top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-03-27

Facebook Container Extension: Take control of how you’re being tracked

https://blog.mozilla.org/firefox/facebook-container-extension/

8 years ago

854 upvotes – 229 comments

Oracle Wins Revival of Billion-Dollar Case Against Google

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-27/oracle-wins-revival-of-billion-dollar-case-against-google

8 years ago

778 upvotes – 615 comments

I usually run 'w' first when troubleshooting unknown machines

https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2018/03/26/w/

8 years ago

685 upvotes – 243 comments

To Change Habits, Try Replacement Instead

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/19/your-money/resistance-is-futile-to-change-habits-try-replacement-instead.html

8 years ago

634 upvotes – 174 comments

Palantir worked with Cambridge Analytica on the Facebook data it acquired

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/27/palantir-worked-with-cambridge-analytica-on-the-facebook-data-whistleblower.html

8 years ago

593 upvotes – 186 comments

Windows 7 patch for Meltdown enabled arbitrary reads and writes in kernel memory

http://blog.frizk.net/2018/03/total-meltdown.html?m=1

8 years ago

545 upvotes – 215 comments

How I Erased Facebook Comments and Likes

http://www.jaruzel.com/blog/How-I-Erased-5000-Facebook-Comments-and-Likes

8 years ago

520 upvotes – 246 comments

Logs in High Sierra Show Plaintext Password for APFS Encrypted External Volumes

https://www.mac4n6.com/blog/2018/3/21/uh-oh-unified-logs-in-high-sierra-1013-show-plaintext-password-for-apfs-encrypted-external-volumes-via-disk-utilityapp

8 years ago

461 upvotes – 110 comments

Google Cloud Text-To-Speech Powered by DeepMind WaveNet Technology

https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/03/introducing-Cloud-Text-to-Speech-powered-by-Deepmind-WaveNet-technology.html

8 years ago

412 upvotes – 118 comments

Foxconn buys Belkin for $866M

https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/26/foxconn-buys-peripheral-maker-belkin-for-866m/

8 years ago

411 upvotes – 129 comments

How Facebook Helps Shady Advertisers Pollute the Internet

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-03-27/ad-scammers-need-suckers-and-facebook-helps-find-them

8 years ago

384 upvotes – 126 comments

We're building a dystopia just to make people click on ads (2017) [video]

https://www.ted.com/talks/zeynep_tufekci_we_re_building_a_dystopia_just_to_make_people_click_on_ads/up-next

8 years ago

382 upvotes – 170 comments

Arizona Government Suspends Uber's Self Driving Cars from Roads

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-arizona-uber-testing-20180326-story.html

8 years ago

374 upvotes – 320 comments

Fast, Safe, and Complete(ish) Web Service in Rust

https://brandur.org/rust-web

8 years ago

359 upvotes – 122 comments

Waymo teams up with Jaguar to intro a new, premium self-driving car

https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/27/waymo-teams-up-with-jaguar-to-intro-a-new-premium-self-driving-car/

8 years ago

353 upvotes – 210 comments

Storyboarder: free, cross-platform storyboard tool

https://wonderunit.com/storyboarder/

8 years ago

344 upvotes – 139 comments

Apple SIM

https://www.apple.com/ipad/apple-sim/

8 years ago

329 upvotes – 181 comments

It's not just Facebook. Thousands of companies are spying on you

https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/26/opinions/data-company-spying-opinion-schneier/index.html

8 years ago

299 upvotes – 110 comments

Facebook's Zuckerberg Says the Age of Privacy Is Over (2010)

https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/external/readwriteweb/2010/01/10/10readwriteweb-facebooks-zuckerberg-says-the-age-of-privac-82963.html

8 years ago

274 upvotes – 96 comments

Show HN: HN Domain Leaderboard

https://hnleaderboard.com/?

8 years ago

266 upvotes – 38 comments

Lockheed Martin has obtained a patent for a compact fusion reactor

http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/19652/lockheed-martin-now-has-a-patent-for-its-potentially-world-changing-fusion-reactor

8 years ago

257 upvotes – 200 comments

Update on Async Rendering

https://reactjs.org/blog/2018/03/27/update-on-async-rendering.html

8 years ago

247 upvotes – 119 comments

'The Gig Economy' Is the New Term for Serfdom

https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-gig-economy-is-the-new-term-for-serfdom/

8 years ago

241 upvotes – 270 comments

The original pitch for Diablo (1994) [pdf]

http://www.graybeardgames.com/download/diablo_pitch.pdf

8 years ago

241 upvotes – 88 comments

Facebook's Zuckerberg will not appear before British MPs

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-43554135

8 years ago

239 upvotes – 119 comments

Uber disabled Volvo SUV's safety system before fatality

https://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Uber-Disabled-Volvo-SUV-s-Standard-Safety-System-12782878.php

8 years ago

237 upvotes – 138 comments

Announcing the Second Edition of “Refactoring”

https://martinfowler.com/articles/201803-refactoring-2nd-ed.html

8 years ago

220 upvotes – 57 comments

Google Has a Striking History of Bias Against Black Girls

http://time.com/5209144/google-search-engine-algorithm-bias-racism/

8 years ago

208 upvotes – 273 comments

Atomically thin LED opens the possibility for invisible displays

http://news.berkeley.edu/2018/03/26/atomically-thin-light-emitting-device-opens-the-possibility-for-invisible-displays/

8 years ago

202 upvotes – 61 comments

Learning to write programs that generate images

https://deepmind.com/blog/learning-to-generate-images/

8 years ago

202 upvotes – 29 comments

Facebook–while it apologizes for scandal–funds campaign to block CA data-privacy

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16685010

8 years ago

200 upvotes – 46 comments

Show HN: Launched my first app where people hum songs for others to guess

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.depomo.humminz

8 years ago

198 upvotes – 90 comments

Facebook Goes on a Hiring Spree for Washington Lobbyists

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-27/facebook-in-hiring-spree-for-washington-lobbyists-amid-scandal

8 years ago

198 upvotes – 79 comments

NASA reveals delay for Hubble successor

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-03863-5

8 years ago

195 upvotes – 145 comments

Brains Cling to Old Habits When Learning New Tricks

https://www.quantamagazine.org/brain-computer-interfaces-show-that-neural-networks-learn-by-recycling-20180327/

8 years ago

192 upvotes – 28 comments

V8 release v6.6

https://v8project.blogspot.com/2018/03/v8-release-66.html

8 years ago

184 upvotes – 72 comments

Dark Patterns, the Ratchet

https://jacquesmattheij.com/dark-patterns-the-ratchet

8 years ago

179 upvotes – 83 comments

GIMP 2.10.0 Release Candidate 1 Released

https://www.gimp.org/news/2018/03/26/gimp-2-10-0-rc1-released/

8 years ago

179 upvotes – 168 comments

Ibn Battuta and his adventure

https://www.jurnalanas.com/2018/03/25/ibn-battuta-and-his-journey/

8 years ago

178 upvotes – 38 comments

Stratechery 4.0

https://stratechery.com/2018/stratechery-4-0/

8 years ago

166 upvotes – 33 comments

Newly-discovered human organ may help explain how cancer spreads

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2164903-newly-discovered-human-organ-may-help-explain-how-cancer-spreads/

8 years ago

158 upvotes – 26 comments

Monero Is Less Untraceable Than It Seems

https://www.wired.com/story/monero-privacy/

8 years ago

157 upvotes – 114 comments

Valve to open source 'GameNetworkingSockets' for developers, Steam not required

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/valve-to-open-source-gamenetworkingsockets-to-help-developers-with-networking-steam-not-required.11483

8 years ago

152 upvotes – 17 comments

Lax regulation made it cheaper for China to outsource pork production to the US

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/why-is-china-treating-north-carolina-like-the-developing-world-w517973

8 years ago

142 upvotes – 71 comments

Thinking Differently about Thinking: The Mind-Expanding Ideas of Andy Clark

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/04/02/the-mind-expanding-ideas-of-andy-clark

8 years ago

139 upvotes – 33 comments

New Leadership Has Not Changed Uber

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/26/opinion/leadership-uber-business-model.html

8 years ago

138 upvotes – 66 comments

Multiple Android apps use combined permissions to siphon personal data

https://www.virusbulletin.com/blog/2018/03/vb2016-paper-wild-android-collusions/

8 years ago

137 upvotes – 68 comments

NYT reporter: “81% ICOs were scams”

https://twitter.com/nathanielpopper/status/978323730551078912

8 years ago

137 upvotes – 44 comments

Book Review: Twelve Rules for Life

http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/03/26/book-review-twelve-rules-for-life/

8 years ago

136 upvotes – 72 comments

Using React, Firebase, and Ant Design to Quickly Prototype Web Applications

https://nrempel.com/guides/react-firebase-ant-design/

8 years ago

136 upvotes – 43 comments

You will be surprised to see how much Google tracks about you

https://myactivity.google.com/item

8 years ago

135 upvotes – 88 comments

Elephant 'smoking' footage baffles experts

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/mar/27/elephant-smoking-footage-baffles-experts-india

8 years ago

120 upvotes – 112 comments

Banning Netflix, Amazon from Festivals and Awards Is Wrong

https://www.forbes.com/sites/markhughes/2018/03/27/banning-netflix-amazon-from-festivals-and-awards-is-wrong

8 years ago

119 upvotes – 114 comments

The Oforth Programming Language

http://www.oforth.com

8 years ago

118 upvotes – 49 comments

NVIDIA Develops NVLink Switch: NVSwitch, 18 Ports For DGX-2

https://www.anandtech.com/show/12581/nvidia-develops-nvlink-switch-nvswitch-18-ports-for-dgx2-more

8 years ago

118 upvotes – 80 comments

Show HN: Hotspot 3D – Compare Phones with WebGL

https://www.hotspot3d.com/

8 years ago

112 upvotes – 29 comments

Tell HN: Failing to log in to deactivated Facebook account has reactivated it

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16688156

8 years ago

107 upvotes – 20 comments

Apple unveils new iPad 9.7“ with Apple Pencil support

https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/27/17167054/new-apple-ipad-announced-cheap-price-students-2018

8 years ago

103 upvotes – 121 comments

I Hate the News (2006)

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/hatethenews

8 years ago

98 upvotes – 61 comments

Ask HN: What do Facebook employees think about their company?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16686800

8 years ago

96 upvotes – 96 comments

Relativity Space raises $35M for a new process to build and fly rockets

https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/03/that-3d-printed-rocket-company-just-got-35-million-in-private-financing/

8 years ago

96 upvotes – 36 comments

Foxconn Buys Belkin, Linksys, and Wemo

https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/26/17166272/foxconn-buys-belkin-fit-linksys-wemo

8 years ago

96 upvotes – 13 comments
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