top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-03-09

YC will hold interviews in Vancouver for founders who can’t get US visas

https://blog.ycombinator.com/us-visas/

9 years ago

1125 upvotes – 788 comments

Google Cloud SQL for Postgres

https://cloud.google.com/sql/docs/postgres/

9 years ago

755 upvotes – 232 comments

Gmail Add-ons

https://gsuite-developers.googleblog.com/2017/03/bring-power-of-your-apps-into-gmail_9.html

9 years ago

434 upvotes – 104 comments

Emacs org-mode examples and cookbook

http://ehneilsen.net/notebook/orgExamples/org-examples.html

9 years ago

386 upvotes – 161 comments

Introducing Cloud Functions for Firebase

https://firebase.googleblog.com/2017/03/introducing-cloud-functions-for-firebase.html

9 years ago

346 upvotes – 121 comments

Airbnb raises $1B at $31B valuation, became profitable in 2016

http://www.cnbc.com/2017/03/09/airbnb-closes-1-billion-round-31-billion-valuation-profitable.html

9 years ago

342 upvotes – 236 comments

Ctop – commandline monitoring for containers

https://bcicen.github.io/ctop/

9 years ago

323 upvotes – 73 comments

New Features in C# 7.0

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2017/03/09/new-features-in-c-7-0/

9 years ago

320 upvotes – 262 comments

Finding a $5,000 Google Maps XSS by fiddling with Protobuf

https://medium.com/@marin_m/how-i-found-a-5-000-google-maps-xss-by-fiddling-with-protobuf-963ee0d9caff#.9eebbzaif

9 years ago

304 upvotes – 18 comments

Emoji.length == 2

http://blog.jonnew.com/posts/poo-dot-length-equals-two

9 years ago

279 upvotes – 159 comments

Introducing the Invisible reCAPTCHA

https://www.google.com/recaptcha/intro/invisible.html

9 years ago

270 upvotes – 236 comments

Ask HN: What are some alternatives to Show HN? Other platforms to showcase

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13828180

9 years ago

251 upvotes – 51 comments

Google Cloud Platform Free Tier

https://cloud.google.com/free/

9 years ago

243 upvotes – 76 comments

Google Identity-Aware Proxy

https://cloud.google.com/iap/

9 years ago

196 upvotes – 48 comments

The Stack That Helped Opendoor Buy and Sell Over $1B in Homes

https://stackshare.io/opendoor/the-stack-that-helped-opendoor-buy-and-sell-over-$1b-in-homes

9 years ago

192 upvotes – 73 comments

UnCSS: Remove unused styles from CSS

https://github.com/giakki/uncss

9 years ago

★ 9.4kJavaScriptMIT
181 upvotes – 48 comments

The Frequency of Known Vulnerabilities in JavaScript

https://snyk.io/blog/known-vulnerabilities-in-javascript/

9 years ago

170 upvotes – 57 comments

A Review of Modern Sail Theory (1981) [pdf]

http://ljjensen.net/Maritimt/A%20Review%20of%20Modern%20Sail%20Theory.pdf

9 years ago

167 upvotes – 54 comments

Avegant “Light Field” Display

http://www.kguttag.com/2017/03/09/avegant-light-field-display-magic-leap/

9 years ago

159 upvotes – 30 comments

Google Splits Hangouts into Chat and Meet

https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/09/google-goes-after-slack-and-splits-hangouts-into-chat-and-meet/

9 years ago

157 upvotes – 149 comments

Digital Privacy at the U.S Border: A New How-To Guide from EFF

https://www.eff.org/press/releases/digital-privacy-us-border-new-how-guide-eff

9 years ago

145 upvotes – 45 comments

Laziness isn’t why people are poor. And iPhones aren’t why they lack health care

https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2017/03/08/laziness-isnt-why-people-are-poor-and-iphones-arent-why-they-lack-health-care/

9 years ago

145 upvotes – 208 comments

Pushing Swift to the Server

https://www.skilled.io/u/swiftsummit/pushing-swift-to-the-server

9 years ago

144 upvotes – 106 comments

Plex Media Server on Cloud

https://www.plex.tv/features/cloud/

9 years ago

138 upvotes – 90 comments

A Roadmap to Merging 'dep' into the Go Toolchain

https://github.com/golang/dep/wiki/Roadmap?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email

9 years ago

★ 12.7kGoBSD-3-Clause
138 upvotes – 44 comments

The Tenacity of Tech Recruiters

http://www.mattfriz.com/#/outbursts/recruiter-email

9 years ago

132 upvotes – 86 comments

Village Capital is ditching Demo Days

https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/04/why-were-ditching-demo-days/?ncid=rss

9 years ago

126 upvotes – 54 comments

Watch demos all day [video]

http://tv.pouet.net/

9 years ago

120 upvotes – 23 comments

Triplebyte expands its recruiting platform beyond YC, signs up Apple, Facebook

https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/09/triplebyte-expands-its-recruiting-platform-beyond-yc-and-signs-up-apple-and-facebook/

9 years ago

116 upvotes – 146 comments

The Disappearing Mass Housing of the Soviet Union

https://www.citylab.com/housing/2017/03/the-disappearing-mass-housing-of-the-soviet-union/518868/

9 years ago

116 upvotes – 71 comments

Lily Drone Files for Bankruptcy

http://www.droningon.co/2017/03/01/lily-file-bankruptcy-whilst-customers-remain-apprehensive-refunds/

9 years ago

115 upvotes – 111 comments

Scientists create ‘designer yeast’ in major step toward synthetic life

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2017/03/09/scientists-create-designer-yeast-in-major-step-toward-synthetic-life/

9 years ago

111 upvotes – 23 comments

The quest to crystallize time

http://www.nature.com/news/the-quest-to-crystallize-time-1.21595?href=

9 years ago

105 upvotes – 62 comments

Is It Better to Be Poor in Bangladesh or the Mississippi Delta?

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/03/angus-deaton-qa/518880/?single_page=true

9 years ago

105 upvotes – 101 comments

Fukushima: Wild boars take over Japan's evacuated towns [video]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-39216242

9 years ago

102 upvotes – 172 comments

Putting the Times’s First Email Address to Bed

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/20/insider/putting-the-timess-first-email-address-to-bed.html?_r=0

9 years ago

101 upvotes – 21 comments

Upgrade your jail cell for a price

http://www.latimes.com/projects/la-me-pay-to-stay-jails/

9 years ago

97 upvotes – 96 comments

Wikileaks is offering tech firms CIA files first

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-39221421

9 years ago

93 upvotes – 111 comments

Starting a real business

https://stripe.com/atlas/guide

9 years ago

91 upvotes – 16 comments

Django REST framework 3.6 released

http://www.django-rest-framework.org/topics/3.6-announcement/

9 years ago

90 upvotes – 8 comments

Thermal images reveal what parts of a screen were tapped

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/03/hot-hands-smartphones/519069/?single_page=true

9 years ago

88 upvotes – 72 comments

Launch HN: Fiix (YC W17) – Same-Day Auto Repair at Your Home

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13832195

9 years ago

87 upvotes – 77 comments

Cloud Functions – Serverless Environment

https://cloud.google.com/functions/

9 years ago

84 upvotes – 2 comments

Julian Assange Press Conference on CIA Vault

https://www.periscope.tv/WikiLeaks/1ZkKzEqeDMZxv

9 years ago

83 upvotes – 39 comments

Drivetribe’s Modern Take on CQRS with Apache Flink

https://data-artisans.com/drivetribe-cqrs-apache-flink/

9 years ago

83 upvotes – 17 comments

Show HN: Askama – Type-safe, compiled Jinja-like templates for Rust

https://github.com/djc/askama

9 years ago

★ 3.5kRustApache-2.0
82 upvotes – 27 comments

Facebook criticised over handling of reports of child exploitation content

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-39187929

9 years ago

82 upvotes – 88 comments

A subterranean world of water offers a glimpse of Ramla’s past

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20170307-an-underground-boat-to-islamic-glory

9 years ago

77 upvotes – 50 comments

Microsoft now puts ads in Windows 10 File Explorer

https://www.extremetech.com/computing/245553-microsoft-now-puts-ads-windows-file-explorer

9 years ago

71 upvotes – 24 comments

Self-Driving Car Challenge

https://www.udacity.com/didi-challenge

9 years ago

69 upvotes – 18 comments

How I Kicked My Smartphone Addiction, and Never Looked Back

http://www.thememo.com/2017/03/09/how-i-kicked-my-smartphone-habit-and-never-looked-back/

9 years ago

66 upvotes – 80 comments

Google Cloud – Price Cuts, Reserved Instances, Dataprep, Cloud Functions, More

https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/03/Google-Cloud-Platform-your-Next-home-in-the-cloud.html

9 years ago

66 upvotes – 11 comments
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