top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-03-07

Tell HN: Slack decides to close down IRC and XMPP gateways

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16539857

8 years ago

1148 upvotes – 600 comments

Facebook Really Is Spying on You, Just Not Through Your Phone's Mic

https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-really-is-spying-on-you-just-not-through-your-phones-mic-1520448644

8 years ago

750 upvotes – 463 comments

Ask HN: Best way to learn modern C++?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16535886

8 years ago

686 upvotes – 173 comments

Continuing frequency deviation in the Continental European Power System

https://www.entsoe.eu/news-events/announcements/announcements-archive/Pages/News/2018-03-06-press-release-continuing-frequency-deviation-in-the-continental-european-power-system.aspx

8 years ago

478 upvotes – 322 comments

Show HN: Convert screenshots of equations to LaTeX

https://mathpix.com/

8 years ago

456 upvotes – 98 comments

The New Wave of Indian Type

https://design.google/library/new-wave-indian-type-design/

8 years ago

354 upvotes – 182 comments

Statement on Potentially Unlawful Online Platforms for Trading Digital Assets

https://www.sec.gov/news/public-statement/enforcement-tm-statement-potentially-unlawful-online-platforms-trading

8 years ago

316 upvotes – 262 comments

Leaked Files Show How NSA Tracks Other Countries’ Hackers

https://theintercept.com/2018/03/06/leaked-files-show-how-nsa-tracks-other-countries-hackers/

8 years ago

276 upvotes – 52 comments

A Tiny Wolfenstein-Like Software Engine

https://github.com/glouw/littlewolf

8 years ago

★ 792CMIT
267 upvotes – 44 comments

Fund ideas, not pedigree, to find fresh insight

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-02743-2

8 years ago

263 upvotes – 43 comments

The Dirty Secret of ‘Secret Family Recipes’

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/secret-family-recipes-copied

8 years ago

262 upvotes – 160 comments

People Don't Know Themselves Very Well

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/03/you-dont-know-yourself-as-well-as-you-think-you-do/554612/?single_page=true

8 years ago

247 upvotes – 131 comments

Previewing Android P

http://android-developers.googleblog.com/2018/03/previewing-android-p.html

8 years ago

247 upvotes – 185 comments

Economist behind Uber study admits error, adjusts numbers

https://twitter.com/StephenZoepf/status/970754550968676352/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.recode.net%2F2018%2F3%2F3%2F17074782%2Fuber-mit-study-less-than-4-hour-flawed

8 years ago

245 upvotes – 158 comments

Research suggests some potential benefits to being a loner

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20180228-there-are-benefits-to-being-antisocial-or-a-loner

8 years ago

244 upvotes – 152 comments

Lessons from Spotify

https://stratechery.com/2018/lessons-from-spotify/

8 years ago

237 upvotes – 82 comments

Show HN: Subform, a UI layout tool

https://subformapp.com/

8 years ago

219 upvotes – 61 comments

How I Helped Potty-Train My Kid Using Twilio and an AWS IoT Button

https://twilio.com/blog/2018/03/iot-poop-button-python-twilio-aws.html

8 years ago

216 upvotes – 63 comments

The forgetting curve explains why humans struggle to memorize

https://qz.com/1213768/the-forgetting-curve-explains-why-humans-struggle-to-memorize/

8 years ago

214 upvotes – 50 comments

23andMe Granted FDA Authorization for Genetic Test on Cancer Risk

https://mediacenter.23andme.com/press-releases/23andme-granted-first-fda-authorization-direct-consumer-genetic-test-cancer-risk/

8 years ago

210 upvotes – 141 comments

Snap is laying off about 100 engineers

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/07/snap-layoffs-engineering-team-said-to-see-up-to-10-percent-cut.html

8 years ago

206 upvotes – 128 comments

FBI's Use of Paid Best Buy Informants Goes Deeper Than We Knew

https://gizmodo.com/fbis-use-of-paid-best-buy-informants-goes-deeper-than-w-1823561496

8 years ago

204 upvotes – 111 comments

Google Skaffold – Easy and Repeatable Kubernetes Development

https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/skaffold

8 years ago

★ 15.8kGoApache-2.0
199 upvotes – 43 comments

Geek Squad staff 'paid by FBI' to flag illegal imagery

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-43315176?ocid=socialflow_twitter

8 years ago

180 upvotes – 103 comments

Prototype to production: How to build and design a PCB prototype

https://blog.particle.io/2018/03/06/proto-to-prod/

8 years ago

176 upvotes – 114 comments

From idea to revenue in 5 working days, thanks to HN

http://jeremyphelps.com/blog/from-idea-to-revenue-in-5-working-days.html

8 years ago

173 upvotes – 32 comments

Automatic Machine Knitting of 3D Meshes

https://textiles-lab.github.io/publications/2018-autoknit/

8 years ago

159 upvotes – 36 comments

Fordlandia

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/fordlandia/

8 years ago

157 upvotes – 34 comments

The Worsening Cosmic Ray Situation

https://spaceweatherarchive.com/2018/03/05/the-worsening-cosmic-ray-situation/

8 years ago

156 upvotes – 79 comments

Ask HN: How do you document and keep tabs on your infrastructure as a sysadmin?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16536105

8 years ago

156 upvotes – 65 comments

Granular Audio Synthesis

https://blog.demofox.org/2018/03/05/granular-audio-synthesis/

8 years ago

153 upvotes – 33 comments

Amazon admits Alexa is laughing at people and is working on a fix

https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2018/3/7/17092334/amazon-alexa-devices-strange-laughter

8 years ago

153 upvotes – 43 comments

Nassim Taleb, Absorbent Barriers and House Money

https://medium.com/ml-everything/nassim-taleb-absorbent-barriers-and-house-money-8b21cff2e338

8 years ago

149 upvotes – 74 comments

Stack Overflow: Support for OpenID Ends on July 1, 2018

https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/307647

8 years ago

145 upvotes – 77 comments

Google Flutter and AWS Lambda for a serverless mobile app

https://read.acloud.guru/serverless-application-with-flutter-lambda-aa0d264fbefd

8 years ago

143 upvotes – 79 comments

Jepsen: Aerospike 3.99.0.3

https://jepsen.io/analyses/aerospike-3-99-0-3

8 years ago

134 upvotes – 43 comments

Why DNSFilter replaced InfluxDB with TimescaleDB

https://blog.dnsfilter.com/3-billion-time-series-data-points-dnsfilter-replaced-influxdb-with-timescaledb-d9f827702f8b

8 years ago

133 upvotes – 48 comments

For Two Months, I Got My News from Print Newspapers

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/07/technology/two-months-news-newspapers.html

8 years ago

133 upvotes – 136 comments

How Amazon Can Blow Up Asset Management

https://jirisancapital.com/amazon-can-blow-up-asset-management/

8 years ago

131 upvotes – 96 comments

Dissecting the 128-byte raycaster (2014)

http://finalpatch.blogspot.com/2014/06/dissecting-128-byte-raycaster.html

8 years ago

130 upvotes – 20 comments

Java call stack – from HTTP upto JDBC as a picture (2006)

https://ptrthomas.wordpress.com/2006/06/06/java-call-stack-from-http-upto-jdbc-as-a-picture/

8 years ago

124 upvotes – 60 comments

Helping Cairo, the rendering library

https://people.gnome.org/~federico/blog/helping-cairo.html

8 years ago

123 upvotes – 30 comments

Show HN: 1-click orders for open source electronics

https://kitspace.org

8 years ago

121 upvotes – 37 comments

Efficient Hot-Water Piping (2013) [pdf]

http://www.garykleinassociates.com/PDFs/15%20-%20Efficient%20Hot-Water%20Piping-JLC.pdf

8 years ago

119 upvotes – 56 comments

Make your own build system

http://jstimpfle.de/blah/buildsystem/buildsystem.html

8 years ago

107 upvotes – 90 comments

GitHub client built with React, Apollo, GraphQL

https://github.com/rwieruch/react-graphql-github-apollo

8 years ago

★ 1.5kJavaScript
104 upvotes – 50 comments

Crazy things happening in SF because of its out-of-control housing prices

http://www.businessinsider.com/why-people-are-leaving-san-francisco-2018-3

8 years ago

97 upvotes – 78 comments

Copying vs. sharing in functional languages

https://danghica.blogspot.com/2018/03/copying-vs-sharing-in-functional.html

8 years ago

92 upvotes – 43 comments

Magic Leap Raises $461M from Saudis

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-07/magic-leap-raises-461-million-from-saudis

8 years ago

87 upvotes – 117 comments

U.S. Government Strikes Back Against Chinese Investment

http://foreignpolicy.com/2018/03/06/washington-strikes-back-against-chinese-investment/

8 years ago

84 upvotes – 67 comments

Atari 8 Bit Computers FAQ

http://seriouscomputerist.atariverse.com/media/pdf/book/Atari%25208-Bit%2520FAQ%2520(Letter).pdf&ved=2ahUKEwi199j9iNnZAhWFo1kKHeBMCWU4FBAWMAJ6BAgJEAE&usg=AOvVaw1Inygs7tPsD2IALT9J3zqh

8 years ago

83 upvotes – 46 comments
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