top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-04-01

Squash your commits

https://github.com/blog/2141-squash-your-commits

10 years ago

702 upvotes – 339 comments

The Trouble with CloudFlare

https://blog.torproject.org/blog/trouble-cloudflare

10 years ago

620 upvotes – 351 comments

Show HN: What every browser knows about you

http://webkay.robinlinus.com/

10 years ago

553 upvotes – 206 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2016)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11405239

10 years ago

427 upvotes – 713 comments

Model 3 Unveiling [video]

https://model3.tesla.com/

10 years ago

406 upvotes – 381 comments

Google 'mic drop' Gmail joke for April Fools' day backfires

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/gmail-google-mic-drop-april-fool-prank-undo-send-see-email-backfired-a6962916.html

10 years ago

378 upvotes – 380 comments

How DuckDuckGo is trying to help programmers

https://duck.co/blog/post/297/help-for-programmers

10 years ago

355 upvotes – 67 comments

Schools Are Slow to Learn That Sleep Deprivation Hits Teenagers Hardest

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/29/upshot/schools-are-slow-to-learn-that-sleep-deprivation-hits-teenagers-hardest.html?ribbon-ad-idx=6&rref=upshot&module=Ribbon&version=context&region=Header&action=click&contentCollection=The%20Upshot&pgtype=article&_r=0

10 years ago

331 upvotes – 177 comments

Amnesty International: Encryption Is a Human Rights Issue

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/03/amnesty-international-encryption-human-rights-issue

10 years ago

287 upvotes – 20 comments

Chinese state media discourages April Fools' Day

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/04/01/no-joke-april-fools-day-has-been-banned-in-china/

10 years ago

277 upvotes – 128 comments

Dwarf Fortress' creator on how he's 42% towards simulating existence

http://www.pcgamer.com/dwarf-fortress-creator-on-how-hes-42-towards-simulating-existence/#page-1

10 years ago

267 upvotes – 129 comments

Slack raises $200M at $3.8B valuation for business messaging

http://techcrunch.com/2016/04/01/slack-raises-200m-at-3-8b-valuation-for-business-messaging

10 years ago

246 upvotes – 223 comments

Side Projects

http://avc.com/2016/03/side-projects/

10 years ago

238 upvotes – 105 comments

LKML: New syscall: leftpad()

https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/3/31/1108

10 years ago

237 upvotes – 73 comments

Apple II DOS source code

http://www.computerhistory.org/atchm/apple-ii-dos-source-code/

10 years ago

228 upvotes – 51 comments

Mozilla founder unveils Bitcoin-based micropayments system for users, publishers

https://brave.com/blogpost_3.html

10 years ago

217 upvotes – 108 comments

GitHub contribution graph can be harmful to contributors

https://github.com/isaacs/github/issues/627

10 years ago

★ 2.2k
207 upvotes – 109 comments

Apple at 40: The forgotten founder who gave it all away

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-35940300

10 years ago

199 upvotes – 116 comments

A Primer on Bézier Curves (2011)

https://pomax.github.io/bezierinfo/

10 years ago

190 upvotes – 43 comments

Cash: An absurdly small jQuery alternative for modern browsers

https://github.com/kenwheeler/cash/

10 years ago

★ 7k JavaScript MIT
177 upvotes – 90 comments

Advanced Economies Must Still Make Things

http://spectrum.ieee.org/at-work/tech-careers/advanced-economies-must-still-make-things

10 years ago

167 upvotes – 178 comments

No-Cost RHEL Developer Subscription Now Available

http://developers.redhat.com/blog/2016/03/31/no-cost-rhel-developer-subscription-now-available/

10 years ago

164 upvotes – 67 comments

Hotpatching a C Function on x86

http://nullprogram.com/blog/2016/03/31/

10 years ago

156 upvotes – 48 comments

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2016)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11405241

10 years ago

154 upvotes – 266 comments

What It’s Like to Almost Get Executed

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2016/03/31/what-it-s-like-to-almost-get-executed#.jTmiocXwQ

10 years ago

149 upvotes – 112 comments

Hands-on with HoloLens: On the cusp of a revolution

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/04/hands-on-hololens-on-the-cusp-of-a-revolution/

10 years ago

148 upvotes – 91 comments

General Assembly's Data Science Course

https://github.com/justmarkham/DAT8

10 years ago

★ 1.6k Jupyter Notebook
143 upvotes – 14 comments

Show HN: Triangul-Art – make pixel art but with triangles

http://maxwellito.github.io/triangulart/

10 years ago

138 upvotes – 37 comments

Theranos – Statement of Deficiency from CMMS [pdf]

http://www.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/report20160331.pdf

10 years ago

137 upvotes – 54 comments

Laughter Doesn’t Scale

https://trackchanges.postlight.com/laughter-doesn-t-scale-89d3e5687a24#.aba785fx4

10 years ago

132 upvotes – 75 comments

Police Body Cameras: What Do You See?

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/04/01/us/police-bodycam-video.html

10 years ago

121 upvotes – 61 comments

Ask HN: Who wants to be fired? (April 2016)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11405728

10 years ago

117 upvotes – 10 comments

Wikimedia telnet interface

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Telnet_gateway

10 years ago

115 upvotes – 70 comments

Spaced repetition and practice

http://experiments.oskarth.com/srspractice/

10 years ago

114 upvotes – 24 comments

Colorful Image Colorization

http://richzhang.github.io/colorization/

10 years ago

113 upvotes – 26 comments

Go Proverbs: Simple, Poetic, Pithy

http://go-proverbs.github.io/

10 years ago

111 upvotes – 44 comments

Facebook is ruining Instagram

https://medium.com/@giuliomichelon/how-mark-zuckerberg-ruined-instagram-9733ad373bdf#.18lwizr1t

10 years ago

108 upvotes – 76 comments

Y Combinator Acquiring Sequoia Capital

https://blog.ycombinator.com/y-sequoia-combination

10 years ago

106 upvotes – 18 comments

Music Language Modeling with Recurrent Neural Networks

http://yoavz.com/music_rnn/

10 years ago

100 upvotes – 26 comments

The ages of distraction

https://aeon.co/essays/busy-and-distracted-everybody-has-been-since-at-least-1710

10 years ago

99 upvotes – 32 comments

Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (April 2016)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11405240

10 years ago

90 upvotes – 121 comments

As Silicon Valley fights for talent, universities struggle to hold on to stars

http://www.economist.com/news/business/21695908-silicon-valley-fights-talent-universities-struggle-hold-their?fsrc=scn/fb/te/pe/ed/milliondollarbabies

10 years ago

88 upvotes – 86 comments

40 Years of Suffix Trees

http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2016/4/200160-40-years-of-suffix-trees/fulltext

10 years ago

87 upvotes – 10 comments

How Habitat for Humanity Went to Brooklyn and Poor Families Lost Their Homes

https://www.propublica.org/article/habitat-for-humanity-brooklyn-bedford-stuyvesant-poor-lose-homes

10 years ago

87 upvotes – 36 comments

Richard Hamming on Artificial Intelligence (1995) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8YXG5fy9mBb85pbuh1HaUSm1WsUqGIA6

10 years ago

83 upvotes – 8 comments

The Secret Money Behind ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’

http://www.wsj.com/articles/malaysias-1mdb-the-secret-money-behind-the-wolf-of-wall-street-1459531987

10 years ago

82 upvotes – 39 comments

First YC Fellowship Virtual Demo Day

http://blog.ycombinator.com/first-fellowship-virtual-demo-day

10 years ago

79 upvotes – 11 comments

April Fool's day links

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11402321

10 years ago

79 upvotes – 51 comments

Google Cardboard Plastic

https://www.google.com/get/cardboard/plastic/

10 years ago

74 upvotes – 19 comments

He Drew the Sun for 40 Years, but Now His Telescope Is Dying

http://www.wired.com/2016/04/man-whos-drawn-sun-almost-every-day-40-years/

10 years ago

69 upvotes – 15 comments

Regis McKenna's 1976 Notebook and the Invention of Apple Computer, Inc

http://www.fastcompany.com/3058227/regis-mckennas-1976-notebook-and-the-invention-of-apple-computer-inc

10 years ago

69 upvotes – 5 comments

Red Hat, Jetbrains and Unity Join Dotnet Foundation

http://www.dotnetfoundation.org/blog/tsg-welcome

10 years ago

65 upvotes – 30 comments

China is no longer a nation of tech copycats

http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2016/04/features/china-tech-copycat-yy-meituan-xinchejian-zepp-labs

10 years ago

64 upvotes – 22 comments

War Stories: Why I Lit Up Lytro

https://backchannel.com/war-stories-why-i-lit-up-lytro-b46124da32a6#.yrorcr8jw

10 years ago

62 upvotes – 8 comments

What can doctors learn from pilots and cyclists?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-35929557

10 years ago

61 upvotes – 48 comments

Generating Large Images from Latent Vectors

http://blog.otoro.net/2016/04/01/generating-large-images-from-latent-vectors/

10 years ago

60 upvotes – 0 comments
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