top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-03-14

Keep the Internet Open

http://blog.samaltman.com/keep-the-internet-open

9 years ago

1032 upvotes – 391 comments

Is Facebook a Structural Threat to Free Society?

http://www.truthhawk.com/is-facebook-a-structural-threat-to-free-society/

9 years ago

733 upvotes – 399 comments

Scala Native v0.1

https://www.scala-lang.org/blog/2017/03/14/scala-native-0.1-is-here.html

9 years ago

642 upvotes – 240 comments

Ask HN: Which Berkeley Courses Should I Archive?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13867016

9 years ago

512 upvotes – 148 comments

A Formal Spec for GitHub Flavored Markdown

https://githubengineering.com/a-formal-spec-for-github-markdown/

9 years ago

475 upvotes – 89 comments

Vibrator Maker to Pay Millions Over Claims It Secretly Tracked Use

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/03/14/520123490/vibrator-maker-to-pay-millions-over-claims-it-secretly-tracked-use

9 years ago

456 upvotes – 251 comments

Introducing Keras 2

https://blog.keras.io/introducing-keras-2.html

9 years ago

445 upvotes – 68 comments

JSON Web Tokens should be avoided

https://paragonie.com/blog/2017/03/jwt-json-web-tokens-is-bad-standard-that-everyone-should-avoid

9 years ago

386 upvotes – 297 comments

Chekhov: “Cultured people must, in my opinion, satisfy the following conditions”

https://medium.com/the-polymath-project/anton-chekhov-how-to-become-a-cultured-person-f4bf9e8889f3#.otca76tbz

9 years ago

358 upvotes – 209 comments

Reverse Engineering the Hacker News Ranking Algorithm

http://sangaline.com/post/reverse-engineering-the-hacker-news-ranking-algorithm/

9 years ago

349 upvotes – 49 comments

Introducing Sketch: A Playground for React Native from Expo (YC S16)

https://blog.expo.io/sketch-a-playground-for-react-native-16b2401f44a2#.2fzbgbca8

9 years ago

331 upvotes – 134 comments

How I got my dream job in the tech industry without a CS degree

https://billmei.net/blog/silicon-valley-job-search

9 years ago

298 upvotes – 179 comments

πfs – A data-free filesystem

https://github.com/philipl/pifs

9 years ago

★ 6.8k C GPL-3.0
285 upvotes – 105 comments

Buck – A build system developed and used by Facebook

https://buckbuild.com/

9 years ago

272 upvotes – 127 comments

The new legend of Zelda is a toy box of delights

https://www.1843magazine.com/culture/the-daily/the-new-legend-of-zelda-is-a-toy-box-of-delights

9 years ago

271 upvotes – 254 comments

PostgreSQL Parallel Query v2

http://rhaas.blogspot.com/2017/03/parallel-query-v2.html

9 years ago

265 upvotes – 42 comments

Let's crash the integrated browser in Facebook

https://github.com/Mte90/FB-Android-Crash

9 years ago

★ 90 HTML
242 upvotes – 119 comments

React VR

https://facebookincubator.github.io/react-vr/

9 years ago

235 upvotes – 109 comments

Chromium: Add support for Animated PNG

https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/7d2b8c45afc9c0230410011293cc2e1dbb8943a7

9 years ago

234 upvotes – 140 comments

Unless You’re Oprah, ‘Be Yourself’ Is Terrible Advice (2016)

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/05/opinion/sunday/unless-youre-oprah-be-yourself-is-terrible-advice.html?ne

9 years ago

230 upvotes – 156 comments

Listen to the Clouds

http://listentothe.cloud/

9 years ago

189 upvotes – 84 comments

Some fun with π in Julia

http://julialang.org/blog/2017/03/piday

9 years ago

188 upvotes – 64 comments

Future of Java 8 Language Feature Support on Android

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2017/03/future-of-java-8-language-feature.html

9 years ago

182 upvotes – 99 comments

Graphql-Up: CLI to create a ready-to-use GraphQL API

https://www.graph.cool/graphql-up/

9 years ago

168 upvotes – 31 comments

Linear types make performance more predictable

http://blog.tweag.io/posts/2017-03-13-linear-types.html

9 years ago

163 upvotes – 94 comments

Enabling Continual Learning in Neural Networks

https://deepmind.com/blog/enabling-continual-learning-in-neural-networks/

9 years ago

152 upvotes – 19 comments

Show HN: Every Day Is Pi Day

http://euler.party/

9 years ago

147 upvotes – 83 comments

Isaac Asimov Laments the “Cult of Ignorance” in the United States (2016)

http://www.openculture.com/2016/10/isaac-asimov-laments-the-cult-of-ignorance-in-the-united-states.html

9 years ago

126 upvotes – 161 comments

A chess position to defeat computers?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2017/03/14/can-solve-chess-problem-holds-key-human-consciousness/

9 years ago

111 upvotes – 127 comments

An introductory course in computer programming (1965)

http://repository.cmu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2709&context=compsci

9 years ago

110 upvotes – 20 comments

Ask HN: What are the best resources for learning about algorithmic trading?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13866919

9 years ago

104 upvotes – 19 comments

Machine Learning in Python: free curriculum

https://www.springboard.com/learning-paths/machine-learning-python/

9 years ago

101 upvotes – 7 comments

Why companies don't do GPL enforcement

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/716168/2d0eafdc242e44de/

9 years ago

98 upvotes – 95 comments

Back-To-Basic Reading: Byzantine Generals

http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2017/02/byzantine-generals.html

9 years ago

91 upvotes – 14 comments

Confessions of a Watch Geek

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/20/confessions-of-a-watch-geek

9 years ago

91 upvotes – 47 comments

Docker Image Vulnerability Research

https://www.federacy.com/docker_image_vulnerabilities

9 years ago

90 upvotes – 46 comments

Monte Carlo estimation of Pi

https://github.com/calebmadrigal/math-with-python/blob/master/MonteCarloEstimation.ipynb

9 years ago

★ 162 Jupyter Notebook
82 upvotes – 42 comments

Frozen Alive

https://www.outsideonline.com/2152131/freezing-death

9 years ago

72 upvotes – 23 comments
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