top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-10-31

We only hire the best means we only hire the trendiest (2016)

http://danluu.com/programmer-moneyball/

9 years ago

910 upvotes – 625 comments

Show HN: Frappe Charts – GitHub inspired JavaScript charting with zero dependencies

https://frappe.github.io/charts/

9 years ago

474 upvotes – 87 comments

Show HN: Airborn – Private Google Docs Alternative

https://www.airbornos.com/

9 years ago

469 upvotes – 203 comments

Standalone Signal Desktop

https://signal.org/blog/standalone-signal-desktop/

9 years ago

429 upvotes – 309 comments

Reaching $10k monthly revenue with WakaTime, my SaaS side project

https://www.indiehackers.com/businesses/wakatime

9 years ago

399 upvotes – 163 comments

Bottery – A conversational agent prototyping platform

https://github.com/google/bottery

9 years ago

★ 3.2k JavaScript Apache-2.0
336 upvotes – 73 comments

Google is shutting down the QPX Express API for airfare data

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15594975

9 years ago

324 upvotes – 190 comments

Slack is offline

https://status.slack.com/?20171031

9 years ago

303 upvotes – 122 comments

Why Most Unit Testing Is Waste [pdf]

https://rbcs-us.com/documents/Why-Most-Unit-Testing-is-Waste.pdf

9 years ago

258 upvotes – 158 comments

I can no longer recommend MailChimp

https://www.grahamcluley.com/can-no-longer-recommend-mailchimp/

9 years ago

224 upvotes – 146 comments

Effective Programs: 10 Years of Clojure

https://github.com/matthiasn/talk-transcripts/blob/master/Hickey_Rich/EffectivePrograms.md

9 years ago

★ 3k
215 upvotes – 200 comments

Node.js 8 Moves into Long-Term Support, Node.js 9 Becomes Current Release Line

https://medium.com/@nodejs/news-node-js-8-moves-into-long-term-support-and-node-js-9-becomes-the-new-current-release-line-74cf754a10a0

9 years ago

211 upvotes – 81 comments

An Introduction to Deep Learning for Language Modeling

http://ofir.io/Neural-Language-Modeling-From-Scratch?a=1

9 years ago

206 upvotes – 11 comments

Letting users skip our paywall if they wrote an apology

https://www.kapwing.com/blog/skipping-our-paywall-with-an-apology

9 years ago

205 upvotes – 180 comments

Bitcoin Futures Could Open the Floodgates for Institutional Investors

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-31/bitcoin-futures-could-open-to-floodgates-of-institutional-money

9 years ago

196 upvotes – 226 comments

A Pentagon-funded contest spawned many of today’s self-driving startups

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-10-30/it-s-been-10-years-since-robots-proved-they-could-drive

9 years ago

195 upvotes – 94 comments

An aspirin a day keeps many cancers away, study suggests

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2017/10/30/aspirin-day-keeps-many-cancers-away-study-suggests/

9 years ago

187 upvotes – 131 comments

Nasa’s ambitious plan to save Earth from a supervolcano

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170817-nasas-ambitious-plan-to-save-earth-from-a-supervolcano

9 years ago

182 upvotes – 98 comments

GCP arrives in India with launch of Mumbai region

https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/10/GCP-arrives-in-India-with-launch-of-Mumbai-region.html

9 years ago

171 upvotes – 68 comments

Do we need a third Apache project for columnar data representation?

http://dbmsmusings.blogspot.com/2017/10/apache-arrow-vs-parquet-and-orc-do-we.html

9 years ago

168 upvotes – 86 comments

Hashcat – advanced password recovery

https://hashcat.net/hashcat/

9 years ago

160 upvotes – 27 comments

Why TDD isn't crap

https://hillelwayne.com/post/why-tdd-isnt-crap/

9 years ago

159 upvotes – 161 comments

Racket v6.11

http://blog.racket-lang.org/2017/10/racket-v6-11.html

9 years ago

154 upvotes – 34 comments

An Early Engineer's Guide to Early Stock Option Exercise

https://medium.com/@aveshcsingh/should-you-early-exercise-dd9dfe25accb

9 years ago

152 upvotes – 22 comments

Large cluster of domains sharing the same pair of 512bit ZSKs and RSA key oddities

https://lists.dns-oarc.net/pipermail/dns-operations/2017-October/016878.html

9 years ago

151 upvotes – 25 comments

Permissionless innovation

https://www.learnliberty.org/blog/permissionless-innovation-the-fuzzy-idea-that-rules-our-lives/

9 years ago

144 upvotes – 108 comments

Batteries with 50 per cent more energy with pure silicon anode

https://www.ecn.nl/news/item/batteries-with-50-per-cent-more-energy-one-step-closer/

9 years ago

135 upvotes – 75 comments

Microsoft Presenter Gives Up on Edge, Installs Chrome

https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2017/10/microsoft-presenter-gives-up-on-edge-installs-chrome/

9 years ago

135 upvotes – 96 comments

Chip Hall of Fame: Atmel ATmega8

https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-history/silicon-revolution/chip-hall-of-fame-atmel-atmega8

9 years ago

128 upvotes – 64 comments

Eager Execution: An imperative, define-by-run interface to TensorFlow

https://research.googleblog.com/2017/10/eager-execution-imperative-define-by.html

9 years ago

125 upvotes – 35 comments

Show HN: Easy Webserver for Node.js, Python, PHP, with Free SSL

https://github.com/githubsaturn/captainduckduck/blob/master/README.md

9 years ago

★ 14.9k TypeScript
123 upvotes – 40 comments

The concept of schizophrenia is dying

http://theweek.com/articles/731238/concept-schizophrenia-dying

9 years ago

118 upvotes – 122 comments

G.E.R.T: Golang Embedded Run-Time

https://github.com/ycoroneos/G.E.R.T/blob/master/README.md

9 years ago

★ 855 TeX BSD-3-Clause
117 upvotes – 53 comments

Yahoo is now part of Oath

https://policies.yahoo.com/ie/en/yahoo/privacy/euoathnoticefaq/

9 years ago

115 upvotes – 66 comments

Show HN: WebGL Voxel Engine

https://github.com/Lallassu/voxelengine3

9 years ago

★ 351 JavaScript MIT
113 upvotes – 39 comments

Skulpt: client side Python without preprocessing

http://www.skulpt.org/

9 years ago

112 upvotes – 47 comments

Renewed demand for the metal cobalt is breathing new life into Cobalt, the town

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-10-31/the-canadian-ghost-town-that-tesla-is-bringing-back-to-life?cmpid=socialflow-twitter-business&utm_content=business&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social

9 years ago

110 upvotes – 44 comments

www.reddit.com/etc/passwd

https://www.reddit.com/etc/passwd

9 years ago

103 upvotes – 25 comments

Machine learning of neural representations of emotion identifies suicidal youth

https://www.methodsman.com/blog/mri-suicide

9 years ago

103 upvotes – 74 comments

Writing a 9P server from scratch (2016)

https://blog.aqwari.net/9p/

9 years ago

99 upvotes – 23 comments

Assassin's Creed Origins is crippling gamers' CPUs due to anti-piracy DRM

https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3020085/assassins-creed-origins-is-crippling-gamers-cpus-due-to-anti-piracy-drm-tools

9 years ago

98 upvotes – 76 comments

What Are the Most Disliked Programming Languages?

https://stackoverflow.blog/2017/10/31/disliked-programming-languages/

9 years ago

91 upvotes – 102 comments

OVH increases pricing with the rise of their next generation DDoS Protection

https://sinfulforums.net/t/ovh-increases-pricing-with-the-rise-of-their-next-generation-ddos-protection/90

9 years ago

86 upvotes – 32 comments

“It's been great to see Wireguard mature over the years”

https://plus.google.com/+gregkroahhartman/posts/jD6N4BzToa3

9 years ago

86 upvotes – 61 comments

Bug in Google's Bug Tracker Lets Researcher Access List of Vulnerabilities

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/evbvqj/bug-in-googles-bug-tracker-lets-researcher-access-list-of-companys-vulnerabilities

9 years ago

84 upvotes – 6 comments

Cryptographic filesystem for the cloud

https://github.com/cryfs/cryfs

9 years ago

★ 2.2k Rust LGPL-3.0
83 upvotes – 28 comments

Facebook’s 2016 Election Team Gave Advertisers a Blueprint to a Divided US

http://www.buzzfeed.com/alexkantrowitz/facebooks-2016-election-team-gave-advertisers-a-blueprint

9 years ago

82 upvotes – 40 comments

Income, Poverty and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2016

https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2017/income-povery.html

9 years ago

80 upvotes – 91 comments

Google Docs Is Randomly Flagging Files for Violating Its Terms of Service

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/zmz3yw/why-is-my-google-doc-locked-terms-of-service-bug

9 years ago

79 upvotes – 57 comments

Testimony of Facebook, Google, and Twitter to US Senate

https://www.lgraham.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=212164DA-EF6F-42E4-91E6-F1544014D134

9 years ago

71 upvotes – 87 comments

Slack outage: Connectivity issues

https://status.slack.com/2017-10/99f36bf8f86f6375

9 years ago

68 upvotes – 39 comments
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