top 20 hacker news stories for 2017-04-06

An off-grid social network

https://staltz.com/an-off-grid-social-network.html

9 years ago

1031 upvotes – 366 comments

Twitter refuses US order to disclose owner of anti-Trump account

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-twitter-lawsuit-idUSKBN1782PH

9 years ago

831 upvotes – 493 comments

A Thank-You Note to the Hacker News Community from Ubuntu

http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2017/04/thank-you-note-to-hackernews.html

9 years ago

786 upvotes – 227 comments

How Bank of America Gave Away My Money

http://soraven.com/2017/04/05/how-bank-of-america-gave-away-my-money/

9 years ago

640 upvotes – 250 comments

Unsupervised sentiment neuron

https://blog.openai.com/unsupervised-sentiment-neuron/

9 years ago

603 upvotes – 126 comments

Machine learning without centralized training data

https://research.googleblog.com/2017/04/federated-learning-collaborative.html

9 years ago

568 upvotes – 99 comments

Ride-hailing apps may help to curb drunk driving

http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2017/04/daily-chart-0

9 years ago

509 upvotes – 367 comments

Twitter Sues Federal Government

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3538047-Twitter-Complaint.html

9 years ago

361 upvotes – 84 comments

Uber said to use “sophisticated” software to defraud drivers, passengers

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/04/uber-said-to-use-sophisticated-software-to-defraud-drivers-passengers/

9 years ago

343 upvotes – 224 comments

FDA Authorizes Ten 23andme Genetic Health Risk Reports

https://blog.23andme.com/news/good-news-about-health-reports/

9 years ago

311 upvotes – 189 comments

Jeff Bezos Is Selling $1B a Year in Amazon Stock to Finance Race to Space

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/05/science/blue-origin-rocket-jeff-bezos-amazon-stock.html

9 years ago

310 upvotes – 223 comments

The Glimmer VM: Boots Fast and Stays Fast

http://yehudakatz.com/2017/04/05/the-glimmer-vm-boots-fast-and-stays-fast/

9 years ago

292 upvotes – 89 comments

Introducing Twitter Lite

https://blog.twitter.com/2017/introducing-twitter-lite

9 years ago

280 upvotes – 158 comments

Fun at the Unix Terminal

http://blog.regehr.org/archives/1483

9 years ago

279 upvotes – 55 comments

Libreboot: Open Letter to the Free Software Community

https://libreboot.org/#open-letter-to-the-free-software-community

9 years ago

272 upvotes – 207 comments

Stripe opens its Atlas program to US-based startups

https://stripe.com/blog/atlas-updates

9 years ago

251 upvotes – 120 comments

Ask HN: What are the OSS alternatives to iOS/Android?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14049174

9 years ago

248 upvotes – 238 comments

Planck.js – JavaScript rewrite of Box2D physics library

https://github.com/shakiba/planck.js

9 years ago

★ 5.2kTypeScriptMIT
245 upvotes – 67 comments

High school journalists investigated a new principal’s credentials

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/04/05/these-high-school-journalists-investigated-a-new-principals-credentials-days-later-she-resigned/

9 years ago

237 upvotes – 167 comments

The Minimally-Nice Open Source Software Maintainer

http://brson.github.io/2017/04/05/minimally-nice-maintainer

9 years ago

224 upvotes – 58 comments
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