top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-04-03

Ask HN: What are the best MOOCs you've taken?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16745042

8 years ago

1665 upvotes – 315 comments

Report of Active Shooter at YouTube HQ

https://twitter.com/Lavrusik/status/981259304408788993

8 years ago

745 upvotes – 514 comments

Be careful what you copy: Invisibly inserting usernames into text

https://medium.com/@umpox/be-careful-what-you-copy-invisibly-inserting-usernames-into-text-with-zero-width-characters-18b4e6f17b66

8 years ago

727 upvotes – 191 comments

Spotify opens on NYSE, valuing company at almost $30B

https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/03/spotify-opens-at-165-90-valuing-company-at-30-billion/

8 years ago

692 upvotes – 453 comments

Apple Hires Google’s A.I. Chief

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/03/business/apple-hires-googles-ai-chief.html

8 years ago

628 upvotes – 237 comments

We might be swinging away from the newsfeed

https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2018/4/2/the-death-of-the-newsfeed

8 years ago

400 upvotes – 232 comments

Tell HN: 17 years on the same game

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16742689

8 years ago

396 upvotes – 136 comments

Swedes turn against cashlessness

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/apr/03/being-cash-free-puts-us-at-risk-of-attack-swedes-turn-against-cashlessness

8 years ago

386 upvotes – 343 comments

A radical proposal to keep your personal data safe

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/apr/03/facebook-abusing-data-law-privacy-big-tech-surveillance

8 years ago

363 upvotes – 125 comments

Examples of everything new in ECMAScript 2016, 2017, and 2018

https://medium.freecodecamp.org/here-are-examples-of-everything-new-in-ecmascript-2016-2017-and-2018-d52fa3b5a70e

8 years ago

361 upvotes – 121 comments

Cryptographic Right Answers

http://latacora.singles/2018/04/03/cryptographic-right-answers.html

8 years ago

340 upvotes – 235 comments

Ask HN: Who are your favourite people to follow on Mastodon?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16741116

8 years ago

320 upvotes – 128 comments

Study shows salaries of young women 8% higher than men in peer group (2010)

http://content.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,2015274,00.html

8 years ago

315 upvotes – 264 comments

A thread on on the beauty of procedurally generated maps

https://twitter.com/ptychomancer/status/980968298002006016

8 years ago

293 upvotes – 27 comments

Jeff Dean takes over as Google’s AI chief

https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2018/4/3/17191944/google-ai-head-jeff-dean-reshuffle-john-giannandrea

8 years ago

290 upvotes – 133 comments

Show HN: A site that lets you search and subscribe to “Who is hiring?”

https://whoishiring.me/

8 years ago

255 upvotes – 43 comments

Panera Bread did nothing about its customer data vulnerability for eight months

https://medium.com/@djhoulihan/no-panera-bread-doesnt-take-security-seriously-bf078027f815

8 years ago

253 upvotes – 89 comments

Reddit’s Redesign

https://www.wired.com/story/reddit-redesign/?mbid=synd_digg

8 years ago

246 upvotes – 291 comments

Turning a MacBook into a Touchscreen with $1 of Hardware

https://www.anishathalye.com/2018/04/03/macbook-touchscreen/

8 years ago

239 upvotes – 15 comments

Show HN: Travel spontaneously on a budget

http://www.wander.am

8 years ago

238 upvotes – 141 comments

Feds: There are hostile stingrays in DC, but we don’t know how to find them

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/04/dhs-to-senator-malicious-use-of-stingrays-is-a-real-and-growing-risk/

8 years ago

238 upvotes – 97 comments

Intel brings a six-core i9 CPU to laptops

https://www.anandtech.com/show/12607/intel-expands-8th-gen-core-core-i9-on-mobile-iris-plus-desktop-chipsets-and-vpro/

8 years ago

238 upvotes – 190 comments

One of Estonia's first "e-residents" explains what it means

https://work.qz.com/1241833/one-of-estonias-first-e-residents-explains-what-it-means-to-have-digital-citizenship/

8 years ago

235 upvotes – 173 comments

AT&T stealing/misrouting 1.1.1.0/29 for some of their residential customers

https://www.dslreports.com/forum/r31901379-AT-T-gateway-5268ac-maybe-others-misrouting-1-1-1-0-24

8 years ago

227 upvotes – 71 comments

Half of European flights delayed due to system failure

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-43633094

8 years ago

215 upvotes – 103 comments

Backblaze Announces B2 Compute Partnerships

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/introducing-cloud-compute-services/

8 years ago

209 upvotes – 109 comments

RFC 1178 – Choosing a name for your computer (1990)

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1178

8 years ago

205 upvotes – 173 comments

MesaLink: A memory-safe and OpenSSL-compatible TLS library

https://github.com/mesalock-linux/mesalink

8 years ago

★ 1.4kRust
193 upvotes – 64 comments

Towards a Type System for Containers and AWS Lambda to Avoid Failures [pdf]

http://christophermeiklejohn.com/publications/hotedge-2018-containers-preprint.pdf

8 years ago

180 upvotes – 63 comments

Why I Moved Back from Gradle to Maven

https://blog.philipphauer.de/moving-back-from-gradle-to-maven/

8 years ago

174 upvotes – 168 comments

Mounting criticism of NIH's relationship with the alcohol industry

https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/04/i-dont-f-ing-care-in-wooing-67m-from-big-alcohol-nih-nixed-critical-study/

8 years ago

168 upvotes – 59 comments

Ask HN: Why does P2P encrypted messaging still suck?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16743055

8 years ago

161 upvotes – 193 comments

Sunsetting Tor Messenger

https://blog.torproject.org/sunsetting-tor-messenger

8 years ago

159 upvotes – 69 comments

Working on an iPad Pro as my main computer

http://typicalprogrammer.com/working-on-an-ipad-pro-as-my-main-computer

8 years ago

152 upvotes – 186 comments

Large crack in East African Rift is evidence of continent splitting in two

https://theconversation.com/large-crack-in-east-african-rift-is-evidence-of-continent-splitting-in-two-94056

8 years ago

148 upvotes – 49 comments

Intel won’t release Spectre patches for some older chips after all

https://liliputing.com/2018/04/intel-wont-release-spectre-patches-for-some-older-chips-after-all.html

8 years ago

143 upvotes – 41 comments

Tesla Q1 2018 Vehicle Production and Deliveries

http://ir.tesla.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=1062670

8 years ago

141 upvotes – 186 comments

The invisibility of Sheryl Sandberg

http://thehill.com/opinion/finance/381404-the-infuriating-invisibility-of-sheryl-sandberg

8 years ago

139 upvotes – 82 comments

Venus' Spectral Signatures and the Potential for Life in the Clouds

https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/full/10.1089/ast.2017.1783

8 years ago

133 upvotes – 25 comments

The First 3D-Printed Steel Bridge

https://gizmodo.com/the-first-3d-printed-steel-bridge-looks-like-it-broke-o-1824252512

8 years ago

131 upvotes – 51 comments

Oblivious DNS: Plugging the Internet’s Biggest Privacy Hole

https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2018/04/02/a-privacy-preserving-approach-to-dns/

8 years ago

124 upvotes – 54 comments

SailsJS 1.0 – Rails-like JS Framework

https://sailsjs.com

8 years ago

118 upvotes – 87 comments

AMD Ryzen 7 2700X User Publishes Benchmarks and Overclocking Results

https://wccftech.com/amd-ryzen-7-2700x-user-publishes-benchmarks-overclocking-results-ahead-of-launch/

8 years ago

115 upvotes – 83 comments

US Navy remotely lands F/A-18 Super Hornet on carrier deck

https://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/us-navy-remotely-lands-fa-18-super-hornet-on-carrie-447225/

8 years ago

109 upvotes – 71 comments

Apps and scripts that make exported Facebook data easier to handle and organise

https://exportfb.com/

8 years ago

108 upvotes – 18 comments

Microsoft AI Interview Questions – Acing the AI Interview

https://medium.com/acing-ai/microsoft-ai-interview-questions-acing-the-ai-interview-be6972f790ea

8 years ago

107 upvotes – 13 comments

Show HN: Diamond – Full-stack web-framework in D

https://github.com/DiamondMVC/Diamond

8 years ago

★ 176DMIT
106 upvotes – 24 comments

Common Lisp Standard Draft

http://cvberry.com/tech_writings/notes/common_lisp_standard_draft.html

8 years ago

103 upvotes – 31 comments

MIT severs ties to company promoting fatal brain uploading

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/610743/mit-severs-ties-to-company-promoting-fatal-brain-uploading/

8 years ago

102 upvotes – 153 comments

Capacitor: Universal Web Applications

https://capacitor.ionicframework.com

8 years ago

100 upvotes – 50 comments
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