top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-03-22

Bitcoin ETF research finds that 95% of Bitcoin volume is fake

https://twitter.com/BitwiseInvest/status/1109114656944209921

7 years ago

586 upvotes – 135 comments

Endlessh: An SSH Tarpit

https://nullprogram.com/blog/2019/03/22/

7 years ago

579 upvotes – 112 comments

Maybe You Don't Need Kubernetes

https://matthias-endler.de/2019/maybe-you-dont-need-kubernetes/

7 years ago

500 upvotes – 315 comments

At $75K, housing a prisoner in California now costs more than a year at Harvard

https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-prison-costs-20170604-htmlstory.html

7 years ago

401 upvotes – 431 comments

Ad Fraud Scheme Drained Users’ Batteries By Running Hidden Video Ads In Android

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/in-banner-video-ad-fraud

7 years ago

394 upvotes – 275 comments

Redis streams as a pure data structure

http://antirez.com/news/128

7 years ago

344 upvotes – 53 comments

AT&T’s “5G E” is slower than Verizon and T-Mobile 4G, study finds

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/03/atts-5g-e-is-actually-slower-than-verizon-and-t-mobile-4g-study-finds/

7 years ago

340 upvotes – 109 comments

Quake II RTX: Re-Engineering a Classic with Ray Tracing Effects on Vulkan

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/quake-ii-rtx-ray-tracing-vulkan-vkray-geforce-rtx/

7 years ago

334 upvotes – 161 comments

South Korea accepts geothermal plant probably caused destructive quake

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00959-4

7 years ago

321 upvotes – 195 comments

Defining a Distinguished Engineer

https://blog.jessfraz.com/post/defining-a-distinguished-enginner/

7 years ago

292 upvotes – 100 comments

Pinterest S-1

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1506293/000119312519083544/d674330ds1.htm

7 years ago

292 upvotes – 172 comments

Women: Learn to Program This Summer

http://foundersatwork.posthaven.com/women-learn-to-program-this-summer

7 years ago

268 upvotes – 536 comments

Graphene Device Sops Up Sunlight, Heats to 160 Degrees Celsius in Seconds

https://spectrum.ieee.org/nanoclast/semiconductors/optoelectronics/new-graphene-metamaterial-device-heats-to-160c-under-sunlight-in-seconds

7 years ago

230 upvotes – 76 comments

The Boombox Incident: removing bald people from photos

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19462007

7 years ago

225 upvotes – 62 comments

Zoom S-1

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1585521/000119312519083351/d642624ds1.htm

7 years ago

219 upvotes – 123 comments

Why We Love QUIC and HTTP/3

https://www.fastly.com/blog/why-fastly-loves-quic-http3

7 years ago

210 upvotes – 112 comments

Oracle Swings the Layoff Axe

https://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/at-work/tech-careers/oracle-swings-the-layoff-axe-and-clearcuts-teams-of-engineers

7 years ago

207 upvotes – 170 comments

Programming Language Rankings: January 2019

https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2019/03/20/language-rankings-1-19/

7 years ago

202 upvotes – 154 comments

Operable Erlang and Elixir [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OR2Gc6_Le2U

7 years ago

201 upvotes – 15 comments

Key Polish Political Party Comes Out Against Article 13

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/03/could-be-it-key-polish-political-party-comes-out-against-article-13

7 years ago

192 upvotes – 46 comments

I Don't Like Debuggers (2000)

http://lwn.net/2000/0914/a/lt-debugger.php3

7 years ago

186 upvotes – 239 comments

Majority of health apps on Android tested shared personal health data

https://www.bmj.com/content/364/bmj.l920

7 years ago

184 upvotes – 67 comments

U.S. Treasury Yield Curve Inverts for First Time Since 2007

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-22/u-s-treasury-yield-curve-inverts-for-first-time-since-2007

7 years ago

180 upvotes – 79 comments

The New iPad Mini

https://daringfireball.net/2019/03/the_new_ipad_mini

7 years ago

176 upvotes – 149 comments

Python for Reverse Engineering 1: ELF Binaries

https://icyphox.sh/blog/python-for-re-1/

7 years ago

173 upvotes – 48 comments

I wrote a story that became a legend, then discovered it wasn’t true

https://www.cjr.org/first_person/tinazzi-motorcycle-mont-blanc-tunnel-fire-rescue.php

7 years ago

172 upvotes – 41 comments

How the car industry hid the truth about diesel emissions

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/mar/22/dirty-lies-how-the-car-industry-hid-the-truth-about-diesel-emissions

7 years ago

170 upvotes – 151 comments

How Developers Stop Learning: Rise of the Expert Beginner

https://daedtech.com/how-developers-stop-learning-rise-of-the-expert-beginner/

7 years ago

157 upvotes – 51 comments

Phone Numbers Stink as Identity Proof

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/03/why-phone-numbers-stink-as-identity-proof/

7 years ago

155 upvotes – 56 comments

Google's Work with China Eroding US Military Advantage, Dunford Says

https://www.military.com/defensetech/2019/03/21/googles-work-china-eroding-us-military-advantage-dunford-says.html

7 years ago

153 upvotes – 97 comments

Car campers in beach parking lots

https://www.bakersfield.com/ap/national/living-on-pennies-with-a-million-dollar-view-how-car/article_edf4971c-045a-5265-b772-b857df180d4b.html

7 years ago

151 upvotes – 155 comments

Three protocols and a future of the decentralized internet

https://blog.datproject.org/2019/03/22/three-protocols-and-a-future-of-the-decentralized-internet/

7 years ago

137 upvotes – 36 comments

Removing oil left behind in 2.5B gallons of produced water every day in U.S.

https://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/releases/2019/Q1/what-oil-leaves-behind-in-2.5-billion-gallons-of-water-every-day-in-u.s..html

7 years ago

136 upvotes – 45 comments

The Functional Style (2018)

https://codurance.com/2018/08/09/the-functional-style-part-1/

7 years ago

135 upvotes – 92 comments

The drug debate in Japan (2018)

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/japan-place-with-strangest-drug-debate-in-world/

7 years ago

134 upvotes – 222 comments

Architecting UIs for Change

https://joreteg.com/blog/architecting-uis-for-change

7 years ago

130 upvotes – 27 comments

HighwayHash: Fast hashing at over 10 GB/s per core in Golang

https://blog.minio.io/highwayhash-fast-hashing-at-over-10-gb-s-per-core-in-golang-fee938b5218a

7 years ago

127 upvotes – 28 comments

Ask HN: What happened to server-side rendering?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19463989

7 years ago

117 upvotes – 71 comments

Rick Steves Wants to Save the World, One Vacation at a Time

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/03/20/magazine/rick-steves-travel-world.html

7 years ago

114 upvotes – 147 comments

Rust in Production (2018)

https://www.figma.com/blog/rust-in-production-at-figma/

7 years ago

112 upvotes – 34 comments

“Medieval” Diseases Flare as Unsanitary Living Conditions Proliferate

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/medieval-diseases-flare-as-unsanitary-living-conditions-proliferate/

7 years ago

108 upvotes – 166 comments

CRFS: Container Registry Filesystem

https://github.com/golang/build/blob/master/crfs/README.md

7 years ago

★ 713 Go BSD-3-Clause
104 upvotes – 21 comments

JPM Coin Is the Wildest Big Bank Idea in Many Years

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-03-21/jpmorgan-proposes-a-wild-idea-for-crypto-and-banks

7 years ago

101 upvotes – 100 comments

Esoteric C++ Contest 2018

https://zygoloid.github.io/cppcontest2018.html

7 years ago

98 upvotes – 40 comments

Why Should Americans Be Grateful for $137 Insulin? Germans Get It for $55

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/21/opinion/diabetes-insulin-generics-humalog.html

7 years ago

98 upvotes – 154 comments

Expressing Business Flows Using an F# DSL

https://medium.com/jettech/microservices-to-workflows-expressing-business-flows-using-an-f-dsl-d2e74e6d6d5e

7 years ago

95 upvotes – 6 comments

RIP Mrdocs (1963–2019)

https://www.scribus.net/r-i-p-mrdocs-1963-2019/

7 years ago

95 upvotes – 3 comments

GoFundMe Bans Anti-Vaxxers Who Raise Money to Spread Misinformation

https://www.thedailybeast.com/gofundme-bans-anti-vaxxers-who-raise-money-to-spread-misinformation

7 years ago

90 upvotes – 177 comments

Can MIPS Leapfrog RISC-V?

https://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1334317

7 years ago

84 upvotes – 78 comments

Show HN: ContextCue – Create and host private, ethical ads

https://contextcue.com

7 years ago

80 upvotes – 45 comments

Deep Learning Optimizer Visualization

http://vis.ensmallen.org/

7 years ago

77 upvotes – 4 comments

Airline tells DACA attendant they're safe to fly abroad. ICE Detains Her

https://thepointsguy.com/news/ice-detains-flight-attendant-daca/

7 years ago

73 upvotes – 15 comments

Most Bitcoin Trading Faked by Unregulated Exchanges, Study Finds

https://www.wsj.com/articles/most-bitcoin-trading-faked-by-unregulated-exchanges-study-finds-11553259600

7 years ago

71 upvotes – 31 comments

Ralph Nader: Greedy Boeing’s Avoidable Design and Software Time Bombs

https://nader.org/2019/03/21/greedy-boeings-avoidable-design-and-software-time-bombs/

7 years ago

70 upvotes – 80 comments

Pretty PuTTY – Better PuTTY Settings

https://github.com/jacktrocinski/pretty-putty

7 years ago

★ 308 PowerShell
65 upvotes – 53 comments

Show HN: Mosaic – A declarative, front-end JavaScript library for building UIs

https://github.com/Authman2/Mosaic

7 years ago

★ 384 TypeScript MIT
63 upvotes – 20 comments
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