top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-01-18

JS Paint – A web-based MS Paint remake

http://jspaint.ml/

8 years ago

906 upvotes – 248 comments

Wine 3.0 Released

https://www.winehq.org/news/2018011801

8 years ago

724 upvotes – 222 comments

Walkable Streets Are More Economically Productive

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2018/1/16/why-walkable-streets-are-more-economically-productive

8 years ago

662 upvotes – 415 comments

Restructuring a giant, ancient codebase to make LibreOffice work well everywhere

https://fosdem.org/2018/interviews/michael-meeks/

8 years ago

489 upvotes – 101 comments

Google, You Creepy Sonofabitch

http://bradfrost.com/blog/post/google-you-creepy-sonofabitch/

8 years ago

457 upvotes – 383 comments

Fed Up with Drug Companies, Hospitals Decide to Start Their Own

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/18/health/drug-prices-hospitals.html

8 years ago

405 upvotes – 240 comments

It is not possible to detect and block Chrome headless

https://intoli.com/blog/not-possible-to-block-chrome-headless/

8 years ago

360 upvotes – 166 comments

Building an Operating System for the Raspberry Pi

https://jsandler18.github.io/

8 years ago

331 upvotes – 79 comments

Amazon announces candidate cities for HQ2

https://www.amazon.com/b?node=17044620011

8 years ago

325 upvotes – 721 comments

CIA rendition flights from rustic North Carolina called to account by citizens

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jan/17/cia-rendition-flights-north-carolina-citizens-commission

8 years ago

306 upvotes – 166 comments

Why People Dislike Really Smart Leaders

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-people-dislike-really-smart-leaders/

8 years ago

275 upvotes – 321 comments

Scaling Kubernetes to 2,500 Nodes

https://blog.openai.com/scaling-kubernetes-to-2500-nodes/

8 years ago

265 upvotes – 33 comments

Ten Years' Worth of Learning About Pricing

http://tomtunguz.com/pricing-summary/

8 years ago

247 upvotes – 43 comments

Fuze for Nintendo Switch: An easy-to-learn text-based programming language

https://www.fuze.co.uk/nintendo-switch.html

8 years ago

245 upvotes – 102 comments

Airbus Handed A380 Lifeline With $16B Emirates Order

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-18/emirates-orders-20-a380s-worth-9-billion-in-vital-program-boost

8 years ago

242 upvotes – 171 comments

Bootstrap 4

http://blog.getbootstrap.com/2018/01/18/bootstrap-4/

8 years ago

229 upvotes – 68 comments

Keep Webpack Fast: A Field Guide for Better Build Performance

https://slack.engineering/keep-webpack-fast-a-field-guide-for-better-build-performance-f56a5995e8f1

8 years ago

214 upvotes – 47 comments

Getting free of toxic tech culture

https://blog.valerieaurora.org/2018/01/17/getting-free-of-toxic-tech-culture/

8 years ago

213 upvotes – 385 comments

Oxidizing Source Maps with Rust and WebAssembly

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/01/oxidizing-source-maps-with-rust-and-webassembly/

8 years ago

207 upvotes – 30 comments

The Fall of Travis Kalanick

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-01-18/the-fall-of-travis-kalanick-was-a-lot-weirder-and-darker-than-you-thought

8 years ago

206 upvotes – 152 comments

Cape Town could be the first city to run out of water

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-42626790

8 years ago

204 upvotes – 138 comments

Ethereum programming for web developers

https://happyfuncorp.com/whitepapers/webthereum

8 years ago

202 upvotes – 75 comments

Stream Processing for Go

https://blog.wallaroolabs.com/2018/01/go-go-go-stream-processing-for-go/

8 years ago

198 upvotes – 30 comments

'Text bomb' is latest Apple bug

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-42728336

8 years ago

194 upvotes – 105 comments

Librem 5 Phone Progress Report

https://puri.sm/posts/librem5-progress-report-1/

8 years ago

186 upvotes – 66 comments

Indistinguishable from Magic: Manufacturing Modern Computer Chips (2012) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGFhc8R_uO4

8 years ago

183 upvotes – 52 comments

The hidden costs of serverless

https://read.acloud.guru/the-hidden-costs-of-serverless-6ced7844780b

8 years ago

176 upvotes – 107 comments

Inventor Claims to Have Solved Floating Point Error Problem

https://www.hpcwire.com/2018/01/17/inventor-claims-solved-floating-point-error-problem/

8 years ago

164 upvotes – 194 comments

Dear SaaS vendors

https://www.liip.ch/en/blog/dear-saas-vendors

8 years ago

160 upvotes – 90 comments

It is possible to detect and block Chrome headless

http://antoinevastel.github.io/bot%20detection/2018/01/17/detect-chrome-headless-v2.html

8 years ago

153 upvotes – 106 comments

CloudFlair: Bypassing CloudFlare using Internet-wide scan data

https://blog.christophetd.fr/bypassing-cloudflare-using-internet-wide-scan-data/

8 years ago

151 upvotes – 48 comments

Rust and QML: a timely example

https://www.vandenoever.info/blog/2017/09/10/time_for_rust_and_qml.html

8 years ago

144 upvotes – 20 comments

Client cheques that I rejected

https://m.oursky.com/client-cheques-that-i-rejected-7426f392d5e9

8 years ago

141 upvotes – 65 comments

TV, retail, advertising and cascading collapses

https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2018/1/15/tv-retail-advertising-and-cascading-collapses

8 years ago

124 upvotes – 68 comments

Subverted Design

http://joelcalifa.com/blog/subverted-design/

8 years ago

122 upvotes – 19 comments

Firmware Updates and Initial Performance Data for Data Center Systems

https://newsroom.intel.com/news/firmware-updates-and-initial-performance-data-for-data-center-systems/

8 years ago

120 upvotes – 67 comments

Neopets HTML Guide

http://www.neopets.com/help/html1.phtml

8 years ago

120 upvotes – 41 comments

North Korea’s fabric made from stone

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/northkorea-vinalon/

8 years ago

119 upvotes – 55 comments

Clojure Numerics: Orthogonalization and Least Squares

http://dragan.rocks/articles/17/Clojure-Numerics-5-Orthogonalization-and-Least-Squares

8 years ago

118 upvotes – 20 comments

An old theory of quantized gravity is gaining new life

https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-an-old-theory-of-everything-is-gaining-new-life-20180108/

8 years ago

110 upvotes – 66 comments

Pornhub “Hawaii on Alert” traffic stats

https://twitter.com/Pornhub/status/953668567714680833/photo/1

8 years ago

109 upvotes – 21 comments

Piknik – Copy and paste anything over the network

https://github.com/jedisct1/piknik

8 years ago

★ 2.5kGoBSD-2-Clause
107 upvotes – 36 comments

China’s Economic Growth Looks Strong, Maybe Too Strong

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/18/business/china-gdp-economy-growth.html

8 years ago

101 upvotes – 70 comments

Show HN: Collateralized Debt Agreements Using Smart Contracts and Virtual Cats

https://dharma.io/tutorial

8 years ago

97 upvotes – 57 comments

Tether has issued $450M USDT in past 4 days

http://omniexplorer.info/lookupadd.aspx?address=3MbYQMMmSkC3AgWkj9FMo5LsPTW1zBTwXL

8 years ago

91 upvotes – 91 comments

Designing Social Systems Without Causing Depression and War

https://medium.com/what-to-build/how-to-design-social-systems-without-causing-depression-and-war-3c3f8e0226d1

8 years ago

89 upvotes – 48 comments

Plastics Pile Up as China Refuses to Take the West’s Recycling

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/11/world/china-recyclables-ban.html

8 years ago

88 upvotes – 71 comments

Paying journalists to promote brands in articles

https://theoutline.com/post/2978/these-are-the-people-paying-journalists-to-promote-brands-in-articles

8 years ago

87 upvotes – 72 comments

Software Updates for IoT Devices and the Hidden Costs of Homegrown Updaters [pdf]

https://mender.io/resources/guides-and-whitepapers/_resources/Mender%2520White%2520Paper%2520_%2520Hidden%2520Costs%2520of%2520Homegrown.pdf

8 years ago

84 upvotes – 40 comments

Let Me Ruin This for You: The Schadenfreude of Criticism

https://thesmartset.com/let-me-ruin-this-for-you/

8 years ago

79 upvotes – 49 comments

Venezuelan Hyperinflation Explodes, Soaring Over 440,000 Percent

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-18/venezuelan-hyperinflation-explodes-soaring-over-440-000-percent

8 years ago

76 upvotes – 128 comments
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