top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-03-15

EU wants to require platforms to filter uploaded content, including code

https://blog.github.com/2018-03-14-eu-proposal-upload-filters-code/

8 years ago

Ask HN: “Write your own” or “Build your own” software projects

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16591918

8 years ago

Writing System Software [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBrnmciV9fM&list=PLrEMgOSrS_3fghr8ez63xKFNF-BA6Pz13

8 years ago

Airtable gets $52M in funding

http://www.businessinsider.com/airtable-ceo-howie-liu-interview-on-52-million-in-funding-2018-3?op=1

8 years ago

Long Live Mister Rogers' Quiet Revolution

https://daily.jstor.org/long-live-mister-rogers-quiet-revolution

8 years ago

ProtonMail blocked by Vodafone Turkey

https://protonmail.com/blog/turkey-online-censorship-bypass/

8 years ago

A billion reasons never to buy IBM services

https://foliovision.com/2018/03/why-not-buy-ibm

8 years ago

Private Internet Access Goes Open Source

https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2018/03/private-internet-access-goes-open-source/

8 years ago

Portacle – A Portable Common Lisp Development Environment

https://portacle.github.io/

8 years ago

Show HN: Where is Sci-Hub now?

https://whereisscihub.herokuapp.com/

8 years ago

Google and LG creates VR AMOLED 120 Hz at 5500 x 3000

https://www.blurbusters.com/google-and-lg-creates-vr-amoled-120-hz-at-5500x3000/

8 years ago

Git Magic

http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~blynn/gitmagic/

8 years ago

Learning Rust

https://learning-rust.github.io

8 years ago

How to build a brain – An introduction to neurophysiology for engineers

http://juliuskunze.com/how-to-build-a-brain

8 years ago

Using AI to match human performance in translating news from Chinese to English

https://blogs.microsoft.com/ai/machine-translation-news-test-set-human-parity/

8 years ago

How JavaScript works: the rendering engine and tips to optimize its performance

https://blog.sessionstack.com/how-javascript-works-the-rendering-engine-and-tips-to-optimize-its-performance-7b95553baeda

8 years ago

Examining overlooked clues reveals how ultrasound could have caused harm in Cuba

https://spectrum.ieee.org/semiconductors/devices/how-we-reverse-engineered-the-cuban-sonic-weapon-attack

8 years ago

Intel Publishes Spectre and Meltdown Hardware Plans: Fixed Gear Later This Year

https://www.anandtech.com/show/12533/intel-spectre-meltdown

8 years ago

Physicists Still Don’t Know What Puts the Curl in Curling

https://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/physicists-still-dont-know-what-puts-the-curl-in-curling

8 years ago

The Role of Luck in Life Is Still Misunderstood

http://joshuaballoch.github.io/luck-in-life-still-misunderstood

8 years ago

Org-brain – mind-mapping for org-mode

https://github.com/Kungsgeten/org-brain

8 years ago

★ 1.7k Emacs Lisp MIT

Loneliness on the Job: Why No Employee Is an Island

http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/no-employee-is-an-island/

8 years ago

Walmart Whistle-Blower Claims Cheating in Race with Amazon

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-15/walmart-whistle-blower-claims-retailer-cheated-to-catch-amazon

8 years ago

Operating Broadcom Wi-Fi Chips as Arbitrary Signal Transmitters, Like SDRs

https://github.com/seemoo-lab/mobisys2018_nexmon_software_defined_radio

8 years ago

★ 798 Shell

US utilities have finally realized electric cars may save them

https://qz.com/1230297/us-utilities-have-finally-realized-electric-cars-will-save-them-and-asked-congress-to-put-more-evs-on-the-road/

8 years ago

Memoirs of an Ass

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/02/28/memoirs-of-an-ass/

8 years ago

New Orleans ends its relationship with tech firm Palantir

http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2018/03/palantir_new_orleans_gang_case.html

8 years ago

Monarch butterfly numbers keep declining

https://beyondpesticides.org/dailynewsblog/2018/03/monarch-butterfly-numbers-keep-declining/

8 years ago

First Lightning mainnet release

https://blog.lightning.engineering/announcement/2018/03/15/lnd-beta.html?1

8 years ago

Waymo shows off what it’s like to ride in a truly driverless self-driving car

https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/13/waymo-shows-off-what-its-like-to-ride-in-a-truly-driverless-self-driving-car/

8 years ago

​Linus Torvalds slams CTS Labs over AMD vulnerability report

http://www.zdnet.com/article/linus-torvalds-slams-cts-labs-over-amd-vulnerability-report/

8 years ago

A Usable C++ Dialect That Is Safe Against Memory Corruption

http://ithare.com/a-usable-c-dialect-that-is-safe-against-memory-corruption/

8 years ago

Rust-style resource management in OCaml

https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.02796

8 years ago

SRI confirms nuclear fusion startup's reactors are producing excess energy

https://www.lenr-forum.com/forum/thread/5552-sri-report-independently-verifies-brillouin-lenr-reactions-report-included/

8 years ago

'Striking weaknesses' in adult financial skills

http://www.bbc.com/news/education-43384434

8 years ago

Policy laundering

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

8 years ago

Celebrating Stephen Hawking

https://plus.maths.org/content/celebrating-stephen-hawking

8 years ago

Flight Recorder becomes part of OpenJDK

http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/328

8 years ago

Site with future Vulkan tutorials for beginners

https://learnvulkan.com/

8 years ago

Ancient DNA Is Rewriting Human and Neanderthal History

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/03/ancient-dna-history/554798/?single_page=true

8 years ago

Mail art

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

8 years ago

Human-powered cranes and lifting devices (2010)

http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2010/03/history-of-human-powered-cranes.html

8 years ago

Brainless Embryos Suggest Bioelectricity Guides Growth

https://www.quantamagazine.org/brainless-embryos-suggest-bioelectricity-guides-growth-20180313/

8 years ago

Show HN: Fossa-cli – Fast and reliable dependency analysis for any codebase

https://github.com/fossas/fossa-cli?top

8 years ago

★ 1.4k Haskell

Amazon's Japanese headquarters raided by nation's regulator

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/mar/15/amazon-japanese-headquarters-raided-regulator-antitrust-fair-trade-commission

8 years ago

Train Your Machine Learning Models on Google’s GPUs for Free

https://hackernoon.com/train-your-machine-learning-models-on-googles-gpus-for-free-forever-a41bd309d6ad

8 years ago

Wikimedia director on commercial use of Wikipedia

https://twitter.com/krmaher/status/973791488583888896

8 years ago

GEMM: From Pure C to SSE Optimized Micro Kernels (2014)

http://apfel.mathematik.uni-ulm.de/~lehn/sghpc/gemm/

8 years ago

Saudi Arabia cyber attack goal was chemical plant explosion; experts fear retry

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/15/technology/saudi-arabia-hacks-cyberattacks.html

8 years ago

Usability improvements in GCC 8

https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2018/03/15/gcc-8-usability-improvements/

8 years ago

Launch HN: Piccolo (YC W18) – Camera for controlling your home with gestures

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16594782

8 years ago

Theranos Misled Investors and Consumers Who Used Its Blood Test

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-03-14/theranos-misled-investors-and-consumers-who-used-its-blood-test

8 years ago

Say Yes to Markdown, No to MS Word

https://medium.com/@drodil/say-yes-to-markdown-no-to-ms-word-be4692e7a8cd

8 years ago

Making music using new sounds generated with machine learning

https://www.blog.google/topics/machine-learning/making-music-using-new-sounds-generated-machine-learning/

8 years ago

Atom 1.25

https://blog.atom.io/2018/03/15/atom-1-25.html

8 years ago

Florida Pedestrian Bridge Constructed 5 Days Ago Collapses, Multiple Casualties

https://jalopnik.com/florida-pedestrian-bridge-constructed-barely-a-week-ago-1823806666

8 years ago

Failing upward, new Gilded Age edition part infinity

http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2018/03/failing-upward-new-gilded-age-edition-part-infinity

8 years ago

Show HN: Talent vs. Luck – A recreation of the paper's model

http://joshuaballoch.github.io/recreating-talent-vs-luck/

8 years ago

Canopy: An End-to-End Performance Tracing And Analysis System [pdf]

https://cs.brown.edu/~jcmace/papers/kaldor2017canopy.pdf

8 years ago

What Record-Low Unemployment Looks Like in America

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-03-15/this-is-what-record-low-unemployment-looks-like-in-america

8 years ago

'Not welcome here': Amazon faces growing resistance to its second home

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/mar/15/not-welcome-here-amazon-faces-growing-resistance-to-its-second-home

8 years ago

iHeartRadio owner files for bankruptcy

https://www.engadget.com/2018/03/15/iheartradio-owner-iheartmedia-bankruptcy/

8 years ago

Google open sources image recognition AI model, VR audio tools

https://www.androidpolice.com/2018/03/15/google-open-sources-image-recognition-ai-model-vr-audio-tools/

8 years ago

VR still a novelty, but Google light-field technology could make it serious art

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/610458/vr-is-still-a-novelty-but-googles-light-field-technology-could-make-it-serious-art/

8 years ago