top 50% 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

JavaScript to Rust and Back Again: A Wasm-Bindgen Tale

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/04/javascript-to-rust-and-back-again-a-wasm-bindgen-tale/

8 years ago

209 upvotes – 76 comments

Lessons from “The Profit”

http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2018/04/lessons-from-the-profit.html

8 years ago

204 upvotes – 62 comments

MailChimp's Ban on Cryptocurrency Marketing Is Causing Collateral Damage

https://www.inc.com/sonya-mann/mailchimp-icos.html

8 years ago

203 upvotes – 131 comments

Instagram's 'virtual' celebrities

http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20180402-the-fascinating-world-of-instagrams-virtual-celebrities

8 years ago

202 upvotes – 99 comments

Suspect in YouTube Shooting Angry That Her Videos Had Been 'De-Monetized'

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/04/03/599261148/active-shooter-reported-at-youtube-hq-in-san-bruno-calif

8 years ago

201 upvotes – 418 comments

Microsoft calls for dismissal of U.S. Supreme Court privacy fight

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-microsoft/microsoft-calls-for-dismissal-of-u-s-supreme-court-privacy-fight-idUSKCN1HA2KH

8 years ago

200 upvotes – 76 comments

Instagram deprecates majority of their API

https://www.instagram.com/developer/changelog/

8 years ago

198 upvotes – 77 comments

Beep security update

https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4163

8 years ago

192 upvotes – 101 comments

Writing to the Framebuffer

http://seenaburns.com/2018/04/04/writing-to-the-framebuffer/

8 years ago

180 upvotes – 47 comments

Facebook to exclude US users from some privacy enhancements

https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/04/facebook-gdpr-wont-be-universal/

8 years ago

172 upvotes – 14 comments

Spirit A319 at Boston, Jul 17th 2015, fumes on board, captain died 50 days later

https://avherald.com/h?article=4b6eb830&opt=0

8 years ago

171 upvotes – 64 comments

Transparent ceramics made with aluminum

https://hackaday.com/2018/04/03/whats-the-deal-with-transparent-aluminum/

8 years ago

169 upvotes – 79 comments

An Update on Our Plans to Restrict Data Access on Facebook

https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/04/restricting-data-access/

8 years ago

166 upvotes – 158 comments

Michigan OKs Nestlé Water Extraction, Despite Public Comments Against It

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/04/03/599207550/michigan-oks-nestl-water-extraction-despite-over-80k-public-comments-against-it

8 years ago

166 upvotes – 130 comments

Facebook Says Up to 87M People's Data May Have Been Improperly Shared

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-04/facebook-says-up-to-87-million-people-affected-by-cambridge-analytica

8 years ago

164 upvotes – 1 comments

Introducing Fly Edge Apps

https://fly.io/articles/fly-edge-applications-global-javascript/

8 years ago

154 upvotes – 43 comments

Wcc: The Witchcraft Compiler Collection

https://github.com/endrazine/wcc

8 years ago

★ 1.9k C
153 upvotes – 14 comments

Google Bans Crypto-Currency Mining Extensions from Chrome Store

https://iconow.net/google-bans-crypto-currency-mining-extensions-from-chrome-store/

8 years ago

151 upvotes – 37 comments

On how to grow an idea

https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/jenny-odell-how-to-grow-an-idea/

8 years ago

121 upvotes – 17 comments

Asian-Americans Suing Harvard Say Admissions Files Show Discrimination

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/04/us/harvard-asian-admission.html

8 years ago

104 upvotes – 131 comments

Show HN: RootCause – Record, Replay and Reproduce JavaScript Errors

https://therootcause.io

8 years ago

98 upvotes – 67 comments

Back end development in 2018

https://medium.com/tech-tajawal/modern-backend-developer-in-2018-6b3f7b5f8b9

8 years ago

96 upvotes – 21 comments

Zipline's Drones Will Deliver Blood in the United States This Year

https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-human-os/robotics/drones/ziplines-bigger-faster-drones-will-be-delivering-blood-in-the-united-states-this-year

8 years ago

91 upvotes – 21 comments

Node.js 8.10 runtime now available in AWS Lambda

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/node-js-8-10-runtime-now-available-in-aws-lambda/

8 years ago

91 upvotes – 17 comments

The Imaginative Reality of Ursula K. Le Guin

https://www.vqronline.org/interviews-articles/2018/03/imaginative-reality-ursula-k-le-guin

8 years ago

91 upvotes – 24 comments
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