top 50% 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

Japanese government will access home devices in security survey

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

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

2.7M medical calls breached in Sweden

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

7 years ago

Oodi, Helsinki’s new flagship library

https://www.economist.com/prospero/2019/02/15/inside-oodi-helsinkis-new-flagship-library

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Home-built 737 cockpit

https://www.flightdeck737.be/en/pc/visuals

7 years ago

Advent of Code 2018, in Coq

https://github.com/Lysxia/advent-of-coq-2018

7 years ago

★ 141 Coq

Can a robot pick a strawberry better, faster, and cheaper than a human?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/national/wp/2019/02/17/feature/inside-the-race-to-replace-farmworkers-with-robots/

7 years ago

Show HN: Inlets – Expose your local endpoints to the Internet

https://github.com/alexellis/inlets

7 years ago

JPL Institutional Coding Standard for the C Programming Language (2009) [pdf]

https://lars-lab.jpl.nasa.gov/JPL_Coding_Standard_C.pdf

7 years ago

How Badly Is Google Books Search Broken, and Why?

http://sappingattention.blogspot.com/2019/02/how-badly-is-google-books-search-broken.html

7 years ago

Disinformation and ‘fake news’: Final Report published

https://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/digital-culture-media-and-sport-committee/news/fake-news-report-published-17-19/

7 years ago

SOCKMAP – TCP splicing of the future

https://blog.cloudflare.com/sockmap-tcp-splicing-of-the-future/

7 years ago

Implementing End-To-End Encryption in Matrix Clients

https://matrix.org/docs/guides/e2e_implementation.html

7 years ago

Chris Lattner on the Origins of Swift

https://oleb.net/2019/chris-lattner-swift-origins/

7 years ago

A humble alternative to technical interviews

https://blog.zachwf.com/2019/02/a-humble-alternative-to-technical.html

7 years ago

Deep learning may need a new programming language

https://venturebeat.com/2019/02/18/facebooks-chief-ai-scientist-deep-learning-may-need-a-new-programming-language/

7 years ago

The Single Rotation rule: simple and rich reversible cellular automaton (2013)

http://dmishin.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-single-rotation-rule-remarkably.html

7 years ago

U.K. Lawmakers accuse Facebook's CEO of leadership failure

https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-ceo-mark-zuckerberg-humiliated-by-damian-collins-committee-2019-2

7 years ago

What It's Like to Be a Black Mathematician

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/18/us/edray-goins-black-mathematicians.html

7 years ago

Towards an understanding of technical debt (2016)

https://kellanem.com/notes/towards-an-understanding-of-technical-debt

7 years ago

Flavors of SIMD

https://zeuxcg.org/2019/02/17/flavors-of-simd/

7 years ago

Nonnegative matrix factorization

https://blog.acolyer.org/2019/02/18/the-why-and-how-of-nonnegative-matrix-factorization/

7 years ago

WorldWideWeb

https://adactio.com/journal/14821

7 years ago

How to generate random geo-coordinates within a given radius

https://jordinl.com/posts/2019-02-15-how-to-generate-random-geocoordinates-within-given-radius

7 years ago

Critique of the recent study on insect decline

https://ecologyisnotadirtyword.com/2019/02/16/insectageddon-is-a-great-story-but-what-are-the-facts/

7 years ago

Major Games Publishers Are Feeling the Impact of Peaking Attention

https://www.midiaresearch.com/blog/major-games-publishers-are-feeling-the-impact-of-peaking-attention/

7 years ago

Huawei Targets Apple Trade Secrets

https://www.macrumors.com/2019/02/18/huaweis-efforts-to-steal-apple/

7 years ago

About $250K is needed for a company get to sustainability

https://medium.com/@jproco/you-need-250-000-to-start-a-company-886298e8cf7e

7 years ago

Show HN: Spase.io – A new kind of planner

http://spase.io/?in=hackernews

7 years ago

Space Based ADS-B

https://www.radarbox24.com/blog/space-based-ads-b

7 years ago

Museum of Failure

http://museumoffailure.se/

7 years ago

Shunting-yard algorithm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shunting-yard_algorithm

7 years ago

JavaScript-Based Spreadsheet-Like Formulas in Google Docs

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/formulas-for-google-docs/kgjbgmonlnhglokmfnpnklegakfknbeh

7 years ago

The Principal Developer

https://sizovs.net/2019/02/15/the-principal-developer/?new=true

7 years ago

First impressions of Filecoin

https://gergely.imreh.net/blog/2019/02/first-impressions-of-filecoin/

7 years ago

Generics aren't ready for Go

https://drewdevault.com/2019/02/18/Generics-arent-ready-for-Go.html

7 years ago

The Path Amazon Rejected

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/16/opinion/amazon-new-york-bill-de-blasio.html

7 years ago

Hannibal’s route across the Alps (2016)

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/apr/03/where-muck-hannibals-elephants-alps-italy-bill-mahaney-york-university-toronto

7 years ago