top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-11-03

LineageOS for microG – Access Google services without closed software

https://lineage.microg.org/

9 years ago

504 upvotes – 198 comments

iPhone X Teardown

https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/iPhone%2BX%2BTeardown/98975

9 years ago

407 upvotes – 362 comments

Fifty-three year old nuclear missile accident revealed

http://rapidcityjournal.com/news/local/communities/belle_fourche/fifty-three-year-old-nuclear-missile-accident-revealed/article_653347a4-04e8-5c29-a778-3a6a6c3cfd84.html#tracking-source=home-latest-1

9 years ago

406 upvotes – 244 comments

Yes, but what does your startup do?

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2017/11/yes-but-what-does-your-startup-do/

9 years ago

374 upvotes – 195 comments

Audacity 2.2.0 Released

http://www.audacityteam.org/audacity-2-2-0-released/

9 years ago

371 upvotes – 146 comments

Why Do We Still Commute?

https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2017/11/why-do-we-still-commute/544733/

9 years ago

321 upvotes – 391 comments

Bitcoin mining heats homes for free in Siberia [video]

https://qz.com/1117836/bitcoin-mining-heats-homes-for-free-in-siberia/

9 years ago

253 upvotes – 178 comments

Joseph Campbell’s daily routine for “the most important period of my study”

https://betterhumans.coach.me/joseph-campbells-daily-routine-for-the-most-important-period-of-my-scholarship-and-study-68d1c35dd0d5

9 years ago

248 upvotes – 74 comments

Comcast has a lot to lose if municipal broadband takes off

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/11/comcast-has-a-lot-to-lose-if-municipal-broadband-takes-off/

9 years ago

242 upvotes – 124 comments

Neugram – Scripting in Go

https://neugram.io/blog/neugram-briefly

9 years ago

236 upvotes – 46 comments

Tell HN: Yahoo Finance has apparently killed its API

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15616880

9 years ago

235 upvotes – 100 comments

Magic Paper

http://cognitivemedium.com/magic_paper/

9 years ago

216 upvotes – 30 comments

Remembering Laika, Space Dog and Soviet Hero

https://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/remembering-laika-space-dog-and-soviet-hero?google_editors_picks=true

9 years ago

192 upvotes – 51 comments

Pyro: PyTorch-Based Deep Universal Probabilistic Programming

http://pyro.ai/

9 years ago

189 upvotes – 41 comments

Playing with Wolfram Playing Cards

http://adereth.github.io/blog/2017/11/02/playing-with-wolfram-playing-cards/

9 years ago

184 upvotes – 39 comments

Command line interfaces are reified UIs

http://www.expressionsofchange.org/reification-of-interaction/

9 years ago

163 upvotes – 99 comments

Show HN: React patterns, techniques, tips and tricks

https://github.com/vasanthk/react-bits

9 years ago

★ 17.4k CC-BY-4.0
162 upvotes – 46 comments

Sketching Interfaces

https://airbnb.design/sketching-interfaces/

9 years ago

158 upvotes – 31 comments

X-Men: The Animated Series – Unlikely Story of the '90s Cartoon Hit

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/x-men-animated-series-story-90s-cartoon-hit-1052263

9 years ago

149 upvotes – 93 comments

Show HN: CertStream – See SSL certs as they're issued in real time

https://certstream.calidog.io

9 years ago

142 upvotes – 60 comments

Tikzcd – A simple visual editor for creating commutative diagrams

https://github.com/yishn/tikzcd-editor

9 years ago

★ 1.9k JavaScript MIT
141 upvotes – 12 comments

Life Inside the RVs of Silicon Valley

https://www.topic.com/life-inside-the-rvs-of-silicon-valley

9 years ago

134 upvotes – 101 comments

Facebook Says It’s Policing Fake Accounts, but They’re Still Easy to Spot

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/03/technology/facebook-fake-accounts.html

9 years ago

130 upvotes – 117 comments

Stack Overflow lays off 20% of staff

https://techcrunch.com/2017/11/02/stack-overflow-lays-off-staff/

9 years ago

129 upvotes – 55 comments

The Future of RethinkDB

https://changelog.com/podcast/266

9 years ago

128 upvotes – 56 comments

Electron.Net: Build cross platform desktop apps using .NET core and ASP.NET core

https://github.com/ElectronNET/Electron.NET

9 years ago

★ 7.5k C# MIT
127 upvotes – 129 comments

“realdonaldtrump’s account was inadvertently deactivated due to human error”

https://twitter.com/TwitterGov/status/926238960594178048

9 years ago

120 upvotes – 199 comments

Renjin: a JVM-based interpreter for the R language

http://www.renjin.org

9 years ago

118 upvotes – 34 comments

Microsoft says 40 percent of all VMs in Azure now are running Linux

http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-says-40-percent-of-all-vms-in-azure-now-are-running-linux/

9 years ago

116 upvotes – 98 comments

Show HN: Periodic Table of GitHub

https://ablakey.github.io/periodic/index.html

9 years ago

114 upvotes – 29 comments

Broadcom Explores Deal to Acquire Chipmaker Qualcomm

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-03/broadcom-explores-deal-to-acquire-chipmaker-qualcomm

9 years ago

113 upvotes – 58 comments

College Kids Doing What Twitter Won't

https://www.wired.com/story/the-college-kids-doing-what-twitter-wont/?mbid=nl_11117_backchannel_p1

9 years ago

111 upvotes – 104 comments

Twitter employee deactivates Trump account

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-41854482

9 years ago

105 upvotes – 167 comments

Redundancy vs. dependencies: which is worse? (2008)

http://yosefk.com/blog/redundancy-vs-dependencies-which-is-worse.html

9 years ago

98 upvotes – 29 comments

Logitech announces a development kit for using keyboards in virtual reality

https://blog.vive.com/us/2017/11/02/introducing-the-logitech-bridge-sdk/

9 years ago

95 upvotes – 73 comments

Atlantropa

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

9 years ago

94 upvotes – 62 comments

Identifying the “Early IBM Computer” in a Twitter Photo

http://www.righto.com/2017/11/identifying-early-ibm-computer-in.html

9 years ago

88 upvotes – 46 comments

Open-Source Iron Battery Project

https://uandigive.communityfunded.net/?cfpage=project&project_id=16128

9 years ago

84 upvotes – 44 comments

Clever Machines Learn How to Be Curious

https://www.quantamagazine.org/clever-machines-learn-how-to-be-curious-20170919/

9 years ago

83 upvotes – 11 comments

Ask HN: What are top promising technologies of tomorrow must get involved today?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15620824

9 years ago

78 upvotes – 44 comments

4.2BSD on SIMH vax with networking

http://plover.net/~agarvin/4.2bsd.html

9 years ago

78 upvotes – 14 comments

A Speed Gun for Photosynthesis

https://www.nist.gov/featured-stories/speed-gun-photosynthesis

9 years ago

76 upvotes – 15 comments

1900s ID Cards That Kept Trans People Safe from Harassment

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/trans-id-passes-weimar-germany-marcus-hirschfeld

9 years ago

74 upvotes – 47 comments

Making Pillow-SIMD, optimizing image processing in Python

https://blog.uploadcare.com/the-fastest-production-ready-image-resize-out-there-part-1-general-optimizations-1b9b0faf2959

9 years ago

74 upvotes – 24 comments

Ask HN: Which programmer do you look up to?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15621483

9 years ago

69 upvotes – 40 comments

Azure Functions Now Support Java

https://www.infoq.com/news/2017/10/azure-functions-java

9 years ago

68 upvotes – 18 comments
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