top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-02-20

Starting an Internet Service Provider

http://chrishacken.com/starting-an-internet-service-provider/

9 years ago

Has There Been a Nuclear Incident in the Arctic?

http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/7758/has-there-been-a-nuclear-incident-in-the-arctic

9 years ago

Uber Investigating Sexual Harassment Claims by Ex-Employee

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/19/business/uber-sexual-harassment-investigation.html

9 years ago

Signal can now be used without Google Play Services

https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/commit/1669731329bcc32c84e33035a67a2fc22444c24b

9 years ago

★ 28.6k Kotlin AGPL-3.0

3D Comics

http://yiwenl.github.io/Sketches/exps/30

9 years ago

Fasting leads to stress resistance, self-renewal, and regeneration (2014)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/24905167/

9 years ago

Deleting Uber is the least you can do

https://medium.com/@dhh/deleting-uber-is-the-least-you-can-do-30c0601103ea

9 years ago

JPS+: Over 100x Faster than A* (2015) [video]

http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1022094/JPS-Over-100x-Faster-than

9 years ago

As Leaks Multiply, Fears of a ‘Deep State’ in America

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/16/world/americas/deep-state-leaks-trump.html?pagewanted=all

9 years ago

Cross-Site Request Forgery is dead

https://scotthelme.co.uk/csrf-is-dead/

9 years ago

Ruby `reject!`

http://accidentallyquadratic.tumblr.com/post/157496054437/ruby-reject

9 years ago

How we built a back end system for Uber-like maps with animated cars

https://blog.maddevs.io/how-we-built-a-backend-system-for-uber-like-map-with-animated-cars-on-it-using-go-29d5dcd517a

9 years ago

A Beginner's Guide to the Mathematics of Neural Networks (1998)

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.161.3556&rep=rep1&type=pdf

9 years ago

NetBSD fully reproducible builds

https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_fully_reproducible_builds

9 years ago

Running Costs of a SaaS app

https://cushionapp.com/running-costs

9 years ago

Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders? (2013)

https://hbr.org/2013/08/why-do-so-many-incompetent-men

9 years ago

Universal Radio Hacker: investigate wireless protocols like a boss

https://github.com/jopohl/urh

9 years ago

★ 12.3k Python GPL-3.0

My Interview at Uber

https://www.alexkras.com/my-interview-at-uber/

9 years ago

How to Run a Rogue Gov Twitter Account with Anon Email Address and Burner Phone

https://theintercept.com/2017/02/20/how-to-run-a-rogue-government-twitter-account-with-an-anonymous-email-address-and-a-burner-phone/

9 years ago

Statistical Thinking: My Journey from Frequentist to Bayesian Statistics

http://www.fharrell.com/2017/02/my-journey-from-frequentist-to-bayesian.html

9 years ago

Chrome 57 Will Permanently Enable DRM

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/chrome-57-permanently-enabled-drm,33527.html

9 years ago

Library Hand, the Fastidiously Neat Penmanship Style Made for Card Catalogs

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/library-hand-penmanship-handwriting

9 years ago

If Susan Can Learn Physics, So Can You (2013)

https://fledglingphysicist.com/2013/12/12/if-susan-can-learn-physics-so-can-you/

9 years ago

My CAD software called home, and no-one answered, so it shut down

https://www.reddit.com/r/electronics/comments/5upft3/my_cad_software_called_home_and_noone_answered_so/

9 years ago

Cmd/compile: Go 1.8 regression: sync/atomic loop elided

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/19182

9 years ago

★ 133.6k Go BSD-3-Clause

Why Is Cancer More Common in Men?

http://harvardmagazine.com/2017/03/why-is-cancer-more-common-in-men

9 years ago

C++ on Embedded Systems

http://bitbashing.io/embedded-cpp.html

9 years ago

The Programming Interview from Hell

http://pythonforengineers.com/the-programming-interview-from-hell/

9 years ago

How do compilers optimize divisions?

https://zneak.github.io/fcd/2017/02/19/divisions.html

9 years ago

Using Yubikeys Everywhere

http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/using-yubikeys-everywhere

9 years ago

Thoughts on the Late 2016 MacBook Pro

https://www.perpetual-beta.org/weblog/thoughts-on-the-late-2016-macbook-pro.html

9 years ago

Do we need a new heading element in HTML?

https://jakearchibald.com/2017/do-we-need-a-new-heading-element/

9 years ago

Pirate site with No Traffic attracts 49m bogus DMCA notices

https://torrentfreak.com/pirate-site-with-no-traffic-attracts-49m-mainly-bogus-dmca-notices-170219/

9 years ago

Uber launches 'urgent investigation' into sexual harassment claims

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/feb/20/uber-urgent-investigation-sexual-harassment-claims-susan-fowler

9 years ago

WWII Propaganda Popularized Myth That Carrots Help You See in the Dark (2013)

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/a-wwii-propaganda-campaign-popularized-the-myth-that-carrots-help-you-see-in-the-dark-28812484/?no-ist

9 years ago

New Zealand Court Rules Kim Dotcom Can Be Extradited to U.S

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-39024596

9 years ago

Windows 10 Virtual Desktop Enhancer

https://github.com/sdias/win-10-virtual-desktop-enhancer

9 years ago

★ 1.7k AutoHotkey MIT

Introducing Qt 3D Studio

https://blog.qt.io/blog/2017/02/20/introducing-qt-3d-studio/

9 years ago

Asus Prime X370-PRO specs suggest AMD Ryzen processors may support ECC memory

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https://www.asus.com/gr/Motherboards/PRIME-X370-PRO/specifications/

9 years ago

Ask HN: Needs advice on learning NLP

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13684881

9 years ago

The Fundamental Theorem of Algebra: A Visual Approach [pdf]

https://www.math.washington.edu/~morrow/336_14/fta.pdf

9 years ago

Ask HN: How do you version your data?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13683539

9 years ago

Efficient game updates

https://amos.me/blog/2017/efficient-game-updates/

9 years ago

From math to machine: translating a function to machine code

https://briansteffens.github.io/2017/02/20/from-math-to-machine.html

9 years ago

Organics found on dwarf planet Ceres

http://cen.acs.org/articles/95/i8/Organics-found-dwarf-planet-Ceres.html

9 years ago