top 20 hacker news stories for 2017-04-19

Ask HN: Best business advice for software developers

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14146850

9 years ago

847 upvotes – 312 comments

Google plans ad-blocking feature in Chrome browser

https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-plans-ad-blocking-feature-in-popular-chrome-browser-1492643233

9 years ago

824 upvotes – 487 comments

Whistleblower uncovers London police hacking of journalists and protestors

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/04/15/hack-a15.html

9 years ago

764 upvotes – 265 comments

CodeStar – Quickly Develop, Build, and Deploy Applications on AWS

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-aws-codestar/

9 years ago

572 upvotes – 182 comments

Vanguard Is Growing Faster Than Everybody Else Combined

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/04/14/business/mutfund/vanguard-mutual-index-funds-growth.html

9 years ago

450 upvotes – 347 comments

What programming languages are used late at night?

https://stackoverflow.blog/2017/04/19/programming-languages-used-late-night/

9 years ago

424 upvotes – 232 comments

Python plays Grand Theft Auto V

https://pythonprogramming.net/game-frames-open-cv-python-plays-gta-v/

9 years ago

416 upvotes – 74 comments

A look at my BBS Software from '93

https://mmccaff.github.io/2017/04/18/my-bbs-software-from-1993/

9 years ago

392 upvotes – 212 comments

Pattern Matching for Java

http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~briangoetz/amber/pattern-match.html

9 years ago

370 upvotes – 146 comments

Hard-won lessons: Five years with Node.js

https://blog.scottnonnenberg.com/hard-won-lessons-five-years-with-node-js/

9 years ago

340 upvotes – 356 comments

Facebook and the Cost of Monopoly

https://stratechery.com/2017/facebook-and-the-cost-of-monopoly/

9 years ago

304 upvotes – 135 comments

Bose Headphones Spy on Users, Lawsuit Says

http://fortune.com/2017/04/19/bose-headphones-privacy/

9 years ago

283 upvotes – 209 comments

Chess Tactics Explained in Plain English

http://www.chesstactics.org

9 years ago

271 upvotes – 23 comments

Show HN: My RIP Goodbye to my Co-Founder Carlos Icaza

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14147585

9 years ago

261 upvotes – 22 comments

The History of Computer RPGs

https://crpgbook.wordpress.com/2017/04/10/update-17-the-final-preview/

9 years ago

229 upvotes – 91 comments

Why 1866 Set the Stage for Two World Wars

https://angrystaffofficer.com/2017/04/17/why-1866-set-the-stage-for-two-world-wars/

9 years ago

225 upvotes – 214 comments

Facebook’s algorithm isn’t surfacing one-third of Chicago Tribune’s posts

https://medium.com/@kurtgessler/facebooks-algorithm-isn-t-surfacing-one-third-of-our-posts-and-it-s-getting-worse-68e37ee025a3

9 years ago

215 upvotes – 124 comments

Modernizing the DOM Tree in Microsoft Edge

https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2017/04/19/modernizing-dom-tree-microsoft-edge/

9 years ago

202 upvotes – 60 comments

Firefox 53: Quantum Compositor, Compact Themes, CSS Masks

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/04/firefox-53-quantum-compositor-compact-themes-css-masks-and-more/

9 years ago

199 upvotes – 101 comments

Juicero May Be Feeling the Squeeze

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-04-19/silicon-valley-s-400-juicer-may-be-feeling-the-squeeze

9 years ago

195 upvotes – 197 comments
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