top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-04-26

Matrix and Riot Confirmed as the Basis for France’s Secure Instant Messenger App

https://matrix.org/blog/2018/04/26/matrix-and-riot-confirmed-as-the-basis-for-frances-secure-instant-messenger-app/

8 years ago

738 upvotes – 198 comments

Magnasanti: Large and Terrifying SimCity (2010)

https://rumorsontheinternets.org/2010/10/14/magnasanti-the-largest-and-most-terrifying-simcity/

8 years ago

690 upvotes – 153 comments

Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test (2016)

http://www.gwan.com/blog/20160405.html

8 years ago

569 upvotes – 333 comments

Stack Overflow Isn’t Very Welcoming – It’s Time for That to Change

https://stackoverflow.blog/2018/04/26/stack-overflow-isnt-very-welcoming-its-time-for-that-to-change/

8 years ago

558 upvotes – 695 comments

Flask 1.0 Released

https://www.palletsprojects.com/blog/flask-1-0-released/

8 years ago

548 upvotes – 179 comments

Square to buy Weebly for $365M

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/26/square-to-buy-weebly-for-365-million.html

8 years ago

430 upvotes – 104 comments

Belgium declares loot boxes gambling and therefore illegal

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2018-04-25-now-belgium-declares-loot-boxes-gambling-and-therefore-illegal

8 years ago

399 upvotes – 272 comments

Relative's DNA from genealogy websites cracked East Area Rapist case

http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/crime/article209913514.html

8 years ago

383 upvotes – 328 comments

Ask HN: What has been your most rewarding job or project and why?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16931145

8 years ago

383 upvotes – 244 comments

Impersonators who are paid to flirt on dating apps

https://qz.com/1247382/online-dating-is-so-awful-that-people-are-paying-virtual-dating-assistants-to-impersonate-them/

8 years ago

371 upvotes – 313 comments

Go's New Brand

https://blog.golang.org/go-brand

8 years ago

351 upvotes – 289 comments

High-Paying Trade Jobs Sit Empty, While High School Grads Line Up for University

https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2018/04/25/605092520/high-paying-trade-jobs-sit-empty-while-high-school-grads-line-up-for-university

8 years ago

341 upvotes – 420 comments

What I learned by living without artificial light

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20180424-what-i-learnt-by-living-without-artificial-light

8 years ago

322 upvotes – 276 comments

A Lengthy, Pedantic Review of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)

http://blog.bityard.net/articles/2018/April/in-beaver-we-trust-a-lengthy-pedantic-review-of-ubuntu-1804-lts.html

8 years ago

294 upvotes – 368 comments

Introduction to Decision Tree Learning

https://heartbeat.fritz.ai/introduction-to-decision-tree-learning-cd604f85e236?source=collection_home---1------0----------------

8 years ago

294 upvotes – 26 comments

MacOS monitoring the open source way

https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech/2018/04/4696/

8 years ago

274 upvotes – 53 comments

How Dyson Saw Feynman

http://nautil.us/issue/59/connections/another-side-of-feynman

8 years ago

262 upvotes – 54 comments

Ask HN: Laid-off readers over 50, have you left the tech workforce?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16934187

8 years ago

231 upvotes – 187 comments

What Good Is ‘Community’ When Someone Else Makes All the Rules?

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/17/magazine/what-good-is-community-when-someone-else-makes-all-the-rules.html

8 years ago

228 upvotes – 72 comments

A look at terminal emulators, part 2

https://lwn.net/Articles/751763/

8 years ago

222 upvotes – 73 comments

Boltzmann Encoded Adversarial Machines

https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.08682

8 years ago

205 upvotes – 23 comments

AMD's Stock Price Jumps on News of Earnings Spurred by Ryzen

https://hothardware.com/news/amd-stock-price-jumps-news-stellar-earnings-spurred-ryzen

8 years ago

203 upvotes – 75 comments

Swift for TensorFlow Design Overview

https://github.com/tensorflow/swift/blob/master/docs/DesignOverview.md

8 years ago

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198 upvotes – 45 comments

SEC Penalizes Yahoo $35M for Massive, Undisclosed Cyber Theft

https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/sec-penalizes-yahoo-35-million-for-20427/

8 years ago

195 upvotes – 48 comments

China Installs Nearly 10 Gigawatts of Solar in First Quarter

https://cleantechnica.com/2018/04/24/china-installs-nearly-10-gigawatts-of-solar-in-first-quarter-up-22/

8 years ago

191 upvotes – 84 comments

The Era of Very Low Inflation and Interest Rates May Be Near an End

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/26/upshot/the-era-of-very-low-inflation-and-interest-rates-may-be-near-an-end.html

8 years ago

185 upvotes – 211 comments

CIA Files Prove America Helped Saddam as He Gassed Iran (2013)

https://foreignpolicy.com/2013/08/26/exclusive-cia-files-prove-america-helped-saddam-as-he-gassed-iran/

8 years ago

185 upvotes – 78 comments

Comparing Google’s TPUv2 against Nvidia’s V100 on ResNet-50

https://blog.riseml.com/comparing-google-tpuv2-against-nvidia-v100-on-resnet-50-c2bbb6a51e5e

8 years ago

171 upvotes – 127 comments

An open source implementation of DeepVoice 3: 2000-Speaker Neural Text-to-Speech

https://r9y9.github.io/deepvoice3_pytorch/

8 years ago

166 upvotes – 24 comments

Infant Deaths Fall Sharply in Africa with Routine Antibiotics

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/25/health/africa-infant-mortality-antibiotic.html

8 years ago

161 upvotes – 46 comments

France’s Zone Rouge – A Forbidden No Man’s Land Poisoned by War (2015)

http://www.messynessychic.com/2015/05/26/the-real-no-go-zone-of-france-a-forbidden-no-mans-land-poisoned-by-war/

8 years ago

155 upvotes – 54 comments

The Great Theorem Prover Showdown

https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/theorem-prover-showdown/

8 years ago

150 upvotes – 22 comments

AWS EC2 T2 Instances Demystified: Don’t Learn the Hard Way

https://roberttisdale.com/aws-ec2-t2-instances-demystified-dont-learn-hard-way/

8 years ago

147 upvotes – 38 comments

DNA linked to Golden State Killer arrest came from a genealogy website

http://www.ktvu.com/news/dna-linked-to-golden-state-killer-arrest-came-from-a-genealogy-website

8 years ago

146 upvotes – 2 comments

Managed Redis on Google Cloud Platform

https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/04/Accelerating-innovation-for-cloud-native-managed-databases.html

8 years ago

140 upvotes – 42 comments

Sinclair Spectrum Designer Rick Dickinson Has Died

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-43907248

8 years ago

140 upvotes – 45 comments

Programming Bottom-Up (1993)

http://www.paulgraham.com/progbot.html

8 years ago

127 upvotes – 64 comments

Tesla's Autopilot Chief Keller Steps Down After Two Years

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-26/tesla-says-autopilot-vice-president-keller-is-leaving-carmaker

8 years ago

126 upvotes – 115 comments

Doctors have reversed an inherited disorder in utero using a biotech drug

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/611015/in-a-medical-first-drugs-have-reversed-an-inherited-disorder-in-the-womb/

8 years ago

123 upvotes – 28 comments

'We're doomed': Mayer Hillman on the climate reality no one else dare mention

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/apr/26/were-doomed-mayer-hillman-on-the-climate-reality-no-one-else-will-dare-mention

8 years ago

122 upvotes – 146 comments

Streaming Video and Audio with Low Delay

http://steinwurf.com/blog/2018-04-25-2022.html

8 years ago

117 upvotes – 46 comments

Yes it's a bubble, so what?

https://www.researchaffiliates.com/en_us/publications/articles/668-yes-its-a-bubble-so-what.html

8 years ago

115 upvotes – 102 comments

Hollywood Groups Advocate for More Internet Regulation

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180422/16535039688/hollywood-front-groups-decide-to-kick-facebook-while-down-advocate-more-internet-regulations.shtml

8 years ago

115 upvotes – 37 comments

Newspaper op-eds change minds

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/04/180424133556.htm

8 years ago

113 upvotes – 38 comments

Drupal Remote Code Execution vulnerability exploited widely

https://drupal.sh/drupal-remote-execution-vulnerability-exploit-sa-core-2018-004

8 years ago

111 upvotes – 79 comments

F-Secure Hack Can Unlock Millions of Hotel Rooms with Handheld Device

https://www.extremetech.com/internet/268263-f-secure-hack-unlocks-millions-of-hotel-rooms-with-handheld-device

8 years ago

110 upvotes – 51 comments

Programmers: Before you turn 40, get a plan B (2009)

https://improvingsoftware.com/2009/05/19/programmers-before-you-turn-40-get-a-plan-b/

8 years ago

107 upvotes – 89 comments

How the Nintendo Switch prevents firmware downgrades

https://hackernoon.com/how-the-nintendo-switch-prevents-downgrades-by-irreparably-blowing-its-own-fuses-884bd3b7a8ba

8 years ago

105 upvotes – 98 comments

The impossibly wide learning of Sabine Baring-Gould

http://theweek.com/articles/763465/last-man-who-knew-everything

8 years ago

99 upvotes – 27 comments

How does dynamic dispatch work in WebAssembly?

http://fitzgeraldnick.com/2018/04/26/how-does-dynamic-dispatch-work-in-wasm.html

8 years ago

98 upvotes – 19 comments

Snapchat launches Spectacles V2

https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/26/snapchat-spectacles-2/

8 years ago

98 upvotes – 125 comments

TDM: From Model-Free to Model-Based Deep Reinforcement Learning

http://bair.berkeley.edu/blog/2018/04/26/tdm/

8 years ago

97 upvotes – 11 comments

Boeing and Airbus, the new ‘super duopoly’

https://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Boeing-and-Airbus-the-new-super-duopoly-12863735.php

8 years ago

84 upvotes – 67 comments

NCSA Mosaic for X 1.0 available (1993)

https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!msg/comp.windows.x.apps/F1b2qOfL9j8/TMVnLhg07xcJ

8 years ago

82 upvotes – 41 comments
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