top 50% 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

After Years of Challenges, Foursquare Has Found Its Purpose, and Profits

https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/290543

9 years ago

209 upvotes – 68 comments

What happens over time if each year I fire all my below average programmers?

https://www.quora.com/What-happens-over-time-if-each-year-I-fire-all-my-below-average-programmers-and-get-better-ones/answer/Ethar-Alali?srid=orK8&share=a6861ae3

9 years ago

192 upvotes – 104 comments

Inspector General criticizes the IRS for seizing money from innocent people

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/04/05/the-irs-took-millions-from-innocent-people-because-of-how-they-managed-their-bank-accounts-inspector-general-finds/

9 years ago

186 upvotes – 56 comments

Android devices can be fatally hacked by malicious Wi-Fi networks

https://arstechnica.com/security/2017/04/wide-range-of-android-phones-vulnerable-to-device-hijacks-over-wi-fi/

9 years ago

179 upvotes – 102 comments

Ask HN: What Is the Google 'Software Engineer, Machine Learning' Interview Like?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14051529

9 years ago

159 upvotes – 82 comments

Inside the next Xbox: Project Scorpio tech revealed

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2017-project-scorpio-tech-revealed

9 years ago

158 upvotes – 128 comments

Nvidia Announces Titan Xp Graphics Card

https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/06/nvidias-new-titan-xp-top-end-graphics-card-also-offers-mac-support/

9 years ago

149 upvotes – 116 comments

Announcing HTTP/2 support for all Azure CDN customers

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-http-2-support-for-all-azure-cdn-customers/

9 years ago

131 upvotes – 52 comments

Octopuses and squids can rewrite their RNA

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2017/04/06/octopuses-and-squids-can-rewrite-their-rna-is-that-why-theyre-so-smart/

9 years ago

131 upvotes – 49 comments

Friedrich Hayek and the Collective Brain

https://capx.co/friedrich-hayek-and-the-collective-brain/

9 years ago

128 upvotes – 156 comments

Unix Is Not an Acceptable Unix (2015)

http://mkremins.github.io/blog/unix-not-acceptable-unix/

9 years ago

123 upvotes – 139 comments

Australian regulator alleges Apple misled iPad/iPhone users over consumer rights

https://www.accc.gov.au/media-release/accc-takes-action-against-apple-over-alleged-misleading-consumer-guarantee-representations

9 years ago

119 upvotes – 70 comments

Twitter sues US government over attempt to unmask anti-Trump account

http://www.theverge.com/2017/4/6/15211092/twitter-trump-lawsuit-customs-alt-government

9 years ago

115 upvotes – 1 comments

New APIs to power customer engagement in Direct Messages

https://blog.twitter.com/2017/new-apis-to-power-the-future-of-customer-engagement-in-direct-messages

9 years ago

112 upvotes – 70 comments

Lyft raises $500M

http://www.cnbc.com/2017/04/06/lyft-funding-round-valuation-update-500-million-round-amid-turmoil-at-uber.html

9 years ago

112 upvotes – 78 comments

Hexing the technical interview

https://aphyr.com/posts/341-hexing-the-technical-interview

9 years ago

111 upvotes – 6 comments

Black Tesla Model 3 release candidate spotted driving in Silicon Valley

https://www.teslarati.com/black-tesla-model-3-release-candidate-spotted-driving-silicon-valley-full-gallery/amp

9 years ago

108 upvotes – 80 comments

Spanner vs. Calvin: distributed consistency at scale

https://fauna.com/blog/spanner-vs-calvin-distributed-consistency-at-scale

9 years ago

107 upvotes – 51 comments

Go tool trace

https://making.pusher.com/go-tool-trace/

9 years ago

107 upvotes – 5 comments

AWS ELB adds support for Host-based routing on Application Load Balancer

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/04/elastic-load-balancing-adds-support-for-host-based-routing-and-increased-rules-on-its-application-load-balancer/

9 years ago

103 upvotes – 21 comments

Elizabeth Holmes Owes About $25M to Theranos

https://www.wsj.com/articles/theranos-founder-elizabeth-holmes-owes-about-25-million-to-blood-testing-startup-1491435009

9 years ago

103 upvotes – 41 comments

Microsoft formally bans emulators on Xbox, Windows 10 download shops

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/04/microsoft-formally-bans-emulators-on-xbox-windows-10-download-shops/

9 years ago

92 upvotes – 132 comments

Databases have failed the web

https://josephg.com/blog/databases-have-failed-the-web/

9 years ago

88 upvotes – 135 comments
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