top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-04-18

No boundaries for Facebook data: third-party trackers abuse Facebook Login

https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2018/04/18/no-boundaries-for-facebook-data-third-party-trackers-abuse-facebook-login/

8 years ago

601 upvotes – 117 comments

Uncontrollability of a bricycle (2014) [video]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rNQdSfgJDNM

8 years ago

539 upvotes – 228 comments

Zulip 1.8: Free software Slack alternative with email-style threading

http://blog.zulip.org/2018/04/18/zulip-1-8-released/

8 years ago

501 upvotes – 148 comments

The Quest for the Next Billion-Dollar Color

https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2018-quest-for-billion-dollar-red/

8 years ago

470 upvotes – 138 comments

The ASUS Tinker Board is a compelling upgrade from a Raspberry Pi 3 B+

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2018/asus-tinker-board-compelling-upgrade-raspberry-pi-3-b

8 years ago

441 upvotes – 228 comments

Hello wasm-pack

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/04/hello-wasm-pack/

8 years ago

413 upvotes – 155 comments

Ask HN: What are some tech companies that do not use an open floor plan?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16864925

8 years ago

409 upvotes – 342 comments

Python 3.7: Introducing Data Classes

https://blog.jetbrains.com/pycharm/2018/04/python-37-introducing-data-class/

8 years ago

407 upvotes – 158 comments

Pinebook: An Affordable 64-bit ARM based Open Source Notebook

https://www.pine64.org/?page_id=3707

8 years ago

394 upvotes – 244 comments

On becoming a better developer (2015)

https://gist.github.com/prakhar1989/1b0a2c9849b2e1e912fb

8 years ago

359 upvotes – 113 comments

California Opens Investigation into Tesla Workplace Conditions

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-18/california-opens-investigation-into-tesla-workplace-conditions

8 years ago

291 upvotes – 237 comments

Socioeconomic group classification based on user features [pdf]

http://pimg-faiw.uspto.gov/fdd/83/2018/28/003/0.pdf

8 years ago

289 upvotes – 109 comments

Reading Aloud to Young Children Has Benefits for Behavior and Attention

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/16/well/family/reading-aloud-to-young-children-has-benefits-for-behavior-and-attention.html

8 years ago

283 upvotes – 99 comments

Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL now generally available

https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/04/Cloud-SQL-for-PostgreSQL-now-generally-available-and-ready-for-your-production-workloads.html

8 years ago

278 upvotes – 105 comments

Machine Learning’s ‘Amazing’ Ability to Predict Chaos

https://www.quantamagazine.org/machine-learnings-amazing-ability-to-predict-chaos-20180418/

8 years ago

272 upvotes – 74 comments

Jeff Bezos' annual shareholders letter

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1018724/000119312518121161/d456916dex991.htm

8 years ago

254 upvotes – 194 comments

Facebook to ask everyone to accept being tracked so they can keep using it

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/facebook-gdpr-latest-data-ad-tracking-opt-out-stop-ads-marketing-a8310031.html

8 years ago

253 upvotes – 156 comments

An in-depth tour of Nikon’s Hikari Glass factory

https://www.imaging-resource.com/news/2018/04/17/glass-for-geeks-an-in-depth-tour-of-nikons-hikari-glass-factory

8 years ago

225 upvotes – 39 comments

Grasshopper – A coding app for beginners

https://grasshopper.codes/

8 years ago

214 upvotes – 99 comments

Login-with-Facebook data hijacked by JavaScript trackers

https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/18/login-with-facebook-data-hijacked-by-javascript-trackers/

8 years ago

213 upvotes – 3 comments

What Dockless Bikes and Scooters Are Exposing

http://haveago.city/disgraceful-dockless-drama/

8 years ago

194 upvotes – 191 comments

ClojureScript beginners' home page

http://clojure-script.org/

8 years ago

191 upvotes – 79 comments

Another Scam ICO? Savedroid Founder Exits with $50M to Chill on a Beach

https://cryptovest.com/news/another-scam-ico-savedroid-founder-exits-with-50m-to-chill-on-a-beach/

8 years ago

191 upvotes – 179 comments

Titus, the Netflix container management platform, is now open source

https://medium.com/@NetflixTechBlog/titus-the-netflix-container-management-platform-is-now-open-source-f868c9fb5436

8 years ago

173 upvotes – 14 comments

Giving meaning to 100B analytics events a day with Kafka, Dataflow and BigQuery

https://medium.com/teads-engineering/give-meaning-to-100-billion-analytics-events-a-day-d6ba09aa8f44

8 years ago

173 upvotes – 68 comments

Improved fraud prevention with Radar 2.0

https://stripe.com/blog/radar-2018

8 years ago

170 upvotes – 78 comments

New tools for open source maintainers

https://blog.github.com/2018-04-18-new-tools-for-open-source-maintainers/

8 years ago

164 upvotes – 65 comments

Google shuttering domain fronting, Signal moving to souqcdn.com

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/commit/a573ab7c7668360c3ab411627bbb23109ef9facc

8 years ago

★ 28.7k Kotlin AGPL-3.0
149 upvotes – 44 comments

Random Darknet Shopper: A Live Mail Art Piece

https://wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.bitnik.org/r/

8 years ago

147 upvotes – 43 comments

A look at VDO, the new Linux compression layer

https://www.redhat.com/de/blog/look-vdo-new-linux-compression-layer

8 years ago

146 upvotes – 63 comments

Tell HN: Rejected from Y Combinator? Don't be upset or quit

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16867609

8 years ago

143 upvotes – 80 comments

BBC Sound Effects made available to download for use under RemArc Licence

http://bbcsfx.acropolis.org.uk/

8 years ago

137 upvotes – 25 comments

The F-35 Is a $1.4T National Disaster (2017)

http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/the-f-35-14-trillion-dollar-national-disaster-19985

8 years ago

131 upvotes – 188 comments

PostgreSQL website – new design now live

https://www.postgresql.org

8 years ago

128 upvotes – 66 comments

Man Accused of Making 97M Robocalls

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-18/florida-man-accused-of-97-million-robocalls-says-he-s-no-kingpin

8 years ago

128 upvotes – 193 comments

GitHub Pages generated a TLS cert for my own domain

https://blog.securem.eu/serverside/2018/04/18/github-pages-generated-a-tls-cert-for-my-own-domain/

8 years ago

120 upvotes – 71 comments

Basecoin, aka the Basis Protocol

https://prestonbyrne.com/2017/10/13/basecoin-bitshares-2-electric-boogaloo/

8 years ago

115 upvotes – 96 comments

Design and Implementation of a 256-Core BrainFuck Computer [pdf]

http://sigtbd.csail.mit.edu/pubs/veryconference-paper2.pdf

8 years ago

108 upvotes – 33 comments

A ‘thrilling’ mission to get the Swedish to change overnight

http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20180417-a-thrilling-mission-to-get-the-swedish-to-change-overnight

8 years ago

106 upvotes – 38 comments

FDA clears first contact lens with light-adaptive technology

https://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/ucm604263.htm

8 years ago

102 upvotes – 57 comments

The Immune Landscape of Cancer

http://www.cell.com/immunity/fulltext/S1074-7613(18)30121-3

8 years ago

102 upvotes – 4 comments

New in Chrome 66

https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2018/04/nic66

8 years ago

99 upvotes – 48 comments

Upgradeable smart contracts in Ethereum

https://zohaib.me/upgradeable-smart-contracts-in-ethereum/

8 years ago

98 upvotes – 40 comments

Idle Hands Are the Dreamer's Tools

https://theamericanscholar.org/idle-hands-are-the-dreamers-tools/

8 years ago

93 upvotes – 14 comments

Viability of unpopular programming languages

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2018/04/17/unpopular-languages/

8 years ago

93 upvotes – 95 comments

Ask HN: Are there any online trainings worth paying for?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16870538

8 years ago

92 upvotes – 33 comments

Barbara Bush Dies at 92

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/17/us/barbara-bush-dead.html

8 years ago

89 upvotes – 23 comments

A constructive look at the Atari 2600 BASIC cartridge (2015)

http://boston.conman.org/2015/06/16.1

8 years ago

88 upvotes – 36 comments

California higher-density housing bill blocked in first committee hearing

https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/04/17/major-california-housing-bill-dies-in-first-committee-hearing/

8 years ago

86 upvotes – 121 comments

What Bill Gates was doing at 20 years old

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/29/what-microsoft-billionaire-bill-gates-was-doing-at-20-years-old.html

8 years ago

85 upvotes – 136 comments

Many Bitcoin Miners Are at Risk of Turning Unprofitable

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-18/bitcoin-miners-facing-a-shakeout-as-profitability-becomes-harder

8 years ago

82 upvotes – 221 comments

CockroachDB is more scalable than Amazon Aurora for OLTP

https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/performance-part-two/

8 years ago

81 upvotes – 27 comments

Show HN: IP Geolocation and Threat Data API

https://ipdata.co/index.html

8 years ago

79 upvotes – 63 comments

Insomnia GraphQL Support

https://insomnia.rest/graphql/

8 years ago

79 upvotes – 10 comments

How founders can write a quality blog post in 1 hour

https://baremetrics.com/blog/founder-writing

8 years ago

79 upvotes – 34 comments
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