top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-04-16

Teenager facing prison for downloading unsecured files from government website

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/freedom-of-information-request-privacy-breach-teen-speaks-out-1.4621970

8 years ago

793 upvotes – 483 comments

Amazon warehouse workers 'peed in bottles' fearing punishment for taking breaks

http://www.pulse.ng/bi/tech/undercover-author-finds-amazon-warehouse-workers-in-uk-peed-in-bottles-over-fears-of-being-punished-for-taking-a-break-amzn-id8258070.html

8 years ago

785 upvotes – 689 comments

NirSoft Freeware (2008)

https://www.nirsoft.net/about_nirsoft_freeware.html

8 years ago

625 upvotes – 232 comments

Time to rebuild the web?

https://www.oreilly.com/ideas/its-time-to-rebuild-the-web

8 years ago

596 upvotes – 439 comments

I built a progressive web app and published it in three app stores

http://debuggerdotbreak.judahgabriel.com/2018/04/13/i-built-a-pwa-and-published-it-in-3-app-stores-heres-what-i-learned/

8 years ago

528 upvotes – 406 comments

What Data Does Facebook Collect When I’m Not Using Facebook, and Why?

https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/04/data-off-facebook/

8 years ago

461 upvotes – 320 comments

Distributed architecture concepts I learned when building a large payment system

http://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/distributed-architecture-concepts-i-have-learned-while-building-payments-systems/

8 years ago

441 upvotes – 74 comments

Ketamine has 'fast-acting benefits' for depression

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-43753073

8 years ago

335 upvotes – 203 comments

Microsoft built its own custom Linux kernel for its new IoT service

https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/16/microsoft-built-its-own-custom-linux-kernel-for-its-new-iot-service/

8 years ago

321 upvotes – 289 comments

Coinbase acquires Earn.com

https://news.earn.com/earn-com-joins-coinbase-a282a36411d2

8 years ago

319 upvotes – 157 comments

Should I just stop attempting to make these trivial patches? (2004)

https://lkml.org/lkml/2004/12/20/255

8 years ago

291 upvotes – 29 comments

Why New York City Stopped Building Subways

https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2018/04/why-new-york-city-stopped-building-subways/557567

8 years ago

272 upvotes – 261 comments

Kaniko: Build container images in Kubernetes

https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/04/introducing-kaniko-Build-container-images-in-Kubernetes-and-Google-Container-Builder-even-without-root-access.html

8 years ago

261 upvotes – 45 comments

Linux 4.17-rc1: “We removed more lines than we added”

http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1804.1/06654.html

8 years ago

236 upvotes – 76 comments

OLPC’s $100 laptop was going to change the world

https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/16/17233946/olpcs-100-laptop-education-where-is-it-now

8 years ago

235 upvotes – 217 comments

Over 65,000 Home Routers Are Proxying Bad Traffic for Botnets, APTs

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/over-65-000-home-routers-are-proxying-bad-traffic-for-botnets-apts/

8 years ago

213 upvotes – 93 comments

Show HN: Hacker Daily, a daily podcast for Hacker News readers

http://hackerdaily.co/?

8 years ago

199 upvotes – 57 comments

Papers from the Lost Culture of Array Languages (2011)

http://prog21.dadgum.com/114.html

8 years ago

187 upvotes – 77 comments

The Boring Company raises $112M from Musk, early employees

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1737630/000173763018000001/xslFormDX01/primary_doc.xml

8 years ago

166 upvotes – 182 comments

Growing a Language, by Guy Steele (1998) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ahvzDzKdB0

8 years ago

166 upvotes – 20 comments

Windows 10 works incorrectly with Large memory pages

https://sourceforge.net/p/sevenzip/discussion/45797/thread/e730c709/

8 years ago

159 upvotes – 93 comments

General Assembly sells to Adecco for $413M

https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/15/new-yorks-programming-ed-tech-startup-general-assembly-sells-to-adecco-for-413-million/

8 years ago

159 upvotes – 77 comments

U.S. companies banned from selling components to ZTE

https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/16/u-s-companies-banned-from-selling-components-to-zte/

8 years ago

157 upvotes – 116 comments

Bill Joy: Why the Future Doesn't Need Us (2000)

https://www.wired.com/2000/04/joy-2/

8 years ago

145 upvotes – 60 comments

Dinero.js – JavaScript library for working with monetary values

https://sarahdayan.github.io/dinero.js/

8 years ago

135 upvotes – 77 comments

Guild Wars 2 distributed spyware in order to detect cheaters

https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/8c2j0y/a_technical_analysis_of_the_spyware_arena_used/

8 years ago

129 upvotes – 86 comments

KLEE LLVM Execution Engine

https://klee.github.io

8 years ago

125 upvotes – 20 comments

Tell HN: My best productivity hack

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16852410

8 years ago

125 upvotes – 72 comments

Apple needs to tackle the issue of smartphone addiction

http://www.wired.co.uk/article/tony-fadell-apple-iphone-addiction-control-design

8 years ago

118 upvotes – 132 comments

Personalized Hey Siri

https://machinelearning.apple.com/2018/04/16/personalized-hey-siri.html

8 years ago

117 upvotes – 73 comments

Lung Cancer Patients Live Longer with Immune Therapy

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/16/health/lung-cancer-immunotherapy.html

8 years ago

111 upvotes – 77 comments

Why Do Fantasy Novels Have So Much Food?

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/fantasy-books-food

8 years ago

104 upvotes – 120 comments

Show HN: Phi-editor, a text editor implemented in Go and SDL

https://github.com/felixangell/phi-editor

8 years ago

★ 316GoMIT
102 upvotes – 34 comments

Chinese Social Media Site Reverses Gay Content Ban After Uproar

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/16/world/asia/china-weibo-gay.html

8 years ago

98 upvotes – 81 comments

Tesla Temporarily Stops Model 3 Production Line

https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/16/17245186/tesla-model-3-electric-car-production-shutdown

8 years ago

98 upvotes – 51 comments

Elementary Algebra (1971)

http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/apl/Papers/ElementaryAlgebra

8 years ago

97 upvotes – 20 comments

The 100th Meridian, Where the Great Plains Begin, May Be Shifting

http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/news-events/100th-meridian-where-great-plains-begin-may-be-shifting

8 years ago

97 upvotes – 32 comments

Blowing in the wind: Plutonium at former nuclear weapons site

http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-na-hanford-plutonium-exposure-20180330-htmlstory.html

8 years ago

96 upvotes – 83 comments

To ban Telegram Russian regulator blocked two million ip adresses(translated)

https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&nv=1&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=auto&sp=nmt4&tl=en&u=https://m.roem.ru/16-04-2018/269861/roskomnadzor-amazon-telegram/&xid=17259,15700022,15700122,15700124,15700149,15700168,15700173,15700186,15700201&usg=ALkJrhgvjU-Z33g8ca8FRUiYZ2rL4KJyog

8 years ago

95 upvotes – 32 comments

The Web We Lost (2012)

http://anildash.com/2012/12/13/the_web_we_lost/

8 years ago

88 upvotes – 41 comments

Boycotting Amazon

https://thenextweb.com/opinion/2018/04/16/its-time-to-boycott-amazon/

8 years ago

87 upvotes – 96 comments

For the first time ever, Microsoft will distribute its own version of Linux

http://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-azure-sphere-is-powered-by-linux-2018-4

8 years ago

78 upvotes – 102 comments

Sedentary Behavior May Thin Memory-Related Brain Area

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0195549

8 years ago

75 upvotes – 12 comments

Police extracted fingerprints from WhatsApp photos to convict drug dealers

https://bgr.com/2018/04/16/fingerprints-in-photos-police-whatsapp-pictures/

8 years ago

75 upvotes – 29 comments
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