top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-10-30

Do you need a VPN?

https://blog.mozilla.org/internetcitizen/2017/08/29/do-you-need-a-vpn

9 years ago

969 upvotes – 479 comments

Google, Facebook, and Amazon have fundamentally transformed the web

https://staltz.com/the-web-began-dying-in-2014-heres-how.html

9 years ago

712 upvotes – 323 comments

Anvil: full stack web apps built only with Python

https://anvil.works/

9 years ago

542 upvotes – 200 comments

HTTP 103 – An HTTP Status Code for Indicating Hints

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-httpbis-early-hints/

9 years ago

417 upvotes – 120 comments

Near Future of Programming Languages [pdf]

http://dev.stephendiehl.com/nearfuture.pdf

9 years ago

385 upvotes – 292 comments

Firefox takes a bite out of the canvas ‘super cookie’

https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2017/10/30/firefox-takes-a-bite-out-of-the-canvas-super-cookie/

9 years ago

383 upvotes – 130 comments

Ask HN: We have a great team and capital but can't find a good idea

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15588361

9 years ago

337 upvotes – 550 comments

The meaning of AMP

https://adactio.com/journal/13035

9 years ago

305 upvotes – 169 comments

Simplicity: A New Language for Blockchains [pdf]

https://blockstream.com/simplicity.pdf

9 years ago

300 upvotes – 95 comments

Fun facts about Rust's growing popularity

http://www.jonathanturner.org/2017/10/fun-facts-about-rust-growth.html

9 years ago

271 upvotes – 128 comments

F* – An ML-like functional programming language aimed at program verification

http://fstar-lang.org

9 years ago

264 upvotes – 95 comments

The State of Data Science and Machine Learning

https://www.kaggle.com/surveys/2017

9 years ago

254 upvotes – 42 comments

Butterfly iQ – A cheap handheld ultrasound tool with AI smarts inside

https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-human-os/biomedical/imaging/new-ultrasound-on-a-chip-tool-could-revolutionize-medical-imaging

9 years ago

238 upvotes – 147 comments

RCN is much more data efficient than traditional Deep Neural Networks

https://www.vicarious.com/2017/10/26/common-sense-cortex-and-captcha/

9 years ago

235 upvotes – 46 comments

Scaling the GitLab database

https://about.gitlab.com/2017/10/02/scaling-the-gitlab-database/

9 years ago

228 upvotes – 107 comments

The quest to evolve neural networks through evolutionary algorithms

https://www.oreilly.com/ideas/neuroevolution-a-different-kind-of-deep-learning

9 years ago

213 upvotes – 104 comments

How a destructive idea paved the way for modern math

http://nautil.us/issue/53/monsters/maths-beautiful-monsters-rp

9 years ago

209 upvotes – 53 comments

Build a Business, not an App

https://listed.standardnotes.org/@mo/259/build-a-business-not-app

9 years ago

203 upvotes – 18 comments

Deepo: a Docker image containing almost all popular deep learning frameworks

https://github.com/ufoym/deepo

9 years ago

★ 6.2k Python MIT
194 upvotes – 38 comments

The 'Manhattan of the Desert': Shibam, Yemen's Ancient Skyscraper City (2015)

https://www.archdaily.com/771154/the-manhattan-of-the-desert-shibam-yemens-ancient-skyscraper-city

9 years ago

188 upvotes – 46 comments

Record surge in atmospheric CO2 seen in 2016

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-41778089

9 years ago

174 upvotes – 194 comments

Algo trading digital assets

http://johnmathews.eu/algo-trading.html

9 years ago

167 upvotes – 53 comments

A curated directory of resources and tools to help you build your startup

http://startupstash.com/

9 years ago

166 upvotes – 24 comments

Show HN: Open Source alternative to services like Intercom.io and Smooch

https://github.com/minimalchat/client

9 years ago

★ 675 JavaScript BSD-3-Clause
163 upvotes – 24 comments

Indiana Purging Voters Using Software That’s 99% Inaccurate

https://www.thedailybeast.com/lawsuit-indiana-purging-voters-using-software-thats-99-inaccurate

9 years ago

156 upvotes – 145 comments

Migrating Slack's Desktop App to BrowserView

https://slack.engineering/growing-pains-migrating-slacks-desktop-app-to-browserview-2759690d9c7b

9 years ago

154 upvotes – 207 comments

Show HN: Vehicle Detection – using machine learning and computer vision

https://github.com/tatsuyah/vehicle-detection

9 years ago

★ 1.1k Jupyter Notebook
153 upvotes – 21 comments

Oldest recorded solar eclipse helps date the Egyptian pharaohs

http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/oldest-recorded-solar-eclipse-helps-date-the-egyptian-pharaohs

9 years ago

152 upvotes – 80 comments

So you want to write a type checker (2014)

http://languagengine.co/blog/so-you-want-to-write-a-type-checker/

9 years ago

152 upvotes – 98 comments

Amazon and Ebay Opened Pandora's Box of Chinese Counterfeits

https://www.forbes.com/sites/wadeshepard/2017/10/28/amazon-and-ebay-opened-pandoras-box-of-chinese-counterfeits-and-now-dont-know-what-to-do/

9 years ago

151 upvotes – 194 comments

How to write a JavaScript-free todo app using just HTML and CSS

http://www.mattzeunert.com/2017/10/30/javascript-free-todo-app.html

9 years ago

149 upvotes – 46 comments

Golden Rules of Financial Safety (1999)

http://www.harrybrowne.org/articles/InvestmentRules.htm

9 years ago

140 upvotes – 110 comments

Show HN: API to check where a TV show or movie is available

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15584028

9 years ago

133 upvotes – 53 comments

Crafting Interpreters: Classes

http://www.craftinginterpreters.com/classes.html

9 years ago

132 upvotes – 32 comments

Paul Manafort and Richard Gates Indictment [pdf]

https://www.justice.gov/file/1007271/download

9 years ago

122 upvotes – 32 comments

How the Kodi Box Took Over Piracy

https://www.wired.com/story/kodi-box-piracy/

9 years ago

122 upvotes – 113 comments

Cryptocurrency Evolution

http://blog.ycombinator.com/crypto-evolution/

9 years ago

119 upvotes – 68 comments

First field report of iPhone X

https://www.wired.com/story/iphone-x-first-impression/

9 years ago

109 upvotes – 268 comments

‘I forgot my PIN’: An epic tale of losing $30,000 in bitcoin

https://www.wired.com/story/i-forgot-my-pin-an-epic-tale-of-losing-dollar30000-in-bitcoin/?mbid=synd_digg

9 years ago

108 upvotes – 41 comments

Man finds USB stick with Heathrow security plans, Queen’s travel details

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/10/man-finds-usb-stick-with-heathrow-security-plans-queens-travel-details/

9 years ago

105 upvotes – 30 comments

Arcosanti, Paolo Soleri’s Arizona experiment in urban planning

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/bj7jjd/arcosanti-city-future-paolo-soleri-arcology

9 years ago

101 upvotes – 55 comments

Implementing VisiCalc (2003)

https://www.landley.net/history/mirror/apple2/implementingvisicalc.html

9 years ago

100 upvotes – 17 comments

Ask HN: How did you significantly reduce your AWS cost?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15587627

9 years ago

100 upvotes – 75 comments

The Internet Worm of 1988

http://www.cs.unc.edu/~jeffay/courses/nidsS05/attacks/seely-RTMworm-89.html

9 years ago

97 upvotes – 49 comments

Occupy the cloud: distributed computing for the 99%

https://blog.acolyer.org/2017/10/30/occupy-the-cloud-distributed-computing-for-the-99/

9 years ago

97 upvotes – 24 comments

Algorithmic Approaches to Playing Minesweeper (2015)

https://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/14398552

9 years ago

95 upvotes – 32 comments

Transform SVG into React components

https://github.com/smooth-code/svgr

9 years ago

★ 11k TypeScript MIT
94 upvotes – 32 comments

NPL: A programming language for neural networks, 3d simulation and visualization

https://github.com/LiXizhi/NPLRuntime/wiki/WhatIsNPL

9 years ago

★ 272 C++ GPL-2.0
90 upvotes – 8 comments

Show HN: Unity 3D in Docker

https://github.com/nenadg/docker-unity3d

9 years ago

★ 275 Shell MIT
88 upvotes – 50 comments
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