top 50% 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

In Which My Identity Is Sought by Federal Grand Jury Subpoena

https://www.popehat.com/2017/10/24/in-which-my-identity-is-sought-by-federal-grand-jury-subpoena/

9 years ago

174 upvotes – 71 comments

Show HN: Baby Buddy

https://github.com/cdubz/babybuddy

9 years ago

★ 2.7k Python BSD-2-Clause
172 upvotes – 105 comments

Massachusetts is considering leaving the Eastern Time Zone

https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/10/26/massachusetts-is-considering-leaving-the-eastern-time-zone/23256633/

9 years ago

169 upvotes – 216 comments

How to Read the JFK Assassination Files

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/10/26/jfk-secret-assassination-files-how-to-read-them-215749

9 years ago

169 upvotes – 133 comments

Hard Drive Stats for Q3 2017

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-failure-rates-q3-2017/

9 years ago

169 upvotes – 47 comments

Down hundreds of staff, Weather Service ‘teetering on the brink of failure’

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2017/10/26/down-hundreds-of-staff-weather-service-teetering-on-the-brink-of-failure-labor-union-says/?utm_term=.28628bdad950

9 years ago

164 upvotes – 52 comments

Why we used Pony to write Wallaroo

https://blog.wallaroolabs.com/2017/10/why-we-used-pony-to-write-wallaroo/

9 years ago

162 upvotes – 84 comments

TwilioQuest, a new way to learn Twilio

https://www.twilio.com/blog/2017/10/twilioquest-fastest-way-to-learn-twilio.html

9 years ago

159 upvotes – 47 comments

Flattr 2.0 launches to the public

https://blog.flattr.net/2017/10/todays-the-day-flattr-2-0-launches-to-the-public/

9 years ago

152 upvotes – 139 comments

Anaconda 5.0 Released

https://www.anaconda.com/blog/developer-blog/announcing-the-release-of-anaconda-distribution-5-0/

9 years ago

137 upvotes – 64 comments

SEC fines Zenefits and former CEO for misleading investors

https://www.buzzfeed.com/williamalden/the-sec-just-fined-a-unicorn-startup-for-the-first-time

9 years ago

130 upvotes – 70 comments

FCC Moves to End TV-Newspaper Ownership Ban

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-25/fcc-s-pai-sets-nov-16-vote-on-lifting-media-ownership-limits

9 years ago

124 upvotes – 90 comments

Introducing the Graphcool Framework

https://blog.graph.cool/introducing-the-graphcool-framework-d9edab2a7816

9 years ago

123 upvotes – 16 comments

Billionaire Insys founder charged in U.S. opioid bribe case

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/billionaire-insys-founder-charged-u-161046664.html

9 years ago

123 upvotes – 44 comments

Google NetStack: IPv4 and IPv6 userland network stack in Go

https://github.com/google/netstack

9 years ago

★ 3.1k Go Apache-2.0
122 upvotes – 44 comments

To Settle Infinity Question, a New Law of Mathematics (2013)

https://www.quantamagazine.org/to-settle-infinity-question-a-new-law-of-mathematics-20131126/

9 years ago

122 upvotes – 65 comments

An embeddable dumb heartbeat daemon in 260 bytes of RAM and 350 bytes of code

https://github.com/kragen/dumpulse

9 years ago

★ 272 Python MIT
121 upvotes – 19 comments

Peter Thiel: Silicon Valley’s monopoly on big growth tech companies is over

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/26/peter-thiel-silicon-valleys-monopoly-on-tech-companies-is-over.html

9 years ago

119 upvotes – 123 comments

eBay launches visual search tools that let you shop using photos

https://techcrunch.com/2017/10/26/ebay-launches-visual-search-tools-that-let-you-shop-using-photos-from-your-phone-or-web/

9 years ago

116 upvotes – 105 comments

The Unforgiving Math That Stops Epidemics

https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-unforgiving-math-that-stops-epidemics-20171026/

9 years ago

113 upvotes – 86 comments

h2: HTTP 2.0 client and server implementation for Rust

https://github.com/carllerche/h2

9 years ago

★ 1.5k Rust MIT
111 upvotes – 12 comments

The Upspin manifesto: On the ownership and sharing of data (2014)

https://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2017/10/the-upspin-manifesto-on-ownership-and.html

9 years ago

107 upvotes – 34 comments

“For Rent” signs are popping up all over Portland

http://cityobservatory.org/signs-of-the-times/

9 years ago

103 upvotes – 116 comments

Every Google Cloud Platform product described in 4 words or less

https://medium.com/@gregsramblings/gcp-products-described-in-4-words-or-less-f3056550e595

9 years ago

98 upvotes – 22 comments

Additional JFK Assassination Documents Released

https://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/2017-release?new

9 years ago

88 upvotes – 75 comments

Show HN: A site to look up DNS records

https://dnsrecords.io/

9 years ago

82 upvotes – 59 comments

Nvidia GPU Cloud

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/gpu-cloud/?href=

9 years ago

81 upvotes – 40 comments

The HARC First Year Report

https://harc.ycr.org/reports/

9 years ago

79 upvotes – 33 comments

BLS 10-year forecast: robot cashiers, math nerds, and many healthcare workers

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/10/the-future-of-jobs-polarized-unequal-and-health-care/543915/?single_page=true

9 years ago

75 upvotes – 15 comments

The Future of Online Dating Is Unsexy and Brutally Effective

https://gizmodo.com/the-future-of-online-dating-is-unsexy-and-brutally-effe-1819781116

9 years ago

73 upvotes – 59 comments

Reddit Bans Nazi Groups and Others in Crackdown on Violent Content

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/26/us/reddit-violence-policy.html

9 years ago

70 upvotes – 248 comments

Mapping in HTML – A Proposal for a New Element

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2017/08/mapping-in-html-a-proposal-for-a-new-element/

9 years ago

70 upvotes – 55 comments
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