top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-11-07

Waymo now testing its self-driving cars on public roads with no one at the wheel

https://techcrunch.com/2017/11/07/waymo-now-testing-its-self-driving-cars-on-public-roads-with-no-one-at-the-wheel/

8 years ago

1120 upvotes – 609 comments

An Open Letter to Intel

http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/intel/

8 years ago

996 upvotes – 363 comments

Almost everything on computers is perceptually slower than it was in 1983

https://tttthreads.com/thread/927593460642615296

8 years ago

498 upvotes – 341 comments

Feature Visualization: How neural nets build up their understanding of images

https://distill.pub/2017/feature-visualization/

8 years ago

461 upvotes – 63 comments

LA Times barred from Disney movies after report on corporate welfare

https://boingboing.net/2017/11/05/bob-iger-vs-the-press.html

8 years ago

454 upvotes – 209 comments

NBA GO – Watch NBA in Your Terminal

https://github.com/xxhomey19/nba-go

8 years ago

★ 3.7kJavaScriptMIT
402 upvotes – 113 comments

Parity Wallet security alert

https://paritytech.io/blog/security-alert.html

8 years ago

394 upvotes – 280 comments

Bayangtoys X16: Inexpensive, durable, hackable GPS drone

http://dronegarageblog.wordpress.com/2017/11/06/bayangtoys-x16-inexpensive-durable-hackable-gps-drone

8 years ago

384 upvotes – 48 comments

Work on SQLite4 has concluded

https://sqlite.org/src4/info/c0b7f14c0976ed5e

8 years ago

378 upvotes – 157 comments

Functional Programming Jargon

https://github.com/hemanth/functional-programming-jargon

8 years ago

★ 18.6kMIT
359 upvotes – 99 comments

Markdown Here – Write email in Markdown

http://markdown-here.com/index.html

8 years ago

349 upvotes – 182 comments

Ask HN: What is your favorite place to find work?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15646550

8 years ago

334 upvotes – 92 comments

Sick of Ruby, dynamic typing, side effects, and object-orientation (2014)

https://blog.abevoelker.com/sick-of-ruby-dynamic-typing-side-effects-object-oriented-programming/

8 years ago

295 upvotes – 378 comments

MINIX: ​Intel's hidden in-chip operating system

http://www.zdnet.com/article/minix-intels-hidden-in-chip-operating-system/

8 years ago

286 upvotes – 109 comments

Saudi Money Fuels the Tech Industry. It’s Time to Ask Why

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/06/technology/unsavory-sources-money-fueling-tech.html

8 years ago

286 upvotes – 259 comments

Show HN: Javalin 1.0 – A Kotlin/Java web framework

https://javalin.io/news/javalin-1.0.0-stable.html

8 years ago

271 upvotes – 87 comments

Starcraft II goes free-to-play seven years after launch

https://arstechnica.co.uk/gaming/2017/11/starcraft-ii-goes-free-to-play-seven-years-after-launch/

8 years ago

259 upvotes – 125 comments

How sheep with cameras got some tiny islands onto Google Street View

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/animalia/wp/2017/11/07/how-sheep-with-cameras-got-these-tiny-islands-onto-google-street-view/?utm_term=.8d2dae8cd3de

8 years ago

239 upvotes – 92 comments

What Happened to Threadless?

https://www.racked.com/2017/11/6/16551468/threadless-t-shirts-ecommerce

8 years ago

237 upvotes – 108 comments

Disney Ends Ban on Los Angeles Times Amid Fierce Backlash

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/07/business/disney-la-times.html

8 years ago

227 upvotes – 90 comments

Show HN: Orange Forum – Web 1.0 style forum written in Go

http://www.goodoldweb.com/

8 years ago

226 upvotes – 172 comments

USB 3.0* Radio Frequency Interference on 2.4 GHz Devices (2012)

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/io/universal-serial-bus/usb3-frequency-interference-paper.html

8 years ago

220 upvotes – 118 comments

Stanford Stats 385: Theories of Deep Learning

https://stats385.github.io/

8 years ago

217 upvotes – 36 comments

USCIS is challenging an unusually large number of H-1B applications

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-06/trump-s-h-1b-reform-is-to-make-life-hell-for-immigrants-and-companies

8 years ago

206 upvotes – 418 comments

Linux kernel: multiple vulnerabilities in the USB subsystem

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/11/06/8

8 years ago

180 upvotes – 69 comments

WTF? Chromium (2016)

http://raeknowler.com/wtf-chromium

8 years ago

179 upvotes – 107 comments

Flaw crippling millions of crypto keys is worse than first disclosed

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/11/flaw-crippling-millions-of-crypto-keys-is-worse-than-first-disclosed/

8 years ago

167 upvotes – 42 comments

Virtual Memory Tricks

http://ourmachinery.com/post/virtual-memory-tricks/

8 years ago

164 upvotes – 43 comments

Lessons from migrating a large codebase to React 16

https://blog.discordapp.com/lessons-from-migrating-a-large-codebase-to-react-16-e60e49102aa6

8 years ago

164 upvotes – 78 comments

How Facebook’s Oracular Algorithm Determines the Fates of Startups

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/02/magazine/how-facebooks-oracular-algorithm-determines-the-fates-of-start-ups.html

8 years ago

155 upvotes – 75 comments

A major vulnerability has frozen hundreds of millions of dollars of Ethereum

https://techcrunch.com/2017/11/07/a-major-vulnerability-has-frozen-hundreds-of-millions-of-dollars-of-ethereum/

8 years ago

151 upvotes – 16 comments

ECMAScript 2018 Language Specification

https://tc39.github.io/ecma262/?ref=HN

8 years ago

149 upvotes – 48 comments

Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL adds high availability and replication

https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/11/Cloud-SQL-for-PostgreSQL-adds-high-availability-and-replication.html

8 years ago

146 upvotes – 19 comments

Apple at Its Best

https://stratechery.com/2017/apple-at-its-best/

8 years ago

143 upvotes – 117 comments

Tweeting Made Easier

https://blog.twitter.com/official/en_us/topics/product/2017/tweetingmadeeasier.html

8 years ago

142 upvotes – 138 comments

Pure UI

https://rauchg.com/2015/pure-ui

8 years ago

138 upvotes – 21 comments

Snap Inc. Third Quarter 2017 Results

https://investor.snap.com/news-releases/2017/11-07-2017-211621749

8 years ago

135 upvotes – 195 comments

Making WebGL Dance: How, Where, and What to Draw (2013)

http://acko.net/files/fullfrontal/fullfrontal/webglmath/online.html

8 years ago

134 upvotes – 18 comments

Dopamine: An AI platform for designing human behavior

https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/08/meet-the-tech-company-that-wants-to-make-you-even-more-addicted-to-your-phone/

8 years ago

123 upvotes – 134 comments

Andromeda 2.1 reduces GCP’s intra-zone latency by 40%

https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/11/Andromeda-2-1-reduces-GCPs-intra-zone-latency-by-40-percent.html

8 years ago

121 upvotes – 33 comments

David Lee files lawsuit against former partner Ron Conway

https://techcrunch.com/2017/11/05/venture-capitalist-david-lee-sues-former-partner-ron-conway-for-millions/

8 years ago

112 upvotes – 32 comments

Revisited: Watership Down

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2017/11/06/watership-down/

8 years ago

109 upvotes – 50 comments

The GOP Tax Plan Will Destroy Graduate Education

https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2017/11/07/the-gop-tax-plan-will-destroy-graduate-education/#6ebc79e63d2f

8 years ago

104 upvotes – 97 comments

TensorFlow r1.4

https://developers.googleblog.com/2017/11/announcing-tensorflow-r14.html

8 years ago

103 upvotes – 13 comments

Growing homeless camps contrast with West Coast tech wealth

http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Homeless-explosion-on-West-Coast-pushing-cities-12334291.php#photo-14496142

8 years ago

99 upvotes – 154 comments

Using CNNs for Handbag Brand and Color Detection

https://technology.condenast.com/story/handbag-brand-and-color-detection

8 years ago

97 upvotes – 21 comments

Ask HN: Why is iOS 11 such a mess?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15646862

8 years ago

94 upvotes – 105 comments

Tock Embedded Operating System

https://www.tockos.org/

8 years ago

92 upvotes – 23 comments

Harvey Weinstein's Army of Spies

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/harvey-weinsteins-army-of-spies

8 years ago

91 upvotes – 31 comments
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