top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-04-28

Make your own sourdough

https://github.com/hendricius/the-bread-code/blob/master/basics/sourdough.md

8 years ago

★ 4.1k Shell MIT

Ask HN: My startup has basically failed. What now?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16949209

8 years ago

Lessons learned from a failing local mall

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2018/4/23/bon-ton-gone

8 years ago

Bulldoze the business school

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/apr/27/bulldoze-the-business-school

8 years ago

Seattle vacates hundreds of marijuana charges going back 30 years

https://www.theroot.com/seattle-vacates-hundreds-of-marijuana-possession-charge-1825622917

8 years ago

It’s Impossible to Prove Your Laptop Hasn’t Been Hacked

https://theintercept.com/2018/04/28/computer-malware-tampering/

8 years ago

Kasparov versus the World

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

8 years ago

The myopia boom (2015)

https://www.nature.com/news/the-myopia-boom-1.17120

8 years ago

Microsoft attempts to spin its role in counterfeiting case

https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/27/microsoft-attempts-to-spin-its-role-in-counterfeiting-case/

8 years ago

Show HN: A proof-of-concept FoundationDB based network block device backend

https://github.com/dividuum/fdb-nbd

8 years ago

★ 113 Python

Show HN: A fast, hopefully accurate, fuzzy matching library written in Go

https://github.com/sahilm/fuzzy

8 years ago

★ 1.4k Go MIT

Show HN: Generating fun Stack Exchange questions using Markov chains

https://se-simulator.lw1.at/

8 years ago

HyperTools: A Python toolbox for gaining insights into high-dimensional data

http://hypertools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/#

8 years ago

Native Clojure with GraalVM

https://www.innoq.com/en/blog/native-clojure-and-graalvm/

8 years ago

Statement on Nature Machine Intelligence

https://openaccess.engineering.oregonstate.edu/home

8 years ago

A Layman’s Intro to Western Classical Music

https://quariety.com/2018/04/28/a-laymans-intro-to-western-classical-music/

8 years ago

Fake books sold on Amazon could be used for money laundering

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/apr/27/fake-books-sold-amazon-money-laundering

8 years ago

Nintendo's secretive creative process

https://amp.theguardian.com/games/2018/apr/25/nintendo-interview-secret-innovation-lab-ideas-working

8 years ago

The quadratic formula and low-precision arithmetic

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2018/04/28/quadratic-formula/

8 years ago

People Are Turning Their Instagram Accounts into Bots

https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexkantrowitz/people-are-turning-their-accounts-into-bots-on-instagram?ref=hvper.com

8 years ago

Context Is Everything: Finding Meaning Statistically in Semantic Spaces

https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.08493

8 years ago

Structured Concurrency in High-Level Languages

http://250bpm.com/blog:124

8 years ago

Wooden Statue Found in Late 1890s Likely Dates Back More Than 11,000 Years

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/statue-found-late-1890s-likely-dates-back-more-11000-years-180968895?no-ist

8 years ago

OpenEMR v5.0.1

http://www.openhealthnews.com/content/openemr-community-releases-monumental-upgrade-their-open-source-ehr-update-ready-download

8 years ago

The Shirky Principle (2010)

http://kk.org/thetechnium/the-shirky-prin/

8 years ago

Implementing and Understanding Type Classes (2014)

http://okmij.org/ftp/Computation/typeclass.html

8 years ago

Facebook Warns Investors to Expect 'Additional Incidents' of User Data Abuse

https://www.siliconvalley.com/2018/04/27/facebook-got-an-earnings-boost-but-heres-the-fine-print/

8 years ago

A Few Thoughts on Ray Ozzie’s “Clear” Proposal

https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2018/04/26/a-few-thoughts-on-ray-ozzies-clear-proposal/

8 years ago

The Theory of Quantum Information

https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~watrous/TQI/

8 years ago

Warning signs for TSB's IT meltdown were clear a year ago, according to insider

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/apr/28/warning-signs-for-tsbs-it-meltdown-were-clear-a-year-ago-insider

8 years ago

What it means to “disagree and commit” and how I do it (2016)

http://www.amazonianblog.com/2016/11/what-it-means-to-disagree-and-commit-and-how-i-do-it.html

8 years ago

Pig brains kept alive outside bodies for first time

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/pig-brains-kept-alive-outside-bodies-first-time-yale-university-a8325331.html

8 years ago

The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant (2005)

https://nickbostrom.com/fable/dragon.html

8 years ago

Enhancing Pwned Passwords Privacy by Exclusively Supporting Anonymity

https://www.troyhunt.com/enhancing-pwned-passwords-privacy-by-exclusively-supporting-anonymity/

8 years ago