top 20 hacker news stories for 2017-03-12

Ask HN: What are some good technology blogs to follow?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13849430

9 years ago

893 upvotes – 187 comments

How the Maker of TurboTax Fought Free, Simple Tax Filing (2013)

https://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-maker-of-turbotax-fought-free-simple-tax-filing

9 years ago

787 upvotes – 439 comments

Problem Solving with Algorithms and Data Structures using Python (2015)

http://interactivepython.org/runestone/static/pythonds/index.html

9 years ago

456 upvotes – 35 comments

Paypal Horror Story 40k Frozen No Answers

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13851120

9 years ago

404 upvotes – 243 comments

I invented the web. Here are three things we need to change to save it

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/mar/11/tim-berners-lee-web-inventor-save-internet

9 years ago

385 upvotes – 242 comments

New ways to foot the hefty bill for making old ships less polluting

http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21718519-new-ways-foot-hefty-bill-making-old-ships-less-polluting-green-finance?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/ed/

9 years ago

380 upvotes – 218 comments

Linting HTML using CSS

https://bitsofco.de/linting-html-using-css/

9 years ago

326 upvotes – 49 comments

Silent Data Corruption Is Real

http://changelog.complete.org/archives/9769-silent-data-corruption-is-real

9 years ago

319 upvotes – 150 comments

Both geniuses and madmen pay attention to what others ignore

http://nautil.us/issue/46/balance/if-you-think-youre-a-genius-youre-crazy-rp

9 years ago

248 upvotes – 193 comments

Set up a cheap cloud hosted adblocker in an hour for $2.50 a month

http://gomez.wtf/set-up-a-cheap-cloud-hosted-adblocker-in-an-hour-for-2-50-a-month/

9 years ago

243 upvotes – 120 comments

Employees who decline genetic testing could face penalties under proposed bill

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2017/03/11/employees-who-decline-genetic-testing-could-face-penalities-under-proposed-bill/

9 years ago

242 upvotes – 159 comments

We will no longer use the phrase “zero knowledge” to describe our software

https://spideroak.com/articles/why-we-will-no-longer-use-the-phrase-zero-knowledge-to-describe-our-software

9 years ago

228 upvotes – 127 comments

I had an autoimmune disease, then the disease had me (2013)

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/08/26/whats-wrong-with-me

9 years ago

215 upvotes – 138 comments

Troubled covert agency responsible for trucking nuclear bombs across America

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-nuclear-couriers-20170310-story.html

9 years ago

200 upvotes – 157 comments

Intel to more actively engage with FreeBSD Foundation and make $250K donation

https://twitter.com/michaeldexter/status/840423816249589760

9 years ago

185 upvotes – 37 comments

PyCharm Edu: Python IDE to Learn Programming Quickly and Efficiently

https://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm-edu/

9 years ago

180 upvotes – 59 comments

An Encyclopedic Treatment of Type Design, Typefaces and Fonts

http://luc.devroye.org/fonts.html

9 years ago

172 upvotes – 5 comments

Heads or Tails: The Impact of a Coin Toss on Major Life Decisions and Happiness [pdf]

https://www.gwern.net/docs/2016-levitt.pdf

9 years ago

172 upvotes – 82 comments

California has the USA’s highest poverty rate, when factoring in cost-of-living

http://www.politifact.com/california/statements/2017/jan/20/chad-mayes/true-california-has-nations-highest-poverty-rate-w/

9 years ago

165 upvotes – 125 comments

Employees who decline genetic testing could face penalties under proposed bill

http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/03/11/employees-who-decline-genetic-testing-could-face-penalties-under-proposed-bill/

9 years ago

165 upvotes – 115 comments
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