top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-04-14

Kite – Programming Copilot

https://kite.com

10 years ago

1138 upvotes – 232 comments

Visual Studio Code 1.0

http://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2016/04/14/vscode-1.0

10 years ago

966 upvotes – 461 comments

Microsoft Sues Justice Department Over Secret Customer Data Searches

http://www.wsj.com/articles/microsoft-sues-justice-department-over-secret-customer-data-searches-1460649720

10 years ago

399 upvotes – 67 comments

Intelligence Committee Leaders Release Discussion Draft of Encryption Bill

http://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=EA927EA1-E098-4E62-8E61-DF55CBAC1649

10 years ago

381 upvotes – 265 comments

Proposal: Go should have generics

https://github.com/golang/proposal/blob/master/design/15292-generics.md

10 years ago

★ 3.4k HTML BSD-3-Clause
355 upvotes – 424 comments

He Got Greedy: How the U.S. Government Hunted Encryption Programmer Paul Le Roux

https://mastermind.atavist.com/he-got-greedy

10 years ago

352 upvotes – 115 comments

Announcing Rust 1.8

http://blog.rust-lang.org/2016/04/14/Rust-1.8.html

10 years ago

348 upvotes – 155 comments

ASCII Art Weather

http://wttr.in/london

10 years ago

336 upvotes – 103 comments

Google App Engine Silently Stopped Sending Email 5 Weeks Ago

https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=12786

10 years ago

286 upvotes – 112 comments

UC Davis spent thousands to scrub pepper spray references from Internet

http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/education/article71659992.html

10 years ago

277 upvotes – 75 comments

Every shot Kobe Bryant ever took

http://graphics.latimes.com/kobe-every-shot-ever/

10 years ago

274 upvotes – 178 comments

The murky history of moderation and how it’s shaping the future of free speech

http://www.theverge.com/2016/4/13/11387934/internet-moderator-history-youtube-facebook-reddit-censorship-free-speech

10 years ago

263 upvotes – 108 comments

Understanding the ginormous Philippines data breach

http://www.troyhunt.com/2016/04/when-nation-is-hacked-understanding.html

10 years ago

261 upvotes – 90 comments

David J.C. MacKay, Machine Learning pioneer, dies

http://itila.blogspot.com/2016/04/appendix-three-correspondence-visitors.html?m=1

10 years ago

260 upvotes – 18 comments

Hjson, the Human JSON

http://hjson.org/

10 years ago

257 upvotes – 213 comments

Rust and Nix = easier Unix systems programming

http://kamalmarhubi.com/blog/2016/04/13/rust-nix-easier-unix-systems-programming-3/

10 years ago

255 upvotes – 81 comments

Questions to Ask a Potential Tech Employer

https://gitlab.com/doctorj/interview-questions

10 years ago

★ 610 CC-BY-SA-4.0
252 upvotes – 116 comments

Famous Photo of Chernobyl's Most Radioactive Material Was a Selfie

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-famous-photo-of-chernobyls-most-dangerous-radioactive-material-was-a-selfie

10 years ago

252 upvotes – 100 comments

The Minecraft Generation

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/17/magazine/the-minecraft-generation.html

10 years ago

237 upvotes – 107 comments

Man accidentally 'deletes his entire company' with one line of bad code

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/man-accidentally-deletes-his-entire-company-with-one-line-of-bad-code-a6984256.html

10 years ago

233 upvotes – 269 comments

google.com/humans.txt

http://www.google.com/humans.txt

10 years ago

205 upvotes – 87 comments

CopperheadOS: A hardened open-source operating system based on Android

https://copperhead.co/android/

10 years ago

190 upvotes – 103 comments

Sketch 3.7 released

https://blog.sketchapp.com/sketch-3-7-and-new-symbols-d833a5be4027#.q5rmmbk2j

10 years ago

181 upvotes – 103 comments

Lawyers who won Happy Birthday copyright case sue over “We Shall Overcome”

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/04/lawyers-who-won-happy-birthday-copyright-case-sue-over-we-shall-overcome/

10 years ago

159 upvotes – 50 comments

Why Thieves Steal Soap

http://priceonomics.com/why-thieves-steal-soap/

10 years ago

158 upvotes – 117 comments

Warcraft fans' fury at Blizzard over server closure

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-36044000

10 years ago

157 upvotes – 87 comments

U.S. government worse than all major industries on cyber security

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-cybersecurity-rankings-idUSKCN0XB27K

10 years ago

143 upvotes – 58 comments

Canadian Police Obtained BlackBerry’s Global Decryption Key

https://news.vice.com/article/exclusive-canada-police-obtained-blackberrys-global-decryption-key-how

10 years ago

139 upvotes – 32 comments

Websites That Feed Hacker News: Top Sources of Submissions by Median Score

https://github.com/antontarasenko/smq/blob/master/reports/hackernews-top-domains-by-median.md

10 years ago

★ 1.5k TSQL Apache-2.0
134 upvotes – 48 comments

Micro-engraver who works between heartbeats to keep his hand steady

http://qz.com/645382/inside-the-studio-of-the-micro-engraver-who-works-between-heartbeats-to-keep-his-hand-steady/

10 years ago

131 upvotes – 38 comments

Why younger people can’t afford a house

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/apr/12/house-prices-money-cheap-debt-planning

10 years ago

119 upvotes – 156 comments

“Fiercely resist any further broadening of the scope of the C UB problem”

https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2016/04/msg00269.html

10 years ago

118 upvotes – 145 comments

Don’t design like a programmer (2010)

http://www.uxdesignedge.com/2010/03/dont-design-like-a-programmer/

10 years ago

113 upvotes – 52 comments

Creating signed GitHub releases

https://wiki.debian.org/Creating%20signed%20GitHub%20releases

10 years ago

111 upvotes – 47 comments

Android N developer preview 2 is out

http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2016/04/android-n-developer-preview-2-out-today.html

10 years ago

110 upvotes – 75 comments

Master-Less Distributed Queue with PG Paxos

https://www.citusdata.com/blog/14-marco/411-master-less-distributed-queue-postgres-and-pg-paxos

10 years ago

99 upvotes – 17 comments

Give yourself permission to have work-life balance

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/GiveYourselfPermissionToHaveWorklifeBalance.aspx

10 years ago

96 upvotes – 40 comments

Mathematicians mapped “Game of Thrones” relationship to find the main character

http://qz.com/650796/mathematicians-mapped-out-every-game-of-thrones-relationship-to-find-the-main-character/

10 years ago

94 upvotes – 61 comments

Oculus Rift Exclusives on the HTC Vive – Proof of Concept

https://github.com/LibreVR/Revive

10 years ago

★ 3.7k C++
91 upvotes – 71 comments

Kotlin Post-1.0 Roadmap

http://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2016/04/kotlin-post-1-0-roadmap/

10 years ago

90 upvotes – 37 comments

DIY Jepsen Testing CockroachDB

https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/diy-jepsen-testing-cockroachdb/

10 years ago

83 upvotes – 8 comments

Filling the void left by Kiva’s 2012 acquisition by Amazon

http://robohub.org/filling-the-void-left-by-kivas-2012-acquisition-by-amazon/

10 years ago

82 upvotes – 11 comments

The CIA Is Investing in Firms That Mine Your Tweets and Instagram Photos

https://theintercept.com/2016/04/14/in-undisclosed-cia-investments-social-media-mining-looms-large/

10 years ago

82 upvotes – 25 comments

Startup funding is slowing in San Francisco

http://qz.com/660835/you-dont-need-to-be-in-california-to-build-a-lucrative-startup/

10 years ago

79 upvotes – 42 comments

The Absurd Primacy of the Car in American Life

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/04/absurd-primacy-of-the-car-in-american-life/476346/?single_page=true

10 years ago

78 upvotes – 172 comments

The camel doesn't have two humps: Programming “aptitude test” canned

http://retractionwatch.com/2014/07/18/the-camel-doesnt-have-two-humps-programming-aptitude-test-canned-for-overzealous-conclusion/

10 years ago

77 upvotes – 133 comments

google.com/killer-robots.txt

https://www.google.com/killer-robots.txt

10 years ago

77 upvotes – 10 comments

Apply HN: Better than Google

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11500213

10 years ago

74 upvotes – 23 comments
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