top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-02-15

Google removes ‘view image’ button from search results

https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/15/17017864/google-removes-view-image-button-from-search-results

8 years ago

658 upvotes – 374 comments

Rust 1.24

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2018/02/15/Rust-1.24.html

8 years ago

503 upvotes – 208 comments

Picking Apart the Crashing iOS String

https://manishearth.github.io/blog/2018/02/15/picking-apart-the-crashing-ios-string/

8 years ago

457 upvotes – 178 comments

Hey Microsoft, Stop Installing Apps on My PC Without Asking

https://www.howtogeek.com/342871/hey-microsoft-stop-installing-apps-on-my-pc-without-asking/

8 years ago

393 upvotes – 331 comments

Tractor Hacking: Documentary About Farmers Fighting for the Right to Repair

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/pamkqn/watch-tractor-hacking-john-deere-right-to-repair-documentary

8 years ago

352 upvotes – 115 comments

MongoDB gets support for multi-document ACID transactions

https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/15/mongodb-gets-support-for-multi-document-acid-transactions/

8 years ago

343 upvotes – 242 comments

It's Getting Harder to Tell Banks from Tech Companies

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-02-15/lloyd-blankfein-wants-goldman-sachs-to-push-technology

8 years ago

322 upvotes – 252 comments

As we age, cancer rates go up as immune system winds down

https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/02/as-we-age-cancer-rates-go-up-as-immune-system-winds-down/#p3

8 years ago

313 upvotes – 80 comments

FCC’s Inspector General investigating whether Ajit Pai acted inappropriately

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/mb53jn/fcc-inspector-general-investigation-ajit-pai-corruption

8 years ago

289 upvotes – 39 comments

Lessons learned while developing Age of Empires 1 Definitive Edition

http://richg42.blogspot.com/2018/02/some-lessons-learned-while-developing.html

8 years ago

277 upvotes – 66 comments

Sex and STEM: Stubborn Facts and Stubborn Ideologies

http://quillette.com/2018/02/15/sex-stem-stubborn-facts-stubborn-ideologies/

8 years ago

275 upvotes – 500 comments

A Brief Glance at How Various Text Editors Manage Their Textual Data (2015)

https://ecc-comp.blogspot.com/2015/05/a-brief-glance-at-how-5-text-editors.html

8 years ago

272 upvotes – 59 comments

How to find hidden cameras (2002) [pdf]

http://www.tentacle.franken.de/papers/hiddencams.pdf

8 years ago

265 upvotes – 64 comments

Deep reinforcement learning doesn't work yet

https://www.alexirpan.com/2018/02/14/rl-hard.html

8 years ago

246 upvotes – 50 comments

A collection of things that are Turing-complete by accident (2013)

http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/articles/accidentally_turing_complete.html

8 years ago

244 upvotes – 63 comments

SoYouLearn – A flexible and advanced spaced repetition platform

https://www.soyoulearn.com/

8 years ago

226 upvotes – 109 comments

Launch HN: CoinTracker (YC W18) – Cryptocurrency portfolio and tax manager

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16386419

8 years ago

222 upvotes – 155 comments

Capturing Starman from 1M miles away

http://www.deepskycolors.com/archivo/2018/02/13/capturing-Starman-from-1-million-miles.html

8 years ago

206 upvotes – 126 comments

Promises are not neutral enough

https://staltz.com/promises-are-not-neutral-enough.html

8 years ago

202 upvotes – 129 comments

Show HN: Gnomecast – A Linux Chromecast GUI with transcoding and subtitles

https://github.com/keredson/gnomecast

8 years ago

★ 1.4kPythonGPL-3.0
176 upvotes – 62 comments

The Cuttlefish, a Master of Camouflage, Reveals a New Trick

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/15/science/cuttlefish-camouflage-neurons.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fscience&action=click&contentCollection=science&region=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=2&pgtype=sectionfront

8 years ago

172 upvotes – 31 comments

Spectre Mitigations in Microsoft's C/C++ Compiler

https://www.paulkocher.com/doc/MicrosoftCompilerSpectreMitigation.html

8 years ago

163 upvotes – 40 comments

Major new iOS bug can crash iPhones and disable access to apps and iMessages

https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/15/17015654/apple-iphone-crash-ios-11-bug-imessage

8 years ago

154 upvotes – 115 comments

Coinbase Commerce: merchants can accept multiple digital currencies

https://medium.com/@coinbasecommerce/coinbase-commerce-the-easiest-way-for-merchants-to-accept-digital-currency-54ba64966f8d

8 years ago

152 upvotes – 82 comments

Many medical devices on the market have undergone no clinical testing

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/13/opinion/sunday/can-your-hip-replacement-kill-you.html

8 years ago

152 upvotes – 80 comments

The Two Faces of AMP

https://timkadlec.com/remembers/2018-02-14-the-two-faces-of-amp/

8 years ago

148 upvotes – 56 comments

Coinbase Multiple Charges

https://www.reddit.com/r/CoinBase/comments/7xs1aq/update_on_multiple_charges/

8 years ago

144 upvotes – 35 comments

Age of Empires 2 Scenario Editor Is Turing Complete

https://ecc-comp.blogspot.com/2018/02/age-of-empires-2-scenario-editor-is.html

8 years ago

143 upvotes – 33 comments

Real world 4G vs. 5G test shows 14x bandwidth increase

https://react-etc.net/entry/real-world-4g-lte-vs-5g-test-benchmark-14x-bandwidth

8 years ago

142 upvotes – 91 comments

Peter Thiel Parts Ways with Silicon Valley

https://www.wsj.com/articles/tech-luminary-peter-thiel-parts-ways-with-silicon-valley-1518696120

8 years ago

136 upvotes – 202 comments

Interpretable Machine Learning Through Teaching

https://blog.openai.com/interpretable-machine-learning-through-teaching/

8 years ago

134 upvotes – 6 comments

Astrophotographer Spots Elon Musk's Roadster Cruising Through Space [video]

https://www.space.com/39699-astrophotographer-spots-elon-musks-roadster-in-space-video.html

8 years ago

124 upvotes – 11 comments

Chip Aging Accelerates

https://semiengineering.com/chip-aging-accelerates/

8 years ago

115 upvotes – 58 comments

JavaScript Promises Discussion: Make Them Monadic? (2013)

https://github.com/promises-aplus/promises-spec/issues/94

8 years ago

★ 1.8kCC0-1.0
113 upvotes – 76 comments

WebAssembly First Public Working Drafts

https://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/6838

8 years ago

112 upvotes – 64 comments

IDEA: A series of nonverbal algorithm assembly instructions

https://idea-instructions.com

8 years ago

112 upvotes – 8 comments

Brooklyn Bitcoin Mine Causes Static for T-Mobile Users

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-15/bitcoin-mine-causes-harmful-interference-for-t-mobile-users

8 years ago

110 upvotes – 48 comments

Why Were Early Psychedelicists so Weird?

http://slatestarcodex.com/2016/04/28/why-were-early-psychedelicists-so-weird/

8 years ago

103 upvotes – 47 comments

Disappointing Findings on Anti-Poverty Cash Transfers in the USA

http://www.straighttalkonevidence.org/2017/09/22/disappointing-findings-on-conditional-cash-transfers-as-a-tool-to-break-the-poverty-cycle-in-the-united-states/

8 years ago

101 upvotes – 143 comments

Fnl: zero-overhead Lisp syntax for Lua

https://github.com/bakpakin/fnl

8 years ago

★ 2.7kFennelMIT
92 upvotes – 35 comments

The Horse Helped Shape Our World at Great Expense to Itself

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/how-the-horse-helped-shape-our-world--at-great-expense-to-itself/2018/02/09/550b649c-0078-11e8-8acf-ad2991367d9d_story.html

8 years ago

88 upvotes – 68 comments

Your body wasn’t built to last: Math of human mortality (2009)

https://gravityandlevity.wordpress.com/2009/07/08/your-body-wasnt-built-to-last-a-lesson-from-human-mortality-rates/

8 years ago

88 upvotes – 26 comments

‘Lede’ vs. ‘Lead’ (2011)

http://howardowens.com/lede-vs-lead/

8 years ago

85 upvotes – 72 comments

How California campuses are fixing the problem of pricey college books

https://www.scpr.org/news/2018/02/15/80805/here-s-how-california-campuses-are-fixing-the-prob/

8 years ago

84 upvotes – 133 comments

New chip reduces neural networks’ power consumption

http://news.mit.edu/2018/chip-neural-networks-battery-powered-devices-0214

8 years ago

83 upvotes – 16 comments

Kotlin/Native v0.6 is Here

https://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2018/02/kotlinnative-v0-6-is-here/?

8 years ago

79 upvotes – 18 comments

The Bandwagon – Claude Shannon (1956) [pdf]

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=1056774

8 years ago

77 upvotes – 9 comments

Proofs and Refutations Using Z3

https://blog.janestreet.com/proofs-and-refutations-using-z3/

8 years ago

77 upvotes – 21 comments

Homoiconicity isn’t the point (2012)

http://calculist.org/blog/2012/04/17/homoiconicity-isnt-the-point/

8 years ago

75 upvotes – 76 comments
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