top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-03-19

Self-driving Uber car kills Arizona woman crossing street

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-autos-selfdriving-uber/self-driving-uber-car-kills-arizona-woman-crossing-street-idUSKBN1GV296

8 years ago

2361 upvotes – 1766 comments

Facebook Security Chief Said to Leave After Clashes Over Disinformation

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/19/technology/facebook-alex-stamos.html

8 years ago

1074 upvotes – 395 comments

#deletefacebook

https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/19/deletefacebook/

8 years ago

836 upvotes – 398 comments

Facebook suspended the account of whistleblower who exposed Cambridge Analytica

https://www.yahoo.com/news/facebook-suspended-account-whistleblower-exposed-221429183.html

8 years ago

683 upvotes – 172 comments

Epic Games releases $12M worth of Paragon assets for free

https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/blog/epic-games-releases-12-million-worth-of-paragon-assets-for-free

8 years ago

554 upvotes – 126 comments

The Cambridge Analytica scandal isn’t a scandal: this is how Facebook works

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/camridge-analytica-scandal-how-facebook-works-harvesting-data-politics-trump-brexit-a8264051.html

8 years ago

552 upvotes – 152 comments

A picture got my PostgreSQL database to start mining Monero

https://www.imperva.com/blog/2018/03/deep-dive-database-attacks-scarlett-johanssons-picture-used-for-crypto-mining-on-postgre-database/

8 years ago

459 upvotes – 92 comments

Announcing Microsoft DirectX Raytracing

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/directx/2018/03/19/announcing-microsoft-directx-raytracing/

8 years ago

400 upvotes – 223 comments

Exercises in Programming Style

https://henrikwarne.com/2018/03/13/exercises-in-programming-style/

8 years ago

381 upvotes – 55 comments

LG launches open-source version of webOS

https://sdtimes.com/os/lg-launches-open-source-version-webos/

8 years ago

380 upvotes – 144 comments

Creator

https://www.magicleap.com/creator

8 years ago

345 upvotes – 118 comments

Saas CTO Security Checklist

https://www.sqreen.io/checklists/saas-cto-security-checklist

8 years ago

341 upvotes – 58 comments

How to Use Go Interfaces

https://blog.chewxy.com/2018/03/18/golang-interfaces/

8 years ago

324 upvotes – 116 comments

Edward Snowden: Facebook is a surveillance company rebranded as 'social media'

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/edward-snowden-facebook-is-a-surveillance-company-rebranded-as-social-media

8 years ago

317 upvotes – 106 comments

SEC Announces Its Largest-Ever Whistleblower Awards

https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2018-44

8 years ago

316 upvotes – 69 comments

At full speed with Python: a book for self-learners

https://github.com/joaoventura/full-speed-python

8 years ago

★ 4kMakefile
304 upvotes – 50 comments

Startup founders throughout the Midwest are doing something new: staying

https://story.californiasunday.com/indianapolis-tech

8 years ago

289 upvotes – 187 comments

Ask HN: How did you start your business?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16617509

8 years ago

278 upvotes – 141 comments

Show HN: URL Canary – Get an alert when someone finds your secrets

https://urlcanary.com/

8 years ago

273 upvotes – 116 comments

Building a chat app in 8 minutes with Phoenix

https://elixircasts.io/chat-room-in-8-minutes

8 years ago

271 upvotes – 34 comments

Announcing Microsoft DirectX Raytracing

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/directx/2018/03/19/announcing-microsoft-directx-raytracing/

8 years ago

270 upvotes – 3 comments

How I've built a profitable Slack bot as a side project in Rails

https://pawelurbanek.com/profitable-slack-bot-rails

8 years ago

263 upvotes – 34 comments

Beyond CI/CD: GitLab's DevOps Vision (2017)

https://about.gitlab.com/2017/10/04/devops-strategy/

8 years ago

256 upvotes – 71 comments

An employee whose job was to be sacked (2010)

https://henrytapper.com/2010/01/09/an-employee-whose-job-was-to-be-sacked/

8 years ago

243 upvotes – 161 comments

Apple Is Developing Its Own Screens for the First Time

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-19/apple-is-said-to-develop-displays-to-replace-samsung-screens

8 years ago

209 upvotes – 100 comments

Two weeks before death, Hawking submitted a paper on parallel universes

https://www.sciencealert.com/stephen-hawking-submitted-a-paper-on-parallel-universes-just-before-he-died

8 years ago

204 upvotes – 71 comments

CSS: The bad bits and how to avoid them

https://www.joeforshaw.com/blog/css-the-bad-bits-and-how-to-avoid-them

8 years ago

161 upvotes – 105 comments

Sierra Leone government denies the role of blockchain in its recent election

https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/19/sierra-leone-government-denies-the-role-of-blockchain-in-its-recent-election/

8 years ago

161 upvotes – 91 comments

Talent, luck and success: simulating meritocracy and inequality

https://medium.com/@hongsupshin/talent-luck-and-success-simulating-meritocracy-and-inequality-with-stochasticity-501e0c1b4969

8 years ago

156 upvotes – 189 comments

Year 1: My full time indie developer life

https://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/KevinGiguere/20180313/315392/Year_1_My_full_time_indie_developer_life.php

8 years ago

153 upvotes – 33 comments

Google makes push to turn product searches into cash

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-google-retail-exclusive/exclusive-where-can-i-buy-google-makes-push-to-turn-product-searches-into-cash-idUSKBN1GV0B0

8 years ago

145 upvotes – 104 comments

Level 3 technician's misstep causes largest telephone outage ever reported

https://www.fiercetelecom.com/telecom/fcc-finally-specifies-cause-2016-level-3-network-outage

8 years ago

143 upvotes – 80 comments

An Analysis of the Impact of Arbitrary Blockchain Content on Bitcoin [pdf]

https://fc18.ifca.ai/preproceedings/6.pdf

8 years ago

141 upvotes – 153 comments

TCP is an underspecified two-node consensus algorithm

https://morsmachine.dk/tcp-consensus

8 years ago

135 upvotes – 45 comments

Ask HN: Is 2018 the end of Facebook?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16618623

8 years ago

132 upvotes – 103 comments

Message-Oriented Programming (2017)

https://www.joeforshaw.com/blog/message-oriented-programming

8 years ago

132 upvotes – 91 comments

Frequently Asked Questions from YC Applicants

https://blog.ycombinator.com/frequently-asked-questions-from-yc-applicants/

8 years ago

131 upvotes – 24 comments

An attempt to upgrade to Webpack 4

https://gist.github.com/gricard/e8057f7de1029f9036a990af95c62ba8

8 years ago

130 upvotes – 69 comments

Lithuanian is riddled with references to bees

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20180319-are-lithuanians-obsessed-with-bees

8 years ago

129 upvotes – 40 comments

My Writing Process

https://amrutaranade.com/2018/03/07/my-writing-process/

8 years ago

128 upvotes – 11 comments

Breaking the trillion-rows-per-second barrier with MemSQL

http://blog.memsql.com/shattering-the-trillion-rows-per-second-barrier-with-memsql

8 years ago

123 upvotes – 67 comments

The Race to a Trillion

http://theirrelevantinvestor.com/2018/03/12/the-race-to-a-trillion/

8 years ago

123 upvotes – 102 comments

The Fall of a Star Trader

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-19/from-a-126-million-bonus-to-jail-the-fall-of-a-star-trader

8 years ago

122 upvotes – 45 comments

Knusperli: A deblocking JPEG decoder

https://github.com/google/knusperli

8 years ago

★ 472C++Apache-2.0
121 upvotes – 44 comments

Uber’s New Rival in Australia: An Indian Upstart

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/18/technology/ola-uber-australia-india.html

8 years ago

119 upvotes – 64 comments

DB-19: Resurrecting an Obsolete Connector (2016)

http://www.bigmessowires.com/2016/06/04/db-19-resurrecting-an-obsolete-connector/

8 years ago

118 upvotes – 31 comments

Ask HN: Why is PayPal's password length limit still a thing?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16620016

8 years ago

112 upvotes – 85 comments

Types, and Why You Should Care [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0arFPIQatCU

8 years ago

110 upvotes – 135 comments

Firefox Master Password System Has Been Poorly Secured for the Past 9 Years

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/firefox-master-password-system-has-been-poorly-secured-for-the-past-9-years/

8 years ago

101 upvotes – 71 comments
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