top 20 hacker news stories for 2018-04-29

“Lifefaker.com makes faking perfection easy”

http://lifefaker.com/?=HackerNews

8 years ago

751 upvotes – 234 comments

StreetLend.com shuts down, citing GDPR regulations

https://streetlend.com

8 years ago

724 upvotes – 1123 comments

Competitive Programmer's Handbook (2017) [pdf]

https://cses.fi/book.pdf

8 years ago

594 upvotes – 121 comments

France seizes france.com from man who's had it since 1994

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/04/france-seizes-france-com-from-man-whos-had-it-since-94-so-he-sues/

8 years ago

491 upvotes – 224 comments

'Demonically Clever' Backdoor Hides Inside Computer Chip

https://www.wired.com/2016/06/demonically-clever-backdoor-hides-inside-computer-chip/

8 years ago

360 upvotes – 114 comments

The NetHack dev team is happy to announce the release of NetHack 3.6.1

https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/rec.games.roguelike.nethack/XhcIrLlNzpA

8 years ago

326 upvotes – 118 comments

9,096 Stars in the Sky – Is That All?

http://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-resources/how-many-stars-night-sky-09172014/

8 years ago

264 upvotes – 90 comments

A History of APL in 50 Functions

http://www.jsoftware.com/papers/50/

8 years ago

250 upvotes – 93 comments

Tell HN: Sci-Hub's TLS certificate has started failing

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16951831

8 years ago

244 upvotes – 145 comments

What happened, Gmail?

https://uxplanet.org/what-happened-gmail-e5f35e423b1b

8 years ago

241 upvotes – 214 comments

Health dangers of sleep deprivation

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/how-much-sleep-is-enough-sleep-deprivation-health-dangers-a8328126.html

8 years ago

234 upvotes – 113 comments

Ask HN: Turning 40 soon – seeking personal and professional life advice

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16950507

8 years ago

207 upvotes – 102 comments

The aging mind: neuroplasticity in response to cognitive training (2013)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3622463/

8 years ago

204 upvotes – 117 comments

Mathematical Illustrations: A manual of geometry and postscript

http://www.math.ubc.ca/~cass/graphics/manual/

8 years ago

203 upvotes – 33 comments

Joseph Stiglitz Says American Inequality Didn’t Just Happen

http://evonomics.com/nobel-prize-economist-says-american-inequality-didnt-just-happen-it-was-created/

8 years ago

202 upvotes – 210 comments

T-Mobile seals merger deal with Sprint

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/29/t-mobile-seals-merger-deal-with-sprint-that-values-the-company-at-26-billion.html

8 years ago

183 upvotes – 97 comments

Larry Harvey, co-founder of Burning Man, has died

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/28/obituaries/larry-harvey-burning-man-festival-dead-at-70.html

8 years ago

179 upvotes – 108 comments

Three kinds of memory leaks

https://blog.nelhage.com/post/three-kinds-of-leaks/

8 years ago

176 upvotes – 36 comments

Netflix Blog: Tips for High Availability

https://medium.com/@NetflixTechBlog/tips-for-high-availability-be0472f2599c

8 years ago

152 upvotes – 24 comments

New Shepard's 8th test flight [video]

https://www.blueorigin.com/#youtubeZUV53Nn3PhA

8 years ago

151 upvotes – 105 comments
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