top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-03-29

FCC Authorizes SpaceX to Provide Broadband Satellite Services

https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-authorizes-spacex-provide-broadband-satellite-services

8 years ago

691 upvotes – 321 comments

Surgeons urge people to throw out bristle BBQ brushes (2016)

http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/barbecue-brushes-dangers-swallow-throat-wire-bristle-dempsey-1.3741578

8 years ago

677 upvotes – 306 comments

Uber Is Ripping Off Frequent Riders and Here’s How to Avoid It

https://therideshareguy.com/uber-is-ripping-off-frequent-riders-and-heres-how-to-avoid-it/

8 years ago

668 upvotes – 348 comments

U.S. To Seek Social Media Details from All Visa Applicants

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-29/us-to-seek-social-media-details-from-all-visa-applicants

8 years ago

585 upvotes – 392 comments

Ask HN: Examples of great landing pages?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16710952

8 years ago

566 upvotes – 231 comments

Nintendo Switch is not USB-C compliant

https://plus.google.com/102612254593917101378/posts/2CUPZ5yVTRT

8 years ago

520 upvotes – 216 comments

Wall Street rethinks blockchain projects as euphoria meets reality

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-banks-fintech-blockchain/wall-street-rethinks-blockchain-projects-as-euphoria-meets-reality-idUSKBN1H32GO

8 years ago

449 upvotes – 465 comments

CockroachDB 2.0 Performance Makes Significant Strides

https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/2-dot-0-perf-strides/

8 years ago

384 upvotes – 174 comments

Ask HN: Any recommended resources to develop system thinking?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16704850

8 years ago

365 upvotes – 106 comments

Have I Been Pwned Is Now Partnering with 1Password

https://www.troyhunt.com/have-i-been-pwned-is-now-partnering-with-1password/

8 years ago

342 upvotes – 128 comments

Ripple fully funded every live DonorsChoose classroom project yesterday

https://www.donorschoose.org/blog/best-school-day-2018/

8 years ago

327 upvotes – 107 comments

Show HN: Turn indented text into mind maps

https://tobloef.com/text2mindmap/

8 years ago

323 upvotes – 99 comments

The Art of Assembly Language (1996)

http://web.archive.org/web/20010903173628/http://cs.smith.edu:80/~thiebaut/ArtOfAssembly/fwd/fwd.html

8 years ago

297 upvotes – 92 comments

Organizational Skills Beat Algorithmic Wizardry (2015)

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2015/06/18/most-important-skill-in-software/

8 years ago

268 upvotes – 98 comments

Rust 1.25 released

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2018/03/29/Rust-1.25.html

8 years ago

252 upvotes – 53 comments

Reddit 1.0 source code

https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit1.0

8 years ago

★ 2k Common Lisp MIT
251 upvotes – 114 comments

React v16.3.0: New lifecycles and context API

https://reactjs.org/blog/2018/03/29/react-v-16-3.html

8 years ago

241 upvotes – 129 comments

Notice of Data Breach

https://content.myfitnesspal.com/security-information/notice.html

8 years ago

239 upvotes – 153 comments

How to Quit a Top Tier Tech Job

http://oliverzheng.com/2018/how-to-quit-a-top-tier-tech-job/

8 years ago

233 upvotes – 216 comments

China Is Building a Rain-Making System Three Times as Big as Spain

http://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2138866/china-needs-more-water-so-its-building-rain-making-network-three

8 years ago

216 upvotes – 146 comments

Ask HN: Strategies for mentoring junior developers?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16707059

8 years ago

215 upvotes – 71 comments

'PC Building Simulator' Is More Fun Than Building a Real Computer

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/wj7jqb/pc-building-simulator-review

8 years ago

205 upvotes – 197 comments

Canon's 120MP Camera Sensor

https://petapixel.com/2018/03/29/this-is-the-power-of-canons-120mp-camera-sensor/

8 years ago

203 upvotes – 140 comments

How warehouses for personal junk became a $38B industry

https://www.curbed.com/2018/3/27/17168088/cheap-storage-warehouse-self-storage-real-estate

8 years ago

202 upvotes – 116 comments

Google Adds 'Kodi' to Autocomplete Piracy Filter

https://torrentfreak.com/google-adds-kodi-to-autocomplete-piracy-filter-180328/

8 years ago

202 upvotes – 111 comments

Facebook Will Cut Off Access to Third Party Data for Ad Targeting

https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/28/facebook-will-cut-off-access-to-third-party-data-for-ad-targeting/

8 years ago

185 upvotes – 115 comments

Network of fortified towns indicates Amazon was once heavily populated

https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/03/network-of-fortified-towns-indicates-amazon-was-once-heavily-populated/

8 years ago

176 upvotes – 96 comments

Swift 4.1 Released

https://swift.org/blog/swift-4-1-released/

8 years ago

174 upvotes – 78 comments

SoftBank Group and Saudi Arabia plan to spend $200B building a solar power plant

https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/28/softbank-group-and-saudi-arabia-plan-to-spend-200-billion-building-the-worlds-biggest-solar-power-plant/

8 years ago

170 upvotes – 94 comments

TensorFlow 1.7.0 released

https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/releases/tag/v1.7.0

8 years ago

★ 194.9k C++ Apache-2.0
165 upvotes – 15 comments

Tesla issues its largest recall ever over faulty Model S steering

https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/29/17177888/tesla-recall-model-s-size-power-steering

8 years ago

161 upvotes – 80 comments

The Unnerving Existence of Teen Boss

https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-very-unnerving-existence-of-teen-boss-a-magazine-for-girls

8 years ago

153 upvotes – 148 comments

Generating $32,000 in 30 days selling a crypto-filled USB stick

https://www.starterstory.com/cblocks

8 years ago

151 upvotes – 105 comments

Proposal: Non-cooperative goroutine preemption

https://github.com/golang/proposal/blob/master/design/24543-non-cooperative-preemption.md

8 years ago

★ 3.4k HTML BSD-3-Clause
150 upvotes – 71 comments

How Tokyo built its way to abundant housing

https://jamesjgleeson.wordpress.com/2018/02/19/how-tokyo-built-its-way-to-abundant-housing/

8 years ago

149 upvotes – 112 comments

Lytro is winding down

https://support.lytro.com/hc/en-us/articles/360001773952/

8 years ago

148 upvotes – 53 comments

The Story of NESticle, the Ambitious Emulator That Redefined Retro Gaming

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/9a48z3/the-story-of-nesticle-the-ambitious-emulator-that-redefined-retro-gaming

8 years ago

137 upvotes – 11 comments

Walmart in Early-Stage Acquisition Talks with Humana

https://www.wsj.com/articles/walmart-in-early-stage-acquisition-talks-with-humana-1522365618

8 years ago

133 upvotes – 74 comments

E.P.A. Prepares to Roll Back Rules Requiring Cars Be Cleaner and More Efficient

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/29/climate/epa-cafe-auto-pollution-rollback.html

8 years ago

124 upvotes – 156 comments

iOS 11.3 is available today

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2018/03/ios-11-3-is-available-today/

8 years ago

118 upvotes – 120 comments

Analysts argue that over-automation is to blame for Tesla problems

http://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-robots-are-killing-it-2018-3

8 years ago

116 upvotes – 165 comments

Festo's New Bionic Robots Include Rolling Spider, Flying Fox

https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-hardware/festo-bionic-learning-network-rolling-spider-flying-fox

8 years ago

114 upvotes – 15 comments

Debugging across pipes and sockets with strace [pdf]

https://github.com/nh2/strace-pipes-presentation/blob/master/presentation/Debugging%20across%20pipes%20and%20sockets%20with%20strace.pdf

8 years ago

★ 155 Python
111 upvotes – 11 comments

Eating out increases levels of phthalates in the body, study finds

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/mar/29/eating-out-increases-levels-of-phthalates-in-the-body-study-finds

8 years ago

105 upvotes – 76 comments

Fact Checking “The Founder”

http://rayandjoan.com/the-founder/

8 years ago

103 upvotes – 30 comments

Windows chief Terry Myerson out as Microsoft reorganizes

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/29/microsoft-reorganizes-splits-company-into-2-divisions.html

8 years ago

101 upvotes – 167 comments

Ask HN: How can felons find programming jobs?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16708224

8 years ago

100 upvotes – 92 comments

Supertasks

https://personal.lse.ac.uk/ROBERT49/ebooks/PhilSciAdventures/lecture25.html

8 years ago

100 upvotes – 51 comments

‘Nobody is using it’: Amazon Spark is not taking off with brands, agencies

https://digiday.com/marketing/nobody-using-amazon-spark-not-taking-off-brands-agencies/

8 years ago

84 upvotes – 71 comments

The Simple Algorithm That Ants Use to Build Bridges

http://abstractions.nautil.us/article/290/the-simple-algorithm-that-ants-use-to-build-bridges

8 years ago

83 upvotes – 8 comments

Adversarial patch

https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/03/29/adversarial-patch/

8 years ago

82 upvotes – 19 comments

Drones Enter Construction

https://www.engineering.com/BIM/ArticleID/16686/Are-Drones-Becoming-Essential-to-Construction.aspx

8 years ago

82 upvotes – 5 comments

Top Facebook Executive Defended Data Collection In 2016 Memo

https://www.buzzfeed.com/ryanmac/growth-at-any-cost-top-facebook-executive-defended-data

8 years ago

80 upvotes – 8 comments

Mars One Is a “Money Grab” Where Everyone Loses

https://www.inverse.com/article/42965-mars-one-is-a-money-grab-where-everyone-loses

8 years ago

79 upvotes – 36 comments

Scala Native 0.3.7

https://github.com/scala-native/scala-native/releases/tag/v0.3.7

8 years ago

★ 4.6k Scala
77 upvotes – 52 comments

Dear Mark Zuckerberg (2012)

http://daltoncaldwell.com/dear-mark-zuckerberg

8 years ago

77 upvotes – 40 comments
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