top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-03-06

U.S. users are leaving Facebook by the millions, Edison Research says

https://www.marketplace.org/2019/03/06/tech/exclusive-look-numbers-showing-users-leaving-facebook-by-the-millions

7 years ago

1293 upvotes – 595 comments

Serious Chrome zero-day

https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2019/03/06/serious-chrome-zero-day-google-says-update-right-this-minute/

7 years ago

732 upvotes – 356 comments

Firefox to add Tor Browser anti-fingerprinting technique called letterboxing

https://www.zdnet.com/article/firefox-to-add-tor-browser-anti-fingerprinting-technique-called-letterboxing/

7 years ago

720 upvotes – 209 comments

Experts cracked laptop of crypto CEO who died with $137M, but the money was gone

https://www.businessinsider.com/crypto-ceo-died-with-passwords-to-137-million-but-the-money-is-gone-2019-3

7 years ago

649 upvotes – 331 comments

Implementing a Neural Network from Scratch in Python

https://victorzhou.com/blog/intro-to-neural-networks/

7 years ago

616 upvotes – 100 comments

Facebook Still Tracks People on Yelp, Duolingo, Indeed

https://privacyinternational.org/blog/2758/guess-what-facebook-still-tracks-you-android-apps-even-if-you-dont-have-facebook-account

7 years ago

599 upvotes – 355 comments

Microservices, Containers and Kubernetes in Ten Minutes

https://gravitational.com/blog/microservices-containers-kubernetes/

7 years ago

384 upvotes – 85 comments

Democrats to push to reinstate repealed 'net neutrality' rules

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-internet/democrats-to-push-to-reinstate-repealed-net-neutrality-rules-idUSKCN1QL1W0/

7 years ago

347 upvotes – 170 comments

European Parliament set to end EU-wide daylight savings

https://www.dw.com/en/european-parliament-set-to-end-eu-wide-daylight-savings/a-47775317

7 years ago

315 upvotes – 259 comments

24/192 Music Downloads and why they make no sense (2012)

https://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html

7 years ago

295 upvotes – 314 comments

Viewing Matrices and Probability as Graphs

https://www.math3ma.com/blog/matrices-probability-graphs

7 years ago

245 upvotes – 29 comments

How to Spoof PDF Signatures

https://web-in-security.blogspot.com/2019/02/how-to-spoof-pdf-signatures.html

7 years ago

222 upvotes – 44 comments

Amazon to Shut All U.S. Pop-Up Stores as It Rethinks Physical Retail Strategy

https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-to-shut-all-u-s-pop-up-stores-as-it-rethinks-physical-retail-strategy-11551902178

7 years ago

221 upvotes – 117 comments

Keeping CALM: when distributed consistency is easy

https://blog.acolyer.org/2019/03/06/keeping-calm-when-distributed-consistency-is-easy/

7 years ago

218 upvotes – 45 comments

Show HN: Create Chart Images from a URL

https://quickchart.io/

7 years ago

204 upvotes – 35 comments

Prototype iPhones That Hackers Use to Research Apple’s Most Sensitive Code

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/gyakgw/the-prototype-dev-fused-iphones-that-hackers-use-to-research-apple-zero-days

7 years ago

203 upvotes – 46 comments

Open-Sourcing Windows Calculator

https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2019/03/06/announcing-the-open-sourcing-of-windows-calculator/

7 years ago

194 upvotes – 174 comments

Updated Microsoft Store App Developer Agreement: New Revenue Share

https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2019/03/06/updated-microsoft-store-app-developer-agreement-new-revenue-share/

7 years ago

179 upvotes – 108 comments

Let over Lambda – Common Lisp Book (2008)

https://letoverlambda.com/

7 years ago

176 upvotes – 97 comments

A PhD state of mind (2018)

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41556-018-0085-4

7 years ago

170 upvotes – 100 comments

Nasa's Visual Universe

https://artsexperiments.withgoogle.com/nasasvisualuniverse

7 years ago

167 upvotes – 60 comments

Paris's Rue Cremieux Has an Instagram Problem

https://www.citylab.com/life/2019/03/rue-cremieux-paris-instagram-tourists-where-to-take-pictures/584164/

7 years ago

153 upvotes – 152 comments

Ask HN: How to create a service similar to Patreon?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19316728

7 years ago

141 upvotes – 93 comments

JVM Anatomy Quarks: Compressed References

https://shipilev.net/jvm/anatomy-quarks/23-compressed-references/

7 years ago

141 upvotes – 34 comments

Waymo: Bringing 3D perimeter Lidar to partners

https://medium.com/waymo/bringing-3d-perimeter-lidar-to-partners-6beaa7d3dcc2

7 years ago

136 upvotes – 61 comments

Neuroactive potential of human gut microbiota in quality of life and depression

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-018-0337-x.epdf?referrer_access_token=wrPsThpekvlDIFVfG5LcxNRgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0Pk-saWPJmzGA3H2wMSXmwWlLgoMIU-QgMdenquoZAoe6NETxnfNGaTyvKBf8sDab0d4o3IEWSDwPMHnxuzB02yxHpGxsrb_BAMi8S1xd9sKTII8ETVXrRjzyawDGyhVDxF3e1s_r1_lufiujI6-hOfoR0i-ws8EVQx2UqY7VLGaMBRs1N-olOmFv8l7zf3HcJYx3fvAbSktPcSgGBlaxr63WkPzfDrnnSyk1Lfje1HUw%3D%3D&tracking_referrer=www.genengnews.com

7 years ago

135 upvotes – 61 comments

A Privacy-Focused Vision for Social Networking

https://www.facebook.com/notes/mark-zuckerberg/a-privacy-focused-vision-for-social-networking/10156700570096634/

7 years ago

133 upvotes – 68 comments

'Big Data' Has Come to Mean 'Small Sampled Data'

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kalevleetaru/2019/02/17/the-big-data-revolution-will-be-sampled-how-big-data-has-come-to-mean-small-sampled-data/

7 years ago

129 upvotes – 37 comments

The Servant Economy

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/03/what-happened-uber-x-companies/584236/

7 years ago

128 upvotes – 133 comments

NSA’s top policy advisor: It’s time to start putting teeth in cyber deterrence

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/03/nsas-top-policy-advisor-its-time-to-start-putting-teeth-in-cyber-deterrence/

7 years ago

117 upvotes – 119 comments

Grim C++ Tales from the Crypt: The Visitor Pattern (2017)

https://cppcrypt.tumblr.com/post/168134225802

7 years ago

114 upvotes – 60 comments

On Tolstoy's “War and Peace”

https://www.newcriterion.com/issues/2019/3/the-greatest-of-all-novels

7 years ago

113 upvotes – 93 comments

Ask HN: Current and former FB employees, what's the other side to the story?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19320580

7 years ago

108 upvotes – 129 comments

FDA approves intranasal esketamine formulation

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/05/health/depression-treatment-ketamine-fda.html

7 years ago

107 upvotes – 127 comments

Warren Buffett Joins the Crowd Struggling to Understand Oracle

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-26/buffett-joins-crowd-struggling-to-assess-opaque-oracle

7 years ago

99 upvotes – 100 comments

SimFix: Automatically fix programs with existing patches from other projects

https://github.com/xgdsmileboy/SimFix

7 years ago

★ 206 Java GPL-2.0
96 upvotes – 11 comments

Jerry Merryman, an inventor of the handheld calculator, dies at 86

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-05/-brilliant-man-who-was-an-inventor-of-the-calculator-dies

7 years ago

92 upvotes – 11 comments

Capturing bacteria that eat and breathe electricity

https://news.wsu.edu/2019/03/05/capturing-bacteria-eat-breathe-electricity/

7 years ago

89 upvotes – 11 comments

Ask HN: Game devs, what is the hardest part about designing an AI for your game?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19321637

7 years ago

89 upvotes – 83 comments

Scientists are getting creative to save the kakapo

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2019/03/endangered-kapako-breeding-technology/

7 years ago

85 upvotes – 11 comments

The service mesh era: Using Istio and Stackdriver to build an SRE service

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/devops-sre/the-service-mesh-era-using-istio-and-stackdriver-to-build-an-sre-service

7 years ago

85 upvotes – 30 comments

Launch HN: The Juggernaut (YC W19) – A Publication for the South Asian Diaspora

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19320608

7 years ago

81 upvotes – 73 comments

Tensorflow 2.0.0-Alpha0

https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/releases/tag/v2.0.0-alpha0

7 years ago

★ 194.9k C++ Apache-2.0
81 upvotes – 38 comments

PSA: Some Major News Outlets Are Also Sending Data Directly to Facebook

https://twitter.com/antoniogm/status/1103190266930913281

7 years ago

81 upvotes – 21 comments

Project Management for PhDs

https://rachitnigam.com/post/project-management/

7 years ago

79 upvotes – 28 comments

Facebook refuses to disclose “chuck Chequers” Brexit advertiser to UK parliament

https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/06/facebook-refuses-to-disclose-chuck-chequers-brexit-advertiser-to-uk-parliament/

7 years ago

77 upvotes – 82 comments

Cracking the mystery of egg shape

https://vis.sciencemag.org/eggs/

7 years ago

77 upvotes – 20 comments

Ghidra Capabilities – Get Your Free NSA Reverse Engineering Tool [pdf]

https://www.rsaconference.com/writable/presentations/file_upload/png-t09-come-get-your-free-nsa-reverse-engineering-tool_.pdf

7 years ago

69 upvotes – 17 comments

Tapering of SSRI treatment to mitigate withdrawal symptoms

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-0366(19)30032-X/fulltext

7 years ago

67 upvotes – 99 comments

Unicode Standard, Version 12.0

http://blog.unicode.org/2019/03/announcing-unicode-standard-version-120.html

7 years ago

67 upvotes – 55 comments
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