top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-04-17

Facebook Container for Firefox

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/facebookcontainer

8 years ago

1274 upvotes – 394 comments

GraalVM: Run Programs Faster Anywhere

http://www.graalvm.org/

8 years ago

731 upvotes – 207 comments

Mylo: A leather-like material made from mycelium

https://boltthreads.com/technology/mylo/

8 years ago

574 upvotes – 160 comments

Whois public database is in breach of GDPR, according to European authorities

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/04/14/whois_icann_gdpr_europe/

8 years ago

545 upvotes – 311 comments

Decades-Old Graph Problem Yields to Amateur Mathematician

https://www.quantamagazine.org/decades-old-graph-problem-yields-to-amateur-mathematician-20180417/

8 years ago

492 upvotes – 173 comments

Oracle owns “JavaScript”, so Apple is taking down my app

https://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/8d0bg2/oracle_owns_javascript_so_apple_is_taking_down_my/

8 years ago

484 upvotes – 201 comments

I was Zuckerberg’s speechwriter

https://www.vox.com/first-person/2018/4/11/17221344/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-cambridge-analytica

8 years ago

347 upvotes – 254 comments

Russia Bans 1.8M Amazon and Google IPs in Attempt to Block Telegram

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/government/russia-bans-18-million-amazon-and-google-ips-in-attempt-to-block-telegram/

8 years ago

330 upvotes – 216 comments

Parsing: a timeline

https://jeffreykegler.github.io/personal/timeline_v3

8 years ago

326 upvotes – 85 comments

San Francisco’s Seismic Gamble

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/04/17/us/san-francisco-earthquake-seismic-gamble.html

8 years ago

310 upvotes – 202 comments

FDA permits marketing of AI-based device to detect diabetes-related eye problems

https://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/ucm604357.htm

8 years ago

274 upvotes – 97 comments

The Irreproducibility Crisis of Modern Science

https://www.nas.org/projects/irreproducibility_report

8 years ago

270 upvotes – 251 comments

Quake III Arena GPL Source Release (2012)

https://github.com/id-Software/Quake-III-Arena

8 years ago

★ 7.9kCGPL-2.0
265 upvotes – 79 comments

A step-by-step guide to the “World Models” AI paper

https://applied-data.science/blog/hallucinogenic-deep-reinforcement-learning-using-python-and-keras

8 years ago

261 upvotes – 37 comments

An enzyme that digests plastic could boost recycling

https://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21740669-auf-wiedersehen-pet-enzyme-digests-plastic-could-boost-recycling

8 years ago

251 upvotes – 122 comments

France’s government is building its own encrypted messenger service

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-privacy/france-builds-whatsapp-rival-due-to-surveillance-risk-idUSKBN1HN258

8 years ago

239 upvotes – 130 comments

Using GnuCash as a Freelancer to Track Finances and Prepare Taxes

https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/using-gnucash-as-a-freelancer-to-track-finances-and-prepare-taxes

8 years ago

239 upvotes – 184 comments

Netflix, Long an AWS Customer, Tests Waters on Google Cloud

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/netflix-long-an-aws-customer-tests-waters-on-google-cloud

8 years ago

233 upvotes – 143 comments

Proof-Of-Work is a Decentralized Clock

https://grisha.org/blog/2018/01/23/explaining-proof-of-work/

8 years ago

232 upvotes – 124 comments

Ask HN: Does SEO still work in 2018?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16858053

8 years ago

226 upvotes – 120 comments

Text Embedding Models Contain Bias

https://developers.googleblog.com/2018/04/text-embedding-models-contain-bias.html

8 years ago

222 upvotes – 202 comments

United States v. Microsoft Corp. Dismissed [pdf]

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/17pdf/17-2_1824.pdf

8 years ago

220 upvotes – 144 comments

Carl Kasell Has Died

https://www.npr.org/2018/04/17/528656453/npr-newscaster-carl-kasell-dies-at-84-after-a-lifelong-career-on-air

8 years ago

206 upvotes – 25 comments

Woman Partially Sucked Out of Jet When Window Breaks

https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Airplane-Makes-Emergency-Landing-at-Philadelphia-International-Airport-480008613.html

8 years ago

200 upvotes – 280 comments

Eminent Philosophers Name the Most Important Philosophy Books from 1950-2000

http://www.openculture.com/2018/04/eminent-philosophers-name-the-43-most-important-philosophy-books-written-between-1950-2000.html

8 years ago

185 upvotes – 159 comments

Mailtrain.org, self-hosted open-source newsletter app like Mailchimp

https://github.com/Mailtrain-org/mailtrain

8 years ago

★ 5.7kJavaScriptGPL-3.0
184 upvotes – 62 comments

Chinese Workers Who Assemble Designer Bags in Italy

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/04/16/the-chinese-workers-who-assemble-designer-bags-in-tuscany

8 years ago

174 upvotes – 60 comments

Mode Studio – Python, R and SQL Editor

https://blog.modeanalytics.com/announcing-mode-studio-and-r/

8 years ago

172 upvotes – 44 comments

Taste is increasingly dictated by algorithms

https://www.racked.com/2018/4/17/17219166/fashion-style-algorithm-amazon-echo-look

8 years ago

161 upvotes – 80 comments

Fake Barack Obama delivers a PSA about “deep fakes” using a deep fake video

https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/tldr/2018/4/17/17247334/ai-fake-news-video-barack-obama-jordan-peele-buzzfeed

8 years ago

153 upvotes – 74 comments

Lessons on product and marketing from the growth of Domino’s Pizza

https://producthabits.com/dominos-pizza-drove-90x-increase-stock-value-acting-like-tech-startup/

8 years ago

149 upvotes – 88 comments

More than 95% of world's population breathing unhealthy air, says new report

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/04/17/health/world-dangerous-air-report-intl/index.html

8 years ago

139 upvotes – 30 comments

Running Lisp in Production (2015)

https://tech.grammarly.com/blog/running-lisp-in-production

8 years ago

138 upvotes – 68 comments

Conway's Law

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law

8 years ago

134 upvotes – 51 comments

North and South Korea reportedly set to announce official end to war

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/17/north-and-south-korea-reportedly-set-to-announce-official-end-to-war.html

8 years ago

128 upvotes – 85 comments

You Share Everything with Your Friends, Even Brain Waves

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/16/science/friendship-brain-health.html

8 years ago

124 upvotes – 45 comments

An Augmented Reality Microscope for Cancer Detection

https://research.googleblog.com/2018/04/an-augmented-reality-microscope.html

8 years ago

114 upvotes – 15 comments

The Chemistry of William Gibson’s Neuromancer

http://www.chemistry-blog.com/2018/04/16/the-chemistry-of-william-gibsons-neuromancer/

8 years ago

112 upvotes – 19 comments

Everything You Wanted to Know About Synchronization (2013) [pdf]

http://sigops.org/sosp/sosp13/papers/p33-david.pdf

8 years ago

109 upvotes – 4 comments

The Blindness of Social Wealth

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/16/opinion/facebook-social-wealth.html

8 years ago

106 upvotes – 73 comments

Show HN: I Write In-Depth Wordpress Plugin Reviews

https://wpplugincheck.com/

8 years ago

104 upvotes – 36 comments

A Contagious Cancer That Jumped Between Species

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/06/the-contagious-cancer-that-jumps-between-species/487841/?single_page=true

8 years ago

103 upvotes – 23 comments

YouTube employees say violent threats from creators have been going on for years

http://www.businessinsider.com/former-youtube-staffers-say-video-creators-have-threatened-employees-2018-4

8 years ago

101 upvotes – 81 comments

How to Get Rich Quick in Silicon Valley

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/apr/17/get-rich-quick-silicon-valley-startup-billionaire-techie

8 years ago

100 upvotes – 58 comments

Ask HN: Girlfriend is being shown ads depending on what we do together. How?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16859823

8 years ago

98 upvotes – 94 comments

Huawei, Failing to Crack U.S. Market, Signals a Change in Tactics

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/17/technology/china-huawei-washington.html

8 years ago

97 upvotes – 67 comments

Microsoft v MikeRoweSoft

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_vs._MikeRoweSoft

8 years ago

96 upvotes – 20 comments

Show HN: Decentralized P2P Messaging with Blockchain Verified Identities

https://www.stealthy.im/?ref=hn

8 years ago

95 upvotes – 43 comments
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