top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-03-18

Atta Elayyan, Developer of MetroTube and LazyWorm Apps, Killed in Christchurch

https://www.dailyesports.gg/remembering-atta-elayyan-christchurch-shooting-victim/

7 years ago

871 upvotes – 215 comments

EU government websites have undisclosed adtech trackers from Google and others

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/03/18/cookie_government_tracking_report/

7 years ago

694 upvotes – 309 comments

What Working at Stripe Has Been Like

https://www.kalzumeus.com/2019/3/18/two-years-at-stripe/

7 years ago

685 upvotes – 178 comments

Nvidia's $99 Jetson Nano Is an AI Computer for DIY Enthusiasts

https://www.engadget.com/2019/03/18/nvidia-jetson-nano-ai-computer/

7 years ago

487 upvotes – 213 comments

Barcelona Fines Landlords Who Let Buildings Sit Empty

https://www.citylab.com/equity/2019/03/barcelona-affordable-housing-spain-apartment-rental-fines/584902/

7 years ago

448 upvotes – 316 comments

Ask HN: How to learn best practices when you have no one to teach you?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19423228

7 years ago

440 upvotes – 197 comments

Myspace lost all the music its users uploaded between 2003 and 2015

https://boingboing.net/2019/03/17/facebook-is-next.html

7 years ago

343 upvotes – 182 comments

Slack enables customers to control their encryption keys in enterprise version

https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/18/slack-hands-over-encryption-keys-to-regulated-customers

7 years ago

329 upvotes – 169 comments

How we do Vue: one year later (2017)

https://about.gitlab.com/2017/11/09/gitlab-vue-one-year-later/

7 years ago

309 upvotes – 157 comments

Azure Data Studio: An Open-Source GUI Editor for Postgres

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-data-studio-an-open-source-gui-editor-for-postgres/

7 years ago

307 upvotes – 101 comments

To build the cities of the future, we must get out of our cars

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2019/04/to-build-cities-of-the-future-stop-driving-cars

7 years ago

297 upvotes – 330 comments

Eliminating Robocalls

https://www.twilio.com/blog/your-phone-your-call-eliminating-robocalls

7 years ago

280 upvotes – 262 comments

Simple script to analyse your PostgreSQL database config, give tuning advice

https://github.com/jfcoz/postgresqltuner

7 years ago

★ 2.6k Perl GPL-3.0
276 upvotes – 49 comments

Pixelfed – An alternative to centralized image sharing platforms

https://pixelfed.social/site/about

7 years ago

265 upvotes – 107 comments

New iPad Air and iPad Mini

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/03/all-new-ipad-air-and-ipad-mini-deliver-dramatic-power-and-capability/

7 years ago

236 upvotes – 383 comments

How Boeing, FAA certified the suspect 737 MAX flight control system

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/failed-certification-faa-missed-safety-issues-in-the-737-max-system-implicated-in-the-lion-air-crash/

7 years ago

228 upvotes – 190 comments

Remove.bg – A service to remove the background of any photo

https://remove.bg

7 years ago

221 upvotes – 52 comments

Ask HN: What is the best “dumb” phone?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19423434

7 years ago

221 upvotes – 217 comments

A huge fireball exploded in Earth's atmosphere in December, according to Nasa

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-47607696

7 years ago

214 upvotes – 78 comments

New Tools for Detecting HTTPS Interception

https://blog.cloudflare.com/monsters-in-the-middleboxes/

7 years ago

213 upvotes – 65 comments

CIA Doc on Time Travel, Consciousness, and Existence of the Absolute (1983) [pdf]

https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP96-00788R001700210016-5.pdf

7 years ago

211 upvotes – 76 comments

Introduction to Datalog

https://x775.net/2019/03/18/Introduction-to-Datalog.html

7 years ago

203 upvotes – 38 comments

K7 Tutorial

https://cs.nyu.edu/cs/faculty/shasha/papers/tutorial

7 years ago

198 upvotes – 83 comments

The rise and fall of scientific authority, and how to bring it back

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00872-w

7 years ago

197 upvotes – 392 comments

Air-breathing rocket engine set for key tests

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-47585433

7 years ago

192 upvotes – 109 comments

Tips and tricks to write LaTeX papers in with figures generated in Python

https://github.com/Wookai/paper-tips-and-tricks

7 years ago

★ 3.7k Python MIT
183 upvotes – 65 comments

I started Gumroad as a weekend project

https://www.indiehackers.com/interview/4fc6cbc0e8

7 years ago

169 upvotes – 49 comments

Trading privacy for survival is another tax on the poor

https://www.fastcompany.com/90317495/another-tax-on-the-poor-surrendering-privacy-for-survival

7 years ago

169 upvotes – 148 comments

Construct-JS – A library for creating byte level data structures

https://github.com/francisrstokes/construct-js

7 years ago

★ 1.3k TypeScript MIT
163 upvotes – 50 comments

Elsevier Left Users’ Passwords Exposed Online

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/vbw8b9/elsevier-user-passwords-exposed-online

7 years ago

159 upvotes – 35 comments

Open-sourcing Sandboxed API

https://security.googleblog.com/2019/03/open-sourcing-sandboxed-api.html

7 years ago

158 upvotes – 15 comments

Nike and Boeing Are Paying Sci-Fi Writers to Predict Their Futures

https://onezero.medium.com/nike-and-boeing-are-paying-sci-fi-writers-to-predict-their-futures-fdc4b6165fa4

7 years ago

156 upvotes – 70 comments

Quantum Computing for the Curious

https://quantum.country/qcvc/

7 years ago

154 upvotes – 24 comments

Code is not a foreign language, and high schools shouldn't treat it that way

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/17/opinion/code-foreign-language.html

7 years ago

147 upvotes – 180 comments

How cigarette makers applied their marketing wizardry to sweetened beverages

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/14/health/big-tobacco-kool-aid-sugar-obesity.html

7 years ago

146 upvotes – 100 comments

Italy bans unvaccinated children from school

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-47536981

7 years ago

145 upvotes – 123 comments

Documenting architecture: Wireshark, PlantUML and a REPL to glue them all (2017)

https://danlebrero.com/2017/04/06/documenting-your-architecture-wireshark-plantuml-and-a-repl/

7 years ago

141 upvotes – 23 comments

Apache Jena

http://jena.apache.org

7 years ago

140 upvotes – 65 comments

My Cognitive Bias – A cognitive bias explained every time you open a new tab

https://mycognitivebias.com/

7 years ago

132 upvotes – 51 comments

Backpropogation Is Just Steepest Descent with Automatic Differentiation (2013)

https://idontgetoutmuch.wordpress.com/2013/10/13/backpropogation-is-just-steepest-descent-with-automatic-differentiation-2/

7 years ago

122 upvotes – 40 comments

Atlassian Acquires AgileCraft for $166M

https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/18/atlassian-acquires-agilecraft-for-166m/

7 years ago

121 upvotes – 78 comments

How to live without Google (2017)

https://spreadprivacy.com/how-to-remove-google/

7 years ago

119 upvotes – 116 comments

Mobile data: Why India has the world's cheapest

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-47537201

7 years ago

115 upvotes – 144 comments

The AWS EC2 Windows Secret Sauce

https://technodrone.blogspot.com/2019/03/the-aws-ec2-windows-secret-sauce.html

7 years ago

112 upvotes – 46 comments

Programmer Migration Patterns

https://apenwarr.ca/log/20190318

7 years ago

110 upvotes – 54 comments

Herpes Virus Reactivation in Astronauts During Spaceflight

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2019.00016/full

7 years ago

108 upvotes – 93 comments

Prosecutors, Transportation Department Scrutinize Development of Boeing 737 Max

https://www.wsj.com/articles/faas-737-max-approval-is-probed-11552868400

7 years ago

107 upvotes – 67 comments

The Books That Wouldn’t Die

https://www.chronicle.com/article/The-Books-That-Wouldn-t-Die-/245879?key=yc0panBLrqCSy_jQRBofjCgEAHJ5yaQsqWLc_SlQbBRY3HYRT5ZklZvC2-IGcR6WYk5GT0VWR3djVk0tRmluUlA3VVBVajV0U2N2ejJOdmpIcnUwb2JlWmgwaw

7 years ago

103 upvotes – 16 comments

Longevity and anti-aging research: ‘Prime time for an impact on the globe’

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2019/03/anti-aging-research-prime-time-for-an-impact-on-the-globe

7 years ago

103 upvotes – 115 comments

AMD products are not susceptible to SPOILER exploit

https://www.amd.com/en/support/kb/faq/pa-240

7 years ago

101 upvotes – 12 comments

A Pwn2Own Exploit Chain

https://github.com/saelo/pwn2own2018

7 years ago

★ 758 C MIT
99 upvotes – 4 comments

Nvidia Accelerates Real Time Speech to Text Transcription 3500x with Kaldi

https://devblogs.nvidia.com/nvidia-accelerates-speech-text-transcription-3500x-kaldi/

7 years ago

98 upvotes – 18 comments

Ketamine: From Party Drug to Prescription Medicine

https://www.cugmhp.org/2019/03/15/ketamine-from-party-drug-to-prescription-medicine/

7 years ago

97 upvotes – 101 comments

Show HN: Applying Machine Learning to March Madness

https://github.com/adeshpande3/March-Madness-ML

7 years ago

★ 191 Python
97 upvotes – 26 comments

Python urllib CRLF injection vulnerability

https://coocoor.com/advisory/cve/CVE-2019-9740

7 years ago

94 upvotes – 29 comments

Chicken Scheme internals: the garbage collector (2014)

https://www.more-magic.net/posts/internals-gc.html

7 years ago

94 upvotes – 8 comments

Start a side project, says GitHub founder (2008)

https://gist.github.com/defunkt/6443

7 years ago

92 upvotes – 73 comments

The Lost Futures of Mark Fisher

https://kirkcenter.org/reviews/the-lost-futures-of-mark-fisher/

7 years ago

89 upvotes – 41 comments

Home of Strategic Command and Some of the USAF's Most Prized Aircraft Flooded

http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/26991/home-of-strategic-command-and-some-of-usafs-most-prized-aircraft-is-flooding

7 years ago

88 upvotes – 47 comments

Visualizing Complex Functions

https://vankessel.io/blog/2019/01/06/visualizing-complex-functions

7 years ago

87 upvotes – 26 comments

Arctic now locked into devastating temperature rise, UN report says

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/arctic-warming-locked-in-1.5056548

7 years ago

84 upvotes – 32 comments

Datacenter RPCs can be general and fast

https://blog.acolyer.org/2019/03/18/datacenter-rpcs-can-be-general-and-fast/

7 years ago

80 upvotes – 28 comments

The Loading Dock Manifesto

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a9834/john-hyduk-0511/

7 years ago

78 upvotes – 7 comments

Who Controls Diners’ Data? OpenTable Moves to Assert Control

https://www.wsj.com/articles/who-controls-diners-data-opentable-moves-to-assert-control-11552644121

7 years ago

77 upvotes – 121 comments

Achieving Safety Incrementally with Checked C

https://www.cs.umd.edu/~mwh/papers/ruef18checkedc-incr.html

7 years ago

77 upvotes – 21 comments

Present Timing for Kids (2018)

https://www.jefftk.com/p/present-timing-for-kids

7 years ago

76 upvotes – 53 comments

D-Wave 2000Q hands-on: Steep learning curve for quantum computing

https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/03/d-wave-2000q-hands-on-steep-learning-curve-for-quantum-computing/

7 years ago

75 upvotes – 27 comments

Ask HN: Any chronically ill founders here? How do you balance your life?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19419451

7 years ago

75 upvotes – 22 comments
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