top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-03-25

Facebook scraped call, text message data for years from Android phones

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/03/facebook-scraped-call-text-message-data-for-years-from-android-phones

8 years ago

800 upvotes – 201 comments

How to Fall Asleep in Two Minutes or Less

https://www.artofmanliness.com/2018/03/21/fall-asleep-fast/

8 years ago

781 upvotes – 186 comments

Medium suspended our account and blocked access to all our published stories

https://mastodon.xyz/@Liberapay/99744324870271197

8 years ago

479 upvotes – 243 comments

Godot at GDC 2018

https://godotengine.org/article/godot-doing-well-gdc-2018

8 years ago

463 upvotes – 102 comments

ViperCard – An open source re-creation and re-imagination of HyperCard

https://www.vipercard.net/

8 years ago

444 upvotes – 137 comments

AWS Public Datasets

https://aws.amazon.com/public-datasets/

8 years ago

390 upvotes – 45 comments

Gokrazy: A pure-Go userland for Raspberry Pi 3 appliances

https://gokrazy.org/

8 years ago

366 upvotes – 87 comments

Achtung: Decentralize, decentralize, decentralize

https://drewdevault.com/2018/03/24/Decentralize-decentralize-decentralize.html

8 years ago

324 upvotes – 168 comments

Towards a world without Facebook

https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/25/towards-a-world-without-facebook/

8 years ago

323 upvotes – 157 comments

Oni: Modern Modal Editing – Powered by Neovim

https://github.com/onivim/oni

8 years ago

★ 11.2k TypeScript MIT
309 upvotes – 108 comments

Show HN: Find3 – An indoor positioning system for smartphones and laptops

https://github.com/schollz/find3

8 years ago

★ 4.7k Go MIT
265 upvotes – 58 comments

Zuckerberg Takes Steps to Calm Facebook Employees

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/23/technology/zuckerberg-facebook-employees.html

8 years ago

258 upvotes – 262 comments

It’s time for a digital protection agency

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-21/paul-ford-facebook-is-why-we-need-a-digital-protection-agency

8 years ago

253 upvotes – 195 comments

All rise and no fall: how Civilization reinforces a dangerous myth

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2018/03/15/all-rise-and-no-fall-how-civilization-reinforces-a-dangerous-myth/#more-525079

8 years ago

235 upvotes – 138 comments

IRS reminds taxpayers to report virtual currency transactions

https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/irs-reminds-taxpayers-to-report-virtual-currency-transactions

8 years ago

233 upvotes – 254 comments

iPhone protected you from Facebook call scraping. Android, not so much

https://www.imore.com/iphone-protected-you-facebook-call-scraping-android-not-so-much

8 years ago

219 upvotes – 65 comments

Tim Cook says Facebook's collection of user data 'shouldn't exist'

http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-ceo-tim-cook-on-facebook-cambridge-analytica-scandal-2018-3

8 years ago

210 upvotes – 126 comments

Concurrency Limits by Netflix

https://github.com/Netflix/concurrency-limits

8 years ago

★ 3.5k Java Apache-2.0
191 upvotes – 27 comments

Uzi Nissan Spent 8 Years Fighting Nissan Motor Company to Keep Nissan.com

https://jalopnik.com/uzi-nissan-spent-8-years-fighting-the-car-company-with-1822815832

8 years ago

187 upvotes – 83 comments

Regulation could protect Facebook, not punish it

https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/25/the-regulation-moat/

8 years ago

181 upvotes – 70 comments

Migra – A schema diff tool for PostgreSQL

https://github.com/djrobstep/migra

8 years ago

★ 3k Python Unlicense
177 upvotes – 29 comments

Void Linux: Into the Void

https://michaelwashere.net/void/linux/culture/2017/09/18/into-the-void.html

8 years ago

172 upvotes – 97 comments

Thoughts on Embracing the Social Internet Over Social Media

http://calnewport.com/blog/2018/03/25/beyond-deletefacebook-more-thoughts-on-embracing-the-social-internet-over-social-media/

8 years ago

165 upvotes – 65 comments

Show HN: Wishminer – Mining social media for app ideas, my weekend project

https://wishminer.com

8 years ago

164 upvotes – 59 comments

A Glimpse into the Bureaucratic Hell of Denying Health Insurance Claims

https://splinternews.com/a-glimpse-into-the-bureaucratic-hell-of-denying-health-1823560356

8 years ago

160 upvotes – 196 comments

A dietary supplement makes old mice youthful, but will it work in people?

https://www.statnews.com/2018/03/22/dietary-supplement-makes-old-mice-spry/

8 years ago

160 upvotes – 61 comments

Landfills – a future source of raw materials

https://lnu.se/en/meet-linnaeus-university/current/news/2018/landfills--a-future-source-of-raw-materials/

8 years ago

150 upvotes – 56 comments

KDE Plasma Voted Best Desktop Environment in Linux Journal Readers Choice Awards

http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/best-desktop-environment

8 years ago

150 upvotes – 139 comments

Guide to Speech Recognition with Python

https://realpython.com/python-speech-recognition/

8 years ago

143 upvotes – 20 comments

Uber Agrees on Southeast Asian Sale to Grab

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-25/uber-is-said-to-reach-agreement-on-southeast-asian-sale-to-grab

8 years ago

138 upvotes – 57 comments

I would like to share 500 Data Structure and Algorithms problems

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16675052

8 years ago

126 upvotes – 9 comments

Ask HN: Are there any purely keyword-based search engines with no NLP?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16672242

8 years ago

121 upvotes – 80 comments

The dark truth about chocolate

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/mar/25/chocolate-the-dark-truth-is-it-good-for-you-health-wellbeing-blood-pressure-flavanols

8 years ago

116 upvotes – 46 comments

Forget Cambridge Analytica. Zuck could use FB data for his own presidential run

http://noblackmirrorthanks.blogspot.com/2018/03/forget-cambridge-analytica-heres-how.html

8 years ago

115 upvotes – 40 comments

Making Slides

https://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2018/03/24/making-slides/

8 years ago

114 upvotes – 13 comments
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