top 20 hacker news stories for 2017-03-17

Enroute Airbus A380 wake flips Challenger business jet upside down

http://flightservicebureau.org/enroute-a380-wake-flips-challenger-604-upside-down/

9 years ago

560 upvotes – 360 comments

Scientists sent a rocket to Mars for less than it cost to make “The Martian”

https://backchannel.com/isro-scientists-5ad220d6f38c#.bbt3fp4ql

9 years ago

556 upvotes – 157 comments

Virtual machine escape fetches $100k at Pwn2Own hacking contest

https://arstechnica.com/security/2017/03/hack-that-escapes-vm-by-exploiting-edge-browser-fetches-105000-at-pwn2own/

9 years ago

403 upvotes – 156 comments

Railroad Tycoon

http://www.filfre.net/2017/03/railroad-tycoon/

9 years ago

378 upvotes – 148 comments

Young men dropping out of the job market to spend time in an alternate reality

https://www.1843magazine.com/features/escape-to-another-world

9 years ago

330 upvotes – 508 comments

How Utah Reduced Chronic Homelessness

http://www.npr.org/2015/12/10/459100751/utah-reduced-chronic-homelessness-by-91-percent-heres-how?20

9 years ago

328 upvotes – 272 comments

De-Location Package: Keep Your Career and Live Beyond the Bay Area

https://zapier.com/blog/move-away-from-sf-get-remote-job/

9 years ago

327 upvotes – 184 comments

How to Clear a Path Through 60 Feet of Snow, Japanese Style

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/snow-canyon-japan

9 years ago

323 upvotes – 87 comments

Lack of Oxford Comma Could Cost Maine Company Millions in Overtime Dispute

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/16/us/oxford-comma-lawsuit.html

9 years ago

318 upvotes – 238 comments

Netlify CMS – An open-source CMS for Git workflows

https://www.netlifycms.org/

9 years ago

297 upvotes – 72 comments

Nintendo to Double Production of Switch Console

https://www.wsj.com/articles/nintendo-to-double-production-of-switch-console-1489728545

9 years ago

293 upvotes – 354 comments

The Cult of DD

https://eklitzke.org/the-cult-of-dd

9 years ago

269 upvotes – 171 comments

How is team-member-1 doing?

https://about.gitlab.com/2017/03/17/how-is-team-member-1-doing/

9 years ago

255 upvotes – 79 comments

Michael Seibel, CEO of YC, is doing an AMA

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13895362

9 years ago

243 upvotes – 293 comments

Netflix Replacing Star Ratings With Thumbs Ups and Thumbs Down

http://variety.com/2017/digital/news/netflix-thumbs-vs-stars-1202010492/

9 years ago

242 upvotes – 289 comments

When ‘he’ll be kept on payroll, somewhere’ is where you are

https://medium.com/@hdevalence/when-hell-kept-on-payroll-somewhere-is-where-you-are-f419d3022d0#.3lr09533w

9 years ago

240 upvotes – 100 comments

In search of a simple consensus algorithm

http://rystsov.info/2017/02/15/simple-consensus.html

9 years ago

230 upvotes – 83 comments

Building Safe AI: A Tutorial on Homomorphically Encrypted Deep Learning

https://iamtrask.github.io/2017/03/17/safe-ai/

9 years ago

228 upvotes – 95 comments

HTTPS Interception Weakens TLS Security

https://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/alerts/TA17-075A

9 years ago

215 upvotes – 98 comments

Azure Intellectual Property Advantage

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/overview/azure-ip-advantage/

9 years ago

208 upvotes – 117 comments
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