top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-03-30

SES-10 Mission

http://www.spacex.com/webcast#travis

9 years ago

1094 upvotes – 355 comments

Many famous scientists have something in common: they didn’t work long hours

http://nautil.us/issue/46/balance/darwin-was-a-slacker-and-you-should-be-too

9 years ago

603 upvotes – 292 comments

Airbnb “Bribes” Host with Cash Under NDA After Partiers Destroy Apartment

http://observer.com/2017/03/airbnb-nda-damage-in-london-after-drug-party/

9 years ago

495 upvotes – 222 comments

Voice Calls: Secure, Crystal-Clear, AI-Powered

https://telegram.org/blog/calls

9 years ago

454 upvotes – 290 comments

SpaceX makes aerospace history with successful landing of a used rocket

http://www.theverge.com/2017/3/30/15117096/spacex-launch-reusable-rocket-success-falcon-9-landing

9 years ago

425 upvotes – 107 comments

Thirteen Years of Bad Game Code

http://etodd.io/2017/03/29/thirteen-years-of-bad-game-code/

9 years ago

399 upvotes – 160 comments

Uber’s Anthony Levandowski Invokes Fifth Amendment Rights in Waymo Suit

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/30/technology/uber-waymo-levandowski.html?_r=0

9 years ago

374 upvotes – 170 comments

Chase had ads on 400k sites, then on just 5k, with same results

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/29/business/chase-ads-youtube-fake-news-offensive-videos.html

9 years ago

368 upvotes – 150 comments

Apollo Client 1.0: A flexible, community-focused JavaScript GraphQL client

https://dev-blog.apollodata.com/apollo-client-1-0-a-flexible-community-focused-javascript-graphql-client-2253b90e6c84

9 years ago

354 upvotes – 78 comments

Scaling your API with rate limiters

https://stripe.com/blog/rate-limiters

9 years ago

351 upvotes – 82 comments

Open Source License Business Perception Report

https://writing.kemitchell.com/2017/03/29/OSS-Business-Perception-Report.html#

9 years ago

348 upvotes – 174 comments

SpaceX set to launch ‘used rocket’

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-39437407

9 years ago

339 upvotes – 152 comments

Tacotron: A Fully End-to-End Text-To-Speech Synthesis Model

https://google.github.io/tacotron/

9 years ago

339 upvotes – 84 comments

Xcode 8.3 produces binaries 3x larger than Xcode 8.2.1

http://www.openradar.me/31302382

9 years ago

321 upvotes – 135 comments

A Python implementation of formal systems from the book “Gödel, Escher, Bach”

https://github.com/alexprengere/FormalSystems

9 years ago

★ 626PythonApache-2.0
310 upvotes – 45 comments

Dropbox Secures $600M Credit Line Ahead of Expected IPO

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-30/dropbox-secures-600-million-credit-line-ahead-of-expected-ipo

9 years ago

293 upvotes – 203 comments

DNSCrypt – A protocol to improve DNS security

https://dnscrypt.org

9 years ago

261 upvotes – 76 comments

CPU cache-based communication between two co-located virtual machines

https://github.com/IAIK/CJAG

9 years ago

★ 284C
223 upvotes – 26 comments

We’re losing the information war

http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/uw-professor-the-information-war-is-real-and-were-losing-it/

9 years ago

221 upvotes – 312 comments

How to Write Portable C Without Complicating Your Build

http://nullprogram.com/blog/2017/03/30/

9 years ago

215 upvotes – 105 comments

The Hidden Monopolies That Raise Drug Prices

http://prospect.org/article/hidden-monopolies-raise-drug-prices-0#main-content

9 years ago

214 upvotes – 190 comments

Palmer Luckey Leaves Facebook

https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/30/palmer-luckey-facebook/

9 years ago

213 upvotes – 191 comments

Addendum to “Curl is C”

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2017/03/30/yes-c-is-unsafe-but/

9 years ago

197 upvotes – 218 comments

How Algolia Reduces Latency

https://stackshare.io/algolia/how-algolia-reduces-latency-for-21b-searches-per-month

9 years ago

190 upvotes – 21 comments

The Mandelwat Set

https://medium.com/dailyjs/the-mandelwat-set-c3037204bf83

9 years ago

187 upvotes – 79 comments

'Cards Against Humanity' Creator to Buy and Publish Congress's Browser History

http://resistancereport.com/news/cards-humanity-creator-just-pledged-buy-publish-congresss-browser-history/

9 years ago

180 upvotes – 53 comments

Writing a Raytracer in Rust – Part 1

https://bheisler.github.io/post/writing-raytracer-in-rust-part-1/

9 years ago

177 upvotes – 39 comments

Show HN: Redux Offline – Build Offline-First Apps for Web and React Native

https://github.com/jevakallio/redux-offline

9 years ago

★ 6.1kJavaScriptMIT
174 upvotes – 41 comments

Does Science Advance One Funeral at a Time?

http://www.nber.org/digest/mar16/w21788.html

9 years ago

171 upvotes – 82 comments

If you publish Georgia's state laws, you'll get sued for copyright and lose

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/03/public-records-activist-violated-copyright-by-publishing-georgia-legal-code-online/

9 years ago

167 upvotes – 85 comments

Studio Ghibli API

https://ghibliapi.herokuapp.com/

9 years ago

163 upvotes – 54 comments

The Dornier DO-960 Analog Computer

http://www.vaxman.de/my_machines/dornier/do960/do960.html

9 years ago

163 upvotes – 42 comments

You can’t buy Congress’s web history – that's not how any of this works

http://www.theverge.com/2017/3/29/15115382/buy-congress-web-history-gop-fake-internet-privacy

9 years ago

162 upvotes – 119 comments

Ansible playbooks for installing OpenVPN, IPsec, Tor, etc. on popular clouds

https://github.com/jlund/streisand

9 years ago

★ 23.5kShell
160 upvotes – 31 comments

Eigg – A small Scottish isle that runs on 90-95% renewable energy

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170329-the-extraordinary-electricity-of-the-scottish-island-of-eigg

9 years ago

159 upvotes – 91 comments

Ex-Trump adviser Flynn seeks immunity for testimony in Russia probe: WSJ

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-flynn-idUSKBN1713AG

9 years ago

152 upvotes – 111 comments

Canadians Adopted Refugee Families for a Year, Then Came ‘Month 13’

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/25/world/canada/syrian-refugees.html

9 years ago

151 upvotes – 119 comments

Siemens acquires Mentor Graphics

https://community.plm.automation.siemens.com/t5/Siemens-PLM-Corporate-Blog/Siemens-and-Mentor-Graphics-Open-Letter-to-Customers/ba-p/399976

9 years ago

147 upvotes – 47 comments

Using Deep Learning to model personal visual aesthetics

https://devblogs.nvidia.com/parallelforall/personalized-aesthetics-machine-learning/

9 years ago

144 upvotes – 6 comments

Optimize your Node app by upgrading Node.js

https://blog.sqreen.io/optimize-your-node-app-by-simply-upgrading-node-js/

9 years ago

143 upvotes – 43 comments

What Is It Like to Be a Bat? (1974) [pdf]

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/iatl/activities/modules/ugmodules/humananimalstudies/lectures/32/nagel_bat.pdf

9 years ago

132 upvotes – 95 comments

76% of high-performance employees say trade mastery, not money, most important

https://medium.com/@wbelk/76-of-high-performance-employees-say-trade-mastery-not-money-most-important-in-career-decisions-e0c457884d2e

9 years ago

132 upvotes – 74 comments

Cars and second order consequences

http://ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2017/3/20/cars-and-second-order-consequences

9 years ago

125 upvotes – 74 comments

One Line of Code That Compromises Your Server

https://martinfowler.com/articles/session-secret.html

9 years ago

125 upvotes – 45 comments

How Quantum Theory Is Inspiring New Math

https://www.quantamagazine.org/20170330-how-quantum-theory-is-inspiring-new-math/

9 years ago

118 upvotes – 26 comments

Twitter stops counting replies towards its 140 characters on web and mobile

https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/30/twitter-stops-counting-replies-towards-its-140-characters/

9 years ago

118 upvotes – 69 comments

Faiss: A library for efficient similarity search

https://code.facebook.com/posts/1373769912645926/faiss-a-library-for-efficient-similarity-search/

9 years ago

117 upvotes – 14 comments

Streaming Databases in Real-Time with Kafka, Debezium, and MySQL

https://wecode.wepay.com/posts/streaming-databases-in-realtime-with-mysql-debezium-kafka

9 years ago

110 upvotes – 30 comments

Going faster doesn’t make you happier; you just drive farther

http://cityobservatory.org/going-faster-doesnt-make-you-happier-you-just-drive-farther/

9 years ago

104 upvotes – 79 comments

When Will AWS Move Up the Stack to Real Applications?

https://www.nextplatform.com/2017/02/03/will-aws-move-stack-real-applications/

9 years ago

98 upvotes – 79 comments

E.P.A. Chief, Rejecting Agency’s Science, Chooses Not to Ban Insecticide

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/03/29/us/politics/epa-insecticide-chlorpyrifos.html

9 years ago

97 upvotes – 29 comments

Announcing AudioSet: A Dataset for Audio Event Research

https://research.googleblog.com/2017/03/announcing-audioset-dataset-for-audio.html

9 years ago

89 upvotes – 7 comments

Reinventing the Git Interface (2014)

http://tonsky.me/blog/reinventing-git-interface/

9 years ago

86 upvotes – 78 comments

Would You Rather Have $1M or $5,000 Monthly in Retirement?

https://www.wsj.com/articles/would-you-rather-have-1-million-or-5-000-monthly-in-retirement-1490582208

9 years ago

86 upvotes – 108 comments

The unique challenges of the CIA’s recreational activity leagues

https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2017/mar/27/cia-employee-activity-association/

9 years ago

86 upvotes – 16 comments

Analyzing the monetary component of employee benefits at leading US startups

https://www.compile.com/blog/insights/highly-valued-startups-generous-employers/

9 years ago

79 upvotes – 75 comments
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