top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-11-04

Freelancer.com has ruined my life

https://www.trustpilot.com/reviews/59fdae7d31302a07249dc4fe

9 years ago

What is backpropagation and what is it doing? [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ilg3gGewQ5U

9 years ago

Sometimes all a maintainer needs is a “thank you”

https://github.com/jhund/filterrific/issues/147#issuecomment-341867147

9 years ago

★ 910 Ruby MIT

Fake WhatsApp update from “WhatsApp Inc.” with Unicode whitespace: 1M downloads

https://twitter.com/virqdroid/status/926437790140772362

9 years ago

Alpha Go Zero: How and Why It Works

http://tim.hibal.org/blog/alpha-zero-how-and-why-it-works/

9 years ago

Show HN: Server.js – A modern Express alternative

https://serverjs.io/

9 years ago

How to Build Your Own Blockchain Part 3 – Writing Nodes That Mine and Talk

https://bigishdata.com/2017/11/02/build-your-own-blockchain-part-3-writing-nodes-that-mine/

9 years ago

Evio – Fast event-loop networking for Go

https://github.com/tidwall/evio

9 years ago

★ 6k Go MIT

Who’s Sitting Next to You on the Subway? An R Train in September

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/10/whos-sitting-next-to-you-on-the-subway-we-asked.html

9 years ago

Internet Association Endorses Internet Censorship Bill

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/11/internet-association-endorses-internet-censorship-bill

9 years ago

TensorFlow on a 256K RAM microcontroller

https://github.com/neil-tan/uTensor

9 years ago

★ 3 C++ Apache-2.0

14TB Hard Drives Now Available

https://www.anandtech.com/show/11901/western-digital-now-shipping-14tb-hgst-ultrastar-hs14

9 years ago

Understanding How Graal Works – A Java JIT Compiler Written in Java

http://chrisseaton.com/rubytruffle/jokerconf17/

9 years ago

The Disappearing American Grad Student

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/03/education/edlife/american-graduate-student-stem.html

9 years ago

Teach Yourself C in 24 Hours (1997)

http://aelinik.free.fr/c/index.html

9 years ago

Profiling Go

http://www.integralist.co.uk/posts/profiling-go/

9 years ago

Create React apps using Kotlin

https://github.com/JetBrains/create-react-kotlin-app

9 years ago

★ 2.4k JavaScript MIT

What Google Learned from Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team (2016)

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/28/magazine/what-google-learned-from-its-quest-to-build-the-perfect-team.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=0&pagewanted=all

9 years ago

The First Woman to Translate the ‘Odyssey’ into English

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/02/magazine/the-first-woman-to-translate-the-odyssey-into-english.html

9 years ago

Ask HN: Is Meteor.js still a thing?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15624623

9 years ago

Can Germany Fix Facebook?

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/11/germany-facebook/543258/?single_page=true

9 years ago

Well-capitalized Seattle startup seeks Unix developers – Jeff Bezos (1994)

https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!msg/mi.jobs/poXLCW8udK4/_GHzqB9sG9gJ

9 years ago

Diary of an African Cryptocurrency Miner

https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2017-11-03/diary-of-an-african-cryptocurrency-miner

9 years ago

Render Multimedia in Pure C

http://nullprogram.com/blog/2017/11/03/

9 years ago

PeerPad – A realtime P2P collaborative editing tool powered by IPFS

https://peerpad.net/

9 years ago

The Lost Art of C Structure Packing

http://www.catb.org/esr/structure-packing/

9 years ago

The decentralized WeTransfer

https://github.com/alexsicart/Decentralized-Cloud

9 years ago

★ 867 JavaScript MIT

The Making of SciPy 1.0

https://www.numfocus.org/blog/scipy-1-0-16-years-in-the-making/

9 years ago

Billionaire Saudi Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Arrested in Corruption Crackdown

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/04/billionaire-saudi-prince-alwaleed-bin-talal-arrested-in-corruption-crackdown-local-reports.html

9 years ago

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos sold more than $1B worth of stock this week

https://www.theverge.com/2017/11/3/16604990/amazon-ceo-jeff-bezos-stock-sale-1-billion

9 years ago

Our Odd Startup: 3½ Guys, No VC, Profitability, and Patience

https://www.indiehackers.com/@thefln/our-odd-startup-3-guys-no-vc-profitability-and-patience-8f3ae206de

9 years ago

Fengari: Lua for the Browser

https://fengari.io/

9 years ago

Stop supporting old releases

https://medium.com/@mikeal/stop-supporting-old-releases-70cfa0e04b0c

9 years ago

The Dramatically Different World of ’70s Dating Ads

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/singles-news-1970s-personal-ads-dating

9 years ago

The Great College Loan Swindle

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/taibbi-the-great-college-loan-swindle-w510880

9 years ago

A bug-fix 12 years in the making: Windows Unicode Support in OCaml 4.06.0

http://www.dra27.uk/blog/platform/2017/10/30/ocaml-unicode.html

9 years ago

GPS signal disturbed at altitudes above 2000-3000 feet over Norway [pdf]

https://rntfnd.org/wp-content/uploads/Norway-Comms-Auth-Report-GPS-Jamming-Sept-2017.pdf

9 years ago

How do you manage / plan your life?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15626233

9 years ago