top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-03-23

“Every minute I spent thinking about competitors was a minute wasted”

https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1109220781035307009

7 years ago

442 upvotes – 157 comments

Show HN: Everything I Know Wiki

https://wiki.nikitavoloboev.xyz

7 years ago

434 upvotes – 119 comments

Calculating the mean of a list of numbers (2016)

https://hypothesis.works/articles/calculating-the-mean/

7 years ago

271 upvotes – 94 comments

Uganda’s Tarantino and his $200 action movies (2015)

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-32531558

7 years ago

252 upvotes – 66 comments

Sonic: Fast, lightweight and schemaless search back end in Rust

https://github.com/valeriansaliou/sonic

7 years ago

★ 21.1k Rust MPL-2.0
238 upvotes – 39 comments

Why Mailchimp is no longer in the Shopify App Store

https://community.shopify.com/c/Shopify-Apps/Here-s-why-Mailchimp-is-no-longer-in-the-Shopify-App-Store/td-p/493593

7 years ago

227 upvotes – 112 comments

Qri: A global dataset version control system built on the distributed web

https://github.com/qri-io/qri

7 years ago

★ 1.1k Go GPL-3.0
204 upvotes – 42 comments

Russiagate is a death-blow for the reputation of the American news media

https://taibbi.substack.com/p/russiagate-is-wmd-times-a-million

7 years ago

202 upvotes – 210 comments

ISPs in AU and NZ start censoring the internet without legal precedent

https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2019/03/isps-in-au-and-nz-start-censoring-the-internet-without-legal-precedent/

7 years ago

202 upvotes – 283 comments

Homeless, living in a tent and employed: The changing face of homelessness

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/local/wp/2019/03/22/feature/this-is-not-me/

7 years ago

199 upvotes – 236 comments

Replete 2.0: ClojureScript REPL for iOS and Android

http://replete-repl.org/

7 years ago

190 upvotes – 46 comments

Hyphenation in CSS

http://clagnut.com/blog/2395

7 years ago

184 upvotes – 108 comments

Pulling JPEGs out of thin air (2014)

http://lcamtuf.blogspot.com/2014/11/pulling-jpegs-out-of-thin-air.html

7 years ago

177 upvotes – 14 comments

‘A Swiss cheese-like material’ that can solve equations

https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/penn-engineers-demonstrate-metamaterials-can-solve-equations

7 years ago

167 upvotes – 52 comments

Rogue Airbnb listings still exist where short-term rentals aren't allowed

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/marketplace-airbnb-covert-listings-banned-units-1.5066673

7 years ago

164 upvotes – 147 comments

Rethinking Streets for Bikes

http://rethinkingstreets.com/

7 years ago

159 upvotes – 143 comments

Apple's Reinvention as a Services Company Starts for Real Monday

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-23/apple-s-reinvention-as-a-services-company-starts-for-real-monday

7 years ago

157 upvotes – 173 comments

Machine Learning: Full-Text Search in JavaScript – Relevance Scoring (2015)

http://burakkanber.com/blog/machine-learning-full-text-search-in-javascript-relevance-scoring/

7 years ago

153 upvotes – 22 comments

Theoretical way to levitate objects with light

https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/levitating-objects-light

7 years ago

153 upvotes – 49 comments

Tracing child abusers: Where was this picture taken? [video]

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/stories-47660347/tracing-child-abusers-where-was-this-picture-taken

7 years ago

148 upvotes – 92 comments

Nation's only Civil War pensioner collects $73 a month from VA (2017)

https://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/2017/08/24/one-n-c-woman-still-receiving-civil-war-pension/594982001/

7 years ago

146 upvotes – 34 comments

Top Scores: Video Game Music

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/top_scores_video_game_music

7 years ago

143 upvotes – 65 comments

Aging Is a Communication Breakdown

http://nautil.us/issue/70/variables/aging-is-a-communication-breakdown

7 years ago

134 upvotes – 27 comments

Show HN: DropCSS – A simple, thorough and fast unused-CSS cleaner

https://github.com/leeoniya/dropcss

7 years ago

★ 2.1k HTML MIT
134 upvotes – 25 comments

Italy Joins China's New Silk Road Project

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-47679760

7 years ago

132 upvotes – 149 comments

American landlords derive more profit from renters in low-income neighborhoods

https://www.citylab.com/equity/2019/03/housing-rent-landlords-poverty-desmond-inequality-research/585265/

7 years ago

131 upvotes – 162 comments

Boeing Was ‘Go, Go, Go’ to Beat Airbus with the 737 Max

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/23/business/boeing-737-max-crash.html

7 years ago

123 upvotes – 92 comments

Homosexuality in giraffes and other non-human animals

https://www.queerty.com/excerpt-giraffes-mostly-homosexual-20190323

7 years ago

121 upvotes – 148 comments

For Sale: A Massive, Obsessive and Probably Obsolete VHS Boxing Archive

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/22/nyregion/boxing-vhs-archive.html

7 years ago

111 upvotes – 55 comments

Fish oil supplements linked to prostate cancer (2013)

https://www.nhs.uk/news/cancer/fish-oil-supplements-linked-to-prostate-cancer/

7 years ago

111 upvotes – 65 comments

Fuck The Vessel

https://thebaffler.com/latest/fuck-the-vessel-wagner

7 years ago

111 upvotes – 129 comments

Show HN: How to Find a Job as a Software Developer in Switzerland – Guide

https://swissdevjobs.ch/blog/how-to-find-job-as-software-developer-in-switzerland-complete-guide

7 years ago

107 upvotes – 35 comments

End-User Programming

https://www.inkandswitch.com/end-user-programming.html

7 years ago

105 upvotes – 41 comments

Alzheimer’s Drug Failure Leaves Scientists Seeking New Direction

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-22/alzheimer-s-drug-fails-and-scientists-ask-is-it-time-to-move-on

7 years ago

92 upvotes – 76 comments

Anthropic Capitalism and the New Gimmick Economy (2016)

https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26756

7 years ago

88 upvotes – 66 comments

Lego Mosaics Using R

https://github.com/ryantimpe/brickr

7 years ago

★ 442 R
87 upvotes – 15 comments

Marvin Pipkin, inventor of the frosted light bulb

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Pipkin

7 years ago

86 upvotes – 29 comments

Making Music with Shaders: Practical Additive GPU Audio Synthesis [pdf]

http://www.graffathon.fi/2016/presentations/additive_slides.pdf

7 years ago

85 upvotes – 10 comments

A 20-Year Community Roadmap for Artificial Intelligence Research in the US [pdf]

https://cra.org/ccc/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/AI_Roadmap_Exec_Summary-FINAL-.pdf

7 years ago

84 upvotes – 11 comments

Clojure Socket Prepl Cookbook

https://oli.me.uk/2019-03-22-clojure-socket-prepl-cookbook/

7 years ago

83 upvotes – 9 comments

The insect apocalypse is not here but there are reasons for concern

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2019/03/23/the-insect-apocalypse-is-not-here-but-there-are-reasons-for-concern

7 years ago

81 upvotes – 29 comments

Dadamachines Doppler: FPGA open music hardware

https://cdm.link/2019/03/dadamachines-doppler-fpga-open-music-hardware/

7 years ago

79 upvotes – 47 comments

A Meta Lesson

http://andy.kitchen/a-meta-lesson.html

7 years ago

74 upvotes – 12 comments

Pure Maths in Crisis?

https://plus.maths.org/content/pure-maths-crisis

7 years ago

72 upvotes – 55 comments

Smartphone Addiction Associated with Impaired Decision-Making

https://digest.bps.org.uk/2019/03/21/brazilian-researchers-say-smartphone-addiction-is-real-and-that-its-associated-with-impaired-decision-making/

7 years ago

71 upvotes – 5 comments

Wintun – Layer 3 TUN Driver for Windows

https://www.wintun.net/

7 years ago

70 upvotes – 12 comments

Product manager responsibilities

https://www.leaninberlin.de/2019/03/product-manager-responsibilities.html

7 years ago

69 upvotes – 21 comments

Best apps for writers

https://www.writersdigest.com/online-editor/best-websites-for-writers/free-mobile-apps-for-writers

7 years ago

67 upvotes – 43 comments

In China, 'Fortnite' Penalizes Minors for Playing Too Much

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/mbzd4x/in-china-fortnite-penalizes-minors-for-playing-too-much

7 years ago

61 upvotes – 73 comments

Artyping (1939)

https://archive.org/details/Artyping

7 years ago

60 upvotes – 6 comments
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