top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-11-22

Join the Battle for Net Neutrality

https://www.battleforthenet.com/

8 years ago

1269 upvotes – 379 comments

An Open Letter to the FCC

https://medium.com/@AGSchneiderman/an-open-letter-to-the-fcc-b867a763850a

8 years ago

849 upvotes – 203 comments

Stop Using Excel, Finance Chiefs Tell Staffs

https://www.wsj.com/articles/stop-using-excel-finance-chiefs-tell-staffs-1511346601

8 years ago

627 upvotes – 417 comments

Sugar industry withheld possible evidence of cancer link 50 years ago

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/sugar-industry-withheld-possible-evidence-of-cancer-link-50-years-ago-researchers-say

8 years ago

608 upvotes – 310 comments

Linus Torvalds: “Do No Harm”

https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/11/21/356

8 years ago

566 upvotes – 231 comments

Cortana is really bad

https://medium.com/@johndavidback/cortana-is-really-really-bad-6ca96733ef4d

8 years ago

439 upvotes – 293 comments

Show HN: LogoFox – fast logo maker

https://logofox.co/form/name?utm_source=hackernews

8 years ago

431 upvotes – 106 comments

Bitcoin Mining Now Consuming More Electricity Than Many Countries

https://powercompare.co.uk/bitcoin/

8 years ago

387 upvotes – 326 comments

A CEO's Guide to Emacs (2015)

https://blog.fugue.co/2015-11-11-guide-to-emacs.html

8 years ago

364 upvotes – 172 comments

Warning Signs About Another Giant Bitcoin Exchange

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/21/technology/bitcoin-bitfinex-tether.html

8 years ago

360 upvotes – 251 comments

Show HN: Gophercises – Coding Exercises for Budding Gophers

https://gophercises.com/

8 years ago

328 upvotes – 88 comments

The Problem of Doctors’ Salaries

https://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2017/10/25/doctors-salaries-pay-disparities-000557

8 years ago

301 upvotes – 470 comments

Better Random Number Generation for OpenSSL, Libc, and Linux Mainline

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/better-random-number-generation-for-openssl-libc-and-linux-mainline/

8 years ago

265 upvotes – 41 comments

The Vanual – Guide to Living in a Van

http://thevanual.com

8 years ago

232 upvotes – 110 comments

How a single PostgreSQL config change improved slow query performance by 50x

https://amplitude.engineering/how-a-single-postgresql-config-change-improved-slow-query-performance-by-50x-85593b8991b0

8 years ago

218 upvotes – 45 comments

Peter Thiel sells most of remaining Facebook stake

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-stake/peter-thiel-sells-most-of-remaining-facebook-stake-idUSKBN1DM2BQ

8 years ago

217 upvotes – 176 comments

Low Hanging Fruit of Programming Language Design

http://250bpm.com/blog:112

8 years ago

216 upvotes – 210 comments

Resistance to Being Productive

https://listed.standardnotes.org/@mo/408/why-you-re-resistant-to-being-productive

8 years ago

215 upvotes – 82 comments

Introducing Scrivener 3

https://www.literatureandlatte.com/introducing-scrivener-3

8 years ago

214 upvotes – 102 comments

Ask HN: Books on specific topics that have applied to many areas of your life?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15761599

8 years ago

204 upvotes – 105 comments

Apple scientists disclose self-driving car research

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-autos/apple-scientists-disclose-self-driving-car-research-idUSKBN1DM08H?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=Social

8 years ago

204 upvotes – 173 comments

Mitmproxy – Open-source console-based proxy

https://mitmproxy.org/

8 years ago

188 upvotes – 39 comments

Net Neutrality will die, so let’s take the profit out of killing it

https://www.cringely.com/2017/11/22/15471/

8 years ago

180 upvotes – 129 comments

How Evil Is Tech?

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/20/opinion/how-evil-is-tech.html

8 years ago

174 upvotes – 199 comments

Show HN: OhMyCo.in – Real-time charts for cryptocurrency markets

http://ohmyco.in/charts/

8 years ago

167 upvotes – 74 comments

Demystifying Floating Point Precision

https://blog.demofox.org/2017/11/21/floating-point-precision/

8 years ago

147 upvotes – 54 comments

Patients with Access to Legal Medical Cannabis Are More Likely to Quit Opioids

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0187795

8 years ago

141 upvotes – 32 comments

How Citus Executes Distributed Transactions on Postgres

https://www.citusdata.com/blog/2017/11/22/how-citus-executes-distributed-transactions/

8 years ago

141 upvotes – 15 comments

Britain has abandoned its claim to be the world's fifth largest economy

http://money.cnn.com/2017/11/22/news/economy/uk-france-biggest-economies-in-the-world/index.html

8 years ago

139 upvotes – 158 comments

The End of Net Neutrality = the Beginning of the Fragmented Web

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15759548

8 years ago

121 upvotes – 92 comments

A Case Study in LASP and Distribution at Scale [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhHtiBpDa54

8 years ago

117 upvotes – 22 comments

Jekyll Static Web Hosting – Deployment Pipeline on AWS

https://zoph.me/cloud/Jekyll-Pipeline-CBCD/

8 years ago

113 upvotes – 63 comments

Looking at how many sites use vulnerable JavaScript libraries

https://snyk.io/blog/77-percent-of-sites-still-vulnerable/

8 years ago

108 upvotes – 52 comments

Spam is back

https://theoutline.com/post/2498/spam-is-back

8 years ago

104 upvotes – 68 comments

China to have 626M surveillance cameras within 3 years

http://technode.com/2017/11/22/china-to-have-626-million-surveillance-cameras-within-3-years/

8 years ago

100 upvotes – 42 comments

Introducing ProtonMail Contacts

https://protonmail.com/blog/encrypted-contacts-manager/

8 years ago

95 upvotes – 21 comments

Beauty Shots of Retro Machines

http://podstawczynski.com/retro/beauty_shots.html

8 years ago

83 upvotes – 13 comments
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