top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-04-27

Rust 1.17

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2017/04/27/Rust-1.17.html

9 years ago

551 upvotes – 319 comments

A critique of trends in tech

https://medium.com/@freddiedeboer/the-three-hot-trends-in-silicon-valley-horseshit-95cc5a85e8a4

9 years ago

473 upvotes – 233 comments

Teller Reveals His Secrets (2012)

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/teller-reveals-his-secrets-100744801/?all&no-ist

9 years ago

470 upvotes – 144 comments

Uber’s Anthony Levandowski out as Advanced Technologies lead amid legal fight

https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/27/ubers-anthony-levandowki-out-as-advanced-technologies-lead-amid-legal-fight/

9 years ago

397 upvotes – 201 comments

An analysis of the Nomx secure communications device

https://scotthelme.co.uk/nomx-the-worlds-most-secure-communications-protocol/

9 years ago

379 upvotes – 70 comments

TypeScript 2.3

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/typescript/2017/04/27/announcing-typescript-2-3/

9 years ago

366 upvotes – 116 comments

Write Fast Apps Using Async Python 3.6 and Redis

https://eng.paxos.com/write-fast-apps-using-async-python-3.6-and-redis

9 years ago

337 upvotes – 128 comments

Instead of containers, give me strong config and deploy primitives

https://abe-winter.github.io/blues/2017/04/27/config-vs-containers.html

9 years ago

334 upvotes – 179 comments

gRPC-Web: Moving past REST+JSON towards type-safe Web APIs

https://spatialos.improbable.io/games/grpc-web-moving-past-restjson-towards-type-safe-web-apis#hn

9 years ago

329 upvotes – 132 comments

Show HN: An attempt to rethink a music sequencer design

https://github.com/peterrudenko/helio-workstation

9 years ago

★ 3.4k C++ GPL-3.0
305 upvotes – 113 comments

China talking with European Space Agency about moon outpost

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/c7d78ca284eb4347821fe2825e347ff7/china-talking-european-space-agency-about-moon-outpost

9 years ago

300 upvotes – 158 comments

Cleaver – 30-second slideshows for hackers

http://jdan.github.io/cleaver/

9 years ago

294 upvotes – 49 comments

Let me take you through my dream office

https://blog.coderbyheart.com/office-design-by-an-office-hater

9 years ago

251 upvotes – 151 comments

A bug in GCC that may cause memory leaks in valid C++ programs

https://akrzemi1.wordpress.com/2017/04/27/a-serious-bug-in-gcc/

9 years ago

235 upvotes – 103 comments

New Bridges Rise in New York

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/27/nyregion/3-new-bridges-rise-in-new-york-with-looks-that-could-stop-traffic.html

9 years ago

232 upvotes – 130 comments

An artificial womb successfully grew baby sheep

http://www.theverge.com/2017/4/25/15421734/artificial-womb-fetus-biobag-uterus-lamb-sheep-birth-premie-preterm-infant

9 years ago

226 upvotes – 127 comments

Dropbox Reaches Key Profit Milestone

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-04-26/dropbox-reaches-key-profit-milestone-ceo-says

9 years ago

226 upvotes – 145 comments

“Restoring Internet Freedom” Notice of Proposed Rulemaking [pdf]

http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2017/db0427/DOC-344614A1.pdf

9 years ago

223 upvotes – 207 comments

GitPitch – Markdown Presentations for Devs on GitHub and GitLab

https://github.com/gitpitch/gitpitch

9 years ago

★ 5.4k Python
208 upvotes – 85 comments

Show HN: Pygit – Just enough git to push itself to GitHub

http://benhoyt.com/writings/pygit/

9 years ago

208 upvotes – 23 comments

Early Nintendo programmer worked without a keyboard

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/04/the-first-kirby-game-was-programmed-without-a-keyboard/

9 years ago

204 upvotes – 72 comments

Southwest to Stop Overbooking as United Uproar Echoes

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-04-27/southwest-to-end-overbooking-as-united-uproar-echoes-in-industry

9 years ago

197 upvotes – 321 comments

PatentShield helps startups fight patent litigation in return for equity

https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/25/googles-and-intertrusts-new-patentshield-helps-startups-fight-patent-litigation-in-return-for-equity/

9 years ago

196 upvotes – 70 comments

Things learned from Anthony Levandowski's deposition in Waymo vs. Uber

http://spectrum.ieee.org/cars-that-think/transportation/self-driving/waymo-vs-uber-8-things-i-learned-from-anthony-levandowski-taking-the-5th

9 years ago

185 upvotes – 65 comments

Hackers exploited Word flaw for months while Microsoft investigated

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-microsoft-cyber-idUSKBN17S32G

9 years ago

174 upvotes – 99 comments

Scaleway ARMv8 Cloud Servers

https://blog.online.net/2017/04/27/scaleway-disruptive-armv8-cloud-servers/

9 years ago

171 upvotes – 129 comments

There's Just No Getting Around It: You're Building a Distributed System (2013)

https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2482856

9 years ago

147 upvotes – 44 comments

Fathom: a framework for understanding web pages

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/04/fathom-a-framework-for-understanding-web-pages/

9 years ago

146 upvotes – 40 comments

Who Is Publishing NSA and CIA Secrets, and Why?

https://www.lawfareblog.com/who-publishing-nsa-and-cia-secrets-and-why

9 years ago

139 upvotes – 126 comments

Ask HN: Best practices for log format?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14209168

9 years ago

137 upvotes – 61 comments

Category Theory, Syntactically (2016)

http://www.hedonisticlearning.com/posts/category-theory-syntactically.html

9 years ago

137 upvotes – 68 comments

Why Won't You Answer My Question?

http://rion.io/2017/02/09/why-wont-you-answer-my-question/

9 years ago

136 upvotes – 106 comments

NASA Spacecraft Dives Between Saturn and Its Rings

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasa-spacecraft-dives-between-saturn-and-its-rings

9 years ago

134 upvotes – 16 comments

Show HN: Get colour palettes from pictures

https://pictones.firebaseapp.com/

9 years ago

132 upvotes – 34 comments

DJI Puts $145K Bounty on the Drone Pilots Who Were Disrupting Flights

http://www.improdrone.com/dji-puts-145000-bounty-drone-pilots-disrupting-flights/

9 years ago

131 upvotes – 100 comments

Ada: a C Developer's Perspective

http://www.methodsandtools.com/archive/ada.php

9 years ago

127 upvotes – 151 comments

Smart Photos

http://tech.gotinder.com/smart-photos-2/

9 years ago

127 upvotes – 53 comments

Symantec CA Response to Google Proposal and Community Feedback

https://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/symantec-ca-proposal

9 years ago

125 upvotes – 125 comments

Facebook says it will act against 'information operations' using false accounts

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-propaganda-response-idUSKBN17T2G6

9 years ago

121 upvotes – 94 comments

Show HN: Cheaper flights when flying multiple destinations by route optimisation

https://skysave.co/

9 years ago

120 upvotes – 87 comments

A response to “Why you can't be a good .NET developer” (2016)

https://ayende.com/blog/174433/re-why-you-cant-be-a-good-net-developer

9 years ago

116 upvotes – 194 comments

Tesla's Klaus Grohmann Ousted After Clash with CEO Musk

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-tesla-germany-exclusive-idUSKBN17T2IY

9 years ago

112 upvotes – 63 comments

Dogs Are Doggos: An Internet Language Built Around Love for the Puppers

http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2017/04/23/524514526/dogs-are-doggos-an-internet-language-built-around-love-for-the-puppers

9 years ago

103 upvotes – 62 comments

A Hedge Fund Manager Who’s Shorting America’s Malls

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-hedge-fund-manager-whos-shorting-americas-malls-1493220669?mod=e2fb

9 years ago

92 upvotes – 79 comments

Show HN: Python-to-Python compiler for some 3.6 features in older versions

https://github.com/nvbn/py-backwards

9 years ago

★ 312 Python
87 upvotes – 107 comments

Juniper: GraphQL server library for Rust

https://github.com/mhallin/juniper

9 years ago

★ 5.9k Rust
84 upvotes – 10 comments

Pushing a Trillion Row Database with GPU Acceleration

https://www.nextplatform.com/2017/04/26/pushing-trillion-row-database-gpu-acceleration/

9 years ago

83 upvotes – 38 comments

Juno Drivers ‘Gett’ Only Pennies Following $200M Acquisition

http://observer.com/2017/04/gett-acquires-juno/

9 years ago

82 upvotes – 46 comments

Machine learning on mobile: on the device or in the cloud?

http://machinethink.net/blog/machine-learning-device-or-cloud/

9 years ago

81 upvotes – 19 comments

The secret lives of Google raters

https://arstechnica.com/features/2017/04/the-secret-lives-of-google-raters/

9 years ago

80 upvotes – 27 comments

SHOW HN: I rebuilt my blogging app on Node.js and just open sourced it

https://www.postleaf.org/

9 years ago

76 upvotes – 18 comments

Pavel Durov Has Unfriended Everyone

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-04-18/why-social-networks-are-becoming-too-viral

9 years ago

74 upvotes – 57 comments

Why Criminals Target Patient Data

https://www.protenus.com/blog/a-virtual-goldmine-why-criminals-target-patient-data-part-1

9 years ago

74 upvotes – 36 comments

Show HN: Deep learning visual search and data analytics

https://github.com/AKSHAYUBHAT/DeepVideoAnalytics

9 years ago

74 upvotes – 16 comments

Getting Fired Can Be Worse Than Divorce

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-04-27/why-getting-fired-is-worse-than-divorce-or-the-death-of-a-spouse

9 years ago

71 upvotes – 72 comments
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