top 20 hacker news stories for 2017-04-14

A Competitive Programmer's Handbook

https://cses.fi/book.html

9 years ago

Bob Taylor Has Died

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/14/technology/robert-taylor-innovator-who-shaped-modern-computing-dies-at-85.html

9 years ago

Princeton’s Ad-Blocker May Put an End to the Ad-Blocking Arms Race

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/princetons-ad-blocking-superweapon-may-put-an-end-to-the-ad-blocking-arms-race

9 years ago

Apple receives permit in California to test self-driving cars

http://uk.reuters.com/article/us-apple-car-idUKKBN17G1CJ

9 years ago

Filing Taxes in Japan Is a Breeze. Why Not in the US?

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/14/opinion/filing-taxes-in-japan-is-a-breeze-why-not-here.html?ref=opinion&_r=1

9 years ago

Teaching Machines to Draw

http://research.googleblog.com/2017/04/teaching-machines-to-draw.html

9 years ago

ShadowBrokers: The NSA Compromised the SWIFT Network

https://medium.com/@msuiche/the-nsa-compromised-swift-network-50ec3000b195

9 years ago

Musical User Interfaces

http://arthurcarabott.com/mui/

9 years ago

The 640 K Barrier

http://www.filfre.net/2017/04/the-640-k-barrier/

9 years ago

No bullshit guide to linear algebra – v2

https://minireference.com/blog/no-bullshit-linear-algebra-v2-release/

9 years ago

Dungeonfs: A FUSE filesystem and dungeon crawling adventure game engine

https://github.com/ChrisRx/dungeonfs

9 years ago

★ 1k Go BSD-2-Clause

EFF is countersuing a patent troll that wants its name removed from a blog post

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/04/14/eff_countersues_patent/

9 years ago

Leaked NSA Malware Threatens Windows Users Around the World

https://theintercept.com/2017/04/14/leaked-nsa-malware-threatens-windows-users-around-the-world/

9 years ago

As New Zealand Courts Tech Talent, Isolation Becomes a Draw

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/14/technology/new-zealand-tech-industry.html

9 years ago

Richard Posner: “The Real Corruption Is the Ownership of Congress by the Rich”

https://promarket.org/richard-posner-real-corruption-ownership-congress-rich/

9 years ago

United Broke Its Contract with Flyers

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-04-13/united-broke-its-contract-with-frequent-flyers

9 years ago

Leak Suggests NSA Was Deep in Middle East Banking System

https://www.wired.com/2017/04/major-leak-suggests-nsa-deep-middle-east-banking-system/

9 years ago

EFF’s “Spying on Students” Report Highlights Tech Companies’ Data Collection

https://www.eff.org/press/releases/effs-spying-students-report-highlights-tech-companies-data-collection-parents

9 years ago

Amex, Challenged by Chase, Is Losing the Snob War

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/14/business/american-express-chase-sapphire-reserve.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=1

9 years ago

DeepBreath: Preventing angry emails with machine learning

https://cloud.google.com/blog/big-data/2017/04/deepbreath-preventing-angry-emails-with-machine-learning

9 years ago