top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-07-03

Founder to CEO: How to build a great company from the ground up

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZJZbv4J6FZ8Dnb0JuMhJxTnwl-dwqx5xl0s65DE3wO8/edit#heading=h.pdmqf3646hgt

8 years ago

1207 upvotes – 245 comments

Please stop asking me to use the app

https://old.reddit.com/r/beta/comments/8vkzvg/please_stop_asking_me_to_use_the_app/

8 years ago

929 upvotes – 253 comments

Show HN: Termtosvg – Record terminal sessions as SVG animations

https://github.com/nbedos/termtosvg

8 years ago

★ 9.7k Python BSD-3-Clause
767 upvotes – 79 comments

Italy Wikipedia shuts down in protest at proposed EU copyright law

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-44696302

8 years ago

567 upvotes – 242 comments

“Stylish” browser extension steals all your internet history

https://robertheaton.com/2018/07/02/stylish-browser-extension-steals-your-internet-history/

8 years ago

484 upvotes – 157 comments

Google to developers: We take down your extension because we can

https://palant.de/2018/07/03/google-to-developers-we-take-down-your-extension-because-we-can

8 years ago

411 upvotes – 176 comments

Cities don't have to offer huge subsidies to companies like Apple and Amazon

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/jul/03/cities-need-to-stop-selling-out-to-big-tech-companies-theres-a-better-way

8 years ago

363 upvotes – 316 comments

AdamW and Super-convergence is now the fastest way to train neural nets

http://www.fast.ai/2018/07/02/adam-weight-decay/

8 years ago

329 upvotes – 37 comments

PEP 572: Python assignment expressions has been accepted

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/dev-python/egS7A22oJgE/Ar6TfdrQCAAJ

8 years ago

317 upvotes – 351 comments

Booze, Sex, and the Dark Art of Dealmaking in China (2015)

http://www.chinafile.com/reporting-opinion/postcard/bro-code

8 years ago

312 upvotes – 243 comments

The impact of the ‘open’ workspace on human collaboration

http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/373/1753/20170239

8 years ago

303 upvotes – 281 comments

British divers make contact with missing Thai football team

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/02/twelve-boys-missing-in-flooded-thai-cave-found-after-nine-days

8 years ago

276 upvotes – 153 comments

Latest Text of EU Copyright Directive Shows It's Even Worse Than Expected

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180703/01343440162/latest-text-eu-copyright-directive-shows-even-worse-than-expected-must-be-stopped.shtml

8 years ago

253 upvotes – 130 comments

Nancy Pearl’s Rule of 50 for dropping a bad book

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books-and-media/nancy-pearls-rule-of-50-for-dropping-a-bad-book/article565170/

8 years ago

247 upvotes – 173 comments

The Hidden Cost of Touchscreens

https://medium.com/@caseorganic/why-do-we-keep-building-cars-with-touchscreens-alt-the-hidden-lives-of-touchscreens-55faf92799bf

8 years ago

230 upvotes – 163 comments

What Can I Do About Bufferbloat?

https://www.bufferbloat.net/projects/bloat/wiki/What_can_I_do_about_Bufferbloat/

8 years ago

207 upvotes – 109 comments

Polish charity gets huge phone bill thanks to stork

https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-44645217

8 years ago

203 upvotes – 129 comments

Extreme Bitcoin Mining Aids an Unexpected Revolution in Iceland

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-03/extreme-bitcoin-mining-aids-an-unexpected-revolution-in-iceland

8 years ago

174 upvotes – 230 comments

Running JRuby on the Graal JIT

http://blog.headius.com/2018/07/running-jruby-on-graal-jit.html

8 years ago

173 upvotes – 36 comments

Juggalos figured out how to beat facial recognition

https://theoutline.com/post/5172/juggalo-juggalette-facepaint-makeup-hack-beat-facial-recognition-technology

8 years ago

166 upvotes – 132 comments

Fixing bufferbloat on your home network with OpenBSD 6.2 or newer

https://pauladamsmith.com/blog/2018/07/fixing-bufferbloat-on-your-home-network-with-openbsd-6.2-or-newer.html

8 years ago

163 upvotes – 48 comments

Google has been letting app developers read users’ Gmail

https://www.forbes.com/sites/janetwburns/2018/07/02/google-has-been-letting-app-developers-read-users-gmail-unsurprisingly/#453a83404ddd

8 years ago

161 upvotes – 99 comments

Designing an email-only Slack interface

https://kevinlynagh.com/stop-slacking/

8 years ago

155 upvotes – 60 comments

How Property Taxes Shape Our Cities

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2018/6/28/how-property-taxes-shape-our-cities

8 years ago

154 upvotes – 256 comments

Ask HN: Low-maintenance alternatives to Gmail?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17448108

8 years ago

151 upvotes – 149 comments

When Sports Betting Is Legal, the Value of Game Data Soars

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/02/sports/sports-betting.html

8 years ago

137 upvotes – 69 comments

Average annual hours worked per country

https://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=ANHRS#

8 years ago

131 upvotes – 109 comments

Fuzzyset – A Human-Readable Interactive Representation of a Code Library

http://glench.github.io/fuzzyset.js/ui/

8 years ago

131 upvotes – 17 comments

A team of former FBI investigators claims to have identified D.B. Cooper

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/d-b-cooper-investigators-claim-theyve-discovered-skyjackers-identity-693912/

8 years ago

130 upvotes – 73 comments

The final step for huge-page swapping

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/758677/0d004feb1bbc862b/

8 years ago

127 upvotes – 47 comments

Mastodon WTF timeline (2017)

http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/335

8 years ago

124 upvotes – 144 comments

The Surprising Power of Virtue Labeling

http://nautil.us/issue/61/coordinates/why-you-should-tell-everyone-theyre-honest

8 years ago

119 upvotes – 98 comments

The China Ship

https://multimedia.scmp.com/culture/article/spanish-galleon/chapter_01.html

8 years ago

118 upvotes – 41 comments

Micron Chip Sales Banned in China on Patent Case

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-03/micron-chip-sales-banned-in-china-on-patent-case-rival-umc-says

8 years ago

116 upvotes – 55 comments

Show HN: GraphCMS – A GraphQL-based Headless CMS

https://graphcms.com/blog/new-graphcms-ready-for-launch

8 years ago

115 upvotes – 69 comments

The Dangers of Train Yards, Through the Eyes of Railroad Employees

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/train-yard-photos-1960s

8 years ago

111 upvotes – 104 comments

Review of the Purism Librem 13

https://botondballo.wordpress.com/2018/07/03/review-of-the-purism-librem-13/

8 years ago

103 upvotes – 41 comments

Humidity in New Jersey impeding radio transmissions and slowing stock trades

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-03/this-heat-wave-s-so-bad-it-s-even-slowing-down-u-s-stock-trades

8 years ago

102 upvotes – 104 comments

CS50, Harvard’s Largest Class Expands Its Line Up of Courses

https://www.class-central.com/report/harvard-cs50-new-courses

8 years ago

102 upvotes – 15 comments

Why Asian-Americans feel powerless in New York’s elite high schools

https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/why-asian-americans-feel-powerless-in-the-battle-over-new-yorks-elite-high-schools

8 years ago

98 upvotes – 109 comments

Unboxing a vintage gear set

https://www.evilmadscientist.com/2018/unboxing-a-vintage-gear-set/

8 years ago

93 upvotes – 20 comments

JINQ – A minimalistic library for Java inspired from .NET LINQ

https://github.com/VivekRagunathan/JINQ

8 years ago

★ 88 Java
92 upvotes – 48 comments

Speaking in code: hands-free programming

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05588-x

8 years ago

91 upvotes – 37 comments

Uproar as Uganda telecom companies implement mobile money, social media taxes

http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/National/Uproar-telecom-companies-implement-social-media-tax/688334-4640676-tnxx7x/index.html

8 years ago

90 upvotes – 37 comments
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