top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-04-14

A Competitive Programmer's Handbook

https://cses.fi/book.html

9 years ago

1117 upvotes – 157 comments

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

841 upvotes – 84 comments

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

477 upvotes – 334 comments

Apple receives permit in California to test self-driving cars

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

9 years ago

367 upvotes – 307 comments

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

310 upvotes – 271 comments

Teaching Machines to Draw

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

9 years ago

306 upvotes – 72 comments

ShadowBrokers: The NSA Compromised the SWIFT Network

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

9 years ago

296 upvotes – 91 comments

Musical User Interfaces

http://arthurcarabott.com/mui/

9 years ago

274 upvotes – 64 comments

The 640 K Barrier

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

9 years ago

244 upvotes – 143 comments

No bullshit guide to linear algebra – v2

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

9 years ago

242 upvotes – 72 comments

Dungeonfs: A FUSE filesystem and dungeon crawling adventure game engine

https://github.com/ChrisRx/dungeonfs

9 years ago

★ 1kGoBSD-2-Clause
240 upvotes – 45 comments

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

238 upvotes – 48 comments

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

227 upvotes – 71 comments

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

219 upvotes – 414 comments

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

208 upvotes – 105 comments

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

207 upvotes – 286 comments

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

206 upvotes – 149 comments

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

189 upvotes – 57 comments

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

186 upvotes – 324 comments

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

180 upvotes – 78 comments

Mike Judge, the Bard of Suck

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/13/magazine/mike-judge-the-bard-of-suck.html

9 years ago

170 upvotes – 68 comments

Keeping track of technical debt in source code

http://philippe.bourgau.net/a-seamless-way-to-keep-track-of-technical-debt-in-your-source-code/

9 years ago

168 upvotes – 126 comments

Tanium is facing employee unrest and an executive exodus

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-04-13/tanium-s-family-empire-is-in-crisis

9 years ago

158 upvotes – 89 comments

A quick start guide to Commodore 64 assembly programming on Windows (2011)

https://digitalerr0r.wordpress.com/2011/03/19/commodore-64-programming-a-quick-start-guide-to-c-64-assembly-programming-on-windows/

9 years ago

154 upvotes – 30 comments

Patroni: A Template for PostgreSQL HA with ZooKeeper, Etcd, or Consul

https://github.com/zalando/patroni

9 years ago

★ 8.3kPythonMIT
121 upvotes – 48 comments

Taming Undefined Behavior in LLVM

https://blog.regehr.org/archives/1496

9 years ago

121 upvotes – 62 comments

ARM Pioneer Sophie Wilson Also Thinks Moore’s Law is Coming to an End

https://www.nextplatform.com/2017/04/13/arm-pioneer-sophie-wilson-also-thinks-moores-law-coming-end/

9 years ago

115 upvotes – 110 comments

Semantics derived automatically from language corpora contain human-like biases

http://scim.ag/2p0WGK9

9 years ago

110 upvotes – 82 comments

Snowden’s Box – The human network behind the leak

http://harpers.org/archive/2017/05/snowdens-box/?single=1

9 years ago

110 upvotes – 13 comments

Uber Says Sales Growth Outpaces Losses

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-04-14/embattled-uber-reports-strong-sales-growth-as-losses-continue

9 years ago

109 upvotes – 136 comments

Toshiba Pares Losses on Report of Apple Investing in Chips

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-04-14/apple-may-invest-billions-of-dollars-in-toshiba-chips-unit-nhk

9 years ago

106 upvotes – 53 comments

A Benchmark for Streaming Anomaly Detection

https://blog.dominodatalab.com/numenta-anomaly-benchmark/?r=1

9 years ago

102 upvotes – 13 comments

A Remote Attack on the Bosch Drivelog Connector Dongle

https://argus-sec.com/remote-attack-bosch-drivelog-connector-dongle/

9 years ago

83 upvotes – 25 comments
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