top 50% 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

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

Mozilla Acquires Pocket

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

9 years ago

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

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

9 years ago

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

Prophet: forecasting at scale

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

9 years ago

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

Ask HN: How would you turn Twitter around?

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

9 years ago

Introducing Handle – Boston Dynamics [video]

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

9 years ago

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

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

I Wrote My Fastest Hashtable

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

9 years ago

My 2015 MacBook Pro Retina Exploded

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

9 years ago

Uber's SVP of engineering is out

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

9 years ago

Data on the uselessness of LinkedIn endorsements

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

9 years ago

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

How Ikea's Billy bookcase took over the world

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

9 years ago

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

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

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

9 years ago

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

Incident management at Google – adventures in SRE-land

https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/02/Incident-management-at-Google-adventures-in-SRE-land.html

9 years ago

Self-driving cars in the browser

http://janhuenermann.com/projects/learning-to-drive

9 years ago

Uber is designed so that for one employee to get ahead, another must fail

https://qz.com/918582/uber-is-designed-so-that-for-one-employee-to-succeed-another-must-fail/

9 years ago

Same-sex marriage linked to decline in teen suicides

https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/02/same-sex-marriage-linked-to-decline-in-teen-suicides/

9 years ago

New Rust hash table leads Benchmarks Game

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/performance.php?test=knucleotide

9 years ago

Solar Now Provides Twice as Many Jobs as the Coal Industry

https://www.fastcoexist.com/3068125/solar-now-provides-twice-as-many-jobs-as-the-coal-industry

9 years ago

OpenXR – Cross-Platform, Portable, Virtual Reality

https://www.khronos.org/openxr

9 years ago

Exponential growth devours and corrupts

https://m.signalvnoise.com/exponential-growth-devours-and-corrupts-c5562fbf131#.l1ctrlhlr

9 years ago

The “high-level CPU” challenge (2008)

http://yosefk.com/blog/the-high-level-cpu-challenge.html

9 years ago

SHA1 collisions make Git vulnerable to attacks

http://www.metzdowd.com/pipermail/cryptography/2017-February/031623.html

9 years ago

Uber dismissed warnings about its illegal self-driving test for months

http://www.theverge.com/2017/2/27/14698902/uber-self-driving-san-francisco-dmv-email-levandowski

9 years ago

Ask HN: What are your favorite tech podcasts?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13747563

9 years ago

Using Deep Learning and Google Street View to Estimate Demographic Makeup of US

https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.06683

9 years ago

DHS Quietly Testing Mandatory Facial Recognition of Passengers Exiting U.S

https://professional-troublemaker.com/2017/02/27/dhs-quietly-testing-mandatory-facial-recognition-of-passengers-exiting-u-s/

9 years ago

Show HN: Poxi – A Hackable Pixel Art Editor

https://github.com/maierfelix/poxi

9 years ago

★ 2.7k JavaScript BSD-2-Clause

Ask HN: Hourly freelancers, what do you do when you can't figure something out?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13741418

9 years ago

Mender – An open-source OTA software updater for embedded Linux devices

https://www.mender.io/blog/announcing-the-production-ready-mender-release-1-0

9 years ago

UK government considering a “cut-off date” for EU citizens’ rights to residency

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-theresa-may-eu-citizens-live-in-uk-freedom-of-movement-european-union-a7601051.html

9 years ago

Support Grows for a Seattle to Vancouver Bullet Train

https://nextcity.org/daily/entry/support-grows-seattle-vancouver-bullet-train-feasability-study

9 years ago

What happened to clockless computer chips?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/530180/what-happened-to-clockless-computer-chips

9 years ago

Show HN: Staffjoy V2, now open source

https://github.com/staffjoy/v2

9 years ago

★ 1.6k JavaScript MIT