top 20 hacker news stories for 2017-11-17

Tesla Roadster

https://www.tesla.com/roadster/

9 years ago

1261 upvotes – 708 comments

Tesla Semi

https://www.tesla.com/semi/

9 years ago

922 upvotes – 554 comments

Microsoft and GitHub team up to take Git virtual file system to macOS, Linux

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/11/microsoft-and-github-team-up-to-take-git-virtual-file-system-to-macos-linux/

8 years ago

796 upvotes – 218 comments

Is software development really a dead-end job after age 35-40?

https://www.quora.com/Is-software-development-really-a-dead-end-job-after-age-35-40/answer/Jeff-Nelson-32?share=1

8 years ago

580 upvotes – 393 comments

Microsoft Has Manually Patched Their Equation Editor Executable

https://0patch.blogspot.com/2017/11/did-microsoft-just-manually-patch-their.html

8 years ago

553 upvotes – 159 comments

Ask HN: What tech were you convinced would take the world by storm but didn't?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15718653

9 years ago

408 upvotes – 983 comments

Orcas have learned how to drown great white sharks

https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2017/nov/16/orca-whales-vs-great-white-sharks-in-a-battle-of-the-apex-predators-who-wins?CMP=fb_gu

8 years ago

404 upvotes – 102 comments

Coders who trade: Wall Street designs its staff for the future

https://www.bloomberg.com/professional/blog/coders-trade-wall-street-designs-staff-future/

8 years ago

366 upvotes – 185 comments

Germany bans children's smartwatches

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-42030109

8 years ago

365 upvotes – 194 comments

Walking away from $30,000 of DJI bounty money [pdf]

https://regmedia.co.uk/2017/11/16/whyiwalkedfrom3k.pdf

8 years ago

326 upvotes – 107 comments

Brave expands Basic Attention Token platform to YouTube

https://basicattentiontoken.org/brave-expands-basic-attention-token-platform-to-youtube/

8 years ago

321 upvotes – 267 comments

The Paradise Papers: How Ridiculously Easy It Is for the Rich to Avoid Taxes

https://rantt.com/the-paradise-papers-how-ridiculously-easy-it-is-for-the-rich-to-avoid-taxes-15b082cffb68

8 years ago

302 upvotes – 210 comments

Speed up your Python using Rust

https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2017/11/16/speed-python-using-rust/

9 years ago

291 upvotes – 98 comments

$3 Trillion in Forgotten Debt

https://www.bloomberg.com/gadfly/articles/2017-03-20/say-hello-to-3-trillion-in-forgotten-debt

8 years ago

229 upvotes – 63 comments

Scaling Postgres with Read Replicas and Using WAL to Counter Stale Reads

https://brandur.org/postgres-reads

8 years ago

221 upvotes – 21 comments

TechShop shuts down all U.S. locations, declares bankruptcy

https://techcrunch.com/2017/11/15/techshop-shuts-down-all-u-s-locations-declares-bankruptcy/

9 years ago

214 upvotes – 151 comments

A Cookbook for Machine Learning: Vol 1

http://www.inference.vc/design-patterns/

9 years ago

193 upvotes – 13 comments

Y Combinator Cuts Ties with Peter Thiel After Ending Part-Time Partner Program

https://www.buzzfeed.com/ryanmac/y-combinator-cuts-ties-with-peter-thiel-ends-part-time

8 years ago

185 upvotes – 147 comments

Cquery: highly-scalable, low-latency language server for C++

https://github.com/jacobdufault/cquery/#cquery

8 years ago

★ 2.3k C++ MIT
183 upvotes – 67 comments

There’s a Digital Media Crash, But No One Will Say It

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/theres-a-digital-media-crash-but-no-one-will-say-it

8 years ago

182 upvotes – 98 comments
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