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

Project Gutenberg blocks access from Germany

https://cand.pglaf.org/germany/index.html

8 years ago

Amazon won't sell you a Chromecast, but they will sell a counterfeit

https://www.amazon.com/Display-Wishpower-Receiver-Miracast-AirMirror/dp/B077978NRN/

8 years ago

PhantomJS: Archiving the project, suspending development

https://github.com/ariya/phantomjs/issues/15344

8 years ago

★ 29.4k C++ BSD-3-Clause

GDPR – A Practical Guide for Developers (2017)

https://techblog.bozho.net/gdpr-practical-guide-developers/

8 years ago

Deconstructing the Water Effect in Super Mario Sunshine

http://blog.mecheye.net/2018/03/deconstructing-the-water-effect-in-super-mario-sunshine/

8 years ago

Waymo released a 360-degree VR representation of what its robocar sees

https://spectrum.ieee.org/cars-that-think/transportation/self-driving/watch-waymos-carseye-virtualreality-view-of-the-world

8 years ago

Amazon will stop selling Nest smart home devices

http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-wont-sell-nest-products-from-google-2018-3?IR=T

8 years ago

Doom as a tool for system administration (1999)

https://www.cs.unm.edu/~dlchao/flake/doom/

8 years ago

What We Found When X-Raying Some MLB Baseballs

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/juiced-baseballs/

8 years ago

Pandas on Ray – Make Pandas faster

https://rise.cs.berkeley.edu/blog/pandas-on-ray/

8 years ago

Placing My Camera Lens 300 Feet from a Rocket Launch

https://petapixel.com/2018/03/02/result-placing-camera-lens-300-feet-rocket-launch/

8 years ago

Machine learning algorithms used to decode and enhance human memory

https://www.wired.com/story/ml-brain-boost/

8 years ago

Why Women Choose Differently at Work

http://nautil.us/issue/58/self/why-women-choose-differently-at-work

8 years ago

Ask HN: What stack would you use to build a CRUD web app in 2018?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16508965

8 years ago

The risk of nitrites and nitrates in bacon

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/01/bacon-cancer-processed-meats-nitrates-nitrites-sausages

8 years ago

Do we need to move away from Elm?

https://www.reddit.com/r/elm/comments/81bo14/do_we_need_to_move_away_from_elm/

8 years ago

China is trying to police what people are saying about it around the world

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/02/technology/china-technology-censorship-borders-expansion.html

8 years ago

Show HN: Quickly build a production ready image classifier from your images

https://blog.machinebox.io/how-anyone-can-build-a-machine-learning-image-classifier-from-photos-on-your-hard-drive-very-5c20c6f2764f

8 years ago

TensorFlow Tutorials with YouTube Videos

https://github.com/Hvass-Labs/TensorFlow-Tutorials

8 years ago

★ 9.2k Jupyter Notebook MIT

Show HN: Get Rails performance metrics into Chrome Dev Tools

https://github.com/scoutapp/ruby_server_timing

8 years ago

★ 512 Ruby MIT

A UI Experiment with the iPhone X’s Front-Facing Camera

https://www.fastcodesign.com/90162217/a-wild-ui-experiment-with-the-iphone-xs-front-facing-camera

8 years ago

MI5 agents can commit crime in UK, government reveals

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/mar/02/mi5-agents-are-allowed-to-commit-in-uk-government-reveals

8 years ago

Line breaking (2014)

http://xxyxyz.org/line-breaking/

8 years ago

Linus Torvalds Rants

https://www.reddit.com/r/linusrants/

8 years ago

Scientists studying how fiber influences the microbiome

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/01/science/food-fiber-microbiome-inflammation.html

8 years ago

The efforts of Edo-era doctors to figure out beriberi in Japan

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/rice-disease-mystery-edo-tokyo-navy-beriberi

8 years ago

An iOS App in Assembly (2014)

https://github.com/richardjrossiii/iOSAppInAssembly

8 years ago

★ 564 Assembly

Ethereum fixes serious “eclipse” flaw

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/03/ethereum-fixes-serious-eclipse-flaw-that-could-be-exploited-by-any-kid/

8 years ago

Clojure Don’ts: Lazy Effects (2015)

https://stuartsierra.com/2015/08/25/clojure-donts-lazy-effects

8 years ago

Carl Icahn dumps $31M in steel-related stocks before White House tariff talks

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-carl-icahn-trump-tariffs-20180302-story.html

8 years ago

When Did Americans Stop Marrying Cousins? Ask the World’s Largest Family Tree

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/01/science/cousins-marriage-family-tree.html

8 years ago

Images of Los Angeles when it was covered in wetlands

http://www.businessinsider.com/history-of-los-angeles-ballona-creek-wetlands-watershed-2018-2

8 years ago

Ask HN: 'Crash Courses' for Mathematics Related to DL, ML and Data Analysis

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16508873

8 years ago

Turning web traffic into a Super Computer

http://ben.akrin.com/?p=5997

8 years ago

Hacking the Brain with Adversarial Images

https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-human-os/robotics/artificial-intelligence/hacking-the-brain-with-adversarial-images

8 years ago

How the Irish Teach Us to Die

https://lithub.com/how-the-irish-teach-us-to-die/

8 years ago

American using Britain’s NHS (2015)

https://www.businessinsider.in/What-Its-Like-When-Youre-An-American-Using-Britains-NHS/articleshow/46057777.cms

8 years ago