top 20 hacker news stories for 2017-10-26

“Startup” asks internship applicant to build their app before phone screen

https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/78rhz7/this_startup_asked_me_to_do_a_project_for_an/

9 years ago

625 upvotes – 274 comments

Monsanto Attacks Scientists After Studies Show Trouble for Its New Weedkiller

http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/10/26/559733837/monsanto-and-the-weed-scientists-not-a-love-story

9 years ago

623 upvotes – 249 comments

Georgia election server wiped after lawsuit filed

http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/10/26/georgia-election-server-wiped-after-lawsuit-filed/

9 years ago

457 upvotes – 115 comments

New Zealand to ban foreigners from buying existing houses

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/new-zealand-foreigners-buy-property-ban-coalition-talks-prime-minister-jacinda-arden-a8017261.html

9 years ago

450 upvotes – 564 comments

Many junior scientists need to take a hard look at their job prospects

http://www.nature.com/news/many-junior-scientists-need-to-take-a-hard-look-at-their-job-prospects-1.22879

9 years ago

430 upvotes – 277 comments

Alan Kay on Lisp

https://www.quora.com/What-did-Alan-Kay-mean-by-Lisp-is-the-greatest-single-programming-language-ever-designed/answer/Alan-Kay-11?share=1

9 years ago

427 upvotes – 193 comments

Walmart will soon have robots roaming the aisles in 50 stores

http://www.businessinsider.com/walmart-store-robot-program-expands-2017-10?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+typepad%2Falleyinsider%2Fsilicon_alley_insider+%28Silicon+Alley+Insider%29

9 years ago

354 upvotes – 316 comments

Video Games Are Destroying the People Who Make Them

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/25/opinion/work-culture-video-games-crunch.html

9 years ago

285 upvotes – 225 comments

Suicide Linux

https://qntm.org/suicide

9 years ago

272 upvotes – 131 comments

Android Studio 3.0 Release Notes

https://developer.android.com/studio/releases/index.html

9 years ago

271 upvotes – 148 comments

Learning a hierarchy

https://blog.openai.com/learning-a-hierarchy/

9 years ago

267 upvotes – 39 comments

First possible interstellar object detected in our solar system

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/small-asteroid-or-comet-visits-from-beyond-the-solar-system

9 years ago

247 upvotes – 99 comments

The Drive Home

https://www.shadertoy.com/view/MdfBRX

9 years ago

237 upvotes – 23 comments

Twitter says it could turn first-ever profit

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-twitter-results/twitter-says-could-turn-first-ever-profit-shares-jump-idUSKBN1CV1JP

9 years ago

223 upvotes – 226 comments

Amazon.com Announces Third Quarter Sales Up 34% to $43.7B

http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=176060&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=2311821

9 years ago

217 upvotes – 95 comments

Introducing Amazon EC2 P3 Instances

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/10/introducing-amazon-ec2-p3-instances/

9 years ago

214 upvotes – 96 comments

Rising Rents Are Pushing More Tenants Past the Breaking Point

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-26/rising-rents-are-pushing-more-tenants-past-the-breaking-point

9 years ago

208 upvotes – 291 comments

Vitamin B6 and B12 Supplements Appear to Cause Cancer in Men

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/08/b12-energy/537654?single_page=true

9 years ago

206 upvotes – 108 comments

CRISPR 2.0 Is Here, and It’s More Precise

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/609203/crispr-20-is-here-and-its-way-more-precise/

9 years ago

190 upvotes – 65 comments

Announcement: RT and Sputnik Advertising

https://blog.twitter.com/official/en_us/topics/company/2017/Announcement-RT-and-Sputnik-Advertising.html

9 years ago

180 upvotes – 312 comments
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