top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-10-27

The New York Times Is Now Available as a Tor Onion Service

https://open.nytimes.com/https-open-nytimes-com-the-new-york-times-as-a-tor-onion-service-e0d0b67b7482

9 years ago

Catalan parliament declares independence from Spain

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-41780116

9 years ago

Waymo Will Test Self-Driving Cars in Snowy Detroit

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-26/alphabet-s-waymo-will-test-self-driving-cars-in-wintry-detroit

9 years ago

Write tests. Not too many. Mostly integration

https://blog.kentcdodds.com/write-tests-not-too-many-mostly-integration-5e8c7fff591c

9 years ago

Reason 3

https://reasonml.github.io/community/blog/#reason-3

9 years ago

Netflix: Removing client-side React.js improved performance by 50%

https://twitter.com/NetflixUIE/status/923374215041912833

9 years ago

Elixir web development 101: collaborative todolist with realtime updates

https://blog.openbloc.fr/elixir-phoenix-web-development-101-todo-app/

9 years ago

Comcast Tries to Derail Fort Collins Community Broadband

http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Comcast-Tries-to-Derail-Fort-Collins-Community-Broadband-140604

9 years ago

Things I Wish I'd Known Before Using Vagrant

https://zwischenzugs.com/2017/10/27/ten-things-i-wish-id-known-before-using-vagrant/

9 years ago

IBM scientists say radical new ‘in-memory’ architecture will speed up computers

http://www.kurzweilai.net/ibm-scientists-say-radical-new-in-memory-computing-architecture-will-speed-up-computers-by-200-times

9 years ago

Sorting Algorithms Revisualized

https://imgur.com/gallery/GD5gi

9 years ago

Public Key Pinning Being Removed from Chrome

https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!msg/blink-dev/he9tr7p3rZ8/eNMwKPmUBAAJ?hn

9 years ago

Twitter’s multi-million dollar US election pitch to RT

https://www.rt.com/news/407919-twitter-multi-million-offer-rt/

9 years ago

Can You Afford It? Real-World Web Performance Budgets

https://infrequently.org/2017/10/can-you-afford-it-real-world-web-performance-budgets/

9 years ago

Jackie Chan’s Plan to Keep Kicking Forever

https://www.gq.com/story/jackie-chans-gq-profile-2017

9 years ago

Leaked: EU governments want to give record labels control over what we can post

https://juliareda.eu/2017/10/copyright-bullies/

9 years ago

A man who 'discovered' 780 Indian languages

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-41718082

9 years ago

Mark Twain’s Get-Rich-Quick Schemes

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2017/10/25/mark-twains-get-rich-quick-schemes/

9 years ago

Journalists decry Facebook experiment's impact on democracy

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/oct/25/facebook-orwellian-journalists-democracy-guatemala-slovakia

9 years ago

Don't hate COBOL until you've tried it

https://opensource.com/article/17/8/what-about-cobol

9 years ago

China’s AI Awakening

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/609038/chinas-ai-awakening/?set=

9 years ago

Sway 1.0 is not going to support the Nvidia proprietary driver

https://drewdevault.com/2017/10/26/Fuck-you-nvidia.html

9 years ago

Implementing Stripe-Like Idempotency Keys in Postgres

https://brandur.org/idempotency-keys

9 years ago

Amazon gains wholesale pharmacy licenses in multiple states

http://www.stltoday.com/business/local/amazon-gains-wholesale-pharmacy-licenses-in-multiple-states/article_4e77a39f-e644-5c22-b5e6-e613a9ed2512.html

9 years ago

Absinthe – GraphQL implementation for Elixir

https://github.com/absinthe-graphql/absinthe

9 years ago

★ 4.4k Elixir

Study shows the top 0.01% of Scandinavian households underpaid taxes by 30%

https://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2017/06/daily-chart?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/ed/

9 years ago

Faster Coding Interview Prep Using Interactive Visualizations

https://www.educative.io/collection/5642554087309312/5679846214598656

9 years ago

Saving San Francisco goes deeper than “build more housing”

https://medium.com/@justinkrause/how-to-save-san-francisco-89b9609e4650

9 years ago

Object Detection with Open Images using Tensorflow

https://blog.algorithmia.com/deep-dive-into-object-detection-with-open-images-using-tensorflow/

9 years ago

The Students Who Discovered Dieselgate

http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/the-three-students-who-discovered-dieselgate-a-1173686.html

9 years ago

Secretary Problem

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

9 years ago

Hacker News for Hackers

http://ontology2.com/essays/HackerNewsForHackers/

9 years ago

How much traffic do I get from North Korea anyway?

https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/north-korea-dprk-bgp-geoip-fruad

9 years ago

High-Performance GPU Computing in the Julia Programming Language

https://devblogs.nvidia.com/parallelforall/gpu-computing-julia-programming-language/

9 years ago

How Australia's $49B internet network came to be ridiculed

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-41577003

9 years ago

Reasonably Secure Computing in the Decentralized World

https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2017/09/13/joanna-rutkowska-secure-computing-decentralized-world/

9 years ago

We're Building a Dystopia Just to Make People Click on Ads

https://www.ted.com/talks/zeynep_tufekci_we_re_building_a_dystopia_just_to_make_people_click_on_ads

9 years ago

The OWASP Top 10 is killing me

https://insights.hpe.com/content/hpe-nxt/en/articles/2017/10/the-owasp-top-10-is-killing-me-and-killing-you.html

9 years ago

Procedurally generated electronic music

http://signalsandsorcery.com/

9 years ago

Surviving Your First Year

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/startup-stages-surviving-your-first-year/

9 years ago

Show HN: 4chan on the Ethereum blockchain

http://davidwong.fr/FiveMedium/

9 years ago

Myspace looked like it was back, but was a pawn in an ad fraud scheme

https://www.buzzfeed.com/craigsilverman/remember-tom?utm_term=.uajQ9V5yA#.hnRwoK71M

9 years ago

Lost at sea: a man who vanished for 14 months (2015)

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/07/fisherman-lost-at-sea-436-days-book-extract

9 years ago

How Ketogenic Diets Curb Inflammation in the Brain

https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2017/09/408366/how-ketogenic-diets-curb-inflammation-brain

9 years ago

Show HN: Playing music with your voice and machine learning

https://blog.buildo.io/humming-with-the-bot-254808879644

9 years ago

Alphabet Q3 Revenue up 24%

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/26/alphabet-earnings-q3-2017-.html

9 years ago

Under a fermium sky

http://blogs.nature.com/thescepticalchymist/2017/06/under-a-fermium-sky.html

9 years ago

AI Model Fundamentally Cracks Captchas, Scientists Say

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/10/26/560082659/ai-model-fundamentally-cracks-captchas-scientists-say

9 years ago

Clojure vs. The Static Typing World

http://www.lispcast.com/clojure-and-types

9 years ago

Show HN: Audiovisual sequencer for tweet-sized JavaScript animations

https://dweetplayer.net

9 years ago

India's Nuclear Scientists Keep Dying Mysteriously (2013)

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qbepmd/why-are-indian-authorities-ignoring-the-deaths-of-nuclear-scientists

9 years ago

Being less friendly to advertisers insulates Snapchat from viral hoaxes

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-10-26/how-snapchat-has-kept-itself-free-of-fake-news

9 years ago

TLS-N: Non-repudiation over TLS

https://tls-n.org/

9 years ago

Rise of the Creative Class Worked a Little Too Well

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-10-27/rise-of-the-creative-class-worked-a-little-too-well

9 years ago

Latin America is seeing a cable-car boom

https://www.economist.com/news/americas/21730743-they-appeal-both-politicians-and-commuters-why-latin-america-seeing-cable-car-boom

9 years ago

Playing Ingress in Antarctica

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/a37v7z/inside-antarcticas-illegal-ingress-gaming-scene

9 years ago