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

Tim Berners-Lee wins Turing Award

https://news.mit.edu/2017/tim-berners-lee-wins-turing-award-0404

9 years ago

1735 upvotes – 287 comments

The Mac Pro Lives

http://daringfireball.net/2017/04/the_mac_pro_lives

9 years ago

877 upvotes – 801 comments

iPhone App will not stay open - just flashes when trying to launch

http://community.garadget.com/t/iphone-app-will-not-stay-open-just-flashes-when-trying-to-launch/1706

9 years ago

638 upvotes – 436 comments

Why F.E.A.R.’s AI is still the best in first-person shooters

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2017/04/03/why-fears-ai-is-still-the-best-in-first-person-shooters/

9 years ago

597 upvotes – 273 comments

Jupyter Notebook 5.0

http://blog.jupyter.org/2017/04/04/jupyter-notebook-5-0/

9 years ago

588 upvotes – 110 comments

Why Momentum Works

http://distill.pub/2017/momentum/

9 years ago

503 upvotes – 95 comments

Over the Air: Exploiting Broadcom’s Wi-Fi Stack

https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2017/04/over-air-exploiting-broadcoms-wi-fi_4.html

9 years ago

439 upvotes – 151 comments

Reddit’s April Fools’ experiment

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/04/in-memoriam-reddits-72-hour-live-graffiti-wall-as-a-social-experiment/

9 years ago

430 upvotes – 275 comments

Ask HN: What are you working on?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14030149

9 years ago

374 upvotes – 730 comments

Why I will not exercise my GitLab stock options

https://medium.com/@patocano/why-i-will-not-exercise-my-gitlab-stock-options-bf6f3dda62e

9 years ago

361 upvotes – 196 comments

Django 1.11 Released

https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2017/apr/04/django-111-released/

9 years ago

348 upvotes – 141 comments

Show HN: React-data sheet, Excel-like spreadsheet component

https://nadbm.github.io/react-datasheet/

9 years ago

345 upvotes – 89 comments

Espresso – Google’s peering edge architecture

https://www.blog.google/topics/google-cloud/making-google-cloud-faster-more-available-and-cost-effective-extending-sdn-public-internet-espresso/

9 years ago

327 upvotes – 94 comments

Building a scalable time-series database on PostgreSQL

https://blog.timescale.com/when-boring-is-awesome-building-a-scalable-time-series-database-on-postgresql-2900ea453ee2

9 years ago

305 upvotes – 133 comments

IoT garage door opener maker disables customer’s service after bad review

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/04/iot-garage-door-opener-maker-bricks-customers-product-after-bad-review

9 years ago

291 upvotes – 187 comments

Ghost in the Shell

http://ashthorp.com/ghost-in-the-shell

9 years ago

286 upvotes – 234 comments

Why do developers who could work anywhere flock to the most expensive cities?

https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/02/why-do-developers-who-could-work-anywhere-flock-to-the-worlds-most-expensive-cities/

9 years ago

263 upvotes – 385 comments

Ask HN: What medical datasets do you need?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14037705

9 years ago

223 upvotes – 133 comments

What I Learned Managing Site Reliability for Some of the Busiest Gambling Sites

https://zwischenzugs.wordpress.com/2017/04/04/things-i-learned-managing-site-reliability-for-some-of-the-worlds-busiest-gambling-sites/

9 years ago

220 upvotes – 107 comments

At Scale, Rare Events Aren’t Rare

http://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2017/04/at-scale-rare-events-arent-rare/

9 years ago

218 upvotes – 55 comments

On the typography of flight deck documentation – NASA (1992)

https://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=19930010781

9 years ago

211 upvotes – 44 comments

How to rickroll Spotify for Android

https://github.com/kjempelodott/rickify

9 years ago

★ 529Python
193 upvotes – 28 comments

Problems with Swagger

http://blog.novatec-gmbh.de/the-problems-with-swagger/

9 years ago

192 upvotes – 158 comments

Coming in 2018 – New AWS Region in Sweden

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/coming-in-2018-new-aws-region-in-sweden/

9 years ago

188 upvotes – 76 comments

Amazon wins streaming rights for Thursday Night Football

http://www.sportsbusinessdaily.com/Daily/Closing-Bell/2017/04/04/NFL-TNF.aspx

9 years ago

175 upvotes – 148 comments

It is done, the PostgreSQL community rocks

http://blog.pgconf.us/2017/04/its-done-postgresql-community-rocks.html

9 years ago

167 upvotes – 36 comments

Where will UX Design be in 5 years?

http://trydesignlab.com/blog/where-ux-design-5-years-predictions/

9 years ago

163 upvotes – 184 comments

Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems (2015)

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/goedel-incompleteness/

9 years ago

161 upvotes – 77 comments

Kotlin/Native Tech Preview: Kotlin without a VM

https://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2017/04/kotlinnative-tech-preview-kotlin-without-a-vm/

9 years ago

159 upvotes – 77 comments

The Linux Foundation: Not a Friend of Desktop Linux, the GPL, or Openness

http://fossforce.com/2017/04/lin-desktop-linux-gpl-openness/

9 years ago

158 upvotes – 221 comments

Formula 1: Building the world’s fastest cars

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2017/04/formula-1-technology/

9 years ago

155 upvotes – 149 comments

Yale Climate Opinion Maps

http://climatecommunication.yale.edu/visualizations-data/ycom-us-2016/

9 years ago

149 upvotes – 183 comments

Gameboy Advance Development by Example: Drawing and Moving Sprites

http://kylehalladay.com/blog/tutorial/2017/04/04/GBA-By-Example-2.html

9 years ago

136 upvotes – 21 comments

Kim Stanley Robinson’s “New York 2140”

http://nymag.com/selectall/2017/03/kim-stanley-robinsons-new-york-2140-review-a-drowned-nyc.html

9 years ago

134 upvotes – 92 comments

Samsung's Tizen is riddled with security flaws, amateurishly written

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/04/samsungs-tizen-is-riddled-with-security-flaws-amateurishly-written/

9 years ago

130 upvotes – 63 comments

Improving on Tor .onion Address Usability

https://blog.torproject.org/blog/cooking-onions-names-your-onions

9 years ago

124 upvotes – 39 comments

NESticle, a classic NES emulator for DOS, is 20 years old today

https://twitter.com/dosnostalgic/status/849093769718792193

9 years ago

120 upvotes – 39 comments

The Lasting Consequences of Student Debt

http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2017/04/04/522456671/a-new-look-at-the-lasting-consequences-of-student-debt

9 years ago

112 upvotes – 199 comments

Terms and Conditions, the Graphic Novel

https://blog.mozilla.org/internetcitizen/2017/04/03/terms-and-conditions-the-graphic-novel/

9 years ago

112 upvotes – 30 comments

Silicon Valley job seekers are increasingly looking for work elsewhere

http://blog.indeed.com/2017/04/03/silicon-valley-tech-job-migration/

9 years ago

108 upvotes – 99 comments

Google X employee collapsed on the job due to harsh working conditions

https://thenextweb.com/google/2017/04/03/google-x-employee-reportedly-collapsed-on-the-job-due-to-harsh-working-conditions/#.tnw_Gm8pEtUE

9 years ago

105 upvotes – 38 comments

Secure C coding standards by SEI

https://www.securecoding.cert.org/confluence/display/c/SEI+CERT+C+Coding+Standard

9 years ago

103 upvotes – 17 comments

I was a multi-millionaire by 27–here's what I learned

http://www.cnbc.com/2017/03/28/i-was-a-multi-millionaire-by-27-heres-what-i-learned.html

9 years ago

103 upvotes – 90 comments

Why predicted gridlock almost never happens

http://cityobservatory.org/carmaggedon-stalks-atlanta/

9 years ago

100 upvotes – 123 comments

Show HN: Dnote – Instantly Capture Your Coding Wisdom

https://dnote.io/

9 years ago

100 upvotes – 57 comments

Revealing Capcom’s Custom Silicon Security

http://arcadehacker.blogspot.com/2017/03/a-journey-into-capcoms-cps2-silicon.html

9 years ago

99 upvotes – 11 comments

Show HN: A ncurses CRM system (and accounting)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14029986

9 years ago

95 upvotes – 63 comments
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