top 20 hacker news stories for 2017-04-24

Lyrebird – An API to copy the voice of anyone

https://lyrebird.ai/demo

9 years ago

1401 upvotes – 298 comments

Robert M. Pirsig has died

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/04/24/525443040/-zen-and-the-art-of-motorcycle-maintenance-author-robert-m-pirsig-dies-at-88

9 years ago

655 upvotes – 261 comments

Caterpillar found to eat shopping bags, suggesting solution to plastic pollution

https://phys.org/news/2017-04-caterpillar-bags-biodegradable-solution-plastic.html

9 years ago

597 upvotes – 308 comments

Why Juicero’s Press Is So Expensive

https://blog.bolt.io/heres-why-juicero-s-press-is-so-expensive-6add74594e50

9 years ago

484 upvotes – 367 comments

Uber gets sued over alleged ‘Hell’ program to track Lyft drivers

https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/24/uber-hell-lawsuit/

9 years ago

426 upvotes – 218 comments

Glob Matching Can Be Simple and Fast Too

https://research.swtch.com/glob

9 years ago

333 upvotes – 95 comments

CEO of ThinkPenguin, Inc arrested for filming police

https://trisquel.info/en/forum/arrested-filming-ceo-thinkpenguin-inc-arrested-filming-police-faces-year-prison

9 years ago

308 upvotes – 265 comments

Software Developers after 40, 50 and 60 Who're Still Coding

https://belitsoft.com/php-development-services/top-software-developers-after-40-50-and-60#2

9 years ago

297 upvotes – 258 comments

Apple cuts App Store affiliate commission from 7% to 2.5%

https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/24/apple-cuts-app-store-affiliate-commission-from-7-to-25/

9 years ago

293 upvotes – 157 comments

Why I published in a predatory journal

http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/49071/title/Opinion--Why-I-Published-in-a-Predatory-Journal/

9 years ago

292 upvotes – 113 comments

Ending the cult of the CEO

http://www.managementtoday.co.uk/its-time-end-cult-ceo/leadership-lessons/article/1431285#articleDetail

9 years ago

282 upvotes – 179 comments

NASA Image Shows Earth Between the Rings of Saturn

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasa-image-shows-earth-between-the-rings-of-saturn

9 years ago

272 upvotes – 94 comments

LSD microdoses make people feel sharper, and scientists want to know how

http://www.theverge.com/2017/4/24/15403644/microdosing-lsd-acid-productivity-benefits-brain-studies

9 years ago

269 upvotes – 155 comments

Amazon's Leadership Principles

https://www.amazon.jobs/principles

9 years ago

259 upvotes – 181 comments

“Ghost in the Shell - Remake”

https://theshell.xyz

9 years ago

252 upvotes – 84 comments

Minimal examples of data structures and algorithms in Python

https://github.com/keon/algorithms

9 years ago

★ 25.4kPythonMIT
247 upvotes – 23 comments

Tales of SugarCRM Security Horrors

http://karmainsecurity.com/tales-of-sugarcrm-security-horrors

9 years ago

235 upvotes – 78 comments

A faster BBC News front page

https://wildlyinaccurate.com/introducing-a-faster-bbc-news-front-page/

9 years ago

234 upvotes – 125 comments

Enhancement of human color vision by breaking the binocular redundancy

https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.04392

9 years ago

229 upvotes – 56 comments

High-performance .NET by example: Filtering bot traffic

https://alexandrnikitin.github.io/blog/high-performance-dotnet-by-example/

9 years ago

228 upvotes – 50 comments
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