top 20 hacker news stories for 2017-11-09

Sean Parker unloads on Facebook “exploiting” human psychology

https://www.axios.com/sean-parker-unloads-on-facebook-2508036343.html

9 years ago

603 upvotes – 223 comments

Creating a Modern OCR Pipeline Using Computer Vision and Deep Learning

https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech/2017/04/creating-a-modern-ocr-pipeline-using-computer-vision-and-deep-learning/

9 years ago

460 upvotes – 125 comments

Skyrim rendered in text

https://medium.com/@filiph/skyrim-rendered-in-text-1899548ab2c4

9 years ago

459 upvotes – 106 comments

Entrepreneurs Aren’t a Special Breed – They’re Mostly Rich Kids

https://www.asia.finance/entrepreneur/entrepreneurs-not-special-breed/

9 years ago

454 upvotes – 256 comments

I bought a Switch from Nintendo and they threatened me with legal action

https://headmelted.com/i-bought-a-switch-from-nintendo-and-they-threatened-me-with-legal-action-6ea77b4f1eb9

9 years ago

408 upvotes – 361 comments

Writing a basic x86-64 JIT compiler from scratch in stock Python

https://csl.name/post/python-jit/

9 years ago

325 upvotes – 50 comments

Quake on an oscilloscope (2014)

http://www.lofibucket.com/articles/oscilloscope_quake.html

9 years ago

322 upvotes – 26 comments

Low-cost, non-invasive melanoma detector wins award

https://jamesdysonaward.org/news/skan-james-dyson-award-2017-international-winner/

9 years ago

312 upvotes – 50 comments

OVH Incident in Strasbourg

http://status.ovh.com

9 years ago

311 upvotes – 202 comments

.IO domain name reliability issues and how we’re working around them

https://getstream.io/blog/stop-using-io-domain-names-for-production-traffic/

9 years ago

279 upvotes – 153 comments

I poured my blood, sweat and life savings into my restaurant. It ruined my life.

https://torontolife.com/food/restaurant-ruined-life/

9 years ago

203 upvotes – 183 comments

LibHTTP: Open Source HTTP Library in C

https://www.libhttp.org/

9 years ago

191 upvotes – 62 comments

As epidemic rages, ER study finds opioids no better than Advil and Tylenol

https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/11/as-epidemic-rages-er-study-finds-opioids-no-better-than-advil-and-tylenol/

9 years ago

186 upvotes – 156 comments

How We Deliver Global SSL with Let's Encrypt

https://fly.io/articles/how-we-deliver-global-ssl-with-lets-encrypt/

9 years ago

177 upvotes – 65 comments

Niagara Falls without water in 1969

http://www.niagarafrontier.com/dewater.html

9 years ago

175 upvotes – 55 comments

Much ado about iOS app architecture

http://aplus.rs/2017/much-ado-about-ios-app-architecture/

9 years ago

171 upvotes – 95 comments

Ford Pilots New Exoskeleton to Help Lessen Chance of Worker Fatigue, Injury

https://media.ford.com/content/fordmedia/fna/us/en/news/2017/11/09/ford-exoskeleton-technology-pilot.html

9 years ago

171 upvotes – 123 comments

Russian Peasant Multiplication

http://www.virtualspecies.com/2015/02/russian-peasant-multiplication.html

9 years ago

167 upvotes – 57 comments

Ask HN: Which TypeScript codebase should I study to get better?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15662394

9 years ago

158 upvotes – 73 comments

The rise and fall of Limux

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/737818/3e293b6b20f8de9a/

9 years ago

146 upvotes – 156 comments
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