top 20 hacker news stories for 2017-03-29

Explain Shell

http://explainshell.com/

9 years ago

775 upvotes – 85 comments

Stanford Professor Loses Political Battle To Simplify Tax Filing Process

http://www.npr.org/2017/03/29/521954033/stanford-professor-loses-political-battle-to-simplify-tax-filing-process

9 years ago

712 upvotes – 386 comments

Westinghouse Files for Bankruptcy, in Blow to Nuclear Power

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/29/business/westinghouse-toshiba-nuclear-bankruptcy.html

9 years ago

416 upvotes – 388 comments

VPNs Are Absolutely a Solution to a Policy Problem

https://journal.standardnotes.org/vpns-are-absolutely-a-solution-to-a-policy-problem-3b88af699bcd

9 years ago

385 upvotes – 256 comments

Learn Redis the hard way: in production

http://tech.trivago.com/2017/01/25/learn-redis-the-hard-way-in-production/?

9 years ago

360 upvotes – 87 comments

New male contraceptive may be submitted for Indian approval this year

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-03-29/a-new-kind-of-male-birth-control-is-coming

9 years ago

341 upvotes – 315 comments

Beej's Guide to Network Programming

http://beej.us/guide/bgnet/

9 years ago

333 upvotes – 44 comments

UK triggers the official Brexit process in a letter to EU

http://www.bbc.com/news/live/uk-politics-39424391

9 years ago

315 upvotes – 631 comments

Making a good diff algorithm

http://prettydiff.com/guide/unrelated_diff.xhtml

9 years ago

314 upvotes – 60 comments

Anger as US internet privacy law scrapped

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-39427026

9 years ago

313 upvotes – 193 comments

Disapproval of FCC regulations a significant blow against privacy protection

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/29/opinion/how-the-republicans-sold-your-privacy-to-internet-providers.html

9 years ago

313 upvotes – 229 comments

Jeff Bezos Is Now the World's Second Richest Person

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-29/bezos-rises-to-become-world-s-second-richest-with-amazon-surge

9 years ago

296 upvotes – 522 comments

Quantum Mechanics for Programmers

http://kim.oyhus.no/QuantumMechanicsForProgrammers.html

9 years ago

240 upvotes – 74 comments

Binary Transparency for Firefox

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Binary_Transparency

9 years ago

235 upvotes – 38 comments

Vivaldi browser v1.8 released, with calendar-style browsing history

https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-makes-history/

9 years ago

232 upvotes – 162 comments

Apple approves and then promptly removes app that tracks US drone strikes

https://theintercept.com/2017/03/28/after-12-rejections-apple-accepts-app-that-tracks-u-s-drone-strikes/

9 years ago

228 upvotes – 12 comments

The Deck ad network is shutting down

http://decknetwork.net/

9 years ago

227 upvotes – 104 comments

An Introduction to Probabilistic Graphical Models (2003) [pdf]

https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~jordan/prelims/

9 years ago

214 upvotes – 35 comments

Ted Chiang's Soulful Science Fiction

http://www.newyorker.com/culture/persons-of-interest/ted-chiangs-soulful-science-fiction

9 years ago

202 upvotes – 79 comments

At Blackrock, machines are rising over managers to pick stocks

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/28/business/dealbook/blackrock-actively-managed-funds-computer-models.html

9 years ago

198 upvotes – 67 comments
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