top 50% 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

Baking Bread with the Romans: Part II – Panis Quadratus

http://tavolamediterranea.com/2017/09/05/baking-bread-romans-part-ii-panis-quadratus/

8 years ago

164 upvotes – 30 comments

FreeBSD/EC2 on C5 instances

http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2017-11-17-FreeBSD-EC2-C5-instances.html

9 years ago

162 upvotes – 44 comments

ZFS from a MySQL perspective

https://www.percona.com/blog/2017/11/15/zfs-from-a-mysql-perspective/?utm_campaign=2017%20Q4%20Blogs&utm_content=63170561&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

8 years ago

161 upvotes – 71 comments

Tosheets, utility to send stdin to Google sheets

https://github.com/kren1/tosheets

8 years ago

★ 543 Python MIT
161 upvotes – 28 comments

Show HN: Chord Progressions

https://peterburk.github.io/chordProgressions/index.html

8 years ago

161 upvotes – 101 comments

Carla – An open-source simulator for autonomous driving research

http://www.carla.org

8 years ago

156 upvotes – 24 comments

Health Giant Sutter Destroys Evidence in Crucial Antitrust Case Over High Prices

https://californiahealthline.org/news/health-giant-sutter-destroys-evidence-in-high-profile-antitrust-case-over-high-prices/

8 years ago

155 upvotes – 32 comments

Amish Mutation Protects Against Diabetes and May Extend Life

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/15/well/live/amish-mutation-protects-against-diabetes-and-may-extend-life.html?ribbon-ad-idx=20&rref=health&module=Ribbon&version=context&region=Header&action=click&contentCollection=Health&pgtype=article

8 years ago

138 upvotes – 49 comments

GNU Music and Songs

https://www.gnu.org/music/

8 years ago

123 upvotes – 24 comments

Termination of the certificates business of StartCom

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.security.policy/LM1SpKHJ-oc

8 years ago

116 upvotes – 28 comments

Myths of the 1 Percent: What’s Putting People at the Top

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/17/upshot/income-inequality-united-states.html

8 years ago

113 upvotes – 141 comments

Google increasingly is promoting a single answer for many questions

https://www.wsj.com/articles/googles-featured-answers-aim-to-distill-truthbut-often-get-it-wrong-1510847867

8 years ago

110 upvotes – 106 comments

Scientists discover how to turn light into matter after 80-year quest (2014)

http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/newsandeventspggrp/imperialcollege/newssummary/news_16-5-2014-15-32-44

8 years ago

107 upvotes – 30 comments

Simple blood tests may soon be able to deliver news about your cognitive health

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/11/17/opinion/sunday/What-if-You-Knew-Alzheimers-Was-Coming-for-You.html

8 years ago

102 upvotes – 56 comments

Monotonicity Types: Towards a Type System for Eventual Consistency

http://prl.ccs.neu.edu/blog/2017/10/22/monotonicity-types-towards-a-type-system-for-eventual-consistency/

8 years ago

101 upvotes – 8 comments

Silicon Valley thinks it invented roommates. They call it 'co-living'

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/nov/16/silicon-valley-thinks-it-invented-roommates-they-call-it-co-living

8 years ago

100 upvotes – 109 comments

Kdb+ and Python: EmbedPy and PyQ

https://kx.com/blog/kdb-python-embedpy-pyq/

8 years ago

99 upvotes – 38 comments

Understanding Go panic output

https://joeshaw.org/understanding-go-panic-output/

8 years ago

99 upvotes – 58 comments

Reddit CEO Cracks Down on Abusive Content to Protect Users, Attract Advertisers

https://www.wsj.com/articles/reddit-ceo-cracks-down-on-abusive-content-to-protect-users-attract-advertisers-1510853654?mod=e2tw

8 years ago

96 upvotes – 383 comments

Arecibo Telescope Wins Reprieve from U.S. Government

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/arecibo-telescope-wins-reprieve-from-u-s-government/

8 years ago

94 upvotes – 10 comments

How to Tell If You’re a Jerk

http://nautil.us/issue/54/the-unspoken/how-to-tell-if-youre-a-jerk-rp

8 years ago

94 upvotes – 52 comments

The Rise and Fall of the English Sentence

http://nautil.us/issue/54/the-unspoken/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-english-sentence

8 years ago

84 upvotes – 39 comments

Using Cryptocurrency Smart Contracts to Sell Shares of My House

https://www.yours.org/content/what-if-i-want-to-sell-shares-of-my-house--c604ac53b4d4/

8 years ago

84 upvotes – 94 comments

Microsoft joins the MariaDB Foundation as a Platinum level sponsor

https://mariadb.org/microsoft-joins-mariadb-foundation/

9 years ago

79 upvotes – 57 comments
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