top 50% 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

★ 14.5k Python MIT
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

Modernish: a shell moderniser library

https://github.com/modernish/modernish#modernish-a-shell-moderniser-library

8 years ago

★ 937 Shell ISC
125 upvotes – 13 comments

Turning a Job Opening into a Dream Job for Top Talent

https://medium.com/javascript-scene/how-to-turn-a-job-opening-into-a-dream-job-for-top-talent-14b63f03146d

8 years ago

124 upvotes – 130 comments

The Largest Number of Scientists in Modern U.S. Is Running for Office in 2018

http://www.huffingtonpost.com.mx/entry/science-candidates_us_5a74fffde4b06ee97af2ae60

8 years ago

114 upvotes – 97 comments

Cops won’t need a warrant to pull the data off an autonomous car

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/02/why-self-driving-cars-may-be-heaven-for-investigating-crimes-and-accidents/

8 years ago

113 upvotes – 107 comments

The Famine Ended 70 Years Ago, but Dutch Genes Still Bear Scars

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/31/science/dutch-famine-genes.html

8 years ago

113 upvotes – 56 comments

JITing PostgreSQL using LLVM [pdf]

http://anarazel.de/talks/fosdem-2018-02-03/jit.pdf

8 years ago

112 upvotes – 33 comments

iMac Pro 18-core Follow Up Review

http://hrtapps.com/blogs/20180202/

8 years ago

109 upvotes – 136 comments

How it works: Compiler Explorer

https://xania.org/201609/how-compiler-explorer-runs-on-amazon

8 years ago

107 upvotes – 25 comments

Slack: Other browsers require significant effort so we're focused on Chrome

https://twitter.com/SlackHQ/status/958645632620748800

8 years ago

102 upvotes – 102 comments

How Backblaze Got Started (2017)

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/how-backblaze-got-started/?hn=1

8 years ago

101 upvotes – 68 comments

Amazon Aurora Postgres: First Thoughts

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/amazon-aurora-postgres-first-thoughts-eric-green/

8 years ago

100 upvotes – 17 comments

Standard SQL features where PostgreSQL beats its competitors

https://www.slideshare.net/MarkusWinand/standard-sql-features-where-postgresql-beats-its-competitors

8 years ago

96 upvotes – 16 comments

The Story of Tetris [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fQtxKmgJC8

8 years ago

92 upvotes – 25 comments

Cheetahs' inner ear is one-of-a-kind, vital to high-speed hunting

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-02/amon-cie020218.php

8 years ago

86 upvotes – 23 comments

FOSDEM 2018 – Live Streaming

https://fosdem.org/2018/schedule/streaming/

8 years ago

82 upvotes – 12 comments

In Praise of Theory in Design Research: How Levi-Strauss Redefined Workflow

https://www.epicpeople.org/theory-in-design-research/

8 years ago

81 upvotes – 33 comments

Mazda hopes to achieve 56% thermal efficiency with gasoline engine

https://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/car-technology/a15915023/mazda-skyactiv-3-gas-clean-as-ev/

8 years ago

80 upvotes – 58 comments

Simple blood test spots dementia protein

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-01466-8

8 years ago

80 upvotes – 9 comments

Sequoia Capital plans $8B global fund, eyes China investors

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-sequoia-fundraising/sequoia-capital-plans-8-billion-global-fund-eyes-china-investors-sources-idUSKBN1FK0G3

8 years ago

78 upvotes – 13 comments

Detecting Consciousness (2017) [pdf]

https://www.alleninstitute.org/media/filer_public/3e/7a/3e7aabb0-5da7-4915-b4b6-2aa896c8faee/2017_11_howtomakeaconsciousnessmeter.pdf

8 years ago

73 upvotes – 38 comments

With ePrivacy looming, German publishers scramble to get users logged in

https://digiday.com/media/eprivacy-looming-german-publishers-scramble-get-users-logged/

8 years ago

73 upvotes – 98 comments

Parallel C++ on AWS Lambda for CRISPR

https://benchling.engineering/powering-crispr-with-aws-lambda-f22c151a1ffc

8 years ago

72 upvotes – 17 comments

Catalog of Missing Devices: Gadgets that could exist if not for copyright laws

https://www.eff.org/press/releases/catalog-missing-devices-illustrates-gadgets-could-and-should-exist

8 years ago

69 upvotes – 30 comments

Smart homes and vegetable peelers

https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2018/1/4/smart-homes-and-vegetable-peelers

8 years ago

69 upvotes – 61 comments

Hiring Developers: look for the ability to abstract and not for experience

https://blog.rinatussenov.com/hiring-software-developers-look-for-the-ability-to-abstract-and-not-for-experience-24ac483cc1ea

8 years ago

68 upvotes – 97 comments

How One Jira Ticket Made My Employer $1MM/Month: 7 Metrics That Actually Matter

https://medium.com/javascript-scene/how-one-jira-ticket-made-my-employer-1mm-month-7-metrics-that-actually-matter-ffb5b2376a6b

8 years ago

66 upvotes – 29 comments

Memory Safety in Rust: A Case Study with C

http://willcrichton.net/notes/rust-memory-safety/

8 years ago

65 upvotes – 89 comments
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