top 20 hacker news stories for 2018-02-03

How Google Chrome’s ad blocker works

https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/chrome-adblocker

8 years ago

423 upvotes – 316 comments

Video editing with Python

https://github.com/Zulko/moviepy

8 years ago

★ 14.5kPythonMIT
346 upvotes – 48 comments

Best practices for user account, authorization and password management

https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/01/12-best-practices-for-user-account.html

8 years ago

321 upvotes – 156 comments

“Invisible Electrostatic Wall” at 3M adhesive tape plant (1996)

http://amasci.com/weird/unusual/e-wall.html?utm=email

8 years ago

293 upvotes – 104 comments

XXY Oscilloscope

https://dood.al/oscilloscope/

8 years ago

263 upvotes – 42 comments

HiFive – RISC-V-based Linux development board

https://www.sifive.com/products/hifive-unleashed/

8 years ago

240 upvotes – 133 comments

The Shallowness of Google Translate

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/01/the-shallowness-of-google-translate/551570/?single_page=true

8 years ago

217 upvotes – 211 comments

Progressing from Tech to Leadership

https://lcamtuf.blogspot.com/2018/02/on-leadership.html

8 years ago

202 upvotes – 33 comments

Computer Architecture – ETH Zürich – Fall 2017

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5Q2soXY2Zi9OhoVQBXYFIZywZXCPl4M_

8 years ago

201 upvotes – 30 comments

Geoffrey Hinton spent 30 years on an idea many other scientists dismissed

https://torontolife.com/tech/ai-superstars-google-facebook-apple-studied-guy

8 years ago

193 upvotes – 69 comments

Ask HN: How to understand the large codebase of an open-source project?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16299125

8 years ago

188 upvotes – 47 comments

ECMAScript 2018: final feature set

http://2ality.com/2017/02/ecmascript-2018.html

8 years ago

183 upvotes – 109 comments

Ask HN: Which books do you wish you'd read earlier in life?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16296200

8 years ago

177 upvotes – 136 comments

Safari Password Generation

https://twitter.com/_inside/status/959549503920660480

8 years ago

164 upvotes – 120 comments

Sedate a Plant, and It Seems to Lose Consciousness. Is It Conscious?

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/02/science/plants-consciousness-anesthesia.html

8 years ago

157 upvotes – 172 comments

FAA Issues Emergency Order of Revocation Against TapJets

https://www.faa.gov/news/press_releases/news_story.cfm?newsId=22494&omniRss=press_releasesAoc&cid=102_P_R

8 years ago

150 upvotes – 162 comments

The Origin of the word Daemon (2002)

http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/Daemon.html

8 years ago

148 upvotes – 46 comments

The Opium Wars Still Shape China’s View of the West

https://www.economist.com/news/christmas-specials/21732706-britain-and-china-see-each-other-through-narcotic-haze-opium-wars-still-shape

8 years ago

138 upvotes – 135 comments

Switch to Windows 95

https://blog.krnl386.com/index.php?post/2018/02/03/Switch-to-Windows-95

8 years ago

131 upvotes – 105 comments

Japan’s SS-520 CubeSat Launch Vehicle Achieves Success on Second Try

http://spaceflight101.com/japan-ss-520-5-launch-success/

8 years ago

127 upvotes – 19 comments
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