top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-03-08

Notepad++ V 7.3.3 – Fix CIA Hacking Notepad++ Issue

https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/notepad-7.3.3-fix-cia-hacking-issue.html

9 years ago

1101 upvotes – 283 comments

Google is acquiring Kaggle

https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/07/google-is-acquiring-data-science-community-kaggle/

9 years ago

810 upvotes – 156 comments

Apple starts rejecting apps with “hot code push” features

https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/73640

9 years ago

705 upvotes – 467 comments

An animated GIF that shows its own MD5

https://shells.aachen.ccc.de/~spq/md5.gif

9 years ago

543 upvotes – 94 comments

The System Design Primer

https://github.com/donnemartin/system-design

9 years ago

★ 344.9k Python
508 upvotes – 57 comments

Gail, not Gmail

https://gail.com/

9 years ago

505 upvotes – 154 comments

William Shatner's Seat

https://www.quora.com/I-always-see-this-small-black-triangle-on-the-inside-of-airplane-walls-What-does-it-mean-or-do?share=1

9 years ago

458 upvotes – 81 comments

Microsoft Pledges to Use ARM Server Chips, Threatening Intel's Dominance

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-08/microsoft-pledges-to-use-arm-server-chips-threatening-intel-s-dominance

9 years ago

379 upvotes – 230 comments

Ask HN: What does your production machine learning pipeline look like?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13821217

9 years ago

339 upvotes – 103 comments

Rabbit hole leads to 700-year-old Knights Templar cave

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-39193347

9 years ago

331 upvotes – 57 comments

Nevertheless, She Coded

https://dev.to/thepracticaldev/nevertheless-she-coded

9 years ago

325 upvotes – 345 comments

The Rusty Web: Targeting the Web with Rust

https://davidmcneil.github.io/the-rusty-web/

9 years ago

312 upvotes – 107 comments

Repairing My Tesla Model S Has Been a Nightmare

https://www.fool.com/investing/2017/03/07/repairing-my-tesla-model-s-has-been-an-utter-night.aspx

9 years ago

283 upvotes – 165 comments

Uber's 'hustle-oriented' culture becomes a black mark on employees' résumés

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/mar/07/uber-work-culture-travis-kalanick-susan-fowler-controversy

9 years ago

265 upvotes – 188 comments

Cloud Video Intelligence API

https://cloud.google.com/blog/big-data/2017/03/announcing-google-cloud-video-intelligence-api-and-more-cloud-machine-learning-updates

9 years ago

259 upvotes – 87 comments

ANTLR Mega Tutorial

https://tomassetti.me/antlr-mega-tutorial

9 years ago

253 upvotes – 65 comments

Chatbot that overturned 160k parking fines now helping refugees claim asylum

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/mar/06/chatbot-donotpay-refugees-claim-asylum-legal-aid

9 years ago

245 upvotes – 79 comments

VMware joins Linux Foundation: what about the GPL?

http://laforge.gnumonks.org/blog/20170308-vmware-linuxfoundation/

9 years ago

235 upvotes – 91 comments

Study: Potatoes can grow on Mars

http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2017/03/08/Study-Potatoes-can-grow-on-Mars/7961488992637/

9 years ago

230 upvotes – 139 comments

Show HN: Gitly.io – high performance Git service with a 10s installation time

https://gitly.io

9 years ago

230 upvotes – 125 comments

CSS Reminification: A crazy idea that worked

https://luisant.ca/remynifier

9 years ago

230 upvotes – 123 comments

Attitudes That Lead to Maintainable Code

https://spin.atomicobject.com/2017/03/07/attitudes-maintainable-code/

9 years ago

225 upvotes – 176 comments

XLA: linear algebra library for TensorFlow

https://developers.googleblog.com/2017/03/xla-tensorflow-compiled.html

9 years ago

176 upvotes – 28 comments

SJCL – Stanford JavaScript Crypto Library

https://github.com/bitwiseshiftleft/sjcl

9 years ago

★ 7.2k JavaScript
160 upvotes – 97 comments

Instacart Closes Latest Funding Round at $3.4B Valuation

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-07/instacart-raises-funding-valuing-grocery-startup-at-3-4-billion

9 years ago

149 upvotes – 171 comments

Abacus use can boost math skills

http://kottke.org/17/03/abacus-use-can-boost-math-skills-and-other-lessons-on-learning

9 years ago

128 upvotes – 65 comments

A neuroscience experiment failed to build a connectome for a 6502 chip

https://www.wired.com/2017/03/atari-chip-set-off-bitter-war-among-neuroscientists/

9 years ago

113 upvotes – 60 comments

The Man Who Almost Never Succeeded (2012)

https://www.lensrentals.com/blog/2012/10/the-man-who-almost-never-succeeded/

9 years ago

106 upvotes – 15 comments

Prenda copyright trolls made their own porn, seeded on Pirate Bay

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/03/its-official-prenda-copyright-trolls-made-their-own-porn-seeded-on-pirate-bay/

9 years ago

104 upvotes – 13 comments

The possibility of remaking the financial system with the blockchain

https://hbr.org/2017/03/the-blockchain-will-do-to-banks-and-law-firms-what-the-internet-did-to-media

9 years ago

103 upvotes – 71 comments

Softbank to sell 25% stake in ARM Holdings to Saudi-backed investment group

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-39204744

9 years ago

102 upvotes – 58 comments

Nike’s Vivid Shoes, and the Gray Area of Performance Enhancement

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/08/sports/nikes-vivid-shoes-and-the-gray-area-of-performance-enhancement.html?_r=0

9 years ago

102 upvotes – 95 comments

About Drums: the physics of overtones

http://circularscience.com/about-drums

9 years ago

99 upvotes – 30 comments

Ask HN: How did employees do after the Jet.com acquisition?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13822292

9 years ago

98 upvotes – 66 comments

Archaea: The 'Dark Matter' of the Microbial World

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/03/archaea-sequencing-challenges/518535/?single_page=true

9 years ago

93 upvotes – 32 comments

Motors Big and Small (1971) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWiYsRi2Dss

9 years ago

91 upvotes – 14 comments

Zebras Fix What Unicorns Break

https://medium.com/@sexandstartups/zebrasfix-c467e55f9d96#.fwn6ruj9e

9 years ago

91 upvotes – 23 comments

Bizur: A Key-Value Consensus Algorithm for Scalable File-Systems

https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.04242v1

9 years ago

91 upvotes – 37 comments

Spotify acquires audio detection startup Sonalytic

https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/07/spotify-acquires-audio-detection-startup-sonalytic/

9 years ago

87 upvotes – 23 comments

Use App Engine and Go to Host a Static Website with Same Domain Redirects

https://thornelabs.net/2017/03/08/use-google-app-engine-and-golang-to-host-a-static-website-with-same-domain-redirects.html

9 years ago

86 upvotes – 25 comments

Night-time in America's small towns

http://www.bbc.com/news/in-pictures-39040237

9 years ago

83 upvotes – 61 comments

An Introduction to GraphQL via the GitHub API

https://blog.codeship.com/an-introduction-to-graphql-via-the-github-api/

9 years ago

80 upvotes – 10 comments

Ask HN: Anyone moved to PC-BSD (TrueOS) from macOS?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13818574

9 years ago

79 upvotes – 57 comments

The Origins of the Linguistic Conception of Programming (2014) [pdf]

https://pure.uva.nl/ws/files/2419813/154677_Alberts_Nofre_Priestly_Technol_Culture_55_1_2014.pdf

9 years ago

77 upvotes – 44 comments
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