top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-04-01

1.1.1.1: Fast, privacy-first consumer DNS service

https://blog.cloudflare.com/announcing-1111/

8 years ago

1895 upvotes – 657 comments

Life is Short (2016)

http://www.paulgraham.com/vb.html

8 years ago

568 upvotes – 184 comments

My Sony "smart" TV has updated itself and tried to force me to use a new app

https://twitter.com/buro9/status/980349887006076928

8 years ago

557 upvotes – 436 comments

French Universities Cancel Subscriptions to Springer Journals

https://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/52208/title/French-Universities-Cancel-Subscriptions-to-Springer-Journals/

8 years ago

555 upvotes – 160 comments

Web Application Penetration Testing Cheat Sheet

https://jdow.io/blog/2018/03/18/web-application-penetration-testing-methodology/

8 years ago

483 upvotes – 38 comments

Why “blockchain” is BS in 4 slides

https://twitter.com/ncweaver/status/980485587827224577

8 years ago

373 upvotes – 213 comments

Why there are so many online mattress-in-a-box companies

https://www.curbed.com/2018/3/28/17164898/bed-in-a-box-online-mattress-brands-why-so-many

8 years ago

249 upvotes – 260 comments

Gron: A command line tool that makes JSON greppable

https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron/

8 years ago

★ 14.4k Go MIT
247 upvotes – 51 comments

Building Tiny Rust Binaries for Embedded Linux

https://jamesmunns.com/update/2018/04/01/tinyrocket.html

8 years ago

239 upvotes – 86 comments

Recursive drawing

http://recursivedrawing.com/

8 years ago

229 upvotes – 17 comments

Nuclear fusion on brink of being realised, say MIT scientists

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/mar/09/nuclear-fusion-on-brink-of-being-realised-say-mit-scientists?CMP=share_btn_tw

8 years ago

228 upvotes – 153 comments

Study finds increased possibility of information leaking around Fed meetings

https://news.uchicago.edu/article/2018/03/06/nyc-taxi-ride-data-suggest-cozy-relationship-between-big-banks-and-fed

8 years ago

211 upvotes – 24 comments

Prototyping a YC Startup Each Day

https://anvil.works/blog/one-yc-startup-a-day

8 years ago

206 upvotes – 59 comments

TweetDelete – Automatically delete your posts that are older than a maximum age

https://www.tweetdelete.net/faq.php

8 years ago

205 upvotes – 105 comments

Hey, Alexa, What Can You Hear? And What Will You Do With It?

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/31/business/media/amazon-google-privacy-digital-assistants.html

8 years ago

200 upvotes – 106 comments

The most honest Ponzi scheme of all time

https://ponzischeme.io

8 years ago

194 upvotes – 40 comments

How fast is AMP really?

https://timkadlec.com/remembers/2018-03-19-how-fast-is-amp-really/

8 years ago

190 upvotes – 163 comments

‘The China Hustle’, a finance documentary

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/finance-documentary-the-china-hustle-revisits-chinese-reverse-mergers-and-activist-short-sellers-2018-03-30

8 years ago

183 upvotes – 47 comments

Deprecating Raw Pointers in C++20

http://www.bfilipek.com/2018/04/deprecating-pointers.html#

8 years ago

179 upvotes – 78 comments

History of Spring Framework and Spring Boot

https://www.quickprogrammingtips.com/spring-boot/history-of-spring-framework-and-spring-boot.html

8 years ago

159 upvotes – 128 comments

Reverse engineering the Notability file format

https://jvns.ca/blog/2018/03/31/reverse-engineering-notability-format/

8 years ago

146 upvotes – 14 comments

You have options – Why we left the U.S. and moved back to Europe

http://sam-the-man.com/you-have-options/

8 years ago

126 upvotes – 137 comments

FRA1 Block Storage Issue

https://status.digitalocean.com/incidents/8sk3mbgp6jgl

8 years ago

123 upvotes – 91 comments

Former Uber Backup Driver: 'We Saw This Coming'

https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2018/03/former-uber-backup-driver-we-saw-this-coming/556427/

8 years ago

121 upvotes – 137 comments

Apple Is Looking for Linux Kernel Developers

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Apple-Hiring-For-Linux-Kernel

8 years ago

118 upvotes – 64 comments

MLton Compiler Overview

http://mlton.org/CompilerOverview

8 years ago

114 upvotes – 30 comments

As Facebook Struggles, Rivals’ Leaders Stay Mostly Mum

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/01/technology/facebook-tech-industry-leaders.html

8 years ago

114 upvotes – 68 comments

Turn TensorFlow functions into mathematical notations and diagrams

http://blog.varunajayasiri.com/ml/tf_for_beginners.html

8 years ago

112 upvotes – 2 comments

'Transit-Oriented Teens'

https://www.citylab.com/life/2018/03/new-urbanist-memes-for-transit-oriented-teens/556790/

8 years ago

102 upvotes – 53 comments

The real threat to Facebook is the Kool-Aid turning sour

https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/30/loose-lips-sink-apps/

8 years ago

102 upvotes – 39 comments

Emails suggest reviews from the Wirecutter are “pay to play” (2014)

https://www.xdesk.com/wirecutter-standing-desk-review-pay-to-play-model

8 years ago

97 upvotes – 43 comments

How Fortnite leveled up, broke records, and changed gaming

https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/3/27/17163280/fortnite-battle-royale-save-the-world-explained

8 years ago

96 upvotes – 69 comments

Machine Behavior Needs to Be an Academic Discipline

http://nautil.us/issue/58/self/machine-behavior-needs-to-be-an-academic-discipline

8 years ago

96 upvotes – 63 comments

Live Nation Rules Music Ticketing, Some Say with Threats

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/01/arts/music/live-nation-ticketmaster.html

8 years ago

95 upvotes – 49 comments

NTSB ‘unhappy’ with Tesla release of investigative information in fatal crash

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/dr-gridlock/wp/2018/04/01/ntsb-unhappy-with-tesla-release-of-investigative-information-in-fatal-crash/

8 years ago

90 upvotes – 99 comments

Wristband Lets the Brain Control a Computer with a Thought and a Twitch

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/wristband-lets-the-brain-control-a-computer-with-a-thought-and-a-twitch/

8 years ago

89 upvotes – 40 comments
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