top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-03-30

Poor Grades Tied to Class Times That Don’t Match Our Biological Clocks

http://news.berkeley.edu/2018/03/29/social-jetlag/

8 years ago

910 upvotes – 432 comments

Internal Facebook posts of employees discussing leaked memo

https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/30/17179100/facebook-memo-leaks-boz-andrew-bosworth

8 years ago

486 upvotes – 404 comments

Giraffes Added to the Endangered Species List (2016)

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/giraffes-silently-slip-endangered-species-list-180961372/#pjgVVUWGgDD6WdVV.01?no-ist

8 years ago

465 upvotes – 191 comments

How Cambridge Analytica’s Facebook targeting model really worked

http://www.niemanlab.org/2018/03/this-is-how-cambridge-analyticas-facebook-targeting-model-really-worked-according-to-the-person-who-built-it/

8 years ago

427 upvotes – 195 comments

PeerTube: A decentralized video hosting network, based on free software

https://joinpeertube.org/en/

8 years ago

414 upvotes – 116 comments

Former Equifax Executive Charged with Insider Trading

https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2018-40

8 years ago

413 upvotes – 147 comments

Wapp – a single-file web framework by the creator of SQLite

https://wapp.tcl.tk

8 years ago

411 upvotes – 135 comments

MacOS finally gains external GPU support

https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/30/macos-finally-gains-external-gpu-support/

8 years ago

402 upvotes – 192 comments

Tesla crash victim had complained about auto-pilot in same location

http://abc7news.com/automotive/i-team-exclusive-victim-who-died-in-tesla-crash-had-complained-about-auto-pilot/3275600/

8 years ago

330 upvotes – 330 comments

Introducing TensorFlow.js: Machine Learning in JavaScript

https://medium.com/tensorflow/introducing-tensorflow-js-machine-learning-in-javascript-bf3eab376db

8 years ago

329 upvotes – 44 comments

The joy of max()

https://lwn.net/Articles/750306/

8 years ago

316 upvotes – 127 comments

A Forgotten Drink That Caffeinated North America for Centuries

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-is-yaupon-tea-cassina

8 years ago

286 upvotes – 164 comments

Hello, and welcome to DNS

https://powerdns.org/hello-dns/

8 years ago

276 upvotes – 42 comments

NHL stunner: A 36-year-old accountant who has never played pro stars in win

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/03/30/nhl-stunner-a-36-year-old-accountant-whos-never-played-pro-stars-in-blackhawks-win/

8 years ago

272 upvotes – 82 comments

1.1.1.1 Cloudflare DNS Resolver Soon to Be Announced?

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https://1.1.1.1/

8 years ago

255 upvotes – 243 comments

Mailchimp Is Shutting Down ICO and Blockchain-Related Emails

https://futurism.com/mailchimp-is-shutting-down-ico-and-blockchain-related-emails-and-people-are-freaking-out/

8 years ago

246 upvotes – 137 comments

Marta, file manager for macOS, goes beta

https://marta.yanex.org/marta-goes-beta

8 years ago

217 upvotes – 141 comments

Swift for TensorFlow

https://www.tensorflow.org/community/swift

8 years ago

206 upvotes – 52 comments

Zstandard v1.3.4 – faster everything

https://github.com/facebook/zstd/releases/tag/v1.3.4

8 years ago

★ 27k C
202 upvotes – 33 comments

Scientists say we’re on the cusp of a carbon dioxide–recycling revolution

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/03/scientists-say-we-re-cusp-carbon-dioxide-recycling-revolution

8 years ago

201 upvotes – 125 comments

Another chapter on Facebook’s privacy woes is being written in Latin America

https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/30/another-chapter-on-facebooks-privacy-woes-is-being-written-in-latin-america/

8 years ago

185 upvotes – 26 comments

Python Idioms in Rust

http://benjamincongdon.me/blog/2018/03/23/Python-Idioms-in-Rust/

8 years ago

182 upvotes – 78 comments

Lsofgraph – Convert lsof output to graph of processes, pipes, fifos and sockets

https://github.com/zevv/lsofgraph

8 years ago

★ 1k Lua BSD-2-Clause
180 upvotes – 17 comments

Sl: a mirror version of ls

https://gir.st/blog/sl-alt.htm

8 years ago

165 upvotes – 121 comments

Texas woman sentenced to 5 years in prison for voting while on probation

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/03/30/texas-woman-sentenced-to-5-years-in-prison-for-voting-while-on-probation/

8 years ago

151 upvotes – 124 comments

Nicotinamide riboside effects on aging similar to caloric restriction

https://www.colorado.edu/today/2018/03/28/pill-staves-aging-its-horizon

8 years ago

148 upvotes – 82 comments

Someone bought my Twitter account 10K fake/bot followers

https://medium.com/@geoffgolberg/when-bots-attack-af7f9f87b612

8 years ago

143 upvotes – 48 comments

Magic Leap Ships First Set of Devices Under Tight Security Constraints

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-30/magic-leap-ships-first-set-of-devices-under-tight-security-constraints

8 years ago

141 upvotes – 103 comments

Facebook 'ugly truth' growth memo haunts firm

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-43594959

8 years ago

140 upvotes – 3 comments

The Most Common Type of Incompetent Leader

https://hbr.org/2018/03/the-most-common-type-of-incompetent-leader

8 years ago

139 upvotes – 76 comments

You Can Always Get What You Want, But Not What You Need (2016) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCw_D7dr7Rw

8 years ago

136 upvotes – 18 comments

Go on Very Small Hardware

https://ziutek.github.io/2018/03/30/go_on_very_small_hardware.html

8 years ago

129 upvotes – 10 comments

Transitioning Google URL Shortener to Firebase Dynamic Links

https://developers.googleblog.com/2018/03/transitioning-google-url-shortener.html

8 years ago

128 upvotes – 53 comments

Million-dollar Strads fall to modern violins in blind ‘sound check’

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/05/million-dollar-strads-fall-modern-violins-blind-sound-check

8 years ago

127 upvotes – 129 comments

File consistency (2015)

http://danluu.com/file-consistency/

8 years ago

127 upvotes – 26 comments

ThinkPad X1 Carbon 2018 review: The only laptop in a professional’s paradise

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/03/thinkpad-x1-carbon-2018-review-the-only-laptop-in-a-professionals-paradise/

8 years ago

126 upvotes – 140 comments

Facebook-Linked Marketer Acxiom Plunges After Policy Shift

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-29/facebook-linked-marketer-plunges-as-policy-shift-may-sap-profit

8 years ago

125 upvotes – 32 comments

Learn How to Fold a World-Record-Setting Paper Airplane

https://www.wired.com/story/learn-how-to-fold-a-world-record-setting-paper-airplane/

8 years ago

121 upvotes – 14 comments

Show HN: ShivyC – Hobby C compiler created in Python

https://github.com/ShivamSarodia/ShivyC

8 years ago

★ 1k Python MIT
120 upvotes – 11 comments

Creator of “Ren and Stimpy” Accused of Preying on Underage Girls

https://www.buzzfeed.com/arianelange/john-kricfalusi-ren-stimpy-underage-sexual-abuse

8 years ago

115 upvotes – 99 comments

I've just learned Rust and I think I'm in love

https://rskupnik.github.io/I-learned-rust-and-I-think-Im-in-love

8 years ago

111 upvotes – 60 comments

Automatically “block” people in images using a pretrained neural network

https://github.com/minimaxir/person-blocker

8 years ago

★ 2k Python
110 upvotes – 58 comments

Fiftieth anniversary of Whole Earth Catalog

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-markoff-stewart-brand-whole-earth-catalog-20180328-story.html

8 years ago

110 upvotes – 17 comments

Tesla Looked Like the Future, Now Some Ask If It Has One

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/29/business/tesla-elon-musk.html

8 years ago

103 upvotes – 141 comments

That feel when you can't captcha [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGW7TRtcDeQ

8 years ago

99 upvotes – 58 comments

Interpretable Machine Learning: A Guide for Making Black Box Models Explainable

https://christophm.github.io/interpretable-ml-book/

8 years ago

98 upvotes – 10 comments

From Express.js to AWS Lambda: Migrating Existing Node Apps to Serverless

https://hackernoon.com/from-express-js-to-aws-lambda-migrating-existing-node-js-applications-to-serverless-7473041ecc56

8 years ago

90 upvotes – 23 comments

Universal Sentence Encoder

https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.11175

8 years ago

89 upvotes – 34 comments

What the FOSTA/SESTA anti-sex trafficking bill means for sex workers

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/fosta-sesta-anti-sex-trafficking-bill

8 years ago

86 upvotes – 46 comments

Andy Warhol's Ruthenian Catholicism

http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/issues/february-9th-2018/andy-warhols-devotion-was-almost-surreal/#.WoBPqJiK7Bg.facebook

8 years ago

84 upvotes – 9 comments

Draft, Gitkube, Helm, Ksonnet, Metaparticle, Skaffold – Comparison of K8s Tools

https://blog.hasura.io/draft-vs-gitkube-vs-helm-vs-ksonnet-vs-metaparticle-vs-skaffold-f5aa9561f948

8 years ago

79 upvotes – 22 comments

The Game of Everything, Part 3: Civilization and the Narrative of Progress

https://www.filfre.net/2018/03/the-game-of-everything-part-3-civilization-and-the-narrative-of-progress/

8 years ago

76 upvotes – 17 comments

Time for developers to address the chaos of Node.js and NPM

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/why-its-finally-time-for-developers-to-address-the-chaos-of-node-js-and-npm/

8 years ago

74 upvotes – 46 comments

If You’ve Met Aliens While on DMT, These Scientists Would Like to Hear from You

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/bjpjxm/dmt-aliens-study-johns-hopkins

8 years ago

73 upvotes – 44 comments
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