top 20 hacker news stories for 2019-02-18

I took 50k images of the night sky to make an 81 Megapixel image of the moon

https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/arer0k/i_took_nearly_50000_images_of_the_night_sky_to/

7 years ago

Magic Lantern

https://www.magiclantern.fm/

7 years ago

A faster, more efficient cryptocurrency

http://news.mit.edu/2019/vault-faster-more-efficient-cryptocurrency-0124

7 years ago

Harder programming questions do a worse job of predicting outcomes

https://triplebyte.com/blog/interview-questions-are-too-hard-and-too-short

7 years ago

The shady economics of ‘buy one, get one free’ deals

https://thehustle.co/are-buy-one-get-one-free-deals-worth-it/

7 years ago

A Newly-Generated Create-React-App 2.1.5 App Has 1,568 Dependencies

https://twitter.com/garybernhardt/status/1097307043881308161

7 years ago

Underactuated Robotics

http://underactuated.csail.mit.edu/underactuated.html

7 years ago

When India Kicked Out Coca-Cola, Local Sodas Thrived

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-is-thums-up

7 years ago

Cache Eviction: When Are Randomized Algorithms Better Than LRU? (2014)

http://danluu.com/2choices-eviction/

7 years ago

Drug Combo Creates New Neurons from Neighboring Cells

https://www.technologynetworks.com/neuroscience/news/drug-combo-creates-new-neurons-from-neighboring-cells-315118

7 years ago

How the US has hidden its empire

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/feb/15/the-us-hidden-empire-overseas-territories-united-states-guam-puerto-rico-american-samoa

7 years ago

Explaining Code Using ASCII Art

https://blog.regehr.org/archives/1653

7 years ago

Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction (2018) [pdf]

http://incompleteideas.net/book/RLbook2018.pdf

7 years ago

I ruin developers’ lives with my code reviews and I'm sorry

https://habr.com/en/post/440736/

7 years ago

Why I Write CSS in JavaScript

https://mxstbr.com/thoughts/css-in-js/

7 years ago

BlazingSQL – GPU SQL Engine Now Runs Over 20X Faster Than Apache Spark

https://blog.blazingdb.com/blazingsql-the-gpu-sql-engine-now-runs-over-20x-faster-than-apache-spark-1b0bffc990a9

7 years ago

National Sword

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/national-sword/

7 years ago

Kodak's Discovery of A-Bomb Testing (2016)

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/a21382/how-kodak-accidentally-discovered-radioactive-fallout/

7 years ago

Japanese government will access home devices in security survey

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20190125_44/

7 years ago

2.7M medical calls breached in Sweden

https://twitter.com/mikko/status/1097510234220826624?s=21

7 years ago