top 20 hacker news stories for 2017-11-13

How Firefox Got Fast Again

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/11/entering-the-quantum-era-how-firefox-got-fast-again-and-where-its-going-to-get-faster/

8 years ago

2180 upvotes – 687 comments

Ask HN: Best way to get started with AI?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15689399

8 years ago

709 upvotes – 91 comments

Don’t Tax Options and RSUs Upon Vesting

http://avc.com/2017/11/dont-tax-options-and-rsus-upon-vesting/

8 years ago

553 upvotes – 366 comments

Why I’m Digging Deep Into Alzheimer’s

https://www.gatesnotes.com/Health/Digging-Deep-Into-Alzheimers?WT.mc_id=11_13_2017_00_Alzheimers_BG-EM_&WT.tsrc=BGEM

8 years ago

553 upvotes – 190 comments

A Beginner´s Guide to Getting Things Done

https://blog.zenkit.com/a-beginners-guide-to-getting-things-done-3cc1a5123b98

8 years ago

550 upvotes – 230 comments

Qualcomm rejects Broadcom's $103B takeover proposal

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-qualcomm-m-a-broadcom/qualcomm-rejects-broadcoms-103-billion-takeover-proposal-idUSKBN1DD1NU?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=Social

8 years ago

349 upvotes – 90 comments

Face ID beaten by mask

http://www.bkav.com/d/top-news/-/view_content/content/103968/face-id-beaten-by-mask-not-an-effective-security-measure

8 years ago

281 upvotes – 237 comments

Mobilizing an ER department to handle a mass casualty incident

http://epmonthly.com/article/not-heroes-wear-capes-one-las-vegas-ed-saved-hundreds-lives-worst-mass-shooting-u-s-history/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosvitals&stream=top-stories

8 years ago

281 upvotes – 71 comments

Understanding Hinton’s Capsule Networks, Part I: Intuition

https://medium.com/@pechyonkin/understanding-hintons-capsule-networks-part-i-intuition-b4b559d1159b

8 years ago

276 upvotes – 44 comments

65 out of the 100 most cited papers are paywalled

https://www.authorea.com/users/8850/articles/125400-65-out-of-the-100-most-cited-papers-are-paywalled

8 years ago

273 upvotes – 77 comments

Go, don't collect my garbage

https://blog.cloudflare.com/go-dont-collect-my-garbage/

8 years ago

272 upvotes – 179 comments

Brilliant Jerks in Engineering

http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2017-11-13/brilliant-jerks.html

8 years ago

267 upvotes – 231 comments

Target="_blank" – An underestimated vulnerability (2016)

https://www.jitbit.com/alexblog/256-targetblank---the-most-underestimated-vulnerability-ever/

8 years ago

264 upvotes – 58 comments

TSA Plans to Use Face Recognition to Track Americans Through Airports

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/11/tsa-plans-use-face-recognition-track-americans-through-airports

8 years ago

251 upvotes – 128 comments

The most downvoted comment in Reddit's history

https://www.reddit.com/r/StarWarsBattlefront/comments/7cff0b/seriously_i_paid_80_to_have_vader_locked/dppum98/

8 years ago

237 upvotes – 198 comments

Mono's New .NET Interpreter

http://www.mono-project.com/news/2017/11/13/mono-interpreter/

8 years ago

229 upvotes – 115 comments

Anti-NIMBY movement is winning with a simple message

http://www.eastbaytimes.com/2017/11/12/homes-for-human-beings-millennial-driven-anti-nimby-movement-is-winning-with-a-simple-message/

8 years ago

213 upvotes – 277 comments

FreeOTP – An open-source solution for authentication soft tokens

https://fedoramagazine.org/freeotp-an-open-source-solution-for-authentication-soft-tokens/

8 years ago

206 upvotes – 85 comments

The Dead Man Fund

https://longreads.com/2017/11/09/ameritor-dead-mans-fund-charles-steadman/

8 years ago

189 upvotes – 71 comments

An ARM killer from IIT-M?

https://factordaily.com/india-chip-design-shakti-iit-madras/

8 years ago

187 upvotes – 124 comments
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