top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-03-14

Stephen Hawking has died

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-43396008

8 years ago

Theranos, CEO Holmes, and Former President Balwani Charged with Fraud

https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2018-41

8 years ago

Google bans cryptocurrency ads

https://support.google.com/adwordspolicy/answer/7648803

8 years ago

All disk galaxies rotate once every billion years: study

http://www.astronomy.com/news/2018/03/all-galaxies-rotate-once-every-billion-years

8 years ago

New Raspberry Pi Model B+

https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/raspberry-pi-3-model-bplus-sale-now-35/

8 years ago

How knowing Lisp destroyed my programming career (2006)

http://coding.derkeiler.com/Archive/Lisp/comp.lang.lisp/2006-04/msg01644.html

8 years ago

Making WebAssembly better for Rust and for all languages

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/03/making-webassembly-better-for-rust-for-all-languages/

8 years ago

Why Is SQLite Coded in C? (2017)

https://sqlite.org/whyc.html

8 years ago

How Amazon’s Bottomless Appetite Became Corporate America’s Nightmare

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-amazon-industry-displacement/

8 years ago

Key Git Concepts Explained the Hard Way

https://zwischenzugs.com/2018/03/14/five-key-git-concepts-explained-the-hard-way/

8 years ago

Questioning the motive behind the security allegations against AMD

https://www.gamersnexus.net/industry/3260-assassination-attempt-on-amd-by-viceroy-research-cts-labs

8 years ago

A Practical Introduction to Blockchain with Python

http://adilmoujahid.com/posts/2018/03/intro-blockchain-bitcoin-python/

8 years ago

'Mind Over Matter': Stephen Hawking – Obituary by Roger Penrose

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/mar/14/stephen-hawking-obituary

8 years ago

Google will ban all cryptocurrency-related advertising

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/13/google-bans-crypto-ads.html

8 years ago

Cloud Act – Improve law enforcement access to data stored across borders

https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/2383/text

8 years ago

Suing Equifax in Small Claims Court

https://www.inc.com/bill-murphy-jr/people-are-suing-equifax-in-small-claims-court-its-totally-brilliant-heres-why.html

8 years ago

How Apple let Siri fall behind the Google Assistant and Alexa

https://mashable.com/2018/03/14/why-siri-is-so-dumb/#tTGSzkqaSZqB

8 years ago

Y Combinator CEO: “The True Test of Product-Market Fit Is 'Drowning in Demand'”

http://blog.capitalandgrowth.org/michael-seibel

8 years ago

False memories, or why we’re so sure of things we’re wrong about

https://today.duke.edu/2018/03/what-im-working-why-you-didnt-do-thing-youre-sure-you-did

8 years ago

Derek Sivers: Books I've Read

https://sivers.org/book

8 years ago

How I implemented iPhone X’s FaceID using Deep Learning in Python

https://towardsdatascience.com/how-i-implemented-iphone-xs-faceid-using-deep-learning-in-python-d5dbaa128e1d

8 years ago

The 600+ Companies PayPal Shares Your Data With

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2018/03/the_600_compani.html

8 years ago

Former Equifax employee indicted for insider trading

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndga/pr/former-equifax-employee-indicted-insider-trading

8 years ago

Introduction to Recurrent Neural Networks in Pytorch

https://www.cpuheater.com/deep-learning/introduction-to-recurrent-neural-networks-in-pytorch/

8 years ago

Astronaut’s DNA No Longer Matches His Identical Twin’s After Year Spent in Space

http://ktla.com/2018/03/14/astronauts-dna-no-longer-matches-his-identical-twins-after-year-spent-in-space-nasa-finds/

8 years ago

Norwegian Shipbuilders Turning to Battery Power

http://gcaptain.com/going-green-norwegian-shipbuilders-turning-to-battery-power/

8 years ago

Life as a Nonviolent Psychopath (2014)

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/01/life-as-a-nonviolent-psychopath/282271/?single_page=true

8 years ago

The Amiga Consciousness

http://countingvirtualsheep.com/the-amiga-consciousness/

8 years ago

Touched (2015)

http://mihai.sucan.ro/mihai/blog/touched

8 years ago

California's other drought: a major earthquake is overdue

http://strangesounds.org/2018/03/california-major-earthquake-drought-big-one.html

8 years ago

Pilot.com raises $15M to bring bookkeeping into the modern era

https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/14/pilot-raises-15m-to-bring-bookkeeping-into-the-modern-era/

8 years ago

Kottke.org is 20 years old today

https://kottke.org/18/03/twenty

8 years ago

Toys R Us to close all 800 of its U.S. stores

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/business/wp/2018/03/14/toys-r-us-to-close-all-800-of-its-u-s-stores

8 years ago

LC4: A Low-Tech Authenticated Cipher for Human-To-Human Communication

https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/339

8 years ago

Tesla employees say automaker produces flawed parts requiring costly rework

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/14/tesla-manufacturing-high-volume-of-flawed-parts-employees.html

8 years ago

Checked C: extension to C that adds static and dynamic checking

https://github.com/Microsoft/checkedc#checked-c

8 years ago

★ 3.2k C

Kerbal Space Program Extension Now Available

https://kerbalspaceprogram.com/en/?page_id=591

8 years ago

A brief history of Stephen Hawking: A legacy of paradox

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2053929-a-brief-history-of-stephen-hawking-a-legacy-of-paradox/

8 years ago