top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-01-30

Amazon, Berkshire, JPMorgan to Create Healthcare Company

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-30/amazon-berkshire-jpmorgan-to-create-healthcare-company-jd1lraa9

8 years ago

1070 upvotes – 520 comments

Red Hat to Acquire CoreOS

https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/red-hat-acquire-coreos-expanding-its-kubernetes-and-containers-leadership

8 years ago

997 upvotes – 197 comments

Xi: an editor for the next 20 years [video]

https://www.recurse.com/events/localhost-raph-levien

8 years ago

750 upvotes – 295 comments

Content-aware image resize library

https://github.com/esimov/caire

8 years ago

★ 10.4kGoMIT
614 upvotes – 78 comments

Matrix Calculus for Deep Learning

http://parrt.cs.usfca.edu/doc/matrix-calculus/index.html

8 years ago

573 upvotes – 81 comments

Facebook is banning all ads promoting cryptocurrencies

https://www.recode.net/2018/1/30/16950926/facebook-mark-zuckerberg-bans-crypto-advertising-bitcoin-james-altucher

8 years ago

551 upvotes – 239 comments

Regexper – Regular expressions visualizer

https://regexper.com/

8 years ago

510 upvotes – 102 comments

UK mass digital surveillance regime ruled unlawful

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/jan/30/uk-mass-digital-surveillance-regime-ruled-unlawful-appeal-ruling-snoopers-charter

8 years ago

501 upvotes – 186 comments

U.S. Regulators to Subpoena Crypto Exchange Bitfinex, Tether

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-30/crypto-exchange-bitfinex-tether-said-to-get-subpoenaed-by-cftc

8 years ago

495 upvotes – 404 comments

How to Work Out What to Charge Clients

https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2017/08/what-to-charge-clients/

8 years ago

388 upvotes – 186 comments

A Man Who Volunteered for Auschwitz (2012)

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/10/the-man-who-volunteered-for-auschwitz/263083/?single_page=true

8 years ago

348 upvotes – 140 comments

How Apple Built a Chip Powerhouse to Threaten Qualcomm and Intel

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-apple-custom-chips/

8 years ago

223 upvotes – 146 comments

Garbage collectors open a library with abandoned books

http://edition.cnn.com/2018/01/15/europe/garbage-collectors-open-library-with-abandoned-books/index.html

8 years ago

217 upvotes – 87 comments

Send the Barbarian in First

https://thewalrus.ca/send-the-barbarian-in-first/

8 years ago

211 upvotes – 122 comments

Can We Copy the Brain?

https://spectrum.ieee.org/static/special-report-can-we-copy-the-brain

8 years ago

198 upvotes – 82 comments

Waymo Launches Its Self-Driving Armada

https://www.wired.com/story/waymo-launches-self-driving-minivans-fiat-chrysler/

8 years ago

192 upvotes – 134 comments

Fools and their crypto

https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/30/fools-and-their-crypto/

8 years ago

190 upvotes – 123 comments

Nanopore MinION – $1k solid-state DNA sequencers

https://nanoporetech.com/products/minion

8 years ago

189 upvotes – 107 comments

Google winning 98% ad spots it auctions off, after order to treat others equally

https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-rivals-ask-eu-to-toughen-measures-in-antitrust-case-1517334038?mod=e2tw

8 years ago

167 upvotes – 105 comments

Kodak’s Dubious Blockchain Gamble

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/30/technology/kodak-blockchain-bitcoin.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Ftechnology&action=click&contentCollection=technology&region=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=2&pgtype=sectionfront

8 years ago

162 upvotes – 84 comments

On undoing, fixing, or removing commits in git

https://sethrobertson.github.io/GitFixUm/fixup.html

8 years ago

157 upvotes – 8 comments

Goodyear Hid Evidence of 'The Worst Tire in History' Linked to at Least 9 Deaths

https://jalopnik.com/how-goodyear-hid-evidence-of-the-worst-tire-made-in-his-1822200424

8 years ago

152 upvotes – 66 comments

Advanced Denanonymization through Strava

http://steveloughran.blogspot.com/2018/01/advanced-denanonymization-through-strava.html

8 years ago

141 upvotes – 75 comments

What's behind rich people pretending to be self-made?

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jan/29/rich-people-wealth-america

8 years ago

138 upvotes – 112 comments

Why we wrote our Kafka Client in Pony

https://blog.wallaroolabs.com/2018/01/why-we-wrote-our-kafka-client-in-pony/

8 years ago

137 upvotes – 95 comments

Optimizing hash tables: hiding the hash code

https://v8project.blogspot.com/2018/01/hash-code.html

8 years ago

130 upvotes – 70 comments

Modern human brain organization emerged only recently

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/01/180125105444.htm

8 years ago

127 upvotes – 71 comments

High Sierra broke AFP searching on our server

http://www.idoru.be/notes/dear-tim/

8 years ago

114 upvotes – 106 comments

How to Beat Amazon

http://www.collaborativefund.com/blog/how-to-beat-amazon/

8 years ago

113 upvotes – 72 comments

Paradigm shifts for the decentralized Web

https://ruben.verborgh.org/blog/2017/12/20/paradigm-shifts-for-the-decentralized-web/

8 years ago

107 upvotes – 30 comments

How Amazon’s Ad Business Could Threaten Google and Facebook

https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-amazons-ad-business-could-threaten-google-and-facebook-1517157327

8 years ago

103 upvotes – 75 comments

Upcoming Go protobuf release

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/golang-nuts/F5xFHTfwRnY

8 years ago

102 upvotes – 20 comments

ARM immediate value encoding (2014)

https://alisdair.mcdiarmid.org/arm-immediate-value-encoding/

8 years ago

97 upvotes – 26 comments

A man accused of cheating at video games may lose his Guinness World Record

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/early-lead/wp/2018/01/29/a-man-accused-of-cheating-at-video-games-may-lose-his-decades-old-guinness-world-record/

8 years ago

96 upvotes – 92 comments

What Does It Mean to Die?

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/02/05/what-does-it-mean-to-die?mbid=nl_Magazine%20012918%20Magazine&CNDID=51354413&spMailingID=12836378&spUserID=MjMyNzc5MzIzMjM5S0&spJobID=1322632924&spReportId=MTMyMjYzMjkyNAS2

8 years ago

94 upvotes – 83 comments

How a late-blossoming classics don became Britain’s most beloved intellectual

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/jan/30/mary-beard-the-cult-of

8 years ago

92 upvotes – 92 comments

Hawaii’s false missile alert sent by worker believing attack on US was imminent

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2018/01/30/heres-what-went-wrong-with-that-hawaii-missile-alert-the-fcc-says/

8 years ago

92 upvotes – 82 comments

LibreOffice 6.0 is coming

https://medium.com/@fossmec/libreoffice-6-0-is-coming-8d7a66b83973

8 years ago

89 upvotes – 36 comments

U.S. To Probe Apple Over Updates That Slow Older iPhones

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-30/u-s-said-to-probe-apple-over-updates-that-slow-older-iphones-jd1yahj7

8 years ago

86 upvotes – 111 comments

Showing Off to the Universe: Beacons for the Afterlife of Our Civilization

http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2018/01/showing-off-to-the-universe-beacons-for-the-afterlife-of-our-civilization/

8 years ago

83 upvotes – 20 comments

SEC halts AriseBank ICO

https://www.americanbanker.com/news/arisebank-raises-questions-about-ico-fraud-decentralized-banking

8 years ago

82 upvotes – 65 comments

All Followers Are Fake Followers

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/01/all-followers-are-fake-followers/551789/?single_page=true

8 years ago

73 upvotes – 36 comments

Pushing the Limits of Extreme Breath-Holding

https://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/pushing-the-limits-of-extreme-breath-holding

8 years ago

73 upvotes – 57 comments

What's Hiding Inside Egypt's Great Pyramid? Tiny Robots May Find Out

https://www.livescience.com/61435-great-pyramid-mysterious-voids.html

8 years ago

72 upvotes – 39 comments
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