top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-01-16

Mozilla Files Suit Against FCC to Protect Net Neutrality

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2018/01/16/mozilla-files-suit-fcc-protect-net-neutrality/

8 years ago

1360 upvotes – 186 comments

Start Your Own ISP

https://startyourownisp.com

8 years ago

938 upvotes – 193 comments

The screen that set off the ballistic missile alert on Saturday

https://twitter.com/CivilBeat/status/953127542050795520

8 years ago

653 upvotes – 363 comments

Crooked Style Sheeding – Webpage tracking using only CSS

https://github.com/jbtronics/CrookedStyleSheets

8 years ago

★ 3.2k CSS MIT
532 upvotes – 175 comments

How Automakers Invented the Crime of “Jaywalking”

https://www.vox.com/2015/1/15/7551873/jaywalking-history

8 years ago

429 upvotes – 424 comments

Luna 1.0 Beta is out

http://www.luna-lang.org/#Overview

8 years ago

423 upvotes – 167 comments

Announcing Go Support for AWS Lambda

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/announcing-go-support-for-aws-lambda/

8 years ago

399 upvotes – 97 comments

Ask HN: What's the recommended method of adding authentication to a REST API?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16157002

8 years ago

397 upvotes – 249 comments

Jitsi: Open-Source Video Conferencing

https://jitsi.org/

8 years ago

396 upvotes – 117 comments

Twirp: A new RPC framework for Go

https://blog.twitch.tv/twirp-a-sweet-new-rpc-framework-for-go-5f2febbf35f

8 years ago

368 upvotes – 97 comments

Bitcoin Fall Extends to 25% as Fears of Crackdown Linger

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-16/cryptocurrencies-resume-slide-as-bitcoin-tumbles-to-december-low

8 years ago

292 upvotes – 355 comments

An open source GitHub-like platform as an alternative for AWS Lambda

https://github.com/1backend/1backend

8 years ago

★ 2.3k Go AGPL-3.0
278 upvotes – 58 comments

The Public Domain Starts Growing Again Next Year

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/01/public-domain-starts-growing-again-next-year-and-its-about-timethe-public-domain

8 years ago

250 upvotes – 78 comments

MIT 6.S094: Deep Learning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6INDaLcuJY

8 years ago

241 upvotes – 24 comments

Impatience: The Pitfall of Every Ambitious Person

http://dariusforoux.com/impatience/

8 years ago

241 upvotes – 34 comments

It can all go to zero

https://www.feld.com/archives/2018/01/can-go-zero.html

8 years ago

235 upvotes – 336 comments

Memo: Foxconn cost to Wisconsin nearing $4.5B

http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/govt-and-politics/memo-foxconn-cost-to-public-nearing-billion/article_83a3ab6e-6c7e-553e-ba97-976c9c32fe76.html/

8 years ago

234 upvotes – 170 comments

Thunderbird Starts Working on Improving Its Interface

https://www.monterail.com/blog/thunderbird-new-interface-redesign-survey

8 years ago

226 upvotes – 142 comments

Beyond the Bitcoin bubble

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/16/magazine/beyond-the-bitcoin-bubble.html

8 years ago

225 upvotes – 235 comments

Convert React JavaScript Code to TypeScript with Proper Typing

https://github.com/lyft/react-javascript-to-typescript-transform

8 years ago

★ 1.5k TypeScript Apache-2.0
216 upvotes – 119 comments

The brains of jazz and classical pianists work differently

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-01-miles-davis-mozart-brains-jazz.html

8 years ago

214 upvotes – 168 comments

Lyft says nearly 250K of its passengers ditched a personal car in 2017

https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/16/lyft-says-nearly-250k-of-its-passengers-ditched-a-personal-car-in-2017/

8 years ago

214 upvotes – 426 comments

The Design of Software is a Thing Apart

http://www.pathsensitive.com/2018/01/the-design-of-software-is-thing-apart.html

8 years ago

198 upvotes – 117 comments

The worst distractions are the ones we love

http://blog.rescuetime.com/james-clear/

8 years ago

192 upvotes – 52 comments

Can (a ==1 && a== 2 && a==3) ever evaluate to true?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48270127

8 years ago

180 upvotes – 147 comments

Black Death 'spread by humans not rats'

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-42690577

8 years ago

172 upvotes – 50 comments

Life in the age of noise

http://www.powells.com/post/original-essays/life-in-the-age-of-noise

8 years ago

169 upvotes – 65 comments

Prisma – An open-source GraphQL API layer for your database

https://blog.graph.cool/introducing-prisma-1ff423fd629e

8 years ago

166 upvotes – 34 comments

Goldman Sachs Report Explores Use of Bitcoin as Currency

https://iconow.net/goldman-sachs-report-explores-use-of-bitcoin-as-currency/

8 years ago

157 upvotes – 214 comments

Microsoft and the UWP for Enterprise Delusion

https://deanchalk.com/microsoft-and-the-uwp-for-enterprise-delusion-f22fcbbe2757

8 years ago

150 upvotes – 146 comments

It Was Bad UX, not a “Wrong Button” in Hawaii

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/01/16/that-was-no-wrong-button-in-hawaii-take-a-look/

8 years ago

148 upvotes – 126 comments

BlackRock’s Message: Contribute to Society, or Risk Losing Our Support

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/15/business/dealbook/blackrock-laurence-fink-letter.html

8 years ago

146 upvotes – 67 comments

Our Ambitious Plan to Make Insecure PHP Software a Thing of the Past

https://paragonie.com/blog/2018/01/our-ambitious-plan-make-insecure-php-software-thing-past

8 years ago

139 upvotes – 90 comments

Leap: An Online Community for Women

http://blog.ycombinator.com/join-leap-an-online-community-for-women/

8 years ago

139 upvotes – 317 comments

America’s Fastest Spy Plane May Be Back and Hypersonic

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-16/america-s-fastest-spy-plane-may-be-back-and-hypersonic

8 years ago

138 upvotes – 126 comments

Jon Skeet earns 1mm rep on Stack Overflow

https://stackoverflow.blog/2018/01/15/thanks-million-jon-skeet/

8 years ago

135 upvotes – 30 comments

How America Fractured in 1968

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/01/15/us/1968-history.html

8 years ago

125 upvotes – 89 comments

Windows 10 could have synced email, contacts, calendars with all major providers

https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/windows-pim-sync-partnersonly

8 years ago

124 upvotes – 74 comments

Were the Cuban sonic attack victims actually poisoned?

https://www.thedailybeast.com/were-the-cuban-sonic-attack-victims-actually-poisoned?ref=wrap

8 years ago

121 upvotes – 76 comments

Do we really need a new BGP?

https://blog.apnic.net/2018/01/16/really-need-new-bgp/

8 years ago

121 upvotes – 63 comments

China builds ‘world’s biggest air purifier’ and it seems to be working

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2128355/china-builds-worlds-biggest-air-purifier-and-it-seems-be-working

8 years ago

118 upvotes – 77 comments

What Makes the Hardest Equations in Physics So Difficult?

https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-makes-the-hardest-equations-in-physics-so-difficult-20180116/

8 years ago

115 upvotes – 70 comments

Mono and WebAssembly – Updates on Static Compilation

http://www.mono-project.com/news/2018/01/16/mono-static-webassembly-compilation/

8 years ago

109 upvotes – 46 comments

DNA Testing Botched My Family's Heritage

https://gizmodo.com/how-dna-testing-botched-my-familys-heritage-and-probab-1820932637

8 years ago

106 upvotes – 47 comments

The MacBook Air: A Decade’s Worth of Legacy

https://mjtsai.com/blog/2018/01/15/the-macbook-air-a-decades-worth-of-legacy/

8 years ago

104 upvotes – 147 comments

Cryptocurrencies are collapsing

https://coinmarketcap.com/all/views/all/

8 years ago

103 upvotes – 117 comments

Anthony Levandowski Faces New Claims of Stealing

https://www.wired.com/story/anthony-levandowski-faces-new-claims-of-stealing-trade-secrets/

8 years ago

102 upvotes – 83 comments

Sketch Design System 1.0

https://www.sketchdesignsystem.com/

8 years ago

97 upvotes – 23 comments

Guaranteed Minimum Agriculture: Why Basic Jobs Might Fare Better Than UBI

https://medium.com/p/guaranteed-minimum-agriculture-f93a5aa38c97

8 years ago

96 upvotes – 110 comments
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