top 20 hacker news stories for 2017-03-23

US Senate votes to undo FCC internet privacy rules

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/03/23/congress-is-poised-to-undo-landmark-rules-covering-your-internet-privacy/

9 years ago

992 upvotes – 441 comments

VS Code uses 13% CPU when idle due to blinking cursor rendering

https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/22900

9 years ago

★ 184.3k TypeScript MIT
899 upvotes – 760 comments

Intent to Deprecate and Remove: Trust in Existing Symantec-Issued Certificates

https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msg/blink-dev/eUAKwjihhBs/rpxMXjZHCQAJ

9 years ago

762 upvotes – 317 comments

Modern JavaScript for Ancient Web Developers

https://trackchanges.postlight.com/modern-javascript-for-ancient-web-developers-58e7cae050f9#.2tpky4xfc

9 years ago

651 upvotes – 311 comments

Thousands of underground gas bubbles poised to 'explode' in Arctic

http://siberiantimes.com/science/casestudy/news/n0905-7000-underground-gas-bubbles-poised-to-explode-in-arctic/

9 years ago

615 upvotes – 368 comments

Loopy: a tool for thinking in systems

http://ncase.me/loopy/

9 years ago

508 upvotes – 84 comments

“Dig once” bill could bring fiber Internet to much of the US

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/03/nationwide-fiber-proposed-law-could-add-broadband-to-road-projects/

9 years ago

499 upvotes – 103 comments

Japanese company develops a solar cell with record-breaking efficiency

https://arstechnica.co.uk/science/2017/03/japanese-company-develops-a-solar-cell-with-record-breaking-26-efficiency/

9 years ago

470 upvotes – 105 comments

The Gig Economy Celebrates Working To Excess

http://www.newyorker.com/culture/jia-tolentino/the-gig-economy-celebrates-working-yourself-to-death

9 years ago

329 upvotes – 434 comments

Going native

http://blog.getpostman.com/2017/03/14/going-native/?utm_source=All+contacts&utm_campaign=73d8d3fafd-EMAIL_NEWSLETTER_2017_03_22&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_bba0cca85f-73d8d3fafd-11457707

9 years ago

287 upvotes – 235 comments

Sea Ice Extent Sinks to Record Lows at Both Poles

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2017/sea-ice-extent-sinks-to-record-lows-at-both-poles

9 years ago

255 upvotes – 156 comments

LastPass: Security done wrong

https://palant.de/2017/03/23/lastpass-security-done-wrong

9 years ago

251 upvotes – 213 comments

AWS IAM Policies in a Nutshell

http://start.jcolemorrison.com/aws-iam-policies-in-a-nutshell/

9 years ago

222 upvotes – 34 comments

Drug 'reverses' ageing in animal tests

http://www.bbc.com/news/health-39354628

9 years ago

221 upvotes – 106 comments

The Mathematics Autodidact’s Aid (2005) [pdf]

http://www.ams.org/notices/200510/comm-fowler.pdf

9 years ago

216 upvotes – 47 comments

A Quick Look at Support Vector Machines

https://generalabstractnonsense.com/2017/03/A-quick-look-at-Support-Vector-Machines/

9 years ago

207 upvotes – 37 comments

Rents in Megacities Can't Go Up Forever

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-03-23/rents-in-megacities-can-t-go-up-forever?cmpid%3D=socialflow-twitter-view&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_content=view&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

9 years ago

206 upvotes – 377 comments

Canada seeks to end Uber's tax advantage over taxi companies

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-canada-budget-uber-idUSKBN16U00W

9 years ago

197 upvotes – 181 comments

Cambridge Analytica Leaves Long Trail of Subterfuge, Dubious Dealing

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-23/trump-data-gurus-leave-long-trail-of-subterfuge-dubious-dealing

9 years ago

197 upvotes – 78 comments

Recurrent Neural Networks - A Short TensorFlow Tutorial

https://github.com/silicon-valley-data-science/RNN-Tutorial

9 years ago

194 upvotes – 20 comments
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