Hacker News 2017-08-08

1. Big Companies and the Military Are Paying Novelists to Write Sci-Fi for Them
2. Linux Load Averages: Solving the Mystery
3. Despite S.E.C. Warning, Wave of Initial Coin Offerings Grows
4. The Internet Archive has digitized 25,000 78rpm records
5. Cruise is running an autonomous ride hailing service for employees in SF
6. University professor lets students choose own grades for 'stress reduction'
7. SKYACTIV-X: first commercial gasoline engine to use compression ignition
8. Instagram photos reveal predictive markers of depression
9. Mongoose OS – An Open Source Operating System for the Internet of Things
10. Show HN: An interactive guide to compression basics
11. Windows Subsystem for Linux on Windows Server
12. Show HN: C++ runtime/compile-time detection in constexpr functions
13. Deeplearning.ai: Announcing New Deep Learning Courses on Coursera
14. Virtualizing ARM TrustZone [pdf]
15. Tapetail, Bignose and Whalefish turn out to be the same fish
16. Do Things That Don’t Scale (2013)
17. Dark Matter May Be Trapped in All the Black Holes
18. 2 Things About That Google Memo…
19. A marriage of war and peace: the tumultuous world of Lev and Sonya Tolstoy
20. Ask HN: Website go-live checklist app
21. Launch HN: Muzmatch (YC S17) – A place where 400M single Muslims can meet
22. Why Elephants Don’t Explode: How Nature Solves Bigness
23. Stanford bioengineers encourage virtual competitors to vie for athletic title
24. A Systematic Analysis of the Juniper Dual EC Incident [pdf]
25. Why Germans pay cash for almost everything
26. Roger McNamee: I invested early in Google and Facebook and regret it
27. Bringing Call Gates Back
28. In Defense of Probability (1985) [pdf]
29. Gigster (on-demand developer teams) is hiring in sales and engineering
30. Complex animated transitions in React

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