top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-11-15

Code together in real time with Teletype for Atom

https://blog.atom.io/2017/11/15/code-together-in-real-time-with-teletype-for-atom.html

8 years ago

873 upvotes – 223 comments

Numpy: Plan for dropping Python 2.7 support

https://github.com/numpy/numpy/blob/master/doc/neps/dropping-python2.7-proposal.rst

8 years ago

★ 31.9kPython
662 upvotes – 375 comments

Fearless Concurrency in Firefox Quantum

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2017/11/14/Fearless-Concurrency-In-Firefox-Quantum.html

8 years ago

611 upvotes – 174 comments

Visual Studio Live Share

https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2017/11/15/live-share

8 years ago

572 upvotes – 109 comments

Concise Electronics for Geeks (2010)

http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/electronics/

8 years ago

481 upvotes – 49 comments

A Guide to Natural Language Processing

https://tomassetti.me/guide-natural-language-processing/

8 years ago

418 upvotes – 52 comments

Hotbed of Misinformation

https://www.tesla.com/blog/hotbed-misinformation

8 years ago

384 upvotes – 196 comments

All 500 of the world's top 500 supercomputers are running Linux

http://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-totally-dominates-supercomputers/

8 years ago

371 upvotes – 188 comments

Keeping a Lab Notebook [pdf]

https://www.training.nih.gov/assets/Lab_Notebook_508_(new).pdf

8 years ago

327 upvotes – 168 comments

Debian and GNOME announce plans to migrate communities to GitLab

https://about.gitlab.com/press/releases/2017-11-01-gitlab-transitions-contributor-license.html

8 years ago

326 upvotes – 155 comments

The Fight to Mine Your Data and Sell It to Your Boss

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-11-15/the-brutal-fight-to-mine-your-data-and-sell-it-to-your-boss

8 years ago

303 upvotes – 130 comments

Schneier: It's Time to Regulate IoT to Improve Cyber-Security

http://www.eweek.com/security/schneier-it-s-time-to-regulate-iot-to-improve-cyber-security

8 years ago

294 upvotes – 177 comments

New EU law prescribes website blocking in the name of consumer protection

https://juliareda.eu/2017/11/eu-website-blocking/

8 years ago

227 upvotes – 117 comments

The Shock of Sweden's Housing Market Is Hitting the Country's Currency

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-14/sweden-s-housing-shock-hits-krona-leaving-riksbank-few-choices

8 years ago

224 upvotes – 442 comments

Closest Temperate World Orbiting Quiet Star Discovered

http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1736/

8 years ago

204 upvotes – 136 comments

Oberon – The Overlooked Jewel [pdf]

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.90.7173&rep=rep1&type=pdf

8 years ago

202 upvotes – 128 comments

No boundaries: Exfiltration of personal data by session-replay scripts

https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2017/11/15/no-boundaries-exfiltration-of-personal-data-by-session-replay-scripts/

8 years ago

198 upvotes – 51 comments

I still love Kierkegaard

https://aeon.co/essays/happy-birthday-kierkegaard-we-need-you-now

8 years ago

189 upvotes – 143 comments

Ask HN: Who's switched from Chrome to Firefox 57?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15707412

8 years ago

187 upvotes – 201 comments

The Cost of JavaScript

https://medium.com/dev-channel/the-cost-of-javascript-84009f51e99e

8 years ago

177 upvotes – 111 comments

Science and Tech of the Byzantine Empire

http://nautil.us/blog/the-hidden-science-and-tech-of-the-byzantine-empire

8 years ago

174 upvotes – 119 comments

Choosy Eggs May Pick Sperm for Their Genes, Defying Mendel’s Law

https://www.quantamagazine.org/choosy-eggs-may-pick-sperm-for-their-genes-defying-mendels-law-20171115/

8 years ago

157 upvotes – 55 comments

Dell Offers Computers Preinstalled with Ubuntu

https://insights.ubuntu.com/2017/11/14/new-dell-precision-machines-available-with-ubuntu-pre-installed/

8 years ago

150 upvotes – 122 comments

SLING: A Natural Language Frame Semantic Parser

https://research.googleblog.com/2017/11/sling-natural-language-frame-semantic.html

8 years ago

150 upvotes – 16 comments

What is a Source Map

https://www.schneems.com/2017/11/14/wtf-is-a-source-map/

8 years ago

139 upvotes – 96 comments

Kickstarter launches Drip, a Patreon competitor

https://www.theverge.com/2017/11/15/16652582/kickstarter-drip-creator-subscription-service-announced-perry-chen-interview

8 years ago

138 upvotes – 83 comments

Firefox’s faster, slicker, slimmer Quantum edition now out

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/11/firefoxs-major-quantum-upgrade-now-rolling-out-to-everyone/

8 years ago

138 upvotes – 103 comments

Bitcoin surges in Zimbabwe after military seize power

https://www.timeslive.co.za/sunday-times/business/2017-11-15-bitcoin-surges-in-zimbabwe-after-military-seize-power/

8 years ago

133 upvotes – 161 comments

PyAnnotate – Auto-generate type annotations for mypy

http://mypy-lang.blogspot.com/2017/11/dropbox-releases-pyannotate-auto.html

8 years ago

129 upvotes – 33 comments

We're officially launching UBI

https://www.givedirectly.org/blog-post?id=7285958994145750939

8 years ago

129 upvotes – 178 comments

Understanding LSTM and its diagrams

https://medium.com/mlreview/understanding-lstm-and-its-diagrams-37e2f46f1714

8 years ago

125 upvotes – 10 comments

A Year of Tech Solidarity

https://civichall.org/civicist/a-year-of-tech-solidarity/

8 years ago

122 upvotes – 203 comments

How the Chinese Government Fakes Social Media Posts for Strategic Distraction [pdf]

http://gking.harvard.edu/files/gking/files/50c.pdf

8 years ago

121 upvotes – 52 comments

Google forked Swift

https://github.com/google/swift

8 years ago

★ 834
118 upvotes – 73 comments

Peter Thiel Gave Money to Attorney General Going After Google

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-15/peter-thiel-gave-money-to-attorney-general-going-after-google

8 years ago

118 upvotes – 102 comments

HAXM is now open source

http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-11/msg02504.html

8 years ago

114 upvotes – 15 comments

The Xerox Alto Struts Its Stuff on Its 40th Birthday

https://www.spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/tech-history/silicon-revolution/the-xerox-alto-struts-its-stuff-on-its-40th-birthday

8 years ago

112 upvotes – 19 comments

Facebook's experiments with user behavior in Serbia

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/15/opinion/serbia-facebook-explore-feed.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-left-region&region=opinion-c-col-left-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region

8 years ago

112 upvotes – 108 comments

1Password X: A look at the future of 1Password in the browser

https://blog.agilebits.com/2017/11/13/1password-x-a-look-at-the-future-of-1password-in-the-browser/

8 years ago

111 upvotes – 176 comments

Microsoft makes Databricks a first-party service on Azure

https://techcrunch.com/2017/11/15/microsoft-makes-databricks-a-first-party-service-on-azure/

8 years ago

101 upvotes – 7 comments

Show HN: Erlang REST framework

https://github.com/fbeline/rooster

8 years ago

★ 171ErlangMIT
96 upvotes – 28 comments

The Final Days of a Tax Haven

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-11-15/the-final-days-of-a-tax-haven

8 years ago

95 upvotes – 37 comments

7GUIs – A Notational Usability Benchmark for GUI Programming

https://github.com/eugenkiss/7guis/wiki

8 years ago

★ 923JavaScript
92 upvotes – 6 comments

Update on Stock Options/RSUs Vesting Issue

http://avc.com/2017/11/update-on-stock-optionsrsus-issue

8 years ago

91 upvotes – 83 comments

Square announces pilot program to accept Bitcoin

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/15/bitcoin-jumps-more-than-9-percent-after-news-square-is-testing-the-digital-currency.html

8 years ago

88 upvotes – 27 comments

Electronic Lottery Tickets as Micropayments (‎1997)

https://fermatslibrary.com/s/electronic-lottery-tickets-as-micropayments

8 years ago

87 upvotes – 55 comments

Absent-mindedness as dominance behaviour

http://induecourse.ca/absent-mindedness-as-dominance-behaviour/

8 years ago

87 upvotes – 62 comments

CNN – 1996 Year in Review

http://edition.cnn.com/EVENTS/1996/year.in.review/

8 years ago

84 upvotes – 75 comments

Ask HN: Firefox vs. Chrome security

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15704764

8 years ago

82 upvotes – 70 comments

Zimbabwe's Military in Apparent Takeover, Says It Has Custody of President

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/14/world/africa/zimbabwe-mugabe-mnangagwa-chiwenga.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur

8 years ago

81 upvotes – 83 comments

The simple cult camera that inspired Instagram

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20171113-the-toy-camera-that-inspired-instagram

8 years ago

81 upvotes – 30 comments

Intel to Launch 3D XPoint DIMMs in 2H 2018

https://www.anandtech.com/show/12041/intel-to-launch-3d-xpoint-dimms-in-2h-2018

8 years ago

79 upvotes – 41 comments

Tech Industry: “We desperately need more developers”

https://twitter.com/ootoovak/status/928394833718231040

8 years ago

76 upvotes – 77 comments
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