top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-11-20

Modern Media Is a DoS Attack on Free Will

http://m.nautil.us/issue/52/the-hive/modern-media-is-a-dos-attack-on-your-free-will

8 years ago

Let's Encrypt now holds 35% of the market

https://nettrack.info/ssl_certificate_issuers.html

8 years ago

Show HN: Fruits and vegetables in season in your zip code

https://harvestsignal.com

8 years ago

An in-depth security review of the Intel Management Engine

https://security-center.intel.com/advisory.aspx?intelid=INTEL-SA-00086&languageid=en-fr

8 years ago

Samsung DeX

http://www.samsung.com/global/galaxy/apps/samsung-dex/

8 years ago

Stanford Compilers Course

https://lagunita.stanford.edu/courses/Engineering/Compilers/Fall2014/about

8 years ago

The Shortest Papers Ever Published (2016)

https://paperpile.com/blog/shortest-papers/

8 years ago

We Can’t Trust Facebook to Regulate Itself

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/19/opinion/facebook-regulation-incentive.html

8 years ago

How Politics and Bad Decisions Starved New York’s Subways

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/18/nyregion/new-york-subway-system-failure-delays.html

8 years ago

Kansas runs one of the most secretive state governments

http://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article184179651.html

8 years ago

Firefox Private Browsing vs. Chrome Incognito: Which Is Faster?

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/11/20/firefox-private-browsing-vs-chrome-incognito/

8 years ago

Clicker Heroes 2 is abandoning free-to-play

http://www.clickerheroes2.com/paytowin.php

8 years ago

Team Discussions

https://github.com/blog/2471-introducing-team-discussions

8 years ago

The World Is Running Out of Sand

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/world-facing-global-sand-crisis-180964815/?no-ist

8 years ago

Why Wikipedia cannot claim the earth is not flat

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Why_Wikipedia_cannot_claim_the_earth_is_not_flat

8 years ago

CMU Time Series Database Lectures

http://db.cs.cmu.edu/seminar2017/

8 years ago

Microsoft Has It All—Almost (1985)

http://www.nytimes.com/1985/09/04/business/microsoft-has-it-all-almost.html

8 years ago

Announcing the New AWS Secret Region

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/publicsector/announcing-the-new-aws-secret-region/

8 years ago

People Who Speed-Listen to Podcasts

https://www.buzzfeed.com/doree/meet-the-people-who-listen-to-podcasts-at-super-fast-speeds?utm_term=.jdJ8Pn6MBG#.ioEx4N69Mb

8 years ago

Ask HN: Resources on how to improve abstract thinking skills?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15740777

8 years ago

The Last of the Iron Lungs

https://gizmodo.com/the-last-of-the-iron-lungs-1819079169

8 years ago

India's Indira canteen: The best meal you can buy for 13 cents

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-41983359

8 years ago

Justice Department suing AT&T to block $85B bid for Time Warner

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/11/20/the-justice-department-just-sued-att-to-block-its-85-billion-bid-for-time-warner/?utm_term=.ae1463c2b8dd

8 years ago

The Performance Cost of Server Side Rendered React on Node.js

https://malloc.fi/performance-cost-of-server-side-rendered-react-node-js

8 years ago

Theories of civilisational ‘collapse’ grow less convincing when scrutinised

https://aeon.co/essays/what-the-idea-of-civilisational-collapse-says-about-history

8 years ago

Application Container Security Guide [pdf]

https://dx.doi.org/10.6028/NIST.SP.800-190

8 years ago

Cost Effectiveness of Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction

https://acesounderglass.com/2017/11/20/cost-effectiveness-of-mindfulness-based-stress-reduction/

8 years ago

DéjàVu: a map of code duplicates on GitHub

https://blog.acolyer.org/2017/11/20/dejavu-a-map-of-code-duplicates-on-github/

8 years ago

The Cost Center Trap

http://www.leanessays.com/2017/11/the-cost-center-trap.html

8 years ago

What's wrong with the default build tool for Scala

http://www.lihaoyi.com/post/SowhatswrongwithSBT.html

8 years ago

A list of 600 new free MOOCs

https://qz.com/1120344/200-universities-just-launched-600-free-online-courses-heres-the-full-list/

8 years ago

Google Cloud Platform cuts the price of GPUs by up to 36 percent

https://techcrunch.com/2017/11/20/google-cloud-platform-cuts-the-price-of-gpus-by-up-to-36-percent/

8 years ago

“Security problems are primarily just bugs”

http://blog.erratasec.com/2017/11/why-linus-is-right-as-usual.html#.WhKEqnXytCU

8 years ago

TensorFlow Feature Columns

https://developers.googleblog.com/2017/11/introducing-tensorflow-feature-columns.html

8 years ago

Software converts 360 video into 3D model for VR

http://360rumors.com/2017/11/software-institut-pascal-converts-360-video-3d-model-vr.html

8 years ago

The Lives of China’s Art Factory Workers

https://www.instapainting.com/blog/the-secret-lives-of-china-art-factory-workers/

8 years ago

Ask HN: How to deal with inexperienced interviewers?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15737801

8 years ago

Volvo Promises Uber Fleet of 24,000 Self-Driving Taxis by 2019

https://www.wsj.com/articles/volvo-promises-uber-fleet-of-self-driving-taxis-by-2019-1511184730

8 years ago

Micro Scisky: A 32-bit Open-Source Brushed Flight Controller

https://dronegarageblog.wordpress.com/2016/09/25/micro-scisky-the-32bits-open-source-brushed-flight-controller/

8 years ago

Modern Computer Arithmetic (2010) [pdf]

https://members.loria.fr/PZimmermann/mca/mca-cup-0.5.9.pdf

8 years ago

Benefits of Continuous Delivery

https://henrikwarne.com/2017/11/19/benefits-of-continuous-delivery/

8 years ago

Kotlin: A Language with a Bright Future

http://www.venturi-group.com/blog/getting-started-kotlin/

8 years ago