top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-04-20

Almost Nothing About the ‘Apple Harvests Gold from iPhones’ Story Is True

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/apple-does-not-melt-iphones-into-gold

10 years ago

655 upvotes – 202 comments

Arduino in the size of a AA battery

http://techcrunch.com/2016/04/19/aaduino/

10 years ago

528 upvotes – 170 comments

Let's Kill All the Mosquitoes

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2016/01/zika_carrying_mosquitoes_are_a_global_scourge_and_must_be_stopped.html

10 years ago

491 upvotes – 425 comments

Git Tips

http://www.alexkras.com/19-git-tips-for-everyday-use/

10 years ago

487 upvotes – 98 comments

Canada to introduce legislation to legalize recreational cannabis

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/apr/20/canada-legislation-decriminalize-recreational-cannabis-weed-marijuana

10 years ago

458 upvotes – 210 comments

Curious Link Between the Fly-By Anomaly and the “Impossible” EmDrive Thruster

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/601299/the-curious-link-between-the-fly-by-anomaly-and-the-impossible-emdrive-thruster/

10 years ago

435 upvotes – 239 comments

Detecting the use of “curl – bash” server side

https://www.idontplaydarts.com/2016/04/detecting-curl-pipe-bash-server-side/

10 years ago

352 upvotes – 120 comments

Off the Grid

http://www.stephenfry.com/2016/04/off-the-grid/

10 years ago

313 upvotes – 167 comments

Open Source Project – View 689 Salaries Posted on Hacker News, Share Yours

https://blog.step.com/2016/04/08/an-open-source-project-for-tech-salaries/

10 years ago

310 upvotes – 220 comments

Got a Hot Seller on Amazon? Prepare for Amazon to Make One Too

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-04-20/got-a-hot-seller-on-amazon-prepare-for-e-tailer-to-make-one-too

10 years ago

290 upvotes – 226 comments

Deadly animal prion disease appears in Europe

http://www.nature.com/news/deadly-animal-prion-disease-appears-in-europe-1.19759

10 years ago

269 upvotes – 170 comments

The Stupid Shit No One Needs and Terrible Ideas Hackathon 2.0

https://stupidhackathon.github.io/?2.0

10 years ago

265 upvotes – 64 comments

US Ranks 41st in Press Freedom Index Thanks to 'War on Whistleblowers'

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/04/20/475017281/u-s-ranks-41st-in-press-freedom-index-thanks-to-war-on-whistleblowers

10 years ago

232 upvotes – 49 comments

Three teen sisters who win medals in coding competitions

http://blog.hackerrank.com/3-teen-sisters-crush-coding-records-stereotypes/

10 years ago

222 upvotes – 140 comments

FreeCAD 0.16 release notes

http://freecadweb.org/wiki/index.php?title=Release_notes_0.16

10 years ago

214 upvotes – 75 comments

VW 'Dieselgate' software developed at Audi in 1999: report

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-volkswagen-emissions-audi-idUSKCN0XG2DN

10 years ago

200 upvotes – 166 comments

Understanding and Hardening Linux Containers [pdf]

https://www.nccgroup.trust/globalassets/our-research/us/whitepapers/2016/april/ncc_group_understanding_hardening_linux_containers-10pdf

10 years ago

196 upvotes – 106 comments

Open-Source Recycling

http://preciousplastic.com/

10 years ago

174 upvotes – 40 comments

NYC tech catching up to Silicon Valley, while Seattle flails

https://medium.com/@sandimac/nyc-tech-catching-up-to-silicon-valley-while-seattle-flails-here-s-why-97ba7147b5f6#.e84c892cd

10 years ago

164 upvotes – 159 comments

Wangle – an asynchronous C++ networking and RPC library

https://code.facebook.com/posts/215466732167400/wangle-an-asynchronous-c-networking-and-rpc-library/

10 years ago

164 upvotes – 74 comments

Intel made a huge mistake 10 years ago

http://www.vox.com/2016/4/20/11463818/intel-iphone-mobile-revolution

10 years ago

163 upvotes – 189 comments

The Hedonic Treadmill

http://happierhuman.com/hedonic-treadmill/

10 years ago

154 upvotes – 131 comments

England and Wales House Price Analysis

https://jasmcole.com/2016/04/17/england-and-wales-house-prices/

10 years ago

153 upvotes – 60 comments

Show HN: Test your JavaScript modules simultaneously in 32 different versions of Node.js

http://victorbjelkholm.github.io/autochecker/

10 years ago

142 upvotes – 61 comments

Introducing Citus Cloud

https://www.citusdata.com/blog/1773-craig-kerstiens/414-introducing-citus-cloud

10 years ago

138 upvotes – 45 comments

BMW Loses Core Development Team of Its I3 and I8 Electric Vehicle Line

http://www.wsj.com/articles/bmw-loses-core-development-team-of-its-i3-and-i8-electric-vehicle-line-1461086049?mod=e2tw

10 years ago

131 upvotes – 122 comments

How Americans Became So Sensitive to Harm

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/04/concept-creep/477939/?single_page=true

10 years ago

131 upvotes – 153 comments

Row Level Security with PostgreSQL 9.5

https://www.compose.io/articles/row-level-security-with-postgresql-95/

10 years ago

129 upvotes – 47 comments

Angel Problem

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel_problem

10 years ago

128 upvotes – 32 comments

Iceland's Water Cure

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/24/magazine/icelands-water-cure.html

10 years ago

124 upvotes – 37 comments

Tesla Model X owners finding car doors won’t shut, windows won’t close

http://techcrunch.com/2016/04/20/tesla-model-x-owners-finding-car-doors-wont-shut-windows-wont-close/

10 years ago

124 upvotes – 133 comments

Monod, our secure and offline-first Markdown editor, is open source

https://github.com/TailorDev/monod

10 years ago

★ 870 JavaScript MIT
116 upvotes – 67 comments

Microsoft is ending Xbox 360 production more than 10 years after its debut

http://venturebeat.com/2016/04/20/microsoft-is-ending-xbox-360-production-more-than-10-years-after-its-debut/

10 years ago

114 upvotes – 103 comments

Nearly half of Americans would have trouble finding $400 to pay for an emergency

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/05/my-secret-shame/476415/?single_page=true

10 years ago

113 upvotes – 146 comments

Scientific Regress

https://www.firstthings.com/article/2016/05/scientific-regress

10 years ago

111 upvotes – 55 comments

‘Utopia for Realists?’ – a review

https://www.opendemocracy.net/neil-howard/utopia-for-realists-review

10 years ago

110 upvotes – 120 comments

Building a Regex Search Engine for DNA

http://benchling.engineering/dna-regex-search/?hn

10 years ago

109 upvotes – 35 comments

Machine Learning Meets Economics, Part 2

http://blog.mldb.ai/blog/posts/2016/04/ml-meets-economics2/

10 years ago

109 upvotes – 16 comments

Clementine: modern music player and library organizer

https://www.clementine-player.org/en

10 years ago

105 upvotes – 57 comments

Minuteman: A Distributed HA Load Balancer

https://github.com/dcos/minuteman

10 years ago

★ 626
102 upvotes – 20 comments

EU hits Google with second antitrust charge

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-google-antitrust-idUSKCN0XH0VX

10 years ago

102 upvotes – 119 comments

The Indian sanitary pad revolutionary (2014)

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26260978

10 years ago

100 upvotes – 41 comments

WebGL map of global shipping movements

http://www.shipmap.org

10 years ago

99 upvotes – 13 comments

Coala – Code Analysis Application

http://coala-analyzer.org/

10 years ago

87 upvotes – 22 comments

The Psychological Cost of Boring Buildings

http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2016/04/the-psychological-cost-of-boring-buildings.html

10 years ago

83 upvotes – 56 comments

How I investigated Uber surge pricing in D.C

https://source.opennews.org/en-US/articles/how-i-investigated-uber-surge-pricing-dc/

10 years ago

75 upvotes – 11 comments

Fresh evidence links Saudi government to 9/11

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3549402/Fresh-evidence-links-Saudi-government-9-11-Flight-certificate-bomber-embassy-envelope-buried-underground.html

10 years ago

75 upvotes – 31 comments

Estimating Community Drug Abuse by Wastewater Analysis

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2516581/

10 years ago

62 upvotes – 41 comments

The history of peer review, and how it was troubled from the start

http://www.nature.com/news/peer-review-troubled-from-the-start-1.19763

10 years ago

61 upvotes – 20 comments

USB soldering iron test and teardown [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-8D5t6TJYU

10 years ago

59 upvotes – 28 comments

Apply HN: WiseGuy– Solving a problem of most Hacker News users: Too much to read

https://medium.com/@ApplyHN/apply-hn-wiseguy-solving-the-problems-of-every-hacker-news-user-have-someone-read-your-articles-334278913c84#.1n15mt4tz

10 years ago

57 upvotes – 34 comments

MIT ChainAnchor – Bribing Miners to Regulate Bitcoin

https://petertodd.org/2016/mit-chainanchor-bribing-miners-to-regulate-bitcoin

10 years ago

53 upvotes – 11 comments

Hamilton to stay on $10; Tubman replacing Jackson

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/04/treasurys-lew-to-announce-hamilton-to-stay-on-10-bill-222204

10 years ago

52 upvotes – 74 comments

Flashback: Declassified 1970 DOD cybersecurity document still relevant

http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/04/flashback-declassified-1970-dod-cybersecurity-document-still-relevant/

10 years ago

52 upvotes – 2 comments
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