top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-04-08

Snowden: NSA just lost control of its Top Secret arsenal of digital weapons

https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/850766326943690752

9 years ago

657 upvotes – 297 comments

New Features Coming in PostgreSQL 10

http://rhaas.blogspot.com/2017/04/new-features-coming-in-postgresql-10.html

9 years ago

517 upvotes – 135 comments

ReactXP – A library for building cross-platform apps

https://microsoft.github.io/reactxp/

9 years ago

338 upvotes – 116 comments

Best Practices for Applying Deep Learning to Novel Applications

https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.01568

9 years ago

300 upvotes – 17 comments

The new contribution workflow for Gnome

https://csorianognome.wordpress.com/2017/04/07/the-new-contribution-workflow-for-gnome/

9 years ago

284 upvotes – 71 comments

Show HN: Qt binding for Go with support for all major operating systems

https://therecipe.github.io/qt

9 years ago

222 upvotes – 74 comments

How not to create traffic jams: Don’t let people park for free

https://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21720269-dont-let-people-park-free-how-not-create-traffic-jams-pollution-and-urban-sprawl

9 years ago

213 upvotes – 261 comments

Wire messenger server code open-sourced

https://github.com/wireapp/wire-server

9 years ago

★ 2.7k Haskell AGPL-3.0
211 upvotes – 67 comments

Modafinil-Induced Changes in Functional Connectivity of Healthy Elderly Subjects

http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnagi.2017.00085/full

9 years ago

210 upvotes – 163 comments

Visual Studio Code: Shipping One of the Largest Microsoft JavaScript Apps

https://realm.io/news/GOTO-Alex-Dima-Visual_Studio-Code-JavaScript-Typescript/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+realmio+%28Realm+News%29

9 years ago

208 upvotes – 141 comments

Cayley – An open-source graph database

https://github.com/cayleygraph/cayley

9 years ago

★ 15k Go Apache-2.0
203 upvotes – 68 comments

Jean Michel Jarre – Equinoxe IV (1981) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsxMRz477jM

9 years ago

201 upvotes – 109 comments

Saltpack – A modern crypto messaging format

https://saltpack.org/

9 years ago

180 upvotes – 47 comments

Unkown Unknowns: Why you should release early

https://www.danielk.se/post/releaseearly/

9 years ago

149 upvotes – 89 comments

On the Women’s Petition Against Coffee of 1674

https://resobscura.blogspot.com/2017/04/that-newfangled-abominable-heathenish.html

9 years ago

137 upvotes – 19 comments

Airlines Make More Money Selling Miles Than Seats

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-31/airlines-make-more-money-selling-miles-than-seats

9 years ago

136 upvotes – 142 comments

Secrets of the Glasgow Haskell Compiler Inliner (1999) [pdf]

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/2002/07/inline.pdf

9 years ago

131 upvotes – 10 comments

Why Kids Shouldn’t Sit Still in Class

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/03/21/well/family/why-kids-shouldnt-sit-still-in-class.html

9 years ago

128 upvotes – 88 comments

It’s time for Scotland to find a new home in Canada

https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/its-time-for-scotland-to-find-a-new-home-in-canada/article34583830/?ref=http://www.theglobeandmail.com&service=mobile

9 years ago

124 upvotes – 105 comments

Erlang Performance Lab

http://www.erlang.pl/

9 years ago

116 upvotes – 26 comments

Common Algo Problem Solutions

https://github.com/sherxon/AlgoDS/blob/master/README.md

9 years ago

★ 3.4k Java MIT
113 upvotes – 23 comments

Remote code execution affecting most iOS/macOS apps

https://blog.flanker017.me/cve-2017-2416-gif-remote-exec/

9 years ago

105 upvotes – 23 comments

Predicting Properties of Molecules with Machine Learning

https://research.googleblog.com/2017/04/predicting-properties-of-molecules-with.html

9 years ago

105 upvotes – 25 comments

'My Airbnb flat was turned into a pop-up brothel'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-39528479

9 years ago

95 upvotes – 163 comments

Empirical Study of the Anatomy of Modern SAT Solvers (2011) [pdf]

http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~fbacchus/csc2512/Lectures/2013Readings/Skallah_Empirical_Study_SAT_Solvers.pdf

9 years ago

95 upvotes – 2 comments

The Two Types of Knowledge: The Max Planck/Chauffeur Test (2015)

https://www.farnamstreetblog.com/2015/09/two-types-of-knowledge/

9 years ago

91 upvotes – 33 comments

Fast Python loops

https://www.python.org/doc/essays/list2str/

9 years ago

88 upvotes – 49 comments

How to create content that works well with screen readers

https://accessibility.blog.gov.uk/2017/02/08/advice-for-creating-content-that-works-well-with-screen-readers/

9 years ago

83 upvotes – 12 comments

A History of Interactive Fiction (2006)

http://maher.filfre.net/if-book/

9 years ago

79 upvotes – 23 comments

Google Pays Female Workers Less Than Male Counterparts, Labor Department Says

https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-pays-female-workers-less-than-male-counterparts-labor-department-says-1491622997

9 years ago

76 upvotes – 124 comments

D-Bus communication with containers

http://smcv.pseudorandom.co.uk/2017/dbus_and_containers/

9 years ago

76 upvotes – 0 comments

Cooking Lessons

https://story.californiasunday.com/cooking-lessons

9 years ago

75 upvotes – 11 comments

Does irrationality fuel innovation?

https://juliagalef.com/2017/04/07/does-irrationality-fuel-innovation/

9 years ago

74 upvotes – 32 comments

The race to destroy space garbage

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-39521406#

9 years ago

72 upvotes – 61 comments

A Baby with 3 Genetic Parents Seems Healthy, but Questions Remain

http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/04/08/523020895/a-baby-with-3-genetic-parents-seems-healthy-but-questions-remain

9 years ago

70 upvotes – 96 comments

How to set up Windows 10 without a Microsoft account

http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/how-to/windows/how-set-up-windows-10-without-microsoft-account-3630929/

9 years ago

64 upvotes – 50 comments
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