top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-04-23

Now Is the Perfect Time for an RSS Renaissance

https://neflabs.com/blog/rss-renaissance/

8 years ago

687 upvotes – 349 comments

Why it took a long time to build the tiny link preview on Wikipedia

https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/04/20/why-it-took-a-long-time-to-build-that-tiny-link-preview-on-wikipedia/

8 years ago

677 upvotes – 243 comments

MIT Researchers Have Developed a ‘System for Dream Control’

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ywxjvg/steel-ball-control-dreams-dormio-mit-hypnagogia

8 years ago

547 upvotes – 133 comments

Renting is Throwing Money Away, Right? (2015)

https://affordanything.com/is-renting-better-than-buying-should-i-rent-or-buy/

8 years ago

475 upvotes – 478 comments

Show HN: Giving a Broken Barcode Scanner a New Life with Elixir and Nerves

https://bcarrigan.com/2018/04/20/wunderscan/

8 years ago

330 upvotes – 58 comments

The Many Ways Google Harvests Data

https://www.wsj.com/articles/who-has-more-of-your-personal-data-than-facebook-try-google-1524398401

8 years ago

303 upvotes – 185 comments

Underestimating the mind-warping potential of fake video

https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/4/20/17109764/deepfake-ai-false-memory-psychology

8 years ago

253 upvotes – 192 comments

An Introduction to Hashing in the Era of Machine Learning

https://blog.bradfieldcs.com/an-introduction-to-hashing-in-the-era-of-machine-learning-6039394549b0

8 years ago

247 upvotes – 20 comments

Qt for WebAssembly Technology Preview

http://blog.qt.io/blog/2018/04/23/beta-qt-webassembly-technology-preview/

8 years ago

243 upvotes – 191 comments

How Windmills as Wide as Jumbo Jets Are Making Clean Energy Mainstream

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/04/23/business/energy-environment/big-windmills.html

8 years ago

242 upvotes – 279 comments

Using USB-VGA dongles as SDR transmitter

http://laforge.gnumonks.org/blog/20180423-osmo-fl2k/

8 years ago

241 upvotes – 68 comments

Planning a Morrowind all-faction speedrun with simulated annealing, part 2

https://kimonote.com/@mildbyte/travelling-murderer-problem-planning-a-morrowind-all-faction-speedrun-with-simulated-annealing-part-2-43269/

8 years ago

232 upvotes – 36 comments

New AI Imaging Technique Reconstructs Photos with Realistic Results

https://news.developer.nvidia.com/new-ai-imaging-technique-reconstructs-photos-with-realistic-results/

8 years ago

219 upvotes – 70 comments

Johns Hopkins surgeons perform world's first male genital transplant

https://hub.jhu.edu/2018/04/23/penis-transplant-surgery-johns-hopkins/

8 years ago

214 upvotes – 134 comments

The last day of linotype at the NYT (1978) [video]

https://vimeo.com/127605643

8 years ago

213 upvotes – 65 comments

What’s Not Included in Facebook’s “Download Your Data”

https://www.wired.com/story/whats-not-included-in-facebooks-download-your-data

8 years ago

208 upvotes – 96 comments

Fast website link checker in Go

https://github.com/raviqqe/muffet

8 years ago

★ 2.5k Go MIT
190 upvotes – 49 comments

How vulture capitalists ate Toys 'R' Us

http://theweek.com/articles/761124/how-vulture-capitalists-ate-toys-r

8 years ago

185 upvotes – 162 comments

The “unpatchable” exploit that makes every current Nintendo Switch hackable

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/04/the-unpatchable-exploit-that-makes-every-current-nintendo-switch-hackable/

8 years ago

181 upvotes – 72 comments

Show HN: HTTP/2 Python-Asyncio Web Microframework

https://gitlab.com/pgjones/quart

8 years ago

173 upvotes – 42 comments

IAmA Dane Jasper, CEO of Sonic, Northern California's Largest Independent ISP

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/8eccqb/im_dane_jasper_cofounder_and_ceo_of_sonic/

8 years ago

168 upvotes – 15 comments

How I Write SQL, Part 1: Naming Conventions (2014)

https://launchbylunch.com/posts/2014/Feb/16/sql-naming-conventions/

8 years ago

164 upvotes – 78 comments

Ex-Facebook Executive: “You Don’t Realize It but You Are Being Programmed”

https://medium.com/@mustaphahitani/ex-facebook-executive-you-dont-realize-it-but-you-are-being-programmed-618242134d

8 years ago

160 upvotes – 39 comments

YouTube networks drop thousands of creators as YouTube policy shifts

https://www.polygon.com/2018/4/23/17268436/fullscreen-socialblade-youtube-mcn-multi-channel-network-creators-monetization

8 years ago

159 upvotes – 124 comments

Alphabet Q1 2018 Earnings [pdf]

https://abc.xyz/investor/pdf/2018Q1_alphabet_earnings_release.pdf

8 years ago

159 upvotes – 151 comments

Accelerating Deep Neuroevolution: Train Atari in Hours on a Single Computer

https://ubere.ng/2qUDmwp

8 years ago

155 upvotes – 38 comments

Show HN: Interactive WebGL visualization of all 47K buildings in Manhattan

https://tbaldw.in/nyc-buildings

8 years ago

151 upvotes – 42 comments

Google has started the global roll-out of its new Chat messaging service

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-43836504

8 years ago

139 upvotes – 210 comments

Bringing Objective-C to the Amiga

https://heap.zone/blog/?76

8 years ago

137 upvotes – 112 comments

Ask HN: Uncommon but attainable programmer skillsets valued by employers?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16902536

8 years ago

128 upvotes – 98 comments

Giving away the company's secret sauce

https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2018/04/22/sauce/

8 years ago

125 upvotes – 55 comments

The Surprisingly Solid Mathematical Case of the Tin Foil Hat Gun Prepper

https://medium.com/@bjcampbell/the-surprisingly-solid-mathematical-case-of-the-tin-foil-hat-gun-prepper-15fce7d10437

8 years ago

121 upvotes – 150 comments

The Future of Software Is No Code

https://www.inc.com/greg-satell/how-no-code-platforms-are-disrupting-software.html

8 years ago

119 upvotes – 182 comments

Cryptonetworks and why tokens are fundamental

https://www.nickgrossman.is/2018/cryptonetworks-and-why-tokens-are-fundamental/

8 years ago

118 upvotes – 107 comments

The Node.js Ecosystem Is Chaotic and Insecure

https://medium.com/p/73fac4bc5068

8 years ago

118 upvotes – 120 comments

Gerontopoly: Homeownership, wealth, and age

http://cityobservatory.org/gerontopoly-homeownership-wealth-and-age/

8 years ago

112 upvotes – 140 comments

Amazon is said to be building home robots

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-23/amazon-is-said-to-be-working-on-another-big-bet-home-robots

8 years ago

106 upvotes – 40 comments

Hyper 2, Electron based terminal

https://zeit.co/blog/hyper2

8 years ago

106 upvotes – 226 comments

On Radical Markets

https://vitalik.ca/general/2018/04/20/radical_markets.html

8 years ago

105 upvotes – 41 comments

Tech workers who are engineering a mid-30s retirement

https://story.californiasunday.com/tech-retirees?mc_cid=4c3a28b9cd&mc_eid=c40ad0da43

8 years ago

103 upvotes – 151 comments

How DNA Transfer Framed Lukis Anderson for Murder

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2018/04/19/framed-for-murder-by-his-own-dna

8 years ago

98 upvotes – 10 comments

Bringing people back to the open web

https://chrishardie.com/2018/04/rebuilding-open-web/

8 years ago

96 upvotes – 90 comments

Tesla batteries will live longer than expected, survey finds

https://www.engadget.com/2018/04/16/tesla-battery-packs-live-longer/

8 years ago

95 upvotes – 60 comments

Show HN: Create a personalized and optimized webpack configuration

http://web.jakoblind.no/webpack-config/

8 years ago

92 upvotes – 45 comments

The 20-year-old entrepreneur is a myth, according to study

https://phys.org/news/2018-04-year-old-entrepreneur-myth.html

8 years ago

91 upvotes – 32 comments

Gwynne Shotwell: SpaceX's Plan to Fly You Across the Globe in 30 Minutes [video]

https://www.ted.com/talks/gwynne_shotwell_spacex_s_plan_to_fly_you_across_the_globe_in_30_minutes

8 years ago

89 upvotes – 101 comments

How China Is Buying Its Way into Europe

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-china-business-in-europe/

8 years ago

89 upvotes – 48 comments

Retirement Shock: Need to Find a Job After 40 Years at General Electric

https://www.wsj.com/articles/retirement-shock-need-to-find-a-job-after-a-40-years-at-general-electric-1524418855

8 years ago

88 upvotes – 135 comments
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