top 50% 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

Rust Language Server Now Available with Rustup

http://www.jonathanturner.org/2017/04/rls-now-in-nightly.md.html

9 years ago

263 upvotes – 31 comments

React-Move – Animate anything in React

https://github.com/tannerlinsley/react-move

9 years ago

★ 6.5kJavaScriptMIT
255 upvotes – 54 comments

Image-to-image translation in PyTorch

https://github.com/junyanz/pytorch-CycleGAN-and-pix2pix

9 years ago

★ 25kPython
244 upvotes – 19 comments

Nonprofit Working to Block Drug Imports Has Ties to Pharma Lobby

http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/04/18/524363014/nonprofit-working-to-block-drug-imports-has-ties-to-pharma-lobby

9 years ago

237 upvotes – 92 comments

Caffe2: Open Source Cross-Platform Machine Learning Tools

http://caffe2.ai/blog/2017/04/18/caffe2-open-source-announcement.html

9 years ago

236 upvotes – 53 comments

Show HN: Visual Studio Code for ARM, submitted to core

https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/pull/24943

9 years ago

★ 184.3kTypeScriptMIT
236 upvotes – 83 comments

File System Improvements to the Windows Subsystem for Linux

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/wsl/2017/04/18/file-system-improvements-to-the-windows-subsystem-for-linux/

9 years ago

221 upvotes – 102 comments

A Cosmic Burst Repeats, Deepening a Mystery

https://www.quantamagazine.org/20170418-fast-radio-bursts-repeat-what-are-they-made-of/

9 years ago

217 upvotes – 102 comments

The first woman to finish the Boston Marathon in 1967 has run it again at age 70

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2017/04/17/fifty-years-ago-kathrine-switzer-was-attacked-as-she-ran-the-boston-marathon-the-reason-she-was-a-woman/

9 years ago

215 upvotes – 147 comments

UK Prime Minister Theresa May announces intention to hold general election

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/blog/live/2017/apr/18/corbyn-cressida-dick-met-police-a-gun-may-not-have-saved-pc-killed-in-westminster-terror-attack-says-new-met-chief-politics-live

9 years ago

213 upvotes – 323 comments

Improving startup time in Atom with V8 snapshots

http://blog.atom.io/2017/04/18/improving-startup-time.html

9 years ago

212 upvotes – 162 comments

Moby: An open-source project to advance containerization

https://blog.docker.com/2017/04/introducing-the-moby-project/

9 years ago

209 upvotes – 77 comments

The Nim programming language

https://nim-lang.org/

9 years ago

195 upvotes – 89 comments

Support for tagging of Lambda functions and for the Python 3.6 runtime

https://aws.amazon.com/releasenotes/5198208415517126

9 years ago

183 upvotes – 66 comments

Bangkok plans to ban all street food by year′s end

http://www.dw.com/en/bangkok-plans-to-ban-all-street-food-by-years-end/a-38458543

9 years ago

179 upvotes – 215 comments

StarCraft I Goes Free with Today's New Patch (1.18)

https://us.battle.net/forums/en/starcraft/topic/20754425295

9 years ago

176 upvotes – 25 comments

Boeing to lay off hundreds more engineers

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-boeing-layoffs-idUSKBN17J1BI

9 years ago

174 upvotes – 153 comments

Creating a memory leak with Java

http://stackoverflow.com/q/6470651/7338196

9 years ago

174 upvotes – 84 comments

Backblaze B2 Drops Download Pricing by 60%

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/b2-drops-download-pricing/

9 years ago

155 upvotes – 152 comments

Why functional programming matters

https://medium.com/@mikolajszabo/why-functional-programming-matters-c647f56a7691

9 years ago

145 upvotes – 190 comments

Taming Recurrent Neural Networks for Better Summarization

http://www.abigailsee.com/2017/04/16/taming-rnns-for-better-summarization.html

9 years ago

135 upvotes – 8 comments

Putting GPUs to work with Kubernetes

https://medium.com/@samnco/how-we-commoditized-gpus-for-kubernetes-7131f3e9231f

9 years ago

133 upvotes – 52 comments

Steve Jobs’ custom Apple I and other historic machines are on display in Seattle

https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/17/steve-jobs-custom-apple-i-and-other-historic-machines-are-on-display-at-seattle-museum/

9 years ago

133 upvotes – 54 comments

Silicon Valley CEO Pleads ‘No Contest’ to Abusing His Wife

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/04/17/silicon-valley-ceo-pleads-no-contest-to-abusing-his-wife-and-is-offered-a-deal-for-less-than-30-days-in-jail.html

9 years ago

131 upvotes – 60 comments

Spaces: A New Way to Connect with Friends in VR

https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2017/04/facebook-spaces/

9 years ago

129 upvotes – 117 comments

AR Studio

https://developers.facebook.com/products/camera-effects/ar-studio/

9 years ago

126 upvotes – 47 comments

Ask Jessica Livingston: If Founders at Work were written today, who'd be in it?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14138934

9 years ago

124 upvotes – 29 comments

I Stopped Attending Programming Meet-ups

https://python.sh/2017/4/why-i-stopped-attending-programming-meetups

9 years ago

119 upvotes – 104 comments

Show HN: EatHow – Figure out what to make with the food you already have

https://www.eathow.com/

9 years ago

118 upvotes – 84 comments

Most Vegetarians and Vegans Eventually Return to Meat

https://www.fastcompany.com/3039505/the-vast-majority-of-vegetarians-and-vegans-eventually-return-to-meat

9 years ago

117 upvotes – 210 comments

Computers Create Recipe for Two New Magnetic Materials

http://pratt.duke.edu/about/news/predicting-magnets

9 years ago

112 upvotes – 66 comments

Vanlife, the Bohemian Social Media Movement

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/04/24/vanlife-the-bohemian-social-media-movement

9 years ago

110 upvotes – 86 comments

How YouTube’s Shifting Algorithms Hurt Independent Media

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/17/arts/youtube-broadcasters-algorithm-ads.html

9 years ago

109 upvotes – 69 comments

Thoughts on the Social Graph (2007)

http://bradfitz.com/social-graph-problem/

9 years ago

108 upvotes – 15 comments

I reverse engineered a motherboard

https://kazlauskas.me/entries/i-reverse-engineered-a-motherboard.html

9 years ago

107 upvotes – 8 comments

Courts are using risk-assessment software to sentence criminals

https://www.wired.com/2017/04/courts-using-ai-sentence-criminals-must-stop-now

9 years ago

103 upvotes – 83 comments

What It’s Like to Lose Your Short-Term Memory

https://longreads.com/2017/02/08/what-its-like-to-lose-your-short-term-memory/

9 years ago

99 upvotes – 51 comments

In a Dragon’s Blood, Scientists Discover a Potential Antibiotic

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/17/health/komodo-dragon-blood-antibiotics.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fscience&action=click&contentCollection=science&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=3&pgtype=sectionfront&_r=0

9 years ago

97 upvotes – 43 comments

Ask HN: What book is considered the bible of your field/industry?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14136470

9 years ago

93 upvotes – 48 comments

Researchers unlock an immunity ’black box’

https://www.stjude.org/media-resources/news-releases/2017-medicine-science-news/researchers-unlock-an-immunity-black-box.html

9 years ago

92 upvotes – 11 comments

YC Summer 2017 Invites/Rejections

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14137867

9 years ago

92 upvotes – 336 comments

DIY thermal vision shoots 360° panoramas

http://kurokesu.com/main/2017/04/18/diy-thermal-vision-shoots-360-panoramas/

9 years ago

89 upvotes – 36 comments

Drinking While Jurying

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2017/04/16/drinking-while-jurying#.yxOeTeK4R

9 years ago

88 upvotes – 79 comments
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