top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-07-09

Show HN: Browsh – A modern, text-based browser

https://www.brow.sh

8 years ago

Nissan Admits Internal Emissions-Test Results were Falsified

https://www.wsj.com/articles/nissan-admits-emission-test-data-was-falsified-1531139749

8 years ago

Simple, correct, fast: in that order

https://drewdevault.com/2018/07/09/Simple-correct-fast.html

8 years ago

Half of ICOs Die Within Four Months After Token Sales Finalized

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-09/half-of-icos-die-within-four-months-after-token-sales-finalized

8 years ago

Illegal Production and Use of Banned CFC-11 in China's Foam Blowing Industry

https://eia-global.org/reports/20180709-blowing-it-illegal-production-and-use-of-banned-cfc-11-in-chinas-foam-blowing-industry

8 years ago

How to Analyze Billions of Records per Second on a Single Desktop PC

https://clemenswinter.com/2018/07/09/how-to-analyze-billions-of-records-per-second-on-a-single-desktop-pc/

8 years ago

Choice of search engine on Android nuked by “Anonymous Coward” (2009)

https://android.googlesource.com/platform/packages/apps/GlobalSearch/+/592150ac00086400415afe936d96f04d3be3ba0c

8 years ago

What industry has the highest revenue per employee?

https://craft.co/reports/where-do-the-most-productive-employees-work

8 years ago

Apple’s Shortcuts will flip the switch on Siri’s potential

https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/08/shortcuts-will-flip-the-switch-for-apple-on-siris-potential-just-not-how-you-think/

8 years ago

NLP's ImageNet Moment: From Shallow to Deep Pre-Training

https://thegradient.pub/nlp-imagenet/

8 years ago

Glow: Better Reversible Generative Models

https://blog.openai.com/glow/

8 years ago

One in three fish caught never makes it to the plate – UN report

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jul/09/one-in-three-fish-caught-never-makes-it-to-the-plate-un-report

8 years ago

Research-backed strategies for better learning

https://stories.sagefy.org/eight-big-ideas-of-learning-tl-dr-edition-95302c848d87

8 years ago

Vaporwave’s Mini-Boom of Floppy Disk Releases

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/vaporwave-floppy-disk-trend-666085/

8 years ago

Why Does Your Company Deserve More Money?

https://blog.ycombinator.com/why-does-your-company-deserve-more-money/

8 years ago

Making a low level Linux debugger, part 3: our first program

https://blog.asrpo.com/making_a_low_level_debugger_part_3

8 years ago

Uber Will Rent Scooters Through Its App in Partnership with Lime

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-09/uber-will-rent-scooters-through-its-app-in-partnership-with-lime

8 years ago

The seeming irrationality of a well-tuned emotional system

https://qz.com/1313944/being-rational-all-the-time-isnt-going-to-do-you-any-favors/

8 years ago

ARM: “RISC-V Architecture: Understand the Facts”

https://riscv-basics.com/

8 years ago

High-power thermoelectric generator utilises thermal difference of only 5°C

http://www.newelectronics.co.uk/electronics-news/high-power-thermoelectric-generator-utilises-thermal-difference-of-only-5c/175937/

8 years ago

Improving the fast inverse square root (2010)

http://rrrola.wz.cz/inv_sqrt.html

8 years ago

Chrome developer tools to master

https://apsdehal.in/blog/chrome-developer-tools-to-master

8 years ago

What do Stanford CS PhD students think of their PhD program? [pdf]

https://archive.org/download/phd_student_survey_summary_report_0a5c/phd_student_survey_summary_report_0a5c.pdf

8 years ago

DigitalOcean’s quarterly report on developer trends in the cloud

https://www.digitalocean.com/currents/june-2018/

8 years ago

An app that reads Wikipedia to teach you about cities you’re driving through

https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/9/17549668/app-wikipedia-location-facts

8 years ago

A man who paves India's roads with old plastic

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/09/the-man-who-paves-indias-roads-with-old-plastic

8 years ago

Saudi Aramco’s $2T Zombie IPO

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-07/saudi-aramco-s-2-trillion-zombie-ipo

8 years ago

Home insulation in China blamed for rise in emissions of ozone-depleting gas

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-44738952

8 years ago

Heatwave unveils ancient settlements in Wales

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-44746447

8 years ago

Reinforcement learning’s foundational flaw

https://thegradient.pub/why-rl-is-flawed/

8 years ago

Show HN: Clothes shopping app UI built in React Native

https://github.com/ATF19/react-native-shop-ui

8 years ago

★ 1k JavaScript GPL-3.0

Launch HN: Snark AI (YC S18) – Distributed Low-Cost GPUs for Deep Learning

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17491604

8 years ago

Towards an optical FPGA – Programmable silicon photonic circuits [pdf]

https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1807/1807.01656.pdf

8 years ago

Google Is Building a City of the Future – Would Anyone Want to Live There?

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/06/29/google-city-technology-toronto-canada-218841

8 years ago

Who wants to be Intel’s new CEO?

https://mondaynote.com/intels-toxic-culture-1b79905adf45

8 years ago

Lunar mystery solved by recovery of lost Apollo mission tapes

https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/09/us/apollo-moon-landings-study/index.html

8 years ago

Undershoot: Parsing theory in 1965

http://jeffreykegler.github.io/Ocean-of-Awareness-blog/individual/2018/07/knuth_1965_2.html

8 years ago

Historic Tale Construction Kit – Bayeux

http://htck.github.io/bayeux

8 years ago

The Effects of CPU Turbo: 768X Stddev

https://www.alexgallego.org/perf/compiler/explorer/flatbuffers/smf/2018/06/30/effects-cpu-turbo.html

8 years ago

Fun with Macros: If-Let and When-Let

http://stevelosh.com/blog/2018/07/fun-with-macros-if-let/

8 years ago

CeramicSpeed’s Driven Concept Might Become the Most Efficient Bicycle Drivetrain

https://www.bicycling.com/bikes-gear/a22092182/ceramicspeeds-driven-concept-might-become-the-worlds-most-efficient-drivetrain/

8 years ago

Meet Your Mappers: A tool to find OpenStreetMap contributors near you

https://ma.rtijn.org/2018/07/08/meet-your-mappers.html

8 years ago

Cambridge launches UK’s first quantum network

https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/cambridge-launches-uks-first-quantum-network

8 years ago

AT&T’s Troubling Plan to Change HBO

https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/07/att-changing-hbo/564635/?single_page=true

8 years ago

DIA Study: Warp Drive, Dark Energy, and Manipulation of Extra Dimensions (2010)

https://publicintelligence.net/dia-warp-drives/

8 years ago

The EPA Is Hiding Proof That a Widely Used Chemical Causes Leukemia

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/07/the-epa-is-hiding-proof-that-formaldehyde-causes-leukemia.html

8 years ago

Lay Out Your Code Like You'd Lay Out Your House

https://www.frederikcreemers.be/posts/code-layout/

8 years ago

Oasis Labs: privacy-first high-performance cloud computing on blockchain

https://www.oasislabs.com/blog/

8 years ago

Azure Storage: How fast are disks?

https://www.grsplus.com/blog/2018/07/azure-storage-how-fast-are-disks/

8 years ago

Declassified videos of atmospheric nuclear tests (2017)

https://www.llnl.gov/news/llnl-releases-newly-declassified-test-videos

8 years ago

Android Emulator – AMD Processor and Hyper-V Support

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2018/07/android-emulator-amd-processor-hyper-v.html

8 years ago

Timehop Security Incident, July 4th, 2018

https://www.timehop.com/security

8 years ago

Human-Centered AI: Building Trust, Democracy and Human Rights by Design

https://medium.com/stanfords-gdpi/human-centered-ai-building-trust-democracy-and-human-rights-by-design-2fc14a0b48af

8 years ago

From shallow to deep learning in fraud

https://eng.lyft.com/from-shallow-to-deep-learning-in-fraud-9dafcbcef743

8 years ago

Wordmesh: Using t-SNE and word2vec to generate clustered wordclouds

https://github.com/mukund109/word-mesh/

8 years ago

★ 442 Python MIT