top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-03-16

Acing the technical interview

https://aphyr.com/posts/340-acing-the-technical-interview

9 years ago

825 upvotes – 207 comments

Police ask for whole city's Google searches, and a judge says yes

http://www.citypages.com/news/edina-police-ask-for-whole-citys-google-searches-and-a-judge-says-yes/416319633

9 years ago

635 upvotes – 320 comments

Guetzli: A New Open-Source JPEG Encoder

https://research.googleblog.com/2017/03/announcing-guetzli-new-open-source-jpeg.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+blogspot/gJZg+(Official+Google+Research+Blog)

9 years ago

600 upvotes – 128 comments

Animista: a collection of ready to use CSS animations

http://animista.net/

9 years ago

573 upvotes – 68 comments

A million-dollar engineering problem

https://segment.com/blog/the-million-dollar-eng-problem/

9 years ago

570 upvotes – 252 comments

Web Scraping: Bypassing “403 Forbidden,” captchas, and more

http://sangaline.com/post/advanced-web-scraping-tutorial/

9 years ago

564 upvotes – 225 comments

Beautiful Racket v1.0

http://beautifulracket.com/

9 years ago

537 upvotes – 58 comments

Uber Driver Tip-Hustling Schemes

http://angelinatravels.boardingarea.com/2017/03/15/uber-driver-tip-hustling-schemes-getting-control/

9 years ago

443 upvotes – 629 comments

The eigenvector of “Why we moved from language X to language Y”

https://erikbern.com/2017/03/15/the-eigenvector-of-why-we-moved-from-language-x-to-language-y.html

9 years ago

442 upvotes – 189 comments

Weapon physicist declassifies rescued nuclear test films

https://www.llnl.gov/news/physicist-declassifies-rescued-nuclear-test-films

9 years ago

399 upvotes – 191 comments

Programs that have saved me 100+ hours

http://sadacaraveo.com/programs-that-have-saved-me-more-than-100-hours-by-automating-repetitive-tasks

9 years ago

389 upvotes – 203 comments

Announcing Rust 1.16

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2017/03/16/Rust-1.16.html

9 years ago

377 upvotes – 92 comments

OpenEMR: Electronic Medical Records and Medical Practice Management Software

http://www.open-emr.org/

9 years ago

360 upvotes – 203 comments

How to Write a Git Commit Message (2014)

https://chris.beams.io/posts/git-commit/

9 years ago

341 upvotes – 118 comments

False information on the internet is hiding the truth about onions

http://www.marketplace.org/2017/03/14/tech/internet-falsehoods-are-hiding-truth-about-onions

9 years ago

339 upvotes – 207 comments

How Discord Indexes Billions of Messages Using Elasticsearch

https://blog.discordapp.com/how-discord-indexes-billions-of-messages-e3d5e9be866f

9 years ago

337 upvotes – 58 comments

GNU Guile 2.2.0

https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/news/gnu-guile-220-released.html

9 years ago

331 upvotes – 144 comments

An Upgrade to SyntaxNet, New Models and a Parsing Competition

https://research.googleblog.com/2017/03/an-upgrade-to-syntaxnet-new-models-and.html

9 years ago

325 upvotes – 85 comments

Anthony Bourdain on not having debt

https://www.wealthsimple.com/en-us/magazine/money-diary-anthony-bourdain-3

9 years ago

318 upvotes – 353 comments

Scrolling on the web: A primer

https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2017/03/08/scrolling-on-the-web/

9 years ago

299 upvotes – 151 comments

Principles for C programming

https://drewdevault.com/2017/03/15/How-I-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-C.html

9 years ago

240 upvotes – 147 comments

Free resources for learning full-stack web development

https://github.com/bmorelli25/Become-A-Full-Stack-Web-Developer/

9 years ago

★ 18.1k MIT
237 upvotes – 63 comments

Astronomers Have Found a Star Orbiting a Black Hole at 1% the Speed of Light

https://www.sciencealert.com/astronomers-just-found-a-star-orbiting-a-black-hole-at-1-percent-the-speed-of-light

9 years ago

232 upvotes – 120 comments

University of Tokyo Graduate School Entrance Exam – Mathematics (2016) [pdf]

http://www.i.u-tokyo.ac.jp/edu/entra/pdf/archive/16math_e.pdf

9 years ago

200 upvotes – 202 comments

20,000 UC Berkeley Lectures Made Illegal, So We Irrevocably Mirrored Them

https://lbry.io/news/20000-illegal-college-lectures-rescued

9 years ago

198 upvotes – 203 comments

Seagate Announces 12 TB HDD: 2nd-Gen Helium-Filled HDD

http://www.anandtech.com/show/11199/seagate-announces-enterprise-capacity-v7-12-tb-hdd

9 years ago

191 upvotes – 154 comments

Launch HN: Effective Altruism Funds (YC W17 Nonprofit)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13886596

9 years ago

178 upvotes – 66 comments

Scaling Financial Reporting at Airbnb

https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/tracking-the-money-scaling-financial-reporting-at-airbnb-6d742b80f040#.alfxjkhrn

9 years ago

175 upvotes – 40 comments

Cold Does Not Increase Odds of Catching Cold (2016)

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/19/upshot/repeat-after-me-cold-does-not-increase-odds-of-catching-cold.html

9 years ago

163 upvotes – 53 comments

Training agents to invent a language

https://www.openai.com/blog/learning-to-communicate/

9 years ago

163 upvotes – 21 comments

Three Women Blinded by Unproven Stem Cell Treatments

http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/03/15/520118310/3-women-blinded-by-unproven-stem-cell-treatments

9 years ago

150 upvotes – 98 comments

Microsoft Blocks Windows 7/8 Updates on AMD Ryzen and Intel Kaby Lake Systems

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4012982/discusses-an-issue-in-which-you-receive-a-your-pc-uses-a-processor-tha

9 years ago

149 upvotes – 170 comments

Information Avoidance: How People Select Their Own Reality

http://www.cmu.edu/news/stories/archives/2017/march/information-avoidance.html

9 years ago

146 upvotes – 41 comments

Bitcoin arbitrage without market risk

https://github.com/butor/blackbird

9 years ago

138 upvotes – 77 comments

The Internet Is Saving Culture, Not Killing It

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/15/technology/how-the-internet-is-saving-culture-not-killing-it.html

9 years ago

131 upvotes – 117 comments

DeepStack: Expert-Level Artificial Intelligence In Heads-Up No-Limit Poker

http://fermatslibrary.com/s/deepstack-expert-level-artificial-intelligence-in-heads-up-no-limit-poker#email-newsletter

9 years ago

125 upvotes – 39 comments

Insert D-Wave Post Here

http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=3192

9 years ago

119 upvotes – 52 comments

A Brief History of the Grand Unified Theory of Physics

http://nautil.us/issue/46/balance/a-brief-history-of-the-grand-unified-theory-of-physics

9 years ago

105 upvotes – 24 comments

The Cavendish Banana Will Soon Be Gone

https://www.wired.com/2017/03/humans-made-banana-perfect-soon-itll-gone/

9 years ago

105 upvotes – 70 comments

The Assembler Developer's Kit

http://www.plantation-productions.com/Webster/RollYourOwn/index.html

9 years ago

103 upvotes – 11 comments

An efficient power converter design reduces resting power consumption by 50%

http://news.mit.edu/2017/efficient-power-converter-internet-of-things-0217

9 years ago

86 upvotes – 39 comments

Kernel – Fix cluster_write() inefficiency

http://gitweb.dragonflybsd.org/dragonfly.git/commitdiff/cf297f2cccd7fd102041ebf174af66a31a5ef5ce

9 years ago

84 upvotes – 53 comments

How 1,600 People Went Missing from U.S. Public Lands

https://www.outsideonline.com/2164446/leave-no-trace

9 years ago

84 upvotes – 77 comments

TSA gave my MacBook Pro to another passenger at LAX, and now it's gone

http://www.echeng.com/journal/2016/5/23/tsa-gave-my-macbook-pro-to-another-passenger-at-lax-and-now-its-gone?ts

9 years ago

83 upvotes – 37 comments

Foucault’s work on power

https://aeon.co/essays/why-foucaults-work-on-power-is-more-important-than-ever

9 years ago

83 upvotes – 66 comments

Topic mining with LDA and Kmeans and interactive clustering in Python

http://ahmedbesbes.com/how-to-mine-newsfeed-data-and-extract-interactive-insights-in-python.html

9 years ago

81 upvotes – 21 comments

How to securely recycle or dispose of your SSD

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/how-to-securely-recycle-or-dispose-of-your-ssd/

9 years ago

81 upvotes – 77 comments

When You Should Use Lists in Haskell (Mostly Not)

http://www.imn.htwk-leipzig.de/~waldmann/etc/untutorial/list-or-not-list/

9 years ago

79 upvotes – 50 comments
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