top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-03-11

Build a digital clock in Conway's Life

http://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/88783/build-a-digital-clock-in-conways-game-of-life/

9 years ago

712 upvotes – 87 comments

What the CIA WikiLeaks Dump Tells Us: Encryption Works

https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2017/03/11/technology/ap-us-tec-wikileaks-cia-tech-encryption.html

9 years ago

663 upvotes – 259 comments

Ask HN: How do I start my own consulting firm?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13845681

9 years ago

476 upvotes – 112 comments

Can sleep deprivation cure depression?

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/10/opinion/sunday/can-sleep-deprivation-cure-depression.html

9 years ago

397 upvotes – 212 comments

A little-known iPhone feature that lets blind people see with their fingers

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/david-pogue-on-iphone-voiceover-163733668.html

9 years ago

304 upvotes – 107 comments

MIT Media Lab Disobedience Award

https://www.media.mit.edu/disobedience/

9 years ago

282 upvotes – 159 comments

Rust's Type System Is Turing-Complete: Type-Level Programming in Rust

https://sdleffler.github.io/RustTypeSystemTuringComplete/

9 years ago

280 upvotes – 117 comments

How to recover lost Python source code if it's still resident in-memory

https://gist.github.com/simonw/8aa492e59265c1a021f5c5618f9e6b12

9 years ago

231 upvotes – 45 comments

Show HN: Nomouse

https://github.com/brhs/nomouse

9 years ago

228 upvotes – 167 comments

Physical location of live stream found using flights patterns and astronomy

https://heatst.com/tech/he-will-not-divide-us-livestream-placed-in-middle-of-nowhere-but-4chan-still-found-way-to-troll-it/

9 years ago

200 upvotes – 118 comments

Blender Cycles Turbocharged: how we made rendering 10x faster

https://cloud.blender.org/blog/cycles-turbocharged-how-we-made-rendering-10x-faster

9 years ago

197 upvotes – 14 comments

Crazy Eddie Fraud

https://whitecollarfraud.com/crazy-eddie/crazy-eddie-fraud/

9 years ago

185 upvotes – 77 comments

Alphabet adds patent claim to Uber intellectual property theft lawsuit

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-uber-alphabet-lawsuit-idUSKBN16H2GQ

9 years ago

184 upvotes – 106 comments

Stocks are up but 80% of the value is held by the richest 10%

https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2017/03/02/perspective-on-the-stock-market-rally-80-of-stock-value-held-by-top-10/

9 years ago

182 upvotes – 325 comments

Window Maker 0.95.8 released

http://windowmaker.org/news.php

9 years ago

180 upvotes – 90 comments

Ask HN: Weird, curious or bizzarre subreddits that you would like to suggest

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13846545

9 years ago

174 upvotes – 60 comments

“Hello, (real) world” in PHP in 2017

https://kukuruku.co/post/hello-real-world-in-php-in-2017/

9 years ago

172 upvotes – 141 comments

Update: CRISPR

http://www.radiolab.org/story/update-crispr/

9 years ago

171 upvotes – 78 comments

The no excuses culture

https://steveblank.com/2017/03/08/the-no-excuses-culture/

9 years ago

168 upvotes – 164 comments

The Senators that introduced a bill to let telecoms sell your internet history

https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2017/03/24-senators-introduced-bill-let-telecoms-sell-private-internet-history/

9 years ago

148 upvotes – 31 comments

The cruellest RollerCoaster Tycoon park created

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2017-03-10-inside-the-most-evil-rollercoaster-tycoon-park-ever-created

9 years ago

141 upvotes – 31 comments

Pony language 0.11.0 released

https://pony.groups.io/g/user/message/892

9 years ago

130 upvotes – 52 comments

Up to 48M Twitter accounts may be bots

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/as-many-as-48-million-twitter-accounts-arent-people-says-study/ar-AAo9e16?li=AA4Zoy&ocid=spartandhp

9 years ago

128 upvotes – 61 comments

Reaching new records in speech recognition

https://www.ibm.com/blogs/watson/2017/03/reaching-new-records-in-speech-recognition/

9 years ago

123 upvotes – 37 comments

Waymo Asks Court to Block Uber’s Self-Driving Car Project

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/10/technology/waymo-uber-self-driving-car-lawsuit.html

9 years ago

121 upvotes – 1 comments

Show HN: 288 Analog Clocks Give Digital Time

http://clocks.80limit.com

9 years ago

117 upvotes – 34 comments

House Republicans would let employers demand workers’ genetic test results

https://www.statnews.com/2017/03/10/workplace-wellness-genetic-testing/

9 years ago

112 upvotes – 89 comments

Emirates Says Bookings to the U.S. Fell by 35% After the First Travel Ban

http://fortune.com/2017/03/09/emirates-bookings-fell-35-after-first-travel-ban/

9 years ago

106 upvotes – 55 comments

Lethal Opiates Delivered by Mail from China, Killing Addicts in the U.S

http://www.npr.org/2017/03/11/519649096/can-china-ban-on-deadly-opioid-save-lives-in-the-u-s

9 years ago

96 upvotes – 129 comments

Are They Slim Yet? Firefox, Chrome, IE, Safari

http://www.erahm.org/2017/03/10/are-they-slim-yet-round-2/

9 years ago

94 upvotes – 98 comments

Preinstalled Malware Targeting Mobile Users

http://blog.checkpoint.com/2017/03/10/preinstalled-malware-targeting-mobile-users/

9 years ago

93 upvotes – 64 comments

The Case for HAL's Sanity

http://www.visual-memory.co.uk/amk/doc/0095.html

9 years ago

89 upvotes – 44 comments
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