2168
767
I am an Uber survivor
https://medium.com/@amyvertino/my-name-is-not-amy-i-am-an-uber-survivor-c6d6541e632f
9 years ago
1747
488
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
1187
445
Mozilla Acquires Pocket
https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/02/27/mozilla-acquires-pocket/
660
314
“I was just asked to balance a Binary Search Tree by JFK's airport immigration”
https://twitter.com/cyberomin/status/835888786462625792
551
163
How to Self-Publish a Novel in 2017
http://www.zhubert.com/blog/2017/02/25/how-to-self-publish-a-novel-in-2017/
520
110
Prophet: forecasting at scale
https://research.fb.com/prophet-forecasting-at-scale/?
500
169
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/
452
600
Ask HN: How would you turn Twitter around?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13746549
429
119
Introducing Handle – Boston Dynamics [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7xvqQeoA8c
391
83
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
383
180
A solution for enabling UDP in the web
http://new.gafferongames.com/post/why_cant_i_send_udp_packets_from_a_browser/
380
116
I Wrote My Fastest Hashtable
https://probablydance.com/2017/02/26/i-wrote-the-fastest-hashtable/
372
216
My 2015 MacBook Pro Retina Exploded
https://medium.com/@dourvaris/my-2015-macbook-pro-retina-exploded-119ea5ea9d1f#.pgd3f8jme
359
142
Uber's SVP of engineering is out
http://www.recode.net/2017/2/27/14745360/amit-singhal-google-uber
354
152
Data on the uselessness of LinkedIn endorsements
http://blog.interviewing.io/linkedin-endorsements-are-dumb-heres-the-data/
253
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=
303
237
How Ikea's Billy bookcase took over the world
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-38747485
286
168
Uber Executive, Linked to an Old Harassment Claim, Resigns
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/27/technology/uber-sexual-harassment-amit-singhal-resign.html
263
70
Dropbox is using an unsigned binary to install kernel extensions on your Mac
https://twitter.com/JZdziarski/status/836022552770326529
259
185
A Physicist Who Denies That Dark Matter Exists
http://cosmos.nautil.us/short/144/the-physicist-who-denies-that-dark-matter-exists
250
43
Incident management at Google – adventures in SRE-land
https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/02/Incident-management-at-Google-adventures-in-SRE-land.html
249
31
Self-driving cars in the browser
http://janhuenermann.com/projects/learning-to-drive
227
105
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/
207
170
Same-sex marriage linked to decline in teen suicides
https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/02/same-sex-marriage-linked-to-decline-in-teen-suicides/
198
146
New Rust hash table leads Benchmarks Game
http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/performance.php?test=knucleotide
45
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
184
42
OpenXR – Cross-Platform, Portable, Virtual Reality
https://www.khronos.org/openxr
52
Exponential growth devours and corrupts
https://m.signalvnoise.com/exponential-growth-devours-and-corrupts-c5562fbf131#.l1ctrlhlr
172
127
The “high-level CPU” challenge (2008)
http://yosefk.com/blog/the-high-level-cpu-challenge.html
171
124
SHA1 collisions make Git vulnerable to attacks
http://www.metzdowd.com/pipermail/cryptography/2017-February/031623.html
158
49
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
148
55
Ask HN: What are your favorite tech podcasts?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13747563
145
48
Using Deep Learning and Google Street View to Estimate Demographic Makeup of US
https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.06683
74
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/
144
37
Show HN: Poxi – A Hackable Pixel Art Editor
https://github.com/maierfelix/poxi
★ 2.7kJavaScriptBSD-2-Clause–9 years ago
137
Ask HN: Hourly freelancers, what do you do when you can't figure something out?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13741418
132
Mender – An open-source OTA software updater for embedded Linux devices
https://www.mender.io/blog/announcing-the-production-ready-mender-release-1-0
126
173
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
95
Support Grows for a Seattle to Vancouver Bullet Train
https://nextcity.org/daily/entry/support-grows-seattle-vancouver-bullet-train-feasability-study
123
What happened to clockless computer chips?
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/530180/what-happened-to-clockless-computer-chips
113
35
Show HN: Staffjoy V2, now open source
https://github.com/staffjoy/v2
★ 1.6kJavaScriptMIT–9 years ago
Uber Executive, Linked to an Old Harassment Claim, Resigns