top 50% 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

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

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

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

Uber confirms SoftBank has agreed to invest

https://techcrunch.com/2017/11/12/uber-confirms-softbank-has-agreed-to-invest-billions-in-uber/

8 years ago

180 upvotes – 101 comments

The Hungarian Approach and How It Fits the American Educational Landscape (2015)

https://blogs.ams.org/matheducation/2015/01/10/the-hungarian-approach-and-how-it-fits-the-american-educational-landscape/

8 years ago

174 upvotes – 76 comments

Analyzing Your Browser History Using Python and Pandas

https://applecrazy.github.io/blog/posts/analyzing-browser-hist-using-python/

8 years ago

164 upvotes – 40 comments

Budweiser's ex-marketing chief: Weed is the new craft beer

http://www.syracuse.com/business-news/index.ssf/2017/11/budweiser_weed_craft_beer_greenrush.html

8 years ago

162 upvotes – 133 comments

SearX: Privacy-respecting metasearch engine

https://github.com/asciimoo/searx

8 years ago

★ 13.4kPythonAGPL-3.0
162 upvotes – 29 comments

Phoenix WebSockets under a Microscope

https://zorbash.com/post/phoenix-websockets-under-a-microscope/

8 years ago

157 upvotes – 24 comments

Really Good UX – A look inside your favorite products

https://www.reallygoodux.io

8 years ago

154 upvotes – 35 comments

How Rust Gets Polymorphism Right [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSlBhAOLtFA

8 years ago

153 upvotes – 49 comments

Steve Jurvetson is out at his own VC firm after allegations of sexual harassment

https://www.recode.net/2017/11/13/16645274/steve-jurvetson-out-draper-fisher-jurvetson-sexual-harassment

8 years ago

151 upvotes – 174 comments

The Beautiful Intelligence of Bacteria and Other Microbes

https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-beautiful-intelligence-of-bacteria-and-other-microbes-20171113/

8 years ago

150 upvotes – 15 comments

Chances of E.T. Living Subsurface Ocean of Enceladus Given Major Boost

http://www.newsweek.com/aliens-enceladus-saturn-icy-moon-porous-core-heat-702774

8 years ago

149 upvotes – 97 comments

Widespread impact caused by Level 3 BGP route leak

https://dyn.com/blog/widespread-impact-caused-by-level-3-bgp-route-leak/

8 years ago

148 upvotes – 34 comments

Yamaha DX-7 synthesizer clone written in SuperCollider

https://github.com/everythingwillbetakenaway/DX7-Supercollider

8 years ago

★ 515SuperColliderGPL-3.0
144 upvotes – 44 comments

Micropython code to implement a GSM mobile phone

https://github.com/jeffmer/micropython-upyphone

8 years ago

★ 427PythonMIT
135 upvotes – 19 comments

The science of Destiny 2's 'uniquely complicated' netcode

http://www.pcgamer.com/the-strange-science-of-destiny-2s-uniquely-complicated-netcode/

8 years ago

131 upvotes – 119 comments

Missouri Attorney General launches investigation of Google

http://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article184113056.html

8 years ago

126 upvotes – 121 comments

Arduino Death Clock

https://github.com/adamtait/ArduinoDeathClock

8 years ago

★ 189ArduinoGPL-3.0
122 upvotes – 60 comments

1.1B Taxi Trips on BrytlytDB 2.0

http://tech.marksblogg.com/billion-nyc-taxi-rides-p2-16xlarge-brytlytdb-2.html

8 years ago

120 upvotes – 1 comments

Lyft's first expansion outside the USA in Toronto next month

https://www.thestar.com/news/city_hall/2017/11/13/lyft-ubers-ride-hailing-rival-is-expanding-to-the-gta.html

8 years ago

117 upvotes – 50 comments

Ask HN: Best tech for a web site 2018? (PHP, Rails, Django, Node, Go, etc.)?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15685905

8 years ago

109 upvotes – 116 comments

The 3-minute SQL indexing quiz: Can you spot the five most common mistakes?

https://use-the-index-luke.com/3-minute-test

8 years ago

108 upvotes – 32 comments

A Green Beret Found Two SEALs’ Illicit Cash. Then He Was Killed

https://www.thedailybeast.com/green-beret-discovered-seals-illicit-cash-then-he-was-killed

8 years ago

107 upvotes – 44 comments

Vitamin D and cancer prevention

https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/diet/vitamin-d-fact-sheet

8 years ago

97 upvotes – 81 comments
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