top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-04-19

Apple open-sources FoundationDB

https://www.foundationdb.org/blog/foundationdb-is-open-source/

8 years ago

2136 upvotes – 441 comments

The latest trend for tech interviews: Days of unpaid homework

https://work.qz.com/1254663/job-interviews-for-programmers-now-often-come-with-days-of-unpaid-homework/

8 years ago

659 upvotes – 997 comments

Scuttlebutt, a Decentralized Alternative to Facebook

https://www.inthemesh.com/archive/secure-scuttlebutt-facebook-alternative/

8 years ago

623 upvotes – 342 comments

List of places to find remote jobs and freelancing projects

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1JfNAbUX_lN9K3MCNHO15GJtJ5qpk7H9Cl3xTBwv2FR8

8 years ago

590 upvotes – 66 comments

Palantir is using War on Terror tools to track American citizens

https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2018-palantir-peter-thiel/

8 years ago

523 upvotes – 260 comments

Stripe Home

https://stripe.com/blog/stripe-home

8 years ago

496 upvotes – 151 comments

‘I Fundamentally Believe That My Time at Reddit Made the World a Worse Place’

http://nymag.com/selectall/2018/04/dan-mccomas-reddit-product-svp-and-imzy-founder-interview.html

8 years ago

433 upvotes – 592 comments

Facebook to change user terms, limiting effect of EU privacy law

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-privacy-eu-exclusive/exclusive-facebook-to-change-user-terms-limiting-effect-of-eu-privacy-law-idUSKBN1HQ00P

8 years ago

384 upvotes – 390 comments

Flow chart of cognitive biases

https://www.breakdown-notes.com/makemap/load/biases

8 years ago

360 upvotes – 29 comments

Southwest 1380: think about the flight attendants

http://blogs.harvard.edu/philg/2018/04/19/southwest-1380-think-about-the-flight-attendants/

8 years ago

320 upvotes – 194 comments

A.I. Researchers Are Making More Than $1M, Even at a Nonprofit

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/19/technology/artificial-intelligence-salaries-openai.html

8 years ago

309 upvotes – 182 comments

Apple's investment into Clangd and refactoring tooling

http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/cfe-dev/2018-April/057668.html

8 years ago

289 upvotes – 79 comments

The AI Revolution Hasn’t Happened Yet

https://medium.com/@mijordan3/artificial-intelligence-the-revolution-hasnt-happened-yet-5e1d5812e1e7

8 years ago

270 upvotes – 161 comments

A manufacturing process that produces long strips of high-quality graphene

https://news.mit.edu/2018/manufacturing-graphene-rolls-ultrathin-membranes-0418

8 years ago

257 upvotes – 56 comments

How engineers can stand out from the applicant pool

https://www.keyvalues.com/blog/how-engineers-can-stand-out-from-the-applicant-pool

8 years ago

251 upvotes – 144 comments

Ask HN: What tools do you use to automate your business?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16875106

8 years ago

249 upvotes – 113 comments

A lesson in wireless engineering from the Raspberry Pi

http://www.embedded-computing.com/iot/a-lesson-in-wireless-engineering-from-the-raspberry-pi

8 years ago

244 upvotes – 46 comments

MySQL 8.0 is now generally available

https://mysqlserverteam.com/whats-new-in-mysql-8-0-generally-available/

8 years ago

221 upvotes – 100 comments

Interview with Simon Peyton-Jones

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~popl-interviews/peytonjones.html

8 years ago

214 upvotes – 126 comments

AMD 2nd Gen Ryzen Deep Dive

https://www.anandtech.com/show/12625/amd-second-generation-ryzen-7-2700x-2700-ryzen-5-2600x-2600

8 years ago

205 upvotes – 83 comments

Shortest bit sequence that's never been sent over the Internet (2017)

https://www.seancassidy.me/whats-the-length-of-shortest-bit-sequence-thats-never-been-sent-over-the-internet.html

8 years ago

193 upvotes – 117 comments

Ursa Labs: an innovation lab for open source data science

http://wesmckinney.com/blog/announcing-ursalabs/

8 years ago

170 upvotes – 12 comments

API and Other Platform Product Changes

https://developers.facebook.com/bugs/185630995395938/

8 years ago

167 upvotes – 96 comments

Show HN: Telescope – News and RSS Reader

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/telescope-news-rss-reader/id1353282977

8 years ago

166 upvotes – 94 comments

Darwin: a genomics co-processor provides up to 15,000x acceleration

https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/04/19/darwin-a-genomics-co-processor-provides-up-to-15000x-acceleration-on-long-read-assembly/

8 years ago

158 upvotes – 49 comments

Fake ad blockers in Chrome Web Store

https://palant.de/2018/04/18/the-ticking-time-bomb-fake-ad-blockers-in-chrome-web-store

8 years ago

156 upvotes – 66 comments

A polymer made from waste cooking oil and sulphur can clean up crude oil spills

http://news.flinders.edu.au/blog/2018/04/19/slick-solution-oil-spills/

8 years ago

140 upvotes – 18 comments

Airplanes that fly on electricity debut at Fresno’s Chandler Airport

http://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/article209168169.html

8 years ago

139 upvotes – 120 comments

Bad news for AT&T and Comcast: Calif. Senate panel OKs net neutrality bill

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/04/nations-toughest-net-neutrality-bill-passes-california-senate-committee/

8 years ago

138 upvotes – 31 comments

Robot Assembles Ikea Furniture

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/18/science/robots-ikea-furniture.html

8 years ago

136 upvotes – 79 comments

FCC Issues Warning in Wake of Swarm's Unauthorized Launch

https://www.space.com/40318-fcc-issues-warning-after-unauthorized-launch.html

8 years ago

135 upvotes – 158 comments

Facebook Is Forming a Team to Design Its Own Chips

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-18/facebook-is-forming-a-team-to-design-its-own-chips?href=

8 years ago

133 upvotes – 58 comments

Since 2016, Half of All Coral in the Great Barrier Reef Has Died

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/04/since-2016-half-the-coral-in-the-great-barrier-reef-has-perished/558302/?single_page=true

8 years ago

132 upvotes – 62 comments

Amazon worker’s median pay in 2017: $28,446

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/amazon/amazon-workers-median-pay-in-2017-28446/

8 years ago

126 upvotes – 136 comments

Widescreen laptops are dumb

https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2018/4/19/17027286/laptop-widescreen-aspect-ratio

8 years ago

125 upvotes – 169 comments

Postgres as the Substructure for IoT and the Next Wave of Computing

https://blog.timescale.com/postgres-accidental-iot-platform-timescaledb-postgresql-time-series-data-7983d28da5af

8 years ago

124 upvotes – 25 comments

Show HN: Slate-md-editor – A markdown editor that allows live editing

https://github.com/Canner/slate-md-editor

8 years ago

★ 1.1k JavaScript MIT
123 upvotes – 54 comments

Finland is scrapping plans to extend its basic income project

http://www.businessinsider.com/finland-to-end-basic-income-experiment-2018-4

8 years ago

121 upvotes – 166 comments

Show HN: Lisp Shell

https://github.com/DexterLagan/lsh

8 years ago

★ 122 Racket MIT
120 upvotes – 56 comments

What is empathy?

https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/what-is-empathy/

8 years ago

112 upvotes – 81 comments

George Washington’s “Yelp Reviews”

https://daily.jstor.org/george-washingtons-yelp-reviews/

8 years ago

110 upvotes – 22 comments

StarCraft Micromanagement with Reinforcement Learning and Curriculum Transfer

https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.00810

8 years ago

98 upvotes – 53 comments

Designing a Userspace Disk I/O Scheduler for Modern Datastores (2016)

https://www.scylladb.com/2016/04/14/io-scheduler-1/

8 years ago

91 upvotes – 7 comments

Toward better phone call and video transcription with new Cloud Speech-to-Text

https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/04/toward-better-phone-call-and-video-transcription-with-new-Cloud-Speech-to-Text.html

8 years ago

86 upvotes – 30 comments

Launch HN: SharpestMinds (YC W18) – Online Community for AI Devs

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16877457

8 years ago

84 upvotes – 71 comments
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