top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-11-18

Matrix Calculus

http://www.matrixcalculus.org

8 years ago

408 upvotes – 51 comments

Span<T> in C#

https://github.com/dotnet/corefxlab/blob/master/docs/specs/span.md

8 years ago

★ 1.4k C# MIT
326 upvotes – 150 comments

How Facebook's Instagram Acquisition Led to the Open Sourcing of React.js

https://stackshare.io/posts/the-react-story

8 years ago

256 upvotes – 76 comments

A Founder Salary Calculator

http://christophjanz.blogspot.com/2017/11/unsure-how-much-you-should-pay-yourself.html

8 years ago

249 upvotes – 192 comments

Stockfish Wins Chess.com Computer Championship

https://www.chess.com/news/view/stockfish-wins-chess-com-computer-championship

8 years ago

225 upvotes – 85 comments

“Last Mile” Barriers to Removing Legacy BIOS [pdf]

http://www.uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/Brian_Richardson_Intel_Final.pdf

8 years ago

212 upvotes – 229 comments

US committee votes $30,000 increase in minimum salary of H1B visa workers

http://www.businesstoday.in/current/world/us-congressional-committee-h1b-visa-holders-minimum-salary-for-h1b-visa-holder/story/264157.html

8 years ago

189 upvotes – 197 comments

Luxon – A library for working with dates and times in JS

https://github.com/moment/luxon

8 years ago

★ 16.3k JavaScript MIT
185 upvotes – 76 comments

Apple Begins High Sierra Automatic Rollout

https://512pixels.net/2017/11/apple-begins-high-sierra-automatic-rollout/

8 years ago

178 upvotes – 185 comments

Kaspersky: Yes, we obtained NSA secrets. No, we didn’t help steal them

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/11/kaspersky-yes-we-obtained-nsa-secrets-no-we-didnt

8 years ago

166 upvotes – 126 comments

The axolotl has nearly disappeared from its natural habitat

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-017-05921-w

8 years ago

164 upvotes – 31 comments

Why the Update Fever Is Bad

http://www.irrlicht3d.org/pivot/entry.php?id=1562

8 years ago

149 upvotes – 110 comments

Creating an Autonomous System for Fun and Profit

http://blog.thelifeofkenneth.com/2017/11/creating-autonomous-system-for-fun-and.html

8 years ago

140 upvotes – 16 comments

The Atoms of Programming

http://www.sicpers.info/2017/11/the-atoms-of-programming/

8 years ago

131 upvotes – 21 comments

Argentina says signals detected, likely from missing submarine

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-argentina-submarine/argentina-says-signals-detected-likely-from-missing-submarine-idUSKBN1DI0M8

8 years ago

130 upvotes – 106 comments

Ancient data, modern math and the hunt for lost cities of the Bronze Age

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/11/13/ancient-data-modern-math-and-the-hunt-for-11-lost-cities-of-the-bronze-age/?utm_term=.b1f032736e46

8 years ago

125 upvotes – 21 comments

An Inconvenient Truth about Smart Cities

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/the-inconvenient-truth-about-smart-cities/#

8 years ago

120 upvotes – 95 comments

The Disappearing Right to Earn a Living

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/11/the-right-to-earn-a-living/546071/?single_page=true

8 years ago

109 upvotes – 74 comments

‘Give Away Your Legos’ and Other Commandments for Scaling Startups

http://firstround.com/review/give-away-your-legos-and-other-commandments-for-scaling-startups/

8 years ago

106 upvotes – 39 comments

Highest-quality GIF encoder based on pngquant

https://gif.ski

8 years ago

99 upvotes – 27 comments

Germany replaces US as country with best international image

http://www.dw.com/en/germany-replaces-us-as-country-with-best-international-image/a-41407751

8 years ago

96 upvotes – 117 comments

Reproducible Tails builds

https://tails.boum.org/news/reproducible_Tails/index.en.html

8 years ago

96 upvotes – 16 comments

AWS Amplify – A declarative library for application development

https://github.com/aws/aws-amplify

8 years ago

★ 9.5k TypeScript Apache-2.0
95 upvotes – 9 comments

IRC necromancy

https://virtuallyfun.com/2017/11/18/irc-necromancy/

8 years ago

89 upvotes – 77 comments

GNU nano 2.9.0

https://www.nano-editor.org/news.php

8 years ago

89 upvotes – 59 comments

How the BBC News website has changed over the past 20 years

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-41890165

8 years ago

89 upvotes – 30 comments

Amazon seller lost $400K in sales after being attacked by 'virus of Amazon'

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/17/amazon-seller-targeted-virus-of-amazon.html

8 years ago

87 upvotes – 23 comments

New AWS Deep Learning AMIs for Machine Learning Practitioners

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/ai/new-aws-deep-learning-amis-for-machine-learning-practitioners/?sc_channel=sm&sc_campaign=launch_&sc_publisher=TWITTER&sc_country=Global&sc_geo=GLOBAL&sc_outcome=awareness&trk=_TWITTER&sc_content=MXNet_a331e93a_DL_AMI_Conda_Based_AMI&sc_category=MXNet&linkId=44774947

8 years ago

79 upvotes – 7 comments

Hotshot Tech Founders Face a Dilemma: Lie Low or Live Large

https://www.wsj.com/articles/hotshot-tech-founders-face-a-dilemma-lie-low-or-live-large-1510787899?tesla=y

8 years ago

78 upvotes – 95 comments

Ask HN: What are the not-so obvious things to consider while API integration?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15729471

8 years ago

74 upvotes – 51 comments

The Exterior Algebra and Central Notions in Mathematics (2015) [pdf]

https://www.ams.org/notices/201504/rnoti-p364.pdf

8 years ago

73 upvotes – 44 comments

Matt Blaze Recounts Teenaged Harassment By John Draper

https://twitter.com/mattblaze/status/931675797479444480

8 years ago

72 upvotes – 20 comments

20 Years of Adobe Photoshop

https://www.thoughtco.com/adobe-photoshop-history-4122594

8 years ago

72 upvotes – 61 comments

Statistical and Discrete Methods for Scientific Computing (2016)

http://wpressutexas.net/coursewiki/index.php?title=Main_Page

8 years ago

70 upvotes – 3 comments

NoScript Not Available for Latest Firefox

https://noscript.net/

8 years ago

66 upvotes – 83 comments

MLHelper: Algorithms and utils for Machine Learning in JavaScript

https://github.com/laoqiren/mlhelper

8 years ago

★ 632 TypeScript MIT
65 upvotes – 7 comments

Cheerp: A C++ Compiler for the Web

https://www.leaningtech.com/cheerp/

8 years ago

60 upvotes – 9 comments

Amazon’s Cashierless Store Is Almost Ready for Prime Time

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-15/amazon-s-cashierless-store-is-almost-ready-for-prime-time

8 years ago

59 upvotes – 74 comments

FCC approves ATSC 3.0, a TV technology with better pictures but less privacy

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-television-technology/fcc-approves-tv-technology-that-gives-better-pictures-but-less-privacy-idUSKBN1DG2XF

8 years ago

59 upvotes – 71 comments

Tesla’s Electric Semi Truck Gets Orders from Wal-Mart and J.B. Hunt

https://www.wsj.com/articles/teslas-electric-semi-truck-gets-orders-from-wal-mart-and-j-b-hunt-1510950438

8 years ago

59 upvotes – 50 comments

The Rise and Fall of 'Rolling Stone'

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/12/rolling-stone-jann-wenner/544107/?single_page=true

8 years ago

58 upvotes – 25 comments
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