top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-04-12

We’re dropping Google Ads

http://www.groundup.org.za/article/why-were-dropping-google-ads/

9 years ago

1477 upvotes – 584 comments

Chrome 59 has cross-platform headless support

https://www.chromestatus.com/features/5678767817097216

9 years ago

834 upvotes – 154 comments

Programmers are most likely to work from home

https://qz.com/950973/remote-work-for-programmers-the-ultimate-office-perk-is-avoiding-the-office-entirely/

9 years ago

427 upvotes – 363 comments

How I Used Twilio, Python and Google to Automate My Wedding

https://www.twilio.com/blog/2017/04/wedding-at-scale-how-i-used-twilio-python-and-google-to-automate-my-wedding.html

9 years ago

425 upvotes – 220 comments

Blender 2.79: OpenCL on par with CUDA

https://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Source/Render/Cycles/OpenCL

9 years ago

402 upvotes – 139 comments

How I Made My Own iPhone in China [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leFuF-zoVzA&feature=youtu.be

9 years ago

397 upvotes – 133 comments

What’s New in Bash/WSL and Windows Console

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/2017/04/11/windows-10-creators-update-whats-new-in-bashwsl-windows-console/

9 years ago

332 upvotes – 238 comments

Russian FOSS activist arrested in Russia for his Tor exit-node

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14096625

9 years ago

305 upvotes – 111 comments

Sublime Text 3 dev build 3128 released

http://www.sublimetext.com/3dev

9 years ago

301 upvotes – 231 comments

Security Certifications Are Causing More Harm Than Good

https://www.tacnetsol.com/blogs/news/security-certifications-are-worthless-and-causing-more-harm-than-good?utm_source=hackernews&utm_medium=gp

9 years ago

290 upvotes – 215 comments

Jeff Bezos explains the perfect way to make risky business decisions

http://www.businessinsider.com/jeff-bezos-explains-the-perfect-way-to-make-risky-business-decisions-2017-4

9 years ago

283 upvotes – 108 comments

Blinded after applying contact lenses with wet hands

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-39568781

9 years ago

243 upvotes – 222 comments

Drupal Confessions – An Open Letter

https://www.drupalconfessions.org/

9 years ago

240 upvotes – 312 comments

An Alternative Approach to Rate Limiting

https://medium.com/figma-design/an-alternative-approach-to-rate-limiting-f8a06cf7c94c

9 years ago

226 upvotes – 68 comments

Investigation finds inmates built computers and hid them in prison ceiling

http://newschannel9.com/news/nation-world/investigation-finds-inmates-built-computers-and-hid-them-in-ceiling-at-marion-prison-04-11-2017

9 years ago

223 upvotes – 188 comments

Show HN: A directory of the best free resources for remote workers and nomads

http://remotestash.co

9 years ago

214 upvotes – 23 comments

John Coltrane Draws a Picture Illustrating the Mathematics of Music

http://www.openculture.com/2017/04/the-tone-circle-john-coltrane-drew-to-illustrate-the-theory-behind-his-most-famous-compositions-1967.html

9 years ago

208 upvotes – 64 comments

United Passenger “Removal”: A Reporting and Management Failure

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2017/04/united-passenger-removal-reporting-management-fail.html

9 years ago

206 upvotes – 171 comments

Apple has biomedical engineers developing sensors to monitor blood sugar

http://www.cnbc.com/2017/04/12/apple-working-on-glucose-sensors-diabetes-treatment.html

9 years ago

205 upvotes – 140 comments

A Computer Scientist’s View of Life, the Universe, and Everything (1999)

https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9904050

9 years ago

202 upvotes – 73 comments

On Growing: Lessons from the Story of WeChat

https://blog.ycombinator.com/lessons-from-wechat/

9 years ago

200 upvotes – 145 comments

In Search of Zoroastrian Manuscripts in Iran

http://blogs.bl.uk/endangeredarchives/2017/03/zoroastrian_manuscripts_iran.html

9 years ago

187 upvotes – 98 comments

WebVR Experiments

https://www.blog.google/products/google-vr/come-play-webvr-experiments/

9 years ago

185 upvotes – 55 comments

HTTP/2 is not the future, it’s the present

http://blog.eleven-labs.com/en/http2-future-present/

9 years ago

185 upvotes – 108 comments

Burger King TV Ad Asks, Hoping Google Home Devices Answer

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/12/business/burger-king-tv-ad-google-home.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=0

9 years ago

181 upvotes – 180 comments

TN Could Give Fastest Internet for Free, Will Give Comcast and AT&T $45M Instead

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/tennessee-could-give-taxpayers-americas-fastest-internet-for-free-but-it-will-give-comcast-and-atandt-dollar45-million-instead

9 years ago

177 upvotes – 96 comments

Memory bandwidth

https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2017/04/11/memory-bandwidth/

9 years ago

170 upvotes – 67 comments

Deutsche Post expands StreetScooter production

http://www.dpdhl.com/en/media_relations/press_releases/2017/deutsche_post_expands_streetscooter_production.html

9 years ago

169 upvotes – 63 comments

A Lizard with Scales That Behave Like a Cellular Automaton

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/12/science/ocellated-lizards-scales-cellular-automata.html?_r=0

9 years ago

145 upvotes – 33 comments

Election Commission of India throws “open challenge” to hack voting machines

http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/ec-issues-open-challenge-to-hack-evms/article17954709.ece?homepage=true

9 years ago

140 upvotes – 101 comments

Show HN: Kim – A Python serialization and marshaling framework

http://kim.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

9 years ago

136 upvotes – 57 comments

Ask HN: What credit card does your US startup use?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14100281

9 years ago

136 upvotes – 107 comments

Man charged after US gamer is shot by SWAT following hoax terrorism call

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/robert-mcdaid-charged-tyran-dobbs-swatting-hoax-call-swat-terrorism-maryland-shot-gun-explosives-a7677071.html

9 years ago

128 upvotes – 142 comments

YouTube Advertiser Meltdown: An Opportunity for Startups

https://righteousruminations.blogspot.com/2017/04/startup-opportunity-youtube-advertiser.html

9 years ago

122 upvotes – 131 comments

Ask HN: How was this ad targeted to me?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14097220

9 years ago

122 upvotes – 87 comments

Nginx 1.12.0 stable

https://nginx.org/en/CHANGES-1.12

9 years ago

120 upvotes – 76 comments

The Shamanic View of Mental Illness (2010)

http://www.jaysongaddis.com/the-shamanic-view-of-mental-illness/

9 years ago

119 upvotes – 183 comments

PIA and Freenode joining forces

https://freenode.net/news/pia-fn

9 years ago

117 upvotes – 35 comments

Interview with Andy Hunt, Coauthor of the Pragmatic Programmer

http://bestprogrammingbooks.com/interview-andy-hunt-coauthor-pragmatic-programmer-journeyman-master/

9 years ago

113 upvotes – 23 comments

Margaret Atwood, a Prophet of Dystopia

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/04/17/margaret-atwood-the-prophet-of-dystopia

9 years ago

113 upvotes – 53 comments

Mapping Strings in C++

https://cdacamar.github.io/data%20structures/algorithms/benchmarking/mapping-strings/

9 years ago

104 upvotes – 85 comments

‘Negative Mass’ Created at Washington State University

https://news.wsu.edu/2017/04/10/negative-mass-created-at-wsu/

9 years ago

101 upvotes – 42 comments

You Might Not Need GraphQL

https://blog.runscope.com/posts/you-might-not-need-graphql#hn

9 years ago

98 upvotes – 27 comments

The Safe C Library (2009)

http://www.drdobbs.com/cpp/the-safe-c-library/214502214

9 years ago

94 upvotes – 108 comments

MySQL InnoDB Cluster GA

http://mysqlserverteam.com/mysql-innodb-cluster-ga/

9 years ago

92 upvotes – 60 comments

Best Websites for Entrepreneurs and Startups

https://online.abdn.ac.uk/global-mba/blog/best-business-websites/

9 years ago

91 upvotes – 8 comments

Octane benchmark retired

https://v8project.blogspot.com/2017/04/retiring-octane.html

9 years ago

90 upvotes – 16 comments

Saving Millions by Dumping Java Serialization

https://www.quantcast.com/blog/saving-millions-by-dumping-java-serialization/

9 years ago

86 upvotes – 45 comments

A Cuban man trying to build the world's tallest bike

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20170406-the-cuban-building-the-worlds-tallest-bike

9 years ago

85 upvotes – 69 comments

Apple Loses Top Laptop Rating

http://www.laptopmag.com/articles/laptop-brand-ratings

9 years ago

85 upvotes – 59 comments

Niffy: Perceptual Diffing to Catch Invisible Bugs

https://segment.com/blog/perceptual-diffing-with-niffy/

9 years ago

84 upvotes – 21 comments

Red Hat releases Ansible 2.3 with network automation capabilities

http://sdtimes.com/red-hat-releases-ansible-2-3-network-automation-capabilities/?utm_content=buffer26d92&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

9 years ago

83 upvotes – 25 comments

Turkey is sliding into dictatorship

http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21720590-recep-tayyip-erdogan-carrying-out-harshest-crackdown-decades-west-must-not-abandon

9 years ago

82 upvotes – 113 comments

Node v7.9.0 Released

https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v7.9.0/

9 years ago

79 upvotes – 22 comments
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