech Giants Are Paying Huge Salaries for Scarce AI Talent

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/22/technology/artificial-intelligence-experts-salaries.html

9 years ago

77 upvotes – 22 comments

Reverse Engineering an Integrated Circuit for Pwn2Win 2017 CTF

http://blog.dragonsector.pl/2017/10/pwn2win-2017-shift-register.html

9 years ago

67 upvotes – 9 comments

Promise.prototype.finally

https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/10/promise-finally

9 years ago

67 upvotes – 58 comments
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