The Best Hacker News Posts of July 2017

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Net Neutrality Day of Action: Help Preserve the Open Internet blog.google · ghosh · 12 Jul 2017

1.7k pts 433 comments

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Taking control of all .io domains with a targeted registration thehackerblog.com · koenrh · 10 Jul 2017

1.4k pts 246 comments

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Apache Foundation disallows use of the Facebook “BSD+Patent” license issues.apache.org · thelarkinn · 16 Jul 2017

1.3k pts 362 comments

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Battle for the Internet battleforthenet.com · anigbrowl · 12 Jul 2017

1.3k pts 487 comments

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“We will stop updating and distributing the Flash Player at the end of 2020” blogs.adobe.com · mintplant · 25 Jul 2017

1.2k pts 487 comments

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Making a virtual machine in Google Sheets briansteffens.github.io · signa11 · 5 Jul 2017

1.1k pts 113 comments

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How a VC-funded company is undermining the open-source community theoutline.com · posnet · 24 Jul 2017

1k pts 415 comments

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24-core CPU and I can’t move my mouse randomascii.wordpress.com · joebaf · 10 Jul 2017

1k pts 499 comments

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The New Firefox and Ridiculous Numbers of Tabs metafluff.com · robin_reala · 21 Jul 2017

984 pts 537 comments

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153k Ether Stolen in Parity Multi-Sig Attack etherscan.io · campbelltown · 19 Jul 2017

943 pts 725 comments

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I'm not a Woman in Tech communequation.wordpress.com · triplesec · 5 Jul 2017

876 pts 578 comments

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18yo arrested for reporting a bug in the new Budapest e-Ticket system blog.marai.me · atleta · 24 Jul 2017

874 pts 309 comments

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Wildcard Certificates Coming January 2018 letsencrypt.org · darwhy · 6 Jul 2017

857 pts 191 comments

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What Is Ethereum? whatthefuckisethereum.com · songzme · 8 Jul 2017

837 pts 257 comments

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Seeing AI for iOS microsoft.com · kmather73 · 14 Jul 2017

835 pts 126 comments

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How Discord Scaled Elixir to 5M Concurrent Users blog.discordapp.com · b1naryth1ef · 11 Jul 2017

802 pts 251 comments

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The Limitations of Deep Learning blog.keras.io · olivercameron · 17 Jul 2017

794 pts 260 comments

18

Ubershaders: A Ridiculous Solution to an Impossible Problem dolphin-emu.org · voltagex_ · 30 Jul 2017

772 pts 88 comments

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How to make a friend fast happyturtlethings.net · trurl42 · 9 Jul 2017

765 pts 242 comments

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It is as if you were doing work pippinbarr.github.io · throwaway1892 · 5 Jul 2017

752 pts 205 comments

21

Toward Go 2 blog.golang.org · dmit · 13 Jul 2017

746 pts 640 comments

22

The Facebook Algorithm Mom Problem boffosocko.com · pmlnr · 12 Jul 2017

738 pts 301 comments

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Largest-ever study of controversial pesticides finds harm to bees nature.com · etiam · 2 Jul 2017

729 pts 214 comments

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Cloudflare’s fight with a “patent troll” could alter the game techcrunch.com · Stanleyc23 · 11 Jul 2017

723 pts 274 comments

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Deep Learning for Coders – Launching Deep Learning Part 2 fast.ai · jph00 · 30 Jul 2017

716 pts 91 comments

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Antisocial Coding: My Year at GitHub where.coraline.codes · speaktochris · 5 Jul 2017

711 pts 529 comments

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Employees Who Stay in Companies Longer Than Two Years Get Paid 50% Less forbes.com · askafriend · 17 Jul 2017

708 pts 535 comments

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Mental health is still an issue in the workplace medium.com · bcx · 6 Jul 2017

659 pts 330 comments

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Reverse-engineering the Starbucks ordering API blog.tendigi.com · nickplee · 12 Jul 2017

658 pts 152 comments

30

Out of all major energy sources, nuclear is the safest ourworldindata.org · mpweiher · 31 Jul 2017

655 pts 639 comments

31

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2017) whoishiring · 3 Jul 2017

635 pts 969 comments

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Sci-Hub’s cache of pirated papers is so big, subscription journals are doomed sciencemag.org · happy-go-lucky · 27 Jul 2017

632 pts 241 comments

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Defending a website with Zip bombs blog.haschek.at · ridgewell · 6 Jul 2017

631 pts 183 comments

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Show HN: A virtual machine made with Google Sheets formulas (no script) SonOfLilit · 5 Jul 2017

620 pts 37 comments

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Maryam Mirzakhani, first woman and Iranian to win Fields Medal, has died thewire.in · urahara · 15 Jul 2017

614 pts 105 comments

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Pev: Postgres ‘Explain’ Visualizer (2016) tatiyants.com · insulanian · 23 Jul 2017

612 pts 48 comments

37

Things I’ve Learned from Reading IndieHackers toomas.net · scribu · 19 Jul 2017

611 pts 153 comments

38

The Myth of Drug Expiration Dates propublica.org · danso · 18 Jul 2017

609 pts 263 comments

39

Things I wish someone had told me before I started angel investing blog.rongarret.info · lisper · 16 Jul 2017

602 pts 205 comments

40

ECMAScript 2017 Language Specification ecma-international.org · samerbuna · 11 Jul 2017

600 pts 241 comments

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Verizon Throttles Netflix Subscribers in Test It Doesn't Inform Customers About techdirt.com · sharkweek · 24 Jul 2017

594 pts 322 comments

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Redis 4.0 groups.google.com · fs111 · 14 Jul 2017

588 pts 164 comments

43

I found a bug in Intel Skylake processors gallium.inria.fr · testcross · 3 Jul 2017

587 pts 99 comments

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How Fear and Outrage Are Sold for Profit medium.com · tontonius · 25 Jul 2017

577 pts 250 comments

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Here be dragons: the same 3D scene implemented with 10 different 3D APIs github.com · adamnemecek · 25 Jul 2017

574 pts 60 comments

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Why Should I Start a Startup? blog.ycombinator.com · craigcannon · 19 Jul 2017

569 pts 279 comments

47

Math education: It’s not about numbers, it’s about learning how to think nwaonline.com · CarolineW · 11 Jul 2017

565 pts 330 comments

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Show HN: TensorFire tenso.rs · antimatter15 · 31 Jul 2017

564 pts 83 comments

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Scientists Reverse Brain Damage in Drowned Toddler? newsweek.com · Deinos · 20 Jul 2017

563 pts 290 comments

50

Petition to open source Flash github.com · pkstn · 26 Jul 2017

560 pts 244 comments

51

Counterintuitive problem: People in a room keep giving dollars to random others decisionsciencenews.com · aqsalose · 9 Jul 2017

555 pts 240 comments

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I make $10k per month with the Amazon Affiliate Program reddit.com · danso · 7 Jul 2017

550 pts 269 comments

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Google is releasing 20M bacteria-infected mosquitoes in Fresno techcrunch.com · chriskanan · 14 Jul 2017

545 pts 215 comments

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Show HN: The JavaScript Way, a book for learning modern JavaScript from scratch github.com · bpesquet · 27 Jul 2017

545 pts 110 comments

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Using Deep Learning to Create Professional-Level Photographs research.googleblog.com · wsxiaoys · 13 Jul 2017

542 pts 120 comments

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Machine Learning Crash Course: The Bias-Variance Dilemma ml.berkeley.edu · Yossi_Frenkel · 17 Jul 2017

540 pts 60 comments

57

Computational Linear Algebra fast.ai · julianj · 23 Jul 2017

537 pts 55 comments

58

Kindness is Underrated (2014) circleci.com · hengputhireach · 16 Jul 2017

536 pts 210 comments

59

Ethereum from scratch – Part 1: Ping ocalog.com · mjfl · 20 Jul 2017

534 pts 125 comments

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Google launches Hire, a new service for helping businesses recruit techcrunch.com · tashoecraft · 18 Jul 2017

529 pts 341 comments