top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-03-23

Congrats Dropbox

https://blog.ycombinator.com/congratsdropbox/

8 years ago

1543 upvotes – 264 comments

Elon Musk Deletes Own, SpaceX and Tesla Facebook Pages After #deletefacebook

https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/23/elon-musk-deletes-own-spacex-and-tesla-facebook-pages-after-deletefacebook/

8 years ago

1390 upvotes – 499 comments

Craigslist takes personals sections offline in response to FOSTA

https://www.craigslist.org/about/FOSTA

8 years ago

947 upvotes – 596 comments

With SESTA/FOSTA, lawmakers failed to separate good intentions from bad law

https://www.eff.org//deeplinks/2018/03/how-congress-censored-internet

8 years ago

715 upvotes – 184 comments

Omaha man ‘liked’ a tweet, then lost his job

http://www.omaha.com/columnists/hansen/hansen-omaha-man-liked-a-tweet-and-then-he-lost/article_74b9021a-3753-5b33-b096-f0af3c8372d6.html

8 years ago

691 upvotes – 518 comments

Downloaded my Facebook data and it has the call history with my partner’s mother

https://twitter.com/dylanmckaynz/status/976369275324678145

8 years ago

503 upvotes – 149 comments

Rent out GPUs to AI researchers and make ~2x more than mining cryptocurrencies

https://www.reddit.com/r/gpumining/comments/86ofw2/_/

8 years ago

488 upvotes – 124 comments

Listening for illegal logging chainsaws using TensorFlow

https://www.blog.google/topics/machine-learning/fight-against-illegal-deforestation-tensorflow/

8 years ago

471 upvotes – 120 comments

My daughter's disabled. Please don't look away from her

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-willingham-how-to-interact-with-a-disabled-child-20180322-story.html

8 years ago

415 upvotes – 150 comments

C for All

https://plg.uwaterloo.ca/~cforall/

8 years ago

376 upvotes – 312 comments

Pivotal Software S-1

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1574135/000104746918002061/a2234898zs-1.htm

8 years ago

301 upvotes – 144 comments

Game Workers Unite

https://www.gameworkersunite.org/

8 years ago

299 upvotes – 189 comments

How Facebook handles account deletions

https://pageflows.com/blog/delete-facebook/

8 years ago

283 upvotes – 105 comments

100 days with Rust: a series of brick walls

https://brandur.org/fragments/rust-brick-walls

8 years ago

282 upvotes – 311 comments

Medieval peasants got more vacation time than modern workers (2013)

http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2013/08/29/why-a-medieval-peasant-got-more-vacation-time-than-you/

8 years ago

269 upvotes – 219 comments

Responsibility Deflected, the CLOUD Act Passes

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/03/responsibility-deflected-cloud-act-passes

8 years ago

259 upvotes – 58 comments

You probably don't want to run Firefox Nightly any more

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/web/FirefoxNoNightly

8 years ago

253 upvotes – 139 comments

Journalist faces criminal charges over coverage of protest

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-journalist-faces-unprecedented-criminal-charges-over-coverage-of/

8 years ago

239 upvotes – 76 comments

Uber’s Self-Driving Cars Were Struggling Before Arizona Crash

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/23/technology/uber-self-driving-cars-arizona.html

8 years ago

233 upvotes – 232 comments

Chernoff face

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

8 years ago

221 upvotes – 36 comments

Police chief said Uber victim “came from the shadows” – don’t believe it

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2018/03/police-chief-said-uber-victim-came-from-the-shadows-dont-believe-it/

8 years ago

220 upvotes – 204 comments

Facebook Use of Sensitive Data for Advertising in Europe [pdf]

https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.05030

8 years ago

212 upvotes – 30 comments

Largest Animal Study on Cell Tower Radiation Confirms Cancer Link

http://www.sbwire.com/press-releases/worlds-largest-animal-study-on-cell-tower-radiation-confirms-cancer-link-953696.htm

8 years ago

206 upvotes – 74 comments

South Korean government to shut off computers to stop its employees working late

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-43497017

8 years ago

194 upvotes – 61 comments

Understanding Deep Learning Through Neuron Deletion

https://deepmind.com/blog/understanding-deep-learning-through-neuron-deletion/

8 years ago

190 upvotes – 35 comments

Review of Steven Pinker’s Enlightenment Now

https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=3654

8 years ago

186 upvotes – 109 comments

London Metropolitan Police admits role in blacklisting construction workers

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-43507728

8 years ago

182 upvotes – 57 comments

Bolton paid Cambridge Analytica to make Facebook users more favorable to war

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/03/john-bolton-paid-cambridge-analytica-make-facebook-users-less-limp-wristed-war/

8 years ago

180 upvotes – 39 comments

Linux v4.15: Performance Goodies

http://blog.stgolabs.net/2018/03/linux-v415-performance-goodies.html

8 years ago

179 upvotes – 43 comments

Toys 'R' Us Founder Charles Lazarus Dies at 94

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-22/charles-lazarus-who-founded-toys-r-us-retailer-dies-at-94

8 years ago

174 upvotes – 81 comments

What is Mastodon? [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPSbNdBmWKE

8 years ago

171 upvotes – 50 comments

The making of Dark Castle

https://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/315720/The_making_of_Dark_Castle_An_excerpt_from_The_Secret_History_of_Mac_Gaming.php

8 years ago

162 upvotes – 37 comments

Ask HN: How does a great resume look like? What are the best tools to make one?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16659255

8 years ago

161 upvotes – 96 comments

Lessons for Building AI-Driven Products

https://blog.insightdatascience.com/moving-towards-managing-ai-products-5268c5e9ecf2

8 years ago

157 upvotes – 15 comments

Facebook is America’s scapegoat du jour

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/facebook-is-americas-scapegoat-du-jour/2018/03/22/58699078-2dff-11e8-b0b0-f706877db618_story.html

8 years ago

155 upvotes – 160 comments

The great Pacific garbage patch is largely abandoned fishing gear

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/03/great-pacific-garbage-patch-plastics-environment/

8 years ago

154 upvotes – 64 comments

China regulator bans TV parodies amid content crackdown

https://www.yahoo.com/news/no-laughing-matter-china-regulator-bans-tv-parodies-052528200.html

8 years ago

144 upvotes – 66 comments

Rise in cancers 'caused by weight'

http://www.bbc.com/news/health-43502144

8 years ago

140 upvotes – 59 comments

Reduced-calorie diet shows signs of slowing ageing in people

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-03431-x

8 years ago

133 upvotes – 74 comments

Facebook, Google spending big bucks to fight California data privacy measure

http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article206394929.html

8 years ago

132 upvotes – 34 comments

Blender’s Prehistory – Traces on Commodore Amiga (1987-1991)

http://zgodzinski.com/blender-prehistory/

8 years ago

130 upvotes – 17 comments

Investigation Confirms IBM Layoffs Targeted Older Workers

https://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/at-work/tech-careers/propublica-mother-jones-investigation-confirms-ibm-layoffs-targeted-older-workers

8 years ago

126 upvotes – 23 comments

Dropbox jumps more than 40% in trading debut

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/23/dropbox-dbx-ipo-stock-starts-trading-on-the-nasdaq.html

8 years ago

123 upvotes – 58 comments

Figma Platform

https://blog.figma.com/introducing-figmas-platform-ee681bf861e7

8 years ago

122 upvotes – 21 comments

The Best Alternative for Every Facebook Feature

https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-alternatives

8 years ago

119 upvotes – 88 comments

Luck and startups: Our journey

https://www.kapwing.com/blog/make-your-own-lightning/

8 years ago

116 upvotes – 39 comments
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