top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-04-07

New York City bans employers from asking potential workers about past salary

http://nytlive.nytimes.com/womenintheworld/2017/04/07/new-york-city-bans-employers-from-asking-potential-workers-about-their-past-salary/

9 years ago

718 upvotes – 524 comments

Color Night Vision (2016) [video]

http://kottke.org/17/04/incredible-low-light-camera-turns-night-into-day

9 years ago

625 upvotes – 156 comments

The reference D compiler is now open source

https://forum.dlang.org/post/[email protected]

9 years ago

566 upvotes – 303 comments

Lego Macintosh Classic with e‑paper display

https://jann.is/lego-macintosh-classic/

9 years ago

468 upvotes – 94 comments

React v15.5.0

https://facebook.github.io/react/blog/2017/04/07/react-v15.5.0.html

9 years ago

453 upvotes – 203 comments

Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14064096

9 years ago

441 upvotes – 445 comments

A girl was found living among monkeys in an Indian forest

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/04/07/a-girl-was-found-living-among-monkeys-in-an-indian-forest-how-she-got-there-is-a-mystery/

9 years ago

365 upvotes – 159 comments

The BEAM Book – A Description of the Erlang RTS and the Virtual Machine BEAM

https://github.com/happi/theBeamBook

9 years ago

★ 4kErlang
336 upvotes – 14 comments

Marc Andreessen: “Take the Ego Out of Ideas”

https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/marc-andreessen-take-ego-out-ideas

9 years ago

334 upvotes – 235 comments

File Format Posters

https://github.com/corkami/pics/tree/master/binary

9 years ago

★ 11.4kAssembly
320 upvotes – 45 comments

Fact Check now available in Google Search and News

https://blog.google/products/search/fact-check-now-available-google-search-and-news-around-world/

9 years ago

302 upvotes – 257 comments

Official list of phoned-home info revealed by Microsoft

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/04/06/microsoft_windows_10_creators_update/

9 years ago

271 upvotes – 208 comments

Ultima VI

http://www.filfre.net/2017/04/ultima-vi/

9 years ago

263 upvotes – 105 comments

Open sourcing Sonnet – a new library for constructing neural networks

https://deepmind.com/blog/open-sourcing-sonnet/

9 years ago

262 upvotes – 38 comments

My phone was searched at LAX, which apparently is the new normal

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-adi-fourth-amendment-airport-cellphone-search-20170407-story.html?utm_source=Today%27s+Headlines&utm_campaign=347bc3a518-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_12_12&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b04355194f-347bc3a518-80983953

9 years ago

237 upvotes – 271 comments

Show HN: Resumegen – A single-page LaTeX resume generator

http://writecodeeveryday.github.io/projects/resumegen

9 years ago

227 upvotes – 87 comments

Shenzhen is a hothouse of innovation

http://www.economist.com/news/special-report/21720076-copycats-are-out-innovators-are-shenzhen-hothouse-innovation

9 years ago

215 upvotes – 162 comments

Opinionated Comparison of React, Angular2, and Aurelia

https://github.com/stickfigure/blog/wiki/Opinionated-Comparison-of-React%2C-Angular2%2C-and-Aurelia

9 years ago

★ 571
206 upvotes – 160 comments

Dr John Goodenough’s story suggests some people become more creative with age

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/07/opinion/sunday/to-be-a-genius-think-like-a-94-year-old.html

9 years ago

186 upvotes – 140 comments

UCLA CS88S: Safety in the Cloud – Introduction to Cybersecurity

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScgGUCbNfFfg6QuShzJAUlcCueiXDqeZKF1--ba9YRTVv6tTg/viewform?c=0&w=1

9 years ago

186 upvotes – 47 comments

In love with the BBC micro:bit

https://markshroyer.com/2017/03/microbit/

9 years ago

184 upvotes – 79 comments

In Event of Moon Disaster (1969)

http://www.lettersofnote.com/2010/11/in-event-of-moon-disaster.html

9 years ago

182 upvotes – 78 comments

Twitter drops lawsuit, saying summons has been withdrawn

http://www.reuters.com/article/twitter-lawsuit-idUSL1N1HF13U

9 years ago

176 upvotes – 44 comments

Former Google VP Starts a Company Promising Clean and Safe Nuclear Energy

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-04-03/former-google-vice-president-starts-a-company-promising-clean-and-safe-nuclear-energy

9 years ago

176 upvotes – 167 comments

Go 1.8.1 is released

https://golang.org/doc/devel/release.html#go1.8.minor

9 years ago

157 upvotes – 10 comments

Zi2zi: Master Chinese Calligraphy with Conditional Adversarial Networks

https://kaonashi-tyc.github.io/2017/04/06/zi2zi.html

9 years ago

156 upvotes – 18 comments

U.S. FCC chairman plans fast-track repeal of net neutrality: sources

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-internet-idUSKBN1790AP

9 years ago

145 upvotes – 100 comments

When Pixels Collide

http://sudoscript.com/reddit-place/

9 years ago

143 upvotes – 33 comments

Erlang's Internal Data Representation (2016)

https://edfine.io/blog/2016/06/28/erlang-data-representation/

9 years ago

130 upvotes – 3 comments

U.S. Launches over 50 Missiles at Syrian Military Base

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/u-s-launches-missiles-syrian-base-after-chemical-weapons-attack-n743636

9 years ago

128 upvotes – 159 comments

Root partners with Standard Bank South Africa to offer programmable bank account

https://www.iafrikan.com/2017/04/07/offerzen-in-partnership-with-standard-bank-south-africa-is-launching-root-a-programmable-bank-account/

9 years ago

123 upvotes – 46 comments

Some Lesser Known Machine Learning Libraries

http://blog.paralleldots.com/technology/machine-learning/lesser-known-machine-learning-libraries-part-ii/

9 years ago

119 upvotes – 51 comments

U.S. has withdrawn its request to identify a Trump critic

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/04/07/the-u-s-government-has-withdrawn-its-request-ordering-twitter-to-identify-a-trump-critic/

9 years ago

118 upvotes – 38 comments

The rise of super-voting shares has given founders the ultimate job security

https://backchannel.com/why-uber-wont-fire-its-ceo-bd748df7151d

9 years ago

116 upvotes – 99 comments

Walt Mossberg is retiring in June

http://www.theverge.com/2017/4/7/15217980/walt-mossberg-retiring-in-june

9 years ago

116 upvotes – 18 comments

What My Stroke Taught Me

http://nautil.us/issue/47/consciousness/what-my-stroke-taught-me

9 years ago

114 upvotes – 30 comments

Where the Apple accounts that hackers are threatening to wipe came from

https://www.troyhunt.com/heres-where-the-apple-accounts-hackers-are-threatening-to-wipe-came-from/

9 years ago

113 upvotes – 54 comments

Blink-dev – Intent to Ship: SharedArrayBuffer

https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!msg/blink-dev/dnzvgTswfbc/AFIUge2oDQAJ

9 years ago

113 upvotes – 49 comments

Living a Lie: We Deceive Ourselves to Better Deceive Others

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/living-a-lie-we-deceive-ourselves-to-better-deceive-others/

9 years ago

112 upvotes – 31 comments

Nvidia's “Open-Source Guy” Has Left the Company

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NVIDIA-Gnu-Leaves

9 years ago

110 upvotes – 80 comments

Anomalous keys in Tor relays

https://nymity.ch/anomalous-tor-keys/

9 years ago

109 upvotes – 9 comments

America's biggest new reading trend: obsessed with multitasking via audio books

https://qz.com/924075/audiobook-readers-obsessed-with-multitasking-are-driving-americas-biggest-new-reading-trend/

9 years ago

106 upvotes – 98 comments

Phil Schiller, Craig Federighi and John Ternus on the State of Apple’s Pro Macs

https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/06/transcript-phil-schiller-craig-federighi-and-john-ternus-on-the-state-of-apples-pro-macs/?ncid=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29&sr_share=twitter

9 years ago

99 upvotes – 116 comments

Grasshopper

https://wikileaks.org/vault7/?g#Grasshopper

9 years ago

94 upvotes – 50 comments

Deploying Brotli for static content

https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech/2017/04/deploying-brotli-for-static-content/

9 years ago

87 upvotes – 30 comments

Python vs. R: The battle for data scientist mind share

http://www.infoworld.com/article/3187550/data-science/python-vs-r-the-battle-for-data-scientist-mind-share.html

9 years ago

86 upvotes – 62 comments

Radiance: a flexible web-application environment for Common Lisp

https://shirakumo.github.io/radiance-homepage/

9 years ago

82 upvotes – 18 comments

AlphaGo Documentary Premiering at Tribeca Film Festival

https://tribecafilm.com/filmguide/alphago-2017

9 years ago

82 upvotes – 21 comments
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