top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-02-27

Immersive Linear Algebra (2016)

http://immersivemath.com/ila/index.html

7 years ago

1269 upvotes – 140 comments

We Need Chrome No More

https://redalemeden.com/blog/2019/we-need-chrome-no-more

7 years ago

1011 upvotes – 518 comments

Redis Turns 10 – How it started with a single post on Hacker News

https://redislabs.com/blog/redis-turns-10/

7 years ago

855 upvotes – 215 comments

K3s – Lightweight Kubernetes

https://k3s.io

7 years ago

458 upvotes – 188 comments

Nasa Happily Reports the Earth Is Greener

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/nasa-says-earth-is-greener-than-ever-thanks-to-china-and-india/

7 years ago

424 upvotes – 178 comments

Reconstructing Twitter's Firehose

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xVrPoNutyqTdQ04DXBEZW4ZW4A5RAQW2he7qIpTmG-M/edit

7 years ago

388 upvotes – 102 comments

Heat Your House with a Water Brake Windmill

https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2019/02/heat-your-house-with-a-water-brake-windmill.html

7 years ago

328 upvotes – 172 comments

Cancer Complications: Confusing Bills, Maddening Errors And Endless Phone Calls

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/02/26/696321475/cancer-complications-confusing-bills-maddening-errors-and-endless-phone-calls

7 years ago

265 upvotes – 349 comments

Gpu.js – GPU Accelerated JavaScript

http://gpu.rocks

7 years ago

231 upvotes – 113 comments

Julia on Google TPU: Shakespeare RNN

https://colab.research.google.com/github/JuliaTPU/XLA.jl/blob/master/examples/3_LSTM_DistributedTraining.ipynb

7 years ago

209 upvotes – 38 comments

Alloy*: A Higher-Order Relational Constraint Solver

https://aleksandarmilicevic.github.io/hola/

7 years ago

201 upvotes – 19 comments

Amazon Personalize: Real-Time Recommendation

https://aws.amazon.com/personalize/

7 years ago

199 upvotes – 119 comments

'Moment of reckoning': US cities burn recyclables after China bans imports

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/feb/21/philadelphia-covanta-incinerator-recyclables-china-ban-imports

7 years ago

189 upvotes – 272 comments

Cheap Kubernetes Cluster on AWS with Kubeadm

https://github.com/cablespaghetti/kubeadm-aws

7 years ago

★ 860 HCL
180 upvotes – 49 comments

Why Drugs That Work in Mice Don't Work in Humans

https://thelri.org/blog-and-news/why-drugs-that-work-in-mice-dont-work-in-humans/

7 years ago

173 upvotes – 111 comments

Launch HN: Fuzzbuzz (YC W19) – Fuzzing as a Service

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19265377

7 years ago

171 upvotes – 81 comments

Windows 10: New study shows Home edition users are baffled by updates

https://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-10-new-study-shows-home-edition-users-are-baffled-by-updates/

7 years ago

171 upvotes – 369 comments

Dow Jones’ watchlist of 2.4M high-risk clients has leaked

https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/27/dow-jones-watchlist-leak/

7 years ago

171 upvotes – 45 comments

Gremlin Free – Run chaos experiments to prevent outages

https://www.gremlin.com/blog/introducing-gremlin-free/

7 years ago

164 upvotes – 52 comments

France’s new high-speed trains

https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2019/02/france-high-speed-rail-new-trains-tgv-2020-sncf-cost-ticket/583624/

7 years ago

161 upvotes – 234 comments

What you need to know before you join a startup

https://reading.supply/@alexatnear/what-you-need-to-know-before-you-join-a-start-up-MVjDHG

7 years ago

147 upvotes – 63 comments

Nadella: Microsoft will sell war tech to democracies to “protect freedoms”

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/02/nadella-microsoft-will-sell-war-tech-to-democracies-to-protect-freedoms/

7 years ago

142 upvotes – 144 comments

The art of writing eBPF programs

https://sysdig.com/blog/the-art-of-writing-ebpf-programs-a-primer/

7 years ago

137 upvotes – 7 comments

Alleged Coinomi exploit shows how easy it is to have Bitcoin stolen

https://decryptmedia.com/5414/alleged-coinomi-exploit-concern

7 years ago

131 upvotes – 171 comments

Hacker News Meetups

https://github.com/antontarasenko/hacker-news-groups

7 years ago

★ 123
130 upvotes – 101 comments

Citizens allowed to sue on behalf of Lake Erie when it’s being polluted

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/2/26/18241904/lake-erie-legal-rights-personhood-nature-environment-toledo-ohio

7 years ago

116 upvotes – 49 comments

How Much a Dementia Patient Needs to Know

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/03/04/how-much-a-dementia-patient-needs-to-know

7 years ago

115 upvotes – 40 comments

Nginx 1.15.9

http://mailman.nginx.org/pipermail/nginx-announce/2019/000231.html

7 years ago

115 upvotes – 39 comments

Noise Mapping with KSQL, a Raspberry Pi and a Software-Defined Radio

https://www.confluent.io/blog/noise-mapping-ksql-raspberry-pi-software-defined-radio

7 years ago

115 upvotes – 30 comments

Is Elon Musk trying to commit ‘suicide by SEC’ by taunting the agency?

https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-elon-musk-sec-contempt-20190226-story.html

7 years ago

113 upvotes – 219 comments

Hunt for the Death Valley Germans (2015)

http://www.otherhand.org/home-page/search-and-rescue/the-hunt-for-the-death-valley-germans/

7 years ago

112 upvotes – 38 comments

The Surprising Subtleties of Zeroing a Register (2013)

https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2012/12/29/the-surprising-subtleties-of-zeroing-a-register/

7 years ago

102 upvotes – 22 comments

TI Claims Breakthrough in BAW On-Die-Oscillators

https://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1334373

7 years ago

101 upvotes – 48 comments

MakerLisp Machine

https://cpmaker.com

7 years ago

98 upvotes – 35 comments

SecBSD: Unix-like operating system focused on computer security

https://www.secbsd.org/

7 years ago

95 upvotes – 31 comments

Beyond Einstein: Physicists find surprising connections in the cosmos

https://discovery.princeton.edu/2018/12/02/beyond-einstein-physicists-find-surprising-connections-in-the-cosmos/

7 years ago

93 upvotes – 38 comments

Huawei Trolls U.S. on Spy Claims with a Jab at Snowden

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-26/u-s-huawei-wage-war-of-words-at-telecom-industry-s-top-show

7 years ago

92 upvotes – 99 comments

Why neutrons and protons are modified inside nuclei

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00577-0

7 years ago

90 upvotes – 44 comments

The phone-makers bringing back buttons

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-47364932

7 years ago

89 upvotes – 144 comments

Multiprocessing.shared_memory – Shared memory for direct access across processes

https://docs.python.org/3.8/library/multiprocessing.shared_memory.html

7 years ago

84 upvotes – 23 comments

Writing User Space Network Drivers

https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.10664

7 years ago

83 upvotes – 3 comments

Beyond Local Pattern Matching: Recent Advances in Machine Reading

http://ai.stanford.edu/blog/beyond_local_pattern_matching/

7 years ago

80 upvotes – 18 comments

Find Files (Ff) – File Search Utility in Rust

https://github.com/vishaltelangre/ff

7 years ago

★ 345 Rust Unlicense
76 upvotes – 78 comments

Defender of the Favicon (2008)

http://www.p01.org/defender_of_the_favicon/

7 years ago

73 upvotes – 24 comments

Political Bias Is Destroying Peoples Faith in Journalism

https://nypost.com/2019/02/26/political-bias-is-destroying-peoples-faith-in-journalism/

7 years ago

72 upvotes – 47 comments

Salary Negotiation: Make More Money, Be More Valued

https://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/01/23/salary-negotiation/

7 years ago

72 upvotes – 14 comments

Memory-mapped I/O without mysterious macros

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/780710/ece0f8b930151422/

7 years ago

70 upvotes – 9 comments

Is fasting safe? A review of adverse events during water-only fasting (2018)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5819235/

7 years ago

69 upvotes – 132 comments

A Yukaghir girl writes a love letter

https://historyview.blogspot.com/2011/10/yukaghir-girl-writes-love-letter.html

7 years ago

69 upvotes – 17 comments

Show HN: Discover what locals eat all around the world

https://what.toeat.in

7 years ago

68 upvotes – 87 comments
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