top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-04-10

Productivity

https://blog.samaltman.com/productivity

8 years ago

1264 upvotes – 399 comments

Why Does “=” Mean Assignment?

https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/equals-as-assignment/

8 years ago

674 upvotes – 354 comments

Why SQLite Does Not Use Git

https://sqlite.org/whynotgit.html

8 years ago

508 upvotes – 608 comments

Form a California LLC in 10 minutes for $70

https://blog.bookandledger.com/topics/business-formation/form-a-california-llc

8 years ago

494 upvotes – 269 comments

Web Authentication: Proposed API for accessing Public Key Credentials

https://www.w3.org/TR/2018/CR-webauthn-20180320/

8 years ago

456 upvotes – 196 comments

Mark Zuckerberg testifies before Congress

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/live/2018/apr/10/mark-zuckerberg-testimony-live-congress-facebook-cambridge-analytica

8 years ago

431 upvotes – 462 comments

Facebook Employees Are Quitting or Switching Departments Over Ethical Concerns

http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-employees-quitting-whatsapp-instagram-cambridge-analytica-report-2018-4

8 years ago

429 upvotes – 243 comments

FTC Warns Manufacturers That 'Warranty Void If Removed' Stickers Are Illegal

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ne9qdq/warranty-void-if-removed-stickers-illegal-ftc

8 years ago

408 upvotes – 134 comments

YouTube Face is clickbait, attaining human form

https://openspace.sfmoma.org/2018/04/your-pretty-face-is-going-to-sell/

8 years ago

382 upvotes – 148 comments

Facebook Data Collected by Quiz App Included Private Messages

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/04/10/technology/facebook-cambridge-analytica-private-messages.html

8 years ago

342 upvotes – 127 comments

Apple is making a show based on Isaac Asimov’s ‘Foundation’ books

https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/10/apple-foundation-series/

8 years ago

323 upvotes – 169 comments

We saved $50k/year with a Go microservice coded in a hackathon

https://movio.co/en/blog/saving-money-with-Hackathon-project/

8 years ago

319 upvotes – 254 comments

YouTube and Facebook Are Losing Creators to Blockchain-Powered Rivals

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-10/youtube-and-facebook-are-losing-creators-to-blockchain-powered-rivals

8 years ago

317 upvotes – 283 comments

Learn React by building a web app

https://udilia.com/courses/learn-react-by-building-a-web-app

8 years ago

298 upvotes – 102 comments

Apple says it’s now powered by renewable energy worldwide

https://www.apple.com/ca/newsroom/2018/04/apple-now-globally-powered-by-100-percent-renewable-energy/

8 years ago

274 upvotes – 179 comments

Differentiable Plasticity: A New Method Learning to Learn

https://ubere.ng/2qlFZHy

8 years ago

249 upvotes – 21 comments

Portugal electricity generation temporarily reaches 100% renewable

https://reneweconomy.com.au/portugal-reaches-100-renewables-ends-fossil-fuel-subsidies-32820/

8 years ago

235 upvotes – 84 comments

Ask HN: What is the best Modern C++ MOOC?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16806821

8 years ago

228 upvotes – 50 comments

ISPs Aim to Use Facebook Fracas to Saddle Silicon Valley with Crappy New Laws

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180409/09020639593/broadband-industry-aims-to-use-facebook-fracas-to-saddle-silicon-valley-with-crappy-new-laws.shtml

8 years ago

215 upvotes – 103 comments

Ask HN: Resources for catching up on modern JavaScript for Python/C++ Programmer

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16800510

8 years ago

214 upvotes – 71 comments

AVIF – AV1 based image format

https://aomediacodec.github.io/av1-avif/

8 years ago

176 upvotes – 41 comments

Setting Emacs theme based on ambient light

https://matthewbilyeu.com/blog/2018-04-09/setting-emacs-theme-based-on-ambient-light

8 years ago

170 upvotes – 26 comments

500M of “Have I been Pwned” hashes broken

https://hashes.org/leaks.php?id=515

8 years ago

164 upvotes – 56 comments

CoinTracker raises $1.5M to make tracking cryptocurrency investments easy

https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/10/cointracker-raises-1-5m/

8 years ago

161 upvotes – 90 comments

Theranos Lays Off Most of Its Remaining Workforce

https://www.wsj.com/articles/theranos-lays-off-most-of-its-remaining-workforce-1523382373

8 years ago

156 upvotes – 120 comments

Ask HN: Do you have the courage to abandon your high paying job?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16798887

8 years ago

147 upvotes – 166 comments

Our experience with Stripe Atlas (2017)

https://hackernoon.com/our-experience-with-stripe-atlas-fcccafe6fff8

8 years ago

139 upvotes – 81 comments

Sex workers fear violence as US cracks down on online ads: 'Girls will die'

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/apr/10/sex-workers-fear-violence-as-us-cracks-down-on-online-ads-girls-will-die

8 years ago

136 upvotes – 213 comments

Simultaneous Imaging and Energy Harvesting in CMOS Image Sensor Pixels

https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/06/under-a-millimeter-wide-and-powered-by-light-these-tiny-cameras-could-hide-almost-anywhere/

8 years ago

132 upvotes – 36 comments

Avoiding the Distributed Monolith

https://www.simplethread.com/youre-not-actually-building-microservices/

8 years ago

132 upvotes – 41 comments

iOS 11.3 update breaks iPhone 8 devices with third party-repaired screens

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/apr/10/iphone-8-ios-113-breaks-smartphones-third-party-repaired-screens-apple

8 years ago

131 upvotes – 142 comments

Steve Wozniak on why he is leaving Facebook [video]

https://www.usatoday.com/videos/tech/2018/04/09/apple-co-founder-steve-wozniak-says-youre-product-facebook-and-google/33694597/

8 years ago

129 upvotes – 105 comments

Myst creators launch Kickstarter to bring every game in the series to Windows 10

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/04/myst-creators-launch-kickstarter-to-bring-every-game-in-the-series-to-windows-10/

8 years ago

129 upvotes – 59 comments

We'll pay you $3000/mo to build your startup on Dark

http://darklang.com/careers/eir

8 years ago

124 upvotes – 127 comments

New NASA X-Plane Construction Begins

https://www.nasa.gov/lowboom/new-nasa-x-plane-construction-begins-now

8 years ago

122 upvotes – 74 comments

14 years of Mark Zuckerberg saying sorry, not sorry about Facebook

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/business/facebook-zuckerberg-apologies/

8 years ago

121 upvotes – 8 comments

Zuckerberg struggles to name a single Facebook competitor

https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/10/17220934/facebook-monopoly-competitor-mark-zuckerberg-senate-hearing-lindsey-graham

8 years ago

117 upvotes – 82 comments

Why is the FB leak getting more attention and momentum that the Equifax hack?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16804591

8 years ago

116 upvotes – 50 comments

A new JPEG format

https://actu.epfl.ch/news/a-new-jpeg-format-for-virtual-reality-drones-and-s/

8 years ago

115 upvotes – 47 comments

Lessons on Bubbles from Bitcoin

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-04-10/bitcoin-was-prone-to-bubbles-until-bears-could-bet-against-it

8 years ago

114 upvotes – 65 comments

Japan Wants to Allow Crypto ICOs [video]

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2018-04-09/japan-wants-to-allow-crypto-icos-video

8 years ago

112 upvotes – 12 comments

The BEAM needs an APL-y language

https://medium.com/@gordonguthrie/the-beam-needs-an-apl-y-language-6c5c998ba6d

8 years ago

110 upvotes – 42 comments

GraphQL Best Practices

https://jsjaspreet.com/blog/graphql-best-practices

8 years ago

110 upvotes – 5 comments

Ask HN: What happened to the semantic web?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16806657

8 years ago

109 upvotes – 68 comments

Generative Adversarial Networks for Extreme Learned Image Compression

https://data.vision.ee.ethz.ch/aeirikur/extremecompression/

8 years ago

105 upvotes – 31 comments

Breakthrough Announced in Dark Matter Detection Technology

http://www.washington.edu/news/2018/04/09/admx-detection-technology/

8 years ago

101 upvotes – 50 comments

Improving SyntaxError in PyPy

https://morepypy.blogspot.com/2018/04/improving-syntaxerror-in-pypy.html

8 years ago

92 upvotes – 20 comments

One bad night’s sleep may increase levels of Alzheimer’s protein

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2165911-one-bad-nights-sleep-may-increase-levels-of-alzheimers-protein/

8 years ago

88 upvotes – 47 comments
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