top 20 hacker news stories for 2018-03-20

Blocklist Facebook domains

https://github.com/jmdugan/blocklists/blob/master/corporations/facebook/all

8 years ago

★ 4.5k DIGITAL Command Language CC0-1.0
1349 upvotes – 348 comments

FTC Probing Facebook for Use of Personal Data, Source Says

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-20/ftc-said-to-be-probing-facebook-for-use-of-personal-data

8 years ago

1107 upvotes – 371 comments

WhatsApp co-founder tells everyone to delete Facebook

https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/20/17145200/brian-acton-delete-facebook-whatsapp

8 years ago

1086 upvotes – 628 comments

Ex-Facebook insider says covert data harvesting was routine

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/20/facebook-data-cambridge-analytica-sandy-parakilas

8 years ago

942 upvotes – 384 comments

Launch HN: Promise (YC W18) – Cost-effective, more humane alternative to jail

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16630971

8 years ago

912 upvotes – 410 comments

Facebook’s Surveillance Machine

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/19/opinion/facebook-cambridge-analytica.html

8 years ago

677 upvotes – 232 comments

Both Facebook and Cambridge Analytica Threatened to Sue Journalists

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180318/00111439443/both-facebook-cambridge-analytica-threatened-to-sue-journalists-over-stories-cas-use-facebook-data.shtml

8 years ago

504 upvotes – 116 comments

Zuckerberg summoned to House Of Commons inquiry

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-43474760

8 years ago

483 upvotes – 169 comments

Sci-Bay: Google Scholar plus Sci-Hub

https://sci-bay.org/

8 years ago

466 upvotes – 106 comments

‘Testilying’ by Police: A Stubborn Problem

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/18/nyregion/testilying-police-perjury-new-york.html

8 years ago

436 upvotes – 306 comments

Facebook Sued by Investors Over Voter-Profile Harvesting

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-20/facebook-sued-by-investors-over-voter-profile-harvesting

8 years ago

419 upvotes – 163 comments

Toxic management cost an award-winning game studio its best developers

https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/20/17130056/telltale-games-developer-layoffs-toxic-video-game-industry

8 years ago

321 upvotes – 149 comments

Facebook Forces NYT to Quietly Delete Unflattering Reference to Sheryl Sandberg

https://lawandcrime.com/exclusive/facebook-forces-nyt-to-quietly-delete-unflattering-reference-to-sheryl-sandberg-in-story-about-russian-trolls/

8 years ago

305 upvotes – 73 comments

Macular degeneration: 'I've been given my sight back'

http://www.bbc.com/news/health-43458365

8 years ago

295 upvotes – 99 comments

Police Say Video Shows Woman Stepped Suddenly in Front of Self-Driving Uber

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-20/video-shows-woman-stepped-suddenly-in-front-of-self-driving-uber

8 years ago

262 upvotes – 375 comments

Chinese Companies Are Buying Up Cash-Strapped U.S. Colleges

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-20/cash-strapped-u-s-colleges-become-targets-for-chinese-companies

8 years ago

253 upvotes – 202 comments

Sudan, last male northern white rhino, dies in Kenya

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-43468066

8 years ago

245 upvotes – 79 comments

Breaking the Ledger Security Model

https://saleemrashid.com/2018/03/20/breaking-ledger-security-model/

8 years ago

232 upvotes – 79 comments

Google News Initiative

https://newsinitiative.withgoogle.com/

8 years ago

223 upvotes – 182 comments

Show HN: Word2Bits – Quantized Word Vectors

https://github.com/agnusmaximus/Word2Bits

8 years ago

★ 753 C++ Apache-2.0
221 upvotes – 110 comments
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