For the best experience on desktop, install the Chrome extension to track your reading on news.ycombinator.com
Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit | history | 2017-11-17register
Stories from November 17, 2017
Go back a day, month, or year. Go forward a day, month, or year.
1.
Microsoft and GitHub team up to take Git virtual file system to macOS, Linux (arstechnica.com)
796 points by dmmalam on Nov 17, 2017 | 218 comments
2.
Tesla Roadster (tesla.com)
1261 points by franl on Nov 17, 2017 | 708 comments
3.
Coders who trade: Wall Street designs its staff for the future (bloomberg.com)
366 points by chollida1 on Nov 17, 2017 | 185 comments
4.
Orcas have learned how to drown great white sharks (theguardian.com)
404 points by _lbaq on Nov 17, 2017 | 102 comments
5.
Brave expands Basic Attention Token platform to YouTube (basicattentiontoken.org)
321 points by Helloworldboy on Nov 17, 2017 | 267 comments
6.
Tesla Semi (tesla.com)
922 points by runesoerensen on Nov 17, 2017 | 554 comments
7.
$3 Trillion in Forgotten Debt (bloomberg.com)
229 points by gscott on Nov 17, 2017 | 63 comments
8.
Scaling Postgres with Read Replicas and Using WAL to Counter Stale Reads (brandur.org)
221 points by craigkerstiens on Nov 17, 2017 | 21 comments
9.
Microsoft Has Manually Patched Their Equation Editor Executable (0patch.blogspot.com)
553 points by dielel on Nov 17, 2017 | 159 comments
10.
Is software development really a dead-end job after age 35-40? (quora.com)
580 points by rbanffy on Nov 17, 2017 | 393 comments
11.
Introduction to Computer Organization: ARM Assembly Language on the Raspberry Pi (sonoma.edu)
358 points by ingve on Nov 16, 2017 | 35 comments
12.
Germany bans children's smartwatches (bbc.co.uk)
365 points by watbe on Nov 17, 2017 | 194 comments
13.
SQL Operations Studio (github.com/microsoft)
299 points by rahulshiv on Nov 16, 2017 | 94 comments
14.
A World in a Box: Harvard digitizes two centuries of colonial history (bunkhistory.org)
104 points by diodorus on Nov 16, 2017 | 3 comments
15.
Baking Bread with the Romans: Part II – Panis Quadratus (tavolamediterranea.com)
164 points by samclemens on Nov 17, 2017 | 30 comments
16.
Ask HN: What tech were you convinced would take the world by storm but didn't?
408 points by swyx on Nov 17, 2017 | 983 comments
17.
Manipulating Human Psychology To Turn Users Into Addicts (medium.com/dankaplan)
313 points by coloneltcb on Nov 16, 2017 | 103 comments
18.
The Effect of Cold Showering on Health and Work: A Randomized Controlled Trial (nih.gov)
248 points by drops on Nov 16, 2017 | 158 comments
19.
Walking away from $30,000 of DJI bounty money [pdf] (regmedia.co.uk)
326 points by druml on Nov 17, 2017 | 107 comments
20.
Arecibo Telescope Wins Reprieve from U.S. Government (scientificamerican.com)
94 points by JJLongusa on Nov 17, 2017 | 10 comments
21.
Scientists discover how to turn light into matter after 80-year quest (2014) (imperial.ac.uk)
107 points by felipemnoa on Nov 17, 2017 | 30 comments
22.
Speed up your Python using Rust (redhat.com)
291 points by jD91mZM2 on Nov 17, 2017 | 98 comments
23.
Health Giant Sutter Destroys Evidence in Crucial Antitrust Case Over High Prices (californiahealthline.org)
155 points by blacktulip on Nov 17, 2017 | 32 comments
24.
TechShop shuts down all U.S. locations, declares bankruptcy (techcrunch.com)
214 points by wizardforhire on Nov 17, 2017 | 151 comments
25.
Amish Mutation Protects Against Diabetes and May Extend Life (nytimes.com)
138 points by MrJagil on Nov 17, 2017 | 49 comments
26.
FreeBSD/EC2 on C5 instances (daemonology.net)
162 points by dantiberian on Nov 17, 2017 | 44 comments
27.
Carla – An open-source simulator for autonomous driving research (carla.org)
156 points by programd on Nov 17, 2017 | 24 comments
28.
ZFS from a MySQL perspective (percona.com)
161 points by rbanffy on Nov 17, 2017 | 71 comments
29.
Cquery: highly-scalable, low-latency language server for C++ (github.com/jacobdufault)
183 points by ingve on Nov 17, 2017 | 67 comments
30.
Using Go for Scalable Operating System Analytics (kolide.com)
107 points by marpaia on Nov 16, 2017 | 10 comments

Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search:

HN For You