top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-08-17

Why Do Keynote Speakers Keep Suggesting That Improving Security Is Possible?

https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity18/presentation/mickens

8 years ago

24-core CPU and I can’t type an email

https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2018/08/16/24-core-cpu-and-i-cant-type-an-email-part-one/

8 years ago

Show HN: git-bug – Distributed bug tracker embedded in git

https://github.com/MichaelMure/git-bug

8 years ago

★ 9.7k Go GPL-3.0

Faster – Fast key-value store from Microsoft Research

https://github.com/Microsoft/FASTER

8 years ago

★ 6.6k C# MIT

Arm Announces Client CPU Roadmap For Laptops

https://www.arm.com/company/news/2018/08/accelerating-mobile-and-laptop-performance

8 years ago

Pre-sleep treatment with galantamine stimulates lucid dreaming

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0201246

8 years ago

Elon Musk Confronts a Fateful Tweet and an ‘Excruciating’ Year

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/16/business/elon-musk-interview-tesla.html

8 years ago

Show HN: Find recommendations from good people

http://abyjames.com/projects/recommendations/

8 years ago

Python Fire – Generates CLIs from any Python object

https://github.com/google/python-fire

8 years ago

★ 28.1k Python

Ask HN: Simple, beginner friendly ETL / Data Engineering project ideas?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17781762

8 years ago

Two French rivers disappear underground in cracks and sinkholes

http://strangesounds.org/2018/08/french-rivers-disappear-underground-doubs-river-has-disappeared-between-pontarlier-and-morteau-1km-swallowed-up-by-large-cracks-in-the-riverbed.html

8 years ago

Mithril.js – A modern client-side Javascript framework

https://mithril.js.org/

8 years ago

U.S. government seeks Facebook help to wiretap Messenger

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-encryption-exclusive/exclusive-u-s-government-seeks-facebook-help-to-wiretap-messenger-sources-idUSKBN1L226D

8 years ago

Think Julia: How to Think Like a Computer Scientist

https://benlauwens.github.io/ThinkJulia.jl/latest/book.html

8 years ago

John Ousterhout: My favorite sayings

http://web.stanford.edu/~ouster/cgi-bin/sayings.php

8 years ago

How to Write Unmaintainable Code (2017)

https://github.com/Droogans/unmaintainable-code

8 years ago

★ 10.1k

Poland was shockingly liberal during the 1400s

http://www.smashcompany.com/philosophy/poland-was-shockingly-liberal-in-the-1400s

8 years ago

A map of publicly available fruit trees, mostly in Slovakia

http://www.fruitmap.sk/

8 years ago

Why Kakoune – The quest for a better code editor

http://kakoune.org/why-kakoune/why-kakoune.html

8 years ago

Microsoft Closes US Surface Factory, Moves Production to China

https://www.extremetech.com/computing/252743-microsoft-closes-us-surface-factory-moves-production-china

8 years ago

Show HN: Map of Related Books for “Designing Data Intensive Apps”

https://anvaka.github.io/greview/ddia/1/

8 years ago

Napoleon Was the Best General Ever

https://towardsdatascience.com/napoleon-was-the-best-general-ever-and-the-math-proves-it-86efed303eeb

8 years ago

Why Facebook is losing the war on hate speech in Myanmar

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/myanmar-facebook-hate/

8 years ago

How to Read 100s of Millions of Records per Second from a Single Disk

https://clemenswinter.com/2018/08/13/how-read-100s-of-millions-of-records-per-second-from-a-single-disk/

8 years ago

A Sound Card Before Its Time

http://www.os2museum.com/wp/a-sound-card-before-its-time/

8 years ago

VigNAT: A Formally Verified Performant NAT

https://vignat.github.io/

8 years ago

The Secret to Ant Efficiency Is Idleness

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/16/science/ants-worker-idleness.html

8 years ago

The Math Required for Machine Learning

https://medium.com/technomancy/the-math-required-for-machine-learning-af0d90db3903

8 years ago

History of T (2001)

http://www.paulgraham.com/thist.html

8 years ago

The City Born in a Day: The Origin Story of Oklahoma City

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/08/how-oklahoma-city-was-born-in-a-day.html

8 years ago

How a tiny hospital used AI to lower costs and improve patient outcomes

https://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/flagler-hospital-uses-ai-create-clinical-pathways-enhance-care-and-slash-costs

8 years ago

MinUnit – A minimal unit testing framework for C (2002)

http://www.jera.com/techinfo/jtns/jtn002.html

8 years ago

They’re Falsely Accused of Shoplifting, but Retailers Demand Penalties

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/17/business/falsely-accused-of-shoplifting-but-retailers-demand-they-pay.html

8 years ago

Amiga Graphics Archive

http://amiga.lychesis.net/

8 years ago

Press leaks during Google's all-hands meeting enrage insiders

https://www.businessinsider.com/google-insiders-press-leaks-at-meeting-backfired-gave-sergey-brin-moral-high-ground-china-2018-8

8 years ago

With Undefined Behavior, Anything Is Possible

https://raphlinus.github.io/programming/rust/2018/08/17/undefined-behavior.html

8 years ago

The Great Chinese Art Heist

https://www.gq.com/story/the-great-chinese-art-heist

8 years ago

Artificial Intelligence Still Isn’t All That Smart

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-08-16/smart-machines-won-t-be-ready-to-do-complex-jobs-anytime-soon

8 years ago

The nightmarishly complex wheat genome finally yields to scientists

https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/08/give-us-this-day-our-daily-bread-wheat-genome/

8 years ago

Automatic Generation of a Hybrid Query Execution Engine

https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.05448

8 years ago

Ask HN: What software should I use to write a textbook?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17781569

8 years ago

An open-source standards and software project for intimate hardware (maybe NSFW)

https://buttplug.io/

8 years ago

Myths about /dev/urandom (2014)

https://www.2uo.de/myths-about-urandom

8 years ago

Ask HN: What are your favorite long-form nonfiction websites?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17784547

8 years ago

Show HN: I made wits.io where writers can earn money with book summaries

https://www.wits.io/contribute

8 years ago

Symantec Distrust in Firefox Nightly 63

https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2018/08/14/symantec-distrust-in-firefox-nightly-63

8 years ago

“The DNS Camel”, or, the rise in DNS complexity

https://blog.powerdns.com/2018/03/22/the-dns-camel-or-the-rise-in-dns-complexit/

8 years ago

Publishing an iOS App with ClojureScript and React Native

http://increasinglyfunctional.com/2018/08/17/i-published-an-ios-app-with-clojurescript-and-react-native.html

8 years ago

African palm oil expansion is bad news for the continent’s primates

https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/08/african-palm-oil-expansion-is-bad-news-for-the-continents-primates/

8 years ago

An Online Magazine You Can’t Read Online

http://nautil.us/issue/63/horizons/the-online-magazine-you-cant-read-online

8 years ago

M4 (computer language)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M4_(computer_language)

8 years ago

Lenses for philosophers

https://julesh.com/2018/08/16/lenses-for-philosophers/

8 years ago