top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-02-27

Pricing low-touch SaaS

https://stripe.com/atlas/guides/saas-pricing

8 years ago

655 upvotes – 182 comments

After rising for 100 years, electricity demand is flat

https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2018/2/27/17052488/electricity-demand-utilities?utm_campaign=drvox&utm_content=chorus&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

8 years ago

633 upvotes – 496 comments

How GDPR Will Change The Way You Develop

https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2018/02/gdpr-for-web-developers/

8 years ago

526 upvotes – 688 comments

NumPy Exercises for Data Analysis in Python

https://www.machinelearningplus.com/101-numpy-exercises-python/

8 years ago

466 upvotes – 33 comments

Announcing Flutter beta 1: Build beautiful native apps

https://developers.googleblog.com/2018/02/announcing-flutter-beta-1.html

8 years ago

373 upvotes – 338 comments

California to allow testing of self-driving cars without a driver present

https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/27/california-to-allow-testing-of-self-driving-cars-without-a-driver-present/

8 years ago

366 upvotes – 323 comments

Collection of Useful CSS Snippets

https://atomiks.github.io/30-seconds-of-css/

8 years ago

353 upvotes – 47 comments

Nobody's just reading your code

http://akkartik.name/post/comprehension

8 years ago

352 upvotes – 181 comments

Facebook turned on face recognition silently

https://imgur.com/a/tK8eW

8 years ago

333 upvotes – 212 comments

Vulkan is coming to macOS and iOS, but no thanks to Apple

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/02/vulkan-is-coming-to-macos-ios-but-no-thanks-to-apple/

8 years ago

321 upvotes – 173 comments

To solve problems caused by sitting, learn to squat (2017)

https://quartzy.qz.com/1121077/to-solve-problems-caused-by-sitting-learn-to-squat/

8 years ago

312 upvotes – 154 comments

Why Searching Through 500M Pwned Passwords Is So Quick

https://www.troyhunt.com/i-wanna-go-fast-why-searching-through-500m-pwned-passwords-is-so-quick/

8 years ago

304 upvotes – 172 comments

The Feds Can Now Probably Unlock Every iPhone Model

https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2018/02/26/government-can-access-any-apple-iphone-cellebrite/#50ba3a5d667a

8 years ago

265 upvotes – 159 comments

Why Do We Sleep Under Blankets, Even on the Hottest Nights? (2017)

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/blankets-summer-hot

8 years ago

259 upvotes – 187 comments

Diesel cars can be banned from German cities, court rules

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-emissions/german-court-backs-city-bans-on-diesel-cars-idUSKCN1GA2XD

8 years ago

254 upvotes – 328 comments

Ask HN: What happened when Amazon moved into your business?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16477752

8 years ago

243 upvotes – 81 comments

Amazon to acquire video doorbell maker Ring

https://www.geekwire.com/2018/amazon-acquire-ring-video-doorbell-maker-cracking-open-door-home-security-market/

8 years ago

226 upvotes – 132 comments

African elephants are migrating to safety, telling each other how to get there

https://qz.com/1203988/african-elephants-are-migrating-to-safety-and-telling-each-other-how-to-get-there/

8 years ago

220 upvotes – 35 comments

Guide to Using YubiKey as a SmartCard for GPG and SSH

https://github.com/drduh/YubiKey-Guide

8 years ago

★ 12.2kHTMLMIT
206 upvotes – 38 comments

Ryzen Boards Reign at Embedded World 2018

http://www.electronicdesign.com/embedded-revolution/ryzen-boards-reign-embedded-world-2018

8 years ago

197 upvotes – 110 comments

China’s web censors go into overdrive as President Xi Jinping consolidates power

https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/26/china-web-censors-go-into-overdrive/

8 years ago

195 upvotes – 230 comments

Introduction to Functional Programming (1988) [pdf]

http://usi-pl.github.io/lc/sp-2015/doc/Bird_Wadler.%20Introduction%20to%20Functional%20Programming.1ed.pdf

8 years ago

174 upvotes – 12 comments

Usenet, authentication, and engineering: early design decisions for Usenet

https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/blog//2018-02/2018-02-23.html

8 years ago

170 upvotes – 54 comments

Ad network uses advanced malware technique to conceal CPU-draining mining ads

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/02/ad-network-uses-advanced-malware-technique-to-conceal-cpu-draining-mining-ads/

8 years ago

169 upvotes – 175 comments

Reasoning with Types in Rust

https://aaronweiss.us/posts/2018-02-26-reasoning-with-types-in-rust.html

8 years ago

162 upvotes – 22 comments

Abusing Python exceptions to turn a recursive function iterative

https://gist.github.com/razimantv/1b33d4a090a5bc9ed94928012b37c3f0

8 years ago

160 upvotes – 116 comments

Western Digital Demos SD Card with PCIe X1 Interface, 880 MB/s Read Speed

https://www.anandtech.com/show/12487/western-digital-displays-sd-card-with-pcie-interface?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social

8 years ago

156 upvotes – 96 comments

‘Success’ on YouTube Still Means a Life of Poverty

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-27/-success-on-youtube-still-means-a-life-of-poverty

8 years ago

138 upvotes – 123 comments

Veteran Wall Street enforcers are landing new roles in virtual currencies

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-27/crypto-s-hottest-hires-aren-t-millennials-they-re-banking-cops

8 years ago

136 upvotes – 84 comments

Launch HN: Slite (YC W18) – Note App for Teams

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16476092

8 years ago

127 upvotes – 76 comments

Memory Tagging and how it improves C/C++ memory safety

https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.09517

8 years ago

119 upvotes – 36 comments

The “Oh-My-God Particle”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oh-My-God_particle

8 years ago

118 upvotes – 71 comments

Google Shopping now returns no results for searches containing “gun”

https://www.google.com/search?output=search&tbm=shop&q=guns+germs+steel

8 years ago

111 upvotes – 132 comments

Wounds taking weeks to heal on skin disappear in a week inside the mouth (2013)

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/26/health/the-mouths-guard.html?ref=health

8 years ago

110 upvotes – 85 comments

Insights on the First Three Years of the Right to Be Forgotten at Google

https://elie.net/blog/web/insights-about-the-first-three-years-of-the-right-to-be-forgotten-requests-at-google

8 years ago

110 upvotes – 83 comments

The Impact of Zoning on Housing Affordability (2002)

http://www.nber.org/papers/w8835

8 years ago

104 upvotes – 99 comments

California Losing Residents via Domestic Migration

http://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/265?platform=hootsuite

8 years ago

101 upvotes – 218 comments

Cold calling for my startup and how I learned to embrace the challenge

https://hackernoon.com/cold-calling-for-my-startup-and-how-i-learned-to-embrace-the-challenge-31f16728de48

8 years ago

97 upvotes – 54 comments

Show HN: A Chrome extension that tracks front-end JavaScript at runtime

https://github.com/pilagod/js-tracker

8 years ago

★ 399TypeScriptMIT
95 upvotes – 27 comments

Review: Tesla Model 3 lives up to hype

http://www.detroitnews.com/story/opinion/columnists/henry-payne/2018/02/26/tesla-model-three-test-drive-detroit/110880692/

8 years ago

94 upvotes – 157 comments

New York Will Never Be Silicon Valley. And It's Good with That

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-27/new-york-will-never-be-silicon-valley-and-it-s-good-with-that

8 years ago

90 upvotes – 77 comments

What the Grayscale Challenge Taught Us About Phone Addiction

https://blog.mozilla.org/internetcitizen/2018/02/13/grayscale/

8 years ago

87 upvotes – 59 comments

Ask HN: Where do you deploy to in 2018 and how?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16472887

8 years ago

77 upvotes – 83 comments

Show HN: Tiiiny growth ideas for SaaS

https://tiiiny.com/?launch

8 years ago

76 upvotes – 10 comments
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