top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-04-03

Tesla Passes Ford by Market Value

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-04-03/tesla-passes-ford-by-market-value-before-musk-delivers-model-3

9 years ago

846 upvotes – 586 comments

Mexican Newspaper Shuts Down, Saying It Is Too Dangerous to Continue

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/03/world/americas/el-norte-closes-mexican-newspaper.html

9 years ago

769 upvotes – 413 comments

Android overtakes Windows as the internet’s most used operating system

https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/03/statcounter-android-windows/

9 years ago

680 upvotes – 402 comments

Every attempt to manage academia makes it worse

https://svpow.com/2017/03/17/every-attempt-to-manage-academia-makes-it-worse/

9 years ago

549 upvotes – 303 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2017)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14023198

9 years ago

513 upvotes – 940 comments

Python coding interview challenges

https://github.com/donnemartin/coding-challenges

9 years ago

★ 31.3k Python
451 upvotes – 246 comments

UK researchers create graphene-based sieve that can remove salt from seawater

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-39482342

9 years ago

369 upvotes – 112 comments

Interesting data structures: the BK-tree

http://signal-to-noise.xyz/post/bk-tree/

9 years ago

345 upvotes – 57 comments

Uber's experiment in behavioral science to subtly entice drivers

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/04/02/technology/uber-drivers-psychological-tricks.html

9 years ago

322 upvotes – 221 comments

Show HN: Is It Snappy? – Measure latency with your iPhone's 240 Hz camera

http://isitsnappy.com

9 years ago

293 upvotes – 84 comments

Fedora dev: “HN feedback on what they want from their Desktop – We got it”

https://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2017/04/03/hackernews-feedback-on-what-they-want-from-their-desktop-we-got-it/

9 years ago

290 upvotes – 148 comments

For 18 years I thought she was stealing my identity, until I found her

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/apr/03/identity-theft-racial-justice

9 years ago

289 upvotes – 213 comments

Category Theory for Programmers (2014)

https://bartoszmilewski.com/2014/10/28/category-theory-for-programmers-the-preface/

9 years ago

267 upvotes – 63 comments

Amazon Cash

https://www.amazon.com/b/?node=14583169011

9 years ago

267 upvotes – 200 comments

How I legally got scammed for $250 by an upscale apartment complex

https://medium.com/@angry.tenant/how-i-legally-got-scammed-for-250-and-2-days-by-upscale-apartment-complex-34fd1d0ff9e7

9 years ago

265 upvotes – 168 comments

Discussions with Apple regarding license agreement

https://www.imgtec.com/news/press-release/discussions-with-apple-regarding-license-agreement/

9 years ago

254 upvotes – 192 comments

How release canaries can save your bacon

https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/03/how-release-canaries-can-save-your-bacon-CRE-life-lessons.html

9 years ago

248 upvotes – 53 comments

The Debugging Mindset

http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3068754

9 years ago

246 upvotes – 100 comments

Changes to USCIS policy on eligibility criteria for H1B visa

https://www.axios.com/computer-programmers-may-no-longer-be-eligible-for-h-1b-visas-2342531251.html

9 years ago

228 upvotes – 60 comments

Hacking DNA: CRISPR, Ken Thompson, and the Gene Drive

https://blog.ycombinator.com/hacking-dna-the-story-of-crispr-ken-thompson-and-the-gene-drive/

9 years ago

212 upvotes – 66 comments

What is Congress browsing?

https://www.govtrack.us/sousveillance

9 years ago

210 upvotes – 44 comments

Google claims Levandowski launched competing projects long before Otto

https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/03/google-claims-levandowski-launched-competing-projects-long-before-otto/

9 years ago

201 upvotes – 101 comments

Student Debt Giant Navient to Borrowers: You’re on Your Own

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-04-03/student-debt-giant-navient-to-borrowers-you-re-on-your-own

9 years ago

187 upvotes – 223 comments

Hackers Are Emptying ATMs with a Single Drilled Hole and $15 Worth of Gear

https://www.wired.com/2017/04/hackers-emptying-atms-drill-15-worth-gear/

9 years ago

166 upvotes – 79 comments

'Hitler Tamed by Prison' (1924)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2017/04/03/new-york-times-in-1924-hitler-tamed-by-prison/

9 years ago

166 upvotes – 124 comments

How to Learn Hadoop for Free

http://www.johnwittenauer.net/how-to-learn-hadoop-for-free/

9 years ago

163 upvotes – 13 comments

DOJ Cautions Employers Seeking H-1B Visas Not to Discriminate Against US Workers

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-cautions-employers-seeking-h-1b-visas-not-discriminate-against-us-workers

9 years ago

162 upvotes – 114 comments

Oscilloscope pong for 1 or 2 players

http://www.eevblog.com/forum/projects/oscilloscope-pong-for-1-or-2-players/

9 years ago

161 upvotes – 35 comments

Why Did Greenland’s Vikings Vanish?

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/why-greenland-vikings-vanished-180962119/

9 years ago

159 upvotes – 51 comments

The Man Who Made the UK Say “I’m Sorry for What We Did to Turing” (2014)

https://backchannel.com/the-man-who-made-the-uk-say-im-sorry-for-what-we-did-to-turing-8fc468dcea6b

9 years ago

157 upvotes – 44 comments

Invisible Manipulators of the Mind

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2017/04/20/kahneman-tversky-invisible-mind-manipulators/

9 years ago

149 upvotes – 26 comments

Show HN: Fake SMTP server as a service

https://develmail.com

9 years ago

149 upvotes – 87 comments

About the security content of iOS 10.3.1

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207688

9 years ago

147 upvotes – 44 comments

Why Isn’t OpenBSD in Google Summer of Code 2017?

http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=149119308705465&w=2

9 years ago

145 upvotes – 64 comments

Alan Kay's reading list

http://shelfjoy.com/shelfjoy/alan-kay-from-viewpoints-research-institute-recommends-his-reading-list-for-beginners

9 years ago

144 upvotes – 42 comments

Bargain Travel Sites May No Longer Be Bargains

https://backchannel.com/why-bargain-travel-sites-may-no-longer-be-bargains-979e8bbf47a8

9 years ago

144 upvotes – 84 comments

Social media's effect on journalism is greater than shift from print to digital

http://www.cjr.org/tow_center_reports/platform-press-how-silicon-valley-reengineered-journalism.php

9 years ago

144 upvotes – 72 comments

I made our office play personalized entrance theme music

https://dev.to/buntine/hulkamania-or-how-i-made-our-office-play-personalized-entrance-theme-music

9 years ago

144 upvotes – 57 comments

Medieval villagers mutilated the dead to stop them rising, study finds

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/apr/03/medieval-villagers-mutilated-the-dead-to-stop-them-rising-study-finds

9 years ago

120 upvotes – 48 comments

Amazon Planning a Microsoft Office Killer

http://news.softpedia.com/news/amazon-planning-a-microsoft-office-killer-513306.shtml

9 years ago

117 upvotes – 109 comments

The customer is always wrong: Tesla lets out self-driving car data when it suits

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/apr/03/the-customer-is-always-wrong-tesla-lets-out-self-driving-car-data-when-it-suits

9 years ago

112 upvotes – 55 comments

Denouement

https://blog.staffjoy.com/denouement-abe7d26f2de0

9 years ago

112 upvotes – 14 comments

Rotating molecules enable near 100% efficient OLEDs

http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/rotating-molecules-create-a-brighter-future

9 years ago

105 upvotes – 18 comments

Ask HN: Other communities like HN?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14020313

9 years ago

100 upvotes – 60 comments

2017 Barkley Marathon features one finisher, heartbreak for Gary Robbins

http://runningmagazine.ca/2017-barkley-marathons-recap/

9 years ago

96 upvotes – 41 comments

The Case for More Intellectual Humility

http://nautil.us/blog/the-case-for-more-intellectual-humility

9 years ago

91 upvotes – 82 comments

A Las Vegas algorithm to solve the elliptic curve discrete logarithm problem [pdf]

https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.07544

9 years ago

90 upvotes – 27 comments

The 'Grammar Vigilante' of Bristol [video]

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-39459831

9 years ago

90 upvotes – 55 comments

Tech’s Wealthy Enclaves Hurt the Country and Tech Itself

https://www.wired.com/2017/04/techs-wealthy-enclaves-hurt-country-tech/

9 years ago

89 upvotes – 75 comments

Nubsio GPIO API – A Windows USB interface for controlling external devices

http://madeintheusb.blogspot.com/2017/04/nusbio-gpio-api.html

9 years ago

83 upvotes – 49 comments
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