top 20 hacker news stories for 2018-07-16

Prime Down: Amazon’s sale day turns into fail day

https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/16/prime-down-amazons-sale-day-turns-into-fail-day/

7 years ago

646 upvotes – 360 comments

Why Gov.uk content should be published in HTML and not PDF

https://gds.blog.gov.uk/2018/07/16/why-gov-uk-content-should-be-published-in-html-and-not-pdf/

7 years ago

541 upvotes – 241 comments

Keeping a plaintext “did” file

http://theptrk.com/2018/07/11/did-txt-file/

7 years ago

507 upvotes – 195 comments

Twitch streamers who spend years broadcasting to no one

https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/16/17569520/twitch-streamers-zero-viewers-motivation-community

7 years ago

456 upvotes – 350 comments

Show HN: Hasura – Fast, instant GraphQL APIs on Postgres

https://github.com/hasura/graphql-engine

7 years ago

★ 31.9kTypeScriptApache-2.0
382 upvotes – 103 comments

Cloudflare, Mozilla, Fastly, and Apple Working on Encrypted SNI

https://twitter.com/grittygrease/status/1018566026320019457

7 years ago

343 upvotes – 145 comments

LIDL cancels SAP introduction after spending 500M Euro

https://www.br.de/nachrichten/lidl-setzt-500-millionen-euro-in-den-sand-100.html

7 years ago

341 upvotes – 224 comments

Alzheimer's risk 10 times lower with herpes medication

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/322463.php

7 years ago

340 upvotes – 120 comments

Image optimization decreased website's page weight by 62%

https://freshman.tech/image-optimisation/

7 years ago

315 upvotes – 105 comments

Instapaper is going independent

http://blog.instapaper.com/post/175953870856

7 years ago

304 upvotes – 188 comments

A Parable by Dijkstra (1973)

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD05xx/EWD594.html

7 years ago

296 upvotes – 102 comments

The Power of Positive People

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/10/well/the-power-of-positive-people.html

7 years ago

295 upvotes – 146 comments

Jeff Bezos Becomes the Richest Man in Modern History, Topping $150B

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-16/happy-prime-day-jeff-amazon-ceo-s-net-worth-tops-150-billion

7 years ago

295 upvotes – 386 comments

Potential DNA damage from CRISPR has been ‘seriously underestimated’ study finds

https://www.statnews.com/2018/07/16/crispr-potential-dna-damage-underestimated/

7 years ago

288 upvotes – 49 comments

Goldman Sachs model to predict World Cup game results didn’t come close

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-07-14/world-cup-goldman-sachs-gs-model-got-it-all-wrong

7 years ago

245 upvotes – 130 comments

Happy 25th Anniversary Slackware Linux

http://www.slackware.com/announce/1.0.php

7 years ago

242 upvotes – 87 comments

El Fuego Viviente Chili Sauce

https://github.com/aweijnitz/recipe-el_fuego_viviente

7 years ago

★ 1.7k
228 upvotes – 127 comments

Judge Orders Los Angeles Times to Delete Part of Published Article

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/15/us/judge-los-angeles-times-delete-article.html

7 years ago

218 upvotes – 155 comments

Supercharging the Git Commit Graph IV: Bloom Filters

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/devops/2018/07/16/super-charging-the-git-commit-graph-iv-bloom-filters/

7 years ago

205 upvotes – 40 comments

Rav1e: An experimental AV1 video encoder, designed to be fast and safe

https://github.com/xiph/rav1e

7 years ago

★ 4kAssemblyBSD-2-Clause
200 upvotes – 73 comments
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