top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-03-05

Why I left Mac for Windows: Apple has given up

http://char.gd/microsoft/why-i-left-mac-for-windows/

9 years ago

695 upvotes – 759 comments

A $10K tiny house 3D-printed in 24 hours

http://apis-cor.com/en/about/news/first-house

9 years ago

626 upvotes – 250 comments

NASA proposes a magnetic shield to protect Mars' atmosphere

https://phys.org/news/2017-03-nasa-magnetic-shield-mars-atmosphere.html

9 years ago

475 upvotes – 173 comments

Electronic meters’ false readings up to six times higher than actual consumption

http://sciencebulletin.org/archives/10940.html

9 years ago

424 upvotes – 153 comments

AMA: Explaining my 750 line compiler+runtime designed to GPU self-host APL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcUWTa16Jc0

9 years ago

335 upvotes – 155 comments

I spent three months working full time to get a job

http://kolesky.com/datums/job-search/

9 years ago

332 upvotes – 317 comments

Vultr introduces $2.50/month plan

https://www.vultr.com/news/The-Vultr-Cloud-Is-More-Powerful-Than-Ever/

9 years ago

312 upvotes – 115 comments

Show HN: A new hobby OS from “scratch” in C#

https://github.com/amaneureka/AtomOS

9 years ago

★ 1.2kC#BSD-3-Clause
310 upvotes – 63 comments

To keep Tor hack source code secret, DOJ dismisses child porn case

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/03/doj-drops-case-against-child-porn-suspect-rather-than-disclose-fbi-hack/

9 years ago

307 upvotes – 137 comments

Akiyoshi's Illusion Pages

http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/~akitaoka/index-e.html

9 years ago

292 upvotes – 32 comments

Cloud Hosting Showdown: DO vs. Linode vs. Vultr vs. OVH vs. Scaleway

https://www.webstack.de/blog/e/cloud-hosting-provider-comparison-2017/

9 years ago

282 upvotes – 109 comments

When Factory Jobs Vanish, Men Become Less Desirable Partners

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/03/manufacturing-marriage-family/518280/?utm_content=buffer73ece&utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkedin.com&utm_campaign=buffer&single_page=true

9 years ago

272 upvotes – 446 comments

Uncertainty in Deep Learning (2016)

http://mlg.eng.cam.ac.uk/yarin/blog_2248.html

9 years ago

260 upvotes – 14 comments

Vacant Homes Are a Global Epidemic, and Paris Is Fighting It with a 60% Tax

https://betterdwelling.com/vacant-homes-global-epidemic-paris-fighting-60-tax/

9 years ago

248 upvotes – 257 comments

Ask HN: What's the actual fallout been from the Cloudflare bug?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13797256

9 years ago

248 upvotes – 75 comments

Comcast-Owned Vox Runs Commercial for Comcast’s $500M Snapchat Investment

http://fair.org/home/with-no-disclosure-comcast-owned-vox-runs-commercial-for-comcasts-500m-snapchat-investment/

9 years ago

237 upvotes – 54 comments

Major Experiments That Still Haven’t Found What They’re Looking For

http://nautil.us/blog/7-major-experiments-that-still-havent-found-what-theyre-looking-for

9 years ago

195 upvotes – 49 comments

Secure Computing for Journalists

https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2017/03/05/secure-computing-for-journalists/

9 years ago

179 upvotes – 143 comments

Cracking Minesweeper with Z3 SMT Solver

https://yurichev.com/blog/minesweeper/

9 years ago

177 upvotes – 56 comments

Aheui: Esoteric programming language designed for Hangul

https://aheui.github.io/specification.en

9 years ago

155 upvotes – 68 comments

Australian software engineer got asked algorithm question when entering US

http://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-advice/travellers-stories/aussies-weird-immigration-interview-in-the-us/news-story/8222c65d2f12e6691ef27c9b1753e821

9 years ago

155 upvotes – 120 comments

R Passes SAS, but Python Leaves Them Both Behind

http://r4stats.com/2017/02/28/r-passes-sas/

9 years ago

145 upvotes – 68 comments

The Tragedy of Newcomb Mott, Who Thought He Could Walk into Soviet Russia

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/newcomb-mott-soviet-border-death-boris-gleb

9 years ago

142 upvotes – 119 comments

Men not at work: Why so many men aged 25 to 54 are not working (2016)

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2016/08/15/men-not-at-work-why-so-many-men-ages-of-25-to-54-are-not-working/

9 years ago

133 upvotes – 188 comments

The Story of a Lucky Economist

http://allegedwisdom.blogspot.com/2017/03/the-story-of-lucky-economist.html

9 years ago

133 upvotes – 55 comments

How the Brain Dumps Its Trash (2016) [video]

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nedergaard-how-the-brain-dumps-its-trash-video/

9 years ago

130 upvotes – 16 comments

5 March 1981: The ZX81 home computer launches with 1kb memory

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX81

9 years ago

125 upvotes – 85 comments

Toronto Is in a Housing Bubble

http://www.greaterfool.ca/2017/03/04/its-official-its-a-bubble/

9 years ago

121 upvotes – 120 comments

“When we do mathematics, we touch immortality.”

https://www.quantamagazine.org/20161020-science-math-education-survey/?code=3048

9 years ago

108 upvotes – 87 comments

Security 101 for SaaS startups

https://github.com/forter/security-101-for-saas-startups

9 years ago

★ 4.6k
105 upvotes – 67 comments

You Can’t Have a Rollback Button

https://blog.skyliner.io/you-cant-have-a-rollback-button-83e914f420d9#.ns2uqasoj

9 years ago

102 upvotes – 57 comments

'Once Upon A Time In America': A Butchered Film Rising Up As A Phoenix

https://cinephiliabeyond.org/once-upon-a-time-in-america-a-butchered-film-rising-up-as-a-phoenix/

9 years ago

97 upvotes – 58 comments

Smog in Western U.S. Starts Out as Pollution in Asia, Researchers Say

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/03/03/518323094/rise-in-smog-in-western-u-s-is-blamed-on-asias-air-pollution?sc=tw

9 years ago

95 upvotes – 31 comments

What it feels like to be an open-source maintainer

https://nolanlawson.com/2017/03/05/what-it-feels-like-to-be-an-open-source-maintainer/

9 years ago

91 upvotes – 20 comments

What is Instacart really charging? the breakdown

https://np.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/5xj47l/ever_what_instacart_is_really_charging_you_in/

9 years ago

90 upvotes – 87 comments
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