top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-03-31

Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14002821

9 years ago

1374 upvotes – 1145 comments

Unpaired Image-to-Image Translation using Cycle-Consistent Adversarial Networks

https://junyanz.github.io/CycleGAN/

9 years ago

667 upvotes – 135 comments

Fuchsia: a new operating system

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/718267/206c8a5fbf0ee2ea/

9 years ago

503 upvotes – 317 comments

FBI arrests author of NanoCore after it was pirated and abused by hackers

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/03/31/fbi-arrests-hacker-who-hacked-no-one.html

9 years ago

418 upvotes – 291 comments

Noiszy – A Chrome plugin that creates meaningless web tracking data

https://noiszy.com/

9 years ago

410 upvotes – 154 comments

Shutting down CodePlex

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/bharry/2017/03/31/shutting-down-codeplex/

9 years ago

327 upvotes – 121 comments

Wikileaks releases CIA's Marble: Malware obfuscation tools

https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/cms/page_14588467.html?marble=1

9 years ago

321 upvotes – 261 comments

Open Source Needs FPGAs; FPGAs Need an On-Ramp

https://www.blinklight.io/blog/2017-03-31/

9 years ago

309 upvotes – 147 comments

Fourteen Months with Clojure

https://blog.skyliner.io/fourteen-months-with-clojure-beb8b3e4bf00

9 years ago

300 upvotes – 187 comments

How “engagement” made the web a less engaging place

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/03/how-the-like-button-ruined-the-internet/519795/?single_page=true

9 years ago

264 upvotes – 119 comments

Why is this Go faster than the equivalent Java?

http://www.boyter.org/2017/03/golang-solution-faster-equivalent-java-solution/

9 years ago

251 upvotes – 93 comments

Open Philanthropy Project awards a grant of $30M to OpenAI

http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/global-catastrophic-risks/potential-risks-advanced-artificial-intelligence/openai-general-support

9 years ago

236 upvotes – 173 comments

Programmable Fax – API for sending and receiving faxes

http://twilio.com/fax

9 years ago

231 upvotes – 163 comments

Trolls are winning the internet, technologists say

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/03/guys-its-time-for-some-troll-theory/521046/?single_page=true

9 years ago

230 upvotes – 407 comments

America Needs Small Apartment Buildings

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-30/america-needs-small-apartment-buildings-nobody-builds-them

9 years ago

224 upvotes – 237 comments

Ask HN: Is there a powerful open-source Google Calendar replacement?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14008085

9 years ago

219 upvotes – 101 comments

A step-by-step guide to building a simple chess AI

https://medium.com/@lhartikk/simple-chess-ai-step-by-step-1d55a9266977

9 years ago

216 upvotes – 41 comments

Comcast says it will not sell customer browsing histories

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-fcc-data-idUSKBN1722D6?il=0

9 years ago

212 upvotes – 146 comments

MBAs as CEOs

http://www.mintzberg.org/blog/mbas-as-ceos

9 years ago

199 upvotes – 159 comments

Starting a Hardware Company with $60K

https://cobattery.com/blog/how-to-start-a-hardware-company

9 years ago

189 upvotes – 76 comments

Google Brain Toronto

https://canada.googleblog.com/2017/03/canadas-ai-moment.html

9 years ago

186 upvotes – 66 comments

Verizon announces plans to install a download-tracking app on its Android phones

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/03/first-horseman-privacy-apocalypse-has-already-arrived-verizon-announces-plans

9 years ago

177 upvotes – 113 comments

Launch HN: Tress (YC W17) – Online community for black women's hairstyles

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14006159

9 years ago

171 upvotes – 65 comments

Google Gnome – Google Store

https://store.google.com/magazine/gnome

9 years ago

164 upvotes – 95 comments

Libraries have become a broadband lifeline for students

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/03/cloud-changes-school-3/

9 years ago

157 upvotes – 98 comments

Samsung’s biggest challenge now is Google software, not Apple hardware

http://www.theverge.com/2017/3/30/15118744/samsung-galaxy-s8-google-software-apple-hardware-competition

9 years ago

149 upvotes – 154 comments

A database built like an operating system: the architecture of FaunaDB

https://fauna.com/blog/a-database-built-like-an-operating-system

9 years ago

143 upvotes – 49 comments

Tech Workers' Values

http://blog.samaltman.com/tech-workers-values

9 years ago

142 upvotes – 261 comments

Robinhood stock trading app valued at $1.3B with big raise from DST

https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/31/now-whos-the-rich/

9 years ago

141 upvotes – 164 comments

Raspberry Turk

http://www.raspberryturk.com/

9 years ago

140 upvotes – 27 comments

Australia hasn't had a recession for over 25 years

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-30/as-australia-eyes-victory-on-growth-its-spoils-look-bittersweet

9 years ago

139 upvotes – 170 comments

Show HN: My Interactive ClojureScript book

http://langintro.com/cljsbook/

9 years ago

134 upvotes – 11 comments

DDR5 memory is on its way, twice as fast as DDR4

http://www.pcworld.com/article/3186737/components/staying-alive-ddr5-memory-is-on-its-way.html

9 years ago

132 upvotes – 70 comments

ECC Memory and AMD's Ryzen – A Deep Dive

http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum/hardware-canucks-reviews/75030-ecc-memory-amds-ryzen-deep-dive.html

9 years ago

130 upvotes – 20 comments

Koomey's law

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koomey%27s_law

9 years ago

128 upvotes – 55 comments

Wages for college graduates across many majors have fallen since the recession

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-30/u-s-college-grads-see-slim-to-nothing-wage-gains-since-recession

9 years ago

121 upvotes – 130 comments

Wall Street's WhatsApp Secret: Illegal Texting Is Out of Control

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-30/wall-street-s-whatsapp-secret-illegal-texting-is-out-of-control

9 years ago

117 upvotes – 82 comments

16-bit math look-up tables – the unexpected power of scaled-integer math

http://wilsonminesco.com/16bitMathTables/

9 years ago

114 upvotes – 51 comments

The .NET IL Interpreter

http://mattwarren.org/2017/03/30/The-.NET-IL-Interpreter/

9 years ago

112 upvotes – 5 comments

Fake news is too big and messy to solve with algorithms or editors 

https://backchannel.com/google-and-facebook-cant-just-make-fake-news-disappear-48f4b4e5fbe8

9 years ago

110 upvotes – 124 comments

Keeping David MacKay's 'Sustainable Energy – without the hot air' up-to-date

https://www.carboncommentary.com/blog/2017/3/30/l6qcqgoedse1wmjjz87t09usoq6jva

9 years ago

106 upvotes – 39 comments

The story of the Ping program (2001)

http://ftp.arl.army.mil/~mike/ping.html

9 years ago

99 upvotes – 14 comments

A semantic model for a substantial fragment of C

https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~pes20/cerberus/

9 years ago

97 upvotes – 75 comments

“Anarchist Cookbook” author William Powell has died

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/mar/30/anarchist-cookbook-author-william-powell-dies-aged-66

9 years ago

92 upvotes – 85 comments

Congress’s vote to eviscerate Internet privacy could give the FBI massive power

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/congresss-vote-to-eviscerate-internet-privacy-could-give-the-fbi-massive-power/2017/03/30/0feae55e-1550-11e7-9e4f-09aa75d3ec57_story.html

9 years ago

91 upvotes – 31 comments

Stochastic Program Optimization

https://blog.acolyer.org/2017/03/30/stochastic-program-optimization/

9 years ago

89 upvotes – 18 comments

Is GraphQL the Next Frontier for Web APIs?

https://brandur.org/api-paradigms

9 years ago

85 upvotes – 70 comments

More data can make you more wrong

https://www.spectator.co.uk/2016/08/how-more-data-can-make-you-more-wrong/

9 years ago

80 upvotes – 24 comments

A blog post leads to doubts about Cornell’s food laboratory

http://www.chronicle.com/article/Spoiled-Science/239529

9 years ago

77 upvotes – 15 comments

A startup is filling SF's empty luxury rentals

http://www.sfgate.com/realestate/article/Startup-is-quietly-packing-SF-s-empty-luxury-11039436.php

9 years ago

77 upvotes – 90 comments

Spacecraft Power (2016)

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/video/details.php?id=1443

9 years ago

77 upvotes – 35 comments

The Origins of the American Military Coup of 2012 (1992) [pdf]

http://ssi.armywarcollege.edu/pubs/parameters/articles/2010winter/dunlap_jr.pdf

9 years ago

74 upvotes – 111 comments

Dimnie: Malware targeting open-source developers

https://arstechnica.co.uk/security/2017/03/someone-is-putting-lots-of-work-into-hacking-github-developers/

9 years ago

71 upvotes – 36 comments
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