top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-03-21

GitHub lets staff own IP developed for personal projects using company resources

https://qz.com/937038/github-now-lets-its-workers-keep-the-ip-when-they-use-company-resources-for-personal-projects/?s=1

9 years ago

1841 upvotes – 462 comments

2038: Only 21 years away

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/717076/4c3593aa4cad8e66/

9 years ago

682 upvotes – 315 comments

Fossjobs: A website for free and open-source software jobs

https://www.fossjobs.net/

9 years ago

607 upvotes – 97 comments

H&R Block and Intuit Are Lobbying Against Making Tax Filling Free and Easy

https://www.propublica.org/article/filing-taxes-could-be-free-simple-hr-block-intuit-lobbying-against-it

9 years ago

593 upvotes – 234 comments

Sellers printing counterfeit books and selling under Amazon's brand

https://twitter.com/billpollock/status/844030960333152256

9 years ago

590 upvotes – 309 comments

The thriving black market of John Deere tractor hacking

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/why-american-farmers-are-hacking-their-tractors-with-ukrainian-firmware

9 years ago

397 upvotes – 177 comments

'My life was ruined by a typo'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-39328853

9 years ago

389 upvotes – 232 comments

iPad 9.7‑inch

http://www.apple.com/ipad-9.7/

9 years ago

378 upvotes – 558 comments

CERN experiment discovers five new particles

http://www.stfc.ac.uk/news/cern-experiment-discovers-not-one-but-five-new-particles/

9 years ago

299 upvotes – 116 comments

Announcing Free and Automated SSL Certs

https://blog.heroku.com/announcing-automated-certificate-management

9 years ago

296 upvotes – 73 comments

Amsterdam Airport Launches API Platform

https://developer.schiphol.nl/

9 years ago

277 upvotes – 92 comments

Paxos in 25 Lines

http://nil.csail.mit.edu/6.824/2015/notes/paxos-code.html

9 years ago

259 upvotes – 39 comments

LastPass RCE vulnerability fixed

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1209

9 years ago

249 upvotes – 182 comments

PyPy2.7 and PyPy3.5 v5.7 released

https://morepypy.blogspot.com/2017/03/pypy27-and-pypy35-v57-two-in-one-release.html

9 years ago

230 upvotes – 51 comments

The ‘Terminator’ of startups says he’s seeing two to four wind-downs a week

https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/20/the-terminator-of-startups-says-hes-seeing-two-to-four-wind-downs-a-week/?ncid=rss

9 years ago

222 upvotes – 144 comments

A Visual Guide to What's New in Swagger 3.0

https://blog.readme.io/an-example-filled-guide-to-swagger-3-2/

9 years ago

188 upvotes – 86 comments

AMD Ryzen Machine Crashes on a Sequence of FMA3 Instructions

http://forum.hwbot.org/showthread.php?t=167605

9 years ago

174 upvotes – 95 comments

Developer Preview of Android O

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2017/03/first-preview-of-android-o.html

9 years ago

164 upvotes – 108 comments

The Biggest Difference Between Coding Today and When I Started in the 80s

http://thecodist.com/article/the-biggest-difference-between-coding-today-and-when-i-started-in-the-80-s

9 years ago

164 upvotes – 112 comments

PSD2 – a directive that will change banking in Europe

https://www.evry.com/en/news/articles/psd2-the-directive-that-will-change-banking-as-we-know-it/

9 years ago

163 upvotes – 53 comments

An advanced browser fingerprint calculator aimed mainly at Tor Browser users

https://fpcentral.irisa.fr

9 years ago

158 upvotes – 77 comments

A simple command allows the CIA to commandeer vulnerable Cisco switches

https://arstechnica.com/security/2017/03/a-simple-command-allows-the-cia-to-commandeer-318-models-of-cisco-switches/

9 years ago

158 upvotes – 78 comments

LackRack

https://wiki.eth0.nl/index.php/LackRack

9 years ago

148 upvotes – 40 comments

A plan to build a ship tunnel

http://newatlas.com/stad-ship-tunnel-interview-terje-andreassen/48480/

9 years ago

146 upvotes – 29 comments

Launch HN: Boxouse (YC W17) – Shipping-container homes

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13924099

9 years ago

142 upvotes – 152 comments

IBM has decided to co-locate its US marketing department

https://qz.com/924167/ibm-remote-work-pioneer-is-calling-thousands-of-employees-back-to-the-office/

9 years ago

139 upvotes – 114 comments

JSCaml: A compile-time transformation from JavaScript to OCaml

https://github.com/facebookexperimental/JSCaml

9 years ago

★ 454 OCaml
134 upvotes – 30 comments

Deep Learning without Backpropagation

https://iamtrask.github.io/2017/03/21/synthetic-gradients/?hn=3

9 years ago

133 upvotes – 12 comments

“Evicted”, an ethnographic study of tenants in low-income housing (2016)

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/apr/07/evicted-poverty-and-profit-in-the-american-city-matthew-desmond-review

9 years ago

130 upvotes – 169 comments

Choose SQL

https://stateofprogress.blog/choose-sql-d017cfc08870#.ug46nrfxh

9 years ago

126 upvotes – 120 comments

Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures of the Yahoo Hack

https://medium.com/@chrismcnab/alexseys-ttps-1204d9050551

9 years ago

124 upvotes – 10 comments

Yves Meyer, Wavelet Expert, Wins Abel Prize

https://www.quantamagazine.org/20170321-yves-meyer-abel-prize/

9 years ago

122 upvotes – 9 comments

Carlsbad, CA to photograph every car entering city

http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/communities/north-county/sd-no-plate-readers-20170317-story.html

9 years ago

119 upvotes – 78 comments

I built a profitable business with a $100 budget

https://gaps.com/startup-challenge/

9 years ago

108 upvotes – 58 comments

Show HN: Marta – A fast and minimalistic file manager for macOS

https://marta.yanex.org/

9 years ago

106 upvotes – 106 comments

A Libyan refugee web developer's story

http://www.helpmarwan.org/

9 years ago

105 upvotes – 18 comments

534 Job Applications: Finding a Life Path During Crisis

http://cactushr.com/blog/2017/03/20/534-job-applications-finding-a-life-path-during-crisis/

9 years ago

103 upvotes – 28 comments

Uber is being sued for hundred of millions dollars for allegedly avoiding UK VAT

https://qz.com/937255/uber-is-being-sued-by-jolyon-maugham-for-millions-of-dollars-for-avoiding-value-added-tax-in-the-uk/

9 years ago

91 upvotes – 24 comments

I turned a traffic ticket into a constitutional trial

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/01/op-ed-how-i-turned-a-traffic-ticket-into-the-constitutional-trial-of-the-century/#p3j

9 years ago

90 upvotes – 14 comments

Apple offers its own take on Snapchat and Instagram Stories

https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/21/apple-clips-video-app/

9 years ago

88 upvotes – 31 comments

Got 15 minutes and want to learn Git?

https://try.github.io/levels/1/challenges/1

9 years ago

88 upvotes – 17 comments

A landslide on a comet

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2017/03/21/scientists-captured-incredible-photographic-proof-of-a-landslide-on-a-comet/

9 years ago

88 upvotes – 3 comments

PostgreSQL vs. SQL Server from the point of view of a data analyst (2014)

https://www.pg-versus-ms.com/

9 years ago

87 upvotes – 39 comments

Find out what you, or someone on your team, did on the last working day

https://github.com/kamranahmedse/git-standup

9 years ago

★ 7.8k Shell MIT
85 upvotes – 44 comments

iPhone 7 “Product Red” Special Edition

http://www.apple.com/shop/buy-iphone/special-edition-iphone-7

9 years ago

79 upvotes – 60 comments

The physics of information processing superobjects: Jupiter brains (1999) [pdf]

http://www.jetpress.org/volume5/Brains2.pdf

9 years ago

78 upvotes – 13 comments
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