top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-11-08

Paradise Papers: Dear Tim Cook

https://projekte.sueddeutsche.de/paradisepapers/politik/dear-tim-cook-e322998/

8 years ago

1200 upvotes – 791 comments

Senators push to ditch social security numbers in light of Equifax hack

https://techcrunch.com/2017/11/08/are-social-security-numbers-going-away/

8 years ago

1126 upvotes – 464 comments

Voters say “yes” to city-run broadband in Colorado

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/11/voters-reject-cable-lobby-misinformation-campaign-against-muni-broadband/

8 years ago

789 upvotes – 218 comments

The Booming Japanese Rent-A-Friend Business

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/11/paying-for-fake-friends-and-family/545060/?single_page=true

8 years ago

699 upvotes – 255 comments

BitTorrent inventor announces eco-friendly Bitcoin competitor Chia

https://techcrunch.com/2017/11/08/chia-network-cryptocurrency

8 years ago

504 upvotes – 294 comments

Segwit2x Bitcoin Fork Suspended

https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-segwit2x/2017-November/000685.html

8 years ago

491 upvotes – 234 comments

Intel to Develop Discrete GPUs, Hires AMD's Raja Koduri as Chief Architect

https://www.anandtech.com/show/12017/intel-to-develop-discrete-gpus-hires-raja-koduri-as-chief-architect

8 years ago

408 upvotes – 218 comments

You Will Not Understand This

http://stanleylieber.com/2017/11/07/0/

8 years ago

382 upvotes – 256 comments

Justice Department moves to end routine gag orders on tech firms

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/justice-department-moves-to-end-routine-gag-orders-on-tech-firms/2017/10/23/df8300bc-b848-11e7-9e58-e6288544af98_story.html?utm_term=.4f3da68632f5

8 years ago

375 upvotes – 48 comments

Explore Wealth and Income Inequality in the World Wealth and Income Database

http://wid.world/world/#sptinc_p99p100_z/US;FR;DE;CN;ZA;GB/last/eu/k/p/yearly/s/false/4.8255/30/curve/false

8 years ago

354 upvotes – 232 comments

Google Releases Colaboratory

https://research.google.com/colaboratory/unregistered.html

8 years ago

351 upvotes – 69 comments

America’s ‘Retail Apocalypse’ Is Really Just Beginning

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2017-retail-debt/

8 years ago

334 upvotes – 386 comments

IBM Type

https://ibm.github.io/type/

8 years ago

326 upvotes – 121 comments

Neovim v0.2.1 released

https://github.com/neovim/neovim/commit/c67dd5acd0bb9f8d08789dfe6af27d9045e95fb4

8 years ago

★ 99.1kVim Script
301 upvotes – 158 comments

A Clash of Cultures

https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=5046

8 years ago

291 upvotes – 197 comments

Game Over We Have Obtained Fully Functional JTAG for Intel CSME via USB DCI

https://twitter.com/h0t_max/status/928269320064450560

8 years ago

291 upvotes – 58 comments

Beer giant ABI bought many craft brews and is now buying beer rating websites

http://www.foodandpower.net/2017/11/02/abis-venture-capital-fund-quietly-expanding-the-mega-brewers-reach/#bookmark/0/

8 years ago

282 upvotes – 156 comments

Prometheus 2.0

https://prometheus.io/blog/2017/11/08/announcing-prometheus-2-0/

8 years ago

274 upvotes – 41 comments

Harmony Link will no longer work after March 2018

https://community.logitech.com/s/question/0D55A0000745EkC/harmony-link-eos-or-eol?s1oid=00Di0000000j2Ck&OpenCommentForEdit=1&s1nid=0DB31000000Go9U&emkind=chatterCommentNotification&s1uid=0055A0000092Uwu&emtm=1510088039436&fromEmail=1&s1ext=0

8 years ago

263 upvotes – 216 comments

Redis Streams and the Unified Log

https://brandur.org/redis-streams

8 years ago

258 upvotes – 48 comments

Learning Go by porting a medium-sized web back end from Python

http://benhoyt.com/writings/learning-go/

8 years ago

242 upvotes – 195 comments

SpaCy 2.0 released

https://github.com/explosion/spaCy/releases/tag/v2.0.0

8 years ago

★ 33.5kPythonMIT
231 upvotes – 32 comments

China's Race to Find Aliens First

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/12/what-happens-if-china-makes-first-contact/544131/?single_page=true

8 years ago

215 upvotes – 147 comments

The GraphQL stack: How everything fits together

https://dev-blog.apollodata.com/the-graphql-stack-how-everything-fits-together-35f8bf34f841

8 years ago

210 upvotes – 113 comments

Firefox Quantum

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2017/11/08/firefox-quantum/

8 years ago

201 upvotes – 201 comments

'Zombie ant' brains left intact by fungal parasite

https://phys.org/news/2017-11-zombie-ant-brains-left-intact.html

8 years ago

184 upvotes – 91 comments

China Spreads Propaganda to U.S. On Facebook, a Platform It Bans at Home

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/08/technology/china-facebook.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Ftechnology&action=click&contentCollection=technology&region=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=2&pgtype=sectionfront

8 years ago

168 upvotes – 116 comments

How Sentry Receives 20B Events per Month While Preparing to Handle Twice That

https://stackshare.io/sentry/how-sentry-receives-20-billion-events-per-month-while-preparing-to-handle-twice-that#.WgNIZEttZyw.hackernews

8 years ago

164 upvotes – 87 comments

Rare Minoan sealstone in the treasure-laden tomb of a Bronze Age Greek warrior

https://phys.org/news/2017-11-team-rare-minoan-sealstone-treasure-laden.html

8 years ago

156 upvotes – 46 comments

An engineer’s guide to cloud capacity planning

https://increment.com/cloud/an-engineers-guide-to-cloud-capacity-planning/

8 years ago

143 upvotes – 34 comments

China’s Tencent Buys 12% Stake in Snap

https://www.wsj.com/articles/tencent-buys-12-percent-stake-in-developer-of-snapchat-1510143803

8 years ago

142 upvotes – 47 comments

Nineteen people a week overdose in Richmond, dozens are dying, hundreds revived

http://www.richmond.com/news/virginia/nineteen-people-a-week-overdose-in-richmond-dozens-are-dying/article_34e7d5e9-3cb1-5c31-9775-3cfb4864ee14.html

8 years ago

141 upvotes – 231 comments

What happens when you sell your startup?

https://techcrunch.com/2017/11/07/what-happens-when-you-sell-your-startup/

8 years ago

141 upvotes – 37 comments

Jinja 2.10

https://github.com/pallets/jinja/releases/tag/2.10

8 years ago

★ 11.5kPythonBSD-3-Clause
134 upvotes – 20 comments

Try to see things from a manager's perspective

http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3156692

8 years ago

127 upvotes – 33 comments

Lamborghini Unveils a Self-Healing Electric Supercar Concept

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-07/lamborghini-terzo-millennio-concept-self-healing-electric-supercar

8 years ago

123 upvotes – 87 comments

Archiving repositories

https://github.com/blog/2460-archiving-repositories

8 years ago

121 upvotes – 37 comments

Ask HN: How much time do you spend on “marketing” your open source projects?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15652852

8 years ago

119 upvotes – 66 comments

GPU Database Brytlyt Launches Visualization Tool for Billion Row Datasets

http://www.brytlyt.com/blog/press-releases/launching-spotlyt-visual-analytics-tool-brytlyt/?utm_source=HackerNews&utm_medium=SpotLyt

8 years ago

118 upvotes – 7 comments

Google promoted Texas gunman fake tweets

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-41915065

8 years ago

117 upvotes – 137 comments

Ask HN: How do sites like Reddit, HackerNews, etc get initial user content?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15653903

8 years ago

117 upvotes – 63 comments

Show HN: PageDash, Your Personal Web Archive

https://www.pagedash.com/

8 years ago

116 upvotes – 66 comments

One Year After India Killed Off Cash, What Other Countries Should Learn

https://hbr.org/2017/11/one-year-after-india-killed-off-cash-heres-what-other-countries-should-learn-from-it

8 years ago

115 upvotes – 113 comments

Ashamed to work in Silicon Valley: how techies became the new bankers

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/nov/08/ashamed-to-work-in-silicon-valley-how-techies-became-the-new-bankers

8 years ago

111 upvotes – 140 comments

Should we stop using the Google font service and host on our own?

https://github.com/google/fonts/issues/1307

8 years ago

★ 19.9kHTML
107 upvotes – 105 comments

Show HN: Keratin AuthN – Accounts and Auth Microservice in Go

https://keratin.tech

8 years ago

104 upvotes – 54 comments

EPYC Server Configuration

https://www.hetzner.com/epyc-server

8 years ago

102 upvotes – 54 comments

A DoS Attack Against the C# Compiler

http://mattwarren.org/2017/11/08/A-DoS-Attack-against-the-C-Compiler/

8 years ago

101 upvotes – 52 comments

$300m in cryptocurrency' accidentally lost forever due to bug

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/nov/08/cryptocurrency-300m-dollars-stolen-bug-ether

8 years ago

99 upvotes – 67 comments

Fast and precise type checking for JavaScript

https://blog.acolyer.org/2017/11/08/fast-and-precise-type-checking-for-javascript/

8 years ago

98 upvotes – 38 comments

Top Ten Time Series DBs

https://blog.outlyer.com/top10-open-source-time-series-databases

8 years ago

95 upvotes – 43 comments

San Francisco is one of the worst-paying places in the US for software engineers

https://qz.com/906086/san-francisco-is-actually-one-of-the-worst-paying-places-in-the-us/

8 years ago

93 upvotes – 113 comments
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