top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-03-20

Scientists rise up against statistical significance

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00857-9

7 years ago

Google hit with €1.5B fine from EU over advertising

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-47639228

7 years ago

Rules for Autocomplete

http://jeremymikkola.com/posts/2019_03_19_rules_for_autocomplete.html

7 years ago

8-Year-Old Refugee Wins New York State Championship

https://www.chess.com/news/view/8-year-old-refugee-wins-new-york-state-championship

7 years ago

Why Hashbrown Does a Double Lookup

https://gankro.github.io/blah/hashbrown-insert/

7 years ago

After 6 months of working fine, Tesla software update drives at barriers again

https://np.reddit.com/r/teslamotors/comments/b36x27/its_back_after_6_months_of_working_fine_2019515/

7 years ago

China's e-buses dent oil demand more than electric cars do

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-19/forget-tesla-it-s-china-s-e-buses-that-are-denting-oil-demand

7 years ago

AirPods with Wireless Charging Case

https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MRXJ2AM/A/airpods-with-wireless-charging-case

7 years ago

I’m 14, and I quit social media after discovering what was posted about me

https://www.fastcompany.com/90315706/kids-parents-social-media-sharing

7 years ago

Pilot Who Hitched a Ride Saved Lion Air 737 on the Day Before Deadly Crash

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-19/how-an-extra-man-in-cockpit-saved-a-737-max-that-later-crashed

7 years ago

Commento: Open-Source Disqus Alternative

https://www.256kilobytes.com/content/show/4957/what-is-commento-the-open-source-disqus-alternative

7 years ago

Cockpit voice recorder of Lion Air jet depicts pilots' frantic search for fix

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-indonesia-crash-exclusive/exclusive-cockpit-voice-recorder-of-doomed-lion-air-jet-depicts-pilots-frantic-search-for-fix-sources-idUSKCN1R10FB

7 years ago

Using Go Modules

https://blog.golang.org/using-go-modules

7 years ago

LLVM 8.0.0 Release

https://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-announce/2019-March/000082.html

7 years ago

Volk Fi: Distributed network smartphone

https://volkfi.com/

7 years ago

U.S. Firms Are Helping Build China’s Orwellian State

https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/03/19/962492-orwell-china-socialcredit-surveillance/

7 years ago

Oculus Rift S

https://www.oculus.com/rift-s/

7 years ago

Four Wikipedias to ‘Black Out’ over EU Copyright Directive

https://wikimediafoundation.org/2019/03/20/four-wikipedias-to-black-out-over-eu-copyright-directive/

7 years ago

Students don't seem to be getting much out of higher education (2018)

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/01/whats-college-good-for/546590/

7 years ago

Gmail confidential mode

https://gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com/2019/03/keep-data-secure-with-gmail-confidential-mode-beta.html

7 years ago

Wall Street’s Latest Love Affair with Risky Repackaged Debt

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/18/opinion/wall-street-risk-debt.html

7 years ago

Airbnb’s ‘Guerrilla War’ Against Local Governments

https://www.wired.com/story/inside-airbnbs-guerrilla-war-against-local-governments/

7 years ago

Society Needs an Alternative Web

https://www.forbes.com/sites/cognitiveworld/2019/03/15/society-desperately-needs-an-alternative-web/

7 years ago

It is unlikely that built-in email encryption will ever be available in Gmail

https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/gmail-end-to-end-encryption-is-dead/

7 years ago

A list of the biggest datasets for machine learning

https://www.datasetlist.com/

7 years ago

When pigs fly: optimising bytecode interpreters

https://badootech.badoo.com/when-pigs-fly-optimising-bytecode-interpreters-f64fb6bfa20f

7 years ago

US mercenaries arrested in Haiti, part of a scheme to move $80M for president

https://theintercept.com/2019/03/20/haiti-president-mercenary-operation/

7 years ago

Terminal latency (2017)

https://danluu.com/term-latency/

7 years ago

Show HN: I made a database of remote companies

https://remotehub.io

7 years ago

Preload, prefetch and other link tags

https://3perf.com/blog/link-rels/

7 years ago

Show HN: Songcraft – Online Songwriting Platform and Guitar Tab Builder

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19443733

7 years ago

Artificial meat: UK scientists growing 'bacon' in labs

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-47611026

7 years ago

Just a Drop in the Bucket (1994)

https://milk.com/wall-o-shame/bucket.html

7 years ago

AWS DeepRacer League

https://aws.amazon.com/deepracer/league/

7 years ago

The Paris Pneumatic Clock Network (2018)

http://www.douglas-self.com/MUSEUM/COMMS/airclock/airclock.htm

7 years ago

Most Wasabi Is Fake [video]

https://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/585172/wasabi-fake/

7 years ago

Docli – A declarative language for command-line interfaces in Go

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19441537

7 years ago

Kidfluencers' Rampant YouTube Marketing Creates Minefield for Google

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-20/kidfluencers-rampant-youtube-marketing-creates-minefield-for-google

7 years ago

Hardware Debugging with JTAG on a Raspberry Pi

https://github.com/rust-embedded/rust-raspi3-OS-tutorials/tree/master/0B_hw_debug_JTAG

7 years ago

★ 14.6k Rust Apache-2.0

New study provides evidence that we need different drugs for men and women

https://www.wired.com/story/womens-pain-is-different-from-mens-the-drugs-could-be-too/

7 years ago

German Wikipedia blacked out in protest against EU copyright reform

http://de.wikipedia.org

7 years ago

Anthrax Guitarist Turned Master Watchmaker (2012)

https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/interview-meet-dan-spitz-anthrax-guitarist-turned-master-watchmaker

7 years ago

Japan plans to lower age of adulthood to 18 (2018)

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-43391498

7 years ago

A Journey to the Disappointment Islands

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20190319-a-journey-to-the-disappointment-islands

7 years ago

Flashing Light, Sound Restore Memory in Alzheimer's Mice

https://www.laboratoryequipment.com/article/2019/03/flashing-light-sound-restore-memory-alzheimers-mice

7 years ago

ARM and Intel have different performance characteristics: a case study

https://lemire.me/blog/2019/03/20/arm-and-intel-have-different-performance-characteristics-a-case-study-in-random-number-generation/

7 years ago

New study makes link between use of potent cannabis and psychosis

https://www.thejournal.ie/cannabis-psychosis-study-the-lancet-4549656-Mar2019/

7 years ago

Advice to a Young Tradesman (1748)

https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-03-02-0130

7 years ago

AirPods

https://www.apple.com/airpods/

7 years ago

Computer Latency at a Human Scale

https://www.prowesscorp.com/computer-latency-at-a-human-scale/

7 years ago

Lax oversight, dubious testing in water tanks pose health risks

https://www.cityandstateny.com/articles/policy/energy-environment/new-york-city-water-tank-hazards.html

7 years ago

Epic’s Stunning RTX-Powered Ray-Tracing Demo Wows GDC

https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2019/03/20/epic-rtx-ray-tracing-gdc/

7 years ago

A ‘Disgusting’ Yale Professor Moves On

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/19/opinion/nicholas-christakis-yale.html

7 years ago

What has your microcode done for you lately?

https://travisdowns.github.io/blog/2019/03/19/random-writes-and-microcode-oh-my.html

7 years ago

4chan, 8chan blocked by Australian and NZ ISPs for hosting shooting video

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/03/australian-and-nz-isps-blocked-dozens-of-sites-that-host-nz-shooting-video/

7 years ago

Show HN: FastAPI: build Python APIs with Go-like speed and automatic UI docs

https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/

7 years ago

Stroads and Strails

https://pedestrianobservations.com/2019/03/19/stroads-and-strails/

7 years ago

My First Life as a Nurse (2015)

http://avidly.lareviewofbooks.org/2015/03/24/my-first-life-as-a-nurse/

7 years ago

Startups Lose in a Low-Rate World, and the Fed Is Blaming Itself

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-19/startups-lose-in-a-low-rate-world-and-the-fed-is-blaming-itself

7 years ago

Kickstarter CEO Perry Chen Steps Down

https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/19/kickstarter-ceo-perry-chen-steps-down/

7 years ago

ACLU reaches settlement with Facebook over discriminatory ads

https://www.axios.com/aclu-reaches-settlement-with-facebook-over-ad-discrimination--f91778c9-d594-401d-8f57-5373663d857d.html

7 years ago