top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-04-05

WhatsApp's Signal Protocol integration is now complete

https://whispersystems.org/blog/whatsapp-complete/

10 years ago

1055 upvotes – 376 comments

GitLab Pages

http://pages.gitlab.io/

10 years ago

812 upvotes – 291 comments

Nest Reminds Customers That Ownership Isn't What It Used to Be

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/04/nest-reminds-customers-ownership-isnt-what-it-used-be

10 years ago

735 upvotes – 309 comments

Being a “dumb” girl in Computer Science

http://rewritingthecode.com/2016/03/27/hello-world/

10 years ago

513 upvotes – 465 comments

Icelandic Prime Minister Resigns After Panama Data Leak

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-04-05/icelandic-prime-minister-resigns-after-panama-data-leak-ruv

10 years ago

451 upvotes – 168 comments

9-year-old reporter breaks crime news, posts videos, fires back at critics

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/true-crime/wp/2016/04/05/9-year-old-reporter-breaks-crime-news-posts-videos-fires-back-at-critics/?tid=ss_fb-bottom

10 years ago

380 upvotes – 127 comments

GPG signature verification

https://github.com/blog/2144-gpg-signature-verification

10 years ago

378 upvotes – 170 comments

Dominions of fizz: the carbonated-drinks industry and public health [pdf]

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v526/n7571/pdf/526034a.pdf

10 years ago

364 upvotes – 212 comments

It's a Tesla

https://stratechery.com/2016/its-a-tesla/

10 years ago

344 upvotes – 324 comments

A Simple Web Developer's Guide to Color

https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2016/04/web-developer-guide-color/

10 years ago

314 upvotes – 43 comments

The Voyeur's Motel

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/04/11/gay-talese-the-voyeurs-motel

10 years ago

287 upvotes – 98 comments

San Francisco Tech Firms See Workers Flee from $4,500 Rents

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-04-05/san-francisco-tech-firms-see-workers-flee-from-4-500-rents

10 years ago

274 upvotes – 516 comments

Introducing DGit

http://githubengineering.com/introducing-dgit/

10 years ago

262 upvotes – 47 comments

FBI Says a Mysterious Hacking Group Has Had Access to US Govt Files for Years

https://motherboard.vice.com/read/fbi-flash-alert-hacking-group-has-had-access-to-us-govt-files-for-years?utm_source=mbtwitter

10 years ago

251 upvotes – 77 comments

When It Comes to Age Bias, Tech Companies Don’t Even Bother to Lie

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/when-comes-age-bias-tech-companies-dont-even-bother-lie-dan-lyons

10 years ago

248 upvotes – 189 comments

Y Combinator cofounder Jessica Livingston to take year-long sabbatical

http://venturebeat.com/2016/04/04/y-combinator-cofounder-jessica-livingston-to-take-year-long-sabbatical/

10 years ago

240 upvotes – 155 comments

Abandoning Gitflow and GitHub in favour of Gerrit

http://www.beepsend.com/2016/04/05/abandoning-gitflow-github-favour-gerrit/

10 years ago

239 upvotes – 167 comments

How Candy Japan got credit card fraud somewhat under control

https://www.candyjapan.com/how-i-got-credit-card-fraud-somewhat-under-control

10 years ago

229 upvotes – 125 comments

Developers, Being Treated Poorly? You Are Not Alone

http://fredwu.me/post/142289849178/developers-being-treated-poorly-you-are-not

10 years ago

223 upvotes – 251 comments

Tor exit node operator gets raided by police

http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2016/04/04/472992023/when-a-dark-web-volunteer-gets-raided-by-the-police

10 years ago

220 upvotes – 201 comments

The Nvidia DGX-1 Deep Learning Supercomputer in a Box

http://www.nvidia.com/object/deep-learning-system.html

10 years ago

215 upvotes – 98 comments

Your heart rate at gunpoint

https://medium.com/@aleksandarvuk/your-heart-when-you-think-you-re-going-to-die-154ebed2087a#.j8f25us8w

10 years ago

187 upvotes – 127 comments

GitHub is down

https://status.github.com/?

10 years ago

166 upvotes – 166 comments

WhatsApp Just Switched on Encryption for a Billion People

http://www.wired.com/2016/04/forget-apple-vs-fbi-whatsapp-just-switched-encryption-billion-people/

10 years ago

162 upvotes – 59 comments

Native Mac Notifications Comes to Chrome Stable

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=326539&can=2&start=0&num=100&q=&colspec=ID%20Pri%20M%20Stars%20ReleaseBlock%20Component%20Status%20Owner%20Summary%20OS%20Modified&groupby=&sort=

10 years ago

158 upvotes – 93 comments

Backslash must die

https://wpdev.uservoice.com/forums/266908-command-prompt-console-bash-on-ubuntu-on-windo/suggestions/13314285-backslash-must-die

10 years ago

157 upvotes – 153 comments

U.S. Moves to Thwart Use of Foreign Acquisitions to Dodge Taxes

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/05/business/dealbook/us-acts-to-end-use-of-foreign-acquisitions-to-dodge-taxes.html?hpw&rref=business&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0

10 years ago

155 upvotes – 147 comments

Dijkstra's Prime Number Algorithm

http://heinrichhartmann.com/2016/04/03/Dijkstra%27s-Prime-Number-Algorithm.html

10 years ago

134 upvotes – 23 comments

Data USA: Comprehensive Visualization of U.S. Public Data

http://datausa.io/

10 years ago

133 upvotes – 14 comments

Grunt 1.0.0 released

http://gruntjs.com/blog/2016-04-04-grunt-1.0.0-released

10 years ago

128 upvotes – 101 comments

Echo – Golang micro web framework

https://labstack.com/echo

10 years ago

127 upvotes – 45 comments

iOS Dev Tools

https://iosdev.tools/

10 years ago

126 upvotes – 35 comments

Twitter Wins NFL Deal to Stream 2016 Thursday Night Football

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/04/05/473099436/twitter-wins-nfl-deal-to-stream-2016-thursday-night-football

10 years ago

122 upvotes – 75 comments

Taxi, Uber, and Lyft Usage in New York City

http://toddwschneider.com/posts/taxi-uber-lyft-usage-new-york-city/

10 years ago

117 upvotes – 101 comments

Money for Nothing: The Lucrative World of Club Appearances

http://www.gq.com/story/how-celebs-get-paid-for-club-appearances

10 years ago

113 upvotes – 85 comments

In the Future, We Will Photograph Everything and Look at Nothing

http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/in-the-future-we-will-photograph-everything-and-look-at-nothing

10 years ago

107 upvotes – 116 comments

PayPal Withdraws Plan for Charlotte Expansion

https://www.paypal.com/stories/us/paypal-withdraws-plan-for-charlotte-expansion

10 years ago

105 upvotes – 68 comments

The Panama Papers: Here’s What We Know

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/05/world/panama-papers-leak-offshore-tax-havens.html?_r=0

10 years ago

103 upvotes – 50 comments

Why some animals have venoms that are more lethal than they apparently need

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160404-why-some-animals-have-venoms-so-lethal-they-cannot-use-them

10 years ago

97 upvotes – 40 comments

Let Me Get That Door for You: Remote Root Vulnerability in HID Door Controllers

http://blog.trendmicro.com/let-get-door-remote-root-vulnerability-hid-door-controllers/

10 years ago

95 upvotes – 50 comments

New website lets anyone spy on Tinder users

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/apr/05/tinder-swipebuster-spy-on-users-privacy-dating-app

10 years ago

93 upvotes – 27 comments

WhatsApp Security Whitepaper [pdf]

https://www.whatsapp.com/security/WhatsApp-Security-Whitepaper.pdf

10 years ago

92 upvotes – 9 comments

Use Vim Inside a Unix Pipe Like Sed or AWK

http://blog.robertelder.org/use-vim-inside-a-unix-pipe-like-sed-or-awk/

10 years ago

92 upvotes – 46 comments

What is a “Good Job?”

http://conversableeconomist.blogspot.com/2016/04/what-is-good-job.html

10 years ago

83 upvotes – 58 comments

Panama Papers Dataset 2016

https://github.com/amaboura/panama-papers-dataset-2016

10 years ago

★ 700 Jupyter Notebook GPL-3.0
81 upvotes – 8 comments

'Devastating' bug pops secure doors at airports, hospitals

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/04/04/devastating_bug_pops_secure_doors_at_airports_hospitals/

10 years ago

78 upvotes – 43 comments

Revenue on Medium

https://medium.com/the-story/revenue-on-medium-5e7e6218f70c#.ibkwilzmu

10 years ago

78 upvotes – 28 comments

De Blasio Postpones Work on Crucial Water Tunnel

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/06/nyregion/de-blasio-postpones-work-on-crucial-water-tunnel.html

10 years ago

77 upvotes – 62 comments

Deep learning for visual question answering: demo with Keras code

http://iamaaditya.github.io/2016/04/visual_question_answering_demo_notebook

10 years ago

73 upvotes – 17 comments
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