top 20 hacker news stories for 2018-04-04

Google Workers Urge C.E.O. To Pull Out of Pentagon A.I. Project

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/04/technology/google-letter-ceo-pentagon-project.html

8 years ago

1368 upvotes – 1061 comments

Making the Touch Bar useful by abandoning Apple guidelines

http://vas3k.com/blog/touchbar/

8 years ago

677 upvotes – 460 comments

OpenSimpleLidar

https://github.com/iliasam/OpenSimpleLidar

8 years ago

★ 2.5k C MIT
605 upvotes – 107 comments

What Did Ancient Romans Do Without Toilet Paper?

https://www.sapiens.org/column/curiosities/ancient-roman-bathrooms/

8 years ago

573 upvotes – 538 comments

Facebook CEO says no plans to extend all of GDPR globally

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-ceo-privacy-exclusive/exclusive-facebook-ceo-says-no-plans-to-extend-all-of-european-privacy-law-globally-idUSKCN1HA2M1

8 years ago

526 upvotes – 376 comments

The Worst U.S. Maritime Disaster in Decades

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/04/inside-el-faro-the-worst-us-maritime-disaster-in-decades

8 years ago

477 upvotes – 169 comments

Book: Mathematics for Machine Learning

https://mml-book.github.io/

8 years ago

465 upvotes – 54 comments

A man who spent $100K to remove a lie from Google

https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2018/04/03/598239092/the-man-who-spent-100k-to-remove-a-lie-from-google

8 years ago

423 upvotes – 318 comments

Don’t Fix Facebook, Replace It

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/03/opinion/facebook-fix-replace.html

8 years ago

402 upvotes – 272 comments

Netflix FlameScope

https://medium.com/@NetflixTechBlog/netflix-flamescope-a57ca19d47bb

8 years ago

389 upvotes – 74 comments

Show HN: I made a Chrome extension to reveal zero-width characters

https://github.com/chpmrc/zero-width-chrome-extension

8 years ago

★ 399 JavaScript
385 upvotes – 96 comments

AWS Secrets Manager – Store, Distribute, and Rotate Credentials Securely

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-secrets-manager-store-distribute-and-rotate-credentials-securely/

8 years ago

384 upvotes – 128 comments

SteamOS, Linux, and Steam Machines

https://steamcommunity.com/app/221410/discussions/0/1696043806550421224/?t=1&cn=ZmxleGlibGVfcmVjcw%3D%3D&refsrc=email&iid=349e1d3fdcdc46d493b14572c866208a&uid=2862984859&nid=244+272699400

8 years ago

374 upvotes – 209 comments

Hacking a $30 IoT camera to do more than it’s worth

https://hackernoon.com/hacking-a-25-iot-camera-to-do-more-than-its-worth-41a8d4dc805c

8 years ago

369 upvotes – 75 comments

Fifty or Sixty Years of Processor Development for This?

https://www.eejournal.com/article/fifty-or-sixty-years-of-processor-developmentfor-this/

8 years ago

318 upvotes – 312 comments

CockroachDB 2.0 released

https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/cockroachdb-2-0-release/

8 years ago

299 upvotes – 124 comments

Suspect in YouTube Shooting Posted Rants About the Company Online

https://www.nbcbayarea.com/investigations/Suspect-in-You-Tube-Shooting-Posted-Rants-About-the-Company-Online--478711713.html

8 years ago

284 upvotes – 450 comments

Facebook Scans What You Send Other People on Messenger App

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-04/facebook-scans-what-you-send-to-other-people-on-messenger-app

8 years ago

283 upvotes – 186 comments

Ask HN: What books do you keep on your desk?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16756243

8 years ago

272 upvotes – 212 comments

Pharo MOOC

https://mooc.pharo.org/

8 years ago

240 upvotes – 107 comments
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