top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-04-12

Leaving Beta, New Sponsors

https://letsencrypt.org//2016/04/12/leaving-beta-new-sponsors.html

10 years ago

896 upvotes – 170 comments

Tinker with a Neural Network in Your Browser

http://playground.tensorflow.org/

10 years ago

855 upvotes – 116 comments

Namecheap live chat social engineering leads to loss of 2 VPS

http://www.postphp.com/namecheap-livechat-social-engineering-leads-to-loss-of-2-vps/

10 years ago

695 upvotes – 408 comments

A Visionary Project Aims for Alpha Centauri, a Star 4.37 Light-Years Away

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/13/science/alpha-centauri-breakthrough-starshot-yuri-milner-stephen-hawking.html?mabReward=A6&moduleDetail=recommendations-2&action=click&contentCollection=Americas&region=Footer&module=WhatsNext&version=WhatsNext&contentID=WhatsNext&src=recg&pgtype=article

10 years ago

492 upvotes – 262 comments

Calculus Learning Guide

http://betterexplained.com/guides/calculus/

10 years ago

472 upvotes – 97 comments

Velocipedia

http://www.gianlucagimini.it/prototypes/velocipedia.html

10 years ago

430 upvotes – 107 comments

Steve Miller: The Whole Music Industry Is Fuckin' Gangsters and Crooks

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/steve-miller-this-whole-industry-is-f--kin-gangsters-and-crooks-20160411

10 years ago

412 upvotes – 304 comments

Uber says it gave U.S. agencies data on more than 12M users

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-uber-tech-data-idUSKCN0X91R5

10 years ago

372 upvotes – 95 comments

Goldman Sachs Finally Admits It Defrauded Investors During the Financial Crisis

http://fortune.com/2016/04/11/goldman-sachs-doj-settlement/

10 years ago

333 upvotes – 190 comments

How to Make Pittsburgh a Startup Hub

http://paulgraham.com/pgh.html

10 years ago

332 upvotes – 356 comments

Facebook Messenger Platform

https://www.messenger.com/platform

10 years ago

312 upvotes – 233 comments

Stephen Fry hits out at ‘infantile’ culture of trigger words and safe spaces

http://attitude.co.uk/stephen-fry-hits-out-at-infantile-culture-of-trigger-words-and-safe-spaces/

10 years ago

282 upvotes – 283 comments

Voltron: A hacky debugger UI for hackers

https://github.com/snare/voltron

10 years ago

★ 6.3k Python MIT
260 upvotes – 73 comments

Arq 5: Massively faster backup and restore for Mac and Windows

https://www.arqbackup.com/blog/arq-5-massively-faster-backup-and-restore/

10 years ago

258 upvotes – 188 comments

It's time to dispel the myths about nuclear power

https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2016/apr/11/time-dispel-myths-about-nuclear-power-chernobyl-fukushima

10 years ago

243 upvotes – 320 comments

Continuous Deployment at Instagram

http://engineering.instagram.com/posts/1125308487520335/continuous-deployment-at-instagram/

10 years ago

239 upvotes – 91 comments

Anal probes are fine, if you've got nothing to hide [pdf]

http://thobbs.cz/anal-probes/anal-probes.pdf

10 years ago

211 upvotes – 104 comments

Show HN: GoldenLayout – JavaScript layout manager with multi-screen support

https://www.golden-layout.com/

10 years ago

193 upvotes – 37 comments

Unknown Neo Geo Fighting Game Discovered and Dumped

http://www.neo-geo.com/forums/showthread.php?265573-Lost-Neo-Geo-Prototype-FOUND-REVEALED-amp-RELEASED

10 years ago

191 upvotes – 25 comments

You Could Do Almost Anything Part 1

http://www.elischiff.com/blog/2016/4/12/do-almost-anything

10 years ago

181 upvotes – 36 comments

For life expectancy, money matters

http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2016/04/for-life-expectancy-money-matters/

10 years ago

174 upvotes – 164 comments

Show HN: Wit.ai Bot Engine beta

https://wit.ai/blog/2016/04/12/bot-engine?hn

10 years ago

174 upvotes – 47 comments

GitHub's Content Security Policy journey

http://githubengineering.com/githubs-csp-journey/

10 years ago

165 upvotes – 23 comments

An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat)

http://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/an-mit-underwear-expose

10 years ago

163 upvotes – 61 comments

Apache Storm 1.0 released

https://storm.apache.org/2016/04/12/storm100-released.html

10 years ago

160 upvotes – 42 comments

Writing an OS in Rust: Kernel Heap

http://os.phil-opp.com/kernel-heap.html

10 years ago

156 upvotes – 8 comments

Google will warn users when sites contain social engineering ads

http://techcrunch.com/2016/04/12/google-will-now-warn-users-when-websites-host-deceptive-social-engineering-ads/

10 years ago

151 upvotes – 90 comments

My personal burnout – Lessons learned

http://codingwithempathy.com/2016/04/12/my-personal-burnout-lessons-learned/?utm_content=buffere939a&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

10 years ago

150 upvotes – 95 comments

The Untouchables – Why it’s getting harder to stop multinational corporations

https://foreignpolicy.com/2016/04/11/the-untouchables-zimbabwe-green-fuel-multinational-corporations/

10 years ago

150 upvotes – 66 comments

Why would you learn C++ in 2016?

http://itscompiling.eu/2016/03/10/why-learn-cpp-2016/

10 years ago

149 upvotes – 154 comments

Facebook Surround 360: An Open 3D-360 video capture system

https://code.facebook.com/posts/1755691291326688/introducing-facebook-surround-360-an-open-high-quality-3d-360-video-capture-system

10 years ago

144 upvotes – 53 comments

I am on the Kill List. This is what it feels like to be hunted by drones

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/i-am-on-the-us-kill-list-this-is-what-it-feels-like-to-be-hunted-by-drones-a6980141.html

10 years ago

140 upvotes – 25 comments

Job hopping helped Silicon Valley thrive. Why do other states restrict it?

http://www.vox.com/2016/4/12/11349248/noncompetes-silicon-valley-route-128

10 years ago

136 upvotes – 132 comments

LLVM based Just-in-Time-Compiler for C++

http://www.jyt.io

10 years ago

135 upvotes – 32 comments

Why don't I take military funding? (2004)

https://web.eecs.umich.edu/~kuipers/opinions/no-military-funding.html

10 years ago

134 upvotes – 116 comments

Bye – Why I'm leaving Medium

https://medium.com/@charlesomeara/bye-11224eca4a99

10 years ago

131 upvotes – 92 comments

Brane Craft

http://www.nasa.gov/feature/brane-craft

10 years ago

118 upvotes – 54 comments

Redex: an Android bytecode optimizer developed by Facebook

http://fbredex.com/

10 years ago

107 upvotes – 56 comments

India Launches Unified Payment Interface API

http://www.npci.org.in/UPI_Documents.aspx

10 years ago

102 upvotes – 17 comments

Our software must get better

http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2016/04/our-software-must-get-better.html

10 years ago

100 upvotes – 59 comments

On libunwind and dynamically generated code on x86-64

http://www.corsix.org/content/libunwind-dynamic-code-x86-64

10 years ago

96 upvotes – 29 comments

Hawking backs interstellar travel project

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-36025706

10 years ago

95 upvotes – 1 comments

Undisrupted: HubSpot's Reflections on “Disrupted”

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/undisrupted-hubspots-reflections-disrupted-dan-lyons-dharmesh-shah

10 years ago

91 upvotes – 54 comments

SPMD Is Not Intel’s Cup of Tea

http://www.joshbarczak.com/blog/?p=1120

10 years ago

89 upvotes – 25 comments

Have You Tried Using a Nearest Neighbor Search?

http://www.cachestocaches.com/2016/3/have-you-tried-nearest-neighbor/

10 years ago

87 upvotes – 32 comments

A Healthy Hatred of OOP, or the principles of my message-driven framework

https://bythehilt.com/articles/dialogues-guiding-principles-or-a-healthy-hatred-of-oop

10 years ago

87 upvotes – 93 comments

NeWS – Network Extensible Window System

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeWS

10 years ago

86 upvotes – 74 comments

Go-hn: command line client for Hacker News, written in Go

http://codeblog.shank.in/go-hn-command-line-client-for-hacker-news-written-in-golang/

10 years ago

82 upvotes – 41 comments

NASA has recovered the Kepler Space Telescope from 'emergency mode'

http://www.theverge.com/2016/4/11/11408620/nasa-kepler-telescope-emergency-mode-stable

10 years ago

81 upvotes – 8 comments

Porn site xHamster blocks North Carolina users to protest anti-LGBT law

http://www.theverge.com/2016/4/11/11410956/porn-site-xhamster-north-carolina-block

10 years ago

78 upvotes – 119 comments

Semicolons matter

http://blog.rrowland.com/2016/04/11/semicolons-do-matter/

10 years ago

77 upvotes – 82 comments

FreeBSD 10.3-Release on AWS

https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/B00KSS55FY

10 years ago

77 upvotes – 28 comments

Magnitogorsk, Russia's steel city

http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/apr/12/story-of-cities-20-the-secret-history-of-magnitogorsk-russias-steel-city

10 years ago

76 upvotes – 22 comments

Microsoft adds QR codes to BSODs in Windows 10

http://arstechnica.co.uk/information-technology/2016/04/microsoft-adds-qr-codes-to-bsods-in-new-windows-10-preview-build/

10 years ago

74 upvotes – 54 comments
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