top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-02-22

Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors

https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented

8 years ago

★ 3.7kMIT
803 upvotes – 391 comments

Taiwan ban single-use plastic straws, plastic bags, disposable utensils by 2030

https://www.hongkongfp.com/2018/02/22/taiwan-ban-single-use-plastic-drinking-straws-plastic-bags-disposable-utensils-entirely-2030/

8 years ago

659 upvotes – 402 comments

I don’t understand Graph Theory

https://medium.com/@vardanator/i-dont-understand-graph-theory-1c96572a1401

8 years ago

566 upvotes – 138 comments

Do not use NPM 5.7

https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/19883

8 years ago

★ 17.6k
544 upvotes – 225 comments

My Python Development Environment, 2018 Edition

https://jacobian.org/writing/python-environment-2018/

8 years ago

530 upvotes – 219 comments

Worst Roommate Ever

https://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/02/jamison-bachman-worst-roommate-ever.html

8 years ago

408 upvotes – 260 comments

China's Xinjiang surveillance is the dystopian future nobody wants

https://www.engadget.com/2018/02/22/china-xinjiang-surveillance-tech-spread/

8 years ago

342 upvotes – 261 comments

Preparing for Malicious Uses of AI

https://blog.openai.com/preparing-for-malicious-uses-of-ai/

8 years ago

330 upvotes – 227 comments

YC's Series A Diligence Checklist

https://blog.ycombinator.com/ycs-series-a-diligence-checklist/

8 years ago

329 upvotes – 60 comments

Self-owning corporations are legally possible

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2954173

8 years ago

321 upvotes – 178 comments

Computer History Museum 2018 Fellow: Guido van Rossum

http://www.computerhistory.org/fellowawards/hall/guido-van-rossum/

8 years ago

299 upvotes – 64 comments

Disney loses bid to stop Redbox from selling its digital download codes

https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/21/17036932/disney-redbox-lawsuit-star-wars-marvel-pixar-digital-downloads

8 years ago

289 upvotes – 178 comments

A Global Optimization Algorithm Worth Using

http://blog.dlib.net/2017/12/a-global-optimization-algorithm-worth.html

8 years ago

265 upvotes – 63 comments

Electron 2.0.0 beta

https://electronjs.org/releases#2.0.0-beta.1

8 years ago

259 upvotes – 428 comments

Who's Missing from America's Colleges? Rural High School Graduates

https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2018/02/15/581895659/whos-missing-from-america-s-colleges-rural-high-school-graduates

8 years ago

257 upvotes – 295 comments

Meltdown fix committed to OpenBSD

https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20180221201856

8 years ago

240 upvotes – 56 comments

Robinhood Opens Cryptocurrency Trading

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-22/line-gets-longer-at-robinhood-as-cryptocurrency-trading-begins

8 years ago

228 upvotes – 201 comments

The reason Facebook won’t ever change

https://om.co/2018/02/20/the-1-reason-facebook-wont-ever-change/

8 years ago

222 upvotes – 152 comments

Switzerland embraces digital currencies and crypto-entrepreneurs

https://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21737255-switzerland-embraces-digital-currencies-and-crypto-entrepreneurs-banking-centre

8 years ago

209 upvotes – 144 comments

Snips Uses Rust to Build an Embedded Voice Assistant

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2018/02/21/snips-uses-rust-embedded-voice-assistant/

8 years ago

209 upvotes – 56 comments

Tiny quad-core system-on-module for makers and hardware startups

https://neutis.io/

8 years ago

204 upvotes – 119 comments

Why writing a linked list in safe Rust is so damned hard

https://rcoh.me/posts/rust-linked-list-basically-impossible/

8 years ago

202 upvotes – 191 comments

The Battle for Best Semi-Autonomous System: Tesla Autopilot vs. GM SuperCruise

http://www.thedrive.com/tech/17083/the-battle-for-best-semi-autonomous-system-tesla-autopilot-vs-gm-supercruise-head-to-head

8 years ago

193 upvotes – 199 comments

Programming ARM μC in Rust at four different levels of abstraction

http://pramode.in/2018/02/20/programming-a-microcontroller-in-rust-at-four-levels-of-abstraction/

8 years ago

184 upvotes – 32 comments

Google Calendar should prevent spam by default

http://daynebatten.com/2018/02/google-should-prevent-calendar-spam/

8 years ago

173 upvotes – 67 comments

Show HN: Headless Chrome Crawler

https://github.com/yujiosaka/headless-chrome-crawler

8 years ago

★ 5.6kJavaScriptMIT
172 upvotes – 33 comments

Retiring Wave

https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=incubator-wave.git;a=commit;h=e4cb87ffce3b7c65832ffefae22835c64724adbd

8 years ago

165 upvotes – 93 comments

Nobody Wants to Let Google Win the War for Maps All Over Again

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-02-21/nobody-wants-to-let-google-win-the-war-for-maps-all-over-again

8 years ago

154 upvotes – 103 comments

You Probably Don't Need a Blockchain

http://ashtonkemerling.com/blog/2018/02/21/no-you-probably-dont-need-a-blockchain/

8 years ago

151 upvotes – 136 comments

Yann LeCun vs. Christopher Manning on Need for Priors in Deep Learning

http://www.abigailsee.com/2018/02/21/deep-learning-structure-and-innate-priors.html

8 years ago

150 upvotes – 35 comments

UPS is working on a fleet of 50 custom-built electric delivery trucks

https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/22/ups-is-working-on-a-fleet-of-50-custom-built-electric-delivery-trucks/

8 years ago

136 upvotes – 73 comments

Comparative efficacy and acceptability of 21 antidepressant drugs

http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(17)32802-7/fulltext

8 years ago

133 upvotes – 108 comments

Introducing Airbnb Plus

https://www.airbnb.com/plus

8 years ago

133 upvotes – 171 comments

CockroachDB Interactive, D3-Powered Simulations

https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/database-evolution/

8 years ago

133 upvotes – 25 comments

Scalable Bloom Filters (2007) [pdf]

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.62.7953&rep=rep1&type=pdf

8 years ago

126 upvotes – 34 comments

Accurate Navigation Without GPS

https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/transportation/sensors/accurate-navigation-without-gps

8 years ago

125 upvotes – 61 comments

'The story of a weird world I was warned never to tell'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-42951788

8 years ago

124 upvotes – 12 comments

IOTA: The Brave Little Toaster That Couldn’t

https://casey.github.io/iota/

8 years ago

122 upvotes – 99 comments

SpaceX just launched two of its space internet satellites

https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/15/17016208/spacex-falcon-9-launch-starlink-microsat-2a-2b-paz-watch-live

8 years ago

121 upvotes – 70 comments

Networked Physics in Virtual Reality

https://developer.oculus.com/blog/networked-physics-in-virtual-reality-networking-a-stack-of-cubes-with-unity-and-physx/

8 years ago

120 upvotes – 15 comments

In One Tweet, Kylie Jenner Wiped Out $1.3B of Snap's Market Value

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-22/snap-royalty-kylie-jenner-erased-a-billion-dollars-in-one-tweet

8 years ago

110 upvotes – 101 comments

A list of over 4000 fintech startups and companies

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1akR9F_JfVEvOleXn_mUB9hKmmtm5-1V8iQmhAWTqTc8

8 years ago

108 upvotes – 32 comments

What to care about in a job

https://www.benkuhn.net/job2

8 years ago

106 upvotes – 59 comments

Why I Collapsed on the Job

https://www.chronicle.com/article/Why-I-Collapsed-on-the-Job/242537

8 years ago

101 upvotes – 51 comments

Gitlab 10.5 released

https://about.gitlab.com/2018/02/22/gitlab-10-5-released/

8 years ago

100 upvotes – 21 comments

Self-taught astronomer captures “shock breakout” phase of a supernova

https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/02/21/self-taught-astronomer-makes-monumental-discovery/

8 years ago

97 upvotes – 2 comments

The Boys Are Not All Right

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/21/opinion/boys-violence-shootings-guns.html

8 years ago

91 upvotes – 133 comments

From imitation to innovation: How China became a tech superpower

http://www.wired.co.uk/article/how-china-became-tech-superpower-took-over-the-west?utm_source=Benedict%27s+newsletter&utm_campaign=87100fce9d-Benedict%27s+Newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_4999ca107f-87100fce9d-70267629

8 years ago

91 upvotes – 93 comments

Bruce Perens Seeks Mandatory Award of Legal Fees vs. Open Source Security Inc

https://perens.com/2018/02/08/bruce-perens-seeks-mandatory-award-of-legal-fees-for-his-defense-in-open-source-security-inc-and-bradley-spengler-v-bruce-perens/

8 years ago

89 upvotes – 18 comments

Space catapult startup SpinLaunch comes out of stealth

https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/22/spinlaunch/

8 years ago

88 upvotes – 110 comments

Tell HN: Sprint no longer assigning IPv4 addresses

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16440850

8 years ago

88 upvotes – 38 comments

Automation and the Use of Multiple Accounts

https://blog.twitter.com/developer/en_us/topics/tips/2018/automation-and-the-use-of-multiple-accounts.html

8 years ago

88 upvotes – 37 comments

Tool 'names and shames' hidden drug trials

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-43119035

8 years ago

87 upvotes – 18 comments

Conservative GC: Is It Really That Bad?

https://www.excelsiorjet.com/blog/articles/conservative-gc-is-it-really-that-bad/

8 years ago

85 upvotes – 47 comments

Anthropocene began in 1965, according to signs left in world’s ‘loneliest tree’

https://theconversation.com/anthropocene-began-in-1965-according-to-signs-left-in-the-worlds-loneliest-tree-91993

8 years ago

79 upvotes – 42 comments

Unexpected functional programming in Go

http://yourbasic.org/golang/your-basic-func/

8 years ago

78 upvotes – 0 comments

The Shape of Ancient Dice Suggests Shifting Beliefs in Fate and Chance

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/02/dice-dice-baby/553742/?single_page=true

8 years ago

77 upvotes – 25 comments

Self-Censorship in Public Discourse: A Theory of 'Political Correctness' (1994) [pdf]

https://www.brown.edu/Departments/Economics/Faculty/Glenn_Loury/louryhomepage/papers/Loury_Political_Correctness.pdf

8 years ago

75 upvotes – 90 comments

Using a laser to wirelessly charge a smartphone safely across a room

https://phys.org/news/2018-02-laser-wirelessly-smartphone-safely-room.html

8 years ago

75 upvotes – 57 comments

DLVM: A modern compiler framework for neural network DSLs

http://dlvm.org/

8 years ago

75 upvotes – 17 comments

Show HN: git self-blame – Blame yourself for others' mistakes

https://github.com/JacobEvelyn/git-self-blame

8 years ago

★ 187ShellMIT
74 upvotes – 55 comments

The Internet Isn’t Forever

https://longreads.com/2018/02/20/the-internet-isnt-forever/

8 years ago

71 upvotes – 22 comments
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