top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-07-02

My home lab setup for highly-available Internet

https://github.com/bradfitz/homelab

8 years ago

★ 2k
699 upvotes – 287 comments

Below the Surface – Finds from an archaeological project in the River Amstel

https://belowthesurface.amsterdam/en/vondsten

8 years ago

522 upvotes – 104 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2018)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17442187

8 years ago

425 upvotes – 843 comments

Tim Berners-Lee’s Solid is a platform designed to re-decentralize the web

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/07/the-man-who-created-the-world-wide-web-has-some-regrets

8 years ago

306 upvotes – 109 comments

LibreOffice is now available for Haiku

https://discuss.haiku-os.org/t/libreoffice-is-now-available-for-haiku/6917

8 years ago

298 upvotes – 157 comments

Pipelines – a guided tour of the new IO API in .NET

https://blog.marcgravell.com/2018/07/pipe-dreams-part-1.html

8 years ago

286 upvotes – 26 comments

Rules of optimization

http://www.humus.name/index.php?page=News&ID=383

8 years ago

281 upvotes – 162 comments

The soccer ball that survived the Challenger explosion

http://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/23902766/nasa-astronaut-ellison-onizuka-soccer-ball-survived-challenger-explosion

8 years ago

273 upvotes – 81 comments

Pointers Are More Abstract Than You Might Expect in C

https://stefansf.de/post/pointers-are-more-abstract-than-you-might-expect/

8 years ago

269 upvotes – 257 comments

Blocked by JSConf.eu Twitter account

https://medium.com/@0ndras/banned-from-following-a-conference-e6a277d079ae

8 years ago

264 upvotes – 168 comments

SUSE to be acquired by EQT Partners

https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-project/2018-07/msg00000.html

8 years ago

242 upvotes – 139 comments

The Machine That Builds Itself: The Strengths of the Lisp Languages (2016)

https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.02621

8 years ago

239 upvotes – 318 comments

Perhaps it is simpler to say that Intel was disrupted

https://medium.learningbyshipping.com/intel-disruption-594f806cfc21

8 years ago

238 upvotes – 196 comments

FBI would rather prosecutors drop cases than disclose stingray details (2015)

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/04/fbi-would-rather-prosecutors-drop-cases-than-disclose-stingray-details/

8 years ago

230 upvotes – 53 comments

AT&T promised lower prices after Time Warner merger, but it’s raising them

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/07/att-promised-lower-prices-after-time-warner-merger-its-raising-them-instead/

8 years ago

222 upvotes – 37 comments

With more students boasting flashy GPAs, academic honors lose their luster

https://www.wsj.com/articles/you-graduated-cum-laude-so-did-everyone-else-1530523801

8 years ago

208 upvotes – 266 comments

The advantages of an email-driven Git workflow

https://drewdevault.com/2018/07/02/Email-driven-git.html

8 years ago

204 upvotes – 101 comments

After the Fall: Ten Years After the Crash

https://www.lrb.co.uk/v40/n13/john-lanchester/after-the-fall

8 years ago

203 upvotes – 172 comments

Dear-GitHub: Host Github by itself as an open source project

https://github.com/dear-github/dear-github/issues/304

8 years ago

★ 5.1k
197 upvotes – 73 comments

A bug in Samsung’s default texting app is sending random pics to other people

https://gizmodo.com/a-bug-in-samsungs-default-texting-app-is-sending-random-1827291759

8 years ago

186 upvotes – 84 comments

Ask HN: Who are some unsung heroes in open source that need more support?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17445280

8 years ago

177 upvotes – 118 comments

Surviving as an ‘Old’ in the Tech World

https://www.wired.com/story/surviving-as-an-old-in-the-tech-world/

8 years ago

171 upvotes – 149 comments

Lyft Follows Uber Into Bike-Sharing Lane, Buying Owner of CitiBike

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/02/business/dealbook/lyft-citibike-motivate-bike-share.html

8 years ago

171 upvotes – 156 comments

Facebook relaxed rules to give companies special access to user data

http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-gave-these-61-companies-special-access-to-user-data-2018-7

8 years ago

155 upvotes – 17 comments

Serverless Performance: Cloudflare Workers, Lambda and LambdaEdge

https://blog.cloudflare.com/serverless-performance-comparison-workers-lambda/?hn

8 years ago

155 upvotes – 64 comments

The cold blue light of modern touchscreens poses health problems

https://www.fastcodesign.com/90177573/how-blue-became-techs-favorite-color-and-why-it-shouldnt-be

8 years ago

146 upvotes – 88 comments

A New Angle on L2 Regularization

https://thomas-tanay.github.io/post--L2-regularization/

8 years ago

137 upvotes – 10 comments

Water compresses under a high gradient electric field

https://phys.org/news/2018-07-compresses-high-gradient-electric-field.html

8 years ago

135 upvotes – 48 comments

With EFF’s help, language teacher responds to threat over ‘invalid’ patent

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/07/effs-help-language-teacher-responds-ridiculous-patent-threat

8 years ago

123 upvotes – 64 comments

Is the Alzheimer's “Amyloid Hypothesis” Wrong? (2017)

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/02/alzheimers-amyloid-hypothesis/517185/

8 years ago

122 upvotes – 109 comments

Software developers scan emails of users who sign up for email-based services

https://www.wsj.com/articles/techs-dirty-secret-the-app-developers-sifting-through-your-gmail-1530544442

8 years ago

120 upvotes – 66 comments

It was raining in the data center

https://medium.com/s/story/it-was-raining-in-the-data-center-9e1525c37cc3

8 years ago

119 upvotes – 51 comments

Tesla Q2 2018 Vehicle Production and Deliveries

http://ir.tesla.com/news-releases/news-release-details/tesla-q2-2018-vehicle-production-and-deliveries

8 years ago

117 upvotes – 105 comments

The Importance of Having Your Pain Be Legible

https://status451.com/2018/07/01/the-importance-of-having-your-pain-be-legible/

8 years ago

114 upvotes – 32 comments

How open is too open?

http://ivory.idyll.org/blog/2018-how-open-is-too-open.html

8 years ago

113 upvotes – 41 comments

Conservation of Intent: why A/B tests aren’t as effective as they look

http://andrewchen.co/conservation-of-intent/

8 years ago

108 upvotes – 57 comments

Haskell’s State monad is not a monad (2014)

http://www.cse.chalmers.se/~nicsma/no-state-monad.html

8 years ago

103 upvotes – 69 comments

Ask HN: What highly scalable thing have you built with Go?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17440616

8 years ago

102 upvotes – 75 comments

Ice Poseidon’s Lucrative, Stressful Life as a Live Streamer

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/07/09/ice-poseidons-lucrative-stressful-life-as-a-live-streamer

8 years ago

100 upvotes – 80 comments

Go Fishing

http://theweek.com/articles/780681/fishing

8 years ago

99 upvotes – 93 comments

Adversarial Reprogramming of Neural Networks

https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.11146

8 years ago

98 upvotes – 16 comments

How to make MongoDB not suck for analytics

https://www.scaleapi.com/blog/athena#asdf

8 years ago

94 upvotes – 95 comments

Deal to Return Dell to Public Trading, but Still in Its Founder’s Hands

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/02/business/dealbook/dell-deal-vmware.html

8 years ago

93 upvotes – 37 comments

Spiral: Self-tuning services via real-time machine learning

https://code.fb.com/data-infrastructure/spiral-self-tuning-services-via-real-time-machine-learning/

8 years ago

91 upvotes – 17 comments

Sheep logic (2017)

http://www.epsilontheory.com/sheep-logic/

8 years ago

90 upvotes – 9 comments

First Confirmed Image of Newborn Planet Caught with ESO’s VLT

https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1821/

8 years ago

88 upvotes – 13 comments

Cryptocurrency is driving innovation in the financial sector

https://www.theindy.us/crypto-success-is-driving-innovation-in-the-financial-sector/

8 years ago

88 upvotes – 51 comments

A Privacy Bomb Is About to Be Dropped on the California Economy and the Internet

https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2018/06/a-privacy-bomb-is-about-to-be-dropped-on-the-california-economy-and-the-global-internet.htm#CA

8 years ago

87 upvotes – 37 comments

Felony Charges for 13-Year-Old Who Recorded His Conversation with School Admins

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180623/12433740097/illinois-prosecutor-brings-felony-eavesdropping-charges-against-13-year-old-who-recorded-his-conversation-with-school.shtml

8 years ago

83 upvotes – 34 comments

Unikraft Unikernel Project

https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press-release/xen-project-introduces-unikraft-unikernel-project/

8 years ago

83 upvotes – 14 comments

Ask HN: What popular apps were made exclusively with React Native or Flutter?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17440919

8 years ago

82 upvotes – 55 comments
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