top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-04-01

Warp – Mobile VPN

https://blog.cloudflare.com/1111-warp-better-vpn/

7 years ago

1211 upvotes – 486 comments

Burger King is introducing a vegetarian patty from the start-up Impossible Foods

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/01/technology/burger-king-impossible-whopper.html

7 years ago

848 upvotes – 637 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2019)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19543940

7 years ago

400 upvotes – 860 comments

San Diego Implemented City-Wide Streetlight Surveillance

https://massprivatei.blogspot.com/2019/03/san-diego-has-been-turned-into-massive.html

7 years ago

394 upvotes – 278 comments

Base salaries offered to software engineers in SF, NYC, and Seattle

https://triplebyte.com/software-engineer-salary

7 years ago

384 upvotes – 282 comments

Git implemented in Rust

https://github.com/chrisdickinson/git-rs

7 years ago

★ 1.3k Rust MIT
370 upvotes – 119 comments

Trains are more efficient and less polluting than other transportation modes

https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2019/04/rail-transportation-carbon-emissions-green-new-deal/586240/

7 years ago

362 upvotes – 317 comments

Django 2.2

https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2019/apr/01/django-22-released/

7 years ago

341 upvotes – 236 comments

How not to hire a software engineer

http://tonsky.me/blog/hiring/

7 years ago

329 upvotes – 230 comments

How to lose $172k per second for 45 minutes (2013)

https://sweetness.hmmz.org/2013-10-22-how-to-lose-172222-a-second-for-45-minutes.html

7 years ago

327 upvotes – 166 comments

OKRs Aren't Going to Fix Your Communication Issues

http://www.craigkerstiens.com/2019/03/29/okrs-arent-going-to-fix-your-communication/

7 years ago

324 upvotes – 165 comments

Getty Images Sued Again for Trying to License Public Domain Images

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190329/15352641901/getty-images-sued-yet-again-trying-to-license-public-domain-images.shtml

7 years ago

292 upvotes – 98 comments

I’m only making business card sized games now

http://frankforce.com/?p=5826

7 years ago

264 upvotes – 173 comments

Deadlines Are Killing Us, and Almost Everything Else I Know About Leadership

https://medium.com/@duncanr/deadlines-are-killing-us-and-almost-everything-else-i-know-about-leadership-7032a5fb12ac

7 years ago

256 upvotes – 128 comments

China warned others not to attend UN meeting on Xinjiang human rights violations

https://www.hongkongfp.com/2019/04/01/china-warned-countries-not-attend-un-meeting-xinjiang-human-rights-violations/

7 years ago

244 upvotes – 112 comments

Splitting atoms in XNU

https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2019/04/splitting-atoms-in-xnu.html

7 years ago

232 upvotes – 34 comments

Against metrics: how measuring performance by numbers backfires

https://aeon.co/ideas/against-metrics-how-measuring-performance-by-numbers-backfires

7 years ago

231 upvotes – 152 comments

Google blocks China ads that help bypass censorship

https://www.ft.com/content/1091cf20-5209-11e9-b401-8d9ef1626294

7 years ago

225 upvotes – 82 comments

“Google just started mass banning/limiting Archive Team downloads”

https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1112494767601053696

7 years ago

217 upvotes – 144 comments

Distributism

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

7 years ago

209 upvotes – 113 comments

Typing with a Piano [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAYlMcyVZ2k

7 years ago

206 upvotes – 61 comments

Ask HN: How do I ask for a raise?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19541937

7 years ago

202 upvotes – 152 comments

Red Cross Raised Half a Billion Dollars for Haiti ­and Built Six Homes (2015)

https://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-red-cross-raised-half-a-billion-dollars-for-haiti-and-built-6-homes

7 years ago

184 upvotes – 100 comments

Death by a Thousand Clicks: Where Electronic Health Records Went Wrong

http://fortune.com/longform/medical-records/

7 years ago

182 upvotes – 101 comments

Show HN: Bsed – Simple, English syntax on top of Perl text processing

https://github.com/andrewbihl/bsed

7 years ago

★ 413 Python MIT
178 upvotes – 67 comments

The Challenge of Going Off Psychiatric Drugs

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/04/08/the-challenge-of-going-off-psychiatric-drugs/

7 years ago

166 upvotes – 181 comments

C#88: The Original C# (2018)

https://medium.com/@ricomariani/c-88-the-original-c-66a1b5de47d7

7 years ago

158 upvotes – 70 comments

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2019)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19543938

7 years ago

156 upvotes – 290 comments

Linux Journal at 25

https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/linux-journal-25

7 years ago

151 upvotes – 21 comments

MSX History: The Platform Microsoft Forgot

https://tedium.co/2019/01/29/microsoft-msx-history/

7 years ago

147 upvotes – 84 comments

The sexes don’t feel pain the same way

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00895-3

7 years ago

142 upvotes – 136 comments

A once abandoned drug compound shows an ability to rebuild organs

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-drug-shows-an-astonishing-ability-to-regenerate-damaged-hearts-and-other-body-parts/

7 years ago

132 upvotes – 54 comments

Saudi Aramco Is World’s Most Profitable Company, Far Exceeding Apple

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/01/business/saudi-aramco-profit.html

7 years ago

131 upvotes – 94 comments

Ask HN: Is all programming constantly changing or just front-end JavaScript?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19544920

7 years ago

131 upvotes – 132 comments

American Hackers Helped UAE Spy on Al Jazeera Chairman, BBC Host

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-raven-media/

7 years ago

129 upvotes – 67 comments

Size visualization of Go executables using D3

https://science.raphael.poss.name/go-executable-size-visualization-with-d3.html

7 years ago

125 upvotes – 53 comments

The Guardians of the French Language Are Deadlocked

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/03/world/europe/academie-francaise-france-deadlock.html

7 years ago

124 upvotes – 194 comments

H-1B Employer Data Hub

https://www.uscis.gov/h-1b-data-hub

7 years ago

121 upvotes – 110 comments

The Brain Needs Animal Fat

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/diagnosis-diet/201903/the-brain-needs-animal-fat

7 years ago

110 upvotes – 140 comments

Lidar mapping techniques using multiple sensors

https://www.ouster.io/blog-posts/2019/3/29/lidar-mapping-with-ouster-3d-sensors

7 years ago

105 upvotes – 34 comments

Abe explains choice of Reiwa for next era name

https://japantoday.com/category/national/japan-names-new-era-reiwa

7 years ago

103 upvotes – 85 comments

Running Forth Unikernels

https://nanovms.com/dev/tutorials/running-forth-unikernels

7 years ago

103 upvotes – 49 comments

The MacBook keyboard fiasco is surely worse than Apple thinks

https://m.signalvnoise.com/the-macbook-keyboard-fiasco-is-surely-worse-than-apple-thinks/

7 years ago

102 upvotes – 68 comments

Building Spotify’s New Web Player

https://labs.spotify.com/2019/03/25/building-spotifys-new-web-player/

7 years ago

101 upvotes – 55 comments

A New Era of Video Backends: The Unification of VideoCommon

https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/2019/04/01/the-new-era-of-video-backends/

7 years ago

96 upvotes – 3 comments

Modern Prolog Implemented in Rust

https://github.com/mthom/scryer-prolog

7 years ago

★ 2.3k Rust BSD-3-Clause
93 upvotes – 20 comments

Nfhttp: A cross platform C++ HTTP library natively interfacing to platforms

https://github.com/spotify/NFHTTP

7 years ago

★ 585 C Apache-2.0
92 upvotes – 40 comments

Complex societies precede moralizing gods throughout world history

https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2019/03/28/complex-societies-precede-moralizing-gods-throughout-world-history/

7 years ago

91 upvotes – 80 comments

Computers without clocks (2002) [pdf]

http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/Computing_Without_Clocks.pdf

7 years ago

89 upvotes – 28 comments

Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking Freelancer? (April 2019)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19543939

7 years ago

86 upvotes – 117 comments

The Growth of Hypercasual Games

https://venturebeat.com/2019/03/24/the-truth-about-hypercasual-games/

7 years ago

86 upvotes – 54 comments

Congestion Pricing: N.Y. Embraced It. Will Other Clogged Cities Follow?

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/01/nyregion/new-york-congestion-pricing.html

7 years ago

84 upvotes – 84 comments

Git Implemented in OCaml

https://github.com/mirage/ocaml-git

7 years ago

★ 370 OCaml ISC
82 upvotes – 4 comments

Energy consumption increased at a record rate in 2018

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2019/03/26/energy-consumption-increased-at-a-record-rate-in-2018

7 years ago

80 upvotes – 113 comments

The Incredible Proof Machine (2016)

http://incredible.pm

7 years ago

79 upvotes – 16 comments

Time protection: The missing OS abstraction

https://ts.data61.csiro.au/publications/csiroabstracts/Ge_YCH_19.abstract.pml

7 years ago

77 upvotes – 8 comments

DoX: DNS Queries over XMPP

https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0418.html

7 years ago

74 upvotes – 24 comments

Lyft’s IPO Was a Success, Just Not for Investors Who Bought on Friday

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/29/business/dealbook/lyft-ipo-stock-price.html

7 years ago

72 upvotes – 78 comments

Electronic music reduces host attack and mating success in dengue mosquitoes

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30922800

7 years ago

72 upvotes – 44 comments
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