top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-03-16

Show HN: A browser extension which blocks chat/helpdesk widgets

https://hellogoodbye.app

7 years ago

The difference between ‘broke’ and ‘poor’

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/mar/12/poor-broke-difference-poverty-inequality-society

7 years ago

Reasons Not to Use Apple (2018)

https://stallman.org/apple.html

7 years ago

School is all about signaling, not skill-building

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-caplan-education-credentials-20180211-story.html

7 years ago

Apple Watch detects irregular heart beat in large U.S. study

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-heart-apple/apple-watch-detects-irregular-heart-beat-in-large-u-s-study-idUSKCN1QX0EI

7 years ago

As Costs Skyrocket, More U.S. Cities Stop Recycling

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/16/business/local-recycling-costs.html

7 years ago

Google’s Nest fiasco harms user trust and invades their privacy

https://blog.malwarebytes.com/security-world/2019/03/googles-nest-fiasco-harms-user-trust-and-invades-their-privacy/

7 years ago

Facebook’s algorithm change has spurred an angry, Fox News-dominated News Feed

http://www.niemanlab.org/2019/03/one-year-in-facebooks-big-algorithm-change-has-spurred-an-angry-fox-news-dominated-and-very-engaged-news-feed

7 years ago

A solar-powered, self-hosted version of Low-Tech Magazine

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/about.html

7 years ago

Wolfenstein: Ray Tracing on Using WebGL1

https://reindernijhoff.net/2019/03/wolfenstein-raytracing-on-using-webgl1/

7 years ago

The Secret to Becoming an Annoyingly Productive Early Morning Person

https://nickwignall.com/the-secret-to-productive-mornings/

7 years ago

The Pyrex Glass Controversy That Won't Die

https://gizmodo.com/the-pyrex-glass-controversy-that-just-wont-die-1833040962

7 years ago

Why Operators Are Useful

https://neopythonic.blogspot.com/2019/03/why-operators-are-useful.html?m=1

7 years ago

YUML – Easy Embeddable Diagrams

https://yuml.me/diagram/scruffy/class/draw

7 years ago

Saving of public Google+ content by the Archive Team has begun

https://www.reddit.com/r/plexodus/comments/az285j/saving_of_public_google_content_at_the_internet/

7 years ago

Types Are Moving to the Right

https://medium.com/@elizarov/types-are-moving-to-the-right-22c0ef31dd4a

7 years ago

Lem: A Common Lisp editor/IDE with high expansibility

https://github.com/cxxxr/lem

7 years ago

★ 2.9k Common Lisp MIT

Stardew Valley and real-life labour (2017)

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2017/02/13/stardew-valley-marriage-work/

7 years ago

Can a Person Learn While Sleeping?

https://www.wsj.com/articles/can-a-person-learn-while-sleeping-11552744800

7 years ago

Seven Commandments for Event-Driven Architectures

https://rjzaworski.com/2019/03/7-commandments-for-event-driven-architecture

7 years ago

iPad Pro as Development Machine

https://arslan.io/2019/01/07/using-the-ipad-pro-as-my-development-machine/

7 years ago

Transcatheter aortic valve replacement effective in younger, healthier patients

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/16/health/aortic-valve-replacement-heart.html

7 years ago

Knoppix 8.5.0 Released

http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/knoppix850-en.html

7 years ago

Invent More, Toil Less (2016) [pdf]

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/login/articles/login_fall16_08_beyer.pdf

7 years ago

Object-Oriented Programming is Bad (2016) [video]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QM1iUe6IofM

7 years ago

Facebook announces next-generation Open Rack frame

https://code.fb.com/data-center-engineering/open-rack/

7 years ago

Two-thirds of all Android antivirus apps are frauds

https://www.zdnet.com/article/two-thirds-of-all-android-antivirus-apps-are-frauds/

7 years ago

25M Brits would struggle in a cashless society

https://www.which.co.uk/news/2018/12/25m-brits-would-struggle-in-a-cashless-society/

7 years ago

TWA Hotel Inside Eero Saarinen's JFK Airport Terminal Open for Reservations

https://www.dezeen.com/2019/02/17/twa-hotel-eero-saarinen-jfk-airport-new-york-city/

7 years ago

WhatsApp co-founder accuses Facebook of trading privacy for revenue

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6812853/WhatsApp-founder-warns-world-delete-Facebook-immediately.html

7 years ago

PuTTY 0.71 released, fixing security vulnerabilities

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/

7 years ago

Americans Are Going Bankrupt from Getting Sick

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2019/03/hospital-bills-medical-debt-bankruptcy/584998/

7 years ago

Launch HN: Nabis (YC W19) – Cannabis Shipping and Logistics

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19408875

7 years ago

Before the Internet (2017)

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/06/26/before-the-internet

7 years ago

The debate over privacy can't rely on tech giants

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/03/why-debate-over-privacy-cant-rely-tech-giants

7 years ago

Apple responds to Spotify with words, but no real answers

https://char.gd/recharged/daily/apple-responds-with-nothing

7 years ago

Mushrooms may 'reduce the risk of mild brain decline'

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-47554966

7 years ago

Early Hackers Used Whistles from Cap’n Crunch Cereal Boxes

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/capn-crunch-whistle

7 years ago