top 50% 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/

8 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/

8 years ago

541 upvotes – 241 comments

Keeping a plaintext “did” file

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

8 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

8 years ago

456 upvotes – 350 comments

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

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

8 years ago

★ 31.9k TypeScript Apache-2.0
382 upvotes – 103 comments

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

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

8 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

8 years ago

341 upvotes – 224 comments

Alzheimer's risk 10 times lower with herpes medication

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

8 years ago

340 upvotes – 120 comments

Image optimization decreased website's page weight by 62%

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

8 years ago

315 upvotes – 105 comments

Instapaper is going independent

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

8 years ago

304 upvotes – 188 comments

A Parable by Dijkstra (1973)

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

8 years ago

296 upvotes – 102 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

8 years ago

295 upvotes – 386 comments

The Power of Positive People

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

8 years ago

295 upvotes – 146 comments

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

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

8 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

8 years ago

245 upvotes – 130 comments

Happy 25th Anniversary Slackware Linux

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

8 years ago

242 upvotes – 87 comments

El Fuego Viviente Chili Sauce

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

8 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

8 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/

8 years ago

205 upvotes – 40 comments

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

https://github.com/xiph/rav1e

8 years ago

★ 4k Assembly BSD-2-Clause
200 upvotes – 73 comments

Lean Testing or Why Unit Tests Are Worse Than You Think

https://blog.usejournal.com/lean-testing-or-why-unit-tests-are-worse-than-you-think-b6500139a009

8 years ago

199 upvotes – 155 comments

Amazon Prime Day deals 'not what they seem'

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-44846356

8 years ago

193 upvotes – 118 comments

How two strangers set up Dropbox and made billions

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-44766487

8 years ago

191 upvotes – 127 comments

Lwan: A high-performance and scalable web server

https://lwan.ws/

8 years ago

187 upvotes – 51 comments

The LDC D language compiler can now generate WebAssembly

https://wiki.dlang.org/Generating_WebAssembly_with_LDC

8 years ago

165 upvotes – 30 comments

Munro Teardown Shows Tesla Model 3 Solidly Profitable [video]

https://youtube.com/watch?v=pAS-yjWj9DY

8 years ago

162 upvotes – 140 comments

The Turkish city that lives for breakfast

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20180715-the-turkish-city-that-lives-for-breakfast

8 years ago

141 upvotes – 45 comments

In 2017, US had largest decline in CO2 emissions

https://www.aei.org/publication/chart-of-the-day-in-2017-us-had-largest-decline-in-co2-emissions-in-the-world-for-9th-time-this-century/

8 years ago

139 upvotes – 105 comments

GitHub is down

https://status.github.com/messages

8 years ago

136 upvotes – 66 comments

Show HN: Font Playground – Play with variable fonts

https://play.typedetail.com/

8 years ago

131 upvotes – 23 comments

Fakebook: A tool exploring the 2016 U.S. election Facebook ads bought by Russia

https://fathom.info/fakebook/

8 years ago

127 upvotes – 82 comments

The Chinese Government Likely Borrowed More than the US in 2017

http://thesoundingline.com/shock-the-chinese-government-likely-borrowed-more-than-the-us-in-2017/

8 years ago

126 upvotes – 151 comments

Barbie typewriter (2015)

http://www.cryptomuseum.com/crypto/mehano/barbie/

8 years ago

123 upvotes – 50 comments

Almost booting an iOS kernel in QEMU

https://worthdoingbadly.com/xnuqemu/

8 years ago

121 upvotes – 19 comments

Dying Organs Restored to Life in Novel Experiments

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/10/health/mitochondria-transplant-heart-attack.html

8 years ago

120 upvotes – 32 comments

Australia's new e-health platform crashes as people rush to opt-out

https://www.zdnet.com/google-amp/article/my-health-record-systems-collapse-under-more-opt-outs-than-expected

8 years ago

120 upvotes – 109 comments

How should we evaluate progress in AI?

https://meaningness.com/metablog/artificial-intelligence-progress

8 years ago

119 upvotes – 63 comments

To cash in on Kindle Unlimited, a cabal of authors gamed Amazon’s algorithm

https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/16/17566276/cockygate-amazon-kindle-unlimited-algorithm-self-published-romance-novel-cabal

8 years ago

118 upvotes – 47 comments

Improving Connectomics by an Order of Magnitude

https://ai.googleblog.com/2018/07/improving-connectomics-by-order-of.html

8 years ago

114 upvotes – 28 comments

British cave diver considering legal action after 'pedo' attack by Elon Musk

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/jul/16/british-diver-in-thai-cave-rescue-stunned-after-attack-by-elon-musk

8 years ago

110 upvotes – 84 comments

What Makes a Hit

https://www8.gsb.columbia.edu/articles/projects/what-makes-a-hit/

8 years ago

108 upvotes – 52 comments

MacBook Pro 13" Touch Bar 2018 Teardown

https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/MacBook+Pro+13-Inch+Touch+Bar+2018+Teardown/111384

8 years ago

105 upvotes – 82 comments

Perceptrons from memristors

https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.04912

8 years ago

104 upvotes – 4 comments

Scaling: Ethereum’s make or break challenge [video]

https://techcrunch.com/video/in-conversation-with-vitalik-buterin-justin-drake-and-karl-floersch-ethereum-foundation/

8 years ago

103 upvotes – 50 comments

How thick is the atmosphere? A derivation of the Boltzmann distribution

https://gravityandlevity.wordpress.com/2018/07/14/how-thick-is-the-atmosphere-a-derivation-of-the-boltmzann-distribution/amp/

8 years ago

101 upvotes – 20 comments

Think everyone died young in ancient societies? Think again

https://aeon.co/ideas/think-everyone-died-young-in-ancient-societies-think-again

8 years ago

100 upvotes – 70 comments

Ask HN: Should I abandon a functioning SaaS with no paying users?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17540190

8 years ago

92 upvotes – 62 comments

How Israel, in Dark of Night, Torched Its Way to Iran’s Nuclear Secrets

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/15/us/politics/iran-israel-mossad-nuclear.html

8 years ago

89 upvotes – 39 comments

How a Sneaky Furniture Expert Ripped Off the Rich and Tricked Versailles

https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2018/07/how-a-sneaky-furniture-expert-tricked-versailles

8 years ago

87 upvotes – 22 comments
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