top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-04-20

Calculus Made Easy (1914) [pdf]

http://djm.cc/library/Calculus_Made_Easy_Thompson.pdf

9 years ago

1080 upvotes – 189 comments

System76 is moving product design and manufacturing in house

http://blog.system76.com/post/159767214983/entering-phase-three

9 years ago

617 upvotes – 323 comments

A new upstream project to break up Docker into independent components

https://github.com/moby/moby/pull/32691

9 years ago

★ 71.5kGoApache-2.0
571 upvotes – 305 comments

Microsoft: You need to fix your Skype and Microsoft account issues, this is insane

https://kolemcrae.com/microsoft-you-seriously-need-to-fix-your-skype-and-microsoft-account-issues-this-is-insane-6fd51e104caa

9 years ago

544 upvotes – 171 comments

Me and SVG

http://codepen.io/AmeliaBR/post/me-and-svg

9 years ago

507 upvotes – 225 comments

McDonald's Real Estate: How They Really Make Their Money (2015)

http://blog.wallstreetsurvivor.com/2015/10/08/mcdonalds-beyond-the-burger/

9 years ago

470 upvotes – 259 comments

Tmux and Vim – better together

https://blog.bugsnag.com/tmux-and-vim/

9 years ago

461 upvotes – 290 comments

Analysis of the United Airlines passenger removal incident

https://hasbrouck.org/blog/archives/002292.html

9 years ago

443 upvotes – 363 comments

Ask HN: How to actually “talk to your customers”?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14155460

9 years ago

291 upvotes – 110 comments

Google’s Featured Snippets are often wrong, and also damaging to businesses

https://theoutline.com/post/1399/how-google-ate-celebritynetworth-com

9 years ago

289 upvotes – 139 comments

PhotoScan: Taking Glare-Free Pictures of Pictures

https://research.googleblog.com/2017/04/photoscan-taking-glare-free-pictures-of.html

9 years ago

286 upvotes – 64 comments

Serde 1.0.0 for Rust released

https://github.com/serde-rs/serde/releases/tag/v1.0.0

9 years ago

★ 10.5kRustApache-2.0
273 upvotes – 51 comments

Microsoft to shut down Wunderlist in favor of its new app, To-Do

https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/19/microsoft-to-shut-down-wunderlist-in-favor-of-its-new-app-to-do/

9 years ago

259 upvotes – 248 comments

Ubuntu on AWS Gets Serious Performance Boost with AWS-Tuned Kernel

https://insights.ubuntu.com/2017/04/05/ubuntu-on-aws-gets-serious-performance-boost-with-aws-tuned-kernel/

9 years ago

253 upvotes – 43 comments

Proposal to start a new implementation of Thunderbird based on web technologies

https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/tb-planning/2017-March/005298.html

9 years ago

237 upvotes – 233 comments

Status – A Mobile Ethereum OS

https://status.im/

9 years ago

232 upvotes – 119 comments

New IPython release drops Python 2.7 support

http://ipython.readthedocs.io/en/stable/whatsnew/version6.html

9 years ago

214 upvotes – 126 comments

JavaScript performance, WebAssembly, and Shared Memory in Microsoft Edge

https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2017/04/20/improved-javascript-performance-webassembly-shared-memory/#LhwGh0LB9MRs3RHG.97

9 years ago

211 upvotes – 163 comments

Ultra-low-energy consumption ultrasonic clothes dryer

https://energy.gov/eere/buildings/downloads/novel-ultra-low-energy-consumption-ultrasonic-clothes-dryer

9 years ago

201 upvotes – 182 comments

Why Facebook Keeps Beating Every Rival: It’s the Network

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/19/technology/facebook-snapchat-instagram-innovation.html?ref=business

9 years ago

196 upvotes – 199 comments

You think you can't be phished?

https://hackaday.com/2017/04/19/you-think-you-cant-be-phished/

9 years ago

192 upvotes – 133 comments

Ask HN: What are the most important problems in your industry?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14157880

9 years ago

191 upvotes – 149 comments

Velodyne Announces a Solid-State Lidar

http://spectrum.ieee.org/cars-that-think/transportation/sensors/velodyne-announces-a-solidstate-lidar

9 years ago

189 upvotes – 151 comments

How to Remember More of What You Learn with Spaced Repetition (2016)

https://collegeinfogeek.com/spaced-repetition-memory-technique/

9 years ago

188 upvotes – 45 comments

What Is ‘Site Reliability Engineering’?

https://landing.google.com/sre/interview/ben-treynor.html

9 years ago

186 upvotes – 86 comments

Cycling to work can cut cancer and heart disease, says study

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-39641122

9 years ago

172 upvotes – 269 comments

Canada is North America’s up-and-coming startup center

https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/20/canada-is-north-americas-up-and-coming-startup-center/

9 years ago

171 upvotes – 222 comments

220,000 cores and counting: largest ever public cloud job

https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/04/220000-cores-and-counting-MIT-math-professor-breaks-record-for-largest-ever-Compute-Engine-job.html

9 years ago

161 upvotes – 76 comments

What a stranger taught me about Japan

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20170413-the-mysterious-man-who-gave-me-japan

9 years ago

160 upvotes – 45 comments

David Lynch’s Dune – A sci-fi film by a director without much care for sci-fi

http://www.tor.com/2017/04/18/david-lynchs-dune-is-what-you-get-when-you-build-a-science-fictional-world-with-no-interest-in-science-fiction/

9 years ago

134 upvotes – 203 comments

The Intel Optane SSD DC P4800X (375GB) Review: Testing 3D XPoint Performance

http://www.anandtech.com/show/11209/intel-optane-ssd-dc-p4800x-review-a-deep-dive-into-3d-xpoint-enterprise-performance

9 years ago

134 upvotes – 89 comments

Neuralink and the Brain's Magical Future

http://waitbutwhy.com/2017/04/neuralink.html

9 years ago

133 upvotes – 25 comments

Plastc will cease operations and will not fulfill any pre-orders

https://plastc.com/

9 years ago

130 upvotes – 162 comments

How The Economist covers the world

https://medium.economist.com/how-the-economist-covers-the-world-720b7e8060e8

9 years ago

125 upvotes – 43 comments

Google Home now supports multiple users

https://blog.google/products/assistant/tomato-tomahto-google-home-now-supports-multiple-users/

9 years ago

123 upvotes – 46 comments

A big patch of plastic garbage has been discovered in the Arctic

http://www.theverge.com/2017/4/19/15358950/plastics-arctic-ocean-microplastics-polar-ice-caps-birds-animals

9 years ago

117 upvotes – 78 comments

How people talk about marijuana on Reddit: a natural language analysis

https://medium.com/@srobtweets/how-people-talk-about-marijuana-on-reddit-a-natural-language-analysis-a8d595882a7a

9 years ago

117 upvotes – 40 comments

The Nightmare Scenario for Florida’s Coastal Homeowners

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-04-19/the-nightmare-scenario-for-florida-s-coastal-homeowners

9 years ago

108 upvotes – 136 comments

Next Generation MITnet

https://gist.github.com/simonster/e22e50cd52b7dffcf5a4db2b8ea4cce0

9 years ago

106 upvotes – 41 comments

Planet enlists machine learning experts to parse Amazon basin data

https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/20/planet-enlists-machine-learning-experts-to-parse-a-treasure-trove-of-amazon-basin-data/

9 years ago

104 upvotes – 21 comments

Introduction to Microsoft To-Do

http://gunnarpeipman.com/2017/04/microsoft-to-do/

9 years ago

100 upvotes – 66 comments

Inside Every Utopia Is a Dystopia

http://bostonreview.net/literature-culture/john-crowley-inside-every-utopia-dystopia

9 years ago

96 upvotes – 30 comments

Bitcoin Mining is NP-hard (2014)

https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2014/10/27/bitcoin-mining-is-np-hard/

9 years ago

92 upvotes – 20 comments

Why I love Swedish taxes

https://www.vox.com/2016/4/8/11380356/swedish-taxes-love

9 years ago

91 upvotes – 112 comments

Riemann Zeta function visualizations with Python

http://blog.christianperone.com/2010/02/riemann-zeta-function-visualizations-with-python/

9 years ago

91 upvotes – 7 comments
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