top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-03-13

Teach Yourself Computer Science

https://teachyourselfcs.com/

9 years ago

1308 upvotes – 237 comments

Stories that Hacker News removes from the front page

http://sangaline.com/post/the-stories-that-hacker-news-removes-from-the-front-page/

9 years ago

1274 upvotes – 314 comments

The Uber Bombshell About to Drop

https://danielcompton.net/2017/03/14/uber-bombshell

9 years ago

1089 upvotes – 512 comments

Study: Immigrants Founded 51% of U.S. Billion-Dollar Startups

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2016/03/17/study-immigrants-founded-51-of-u-s-billion-dollar-startups/

9 years ago

581 upvotes – 668 comments

Pi-hole – A black hole for Internet advertisements

https://pi-hole.net/

9 years ago

551 upvotes – 309 comments

Rand Paul: NSA Routinely Monitors Americans’ Communications Without Warrants

https://theintercept.com/2017/03/13/rand-paul-is-right-nsa-routinely-monitors-americans-communications-without-warrants/

9 years ago

542 upvotes – 278 comments

Introducing Create React Native App

https://facebook.github.io/react-native/blog/2017/03/13/introducing-create-react-native-app.html

9 years ago

535 upvotes – 158 comments

Facebook’s code quality problem (2015)

https://www.darkcoding.net/software/facebooks-code-quality-problem/

9 years ago

502 upvotes – 226 comments

LLVM 4.0.0

http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-announce/2017-March/000073.html

9 years ago

468 upvotes – 141 comments

A comment left on Slashdot

http://chaosinmotion.com/blog/?p=1184

9 years ago

419 upvotes – 287 comments

We didn’t lose control of the Web – it was stolen

https://ar.al/notes/we-didnt-lose-control-it-was-stolen/

9 years ago

414 upvotes – 176 comments

Ask HN: What do you use to align your daily todos with your long term goals?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13855577

9 years ago

379 upvotes – 212 comments

Simple example of machine learning in TensorFlow

https://github.com/jostmey/NakedTensor?bare

9 years ago

★ 2.4kPythonApache-2.0
334 upvotes – 47 comments

Ask HN: What are some examples of good code?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13854431

9 years ago

321 upvotes – 162 comments

WikiHouse – Open source buildings and interiors for self-build

https://wikihouse.cc/

9 years ago

270 upvotes – 53 comments

The Sandstorm Team Is Joining Cloudflare

https://sandstorm.io/news/2017-03-13-joining-cloudflare

9 years ago

258 upvotes – 102 comments

Farts can cause infection if the emitter is naked, but not if clothed (2001)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1121900/

9 years ago

249 upvotes – 57 comments

Scotland to seek second independence referendum

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-39255181

9 years ago

246 upvotes – 317 comments

Syncthing Usage Data

https://data.syncthing.net/

9 years ago

238 upvotes – 119 comments

Intel buying Mobileye for up to $16B to expand in self-driving tech

https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/13/reports-intel-buying-mobileye-for-up-to-16b-to-expand-in-self-driving-tech/

9 years ago

225 upvotes – 98 comments

America's Reverence for the Bachelor's Degree

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/10/reverence-bachelors-degree/408346/?single_page=true

9 years ago

220 upvotes – 249 comments

The CIA's “Development Tradecraft Do's and Dont's”

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2017/03/the_cias_develo.html

9 years ago

219 upvotes – 44 comments

The 10,000-hour rule is wrong and perpetuates a cruel myth

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-10000-hour-rule-is-wrong-and-perpetuates-a-cruel-myth-2017-3

9 years ago

217 upvotes – 114 comments

Cold email tips I used to get 60K signups

https://medium.com/@dunjalazic/10-cold-email-tips-i-used-to-get-60-000-app-signups-dd928d86ca21#.h0s9l6wzp

9 years ago

202 upvotes – 61 comments

On Programming Languages: Why My Dad Went from Programming to Driving a Bus

https://ntguardian.wordpress.com/2017/03/13/on-programming-languages-why-my-dad-went-from-programming-to-driving-a-bus/

9 years ago

195 upvotes – 215 comments

Glitch by Fog Creek

https://glitch.com/

9 years ago

195 upvotes – 39 comments

Uber is forcing drivers in Seattle to listen to anti-union propaganda

https://thenextweb.com/us/2017/03/13/uber-is-forcing-drivers-in-seattle-to-listen-to-anti-union-propaganda/

9 years ago

194 upvotes – 217 comments

DIY Smart Home Security? Meh

http://blog.seekintoo.com/diy-smart-home-security-meh.html

9 years ago

166 upvotes – 48 comments

Ask HN: Cheap, hackable e-reader?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13863046

9 years ago

161 upvotes – 57 comments

Massively Interleaved Sprite Crunch – C64 Demo Effect (2016)

http://www.linusakesson.net/scene/lunatico/misc.php

9 years ago

152 upvotes – 25 comments

Digital Identity Guidelines: Public Comment Period

https://pages.nist.gov/800-63-3/

9 years ago

150 upvotes – 64 comments

Gödel and the limits of logic (2006)

https://plus.maths.org/content/goumldel-and-limits-logic

9 years ago

148 upvotes – 39 comments

Simple command-line snippet manager, written in Go

https://github.com/knqyf263/pet

9 years ago

★ 5.2kGoMIT
144 upvotes – 21 comments

Petition for AMD to open-source the PSP (backdoor) in their chips

https://www.change.org/p/advanced-micro-devices-amd-release-the-source-code-for-the-secure-processor-psp

9 years ago

142 upvotes – 28 comments

Ethereum price goes up nearly 50 percent in under a week

https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/ethereum/

9 years ago

130 upvotes – 107 comments

Tech’s ruling class casts a big shadow

http://www.theverge.com/2017/3/8/14848642/walt-mossberg-tech-gang-of-five-apple-google-microsoft-amazon-facebook

9 years ago

124 upvotes – 104 comments

Why Do We Have Blood Types? (2014)

https://mosaicscience.com/story/why-do-we-have-blood-types

9 years ago

120 upvotes – 36 comments

Flying machines of Chinese farmers

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20170312-the-amazing-flying-machines-of-chinese-farmers

9 years ago

120 upvotes – 22 comments

Why Is Gopher Still Relevant?

http://gopher.floodgap.com/overbite/relevance.html

9 years ago

119 upvotes – 95 comments

What does Nintendo Switch and iOS 9.3 have in common? CVE-2016-4657 walk-through

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

9 years ago

119 upvotes – 29 comments

The Mumps Programming Language

http://www.cs.uni.edu/~okane/

9 years ago

117 upvotes – 178 comments

A Silicon Valley Train Gets Stuck

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/13/opinion/a-silicon-valley-train-gets-stuck.html

9 years ago

115 upvotes – 162 comments

U.S. Subprime Auto Loan Losses Reach Highest Level Since the Financial Crisis

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-10/u-s-subprime-auto-loan-losses-reach-highest-level-since-crisis

9 years ago

114 upvotes – 95 comments

Show HN: Experimental chat written in Common Lisp

https://github.com/ryukinix/lisp-chat

9 years ago

★ 202Common LispMIT
114 upvotes – 42 comments

Code is not literature (2014)

http://www.gigamonkeys.com/code-reading/

9 years ago

112 upvotes – 65 comments

Molten Salt Reactor Claims Melt Down Under Scrutiny

http://www.powermag.com/blog/molten-salt-reactor-claims-melt-down-under-scrutiny/

9 years ago

111 upvotes – 137 comments

Entr(1) – Run tests whenever files change

http://entrproject.org/

9 years ago

108 upvotes – 45 comments

The Reasonable Effectiveness of the Multiplicative Weights Update Algorithm

https://jeremykun.com/2017/02/27/the-reasonable-effectiveness-of-the-multiplicative-weights-update-algorithm/

9 years ago

106 upvotes – 17 comments

CIA wanted a way to copy 3.5“ floppy disks ”in a covert manner“ in 2013

https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/cms/page_1179686.html

9 years ago

105 upvotes – 59 comments

Preact: Countering the Perception That Open Source Must Be Free

https://medium.com/open-collective/why-and-how-to-fund-the-open-source-projects-you-depend-on-da62a582307#.m2l03rvjm

9 years ago

103 upvotes – 47 comments

React Conf 2017 Livestream

http://conf.reactjs.org/livestream

9 years ago

100 upvotes – 44 comments
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