top 50% 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

A proof-of-concept of a vulnerability in custom shell prompt scripts

https://github.com/njhartwell/pw3nage

9 years ago

★ 197Shell
195 upvotes – 52 comments

Hikikomori: The Postmodern Hermits of Japan

http://www.warscapes.com/opinion/hikikomori-postmodern-hermits-japan

9 years ago

194 upvotes – 105 comments

No privacy rules needed: ISPs say Web browsing isn’t “sensitive” data

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/03/isps-say-your-web-browsing-and-app-usage-history-isnt-sensitive/

9 years ago

192 upvotes – 82 comments

The BSD family tree

https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/blob/master/share/misc/bsd-family-tree

9 years ago

★ 9kC
184 upvotes – 57 comments

Terraform 0.9

https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/terraform-0-9/

9 years ago

183 upvotes – 99 comments

EPA gives Flint $100M to help repair pipes

http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/michigan/flint-water-crisis/2017/03/17/flint/99301466/

9 years ago

183 upvotes – 188 comments

Dwarf Fortress creator Tarn Adams on simulating most complex magic system ever

http://www.pcgamer.com/dwarf-fortress-creator-tarn-adams-talks-about-simulating-the-most-complex-magic-system-ever/

9 years ago

183 upvotes – 90 comments

Faster 3D rendering with WebGL 2.0

https://blog.chromium.org/2017/03/faster-3d-rendering-with-webgl-20.html

9 years ago

177 upvotes – 72 comments

Palantir enables immigration agents to look up information from the CIA

https://theintercept.com/2017/03/17/palantir-enables-immigration-agents-to-access-information-from-the-cia/

9 years ago

167 upvotes – 188 comments

How a Water Bear Survives When It’s Dry

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/16/science/tardigrades-water-bears-dried-out.html

9 years ago

164 upvotes – 38 comments

Chrome/macOS users in The Netherlands cannot visit google.com or google.nl

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13892431

9 years ago

155 upvotes – 69 comments

Too Many People Are Going to New Zealand

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-16/americans-sleep-in-maori-hall-as-tourists-overwhelm-new-zealand?cmpid=BBD031717_BIZ&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_term=170317&utm_campaign=bloombergdaily

9 years ago

146 upvotes – 138 comments

If War Can Have Ethics, Wall Street Can, Too

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/03/opinion/if-war-can-have-ethics-wall-street-can-too.html?_r=00

9 years ago

141 upvotes – 102 comments

In Manufacturing and Retail, Robot Labor is Cheaper Than Slave Labor Would Be

http://60secondstatistics.com/for-manufacturing-and-retail-companies-using-automated-robots-is-cheaper-than-actual-slave-labor-would-be/

9 years ago

136 upvotes – 207 comments

Announcing the tokio-io Crate

https://tokio.rs/blog/tokio-io/

9 years ago

136 upvotes – 32 comments

Wages rise on California farms, Americans still don’t want the job

http://www.latimes.com/projects/la-fi-farms-immigration

9 years ago

131 upvotes – 217 comments

Sanakirja: Transactional, branchable key-value store in Rust

https://pijul.org/2017/03/16/sanakirja.html

9 years ago

127 upvotes – 15 comments

Wiretapping End-To-End Encrypted VoIP Calls: Real-World Attacks on ZRTP

https://www.sufficientlysecure.org/2017/03/15/zrtp.html

9 years ago

117 upvotes – 14 comments

Why Virtual Classes Can Be Better Than Real Ones (2015)

http://nautil.us/issue/29/scaling/why-virtual-classes-can-be-better-than-real-ones

9 years ago

117 upvotes – 28 comments

High quality graphics for Latex documents: The Matlab route

https://www.io.ac.nz/blog/matlab-to-latex/

9 years ago

115 upvotes – 57 comments

Lisping on the GPU [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEtlxJsPR40

9 years ago

111 upvotes – 18 comments

Google won’t be able to resist listening in on your conversations

https://m.signalvnoise.com/google-wont-be-able-to-resist-listening-in-on-your-conversations-3341fd3d987b

9 years ago

101 upvotes – 77 comments

Startup School Online: Registration and Deals

https://blog.ycombinator.com/startup-school-online-registration-and-deals/

9 years ago

100 upvotes – 21 comments

Paralyzed Virginia Marine walks for first time in 33 years

http://wtvr.com/2017/03/16/paralyzed-u-s-marine-veteran-walks-for-first-time-in-33-years/

9 years ago

98 upvotes – 9 comments

Notes on Lock Free Programming

https://loonytek.com/2017/03/17/lock-free-algorithms-part-1/

9 years ago

92 upvotes – 52 comments

PipelineDB 0.9.7 – Delta Streams and Towards a PostgreSQL Extension

https://www.pipelinedb.com/blog/pipelinedb-0-9-7-delta-streams-and-towards-a-postgresql-extension

9 years ago

87 upvotes – 10 comments

A primer on designing better cameras for games [video]

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/293929/Video_A_primer_on_designing_better_cameras_for_games.php

9 years ago

87 upvotes – 7 comments

Silk Road evolved as 'grass-routes' movement

https://phys.org/news/2017-03-silk-road-evolved-grass-routes-movement.html

9 years ago

84 upvotes – 11 comments
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