top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-03-29

Apple Cancels AirPower Product

https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/29/apple-cancels-airpower-product-citing-inability-to-meet-its-high-standards-for-hardware/

7 years ago

637 upvotes – 480 comments

Why GNU grep is fast (2010)

https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2010-August/019310.html

7 years ago

511 upvotes – 218 comments

Everything I know about freelancing

https://andyadams.org/everything-i-know-about-freelancing/

7 years ago

454 upvotes – 124 comments

Dogs demonstrate the existence of an epileptic seizure odour in humans

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-40721-4

7 years ago

391 upvotes – 147 comments

Boston Dynamics’ new robot stacks boxes [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iV_hB08Uns

7 years ago

372 upvotes – 242 comments

Which Programming Languages Use the Least Electricity? (2018)

https://thenewstack.io/which-programming-languages-use-the-least-electricity

7 years ago

278 upvotes – 253 comments

Ask HN: What are your best learning methods/hacks/tips?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19521129

7 years ago

259 upvotes – 97 comments

We moved our servers to Iceland

https://blog.simpleanalytics.io/why-we-moved-our-servers-to-iceland

7 years ago

241 upvotes – 125 comments

OCaml on Baremetal Shakti RISC-V Processor

http://kcsrk.info/ocaml/riscv/shakti/2019/03/29/1400-ocaml-baremetal-shakti/

7 years ago

233 upvotes – 76 comments

‘The Wolf of Wall Street’ film was also a real-life scam

https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/the-perfect-irony-that-the-wolf-of-wall-street-was-also-a-real-life-scam

7 years ago

232 upvotes – 77 comments

I Now Have a Cardiologist

https://joecieplinski.com/blog/2019/03/28/i-now-have-a-cardiologist/

7 years ago

231 upvotes – 187 comments

How developers and tech founders can turn their ideas into UI design

https://www.simonmccade.com/blog/how-developers-and-tech-founders-can-turn-their-ideas-into-ui-design

7 years ago

214 upvotes – 24 comments

Paul Vixie thinks more people should be running their own DNS servers

https://www.businessinsider.com/internet-pioneer-paul-vixie-privacy-security-dns-server-2019-3

7 years ago

204 upvotes – 151 comments

Librefox: Firefox with privacy enhancements

https://github.com/intika/Librefox

7 years ago

★ 1.7k JavaScript MPL-2.0
204 upvotes – 112 comments

A Real-Time Wideband Neural Vocoder at 1.6 Kb/S Using LPCNet

https://people.xiph.org/~jm/demo/lpcnet_codec/

7 years ago

203 upvotes – 73 comments

SPARCbook 3000ST

http://triosdevelopers.com/jason.eckert/blog/Entries/2019/3/14_SPARCbook_3000ST_-_The_coolest_90s_laptop.html

7 years ago

200 upvotes – 98 comments

What It’s Like to Grow Up with More Money Than You’ll Ever Spend

https://www.thecut.com/2019/03/abigail-disney-has-more-money-than-shell-ever-spend.html

7 years ago

197 upvotes – 172 comments

The Death of External Storage: Where's Google?

https://commonsware.com/blog/2019/03/29/death-external-storage-where-google.html

7 years ago

194 upvotes – 254 comments

Fulcro Developers Guide: Single-page full-stack web applications in clj/cljs

http://book.fulcrologic.com/

7 years ago

191 upvotes – 64 comments

Facebook launches searchable transparency library of all active ads

https://www.facebook.com/ads/library/?active_status=all&ad_type=political_and_issue_ads&country=US

7 years ago

190 upvotes – 89 comments

Bay Area housing prices drop in tech-heavy counties

https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/03/28/bay-area-home-sales-dip-as-prices-continue-to-rise/

7 years ago

180 upvotes – 225 comments

Call for testing: OpenSSH 8.0

https://lists.mindrot.org/pipermail/openssh-unix-dev/2019-March/037672.html

7 years ago

179 upvotes – 96 comments

F-35's Towed Decoys

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/27185/f-35s-most-sinister-capability-are-towed-decoys-that-unreel-from-inside-its-stealthy-skin

7 years ago

178 upvotes – 206 comments

Magnetic Bearings Might Keep Motor Spinning for Millennia

https://hackaday.com/2019/03/25/magnetic-bearings-might-keep-this-motor-spinning-for-millennia/

7 years ago

177 upvotes – 63 comments

Cartography: Graph view of infrastructure assets and relationships between them

http://github.com/lyft/cartography

7 years ago

★ 3.8k Python Apache-2.0
176 upvotes – 35 comments

YouTube’s Product Chief on Online Radicalization and Algorithmic Rabbit Holes

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/29/technology/youtube-online-extremism.html

7 years ago

169 upvotes – 232 comments

ROSshow: ASCII art visualizations for robot sensor data

https://www.github.com/dheera/rosshow

7 years ago

★ 1.1k Python BSD-3-Clause
165 upvotes – 40 comments

Intel lays off hundreds of tech administrators

https://www.oregonlive.com/silicon-forest/2019/03/intel-lays-off-hundreds-of-tech-administrators.html

7 years ago

163 upvotes – 52 comments

Ghost Villages for Sale in Spain

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-29/ghost-villages-for-sale-as-spain-fights-rural-desertification

7 years ago

157 upvotes – 179 comments

Worried about Huawei? Take a closer look at Tencent

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2019/03/28/commentary/world-commentary/worried-huawei-take-closer-look-tencent/

7 years ago

150 upvotes – 89 comments

Fibers: An Elegant Windows API

https://nullprogram.com/blog/2019/03/28/

7 years ago

136 upvotes – 112 comments

Freedom to Compete Act [pdf]

https://www.rubio.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/7563e7ae-ca85-423b-b3e8-b44ce3b4eb54/1DC3C59DB28D9D2D273ACEB3087742E4.the-freedom-to-compete-act.pdf

7 years ago

126 upvotes – 58 comments

Tetris Is Hard, Even to Approximate

https://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0210020

7 years ago

126 upvotes – 39 comments

No call for simulators in new Boeing 737 Max training proposals

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ethiopia-airplane-boeing-analysis/no-call-for-simulators-in-new-boeing-737-max-training-proposals-idUSKCN1RA006

7 years ago

124 upvotes – 99 comments

The Most Wonderful Map in the World: Urbano Monte's Planisphere of 1587

https://resobscura.blogspot.com/2019/03/the-most-wonderful-map-in-world.html

7 years ago

122 upvotes – 24 comments

In the Latest Version of macOS, Macs Sold in China Cannot Display Taiwanese Flag

https://twitter.com/thisboyuan/status/1110743058201473025?s=21

7 years ago

122 upvotes – 52 comments

Preliminary conclusion MCAS misfired in Ethiopian's 737 max crash

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/29/ethiopian-crash-boeing-737-max-anti-stall-system-likely-activatedwsj.html

7 years ago

121 upvotes – 138 comments

SR-71's “R2-D2” Could Be the Key to Winning Fights in GPS Denied Environments

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/17207/sr-71s-r2-d2-could-be-the-key-to-winning-future-fights-in-gps-denied-environments

7 years ago

118 upvotes – 74 comments

Brexit – where now? The flow diagrams

https://jonworth.eu/brexit-where-now-the-flow-diagrams/

7 years ago

116 upvotes – 172 comments

Show HN: GNUplot with sixel – Mix images, ANSI colors and plots

https://github.com/csdvrx/sixel-gnuplot

7 years ago

★ 101 Shell
110 upvotes – 53 comments

Lyft pops 21% on its first day of trading

https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/29/lyft-nasdaq/

7 years ago

108 upvotes – 81 comments

History of Biosphere 2

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/29/sunday-review/biosphere-2-climate-change.html

7 years ago

106 upvotes – 88 comments

Texting Means Never Having to Say Goodbye

https://slate.com/technology/2019/03/texting-slack-internet-conversation-goodbye.html

7 years ago

101 upvotes – 75 comments

Vugu: Experimental library for web UIs written in Go and targeting WebAssembly

https://github.com/vugu/vugu

7 years ago

★ 4.9k Go MIT
95 upvotes – 25 comments

Rust has finally outgrown me

https://words.steveklabnik.com/rust-has-finally-outgrown-me

7 years ago

93 upvotes – 21 comments

Kicking neural network design automation into high gear

https://news.mit.edu/2019/convolutional-neural-network-automation-0321

7 years ago

92 upvotes – 3 comments

How I Built and Sold My Company in 18 Months

https://campfirelabs.co/blog-1/2019/3/28/how-i-built-and-sold-my-company-in-18-months

7 years ago

86 upvotes – 16 comments

AirPods 2 Teardown

https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/AirPods+2+Teardown/121471

7 years ago

84 upvotes – 97 comments

Behind the Burst Compiler

https://xoofx.com/blog/2019/03/28/behind-the-burst-compiler/

7 years ago

82 upvotes – 4 comments

GPS Flaw: Security Expert Says He Won't Fly April 6

https://www.tomsguide.com/us/gps-mini-y2k-rsa2019,news-29583.html

7 years ago

80 upvotes – 75 comments

Nasa proves its space helicopter can fly on Mars

https://www.engadget.com/2019/03/29/nasa-proves-its-space-helicopter-can-fly-on-mars/

7 years ago

79 upvotes – 33 comments

N.S.A. Contractor Arrested in Biggest Breach of U.S. Secrets Pleads Guilty

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/28/us/politics/hal-martin-nsa-guilty-plea.html

7 years ago

78 upvotes – 11 comments

Scroll Anchoring in Firefox 66

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/03/scroll-anchoring-in-firefox-66/

7 years ago

76 upvotes – 12 comments

Have you been faked?

https://havetheyfaked.me/

7 years ago

73 upvotes – 71 comments

EPA Science Panel Considering Guidelines That Upend Basic Air Pollution Science

https://www.npr.org/2019/03/28/707166015/epa-science-panel-considering-guidelines-that-upend-basic-air-pollution-science

7 years ago

72 upvotes – 24 comments

The practical value of semantic HTML

https://www.brucelawson.co.uk/2018/the-practical-value-of-semantic-html/

7 years ago

69 upvotes – 10 comments

A 119-Word Local Crime Brief Became Facebook’s Most-Shared Story of 2019

https://slate.com/technology/2019/03/facebook-most-viral-story-texas-child-predator.html

7 years ago

66 upvotes – 30 comments

Using the IOMMU for Safe and Secure User Space Drivers [pdf]

https://www.net.in.tum.de/fileadmin/bibtex/publications/theses/2019-ixy-iommu.pdf

7 years ago

65 upvotes – 16 comments

GitHub may have been blocked in parts of China

https://viewdns.info/chinesefirewall/?domain=github.com

7 years ago

64 upvotes – 41 comments

Ancient monument sheds light on battle of Actium

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/roman-empire-cleopatra-octavian-ceasar-egypt-battle-sea-nicopolis-history-archaeology-a8843886.html

7 years ago

64 upvotes – 34 comments

ChesSkelet: Micro Chess Game for ZX Spectrum in 365 Bytes

http://chesskelet.x10host.com/

7 years ago

62 upvotes – 16 comments

Cryptography of SSH (2006)

https://www.mnin.org/write/2006_sshcrypto.html

7 years ago

62 upvotes – 6 comments

Lyft's IPO Is Making the Same Circle of Men Rich, Again

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/03/29/opinion/sunday/lyft-ipo.html

7 years ago

62 upvotes – 50 comments

20 years for swatter who got a man killed

https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/29/20-years-for-swatter-who-got-a-man-killed/

7 years ago

62 upvotes – 81 comments

A small trail through the Linux kernel (2001)

https://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/vfs/trail.html

7 years ago

61 upvotes – 2 comments
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