top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-03-26

Avoid Else, Return Early (2013)

http://blog.timoxley.com/post/47041269194/avoid-else-return-early

8 years ago

Facebook has lost $100B in 10 days and now advertisers are pulling out

http://business.financialpost.com/technology/u-s-ftc-investigating-facebooks-privacy-practices

8 years ago

A Proposal for Package Versioning in Go

https://blog.golang.org/versioning-proposal

8 years ago

Statement by FTC Regarding Reported Concerns about Facebook Privacy Practices

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2018/03/statement-acting-director-ftcs-bureau-consumer-protection

8 years ago

Facebook denies it collects call and SMS data from phones without permission

https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/25/facebook-denies-it-collects-call-and-sms-data-from-phones-without-permission/

8 years ago

Facebook’s disingenuous explanations call for more questions and even less trust

https://mondaynote.com/mark-zuckerberg-thinks-were-idiots-638c64dfab12

8 years ago

The Key to Good Luck Is an Open Mind

http://nautil.us/blog/-the-key-to-good-luck-is-an-open-mind

8 years ago

Applied Category Theory

https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2018/03/26/seven-sketches-in-compositionality/

8 years ago

Kim Dotcom wins battle in ongoing fight against U.S. extradition

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-newzealand-internet-dotcom/megaupload-founder-wins-battle-in-ongoing-fight-against-u-s-extradition-idUSKBN1H20D0

8 years ago

Git log – The good parts

https://zwischenzugs.com/2018/03/26/git-log-the-good-parts/

8 years ago

Google starts blocking “uncertified” Android devices from logging in

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/03/google-starts-blocking-uncertified-android-devices-from-logging-in/

8 years ago

Microsoft surges 8% after Morgan Stanley says it will reach $1T market cap

https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/26/microsoft-surges-8-after-morgan-stanley-says-it-will-reach-1-trillion-market-cap/

8 years ago

Show HN: Textile – Return Facebook photo exports back to nicely-named galleries

https://fb.textile.photos/

8 years ago

Personal Reason for Hating Facebook (2015)

https://righteousruminations.blogspot.com/2015/06/hating-facebook.html

8 years ago

The Superfund Sites of Silicon Valley

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/26/lens/the-superfund-sites-of-silicon-valley.html

8 years ago

Facebook hid webpages bragging of ability to influence elections

https://theintercept.com/2018/03/14/facebook-election-meddling/

8 years ago

Propaganda on Tumblr

http://eatingcroutons.tumblr.com/post/172200422456/this-is-what-state-sponsored-propaganda-looks-like

8 years ago

Kaggle Datasets – Discover and analyze open data

https://www.kaggle.com/datasets

8 years ago

Being frugal is for the rich

https://theoutline.com/post/3840/frugalwoods-frugality-millennials

8 years ago

The “Run Less Software” philosophy

https://blog.intercom.com/run-less-software/

8 years ago

It all made sense when we found out we were autistic

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/women_late_diagnosis_autism

8 years ago

Lockbox – A stand-alone password manager that works with Firefox for desktop

https://mozilla-lockbox.github.io/

8 years ago

Email marketing for e-commerce

https://stripe.com/atlas/guides/email-marketing-ecommerce

8 years ago

Reasons not to use Facebook

https://stallman.org/facebook.html

8 years ago

How a Political Engineering Firm Exposed Their Code Base

https://www.upguard.com/breaches/aggregate-iq-part-one

8 years ago

Water Slide That Decapitated Boy Violated Basic Design Standards

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/26/us/waterslide-boy-decapitated-charges.html

8 years ago

EU GDPR – Another reason for SaaS to reconsider on-premise

https://gravitational.com/blog/gdpr-impact-on-saas-vendors/

8 years ago

Who and what is Coinhive?

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/03/who-and-what-is-coinhive/

8 years ago

Nvidia Playing with Fire

https://seekingalpha.com/article/4158589-nvidia

8 years ago

Adding ERC20 Support to Coinbase

https://blog.coinbase.com/adding-erc20-support-to-coinbase-fe9cba6782b

8 years ago

1962 U.S. Military Ejects Bear from B-58 to Test Escape Capsule

http://airpigz.com/blog/2010/4/2/b-58-proves-supersonic-ejection-to-be-bear-able-in-1962.html

8 years ago

Android Studio 3.1 Stable

http://android-developers.googleblog.com/2018/03/android-studio-3-1.html

8 years ago

U.S. gunmaker Remington files for bankruptcy

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-remington-bankruptcy/u-s-gunmaker-remington-files-for-bankruptcy-idUSKBN1H204F

8 years ago

Hours After FOSTA Passes, Reddit Bans 'Escorts' and 'SugarDaddy' Communities

https://reason.com/blog/2018/03/22/reddit-bans-escort-subreddits

8 years ago

Trump, Congress approve largest U.S. research spending increase in a decade

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/03/updated-us-spending-deal-contains-largest-research-spending-increase-decade

8 years ago

Where Yegge’s Wrong

https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2018/03/26/Yegge-Being-Wrong

8 years ago

Growing a SaaS App for the Film Industry with Rigorous Experimentation

https://www.indiehackers.com/interview/growing-a-saas-app-for-the-film-industry-with-rigorous-experimentation-8aa8348dae

8 years ago

Reading a VGA monitor's configuration data with I2C and a PocketBeagle

http://www.righto.com/2018/03/reading-vga-monitors-configuration-data.html

8 years ago

Is libreoffice online a viable alternative to gdocs?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16683022

8 years ago

Why collision avoidance is harder for an AI-based system

https://medium.com/@rebane/could-ai-have-saved-the-cyclist-had-i-programmed-the-uber-car-6e899067fefe

8 years ago

ICE uses Facebook data to find and track immigrants

https://theintercept.com/2018/03/26/facebook-data-ice-immigration/

8 years ago

Information flow reveals prediction limits in online social activity

https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/03/26/information-flow-reveals-prediction-limits-in-online-social-activity/

8 years ago

Facebook accused of massive fraud in new lawsuit filed by Cook County

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/03/cook-county-illinois-sues-facebook-and-cambridge-analytica-over-data-breach/

8 years ago

Theranos and Zenefits are a feature, not a bug, of Silicon Valley

https://qz.com/1235955/theranos-and-zenefits-are-a-feature-not-a-bug-of-silicon-valley/

8 years ago