top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-04-05

Build Your Own Text Editor

http://viewsourcecode.org/snaptoken/kilo/

9 years ago

1275 upvotes – 159 comments

Growing Ubuntu for Cloud and IoT, Rather Than Phone and Convergence

https://insights.ubuntu.com/2017/04/05/growing-ubuntu-for-cloud-and-iot-rather-than-phone-and-convergence/

9 years ago

756 upvotes – 456 comments

Ask HN: Building a side project that makes money. Where to start?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14039135

9 years ago

602 upvotes – 248 comments

Uber finds one allegedly stolen Waymo file on an employee’s personal device

https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/05/uber-finds-one-allegedly-stolen-waymo-file-on-an-employees-personal-device/

9 years ago

512 upvotes – 339 comments

ZeroNet – Uncensorable websites using Bitcoin crypto and BitTorrent network

https://zeronet.io/en

9 years ago

410 upvotes – 169 comments

Grid Garden – A game for learning CSS grid

http://cssgridgarden.com/

9 years ago

404 upvotes – 131 comments

Better Git configuration

https://blog.scottnonnenberg.com/better-git-configuration/

9 years ago

388 upvotes – 63 comments

An In-Depth Look at Google's Tensor Processing Unit Architecture

https://www.nextplatform.com/2017/04/05/first-depth-look-googles-tpu-architecture/

9 years ago

380 upvotes – 66 comments

The Power of Prolog

https://www.metalevel.at/prolog

9 years ago

348 upvotes – 161 comments

Do not let your CDN betray you: use subresource integrity (2015)

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2015/09/subresource-integrity-in-firefox-43/

9 years ago

305 upvotes – 83 comments

Dolphins' elaborate octopus-hunting strategy

https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/04/new-study-reveals-dolphins-flinging-octopuses-into-the-air/

9 years ago

301 upvotes – 187 comments

Ubuntu Unity is dead: Desktop will switch back to GNOME next year

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/04/ubuntu-unity-is-dead-desktop-will-switch-back-to-gnome-next-year/

9 years ago

282 upvotes – 150 comments

What makes us Red Hat

https://www.redhat.com/en/about/blog/what-makes-us-red-hat?sc_cid=7016000000127NJAAY

9 years ago

280 upvotes – 249 comments

HTML5 Games Workshop: Make a Platformer Game with JavaScript

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/04/html5-games-workshop-make-a-platformer-game-with-javascript/

9 years ago

261 upvotes – 67 comments

Love in the Time of Cryptography

https://backchannel.com/love-in-the-time-of-cryptography-dd3a74193ffb

9 years ago

256 upvotes – 48 comments

What CSS minifiers also leave behind

https://luisant.ca/css-opts-survey2

9 years ago

252 upvotes – 108 comments

New UX for Jenkins: Blue Ocean 1.0

https://jenkins.io/blog/2017/04/05/say-hello-blueocean-1-0/#say-hello-to-blue-ocean-1-0

9 years ago

243 upvotes – 96 comments

The company behind Adblock Plus is acquiring micropayment service Flattr

https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/05/adblock-plus-acquires-flattr/

9 years ago

233 upvotes – 157 comments

Hackathon hustlers who make a living from corporate coding contests

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-04-04/these-hackathon-hustlers-make-their-living-from-corporate-coding-contests

9 years ago

224 upvotes – 107 comments

Microsoft opens up on Windows telemetry, tells us most of what data it collects

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/04/microsoft-opens-up-on-windows-telemetry-tells-us-most-of-what-data-it-collects/

9 years ago

207 upvotes – 200 comments

Zepton – a Pico-8 voxel shoot'em up [game]

http://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?uid=556

9 years ago

198 upvotes – 36 comments

Ask HN: Current Crypto Best Practices

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14041827

9 years ago

198 upvotes – 68 comments

Startup School 2017 First Lecture

https://www.startupschool.org/

9 years ago

191 upvotes – 60 comments

Save PBS. It makes us safer

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/05/opinion/stanley-mcchrystal-save-pbs-it-makes-us-safer.html

9 years ago

176 upvotes – 107 comments

Nuclear plant shutdowns tied to coal pollution, decreased birth weights

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-environment-pediatrics-idUSKBN1762ZK

9 years ago

170 upvotes – 188 comments

The Town of Innisfil partners with Uber for transit instead of buses

https://innisfil.ca/mygovernment/planningforourfuture/BringingTransittoInnisfil

9 years ago

140 upvotes – 277 comments

Show HN: Robotopia – Introducing kids to coding with tiny virtual robots

https://github.com/robotopia-x/robotopia/

9 years ago

★ 525 JavaScript MIT
133 upvotes – 29 comments

Paradoxes of probability and other statistical strangeness

https://theconversation.com/paradoxes-of-probability-and-other-statistical-strangeness-74440

9 years ago

132 upvotes – 106 comments

EmberConf 2017: State of the Union

https://emberjs.com/blog/2017/04/05/emberconf-2017-state-of-the-union.html

9 years ago

132 upvotes – 19 comments

Horlicks, a drink Brits go to bed with and Indians wake up with

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-39448013

9 years ago

128 upvotes – 135 comments

Physicists attempt to prove the Riemann hypothesis

https://www.quantamagazine.org/20170404-quantum-physicists-attack-the-riemann-hypothesis/?platform=hootsuite

9 years ago

124 upvotes – 67 comments

It’s now illegal in Russia to share an image of Putin as a gay clown

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/04/05/its-now-illegal-in-russia-to-share-an-image-of-putin-as-a-gay-clown/?tid=sm_tw

9 years ago

124 upvotes – 59 comments

In Pieces – A CSS-based exhibition celebrating evolutionary distinction

http://species-in-pieces.com/

9 years ago

124 upvotes – 25 comments

Philosophy tool kit

https://aeon.co/essays/with-the-use-of-heuristics-anybody-can-think-like-a-philosopher

9 years ago

121 upvotes – 49 comments

Quantifying the performance of the TPU, our first machine learning chip

https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/04/quantifying-the-performance-of-the-TPU-our-first-machine-learning-chip.html

9 years ago

110 upvotes – 27 comments

Show HN: AcrossTabs – Easy communication between cross-origin browser tabs

https://github.com/wingify/across-tabs

9 years ago

★ 1.6k JavaScript MIT
107 upvotes – 25 comments

Verizon wants a piece of Google's ad business

http://www.theverge.com/2017/4/5/15180622/oath-aol-yahoo-verizon-ad-tracking-privacy

9 years ago

107 upvotes – 115 comments

A very long way from home: early Byzantine finds at the far ends of the world

http://www.caitlingreen.org/2017/03/a-very-long-way-from-home.html

9 years ago

106 upvotes – 28 comments

Harry Shearer: Why My 'Spinal Tap' Lawsuit Affects All Creators

http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/news/harry-shearer-why-my-spinal-tap-lawsuit-affects-all-creators-w474441

9 years ago

106 upvotes – 39 comments

Rust Optimizations That C++ Can't Do

http://robert.ocallahan.org/2017/04/rust-optimizations-that-c-cant-do.html

9 years ago

102 upvotes – 107 comments

Visual Studio Code 1.11

https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_11

9 years ago

96 upvotes – 20 comments

Ask HN: What makes a good place to work?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14042409

9 years ago

90 upvotes – 71 comments

Ubuntu to Abandon Unity 8, Switch Back to Gnome

http://phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Ubuntu-Dropping-Unity

9 years ago

88 upvotes – 6 comments

Acute Effects of LSD on Amygdala Activity During Processing of Fearful Stimuli

https://www.nature.com/tp/journal/v7/n4/full/tp201754a.html

9 years ago

84 upvotes – 53 comments

Creating Usability with Motion: The UX in Motion Manifesto

https://medium.com/@ux_in_motion/creating-usability-with-motion-the-ux-in-motion-manifesto-a87a4584ddc

9 years ago

84 upvotes – 20 comments

Udacity spins out its self-driving car business as Voyage

https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/05/udacity-spin-out-voyage-aims-to-build-a-full-self-driving-taxi-business/

9 years ago

82 upvotes – 45 comments
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