top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-04-30

IBM is not doing "cognitive computing" with Watson (2016)

http://www.rogerschank.com/fraudulent-claims-made-by-IBM-about-Watson-and-AI

8 years ago

A home-made lithographically-fabricated integrated circuit

http://sam.zeloof.xyz/first-ic/#

8 years ago

Jan Koum to leave after broad clashes with Facebook

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/whatsapp-founder-plans-to-leave-after-broad-clashes-with-parent-facebook/2018/04/30/49448dd2-4ca9-11e8-84a0-458a1aa9ac0a_story.html

8 years ago

Simone Giertz on her brain tumour [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpa4kp4lK60

8 years ago

Stripe Atlas for LLCs

https://stripe.com/blog/atlas-llc?c

8 years ago

Thinking of yourself as an insomniac may be a part of the problem

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/apr/20/cant-sleep-insomnia-identity

8 years ago

Twitter also sold data access to Cambridge Analytica researcher

https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/30/twitter-also-sold-data-access-to-cambridge-analytica-researcher/

8 years ago

Show HN: ReLaXed – High-quality PDFs using web technologies

https://github.com/RelaxedJS/ReLaXed

8 years ago

★ 11.7k JavaScript ISC

Python Environment

https://xkcd.com/1987/

8 years ago

How to speed up the Rust compiler in 2018

https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/2018/04/30/how-to-speed-up-the-rust-compiler-in-2018/

8 years ago

Top Checklists on HN

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=checklist&sort=byPopularity&prefix&page=0&dateRange=all&type=story

8 years ago

Building games that can be understood at a glance

http://stfj.net/DesigningForSubwayLegibility/

8 years ago

The TLA+ Video Course by Leslie Lamport

https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/video/videos.html

8 years ago

Lessons from Building Static Analysis Tools at Google

https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2018/4/226371-lessons-from-building-static-analysis-tools-at-google/fulltext

8 years ago

Show HN: A free, lightweight static page to get stock quotes using the IEX API

https://github.com/toddwschneider/stocks

8 years ago

★ 795 HTML MIT

Show HN: Create your own crapcoin in 3 minutes

https://crapcoin.solutions/

8 years ago

Detroit Was Crumbling, Now It's Reviving

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/04/30/us/detroit-come-back-budget.html

8 years ago

The False Allure of Hashing for Anonymization

https://gravitational.com/blog/hashing-for-anonymization/

8 years ago

Show HN: FPGA Ultrasound Imaging on a Raspberry Pi

http://un0rick.cc/FPGA-Rpi

8 years ago

Bezos: A CEO Who Can Write

https://mondaynote.com/bezos-a-ceo-who-can-write-2f368ee36599

8 years ago

Smartphone cradle used to cheat “10k steps/day” health insurance discounts

https://twitter.com/akaDashan/status/990054109855141888

8 years ago

IRS’ 60-Year-Old IT System Failed on Tax Day Due to New Hardware

https://www.nextgov.com/it-modernization/2018/04/irs-60-year-old-it-system-failed-tax-day-due-new-hardware/147598/

8 years ago

Ask HN: Why are big companies so much less efficient?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16960479

8 years ago

Hosting Jupyter Notebooks for 100k Users [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omxY1YsPGUc

8 years ago

Microsoft helped imprison a man for ‘counterfeiting’ software it gives away free

https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/25/how-microsoft-helped-imprison-a-man-for-counterfeiting-software-it-gives-away-for-free/

8 years ago

Software sucks

https://shitpost.plover.com/s/software-sucks-4.html

8 years ago

A Look at MyRocks Performance

https://www.percona.com/blog/2018/04/30/a-look-at-myrocks-performance/

8 years ago

YouTube Is Removing Some Nootropics Channels

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/9kgpk5/youtube-is-removing-nootropics-channels

8 years ago

Macros: the Plan for Scala 3

https://www.scala-lang.org/blog/2018/04/30/in-a-nutshell.html

8 years ago

All You Need to Know About UML Diagrams

https://tallyfy.com/uml-diagram/

8 years ago

Comcast won’t give new speed boost to Internet users who don’t buy TV service

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/04/comcast-wont-give-new-speed-boost-to-internet-users-who-dont-buy-tv-service/

8 years ago

Anatomy of a Program in Memory (2009)

https://manybutfinite.com/post/anatomy-of-a-program-in-memory/

8 years ago

Alphabet's Median Pay Nears $200k

https://www.wsj.com/articles/at-googles-parent-alphabet-median-pay-nears-200-000-1524879024

8 years ago

Rural Kansas is dying

https://newfoodeconomy.org/rural-kansas-depopulation-commodity-agriculture/

8 years ago

Nvidia Tesla V100 on Google Cloud Platform

https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/04/Expanding-our-GPU-portfolio-with-NVIDIA-Tesla-V100.html

8 years ago

Ask HN: Is HN GDPR compliant?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16955206

8 years ago

'We're doomed': Mayer Hillman on the climate reality no one else will mention

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/apr/26/were-doomed-mayer-hillman-on-the-climate-reality-no-one-else-will-dare-mention?CMP=share_btn_fb

8 years ago

Chinese businesses and the military using “emotional surveillance technology”

http://uk.businessinsider.com/china-emotional-surveillance-technology-2018-4

8 years ago

Civilization Is Built on Code (2017)

http://nautil.us/blog/-civilization-is-built-on-code

8 years ago

Planning a Morrowind all-faction speedrun with simulated annealing, part 3

https://kimonote.com/@mildbyte/travelling-murderer-problem-planning-a-morrowind-all-faction-speedrun-with-simulated-annealing-part-3-46455/

8 years ago

Scrcpy: Display and control of Android devices connected on USB

https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy

8 years ago

★ 139.1k C Apache-2.0

Bike Share Oversupply in China

https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2018/03/bike-share-oversupply-in-china-huge-piles-of-abandoned-and-broken-bicycles/556268/?single_page=true

8 years ago

The Difficulty of Untraining Drug Dogs How to Smell Marijuana

https://melmagazine.com/can-an-old-drug-dog-learn-new-tricks-like-how-not-to-smell-marijuana-in-states-where-its-legal-5f8293233187

8 years ago

Ask HN: What are some amazing open source projects that you have found recently?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16960300

8 years ago

Los Angeles Tests the Power of ‘Play Streets’

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/29/arts/design/play-streets-los-angeles-boyle-heights.html

8 years ago

A Pedagogical Analysis of Online Coding Tutorials [pdf]

https://faculty.washington.edu/ajko/papers/Kim2017CodingTutorialEvaluation.pdf

8 years ago

Sergey Brin warns of AI threats through a 'technology renaissance'

https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3031311/googles-sergey-brin-warns-of-ai-threats-through-a-technology-renaissance

8 years ago

Facebook Median Pay now $240k

https://www.sfgate.com/business/networth/article/Yes-median-pay-at-Facebook-really-is-about-12870786.php?t=4bd335ea10

8 years ago

Hello Go

https://medium.com/@caspervonb/hello-go-3e207da92da0

8 years ago

Hanging the Linux core dump pipe helper

https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2018/04/29/core/

8 years ago

Artificial intelligence is being used to predict gambler behaviour

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/apr/30/bookies-using-ai-to-keep-gamblers-hooked-insiders-say

8 years ago