top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-03-17

Repair cafés waging war on throwaway culture

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/mar/15/can-we-fix-it-the-repair-cafes-waging-war-on-throwaway-culture

8 years ago

571 upvotes – 364 comments

50M Facebook profiles harvested for Cambridge Analytica in major data breach

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/17/cambridge-analytica-facebook-influence-us-election

8 years ago

558 upvotes – 254 comments

Mathematics for Computer Science: Readings

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-042j-mathematics-for-computer-science-spring-2015/readings/

8 years ago

555 upvotes – 67 comments

The Nightmare Letter: A Subject Access Request Under GDPR

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/nightmare-letter-subject-access-request-under-gdpr-karbaliotis/

8 years ago

508 upvotes – 523 comments

Inheritance Often Doesn't Make Sense

https://www.sicpers.info/2018/03/why-inheritance-never-made-any-sense/

8 years ago

416 upvotes – 246 comments

Breaking a Wine Glass in Python by Detecting the Resonant Frequency

https://www.makeartwithpython.com/blog/break-glass-with-resonant-frequency/

8 years ago

375 upvotes – 48 comments

Suspending Cambridge Analytica and SCL Group from Facebook

https://newsroom.fb.com/news/h/suspending-cambridge-analytica/

8 years ago

330 upvotes – 152 comments

iOS 11 bugs are so common they now appear in Apple ads

https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/16/17131148/apple-ios-11-bug-face-id-ad

8 years ago

261 upvotes – 105 comments

TinyVM – A small and easy to understand virtual machine in C

https://github.com/jakogut/tinyvm/

8 years ago

★ 3.3kCMIT
241 upvotes – 30 comments

RedisGraph: A High Performance In-Memory Graph Database as a Redis Module

http://redisgraph.io/design/

8 years ago

237 upvotes – 41 comments

At My Lai: The Photographer Who Captured the Massacre

https://foto.gettyimages.com/archive/war/my-lai-massacre-anniversary-pictures-ron-haeberle/

8 years ago

230 upvotes – 171 comments

Microsoft Offers Bug Bounty to Prevent Another Spectre-Meltdown Fiasco

https://hothardware.com/news/microsoft-offering-up-to-250000-in-speculative-execution-bug-bounty-program

8 years ago

215 upvotes – 89 comments

NIH Courted Alcohol Industry to Fund Study on Benefits of Moderate Drinking

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/17/health/nih-alcohol-study-liquor-industry.html

8 years ago

206 upvotes – 95 comments

Tail recursion in Python

http://chrispenner.ca/posts/python-tail-recursion

8 years ago

193 upvotes – 80 comments

Tech Giants Set to Face 3% Tax on Revenue Under New EU Plan

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-17/tech-giants-set-to-face-3-tax-on-revenue-under-new-eu-plan

8 years ago

178 upvotes – 296 comments

Hack everything without fear

https://drewdevault.com/2018/03/17/Hack-everything-without-fear.html

8 years ago

166 upvotes – 33 comments

GIMP Convolution Matrix

https://docs.gimp.org/en/plug-in-convmatrix.html

8 years ago

159 upvotes – 44 comments

In Praise of ADHD

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/03/17/opinion/sunday/praise-adhd-attention-hyperactivity.html

8 years ago

155 upvotes – 190 comments

Ask HN: Is a blog clever marketing or just a waste of time?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16607891

8 years ago

154 upvotes – 73 comments

Deep Quaternion Networks (2017) [pdf]

https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.04604

8 years ago

151 upvotes – 73 comments

Power Outage at Samsung Fab Destroys 3.5% of Global NAND Flash Output for March

https://www.anandtech.com/show/12535/power-outage-at-samsungs-fab-destroys-3-percent-of-global-nand-flash-output

8 years ago

150 upvotes – 104 comments

“Peak Civilization”: The Fall of the Roman Empire (2009)

http://europe.theoildrum.com/node/5528

8 years ago

147 upvotes – 91 comments

Show HN: Makesite – A static site generator in 125 lines of Python

https://github.com/sunainapai/makesite

8 years ago

★ 1.8kPythonMIT
146 upvotes – 60 comments

How Europeans evolved white skin (2015)

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/04/how-europeans-evolved-white-skin

8 years ago

142 upvotes – 77 comments

Why Can't Everyone Do the 'Asian Squat'?

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/03/can-you-do-the-asian-squat/555716/?single_page=true

8 years ago

140 upvotes – 97 comments

The Collector’s Fallacy

https://zettelkasten.de/posts/collectors-fallacy/

8 years ago

134 upvotes – 61 comments

More State Machine Love: From Reflection to Statecharts

http://raganwald.com/2018/03/03/reflections.html

8 years ago

131 upvotes – 25 comments

KotCity – an open-source city simulation game written in Kotlin

https://github.com/kotcity/kotcity

8 years ago

★ 488KotlinApache-2.0
130 upvotes – 51 comments

Complex Human Cultures Are Older Than Scientists Thought

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/03/a-deeper-origin-of-complex-human-cultures/555674/?single_page=true

8 years ago

120 upvotes – 31 comments

Making a TTS model with 1 minute of speech samples within 10 minutes

https://github.com/Kyubyong/speaker_adapted_tts

8 years ago

★ 184
112 upvotes – 8 comments

Postmates postmortem: eight hours as delivery drivers

https://www.stanforddaily.com/2018/03/16/postmates-postmortem-eight-hours-as-delivery-drivers/

8 years ago

102 upvotes – 33 comments

Chirpss – Hear and see people visiting or leaving your website

http://chirpss.com/

8 years ago

98 upvotes – 38 comments

Google Maps has found a better way to navigate India’s chaotic roads

https://qz.com/1228422/google-maps-introduces-new-features-to-navigate-indias-chaotic-roads/

8 years ago

84 upvotes – 43 comments

Tail calls, tailrec and trampolines (2009)

http://blog.richdougherty.com/2009/04/tail-calls-tailrec-and-trampolines.html

8 years ago

83 upvotes – 22 comments
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