top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-03-06

Coinbase Index Fund

https://blog.coinbase.com/announcing-coinbase-index-fund-3925fbf548db

8 years ago

509 upvotes – 321 comments

First firing of air-breathing electric thruster

http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Engineering_Technology/World-first_firing_of_air-breathing_electric_thruster

8 years ago

497 upvotes – 116 comments

Uber self-driving trucks are now moving cargo for Uber Freight customers

https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/06/uber-self-driving-trucks-are-now-moving-cargo-for-uber-freight-customers/

8 years ago

365 upvotes – 266 comments

Create Statistics in PostgreSQL 10

https://www.citusdata.com/blog/2018/03/06/postgres-planner-and-its-usage-of-statistics/

8 years ago

357 upvotes – 7 comments

Operation Serenata de Amor – An AI project to analyze public spending in Brazil

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Serenata_de_Amor

8 years ago

342 upvotes – 110 comments

Sin and Cos: The Programmer's Pals

http://www.helixsoft.nl/articles/circle/sincos.htm

8 years ago

322 upvotes – 89 comments

Smart Guy Productivity Pitfalls (2013)

http://bookofhook.blogspot.com/2013/03/smart-guy-productivity-pitfalls.html

8 years ago

319 upvotes – 84 comments

132 year old message in a bottle found on West Australian beach

http://museum.wa.gov.au/about/latest-news/132-year-old-message-bottle-found-on-wa-beach

8 years ago

318 upvotes – 104 comments

Show HN: Investment Calculator – A simple retirement calculator

https://investmentcalculator.io/

8 years ago

308 upvotes – 210 comments

Ask HN: How will you manage your digital assets when you die?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16531492

8 years ago

298 upvotes – 171 comments

OpenTable Fires Employee for Making Fake Reserve Bookings

https://chicago.eater.com/2018/3/5/17078210/opentable-reserve-fake-reservation-scheme-no-shows-chicago-restaurants-valentines

8 years ago

252 upvotes – 160 comments

Updated Request for Startups

https://blog.ycombinator.com/updated-request-for-startups/

8 years ago

249 upvotes – 177 comments

Sysadmin left finger on power button for an hour to avert SAP outage

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/03/05/who_me/

8 years ago

246 upvotes – 79 comments

Google's Python Class

https://developers.google.com/edu/python/

8 years ago

217 upvotes – 119 comments

A new storage engine for PostgreSQL to provide better control over bloat

http://amitkapila16.blogspot.com/2018/03/zheap-storage-engine-to-provide-better.html

8 years ago

215 upvotes – 30 comments

Google helps Pentagon analyze military drone footage

https://gizmodo.com/google-is-helping-the-pentagon-build-ai-for-drones-1823464533

8 years ago

189 upvotes – 165 comments

Ontario wrongly separated families on results of Motherisk hair-testing program

http://reason.com/blog/2018/03/05/motherisk-hair-testing-program-was-junk

8 years ago

173 upvotes – 96 comments

A proposal to improve Twitter and perhaps the world

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/04/the-case-against-retweets/554078/?single_page=true

8 years ago

172 upvotes – 114 comments

Pitching Your Startup

https://stripe.com/atlas/guides/pitching

8 years ago

163 upvotes – 27 comments

Let’s Get Better at Demanding Better from Tech

http://locusmag.com/2018/03/cory-doctorow-lets-get-better-at-demanding-better-from-tech/

8 years ago

163 upvotes – 100 comments

Ask HN: What's Your CI/CD Workflow for Your Machine Learning Projects?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16528009

8 years ago

160 upvotes – 30 comments

LibBF – a small library to handle arbitrary precision floating point numbers

https://bellard.org/libbf/

8 years ago

159 upvotes – 60 comments

New Giant Viruses Further Blur the Definition of Life

https://www.quantamagazine.org/new-giant-viruses-further-blur-the-definition-of-life-20180305/

8 years ago

150 upvotes – 105 comments

Practical Go benchmarks

https://stackimpact.com/blog/practical-golang-benchmarks/

8 years ago

148 upvotes – 23 comments

Xi Jinping decides to abolish presidential term limits

https://www.economist.com/news/china/21737543-unhappiness-china-palpable-xi-jinping-decides-abolish-presidential-term-limits

8 years ago

137 upvotes – 178 comments

How we discovered a database leak in one of the biggest Swiss hosting providers

https://security.infoteam.ch/en/blog/posts/how-we-discovered-a-database-leak-in-one-of-the-biggest-swiss-hosting-provider.html

8 years ago

133 upvotes – 61 comments

Tile38 – Realtime geofencing and geospatial index, v1.11.0

http://github.com/tidwall/tile38

8 years ago

★ 9.6k Go MIT
126 upvotes – 17 comments

First stable version of Scheme web framework Artanis released

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/artanis/2018-03/msg00000.html

8 years ago

126 upvotes – 22 comments

The Building Blocks of Interpretability

https://distill.pub/2018/building-blocks/

8 years ago

125 upvotes – 24 comments

For a baby’s brain to benefit, read the right books at the right time

http://theconversation.com/for-babys-brain-to-benefit-read-the-right-books-at-the-right-time-83076

8 years ago

123 upvotes – 79 comments

Progressive Locks: fast, upgradable read/write locks

http://wtarreau.blogspot.com/2018/02/progressive-locks-fast-upgradable.html

8 years ago

121 upvotes – 3 comments

Ask HN: How do you keep a good posture when you spend most of your type sitting?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16529054

8 years ago

115 upvotes – 82 comments

The dirty industry of fast fashion is causing an environmental “emergency”

https://qz.com/1222569/fast-fashion-is-causing-an-environmental-emergency/

8 years ago

114 upvotes – 106 comments

A small town that kept Walmart out now faces Amazon

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2018/03/amazon-local-retail/554681/?single_page=true

8 years ago

113 upvotes – 118 comments

Judge rules Seattle homeless man’s truck is a home

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/homeless/judge-rules-seattle-homeless-mans-truck-is-a-home/

8 years ago

112 upvotes – 132 comments

Something Mysterious Is Killing Captive Gorillas

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/03/gorilla-guts/554636/?single_page=true

8 years ago

103 upvotes – 87 comments

Get specific (2008)

https://sivers.org/get-specific

8 years ago

102 upvotes – 22 comments

The metrics behind Spotify’s IPO

https://blog.chartmogul.com/metrics-behind-spotifys-ipo/

8 years ago

102 upvotes – 61 comments

Notes on Analytics and Tracking in Onavo Protect for iOS

https://medium.com/@chronic_9612/notes-on-analytics-and-tracking-in-onavo-protect-for-ios-904bdff346c0

8 years ago

101 upvotes – 60 comments

Talent vs. Luck: the role of randomness in success and failure

https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.07068

8 years ago

100 upvotes – 57 comments

New “Android Go” phones show how much you can get for $100

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/02/new-android-go-phones-show-how-much-you-can-get-for-100/

8 years ago

99 upvotes – 101 comments

Clicker Heroes maker compares new lawsuit from “patent troll” to extortion

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/03/clicker-heroes-maker-compares-new-lawsuit-from-patent-troll-to-extortion/

8 years ago

94 upvotes – 30 comments

New Tech Centers Sprout in Europe

https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-tech-centers-sprout-in-europe-1520337602

8 years ago

91 upvotes – 136 comments

A few things I've learned about computer networking

https://jvns.ca/blog/2018/03/05/things-ive-learned-networking/

8 years ago

82 upvotes – 9 comments

Is Google Going Underground with Hypersonic Tech?

https://spectrum.ieee.org/energywise/energy/renewables/is-google-going-underground-with-hypersonic-tech

8 years ago

78 upvotes – 26 comments

My Last Day at Moz, My First Day at SparkToro

https://sparktoro.com/blog/last-day-moz-first-day-sparktoro/

8 years ago

75 upvotes – 22 comments

Bazel Fawlty

http://danmux.com/posts/bazel_fawlty/

8 years ago

75 upvotes – 51 comments

Hindu Nationalists Undertake Effort to Rewrite History in India

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/india-modi-culture/

8 years ago

73 upvotes – 101 comments

Launch HN: Shogun (YC W18) – Storefront Builder for ECommerce Sites

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16530518

8 years ago

69 upvotes – 45 comments

Socialhome: a federated personal profile with social networking functionality

https://github.com/jaywink/socialhome

8 years ago

★ 382 Python
68 upvotes – 18 comments
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