top 20 hacker news stories for 2017-10-28

Orchid: a new surveillance-free layer on top of the existing Internet

http://orchidprotocol.com

9 years ago

378 upvotes – 188 comments

Crystal in Production: Diploid

https://crystal-lang.org/2017/10/27/diploid-and-crystal.html

9 years ago

246 upvotes – 120 comments

Progressive Growing of GANs for Improved Quality, Stability, Variation [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=XOxxPcy5Gr4

9 years ago

220 upvotes – 65 comments

I Watched All of the Chrome Dev Summit 2017 Videos

https://redfin.engineering/i-watched-all-of-the-chrome-dev-summit-2017-videos-so-you-dont-have-to-9b62a593c3cb

9 years ago

215 upvotes – 91 comments

Why Snapchat Spectacles failed

https://techcrunch.com/2017/10/28/why-snapchat-spectacles-failed/

9 years ago

189 upvotes – 181 comments

Ask HN: What alternatives to Powerpoint/Prezi are there?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15575363

9 years ago

180 upvotes – 98 comments

Amazon now has a billion-dollar ad business

https://digiday.com/marketing/amazon-now-1-billion-ad-business/

9 years ago

176 upvotes – 52 comments

How to teach technical concepts with cartoons

https://jvns.ca/teach-tech-with-cartoons/

9 years ago

170 upvotes – 23 comments

Delaware's Odd, Beautiful, Contentious, Private Utopia

http://reason.com/archives/2017/10/14/delawares-odd-beautiful-conten

9 years ago

163 upvotes – 60 comments

Things to know about sleep as the clocks go back

http://www.bbc.com/news/health-41666563

9 years ago

155 upvotes – 108 comments

Alan Kay answers “What was it like to be at Xerox PARC when Steve Jobs visited?”

https://www.quora.com/What-was-it-like-to-be-at-Xerox-PARC-when-Steve-Jobs-visited?share=1

9 years ago

123 upvotes – 55 comments

Fiat vs. Bitcoin

http://www.fiatfate.com/

9 years ago

95 upvotes – 70 comments

Ask HN: Learning Lisp, and I have some questions

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15575505

9 years ago

94 upvotes – 48 comments

A tutorial on active learning (2009) [pdf]

http://hunch.net/~active_learning/active_learning_icml09.pdf

9 years ago

85 upvotes – 6 comments

Tobacco industry generates highest net income per employee

http://erikrood.com/Posts/NIPE.html

9 years ago

84 upvotes – 82 comments

A Simply Arited Concatenative Language

https://suhr.github.io/obsc/

9 years ago

80 upvotes – 21 comments

HEML: an open source markup language for building responsive email

https://github.com/SparkPost/heml

9 years ago

★ 4.3k JavaScript MIT
80 upvotes – 31 comments

Pas a Pas: Using animation to teach abstract concepts to children

http://www.pasapas-project.com/#

9 years ago

77 upvotes – 25 comments

Git Magic

https://crypto.stanford.edu/~blynn/gitmagic/

9 years ago

73 upvotes – 2 comments

How the U.K. Prosecuted a Student on Terrorism Charges for Downloading a Book

https://theintercept.com/2017/10/28/josh-walker-anarchist-cookbook-terrorism-act-uk/

9 years ago

72 upvotes – 35 comments
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