top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-04-12

Non-profit’s $300 hepatitis C cure as effective as $84k alternative

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/apr/12/non-profits-300-hepatitis-c-cure-as-effective-as-84000-alternative

8 years ago

How to Decide What to Build

https://dcgross.com/decide-what-to-work-on/

8 years ago

Building a Text Editor for a Digital-First Newsroom

https://open.nytimes.com/building-a-text-editor-for-a-digital-first-newsroom-f1cb8367fc21

8 years ago

Birds can see Earth's magnetic fields because of cryptochromes in their eyes

https://www.sciencealert.com/birds-see-magnetic-fields-cryptochrome-cry4-photoreceptor

8 years ago

Duolingo Suddenly Has Over Twice as Much Language Learning Material

https://www.fastcompany.com/40555712/duolingo-suddenly-has-over-twice-as-much-language-learning-material

8 years ago

Tesla Was Kicked Off Fatal Crash Probe by NTSB

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-12/tesla-withdraws-from-ntsb-crash-probe-over-autopilot-data-flap

8 years ago

The Moon in 4k resolution [video]

https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4619

8 years ago

The NES Homebrew Scene

https://tedium.co/2018/04/10/nes-homebrew-scene-history/

8 years ago

PowerHammer: Exfiltrating Data from Air-Gapped Computers Through Power Lines

https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.04014

8 years ago

Publisher Gets Carte Blanche to Seize New Sci-Hub Domains

https://torrentfreak.com/publisher-gets-carte-blanche-to-seize-new-sci-hub-domains-180410/

8 years ago

Firefox updates its iOS web browser to turn Tracking Protection on by default

https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/12/firefox-updates-its-ios-web-browser-to-turn-tracking-protection-on-by-default/

8 years ago

Reddit's redesign could kill discussion subreddits

https://changemyview.net/2018/04/11/reddit-redesigned-its-site-and-it-could-kill-discussion-subreddits/

8 years ago

Could a Neuroscientist Understand a Microprocessor? (2017)

http://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005268

8 years ago

Abusing Linux's firewall: the hack that allowed us to build Spectrum

https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-we-built-spectrum/?a

8 years ago

Hubble Telescope Discovers a Light-Bending 'Einstein Ring' in Space

https://www.space.com/40255-hubble-telescope-einstein-ring-photo.html

8 years ago

Hello: A new social network founded by Orkut's creator

http://www.orkut.com/index.html

8 years ago

The high modernism of social media companies

http://calnewport.com/blog/2018/04/11/the-disturbing-high-modernism-of-silicon-valley/

8 years ago

When the business model is the privacy violation

https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2018/04/12/when-the-business-model-is-the-privacy-violation/

8 years ago

Lisp Game Jam 2018

https://itch.io/jam/lisp-game-jam-2018

8 years ago

Quantum Algorithm Implementations for Beginners

https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.03719

8 years ago

Apple starting to alert users that it will end 32-bit app support on the Mac

https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/11/apple-starting-to-alert-users-that-it-will-end-32-bit-app-support/

8 years ago

Kafka, GDPR and Event Sourcing

http://danlebrero.com/2018/04/11/kafka-gdpr-event-sourcing/

8 years ago

Atlantic Ocean's Circulation Is Weakest in 1,600 Years

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/slow-motion-ocean-atlantics-circulation-is-weakest-in-1-600-years/

8 years ago

CSS Sans – A font created in CSS

https://yusugomori.com/projects/css-sans/

8 years ago

Facebook is in the privacy spotlight but should Google be next

http://www.afr.com/technology/social-media/google/facebook-is-in-the-privacy-spotlight-but-should-google-be-next-20180412-h0ynog

8 years ago

Encoding data into dubstep drops

https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/encoding-data-into-dubstep-drops

8 years ago

How to Find Consulting Clients

https://www.breakintoconsulting.com/blog/2018/4/11/how-to-find-consulting-clients

8 years ago

Mark Zuckerberg Is Either Ignorant or Deliberately Misleading Congress

https://theintercept.com/2018/04/11/mark-zuckerberg-is-either-ignorant-deliberately-misleading-congress-or-both/

8 years ago

World's first electrified road for charging vehicles opens in Sweden

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/apr/12/worlds-first-electrified-road-for-charging-vehicles-opens-in-sweden

8 years ago

Ask HN: Alternatives to Reddit?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16820036

8 years ago

Rolls-Royce and Boeing invest in UK space engine

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-43732035

8 years ago

Show HN: InKino – An open-source movie app made with Flutter

https://github.com/roughike/inKino

8 years ago

★ 3.6k Dart Apache-2.0

Tech Startup Slice Helps Local Pizzerias Get Online

https://www.forbes.com/sites/amyfeldman/2018/04/10/pizza-unchained-tech-startup-slice-helps-local-pizzerias-get-online-and-fight-back-against-dominos/

8 years ago

Mark Zuckerberg Refuses to Admit How Facebook Works

https://www.bloomberg.com/gadfly/articles/2018-04-12/mark-zuckerberg-refuses-to-admit-how-facebook-works

8 years ago

Goodbye ICOs, hello ILPs?

https://www.careyolsen.com/briefings/goodbye-icos-hello-ilps

8 years ago

The Crazy Coverage of Facebook's Unremarkable 'AI Invented Language'

http://www.skynettoday.com/content/news/facebook-chatbot-language/

8 years ago

Writing a Managed JIT in C# with CoreCLR

http://xoofx.com/blog/2018/04/12/writing-managed-jit-in-csharp-with-coreclr/

8 years ago

Backpage.com Pleads Guilty to Human Trafficking in Texas

https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/news/releases/backpage.com-pleads-guilty-to-human-trafficking-in-texas

8 years ago

The link between alcohol and breast cancer

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/04/did-drinking-give-me-breast-cancer/

8 years ago

I Downloaded the Information That Facebook Has on Me

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/11/technology/personaltech/i-downloaded-the-information-that-facebook-has-on-me-yikes.html

8 years ago

Show HN: I wanted better offline music on the iPhone, so I made Doppler

https://brushedtype.co/doppler/

8 years ago

EdgeDB: A New Beginning

https://edgedb.com/blog/edgedb-a-new-beginning/

8 years ago

Background checks pay for Checkr, which just raised $100M

https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/12/background-checks-pay-for-checkr-which-just-rang-up-100-million-in-new-funding/

8 years ago

The Lava Layer Anti-Pattern (2014)

https://mikehadlow.blogspot.com/2014/12/the-lava-layer-anti-pattern.html

8 years ago

Choosing Elixir's Phoenix to Power a Real-Time Web UI

https://blog.wallaroolabs.com/2018/04/choosing-elixirs-phoenix-to-power-a-real-time-web-ui/

8 years ago

Blockchain and the Law: The Rule of Code

https://cyber.harvard.edu/events/2018/04/DeFilippi

8 years ago

The Alice and Bob After Dinner Speech (1984)

https://urbigenous.net/library/alicebob.html

8 years ago

Effects of CPU Caches

https://medium.com/@minimarcel/effect-of-cpu-caches-57db81490a7f

8 years ago

Trouble Detected in Infamous Dark Matter Signal

https://www.quantamagazine.org/trouble-detected-in-infamous-dark-matter-signal-20180412/

8 years ago

Show HN: Munt – The simplest way to accept cryptocurrencies

https://getmunt.com

8 years ago

List of the top smart contract vulnerabilities

Https://dasp.co

8 years ago

IPFS Companion 2.2.0 brings window.ipfs to your Browser

https://blog.ipfs.io/35-ipfs-companion-2-2-0/#hn2

8 years ago

How Will Automation Affect Different U.S. Cities?

https://insight.kellogg.northwestern.edu/article/how-will-automation-affect-different-united-states-cities

8 years ago

Late to Bed, Early to Die? Night Owls May Die Sooner

https://www.livescience.com/62282-night-owls-early-death.html

8 years ago

Ask HN: What is the best AI powered product demo you have experienced?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16818219

8 years ago

Why is Ember fading away?

https://medium.com/@jorgelainfiesta/why-is-ember-fading-away-13da2aa65a06

8 years ago