top 20 hacker news stories for 2017-02-27

I am an Uber survivor

https://medium.com/@amyvertino/my-name-is-not-amy-i-am-an-uber-survivor-c6d6541e632f

9 years ago

2168 upvotes – 767 comments

SpaceX to Send Privately Crewed Dragon Spacecraft Beyond the Moon Next Year

http://www.spacex.com/news/2017/02/27/spacex-send-privately-crewed-dragon-spacecraft-beyond-moon-next-year

9 years ago

1747 upvotes – 488 comments

Mozilla Acquires Pocket

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/02/27/mozilla-acquires-pocket/

9 years ago

1187 upvotes – 445 comments

“I was just asked to balance a Binary Search Tree by JFK's airport immigration”

https://twitter.com/cyberomin/status/835888786462625792

9 years ago

660 upvotes – 314 comments

How to Self-Publish a Novel in 2017

http://www.zhubert.com/blog/2017/02/25/how-to-self-publish-a-novel-in-2017/

9 years ago

551 upvotes – 163 comments

Prophet: forecasting at scale

https://research.fb.com/prophet-forecasting-at-scale/?

9 years ago

520 upvotes – 110 comments

CloudPets teddy bears leaked and ransomed, exposing kids' voice messages

https://www.troyhunt.com/data-from-connected-cloudpets-teddy-bears-leaked-and-ransomed-exposing-kids-voice-messages/

9 years ago

500 upvotes – 169 comments

Ask HN: How would you turn Twitter around?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13746549

9 years ago

452 upvotes – 600 comments

Introducing Handle – Boston Dynamics [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7xvqQeoA8c

9 years ago

429 upvotes – 119 comments

Who Needs GPS? The Story of Etak's 1985 Car Navigation System

https://www.fastcompany.com/3047828/who-needs-gps-the-forgotten-story-of-etaks-amazing-1985-car-navigation-system

9 years ago

391 upvotes – 83 comments

A solution for enabling UDP in the web

http://new.gafferongames.com/post/why_cant_i_send_udp_packets_from_a_browser/

9 years ago

383 upvotes – 180 comments

I Wrote My Fastest Hashtable

https://probablydance.com/2017/02/26/i-wrote-the-fastest-hashtable/

9 years ago

380 upvotes – 116 comments

My 2015 MacBook Pro Retina Exploded

https://medium.com/@dourvaris/my-2015-macbook-pro-retina-exploded-119ea5ea9d1f#.pgd3f8jme

9 years ago

372 upvotes – 216 comments

Uber's SVP of engineering is out

http://www.recode.net/2017/2/27/14745360/amit-singhal-google-uber

9 years ago

359 upvotes – 142 comments

Data on the uselessness of LinkedIn endorsements

http://blog.interviewing.io/linkedin-endorsements-are-dumb-heres-the-data/

9 years ago

354 upvotes – 152 comments

How a French scholar was treated at US airport

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.huffingtonpost.fr%2Fhenry-rousso%2Fmuslim-ban-donald-trump-etats-unis%2F&edit-text=

9 years ago

354 upvotes – 253 comments

How Ikea's Billy bookcase took over the world

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-38747485

9 years ago

303 upvotes – 237 comments

Uber Executive, Linked to an Old Harassment Claim, Resigns

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/27/technology/uber-sexual-harassment-amit-singhal-resign.html

9 years ago

286 upvotes – 168 comments

Dropbox is using an unsigned binary to install kernel extensions on your Mac

https://twitter.com/JZdziarski/status/836022552770326529

9 years ago

263 upvotes – 70 comments

A Physicist Who Denies That Dark Matter Exists

http://cosmos.nautil.us/short/144/the-physicist-who-denies-that-dark-matter-exists

9 years ago

259 upvotes – 185 comments
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