top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-04-06

Ask HN: How to self-learn electronics?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16775744

8 years ago

1681 upvotes – 302 comments

Comcast, AT&T and Verizon pose a greater surveillance risk than Facebook

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/apr/06/delete-facebook-live-us-still-share-data

8 years ago

1075 upvotes – 276 comments

I wandered off and built an IDE

http://blog.querystorm.com/index.php/2018/04/04/whynow/

8 years ago

1053 upvotes – 256 comments

Another Tesla on autopilot steers towards a barrier

https://www.reddit.com/r/teslamotors/comments/8a0jfh/autopilot_barrier_lust_201812/

8 years ago

433 upvotes – 465 comments

Confessions of an Unreal Engine 4 engineering firefighter

https://allarsblog.com/2018/03/16/confessions-of-an-unreal-engine-4-engineering-firefighter/

8 years ago

388 upvotes – 115 comments

Facebook was in talks with hospitals about a proposal to share data

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/05/facebook-building-8-explored-data-sharing-agreement-with-hospitals.html

8 years ago

355 upvotes – 111 comments

Google seeks to limit ‘right to be forgotten’ by claiming it’s journalistic

https://www.cjr.org/innovations/google-journalistic-right-to-be-forgotten-by-claiming-its-journalistic.php

8 years ago

352 upvotes – 319 comments

Japanese anime director Isao Takahata has died

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-43664515

8 years ago

349 upvotes – 37 comments

FCC approves SpaceX plan for satellite broadband network

https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/29/fcc-approves-spacex-plan-for-4425-satellite-broadband-network/

8 years ago

347 upvotes – 173 comments

Facebook retracted Zuckerberg’s messages from recipients’ inboxes

https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/05/zuckerberg-deleted-messages

8 years ago

329 upvotes – 120 comments

Backpage.com seized by U.S. justice authorities

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-backpage-justice/sex-marketplace-backpage-com-seized-by-u-s-justice-authorities-posting-idUSKCN1HD2QP

8 years ago

317 upvotes – 319 comments

Want to Be Happy? Think Like an Old Person (2017)

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/29/nyregion/want-to-be-happy-think-like-an-old-person.html

8 years ago

313 upvotes – 170 comments

Systems built on trust, norms, and institutions function better than blockchain

https://medium.com/@kaistinchcombe/decentralized-and-trustless-crypto-paradise-is-actually-a-medieval-hellhole-c1ca122efdec

8 years ago

303 upvotes – 219 comments

Immutable.rs: immutable data structures for Rust

http://immutable.rs

8 years ago

291 upvotes – 63 comments

Apps of a Feather

http://apps-of-a-feather.com/

8 years ago

281 upvotes – 77 comments

AWS Explained: The Basics

https://www.inqdo.com/aws-explained-the-basics/

8 years ago

280 upvotes – 82 comments

Destroy All Software screencasts free this week

https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/screencasts

8 years ago

277 upvotes – 24 comments

Raspberry Pi microSD card performance comparison

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2018/raspberry-pi-microsd-card-performance-comparison-2018

8 years ago

270 upvotes – 125 comments

A Virtual Machine

http://www.craftinginterpreters.com/a-virtual-machine.html

8 years ago

245 upvotes – 56 comments

The Stack Overflow Age

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2018/04/06/the-stack-overflow-age/

8 years ago

233 upvotes – 131 comments

Let's Stop Giving Retailers a Free Pass on Data Breaches

https://www.bloomberg.com/gadfly/articles/2018-04-06/retailer-data-breaches-stop-giving-them-a-free-pass

8 years ago

213 upvotes – 49 comments

Before cancer kills, it cheats

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2018/04/harvard-talk-envisions-path-to-containing-cancer/

8 years ago

198 upvotes – 58 comments

A dozen black holes may lie at the centre of our galaxy

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-43648152

8 years ago

194 upvotes – 87 comments

Facebook will add “unsend” feature after secretly deleting Zuckerberg’s messages

https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/6/17206394/facebook-unsend-messages-feature-update-messenger-mark-zuckerberg

8 years ago

194 upvotes – 112 comments

SpaceX can't broadcast Earth images because of a murky license

https://www.cnet.com/news/spacex-cant-broadcast-earth-images-because-of-a-murky-license/

8 years ago

194 upvotes – 135 comments

Dear Developer, the Web Isn't About You

https://sonniesedge.co.uk/talks/dear-developer

8 years ago

191 upvotes – 85 comments

Tom Lehrer at 90: a life of scientific satire

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-03922-x

8 years ago

190 upvotes – 83 comments

Older Americans Are ‘Hooked’ on Vitamins

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/03/well/older-americans-vitamins-dietary-supplements.html

8 years ago

174 upvotes – 217 comments

Mill: Better Scala Builds

http://www.lihaoyi.com/post/MillBetterScalaBuilds.html

8 years ago

155 upvotes – 16 comments

Socioeconomic sorting at the metropolitan level is making America more polarized

https://www.citylab.com/equity/2018/04/how-your-social-class-affects-where-youll-move/557060/

8 years ago

148 upvotes – 56 comments

Why Whales Got So Big

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/04/why-whales-got-so-big/557213/?single_page=true

8 years ago

144 upvotes – 46 comments

NixOS 18.03 Released

https://nixos.org/nixos/manual/release-notes.html#sec-release-18.03

8 years ago

141 upvotes – 90 comments

TMobile confirms they store passwords in plaintext, don't see why it's a problem

https://twitter.com/tmobileat/status/981418339653300224

8 years ago

140 upvotes – 44 comments

Myanmar group questions Zuckerberg’s claim on Facebook hate speech prevention

https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/06/myanmar-group-blasts-zuckerbergs-claim-on-facebook-hate-speech-prevention/

8 years ago

131 upvotes – 36 comments

Apple’s New Ad Conversion Tracking Will Benefit User Privacy

https://robmaceachern.com/2018/03/31/apples-new-ad-conversion-tracking-will-benefit-user-privacy/

8 years ago

130 upvotes – 66 comments

Great Vowel Shift

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Vowel_Shift

8 years ago

129 upvotes – 117 comments

Brain connectivity reflects human aesthetic responses to music (2016)

https://academic.oup.com/scan/article/11/6/884/2223400

8 years ago

127 upvotes – 35 comments

Free speech cannot be sacrificed to strike fake news

http://thehill.com/opinion/cybersecurity/381871-free-speech-cannot-be-sacrificed-to-strike-fake-news

8 years ago

121 upvotes – 121 comments

Multi-user VR experiences with A-Frame (2017)

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/10/multi-user-experiences-with-a-frame/

8 years ago

121 upvotes – 32 comments

Homeland Security to Compile Database of Journalists, Bloggers

https://biglawbusiness.com/homeland-security-to-compile-database-of-journalists-bloggers/

8 years ago

118 upvotes – 47 comments

iOS, the Future of MacOS, Freedom, Security and Privacy

https://gist.github.com/desantis/5728d5536b6dfe37e781c0a4a0f32e54

8 years ago

117 upvotes – 61 comments

Germs That Love Diet Soda

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/06/opinion/sunday/germs-microbes-processed-foods.html

8 years ago

116 upvotes – 91 comments

New features from the last few versions of Git

https://blog.github.com/2018-04-05-git-217-released/

8 years ago

107 upvotes – 48 comments

C++17 Compiler Bug Hunt

http://ithare.com/c17-compiler-bug-hunt-very-first-results-12-bugs-reported-3-already-fixed/

8 years ago

107 upvotes – 38 comments

Ask HN: Do you have a software consultant or outsourcing horror story?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16772938

8 years ago

105 upvotes – 78 comments

China Bans Online Bible Sales as It Tightens Religious Controls

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/05/world/asia/china-bans-bible-sales.html

8 years ago

103 upvotes – 142 comments
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