top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-03-12

Show HN: RoughJS – Create hand-drawn graphics using JavaScript

http://roughjs.com/

8 years ago

1087 upvotes – 92 comments

Slack's bait and switch

https://opkode.com/blog/slacks-bait-and-switch/

8 years ago

757 upvotes – 350 comments

Compressing and enhancing hand-written notes (2016)

https://mzucker.github.io/2016/09/20/noteshrink.html

8 years ago

639 upvotes – 70 comments

Rust's 2018 roadmap

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2018/03/12/roadmap.html

8 years ago

515 upvotes – 244 comments

YC Seed Deck Template

https://blog.ycombinator.com/intro-to-the-yc-seed-deck/

8 years ago

422 upvotes – 83 comments

Reddit and the Struggle to Detoxify the Internet

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/03/19/reddit-and-the-quest-to-detoxify-the-internet?currentPage=all

8 years ago

401 upvotes – 717 comments

Concurrency I can finally understand and write correctly

http://jordi.inversethought.com/blog/advent-of-d/#day18

8 years ago

297 upvotes – 158 comments

Surprising Things About School

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/972346041189019648.html

8 years ago

277 upvotes – 183 comments

What Works and Why: Opus Magnum

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2018/02/27/what-works-and-why-opus-magnum/

8 years ago

254 upvotes – 47 comments

Making $60k a month from a podcast on software engineering

https://www.indiehackers.com/interview/making-60-000-mo-from-a-podcast-on-software-engineering-0fa342480f

8 years ago

252 upvotes – 145 comments

New ThinkPad Guts Bring Intel Core I, DDR4, USB 3 to Cult Laptops

https://hackaday.com/2018/03/12/new-guts-make-old-thinkpads-new/

8 years ago

251 upvotes – 159 comments

Intel Fights for Its Future

https://mondaynote.com/intel-fights-for-its-future-6498f886992b

8 years ago

226 upvotes – 192 comments

How to write an IRC bot

http://sircmpwn.github.io/2018/03/10/How-to-write-an-IRC-bot.html

8 years ago

215 upvotes – 96 comments

Trump Issues Order to Block Broadcom’s Takeover of Qualcomm

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-12/trump-issues-order-to-block-broadcom-s-takeover-of-qualcomm

8 years ago

215 upvotes – 116 comments

Questions for TSA after reports of laptop and phone searches on domestic flights

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/mar/12/tsa-surveillance-laptops-cellphones-domestic-flights

8 years ago

207 upvotes – 203 comments

Lyft says its revenue is growing nearly 3x faster than Uber’s

https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/12/lyft-says-its-revenue-is-growing-nearly-3x-faster-than-ubers/

8 years ago

205 upvotes – 124 comments

Potent malware that hid for six years spread through routers

https://securelist.com/apt-slingshot/84312/

8 years ago

203 upvotes – 63 comments

Coltrane Pitch Diagrams: Wrapping notes around a torus

https://medium.com/@lucas_gonze/coltrane-pitch-diagrams-e25b7d9f5093

8 years ago

198 upvotes – 68 comments

PyTorch – Internal Architecture Tour

http://blog.christianperone.com/2018/03/pytorch-internal-architecture-tour/

8 years ago

193 upvotes – 22 comments

Who will steal Android from Google?

https://medium.com/@steve.yegge/who-will-steal-android-from-google-af3622b6252e

8 years ago

183 upvotes – 158 comments

Shaderoo: realtime ballpoint effect

https://shaderoo.org/?shader=yMP3J7

8 years ago

162 upvotes – 28 comments

Coronary heart disease is a chronic inflammatory condition

http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/51/15/1111

8 years ago

160 upvotes – 144 comments

Urn: A Lisp implementation for Lua

http://urn-lang.com/

8 years ago

156 upvotes – 47 comments

Tim Berners-Lee: we must regulate tech firms to prevent 'weaponised' web

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/mar/11/tim-berners-lee-tech-companies-regulations?CMP=share_btn_fb

8 years ago

141 upvotes – 44 comments

Cheap 3D-printed home is a start for the 1B who lack shelter

https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/12/17101856/3d-printed-housing-icon-shelter-housing-crisis

8 years ago

139 upvotes – 113 comments

Modeling Redux with TLA+

https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/tla-redux/

8 years ago

132 upvotes – 33 comments

Why the Tiny Weight of Empty Space Is Such a Mystery

https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-the-dark-energy-problem-spawned-the-multiverse-hypothesis-20180312/

8 years ago

120 upvotes – 143 comments

Four Years After Declaring War on Pollution, China Is Winning

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/12/upshot/china-pollution-environment-longer-lives.html

8 years ago

115 upvotes – 125 comments

Apple to acquire digital magazine service Texture

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2018/03/apple-to-acquire-digital-magazine-service-texture/

8 years ago

114 upvotes – 56 comments

Ask HN: Which books have helped you the most professionally?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16568949

8 years ago

110 upvotes – 37 comments

Launch HN: EnvKey (YC W18) – Smart Configuration and Secrets Management

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16569534

8 years ago

108 upvotes – 63 comments

Dropbox Amendment to Form S-1

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1467623/000119312518078140/d451946ds1a.htm

8 years ago

106 upvotes – 53 comments

A 1980s study on juvenile crime in Japan sheds light on American gun culture

https://qz.com/1225724/a-1980s-study-on-juvenile-crime-in-japan-sheds-light-on-american-gun-culture/

8 years ago

101 upvotes – 91 comments

Semantic Image Segmentation with DeepLab in Tensorflow

https://research.googleblog.com/2018/03/semantic-image-segmentation-with.html

8 years ago

101 upvotes – 10 comments

Humble Bundle Books: Artificial Intelligence

https://www.humblebundle.com/books/artificial-intelligence-books

8 years ago

99 upvotes – 29 comments

The problem with the Code of Conduct

https://shiromarieke.github.io/coc.html

8 years ago

95 upvotes – 79 comments

The Quest for a Universal Translator for Old, Obsolete Computer Files

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/how-to-open-old-computer-files

8 years ago

95 upvotes – 31 comments

AlwaysOnSSL – A free and automated CA

https://alwaysonssl.com/

8 years ago

93 upvotes – 53 comments

Walkable Cities Enjoy More Freedom

https://www.adamsmith.org/blog/why-walkable-cities-enjoy-more-freedom

8 years ago

92 upvotes – 0 comments

Big Sugar Versus Your Body

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/11/opinion/sugar-industry-health.html

8 years ago

92 upvotes – 73 comments

Show HN: Using AI to Summarize Terms and Conditions

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16569735

8 years ago

91 upvotes – 41 comments

“Rise and Kill First” Exploring Israel's Assassination Program

https://theintercept.com/2018/03/11/israel-mossad-assassination-book/

8 years ago

84 upvotes – 8 comments

Comcast 'blocks' encrypted email service: Reminder of why net neutrality matters

http://www.zdnet.com/google-amp/article/comcast-customers-blocked-encrypted-email-service-net-neutrality-repeal/

8 years ago

82 upvotes – 15 comments

Tesla GPU Accelerator Bang for the Buck, Kepler to Volta

https://www.nextplatform.com/2018/03/05/tesla-gpu-accelerator-bang-buck-kepler-volta/

8 years ago

78 upvotes – 27 comments

Tuples goodness in .NET 4.7.1

https://www.tabsoverspaces.com/233667-tuples-goodness-in-net-471-net-core-20-included/

8 years ago

74 upvotes – 52 comments
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