top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-03-13

ACME v2 and Wildcard Certificate Support is Live

https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/acme-v2-and-wildcard-certificate-support-is-live/55579

8 years ago

1024 upvotes – 310 comments

Repl.it 1.0: IDE that Grows from Playgrounds to Fullstack Apps

https://repl.it/site/blog/platform

8 years ago

537 upvotes – 133 comments

Cora – Kitty Hawk's prototype air taxi [video]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LeFxjRMv5U8

8 years ago

432 upvotes – 273 comments

Security Researchers Publish Ryzen Flaws, Gave AMD 24 Hours Prior Notice

https://www.anandtech.com/show/12525/security-researchers-publish-ryzen-flaws-gave-amd-24-hours-to-respond

8 years ago

401 upvotes – 336 comments

Firefox 59 released

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/59.0/releasenotes/

8 years ago

394 upvotes – 231 comments

‘The Trains Are Slower Because They Slowed the Trains Down’

https://www.villagevoice.com/2018/03/13/the-trains-are-slower-because-they-slowed-the-trains-down/

8 years ago

376 upvotes – 237 comments

Developer Survey Results

https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2018

8 years ago

372 upvotes – 242 comments

Quick explanation of how a Kalman filter works

http://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://github.com/aguaviva/KalmanFilter/blob/master/KalmanFilter.html

8 years ago

334 upvotes – 76 comments

Larry Page’s Flying Taxis, Now Exiting Stealth Mode

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/12/business/dealbook/flying-taxis-larry-page.html

8 years ago

288 upvotes – 160 comments

Implementing FizzBuzz on an FPGA

http://www.righto.com/2018/03/implementing-fizzbuzz-on-fpga.html

8 years ago

261 upvotes – 60 comments

Mozilla working on in-page popup blocker for Firefox

https://www.androidpolice.com/2018/03/12/mozilla-working-page-popup-blocker-firefox/

8 years ago

253 upvotes – 144 comments

Run JavaScript on Cloudflare with Workers

https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-workers-unleashed/

8 years ago

249 upvotes – 185 comments

A startup is pitching a mind-uploading service that is “100 percent fatal”

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/610456/a-startup-is-pitching-a-mind-uploading-service-that-is-100-percent-fatal/amp/

8 years ago

247 upvotes – 428 comments

AWS documentation is now open source and on GitHub

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-documentation-is-now-open-source-and-on-github/

8 years ago

243 upvotes – 98 comments

Qualcomm, National Security, and Patents

https://stratechery.com/2018/qualcomm-national-security-and-patents/

8 years ago

242 upvotes – 83 comments

Show HN: Gitkube – Deploy to Kubernetes Using Git Push

https://gitkube.sh/

8 years ago

224 upvotes – 64 comments

Attacking Merkle Trees with a second preimage attack

https://flawed.net.nz/2018/02/21/attacking-merkle-trees-with-a-second-preimage-attack/

8 years ago

218 upvotes – 41 comments

Show HN: LonelyPage – One page is all you need

http://www.lonelypage.io

8 years ago

216 upvotes – 126 comments

The US Marines' Love Affair with 3D Printing

https://breakingdefense.com/2018/03/marines-love-affair-with-3d-printing-small-is-cheap-beautiful/

8 years ago

211 upvotes – 113 comments

Apple Music now has 38M paid members

https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/13/apple-music-now-has-38-million-paid-members/

8 years ago

196 upvotes – 269 comments

$560M Powerball Winner Can Keep Her Name Private, Judge Rules

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/12/us/lottery-winner-privacy.html

8 years ago

186 upvotes – 126 comments

Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (1998)

http://norvig.com/21-days.html

8 years ago

184 upvotes – 51 comments

How Your Returns Are Used Against You at Best Buy, Other Retailers

https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-your-returns-are-used-against-you-at-best-buy-other-retailers-1520933400

8 years ago

182 upvotes – 280 comments

Memory efficiency of parallel IO operations in Python

https://code.kiwi.com/memory-efficiency-of-parallel-io-operations-in-python-6e7d6c51905d

8 years ago

168 upvotes – 59 comments

Agones: Open-source, multiplayer, dedicated game-server hosting on Kubernetes

https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/03/introducing-Agones-open-source-multiplayer-dedicated-game-server-hosting-built-on-Kubernetes.html

8 years ago

154 upvotes – 16 comments

A cliff that changed our understanding of time

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20180312-how-siccar-point-changed-our-understanding-of-earth-history

8 years ago

152 upvotes – 60 comments

Lossy GIF compressor

https://kornel.ski/lossygif

8 years ago

152 upvotes – 72 comments

Just start writing and the rest will follow

https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2018/03/13/write/

8 years ago

147 upvotes – 31 comments

CIA new nominee director Gina Haspel ran a torture site and destroyed evidence

https://qz.com/1227879/who-is-gina-haspel-the-first-woman-nominated-to-run-the-cia-destroyed-evidence-of-us-torture/

8 years ago

142 upvotes – 74 comments

Tim Berners-Lee on the future of the web: 'The system is failing'

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/mar/12/tim-berners-lee-web-weapon-regulation-open-letter

8 years ago

138 upvotes – 62 comments

Autism's social deficits in animal model are reversed by an anti-cancer drug

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/03/180312201647.htm

8 years ago

133 upvotes – 96 comments

Madison Square Garden Has Used Face-Scanning Technology on Customers

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/13/sports/facial-recognition-madison-square-garden.html

8 years ago

119 upvotes – 55 comments

YouTube will add information from Wikipedia to videos about conspiracies

https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/13/17117344/youtube-information-cues-conspiracy-theories-susan-wojcicki-sxsw

8 years ago

116 upvotes – 105 comments

The ICO paradox and how to fix it

https://blog.sia.tech/the-ico-paradox-and-how-to-fix-it-3bfc61bc6eb8

8 years ago

112 upvotes – 101 comments

Amazon Is Hiring More Developers for Alexa Than Google Is Hiring for Everything

https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2018/03/13/amazon-is-hiring-more-developers-for-alexa-than-google-is-hiring-for-everything/#e8ee25d1985a

8 years ago

111 upvotes – 86 comments

JavaScript and Node performance coding tips to make applications faster

http://voidcanvas.com/javascript-performant-coding-tips/

8 years ago

109 upvotes – 64 comments

Using Google Cloud AutoML to Classify Poisonous Australian Spiders

https://shinesolutions.com/2018/03/14/using-google-cloud-automl-vision-to-classify-poisonous-australian-spiders/

8 years ago

107 upvotes – 41 comments

How to Corrupt an SQLite Database File

https://sqlite.org/howtocorrupt.html

8 years ago

104 upvotes – 10 comments

Show HN: Mindset – Self-Improvement Hypnosis

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mindset-simple-hypnosis/id1334431656

8 years ago

101 upvotes – 87 comments

Open Source Neural Network Synthesizer

https://nsynthsuper.withgoogle.com/

8 years ago

95 upvotes – 23 comments

Guido van Rossum: Python 2 end-of-life will be on January 1st, 2020

https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2018-March/152348.html

8 years ago

91 upvotes – 30 comments

Developers love trendy new languages, but earn more with functional programming

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/03/developers-love-trendy-new-languages-but-earn-more-with-functional-programming/

8 years ago

86 upvotes – 78 comments

How Cheese, Wheat and Alcohol Shaped Human Evolution

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-cheese-wheat-and-alcohol-shaped-human-evolution-180968455/?no-ist

8 years ago

86 upvotes – 58 comments

Launch HN: EasyEmail (YC W18) – Gmail plug-in that helps compose emails quickly

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16577650

8 years ago

83 upvotes – 62 comments

How GraphQL Replaces Redux

https://hackernoon.com/how-graphql-replaces-redux-3fff8289221d

8 years ago

80 upvotes – 58 comments

Severe Security Advisory on AMD Processors

https://amdflaws.com/

8 years ago

77 upvotes – 43 comments
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