top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-02-08

Chrome 68 will mark all HTTP sites as “not secure”

https://security.googleblog.com/2018/02/a-secure-web-is-here-to-stay.html

8 years ago

806 upvotes – 812 comments

A Reimplementation of Winamp 2.9 in HTML5 and JavaScript

https://github.com/captbaritone/winamp2-js

8 years ago

★ 11kTypeScriptMIT
622 upvotes – 208 comments

Science’s Pirate Queen

https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/8/16985666/alexandra-elbakyan-sci-hub-open-access-science-papers-lawsuit

8 years ago

496 upvotes – 251 comments

Why Toys?

http://blog.ycombinator.com/why-toys/

8 years ago

468 upvotes – 200 comments

Crushed wood is stronger than steel

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-01600-6

8 years ago

461 upvotes – 172 comments

Twitter Soars After Surprise Sales Gain, First Real Profit

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-08/twitter-posts-surprise-sales-gain-monthly-user-growth-stagnates

8 years ago

406 upvotes – 205 comments

Google is buying Chelsea Market building for over $2B

https://therealdeal.com/2018/02/06/google-is-buying-chelsea-market-building-for-2b-plus/

8 years ago

358 upvotes – 246 comments

European Parliament requests recommendation to end biannual clock change

https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/latest-european-parliament-approves-proposal-to-end-bi-annual-clock-change-826985.html

8 years ago

306 upvotes – 244 comments

Key iPhone Source Code Gets Posted Online

https://motherboard.vice.com/amp/en_us/article/a34g9j/iphone-source-code-iboot-ios-leak

8 years ago

261 upvotes – 112 comments

“We Are Morons” – A quick look at the Win2k source (2004)

http://atdt.freeshell.org/k5/story_2004_2_15_71552_7795.html

8 years ago

246 upvotes – 96 comments

Scientists find massive reserves of mercury in permafrost

https://news.agu.org/press-release/scientists-find-massive-reserves-of-mercury-hidden-in-permafrost/

8 years ago

230 upvotes – 101 comments

Exploring ReasonML and functional programming

http://reasonmlhub.com/exploring-reasonml/

8 years ago

211 upvotes – 63 comments

Julia v0.7.0 Release Notes

https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/master/NEWS.md

8 years ago

★ 48.6kJuliaMIT
207 upvotes – 60 comments

How to Know When a Child’s Flu Turns Serious

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/07/well/family/children-flu-infants-deaths-influenza-complications-fever-breathing-symptoms.html

8 years ago

203 upvotes – 124 comments

Air Force Strike Takes Out SpaceX's Floating GovSat Booster

http://www.americaspace.com/2018/02/08/air-force-strike-takes-out-spacexs-floating-govsat-booster/

8 years ago

202 upvotes – 74 comments

Home-made drones now threaten conventional armed forces

https://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21736498-their-small-size-and-large-numbers-can-overwhelm-defences-home-made-drones-now

8 years ago

181 upvotes – 148 comments

GrubHub Drivers Ruled Contractors

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-08/grubhub-drivers-are-contractors-judge-rules-in-bellwether-suit

8 years ago

168 upvotes – 161 comments

Advanced SQL window function quiz

http://www.windowfunctions.com/

8 years ago

163 upvotes – 79 comments

The Kubernetes Effect

https://www.infoq.com/articles/kubernetes-effect

8 years ago

163 upvotes – 125 comments

The rise and fall of 18F

https://www.fedscoop.com/rise-fall-18f/

8 years ago

156 upvotes – 118 comments

Musk explains why SpaceX prefers clusters of small engines

https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/02/musks-inspiration-for-27-engines-modern-computer-clusters/

8 years ago

152 upvotes – 99 comments

U.S. senators ask consumer watchdog head for details on Equifax probe

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-equifax-cfpb-lawmakers/u-s-senators-ask-consumer-watchdog-head-for-details-on-equifax-probe-idUSKBN1FS2R1

8 years ago

151 upvotes – 39 comments

A todo list for new ASP.NET Core projects

https://biarity.gitlab.io/2018/02/08/asp-net-core-todo

8 years ago

150 upvotes – 63 comments

Chinese police don high-tech glasses to nab suspects

https://www.hongkongfp.com/2018/02/08/black-mirror-technology-chinese-police-don-high-tech-glasses-nab-suspects/

8 years ago

148 upvotes – 148 comments

Interactive GPU Programming, Part 2: Hello OpenCL

http://dragan.rocks/articles/18/Interactive-GPU-Programming-2-Hello-OpenCL

8 years ago

142 upvotes – 8 comments

Show HN: Thanks – See which NPM dependencies are seeking donations

https://github.com/feross/thanks

8 years ago

★ 2.7kJavaScript
138 upvotes – 21 comments

Practical, unsexy steps to become a millionaire

https://qz.com/913249/the-practical-steps-it-takes-to-actually-become-a-millionaire/

8 years ago

138 upvotes – 112 comments

Why Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google Need to Be Disrupted

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/amp15895746/bust-big-tech-silicon-valley/

8 years ago

134 upvotes – 112 comments

Show HN: HNBuddy – A fast and elegant HN client for iOS

http://www.hnbuddy.io

8 years ago

127 upvotes – 67 comments

Qt Creator 4.6 Beta Released

http://blog.qt.io/blog/2018/02/07/qt-creator-4-6-beta-released/

8 years ago

125 upvotes – 87 comments

Y Combinator Is Launching a “Grad School” for Booming Startups

http://www.fastcompany.com/40524163/y-combinator-is-launching-a-grad-school-for-booming-startups

8 years ago

119 upvotes – 7 comments

Show HN: Carbon Doomsday – Graph and API of Earth's Carbon Dioxide

http://carbondoomsday.com

8 years ago

118 upvotes – 97 comments

Being a perfectionist is an obstacle and how to beat it

https://mediatag.io/blog/why-being-a-perfectionist-is-an-obstacle-and-how-to-beat-it

8 years ago

116 upvotes – 75 comments

Torresian crows have learned how to make a meal of cane toads

http://www.australiangeographic.com.au/topics/wildlife/2018/01/can-crows-eat-cane-toads?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=AG%20Newsletter%2030/01/2018&utm_term=list_australiangeographic_newsletter

8 years ago

115 upvotes – 49 comments

On a small Greek island, practitioners of an ancient whistling language

https://theoutline.com/post/3242/greece-sfyria-whistling-language

8 years ago

113 upvotes – 28 comments

Search for Lost Hammer Led to Largest Cache of Roman Treasure Ever Found in UK

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/search-lost-hammer-led-largest-cache-roman-treasure-ever-found-britain-180967263/?no-ist

8 years ago

111 upvotes – 24 comments

The Amazon-Ification of Whole Foods

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2018/02/whole-foods-two-hour-delivery-amazon/552821/?single_page=true

8 years ago

109 upvotes – 115 comments

Companies from the YC Winter 2018 Batch

http://blog.ycombinator.com/meet-12-companies-from-the-winter-2018-batch/

8 years ago

108 upvotes – 50 comments

Eating Leafy Greens Each Day Tied to Sharper Memory, Slower Decline

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/02/05/582715067/eating-leafy-greens-daily-may-help-keep-minds-sharp

8 years ago

100 upvotes – 18 comments

Intense laser experiments provide evidence that light can stop electrons

http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/newsandeventspggrp/imperialcollege/newssummary/news_5-2-2018-12-35-5

8 years ago

89 upvotes – 37 comments

Plagiarism software unveils one of Shakespeare’s sources

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/07/books/plagiarism-software-unveils-a-new-source-for-11-of-shakespeares-plays.html

8 years ago

88 upvotes – 36 comments

Ask HN: Best companies to work for in Europe?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16332794

8 years ago

86 upvotes – 77 comments

Adding Context to CockroachDB’s Article “Your Database Should Work Like a CDN”

https://danielcompton.net/2018/02/08/add-context-cockroachdb-databases-acting-like-cdns

8 years ago

84 upvotes – 9 comments

What It’s Like to Live in a Surveillance State

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/03/opinion/sunday/china-surveillance-state-uighurs.html

8 years ago

82 upvotes – 66 comments

Writing Dockerfiles for Node.js Web Apps

https://blog.hasura.io/an-exhaustive-guide-to-writing-dockerfiles-for-node-js-web-apps-bbee6bd2f3c4

8 years ago

82 upvotes – 33 comments
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