top 20 hacker news stories for 2017-11-12

Confession as an AI researcher; seeking advice

https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/73n9pm/d_confession_as_an_ai_researcher_seeking_advice/

9 years ago

346 upvotes – 98 comments

A/B test of banner ads vs. traffic

http://www.gwern.net/Ads

9 years ago

320 upvotes – 141 comments

The Senior Engineer’s Guide to Helping Others Make Decisions

http://silverwraith.com/blog/2017/10/the-senior-engineers-guide-to-helping-others-make-decisions/

9 years ago

315 upvotes – 60 comments

How Bubble bootstrapped a visual programming tool for non-coders to $100k/mo

https://www.indiehackers.com/businesses/bubble

9 years ago

315 upvotes – 113 comments

Security Breach and Spilled Secrets Have Shaken the N.S.A.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/12/us/nsa-shadow-brokers.html

9 years ago

311 upvotes – 178 comments

Süddeutsche Zeitung Became the Go-To Place for Leaks Like the Paradise Papers

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/how-a-german-newspaper-became-the-go-to-place-for-leaks-like-the-paradise-papers

9 years ago

291 upvotes – 75 comments

A Universe in One Line of Code with 10 PRINT

https://www.makeartwithpython.com/blog/10-print-in-python/

9 years ago

261 upvotes – 135 comments

A Visual Guide to Evolution Strategies

http://blog.otoro.net/2017/10/29/visual-evolution-strategies/

9 years ago

260 upvotes – 21 comments

Reasons the Jennifer Appel and Tasha Fuiava survival story smells fishy

https://unreasonablydangerousonionrings.com/2017/10/31/19-reasons-this-survival-story-smells-fishy/

9 years ago

238 upvotes – 103 comments

The art of the dinner party

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/10/25/magazine/food-issue-art-of-dinner-party.html

9 years ago

235 upvotes – 114 comments

Bill Gates buys land in Arizona to build 'smart city'

http://www.kgw.com/news/bill-gates-buys-big-chunk-of-land-in-arizona-to-build-smart-city/491135744

9 years ago

229 upvotes – 172 comments

Can a Human See a Single Photon? (1996)

http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Quantum/see_a_photon.html

9 years ago

195 upvotes – 91 comments

Jeff Bezos’ guide to life

https://techcrunch.com/2017/11/05/jeff-bezos-guide-to-life/

9 years ago

161 upvotes – 128 comments

Long-Term Coffee Consumption and Risk of Cardiovascular Disease (2013)

http://circ.ahajournals.org/content/early/2013/11/07/CIRCULATIONAHA.113.005925

9 years ago

161 upvotes – 131 comments

China is catching up to the USA, while Japan is being left behind

https://lemire.me/blog/2017/11/12/china-is-catching-to-the-usa-while-japan-is-being-left-behind/

9 years ago

160 upvotes – 174 comments

Physics Has Demoted Mass

http://nautil.us/issue/54/the-unspoken/physics-has-demoted-mass

9 years ago

157 upvotes – 63 comments

List of price of medieval items (2006)

http://medieval.ucdavis.edu/120D/Money.html

9 years ago

146 upvotes – 48 comments

Bitcoin Cash Skyrockets, Bitcoin Price Drops As Civil War Continues

https://www.forbes.com/sites/laurashin/2017/11/12/bitcoin-cash-skyrockets-bitcoin-price-drops-as-civil-war-continues/

9 years ago

141 upvotes – 118 comments

Show HN: Free Math, an offline React app for managing digital math homework

http://freemathapp.org/

9 years ago

138 upvotes – 35 comments

Let’s improve commuter rail service between Providence and Boston

https://commonwealthmagazine.org/opinion/dear-gov-raimondo-express-trains-wrong-ask/

9 years ago

137 upvotes – 104 comments
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