top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-03-31

It's time to head back to RSS?

https://www.wired.com/story/rss-readers-feedly-inoreader-old-reader/

8 years ago

1501 upvotes – 491 comments

Facebook Secretly Saved Videos Users Deleted

https://nymag.com/selectall/2018/03/facebook-secretly-saved-videos-users-deleted.html

8 years ago

1187 upvotes – 387 comments

I almost lost my hearing from the lid on the tank of a toilet

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/979583605637877760.html

8 years ago

918 upvotes – 390 comments

You can't Rust that

http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2018/3/31/you-cant-rust-that/

8 years ago

462 upvotes – 117 comments

Time to talk about why so many postgrads have poor mental health

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-04023-5

8 years ago

414 upvotes – 239 comments

An Update on Last Week’s Accident

https://www.tesla.com/blog/update-last-week%E2%80%99s-accident

8 years ago

349 upvotes – 429 comments

OVH CEO: Unlike Amazon, Google, “we will never be in competition with you”

http://www.datacenterdynamics.com/content-tracks/colo-cloud/ovh-ceo-unlike-amazon-google-we-will-never-be-in-competition-with-you/99939.fullarticle

8 years ago

288 upvotes – 194 comments

Voyager 1 Fires Up Thrusters After 37 Years

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/voyager-1-fires-up-thrusters-after-37

8 years ago

268 upvotes – 54 comments

Modern PHP without a framework

https://kevinsmith.io/modern-php-without-a-framework

8 years ago

221 upvotes – 182 comments

Mozilla.org is 20 years old

https://asadotzler.com/2018/03/31/mozilla-org-is-20-years-old/

8 years ago

202 upvotes – 22 comments

Blueprint of a distributed social network on IPFS, and its problems

https://beyermatthias.de/blog/2018/02/25/blueprint-of-a-distributed-social-network-on-ipfs---and-its-problems-2/

8 years ago

183 upvotes – 92 comments

APFS encrypted plaintext password found in another log file

https://www.mac4n6.com/blog/2018/3/30/omg-seriously-apfs-encrypted-plaintext-password-found-in-another-more-persistent-macos-log-file

8 years ago

171 upvotes – 61 comments

Procedural Worlds from Simple Tiles (2017)

http://ijdykeman.github.io/ml/2017/10/12/wang-tile-procedural-generation.html

8 years ago

171 upvotes – 18 comments

Why Apple and Microsoft Are Healthier Than Facebook

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-03-30/apple-and-microsoft-are-healthier-than-facebook

8 years ago

164 upvotes – 60 comments

GameNetworkingSockets – Reliable and unreliable messages over UDP

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/GameNetworkingSockets

8 years ago

★ 9.4k C++ BSD-3-Clause
157 upvotes – 44 comments

Startups not status: Japan's top grads rethink success

https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Trends/Startups-not-status-Japan-s-top-grads-rethink-success

8 years ago

156 upvotes – 27 comments

How Do You Make or Maintain Friends? Put in the Time

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/brain-waves/201803/how-do-you-make-or-maintain-friends-put-in-the-time

8 years ago

154 upvotes – 30 comments

Into the Forbidden Zone: Varosha, Ghost City of Cyprus

https://ragpickinghistory.co.uk/2013/03/30/into-the-forbidden-zone-varosha-ghost-city-of-cyprus/

8 years ago

152 upvotes – 42 comments

Show HN: Auditus – Ebook to Audiobook Conversion

https://auditus.cc

8 years ago

146 upvotes – 53 comments

Facebook Employees Are Reportedly Deleting Controversial Internal Messages

http://fortune.com/2018/03/31/facebook-employees-are-reportedly-deleting-controversial-internal-messages/

8 years ago

138 upvotes – 77 comments

Gradual Programming

http://willcrichton.net/notes/gradual-programming/

8 years ago

133 upvotes – 118 comments

The Profile Engine has now been donated to the Internet Archive

http://profileengine.com/groups/profile/433187197/fek-duan

8 years ago

127 upvotes – 53 comments

A lambda calculus for quantum computation

http://www.het.brown.edu/people/andre/qlambda/index.html

8 years ago

114 upvotes – 10 comments

Non-uniform memory access meets the OOM killer

http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2018/03/30/oom/

8 years ago

109 upvotes – 69 comments

Biologist E.O. Wilson suggests ‘moon shot’ conservation effort

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2018/03/biologist-e-o-wilson-suggests-moon-shot-conservation-effort/

8 years ago

103 upvotes – 57 comments

OpenTTD 1.8.0-RC1

https://www.openttd.org/en/news/233

8 years ago

101 upvotes – 28 comments

Reversing a MacOS Kernel Extension

https://lightbulbone.com/posts/2016/10/dsmos-kext/

8 years ago

100 upvotes – 22 comments

Well-Kept Gardens Die by Pacifism (2009)

http://lesswrong.com/lw/c1/wellkept_gardens_die_by_pacifism/

8 years ago

97 upvotes – 54 comments

Falling Chinese Space Station to Crash This Weekend

https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/satellites/a19640957/falling-chinese-space-station-to-crash-this-weekend/

8 years ago

96 upvotes – 53 comments

Show HN: Nothing.js – A chainable mock object which always returns itself

https://github.com/slmgc/Nothing

8 years ago

★ 364 JavaScript MIT
89 upvotes – 40 comments

Prince of Persia Ported to the BBC Micro

https://bitshifters.github.io/posts/prods/bs-pop-beeb.html

8 years ago

88 upvotes – 17 comments

Robocalypse Now: Using Deep Learning to Combat Cheating in CSGO [video]

http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1024994/Robocalypse-Now-Using-Deep-Learning

8 years ago

84 upvotes – 32 comments

A Stick Figure Guide to the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) (2009)

http://www.moserware.com/2009/09/stick-figure-guide-to-advanced.html

8 years ago

83 upvotes – 2 comments

Google is shutting down its goo.gl URL shortening service

https://goo.gl/

8 years ago

81 upvotes – 56 comments

A circuit-like notation for lambda calculus (2015)

http://csvoss.github.io/projects/2015/11/08/lambda-circuitry.html

8 years ago

80 upvotes – 14 comments
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