top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-07-17

Assembly Language for Beginners [pdf]

https://yurichev.com/writings/AL4B-EN.pdf

8 years ago

672 upvotes – 94 comments

Riot Games Approach to Anti-Cheat

https://engineering.riotgames.com/news/riots-approach-anti-cheat

8 years ago

557 upvotes – 399 comments

My adventures getting Disney’s Moana island scene to render well with Pbrt

http://pharr.org/matt/blog/2018/07/16/moana-island-pbrt-all.html

8 years ago

463 upvotes – 45 comments

Linux touchpad like a Macbook: goal worth pursuing?

https://williambharding.com/blog/technology/linux-touchpad-like-a-macbook-goal-worth-pursuing/

8 years ago

433 upvotes – 336 comments

Getting to Go: Garbage collection and runtime issues

https://blog.golang.org/ismmkeynote

8 years ago

368 upvotes – 131 comments

Stripe Press

https://press.stripe.com/

8 years ago

322 upvotes – 131 comments

Backblaze Durability Is Eleven 9s – And Why It Doesn’t Matter

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/cloud-storage-durability/

8 years ago

319 upvotes – 184 comments

Chinese Researchers Achieve Quantum Entanglement Record

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/chinese-researchers-achieve-stunning-quantum-entanglement-record/

8 years ago

305 upvotes – 140 comments

Google Cloud Global Loadbalancer Outage

https://status.cloud.google.com/incident/cloud-networking/18012

8 years ago

299 upvotes – 131 comments

‘Star Citizen’ Court Case Reveals the Messy Reality of Crowdfunding a $200M Game

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ne5n7b/star-citizen-court-documents-reveal-the-messy-reality-of-crowdfunding-a-dollar200-million-game

8 years ago

296 upvotes – 326 comments

14,400-year-old flatbread remains that predate known agriculture

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/worlds-oldest-bread

8 years ago

291 upvotes – 162 comments

I’m leaving China

http://www.baldingsworld.com/2018/07/17/balding-out/

8 years ago

285 upvotes – 205 comments

What travel insurance really means

https://medium.com/@ryanbadger/how-insure-and-go-left-me-with-a-20-000-bill-d353491c6386

8 years ago

274 upvotes – 176 comments

U.S. to make More Drugs Easily Available, Cutting Role Doctors Play

https://www.bloombergquint.com/business/2018/07/17/u-s-to-make-more-drugs-easily-available-cutting-role-docs-play

8 years ago

271 upvotes – 294 comments

A Short Guide to Hard Problems

https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-short-guide-to-hard-problems-20180716/

8 years ago

213 upvotes – 17 comments

Learning advanced math by drawing, playing with beach balls and knitting

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/what-knitting-can-teach-you-about-math-180969637?no-ist

8 years ago

209 upvotes – 41 comments

The Absolute Denial of Shit

https://openspace.sfmoma.org/2018/07/the-absolute-denial-of-%F0%9F%92%A9/

8 years ago

202 upvotes – 178 comments

Federal Reserve chair says decline in workers' share of profits 'very troubling'

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-federal-reserve-powell-20180717-story.html#

8 years ago

202 upvotes – 272 comments

How SSH port became 22

https://www.ssh.com/ssh/port

8 years ago

197 upvotes – 95 comments

Health Insurers Are Vacuuming Up Details About Customers

https://www.propublica.org/article/health-insurers-are-vacuuming-up-details-about-you-and-it-could-raise-your-rates

8 years ago

193 upvotes – 253 comments

Suspend for the X1 Carbon 2018 on Linux

https://github.com/fiji-flo/x1carbon2018s3

8 years ago

★ 164 Shell Unlicense
189 upvotes – 123 comments

Interview with Sam Altman from the High Growth Handbook

https://blog.ycombinator.com/interview-with-sam-altman-from-the-high-growth-handbook/

8 years ago

188 upvotes – 68 comments

Tutorial: Designing a GraphQL API

https://gist.github.com/swalkinshaw/3a33e2d292b60e68fcebe12b62bbb3e2

8 years ago

180 upvotes – 12 comments

Love letter to Vue

http://www.evaristesys.com/blog/love-letter-to-vue/

8 years ago

174 upvotes – 111 comments

Prose: a Golang library for text processing

https://github.com/jdkato/prose

8 years ago

★ 3k Go MIT
167 upvotes – 3 comments

Openbook social network

https://www.open-book.org

8 years ago

167 upvotes – 155 comments

Darpa Plans a Major Remake of U.S. Electronics

https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/computing/hardware/darpas-planning-a-major-remake-of-us-electronics-pay-attention.html

8 years ago

165 upvotes – 67 comments

Why punk keeps connecting people across space and time

https://www.huckmag.com/art-and-culture/punk-then-and-now-cbgb-godlis-east-la-teens/

8 years ago

161 upvotes – 125 comments

Banner ads on CNN.com contain keyloggers

https://twitter.com/brannondorsey/status/1019253914133286912

8 years ago

157 upvotes – 79 comments

Credit card thieves using free-to-play apps to launder their ill-gotten gains

https://kromtech.com/blog/security-center/digital-laundry

8 years ago

148 upvotes – 91 comments

The intolerable rise of perfectionism

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/jul/17/my-brain-feels-like-its-been-punched-the-intolerable-rise-of-perfectionism

8 years ago

142 upvotes – 99 comments

Coinbase reportedly gets approval from US regulators for tokenized securities

https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/16/coinbase-reportedly-gets-approval-from-u-s-regulators-to-start-listing-tokenized-securities/

8 years ago

138 upvotes – 41 comments

Reproducible machine learning with PyTorch and Quilt

https://blog.paperspace.com/reproducible-data-with-pytorch-and-quilt/

8 years ago

135 upvotes – 26 comments

Amazon EC2 Instance Update – Faster Processors and More Memory

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-ec2-instance-update-faster-processors-and-more-memory/

8 years ago

131 upvotes – 47 comments

MacOS VPN architecture from System Preferences down to nesessionmanager

https://blog.timac.org/2018/0717-macos-vpn-architecture/

8 years ago

128 upvotes – 47 comments

Netflix shares decline after reporting disappointing subscriber growth

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-44854632

8 years ago

128 upvotes – 183 comments

Participle: A parser library for Go

https://github.com/alecthomas/participle

8 years ago

★ 3.8k Go MIT
128 upvotes – 26 comments

Show HN: CloudForecast.io – Daily email report to help you monitor your AWS cost

https://cloudforecast.io

8 years ago

125 upvotes – 27 comments

Zoox and Its $800M Robo Taxi Dream [video]

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-07-17/robot-taxi-startup-zoox-has-800-million-and-a-wild-pitch

8 years ago

124 upvotes – 120 comments

Intel’s High-End Cascade Lake CPUs to Support 3.84 TB of Memory per Socket

https://www.anandtech.com/show/13059/intels-upcoming-cascade-lake-cpus-to-support-384-tb-of-memory

8 years ago

117 upvotes – 91 comments

Designing a Good DSL

http://tonsky.me/blog/dsl/

8 years ago

115 upvotes – 34 comments

Ask HN: Going to lead a struggling dev team in a different culture, now what?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17550532

8 years ago

114 upvotes – 74 comments

Parcel: Fast, zero configuration web application bundler

https://github.com/parcel-bundler/parcel

8 years ago

★ 44k JavaScript MIT
112 upvotes – 91 comments

WordTsar – A Wordstar clone

http://wordtsar.ca/

8 years ago

108 upvotes – 85 comments

Did Qatar pay a billion dollar ransom?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-44660369?

8 years ago

108 upvotes – 52 comments

Liberapay is in trouble

https://medium.com/liberapay-blog/liberapay-is-in-trouble-b58b40714d82

8 years ago

102 upvotes – 71 comments

Georges Lemaître, the Belgian priest who discovered the universe is expanding

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/georges-lemaitre-priest-universe-expanding-big-bang-hubble-space-cosmic-egg-astronomer-physics-a8449926.html

8 years ago

101 upvotes – 23 comments

Are “jets” a good idea? (2017)

http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/5482

8 years ago

97 upvotes – 75 comments

IBM seeks $167M from Groupon in dispute over early internet patents

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ibm-groupon-lawsuit/ibm-seeks-167-million-from-groupon-in-dispute-over-early-internet-patents-idUSKBN1K62VA

8 years ago

95 upvotes – 32 comments

Designing the Perfect Date and Time Picker

https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2017/07/designing-perfect-date-time-picker/

8 years ago

93 upvotes – 42 comments

China expands surveillance of sewage to police illegal drug use

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05728-3

8 years ago

93 upvotes – 36 comments

Ask HN: Researchers: What practical research hasn't been commercialized?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17550754

8 years ago

90 upvotes – 78 comments

Lily: An interpreted language with a focus on expressiveness and type safety

http://lily-lang.org

8 years ago

89 upvotes – 51 comments

Build a Realtime Serverless GraphQL API with Websockets on AWS

https://andrewgriffithsonline.com/blog/serverless-websockets-on-aws/

8 years ago

88 upvotes – 9 comments

Oo7: Low-Overhead Defense Against Spectre Attacks

https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.05843

8 years ago

80 upvotes – 10 comments

Google Cloud Platform is down

https://cloud.google.com

8 years ago

76 upvotes – 17 comments
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