top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-03-20

Blocklist Facebook domains

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

8 years ago

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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

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221 upvotes – 110 comments

Salesforce is buying MuleSoft at enterprise value of $6.5B

https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/20/salesforce-is-buying-mulesoft-at-enterprise-value-of-6-5-billion/

8 years ago

219 upvotes – 80 comments

Lightning on Stellar: Technical Spec and Roadmap

https://www.stellar.org/blog/lightning-on-stellar-roadmap/

8 years ago

198 upvotes – 61 comments

Facebook CEO Zuckerberg conspicuously absent as data scandal grows

http://www.cbc.ca/news/thenational/national-today-newsletter-maduro-petro-bedawi-zuckerberg-1.4583832

8 years ago

178 upvotes – 87 comments

Mont Saint Michel Reveals New Secrets

https://news.cnrs.fr/articles/mont-saint-michel-reveals-new-secrets

8 years ago

172 upvotes – 20 comments

The NSA Worked to “Track Down” Bitcoin Users, Snowden Documents Reveal

https://theintercept.com/2018/03/20/the-nsa-worked-to-track-down-bitcoin-users-snowden-documents-reveal/

8 years ago

169 upvotes – 57 comments

Scientists suspect a link between the digestive system and problems with sleep

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/mar/19/is-your-gut-keeping-you-awake-at-night

8 years ago

159 upvotes – 68 comments

Eve: Programming designed for humans

http://eve-lang.com/

8 years ago

158 upvotes – 120 comments

Telegram told to give encryption keys to Russian authorities

http://www.zdnet.com/article/telegram-forced-to-give-encryption-keys-to-russian-authorities/

8 years ago

155 upvotes – 139 comments

Object Storage: AWS vs Google Cloud Storage vs Azure Storage vs DigitalOcean

https://www.chooseacloud.com/objectstorage

8 years ago

149 upvotes – 111 comments

Neural Network Quine

https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.05859

8 years ago

138 upvotes – 25 comments

Twenty years, 1998 – 2018

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2018/03/20/twenty-years-1998-2018/

8 years ago

136 upvotes – 8 comments

NGraph: A New Open Source Compiler for Deep Learning Systems

https://ai.intel.com/ngraph-a-new-open-source-compiler-for-deep-learning-systems/

8 years ago

125 upvotes – 23 comments

IBM Cloud Developer Console for Apple

https://developer.apple.com/ibm/

8 years ago

121 upvotes – 61 comments

N26 raises $160M from Tencent and Allianz

https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/20/n26-raises-160-million-from-tencent-and-allianz/

8 years ago

120 upvotes – 98 comments

Reduce GPS data error on Android with Kalman filter and accelerometer

https://blog.maddevs.io/reduce-gps-data-error-on-android-with-kalman-filter-and-accelerometer-43594faed19c

8 years ago

118 upvotes – 30 comments

Robert Langlands, Mathematical Visionary, Wins the Abel Prize

https://www.quantamagazine.org/robert-langlands-mathematical-visionary-wins-the-abel-prize-20180320/

8 years ago

117 upvotes – 7 comments

Startups that launched today at Y Combinator’s W18 Demo Day

https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/19/here-are-64-startups-that-launched-today-at-y-combinators-w18-demo-day/

8 years ago

116 upvotes – 58 comments

SpaceX indicates it will manufacture the BFR rocket in Los Angeles

https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/03/spacex-indicates-it-will-manufacture-the-bfr-rocket-in-los-angeles/

8 years ago

112 upvotes – 43 comments

How Facebook’s Naive Optimism Built a Toolbox for Totalitarianism (2014)

http://exponents.co/facebooks-built-a-totalitarianism-toolbox/

8 years ago

106 upvotes – 20 comments

'Fifth Generation' Became Japan's Lost Generation (1992)

http://www.nytimes.com/1992/06/05/business/fifth-generation-became-japan-s-lost-generation.html

8 years ago

106 upvotes – 47 comments

Online flag waver

https://krikienoid.github.io/flagwaver/

8 years ago

98 upvotes – 38 comments

Amazon Has Considered Buying Some Toys ‘R’ Us Stores

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-19/amazon-is-said-to-have-mulled-acquiring-some-toys-r-us-stores

8 years ago

97 upvotes – 107 comments

Debugging Behind the Iron Curtain (2010)

http://archive.is/O70Rg

8 years ago

97 upvotes – 19 comments

The ability to correct errors in GPLv2 compliance: the right thing to do

https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/ability-correct-errors-gplv2-compliance-right-thing-do

8 years ago

92 upvotes – 37 comments

Texas Woman with Cerebral Palsy: Uber Denied Her Service Over Two Dozen Times

https://gizmodo.com/texas-woman-with-cerebral-palsy-says-uber-denied-servic-1823927550

8 years ago

89 upvotes – 93 comments
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