top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-02-21

Why I Don’t Talk to Google Recruiters

http://www.yegor256.com/2017/02/21/say-no-to-google-recruiters.html

9 years ago

892 upvotes – 652 comments

Upspin – Another option for file sharing

https://security.googleblog.com/2017/02/another-option-for-file-sharing.html

9 years ago

619 upvotes – 164 comments

Introducing Netflix Stethoscope

http://techblog.netflix.com/2017/02/introducing-netflix-stethoscope.html

9 years ago

497 upvotes – 154 comments

How setting the TZ environment variable avoids thousands of system calls

https://blog.packagecloud.io/eng/2017/02/21/set-environment-variable-save-thousands-of-system-calls/

9 years ago

472 upvotes – 143 comments

What I Heard from Trump Supporters

http://blog.samaltman.com/what-i-heard-from-trump-supporters

9 years ago

461 upvotes – 858 comments

GPUs Are Now Available for Google Compute Engine and Cloud Machine Learning

https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/02/GPUs-are-now-available-for-Google-Compute-Engine-and-Cloud-Machine-Learning.html

9 years ago

449 upvotes – 148 comments

Anagram Scoring

http://blog.plover.com/lang/anagram-scoring.html

9 years ago

378 upvotes – 106 comments

Dwitter – A social network for short JavaScript demos

https://www.dwitter.net/

9 years ago

361 upvotes – 71 comments

Welcome to the New AWS AI Blog

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/ai/welcome-to-the-new-aws-ai-blog/

9 years ago

357 upvotes – 93 comments

Bash and Windows Subsystem for Linux Demo [video]

https://channel9.msdn.com/events/Windows/Windows-Developer-Day-Creators-Update/Developer-tools-and-updates#time=17m30s

9 years ago

285 upvotes – 300 comments

Deploystack – Curated list of best tools for launching your website

https://deploystack.io/

9 years ago

279 upvotes – 90 comments

Dear Mark Zuckerberg: Democracy is not a Facebook focus group

http://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2017/02/21/dear-mark-zuckerberg-democracy-not-facebook-focus-group

9 years ago

260 upvotes – 265 comments

PuTTY 0.68 has been released

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/releases/0.68.html

9 years ago

243 upvotes – 147 comments

Google and Mozilla's message to AV and security firms: Stop trashing HTTPS

http://www.zdnet.com/article/google-and-mozillas-message-to-av-and-security-firms-stop-trashing-https/

9 years ago

226 upvotes – 109 comments

Cheating on a string theory exam

http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2017-02-21-cheating-on-a-string-theory-exam.html

9 years ago

210 upvotes – 69 comments

Want an energy efficient datacenter? Build it underwater

http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/hardware/want-an-energyefficient-data-center-build-it-underwater

9 years ago

199 upvotes – 159 comments

Finding the Lost Vikings – Reversing a Virtual Machine

https://ryiron.wordpress.com/2017/02/01/finding-the-lost-vikings-reversing-a-virtual-machine/

9 years ago

165 upvotes – 27 comments

Carbon fibre makes Australian debut

http://www.csiro.au/en/News/News-releases/2017/Carbon-fibre-makes-Australian-debut

9 years ago

164 upvotes – 118 comments

Show HN: GraphQL Voyager – Represent Any GraphQL API as an Interactive Graph

https://github.com/APIs-guru/graphql-voyager

9 years ago

★ 8.1k TypeScript MIT
163 upvotes – 29 comments

Show HN: Plot directly in your terminal with matplotlib

https://github.com/daleroberts/itermplot

9 years ago

★ 1.5k Python
160 upvotes – 28 comments

Do Developers Need College Degrees?

http://www.stackoverflow.blog/code-for-a-living/do-developers-need-college-degrees

9 years ago

160 upvotes – 194 comments

Expanding Fact Checking at Google

https://www.blog.google/topics/journalism-news/expanding-fact-checking-google/

9 years ago

148 upvotes – 274 comments

The Year of Linux on Everything but the Desktop

http://media.bemyapp.com/year-linux-everything-desktop/?utm_source=bma&utm_medium=ycombin&utm_content=&utm_campaign=media

9 years ago

142 upvotes – 179 comments

Draft law to require warrants for border device searches

http://www.zdnet.com/article/draft-law-to-require-warrants-for-border-device-searches/

9 years ago

139 upvotes – 27 comments

‘Story Of Your Life’ Is Not A Time-Travel Story

https://www.gwern.net/Story%20Of%20Your%20Life

9 years ago

136 upvotes – 90 comments

From lunch to acquisition: How Atlassian bought Trello

https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/21/how-atlassian-bought-trello/

9 years ago

134 upvotes – 74 comments

Manifestos and Monopolies

https://stratechery.com/2017/manifestos-and-monopolies/

9 years ago

133 upvotes – 44 comments

Encouraging individual sovereignty and a healthy commons

https://ar.al/notes/encouraging-individual-sovereignty-and-a-healthy-commons/

9 years ago

132 upvotes – 100 comments

Isso: A Commenting Server Similar to Disqus

https://posativ.org/isso/

9 years ago

132 upvotes – 67 comments

What Are the Tricky Parts of Embedded Development?

http://embedded.fm/blog/2017/2/17/what-are-the-tricky-parts-of-embedded-development

9 years ago

130 upvotes – 111 comments

Ask HN: What's your backup setup?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13694079

9 years ago

127 upvotes – 156 comments

Deep in Brazil’s Amazon, Exploring the Ruins of Ford’s Fantasyland

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/20/world/americas/deep-in-brazils-amazon-exploring-the-ruins-of-fords-fantasyland.html

9 years ago

126 upvotes – 25 comments

Image-to-Image Translation Demo

http://affinelayer.com/pixsrv/index.html

9 years ago

122 upvotes – 10 comments

Robots Aren’t Killing the American Dream

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/20/opinion/no-robots-arent-killing-the-american-dream.html

9 years ago

120 upvotes – 325 comments

Lead Bullets (2011)

http://a16z.com/2011/11/13/lead-bullets/

9 years ago

119 upvotes – 43 comments

NASA to Unveil New Exoplanet Discovery Tomorrow

http://www.space.com/35779-nasa-exoplanet-findings-announcement.html

9 years ago

110 upvotes – 39 comments

Open Access at European Space Agency

http://open.esa.int/

9 years ago

108 upvotes – 14 comments

IBM Data Science Experience: Whole-Cluster Privilege Escalation Disclosure

https://wycd.net/posts/2017-02-21-ibm-whole-cluster-privilege-escalation-disclosure.html

9 years ago

103 upvotes – 10 comments

Filing Taxes After Exercising Start Up Options

https://bradygentile.com/filing-your-taxes-after-exercising-and-holding-private-startup-shares/

9 years ago

96 upvotes – 44 comments

Jest 19: Immersive Watch Mode and Test Platform Improvements

http://facebook.github.io/jest/blog/2017/02/21/jest-19-immersive-watch-mode-test-platform-improvements.html

9 years ago

92 upvotes – 13 comments

Evidence that ancient Japan was more cosmopolitan than previously thought (2016)

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/10/05/national/history/research-uncovers-evidence-ancient-japan-cosmopolitan-previously-thought/#.WKvgqRjMzv0

9 years ago

90 upvotes – 34 comments

APL in R

https://bookdown.org/jandeleeuw6/apl/

9 years ago

84 upvotes – 24 comments

The Only Thing, Historically, That's Curbed Inequality: Catastrophe

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/02/scheidel-great-leveler-inequality-violence/517164/?single_page=true

9 years ago

82 upvotes – 29 comments

Therapy Experience Associated with Negative Changes in Personality

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092656616302410

9 years ago

82 upvotes – 58 comments

Dual Numbers and Automatic Differentiation (2014)

http://blog.demofox.org/2014/12/30/dual-numbers-automatic-differentiation/

9 years ago

78 upvotes – 35 comments

Show HN: AVR-VM – VM with JIT-compiler for ATMega32 written in Rust

https://github.com/MackieLoeffel/avr-vm

9 years ago

★ 112 Rust MIT
78 upvotes – 11 comments

We Tried Slack and We Deeply Regretted It (2015)

https://medium.freecodecamp.com/so-yeah-we-tried-slack-and-we-deeply-regretted-it-391bcc714c81#.jr3zva5v8

9 years ago

76 upvotes – 127 comments

High-Resolution Image Inpainting Using Multi-Scale Neural Patch Synthesis

https://github.com/leehomyc/High-Res-Neural-Inpainting

9 years ago

★ 1.2k Lua MIT
69 upvotes – 4 comments
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