top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-01-25

Waze Carpool

https://www.waze.com/carpool/

8 years ago

754 upvotes – 390 comments

Former employees say Lyft staffers spied on passengers

https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/25/lyft-god-view/

8 years ago

440 upvotes – 243 comments

Senator asks FBI director to name the cryptographers who support backdoors

https://gizmodo.com/senator-demands-fbi-director-explain-his-encryption-bac-1822400040

8 years ago

403 upvotes – 257 comments

It’s About Time for Time Series Databases

https://www.nextplatform.com/2018/01/25/time-time-series-databases/

8 years ago

356 upvotes – 148 comments

Some obscure C features

https://mort.coffee/home/obscure-c-features/

8 years ago

340 upvotes – 156 comments

2018 Stellar roadmap

https://www.stellar.org/blog/2018-Stellar-Roadmap/

8 years ago

328 upvotes – 146 comments

DNA seen through the eyes of a coder (2017)

https://ds9a.nl/amazing-dna/

8 years ago

326 upvotes – 72 comments

Why I left Google (HN search results)

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=why%20i%20left%20google&sort=byPopularity&prefix&page=0&dateRange=all&type=story

8 years ago

324 upvotes – 191 comments

'It Was the First Time I Cried in the Operating Room'

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/surgeon-on-separating-siamese-twins-the-first-time-i-cried-in-the-operating-room-a-1189755.html

8 years ago

303 upvotes – 68 comments

Surviving 75 hours alone in the ocean

https://www.outsideonline.com/2275116/how-survive-75-hours-alone-ocean?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=onsiteshare

8 years ago

298 upvotes – 121 comments

Why social media bosses don’t use social media

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/jan/23/never-get-high-on-your-own-supply-why-social-media-bosses-dont-use-social-media

8 years ago

275 upvotes – 125 comments

Robinhood Crypto – Invest in Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies

https://crypto.robinhood.com/

8 years ago

259 upvotes – 312 comments

How a fix in Go 1.9 sped up our Gitaly service by 30x

https://about.gitlab.com/2018/01/23/how-a-fix-in-go-19-sped-up-our-gitaly-service-by-30x/

8 years ago

252 upvotes – 68 comments

Mayor quits FCC committee, says it favors ISPs over the public interest

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/01/fcc-broadband-committee-wants-to-restrict-publicly-owned-networks/

8 years ago

228 upvotes – 30 comments

An update on Redis Streams development

http://antirez.com/news/116

8 years ago

220 upvotes – 46 comments

Google doesn’t necessarily need innovation

https://medium.com/@steve.yegge/google-doesnt-necessarily-need-innovation-95cea96d0eeb?r=1

8 years ago

208 upvotes – 163 comments

AI is going to supercharge surveillance

https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/23/16907238/artificial-intelligence-surveillance-cameras-security

8 years ago

191 upvotes – 97 comments

YC Series A Program

http://blog.ycombinator.com/yc-series-a-program/

8 years ago

177 upvotes – 35 comments

The Founder’s Guide To Selling Your Company (2014)

https://justinkan.com/the-founders-guide-to-selling-your-company-a1b2025c9481

8 years ago

170 upvotes – 38 comments

Deep-copying in JavaScript

https://dassur.ma/things/deep-copy/

8 years ago

166 upvotes – 132 comments

The U.S. Can No Longer Hide from Its Deep Poverty Problem

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/24/opinion/poverty-united-states.html

8 years ago

151 upvotes – 221 comments

9-5 Is Out. Try the 1-6 Instead

https://www.forbes.com/sites/piasilva/2018/01/24/9-5-is-out-try-the-1-6-instead/#e44c5127c87d

8 years ago

151 upvotes – 143 comments

Grumpy Cat wins payout in copyright lawsuit

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42808521

8 years ago

146 upvotes – 101 comments

Conflict vs. Mistake

http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/01/24/conflict-vs-mistake/

8 years ago

145 upvotes – 38 comments

Citus and pg_partman: Creating a scalable time series database on Postgres

https://www.citusdata.com/blog/2018/01/24/citus-and-pg-partman-creating-a-scalable-time-series-database-on-PostgreSQL/

8 years ago

144 upvotes – 19 comments

gRPC-Go Engineering Practices

https://grpc.io/2018/01/22/grpc-go-engineering-practices.html

8 years ago

140 upvotes – 82 comments

Why is setState asynchronous?

https://github.com/facebook/react/issues/11527#issuecomment-360199710

8 years ago

★ 244.7kJavaScriptMIT
136 upvotes – 45 comments

Tinder's lack of encryption allows spying

https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2018/01/24/tinder-user-lack-of-encryption-means-stalkers-can-watch-you-at-it/

8 years ago

134 upvotes – 34 comments

Glassdoor and its effect on workplace culture

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/01/22/improving-workplace-culture-one-review-at-a-time

8 years ago

128 upvotes – 106 comments

Code Less, Think More… Incrementally

https://levelup.gitconnected.com/code-less-think-more-incrementally-98adee22df9b?ref=HN

8 years ago

115 upvotes – 32 comments

Jawbone of Earliest Modern Human Out of Africa Discovered in Israeli Cave

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/25/science/jawbone-fossil-israel.html

8 years ago

113 upvotes – 37 comments

Ultraslow radio for decentralized global digital communication (2013)

https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg00303.html

8 years ago

112 upvotes – 43 comments

Mistakes in time

http://blog.ycombinator.com/mistakes-in-time/

8 years ago

106 upvotes – 16 comments

In Japan, there's an industry devoted to cleaning up after people who died alone

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/world/wp/2018/01/24/feature/so-many-japanese-people-die-alone-theres-a-whole-industry-devoted-to-cleaning-up-after-them/?utm_term=.6e543bc7e6d4

8 years ago

101 upvotes – 53 comments

Digital marketing: a free curriculum

https://www.springboard.com/learning-paths/learn-digital-marketing/

8 years ago

100 upvotes – 23 comments

Tips for Application Performance (2015)

https://www.nginx.com/blog/10-tips-for-10x-application-performance/

8 years ago

92 upvotes – 24 comments

Kotlin and linear programming

https://tomstechnicalblog.blogspot.com/2018/01/kotlinforoperationalplanningandoptimiza.html

8 years ago

89 upvotes – 45 comments

Ask HN: Where do you find great remote developers?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16228615

8 years ago

87 upvotes – 62 comments

Algorithmic decision making and the cost of fairness (2017)

https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.08230

8 years ago

86 upvotes – 107 comments

CNN Is Closing Down Beme, YouTube Star Casey Neistat’s Video Company

https://www.buzzfeed.com/stevenperlberg/cnn-is-closing-down-beme-youtube-star-casey-neistats-video

8 years ago

84 upvotes – 58 comments

The Humanity Star

http://thehumanitystar.com/

8 years ago

78 upvotes – 59 comments

Update on Pocket and Firefox Integration

https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2018/01/24/update-on-pocket-and-firefox-integration/

8 years ago

75 upvotes – 118 comments

How Hackers Are Hiding Content and Links via PNG Files

http://www.thesempost.com/hackers-hiding-content-links-png-files/

8 years ago

73 upvotes – 11 comments

Blockchain Stocks Collapse by 40% to 90%

https://wolfstreet.com/2018/01/25/the-40-to-90-collapse-of-blockchain-stocks/

8 years ago

72 upvotes – 37 comments

Breaking Into an Information Security Career

https://bitrot.sh/post/01-24-2018-breaking-into-security-career/

8 years ago

70 upvotes – 37 comments

Keeping “Free Law” Free

http://www.benedelman.org/news/012218-1.html

8 years ago

68 upvotes – 32 comments

Open Letter to the Airbnb Community About Building a 21st Century Company

https://press.atairbnb.com/brian-cheskys-open-letter-to-the-airbnb-community-about-building-a-21st-century-company/

8 years ago

66 upvotes – 92 comments

How big cats hunt zebras and impalas, and how these prey flee their predators

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/24/science/cheetahs-lions-zebras-impalas.html

8 years ago

65 upvotes – 24 comments

Apple prepares macOS users for discontinuation of 32-bit app support

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/01/apple-prepares-macos-users-for-discontinuation-of-32-bit-app-support/

8 years ago

64 upvotes – 61 comments
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