top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-03-02

Show HN: My embarrassing personal website from the 90s

http://boglin.iwarp.com/

8 years ago

867 upvotes – 417 comments

Patent trolls are shaking us down for selling “rubies” in our game

https://www.clickerheroes2.com/patent_trolls.php

8 years ago

487 upvotes – 190 comments

Ex-Google recruiter: I was fired because I resisted “illegal” diversity efforts

https://www.arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/03/ex-google-recruiter-i-was-fired-because-i-resisted-illegal-diversity-efforts

8 years ago

481 upvotes – 414 comments

Amazon's policies promote counterfeiting

https://www.elevationlab.com/blogs/news/amazon-is-complicit-with-counterfeit-sellers

8 years ago

433 upvotes – 223 comments

Understanding word vectors

https://gist.github.com/aparrish/2f562e3737544cf29aaf1af30362f469

8 years ago

354 upvotes – 69 comments

Unnecessary medical care is harming patients physically and financially (2015)

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/05/11/overkill-atul-gawande

8 years ago

329 upvotes – 245 comments

Firefox Configuration Guide for Privacy Freaks and Performance Buffs

http://12bytes.org/tech/firefox/firefoxgecko-configuration-guide-for-privacy-and-performance-buffs

8 years ago

321 upvotes – 118 comments

Go best practices, six years in (2016)

https://peter.bourgon.org/go-best-practices-2016/

8 years ago

274 upvotes – 63 comments

How the West Got China Wrong

https://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21737517-it-bet-china-would-head-towards-democracy-and-market-economy-gamble-has-failed-how

8 years ago

264 upvotes – 271 comments

When CEOs’ Equity Is About to Vest, They Cut Investment to Boost the Stock Price

https://hbr.org/2018/02/study-when-ceos-equity-is-about-to-vest-they-cut-investment-to-boost-the-stock-price

8 years ago

261 upvotes – 107 comments

Governments have overestimated the economic returns of higher education

https://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2018/03/economist-explains-0

8 years ago

244 upvotes – 276 comments

WebAssembly architecture for Go

https://docs.google.com/document/d/131vjr4DH6JFnb-blm_uRdaC0_Nv3OUwjEY5qVCxCup4/preview#heading=h.mjo1bish3xni

8 years ago

235 upvotes – 69 comments

Uber and Lyft drivers' median hourly wage is just $3.37, report finds

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/mar/01/uber-lyft-driver-wages-median-report

8 years ago

233 upvotes – 261 comments

Wing Commander II

https://www.filfre.net/2018/03/wing-commander-ii/

8 years ago

232 upvotes – 124 comments

More art is being produced and sold than ever before, at ever higher prices

https://newrepublic.com/article/147192/modern-art-serves-rich

8 years ago

227 upvotes – 164 comments

Uber, Lyft Drivers Earning a Median Profit of $3.37 per Hour, Study Says

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/03/02/590168381/uber-lyft-drivers-earning-a-median-profit-of-3-37-per-hour-study-says

8 years ago

217 upvotes – 220 comments

The Role of Luck in Life Success

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/beautiful-minds/the-role-of-luck-in-life-success-is-far-greater-than-we-realized/

8 years ago

208 upvotes – 202 comments

Let's make the Emacs GC safe and iterative

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2018-03/msg00014.html

8 years ago

208 upvotes – 64 comments

A researcher’s tale of defeating traps, tricks, and complex virtual machines

https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/microsoftsecure/2018/03/01/finfisher-exposed-a-researchers-tale-of-defeating-traps-tricks-and-complex-virtual-machines/

8 years ago

203 upvotes – 17 comments

Announcing Rust 1.24.1

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2018/03/01/Rust-1.24.1.html

8 years ago

203 upvotes – 65 comments

Show HN: Synapse, a full featured BitTorrent client in Rust

https://github.com/Luminarys/synapse

8 years ago

★ 851RustISC
195 upvotes – 71 comments

Probabilistic thinking can lead to improved decision-making

https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-bayesian-probability-puzzle-solution-20180302/

8 years ago

195 upvotes – 12 comments

Norway Used NSA Technology for Potentially Illegal Spying

https://theintercept.com/2018/03/01/norway-nsa-victory-garden-surveillance/

8 years ago

192 upvotes – 69 comments

Wine 3.3 has Vulkan support

http://www.wine-reviews.net/2018/03/the-winehq-wine-development-release-33.html

8 years ago

177 upvotes – 47 comments

Shrinking the kernel with a hammer

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/748198/6fa400001570fb39/

8 years ago

175 upvotes – 31 comments

AI Cheats at Old Atari Games by Finding Unknown Bugs in the Code

https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2018/2/28/17062338/ai-agent-atari-q-bert-cracked-bug-cheat

8 years ago

173 upvotes – 45 comments

“We’re committing Twitter to increase the health and civility of conversation”

https://twitter.com/jack/status/969234275420655616

8 years ago

164 upvotes – 224 comments

Google-Landmarks: A New Dataset and Challenge for Landmark Recognition

https://research.googleblog.com/2018/03/google-landmarks-new-dataset-and.html

8 years ago

163 upvotes – 5 comments

Chrome lets hackers phish even 'Unphishable' Yubikey users

https://www.wired.com/story/chrome-yubikey-phishing-webusb/

8 years ago

141 upvotes – 109 comments

Do neural networks dream of electric sheep?

http://aiweirdness.com/post/171451900302/do-neural-nets-dream-of-electric-sheep

8 years ago

139 upvotes – 43 comments

Icelandic language battles threat of 'digital extinction'

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/feb/26/icelandic-language-battles-threat-of-digital-extinction

8 years ago

137 upvotes – 167 comments

Diabetes is actually five separate diseases, research suggests

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-43246261

8 years ago

133 upvotes – 56 comments

The Return of Software Vulnerabilities in the Brazilian Voting Machine

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/323470546_The_Return_of_Software_Vulnerabilities_in_the_Brazilian_Voting_Machine

8 years ago

132 upvotes – 19 comments

FOIA request shows Tor is almost 100% funded by the US government

https://www.documentcloud.org/public/search/projectid:37206-The-Tor-Files-Transparency-for-the-Dark-Web

8 years ago

119 upvotes – 8 comments

Tech company Lanetix fired software engineers seeking to organize, union claims

https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/SF-tech-company-fired-software-engineers-seeking-12541301.php

8 years ago

114 upvotes – 91 comments

Sortix: small self-hosting OS aiming to be a clean, modern Posix implementation

https://sortix.org/

8 years ago

113 upvotes – 36 comments

A Supreme Court Case That Could Give Tech Giants More Power

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/02/opinion/the-supreme-court-case-that-could-give-tech-giants-more-power.html

8 years ago

109 upvotes – 99 comments

Takeaways from Nassim Taleb's New Book “Skin in the Game”

http://www.nuggetsofthought.com/2018/03/02/skin-in-the-game-part-one/

8 years ago

107 upvotes – 74 comments

K programming language (2005)

http://archive.vector.org.uk/art10010830

8 years ago

105 upvotes – 54 comments

Burning Out: What Really Happens Inside a Crematorium

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health/a18923323/cremation/

8 years ago

101 upvotes – 44 comments

Kenneth Eng Is on the Other Side of Viral Now

https://www.popehat.com/2018/02/25/kenneth-eng-is-on-the-other-side-of-viral-now/

8 years ago

99 upvotes – 31 comments

Lost Causes of Theoretical Physics (2003)

https://web.archive.org/web/20160209122140/http://www.mth.kcl.ac.uk/~streater/lostcauses.html

8 years ago

98 upvotes – 53 comments

Show HN: Note Kitchen – Learn piano chords and scales

http://note.kitchen

8 years ago

94 upvotes – 43 comments

WebKit exploit write-up

https://github.com/Cryptogenic/Exploit-Writeups/blob/master/WebKit/setAttributeNodeNS%20UAF%20Write-up.md

8 years ago

★ 768WTFPL
94 upvotes – 3 comments

Enterprise Information Security (OpenSSH, IAM, Fundamentals, and More)

https://infosec.mozilla.org/

8 years ago

93 upvotes – 9 comments

Voyages in sentence space

https://www.robinsloan.com/voyages-in-sentence-space/

8 years ago

90 upvotes – 16 comments

Facebook Reminds Publishers That It Is in Complete Control of Their Livelihood

http://babylonbee.com/news/facebook-sends-warm-reminder-publishers-complete-control-livelihood/

8 years ago

85 upvotes – 21 comments

Large Scale NoSQL Database Migration Under Fire

https://medium.com/appsflyer/large-scale-nosql-database-migration-under-fire-bf298c3c2e47

8 years ago

85 upvotes – 21 comments

Hiroshima and Nagasaki: The Long Term Health Effects (2012)

https://k1project.columbia.edu/news/hiroshima-and-nagasaki

8 years ago

85 upvotes – 60 comments

Security Monkey: Monitors AWS and GCP accounts for policy changes

https://github.com/Netflix/security_monkey

8 years ago

★ 4.3kPythonApache-2.0
78 upvotes – 6 comments

Google Sued by Ex-Recruiter Alleging Anti-White, Asian Bias

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-01/google-sued-by-ex-recruiter-over-alleged-anti-white-asian-bias

8 years ago

77 upvotes – 25 comments

Facebook Threatens Satire Site Over CNN Story That Snopes Rated 'False'

https://pjmedia.com/faith/facebook-threatens-babylon-bee-cnn-satire-report-snopes-fact-checkers/

8 years ago

76 upvotes – 99 comments

Schools are safer than they were in the 90s

https://news.northeastern.edu/2018/02/schools-are-still-one-of-the-safest-places-for-children-researcher-says/

8 years ago

75 upvotes – 90 comments

Show HN: WebGL Demo in ReasonML

https://emnh.github.io/rts-reasonml/

8 years ago

74 upvotes – 40 comments

Rethinking Residential Zoning

https://www.livablecity.org/rethinking-rh/

8 years ago

73 upvotes – 66 comments
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