top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-02-21

Signal Foundation

https://signal.org/blog/signal-foundation/

8 years ago

1314 upvotes – 284 comments

"Pwned Passwords" V2 With Half a Billion Passwords

https://www.troyhunt.com/ive-just-launched-pwned-passwords-version-2/

8 years ago

842 upvotes – 355 comments

Growing a company that sells miniature construction supplies to $17k a month

https://www.starterstory.com/mini-materials

8 years ago

740 upvotes – 275 comments

Practical Tips for Cheating at Design

https://medium.com/refactoring-ui/7-practical-tips-for-cheating-at-design-40c736799886

8 years ago

480 upvotes – 92 comments

Why It’s So Hard to Actually Work in Shared Offices

https://thewalrus.ca/why-its-so-hard-to-actually-work-in-shared-offices/

8 years ago

338 upvotes – 298 comments

Ask HN: What's the best algorithms and data structures online course?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16428309

8 years ago

273 upvotes – 36 comments

Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund (2008)

http://old.ycombinator.com/ideas.html

8 years ago

242 upvotes – 176 comments

Physics Makes Aging Inevitable, Not Biology (2016)

http://nautil.us/issue/36/aging/physics-makes-aging-inevitable-not-biology

8 years ago

240 upvotes – 197 comments

Why has CPU frequency ceased to grow? (2014)

https://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2014/02/19/why-has-cpu-frequency-ceased-to-grow

8 years ago

235 upvotes – 291 comments

Mountain View approves 10,000 homes by Google's North Bayshore project (2017)

https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2017/12/13/mountain-view-google-north-bayshore-approval.html

8 years ago

235 upvotes – 203 comments

Google AMP Is a Threat to the Open Web

https://www.socpub.com/articles/chris-graham-why-google-amp-threat-open-web-15847

8 years ago

228 upvotes – 77 comments

Paper review: IPFS – Content addressed, versioned, P2P file system

https://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2018/02/paper-review-ipfs-content-addressed.html

8 years ago

227 upvotes – 108 comments

The Dropbox Foundation

https://www.dropbox.com/news/company/announcing-the-dropbox-foundation

8 years ago

213 upvotes – 127 comments

Money Laundering via Author Impersonation on Amazon

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/02/money-laundering-via-author-impersonation-on-amazon/

8 years ago

210 upvotes – 90 comments

Doctors in China Lead Race to Treat Cancer by Editing Genes

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/02/21/585336506/doctors-in-china-lead-race-to-treat-cancer-by-editing-genes

8 years ago

200 upvotes – 65 comments

Many patent holders stop looking to East Texas following Supreme Court ruling

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/10/patent-cases-in-east-texas-plunge-more-than-60-percent/

8 years ago

198 upvotes – 92 comments

IV Bags May Not Be Necessary to Rehydrate Patients

https://slate.com/technology/2018/02/marias-iv-bag-shortage-taught-me-something-new-about-hydration.html

8 years ago

193 upvotes – 138 comments

Some Notes About How I Write Haskell

https://blog.infinitenegativeutility.com/2017/12/some-notes-about-how-i-write-haskell

8 years ago

191 upvotes – 43 comments

Technology Change Not the Culprit in Wages Falling Behind US Productivity Gains

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2018/02/technology-change-not-culprit-wages-falling-behind-us-productivity-gains.html

8 years ago

183 upvotes – 316 comments

Why Self-Taught Artificial Intelligence Has Trouble with the Real World

https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-self-taught-artificial-intelligence-has-trouble-with-the-real-world-20180221/

8 years ago

175 upvotes – 83 comments

A Chinese Casino company has set out to take over the U.S. island of Saipan

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-02-15/a-chinese-company-has-conquered-a-piece-of-america

8 years ago

165 upvotes – 51 comments

NLP concepts with spaCy tutorial

https://gist.github.com/aparrish/f21f6abbf2367e8eb23438558207e1c3

8 years ago

153 upvotes – 22 comments

Ethics can’t be a side hustle

https://deardesignstudent.com/ethics-cant-be-a-side-hustle-b9e78c090aee

8 years ago

135 upvotes – 102 comments

The Great Puri.sm Outage of 2018

https://puri.sm/posts/the-great-purism-dns-outage-of-2018/

8 years ago

135 upvotes – 42 comments

Go and Versioning: Minimal Version Selection

https://research.swtch.com/vgo-mvs

8 years ago

128 upvotes – 89 comments

Taking a Picture of a Supernova While Setting Up a New Camera

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/21/science/supernova-photo-camera.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fscience&action=click&contentCollection=science&region=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=sectionfront

8 years ago

127 upvotes – 57 comments

A Closed-Form Solution to Photorealistic Image Stylization

https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.06474

8 years ago

125 upvotes – 13 comments

Show HN: Mux Video, a simple API to powerful video streaming

https://mux.com

8 years ago

124 upvotes – 59 comments

Elsevier’s profits swell to more than £900M

https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/elseviers-profits-swell-more-ps900-million

8 years ago

118 upvotes – 38 comments

Toyota develops first neodymium-reduced, heat-resistant magnet for motors

http://www.greencarcongress.com/2018/02/20180220-nd.html

8 years ago

117 upvotes – 52 comments

Show HN: Use encrypted passwords in shell scripts signed with your SSH key

https://github.com/ahnick/encpass.sh

8 years ago

★ 612ShellMIT
117 upvotes – 46 comments

Show HN: Introduction to Simple Computational Geometry Concepts Using C++

http://wykobi.com/tutorial0.html

8 years ago

114 upvotes – 10 comments

Austin, Denver, Detroit: Good Places to Be a Software Engineer Looking for a Job

https://www.spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/at-work/tech-careers/austin-denver-and-detroit-are-good-places-to-be-a-software-engineer-looking-for-a-job

8 years ago

113 upvotes – 131 comments

Apple in Talks to Buy Cobalt Directly from Miners

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-21/apple-is-said-to-negotiate-buying-cobalt-direct-from-miners

8 years ago

113 upvotes – 56 comments

OpenAI Supporters

https://blog.openai.com/openai-supporters/

8 years ago

113 upvotes – 38 comments

Vint Cerf sees his invention reflected on Black Mirror

https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2018/02/20/583682937/the-father-of-the-internet-sees-his-invention-reflected-back-through-a-black-mir

8 years ago

111 upvotes – 77 comments

MeltdownPrime, SpectrePrime: Exploiting Invalidation-Based Coherence Protocols

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1802.03802.pdf

8 years ago

96 upvotes – 9 comments

What Really Happened at the School Where Every Graduate Got into College

https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2017/11/28/564054556/what-really-happened-at-the-school-where-every-senior-got-into-college

8 years ago

95 upvotes – 91 comments

Implementing a Gaussian Naive Bayes Classifier in Python

https://www.antoniomallia.it/lets-implement-a-gaussian-naive-bayes-classifier-in-python.html

8 years ago

92 upvotes – 20 comments

Some Code I Deleted

https://blog.afoolishmanifesto.com/posts/some-code-i-deleted/

8 years ago

91 upvotes – 21 comments

Google AI Residency Program

https://research.google.com/teams/brain/residency/

8 years ago

90 upvotes – 19 comments

Poland’s Central Bank Secretly Paid YouTubers to Slander Cryptos

https://www.trustnodes.com/2018/02/17/polands-central-bank-secretly-paid-youtubers-slander-cryptos

8 years ago

89 upvotes – 61 comments

Japanese 'Prince' Switched at Birth Was Raised a Pauper

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2013/11/29/247807768/japanese-prince-switched-at-birth-was-raised-a-pauper

8 years ago

88 upvotes – 115 comments

Show HN: Scale 3D, API for 3D labeling of LIDAR, camera, and radar data

https://www.scaleapi.com/sensor-fusion-annotation#9ad1290

8 years ago

85 upvotes – 16 comments

After Decades of Growth, Colleges Find It’s Survival of the Fittest

https://www.wsj.com/articles/after-decades-of-growth-colleges-find-its-survival-of-the-fittest-1519209001

8 years ago

82 upvotes – 149 comments

Prestigious Science Journals Struggle to Reach Even Average Reliability

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2018.00037/full

8 years ago

82 upvotes – 38 comments

Alcohol use disorder largest risk factor for dementia

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/02/180220183954.htm

8 years ago

80 upvotes – 47 comments

Semantic Import Versioning

https://research.swtch.com/vgo-import

8 years ago

80 upvotes – 37 comments

Designing and evaluating programming languages: Dagstuhl trip report

https://medium.com/bits-and-behavior/designing-learnable-teachable-and-productive-programming-languages-dagstuhl-trip-report-81e41bde84bd

8 years ago

79 upvotes – 21 comments

Floating point error is the least of my worries (2011)

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2011/11/01/floating-point-worries/

8 years ago

77 upvotes – 44 comments

Billy Graham, charismatic evangelist with worldwide following, dies at 99

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/billy-graham-charismatic-evangelist-with-worldwide-following-dies-at-99/2018/02/21/acf3f446-170a-11e8-92c9-376b4fe57ff7_story.html?utm_term=.f1d978c7c605

8 years ago

76 upvotes – 30 comments
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