top 50% 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

Human sperm steer with second harmonics of the flagellar beat

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-017-01462-y

9 years ago

140 upvotes – 32 comments

Plastic-eating caterpillars: An escape from a shopping bag triggers an idea

https://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21721328-escape-shopping-bag-triggers-idea-plastic-eating-caterpillars-could?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/ed/

9 years ago

139 upvotes – 43 comments

The Bitcoin bubble – Greater fool theory

https://www.economist.com/blogs/buttonwood/2017/11/greater-fool-theory-0

9 years ago

128 upvotes – 155 comments

Legal pot in 100 days? New Jersey's next governor aims for national first

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/legal-pot-in-100-days-new-jerseys-next-governor-aims-for-national-first/article/2640125

9 years ago

123 upvotes – 64 comments

Using neural networks to detect car crashes in dashcam footage

https://blog.insightdatascience.com/crash-catcher-detecting-car-crashes-in-video-9c0522b04558

9 years ago

119 upvotes – 25 comments

Electric Sheep on Ubuntu Linux 17.10

https://blog.openbloc.fr/compiling-electric-sheep-on-ubuntu-linux-17-10/

9 years ago

118 upvotes – 50 comments

Vault 8 – Source code and analysis for CIA software projects

https://wikileaks.org/vault8/

9 years ago

118 upvotes – 72 comments

Show HN: Impostor Roster – Suffering from Impostor Syndrome? You're not alone

http://www.impostorroster.com/

9 years ago

117 upvotes – 95 comments

Driverless shuttle in Las Vegas gets in fender bender within an hour

https://techcrunch.com/2017/11/08/driverless-shuttle-in-las-vegas-gets-in-fender-bender-within-an-hour/

9 years ago

117 upvotes – 191 comments

TensorForce 0.3: End-to-end computation graphs for reinforcement learning

https://reinforce.io/blog/end-to-end-computation-graphs-for-reinforcement-learning/

9 years ago

109 upvotes – 4 comments

The Antique Cannabis Book

http://antiquecannabisbook.com/

9 years ago

102 upvotes – 30 comments

Impact of the Amazon-Whole Foods Deal on Instacart

https://www.forbes.com/sites/bizcarson/2017/11/08/amazon-whole-foods-deal-future-of-instacart-grocery-delivery/#450723a76d5a

9 years ago

101 upvotes – 75 comments

Coherent Line Drawing

https://github.com/SSARCandy/Coherent-Line-Drawing

9 years ago

★ 565 C++ MIT
96 upvotes – 16 comments

Don Jayamanne, creator of Python extension for VS Code, joins Microsoft

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/pythonengineering/2017/11/09/don-jayamanne-joins-microsoft/

9 years ago

90 upvotes – 42 comments

Cancer Doctors Cite Risks of Drinking Alcohol

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/07/well/live/cancer-doctors-cite-risks-of-drinking-alcohol.html?referer=https://news.google.com

9 years ago

87 upvotes – 157 comments

Kured – A Kubernetes Reboot Daemon

https://www.weave.works/blog/announcing-kured-a-kubernetes-reboot-daemon

9 years ago

85 upvotes – 16 comments

To Understand the Benefits of Tax Reform, Start by Understanding Apple's Taxes

http://fortune.com/2017/10/31/trump-tax-reform-apple-multinational-companies/

9 years ago

81 upvotes – 69 comments

CIA created code to impersonate Kaspersky Lab: WikiLeaks

https://www.itwire.com/government-tech-policy/80740-cia-created-code-to-impersonate-kaspersky-lab-wikileaks.html

9 years ago

81 upvotes – 32 comments

Dead grasshopper discovered in van Gogh painting

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/nov/08/dead-grasshopper-discovered-in-vincent-van-gogh-painting

9 years ago

77 upvotes – 25 comments

US government approves 'killer' mosquitoes to fight disease

https://www.nature.com/news/us-government-approves-killer-mosquitoes-to-fight-disease-1.22959

9 years ago

77 upvotes – 101 comments

Why You Should Never Buy an Amazon Echo or Even Get Near One

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2017/11/why-you-should-never-buy-an-amazon-echo-or-even-get-near-one.html

9 years ago

77 upvotes – 36 comments

The Magic of Harry Potter Is Coming to a Neighborhood Near You

https://nianticlabs.com/blog/wizardsunite/

9 years ago

76 upvotes – 27 comments

Pliny the Elder, “The Natural History”, Book I (79)

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Plin.+Nat.+toc

9 years ago

75 upvotes – 38 comments

The end of the housing supply debate (maybe)

http://cityobservatory.org/the-end-of-the-housing-supply-debate-maybe/

9 years ago

73 upvotes – 121 comments

Bitcoin's Enormous Energy Costs May Prove to Be Its Biggest Risk

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-09/bitcoin-s-exorbitant-energy-costs-may-prove-to-be-biggest-risk

9 years ago

72 upvotes – 104 comments

How to tell if you are a supertaster

http://nautil.us/issue/54/the-unspoken/how-to-tell-if-youre-a-supertaster

9 years ago

71 upvotes – 51 comments

Social Media Has Failed Its Self-Driving Test

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-11-08/social-media-has-failed-its-self-driving-test

9 years ago

68 upvotes – 88 comments

UI backwards compatibility

http://danluu.com/ui-compatibility/

9 years ago

67 upvotes – 8 comments
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