top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-06-28

Apple Engineers Its Own Downfall with the Macbook Pro Keyboard

https://ifixit.org/blog/10229/macbook-pro-keyboard/

8 years ago

1183 upvotes – 897 comments

Amazon buys PillPack, an online pharmacy, for just under $1B

https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/28/amazon-buys-pillpack-an-online-pharmacy-that-was-rumored-to-be-talking-to-walmart/

8 years ago

576 upvotes – 318 comments

How not to structure database-backed web apps: performance bugs in the wild

https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/06/28/how-_not_-to-structure-your-database-backed-web-applications-a-study-of-performance-bugs-in-the-wild/

8 years ago

486 upvotes – 308 comments

Django Newbie Mistakes

https://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/NewbieMistakes

8 years ago

431 upvotes – 221 comments

Marketing Firm Exactis Leaked a Personal Info Database with 340M Records

https://www.wired.com/story/exactis-database-leak-340-million-records/

8 years ago

429 upvotes – 294 comments

Twitter Will Show Who Pays for Ads and How Much They Spend

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-28/twitter-will-show-who-pays-for-ads-and-how-much-they-spend

8 years ago

416 upvotes – 89 comments

Microsoft Releases 125M Building Footprints in the US as Open Data

https://blogs.bing.com/maps/2018-06/microsoft-releases-125-million-building-footprints-in-the-us-as-open-data?PC=EMMX01

8 years ago

405 upvotes – 72 comments

Keras vs PyTorch

https://deepsense.ai/keras-or-pytorch/

8 years ago

385 upvotes – 117 comments

We Should Be Building Cities for People, Not Cars (2016)

http://devonzuegel.com/post/we-should-be-building-cities-for-people-not-cars

8 years ago

380 upvotes – 335 comments

Python 3 at Facebook

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/758159/f1f631e1535ab9d6/

8 years ago

339 upvotes – 98 comments

How to Make Everything Ourselves: Open Modular Hardware

http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2012/12/how-to-make-everything-ourselves-open-modular-hardware.html

8 years ago

319 upvotes – 76 comments

BBC releases its computer history archive

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/internet/entries/94265de9-a16a-4daa-b128-3bbe01e1b10c

8 years ago

274 upvotes – 60 comments

Test-Driven Web Development with Python – The Book

https://www.obeythetestinggoat.com/pages/book.html#toc

8 years ago

257 upvotes – 42 comments

A Bank for Student Hackers

https://medium.com/hackclub/a-bank-for-student-hackers-e5d894ea5375

8 years ago

256 upvotes – 41 comments

Squeezed: Why Our Families Can’t Afford America

https://nytimes.com/2018/06/27/books/review-squeezed-alissa-quart.html

8 years ago

251 upvotes – 450 comments

Former Equifax Manager Charged with Insider Trading

https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2018-115

8 years ago

247 upvotes – 143 comments

The Strange Brain of the World’s Greatest Solo Climber (2016)

http://nautil.us/issue/61/coordinates/the-strange-brain-of-the-worlds-greatest-solo-climber-rp

8 years ago

240 upvotes – 113 comments

Southern Europe Has Not Seen Net Job Creation in over a Decade

http://thesoundingline.com/southern-europe-has-not-seen-net-job-creation-in-over-a-decade/

8 years ago

225 upvotes – 198 comments

‘Everyone is breaking the law right now’: GDPR compliance is falling short

https://digiday.com/media/everyone-breaking-law-right-now-gdpr-compliance-efforts-falling-short/

8 years ago

217 upvotes – 216 comments

OpenPDF – A free Java library for creating and editing PDF files

https://github.com/LibrePDF/OpenPDF/

8 years ago

★ 4.2k Java
213 upvotes – 48 comments

AI Can Detect Illnesses in Human Breath

https://news.developer.nvidia.com/ai-can-smell-illnesses-in-human-breath/

8 years ago

210 upvotes – 74 comments

Gentoo GitHub Organization hacked

https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-announce/message/dc23d48d2258e1ed91599a8091167002

8 years ago

210 upvotes – 45 comments

Harlan Ellison has died

https://variety.com/2018/tv/news/harlan-ellison-dead-dies-star-trek-1202861048/

8 years ago

187 upvotes – 45 comments

Most Americans Think Facebook and Twitter Censor Their Political Views

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-28/most-americans-think-social-media-giants-censor-their-views

8 years ago

183 upvotes – 379 comments

Launch HN: Brex (YC W17) – Corporate Credit Card for Startups

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17418813

8 years ago

183 upvotes – 120 comments

The Brief, Incredibly Poetic Life of Bañec Hazyblockades: A Dwarf Fortress Diary

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2018/06/28/the-brief-and-incredibly-poetic-life-of-banec-hazyblockades-a-dwarf-fortress-diary/

8 years ago

180 upvotes – 34 comments

Facebook lifts cryptocurrency ban amid rumours of Coinbase takeover

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/facebook-cryptocurrency-ban-coinbase-bitcoin-exchange-a8418841.html

8 years ago

178 upvotes – 90 comments

Why athletes need a ‘quiet eye’

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20180627-is-quiet-eye-the-secret-to-success-for-athletes

8 years ago

174 upvotes – 70 comments

That time I had Steve Jobs keynote at Unix Expo

https://www.cake.co/conversations/rZXhqtP/that-time-i-had-steve-jobs-keynote-at-unix-expo

8 years ago

173 upvotes – 40 comments

Switzerland's mysterious fourth language

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20180627-switzerlands-mysterious-fourth-language

8 years ago

162 upvotes – 124 comments

State of Multicore OCaml [pdf]

http://kcsrk.info/slides/mcocaml_gallium.pdf

8 years ago

160 upvotes – 103 comments

A Peek Inside the Niantic Real World AR Platform

https://nianticlabs.com/blog/nianticrealworldplatform/

8 years ago

153 upvotes – 39 comments

The Constrained Directional Enhancement Filter in AV1

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/06/av1-next-generation-video-the-constrained-directional-enhancement-filter/

8 years ago

151 upvotes – 24 comments

Show HN: Shotsnapp – Create beautiful device mockup presentation

https://shotsnapp.com/

8 years ago

146 upvotes – 36 comments

Content Snare: Leaving a job to build a SaaS business

https://www.failory.com/mistakes/content-snare

8 years ago

146 upvotes – 46 comments

California Unanimously Passes Historic Privacy Bill

https://www.wired.com/story/california-unanimously-passes-historic-privacy-bill

8 years ago

141 upvotes – 49 comments

Classic 1984 video game Robot Odyssey available online

https://www.robotodyssey.online/

8 years ago

135 upvotes – 24 comments

PoC||GTFO-18 [pdf]

https://www.alchemistowl.org/pocorgtfo/pocorgtfo18.pdf

8 years ago

134 upvotes – 9 comments

Kubernetes 1.11 includes In-Cluster Service Load Balancing and CoreDNS

https://kubernetes.io/blog/2018/06/27/kubernetes-1.11-release-announcement/

8 years ago

131 upvotes – 49 comments

Crypto Coin Graveyard Fills Up Fast as ICOs Meet Their Demise

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-28/crypto-coin-graveyard-fills-up-fast-as-icos-meet-their-demise?srnd=cryptocurriences

8 years ago

130 upvotes – 56 comments

Apple, Samsung Declare Peace

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-27/apple-samsung-settle-patent-infringement-dispute

8 years ago

127 upvotes – 59 comments

How 'DevOps' Is Killing the Developer (2014)

https://jeffknupp.com/blog/2014/04/15/how-devops-is-killing-the-developer/

8 years ago

121 upvotes – 140 comments

Scottish bookstore lets people run the shop while renting an apartment upstairs

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/28/books/open-book-wigtown-bookstore.html

8 years ago

116 upvotes – 47 comments

New GPU-Accelerated Supercomputers Change the Balance of Power on the TOP500

https://www.top500.org/news/new-gpu-accelerated-supercomputers-change-the-balance-of-power-on-the-top500/

8 years ago

113 upvotes – 70 comments

How to Clean Your Laptop

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/26/smarter-living/how-to-clean-your-filthy-disgusting-laptop.html

8 years ago

109 upvotes – 61 comments

Cool Retro Terminal

http://diego-pacheco.blogspot.com/2017/07/cool-retro-terminal.html

8 years ago

107 upvotes – 33 comments

Reasoning, and What It Is To Be Rational (2000)

http://www.akat.com/reasoning.htm

8 years ago

99 upvotes – 49 comments

Monitoring 9600 banks at scale

https://blog.plaid.com/scaling-a-monitoring-platform/

8 years ago

96 upvotes – 13 comments

SICP Goodness – Why you don't need looping constructs

https://www.lvguowei.me/post/sicp-goodness-looping/

8 years ago

93 upvotes – 126 comments

Friendly web development tutorials for complete beginners

https://internetingishard.com/

8 years ago

88 upvotes – 19 comments

New Photon Release of Eclipse IDE Ships with Full Rust Support

https://www.eclipse.org/org/press-release/20180627_new-photon-release-of-eclipse-ide-ships-with-full-rust-support.php

8 years ago

79 upvotes – 43 comments
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