top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-04-28

The Boring Company [video]

https://boringcompany.com/

9 years ago

Stupid security things

https://www.troyhunt.com/reckon-youve-seen-some-stupid-security-things-here-hold-my-beer/

9 years ago

Just Say No

https://jacquesmattheij.com/just-say-no

9 years ago

How to talk about yourself in a developer interview

https://stackoverflow.blog/2017/04/27/how-to-talk-about-yourself-in-an-interview/?utm_content=buffer74fe2&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

9 years ago

Have We Forgotten about Geometry in Computer Vision?

http://alexgkendall.com/computer_vision/have_we_forgotten_about_geometry_in_computer_vision/

9 years ago

Getting Closer to Mass Production of Bones, Organs, and Implants

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-04-27/we-re-getting-closer-to-mass-production-of-bones-organs-and-implants

9 years ago

Ask HN: How do you keep improving?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14218408

9 years ago

Spellfucker

https://spellfucker.com/

9 years ago

Anagram Scoring

http://blog.plover.com/2017/02/21/#anagram-scoring

9 years ago

Visualizing Concurrency in Go (2016)

http://divan.github.io/posts/go_concurrency_visualize/

9 years ago

The Arctic as it is known today is almost certainly gone

http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21721379-current-trends-arctic-will-be-ice-free-summer-2040-arctic-it-known-today

9 years ago

Goodbye Amazon

https://www.princeton-audio.com/company-news/goodbye-amazon-and-good-riddance

9 years ago

N.S.A Halts Collection of Americans’ Emails About Foreign Targets

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/28/us/politics/nsa-surveillance-terrorism-privacy.html

9 years ago

More than 800 startups sign letter objecting to plans to kill net neutrality

http://www.theverge.com/2017/4/27/15447394/fcc-net-neutrality-roll-back-startups-letter-y-combinator

9 years ago

El Salvador bans metal mining in world first

https://phys.org/news/2017-04-el-salvador-metal-world.html

9 years ago

Postgres tips for Rails developers

https://www.citusdata.com/blog/2017/04/28/postgres-tips-for-rails/

9 years ago

DHL pilot alleges poor labor practices that are spreading throughout industry

https://qz.com/969690/as-a-pilot-ive-seen-up-close-that-global-companies-skirting-american-labor-rules-have-to-be-stopped/

9 years ago

A dive into spatial search algorithms

https://medium.com/@agafonkin/a-dive-into-spatial-search-algorithms-ebd0c5e39d2a

9 years ago

Facebook and Google were conned out of $100M in phishing scheme

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/apr/28/facebook-google-conned-100m-phishing-scheme

9 years ago

Gender and verbs across 100K stories: a tidy analysis

http://varianceexplained.org/r/tidytext-gender-plots/

9 years ago

Inventor who built an Iron Man-style flight suit has flown it at TED

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-39441825

9 years ago

Thank You, Yakkers

https://blog.yikyak.com/blog/thank-you-yakkers

9 years ago

Should I fire an engineer for working on his side projects during office hours?

https://www.quora.com/Should-I-fire-a-software-engineer-for-always-working-on-his-side-projects-during-office-hours?share=1

9 years ago

Formal Methods in Practice: Using TLA+ at ESpark

https://medium.com/espark-engineering-blog/formal-methods-in-practice-8f20d72bce4f

9 years ago

Invisible ripples in wireless spectrum tell Aura if someone’s in your house

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/aura-cognitive-systems-home-security-wireless-spectrum-1.4086660

9 years ago

Why I Don't Prepare for Job Interviews

https://dev.to/pbeekums/why-i-dont-prepare-for-job-interviews

9 years ago

A PostgreSQL response to Uber [pdf]

http://thebuild.com/presentations/uber-perconalive-2017.pdf

9 years ago

Linux Kernel Testing: Intro to kernelci.org

http://baylibre.com/intro-kernelci/

9 years ago

Debian 9 not including support for UEFI Secure Boot

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Debian-9-Secure-Boot-Maybe-Not

9 years ago

Chinese Offer to Eat Denmark’s Oyster Problem

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/28/world/asia/china-oysters-denmark.html?_r=0

9 years ago

Wendelstein 7-X stellarator getting ready for the next phase of operation [pdf]

http://www.ipp.mpg.de/4206699/013_April_2017_eng.pdf

9 years ago

Limits of computation

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

9 years ago

Basic Type-Level Programming in Haskell

http://www.parsonsmatt.org/2017/04/26/basic_type_level_programming_in_haskell.html

9 years ago

OfflineIMAP: sync and backup tool for IMAP

https://github.com/OfflineIMAP/offlineimap

9 years ago

★ 1.8k Python

A Trillion Edge Graph on a Single Commodity Node

https://www.nextplatform.com/2017/04/27/trillion-edge-graph-single-commodity-node/

9 years ago

People Who Train Robots to Do Their Own Jobs

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/28/technology/meet-the-people-who-train-the-robots-to-do-their-own-jobs.html

9 years ago

On the Road with Aristotle: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974)

http://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/zen-art-motorcycle-maintenance/

9 years ago

VM Escape: QEMU Case Study

http://phrack.org/papers/vm-escape-qemu-case-study.html

9 years ago

Simple Python interface to NASA datasets

https://bmtgoncalves.github.io/pyNASA/

9 years ago

BMW i3 Long Term Battery Capacity Report: Better Than Expected

http://www.bmwblog.com/2017/04/24/bmw-i3-long-term-battery-capacity-report-better-expected/

9 years ago

A History of Starcraft AI Competitions

http://www.cs.mun.ca/~dchurchill/starcraftaicomp/history.shtml

9 years ago

Why do we love chilli?

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/apr/23/why-do-we-love-chilli-pharmacology-psychology-flavour-pain-feel-the-burn

9 years ago

How to Use Responsive Images

https://blog.ycombinator.com/how-to-use-responsive-images/

9 years ago

The Clean Architecture (2012)

https://8thlight.com/blog/uncle-bob/2012/08/13/the-clean-architecture.html

9 years ago

How Google Could Collapse

https://medium.com/startup-grind/how-google-collapsed-b6ffa82198ee

9 years ago

Rethinking Design Tools in the Age of Machine Learning

https://medium.com/artists-and-machine-intelligence/rethinking-design-tools-in-the-age-of-machine-learning-369f3f07ab6c

9 years ago

What Is Digital Humanism?

http://kottke.org/17/04/what-is-digital-humanism

9 years ago