top 50% 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

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

Anger as US internet privacy law scrapped

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

9 years ago

313 upvotes – 193 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

Big Tech Company Salaries Are Hurting Startups

http://thestartupconference.com/2017/03/25/the-350k-google-salary-is-hurting-startups/

9 years ago

183 upvotes – 342 comments

Using IBM Bluemix Watson APIs to Optimise my CV

http://pdwhomeautomation.blogspot.com/2017/03/using-ibm-bluemix-watson-apis-to.html

9 years ago

174 upvotes – 24 comments

Iaito – A Qt and C++ GUI for radare2 reverse engineering framework

https://github.com/hteso/iaito

9 years ago

★ 1.4kC++GPL-3.0
171 upvotes – 34 comments

Linkerd-tcp: A lightweight, service-discovery-aware, TLS-ing TCP load balancer

https://blog.buoyant.io/2017/03/29/introducing-linkerd-tcp/

9 years ago

170 upvotes – 15 comments

Recycle robot – using raspberry pi and tensorflow

http://recycleai.tumblr.com/post/158972483103/first-hack-of-a-recycle-robot-using-raspberry-pi

9 years ago

167 upvotes – 35 comments

Comcast-Funded Civil Rights Groups Claim Low-Income People Want Ads Over Privacy

https://theintercept.com/2017/03/29/isp-civil-rights/

9 years ago

167 upvotes – 70 comments

LaTeX Tooling Guide

http://norswap.com/latex-tooling/

9 years ago

167 upvotes – 63 comments

The Arrival of AI

https://stratechery.com/2017/the-arrival-of-artificial-intelligence/

9 years ago

162 upvotes – 127 comments

Automation is set to hit workers in developing countries hard

https://theoutline.com/post/1316/fourth-industrial-revolution-developing-economies

9 years ago

151 upvotes – 186 comments

Sovetskoe Foto (Soviet Photography)

https://archive.org/details/sovetskoe_foto/

9 years ago

149 upvotes – 35 comments

Gameboy Advance development by example: Drawing and Moving Rectangles

http://kylehalladay.com/blog/tutorial/2017/03/28/GBA-By-Example-1.html

9 years ago

149 upvotes – 66 comments

Deep Learning: mathematics and neuroscience (2016) [pdf]

https://cbmm.mit.edu/sites/default/files/publications/Deep%20Learning-%20mathematics%20and%20neuroscience.pdf

9 years ago

145 upvotes – 19 comments

A Starter's Guide to Writing Effective Meeting Notes

https://meetnotes.co/writing-effective-meeting-notes/

9 years ago

145 upvotes – 36 comments

Google Earth Enterprise Open Source

http://www.opengee.org/

9 years ago

143 upvotes – 27 comments

Audi's unions demand electric model for main German plant

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-audi-board-idUSKBN1701YQ

9 years ago

137 upvotes – 94 comments

Show HN: Construct 3 – Make games in the browser

https://www.construct.net/gb?v=1

9 years ago

122 upvotes – 86 comments

Recompiling the Lost Vikings

https://ryiron.wordpress.com/2017/03/26/recompiling-the-lost-vikings/

9 years ago

120 upvotes – 29 comments

Smile – Statistical Machine Intelligence and Learning Engine

http://haifengl.github.io/smile/linear-algebra.html

9 years ago

120 upvotes – 27 comments

Brexit's Tech Brain Drain

http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2017/03/brexits-tech-brain-drain-may-have-already-begun/

9 years ago

118 upvotes – 145 comments

Is Fat Killing Us, or Is Sugar?

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/04/03/is-fat-killing-you-or-is-sugar

9 years ago

116 upvotes – 147 comments

New institute aims to make Toronto an ‘intellectual centre’ of AI capability

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.thestar.com/amp/news/gta/2017/03/28/new-toronto-institute-aims-to-be-worldwide-supplier-of-artificial-intelligence-capability.html

9 years ago

112 upvotes – 105 comments

Show HN: Fly – A global load balancer with middleware

https://fly.io/

9 years ago

112 upvotes – 68 comments

The Structure and Performance of Efficient Interpreters [pdf]

https://www.jilp.org/vol5/v5paper12.pdf

9 years ago

98 upvotes – 18 comments

Campaign to Buy Browsing Histories of Politicians Who Passed Anti-Privacy Law

https://yro.slashdot.org/story/17/03/29/1717201/activist-starts-a-campaign-to-buy-and-publish-browsing-histories-of-politicians-who-passed-anti-privacy-law

9 years ago

96 upvotes – 37 comments

Ask HN: Hacker News users reading habits

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13984842

9 years ago

94 upvotes – 73 comments

Bigger brains are not always better

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-genius-of-pinheads-when-little-brains-rule/

9 years ago

92 upvotes – 63 comments

New York Has a Great Subway, If You’re Not in a Wheelchair

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/29/opinion/new-york-has-a-great-subway-if-youre-not-in-a-wheelchair.html

9 years ago

91 upvotes – 135 comments

An alternative to solid tantalum capacitors

http://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/now-alternative-solid-tantalum-capacitors-2017-03/

9 years ago

86 upvotes – 44 comments

Ask HN: Tell me an engineering war story from your career

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13987098

9 years ago

78 upvotes – 42 comments

Artificial Intelligence: Past and Future

http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2012/1/144824-artificial-intelligence-past-and-future/fulltext

9 years ago

77 upvotes – 20 comments
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