top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-06-07

AI at Google: our principles

https://blog.google/topics/ai/ai-principles/

8 years ago

644 upvotes – 405 comments

Sucking carbon dioxide from air is cheaper than scientists thought

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05357-w

8 years ago

531 upvotes – 280 comments

NTSB: Autopilot steered Tesla car toward traffic barrier before deadly crash

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2018/06/ntsb-autopilot-steered-tesla-car-toward-traffic-barrier-before-deadly-crash/

8 years ago

509 upvotes – 521 comments

For more and more people, work appears to serve no purpose

https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/the-bullshit-job-boom

8 years ago

459 upvotes – 394 comments

I Quit My Job to Live on Donations to Zig

https://andrewkelley.me/post/full-time-zig.html

8 years ago

399 upvotes – 236 comments

Cutter – A Qt and C++ GUI for Radare2 reverse engineering framework

https://github.com/radareorg/cutter

8 years ago

336 upvotes – 50 comments

I’m Nat Friedman, Future CEO of GitHub. AMA

https://www.reddit.com/r/AMA/comments/8pc8mf/im_nat_friedman_future_ceo_of_github_ama/

8 years ago

336 upvotes – 202 comments

NASA Finds Ancient Organic Material, Mysterious Methane on Mars

https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-finds-ancient-organic-material-mysterious-methane-on-mars

8 years ago

333 upvotes – 102 comments

How The New York Times Uses Software to Recognize Members of Congress

https://open.nytimes.com/how-the-new-york-times-uses-software-to-recognize-members-of-congress-29b46dd426c7

8 years ago

331 upvotes – 127 comments

A Rust-Based Unikernel: First Version of a Rust-Based LibOS

https://hermitcore.org/2018/06/06/A-Rust-based-Unikernel/

8 years ago

314 upvotes – 82 comments

The end of India’s ‘IT miracle’?

https://story.californiasunday.com/infosys-india-tech

8 years ago

296 upvotes – 403 comments

The EU's Copyright Proposal Is Extremely Bad News for Everyone, Even Wikipedia

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/06/eus-copyright-proposal-extremely-bad-news-everyone-even-especially-wikipedia

8 years ago

253 upvotes – 79 comments

Facebook bug set 14M users' sharing settings to public

http://money.cnn.com/2018/06/07/technology/facebook-public-post-error/index.html

8 years ago

243 upvotes – 115 comments

We Shouldn’t Be Surprised at the Theranos Fraud

http://nautil.us/issue/60/searches/does-theranos-mark-the-peak-of-the-silicon-valley-bubble

8 years ago

241 upvotes – 244 comments

Reinforcement Learning: From Zero to State of the Art with Pytorch 4

https://github.com/higgsfield/RL-Adventure-2

8 years ago

★ 3.6kJupyter NotebookApache-2.0
238 upvotes – 14 comments

IPVanish “No-Logging” VPN Led Homeland Security to Comcast User

https://torrentfreak.com/ipvanish-no-logging-vpn-led-homeland-security-to-comcast-user-180505/

8 years ago

231 upvotes – 157 comments

Caffeine dosing strategies to optimize alertness during sleep loss

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jsr.12711

8 years ago

221 upvotes – 226 comments

Reinforcement Learning from scratch

https://blog.insightdatascience.com/reinforcement-learning-from-scratch-819b65f074d8

8 years ago

221 upvotes – 25 comments

Billions in U.S. solar projects shelved after Trump panel tariff

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-trump-effect-solar-insight/billions-in-u-s-solar-projects-shelved-after-trump-panel-tariff-idUSKCN1J30CT

8 years ago

218 upvotes – 179 comments

Haxe: Cross-Platform Development's Best-Kept Secret

https://www.toptal.com/cross-platform/haxe-language-cross-platform

8 years ago

204 upvotes – 41 comments

Pull to Refresh.js

https://www.boxfactura.com/pulltorefresh.js/

8 years ago

202 upvotes – 79 comments

What is code

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-paul-ford-what-is-code/

8 years ago

198 upvotes – 36 comments

Developers are manufacturing prefabricated apartment buildings

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/07/business/economy/modular-housing.html

8 years ago

184 upvotes – 186 comments

Ions: Develop cloud applications by deploying to a running Datomic cluster

https://docs.datomic.com/cloud/ions/ions.html

8 years ago

169 upvotes – 53 comments

CoreRT – A .NET Runtime for AOT

http://www.mattwarren.org/2018/06/07/CoreRT-.NET-Runtime-for-AOT/

8 years ago

166 upvotes – 75 comments

Climate Change Can Be Stopped by Turning Air into Gasoline

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/06/its-possible-to-reverse-climate-change-suggests-major-new-study/562289/?single_page=true

8 years ago

165 upvotes – 136 comments

Notes on Idris (2017)

https://thebreakfastpost.com/2017/12/02/notes-on-idris/

8 years ago

163 upvotes – 73 comments

Half of all adults in the world have less than $2,300 in wealth (2016)

https://qz.com/848181/half-of-all-adults-in-the-world-have-less-than-2300-in-wealth-credit-suisse-global-wealth-report-indicates/

8 years ago

160 upvotes – 211 comments

Show HN: µFSM – A state chart library for embedded applications

https://github.com/jonpe960/ufsm/tree/ufsm-0.1.0

8 years ago

★ 368C
154 upvotes – 32 comments

Our path to listing SEC-regulated crypto securities

https://blog.coinbase.com/our-path-to-listing-sec-regulated-crypto-securities-a1724e13bb5a

8 years ago

153 upvotes – 146 comments

Raising a Very Unusual Round of Funding and Open-Sourcing Our Docs

https://sparktoro.com/blog/raised-a-very-unusual-round-of-funding-were-open-sourcing-our-docs/

8 years ago

148 upvotes – 33 comments

America's Startup Scene Is Looking Anemic

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-06-07/america-s-startup-scene-is-looking-anemic

8 years ago

147 upvotes – 255 comments

Short-Termism Is Harming the Economy?

https://www.wsj.com/articles/short-termism-is-harming-the-economy-1528336801

8 years ago

145 upvotes – 65 comments

Life as a GitHub Intern: What laser cutting taught me about contribution graphs

https://blog.github.com/2018-06-07-what-laser-cutting-taught-me-about-contribution-graphs/

8 years ago

138 upvotes – 41 comments

Giteabot account was compromised

https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/4167

8 years ago

★ 55.1kGoMIT
134 upvotes – 60 comments

The State of Developer Ecosystem in 2018

https://www.jetbrains.com/research/devecosystem-2018/

8 years ago

127 upvotes – 59 comments

US government to use facial recognition technology at Mexico border crossing

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jun/05/facial-recognition-us-mexico-border-crossing

8 years ago

125 upvotes – 99 comments

Web Framework Benchmarks

https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r16

8 years ago

119 upvotes – 113 comments

Has Consciousness Lost Its Mind?

https://www.chronicle.com/article/is-this-the-world-s-most/243599

8 years ago

116 upvotes – 276 comments

Steve Jobs Promised Open Source FaceTime Back in 2010: What Happened?

https://www.cnet.com/news/steve-jobs-promised-to-make-facetime-open-source-its-time/

8 years ago

113 upvotes – 73 comments

Show HN: Kubernetes operator to automatically deploy and run Tor hidden services

https://github.com/kragniz/tor-controller

8 years ago

★ 536GoApache-2.0
113 upvotes – 9 comments

Suicide rising across the US

https://www.cdc.gov/vitalsigns/suicide/

8 years ago

109 upvotes – 192 comments

Applesauce – Make exact images of copy-protected Apple II floppy disks

https://wiki.reactivemicro.com/Applesauce

8 years ago

109 upvotes – 35 comments

Reconciling Abstraction with High Performance: A MetaOCaml Approach

https://www.nowpublishers.com/article/Details/PGL-038

8 years ago

104 upvotes – 6 comments

A Costly, Deadly Obsession with Coal

https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-costly-deadly-obsession-with-coal-1528282800

8 years ago

99 upvotes – 112 comments

Gitlab is not the only GitHub alternative

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17252838

8 years ago

98 upvotes – 47 comments

Motivating You to Learn Machine Learning – Zero to Hero

https://medium.freecodecamp.org/machine-learning-how-to-go-from-zero-to-hero-40e26f8aa6da

8 years ago

94 upvotes – 0 comments

Google Renounces AI for Weapons, but Will Still Sell to Military

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-07/google-renounces-ai-for-weapons-but-will-still-sell-to-military

8 years ago

93 upvotes – 52 comments

Einstein in Oxford

http://rsnr.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/early/2018/05/09/rsnr.2018.0002

8 years ago

92 upvotes – 8 comments

Bogus copyright and trademark complaints: EFF’s Hall Of Shame

https://www.eff.org/takedowns

8 years ago

91 upvotes – 21 comments
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