top 10 hacker news stories for 2017-04-18

Steve Ballmer serves up a data trove about government spending in the US

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/17/business/dealbook/steve-ballmer-serves-up-a-fascinating-data-trove.html?_r=0

9 years ago

1124 upvotes – 258 comments

USA Facts – Federal, state, and local data from government sources

http://usafacts.org/

9 years ago

1044 upvotes – 340 comments

Facebook Announces React Fiber, a Rewrite of Its React Framework

https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/18/facebook-announces-react-fiber-a-rewrite-of-its-react-framework/

9 years ago

851 upvotes – 406 comments

A customer reported an error in the map used by Flight Simulator

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20170418-00/?p=95985

9 years ago

773 upvotes – 231 comments

Street Fighter II's AI Engine

https://sf2platinum.wordpress.com/2017/01/20/the-ai-engine/

9 years ago

443 upvotes – 86 comments

H-1B visas mainly go to Indian outsourcing firms

http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21716630-not-good-argument-against-them-h-1b-visas-do-mainly-go-indian-outsourcing?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/ed/immigrationofthelegalsorth1bvisasdomainlygotoindianoutsourcingfirms

9 years ago

421 upvotes – 444 comments

Google Earth Redesigned

https://www.google.com/earth/

9 years ago

389 upvotes – 280 comments

The Art of Writing One-Sentence Product Descriptions

https://medium.dave-bailey.com/the-magic-formula-to-describe-a-product-in-one-sentence-175ce38619c7

9 years ago

335 upvotes – 57 comments

Relay Modern: Simpler, faster, more extensible

https://code.facebook.com/posts/1362748677097871/relay-modern-simpler-faster-more-extensible/

9 years ago

305 upvotes – 108 comments

LinuxKit: A Toolkit for Building Secure, Lean and Portable Linux Subsystems

https://blog.docker.com/2017/04/introducing-linuxkit-container-os-toolkit/

9 years ago

269 upvotes – 36 comments
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