top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-04-02

I tried creating a web browser, and Google blocked me

https://blog.samuelmaddock.com/posts/google-widevine-blocked-my-browser/

7 years ago

Google’s constant product shutdowns are damaging its brand

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/04/googles-constant-product-shutdowns-are-damaging-its-brand/

7 years ago

Reducing notification permission prompt spam in Firefox

https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2019/04/01/reducing-notification-permission-prompt-spam-in-firefox/

7 years ago

Facebook Asking for Some New Users' Email Passwords

https://www.thedailybeast.com/beyond-sketchy-facebook-demanding-some-new-users-email-passwords

7 years ago

French ISPs Ordered to Block Sci-Hub and LibGen

https://torrentfreak.com/court-orders-french-isps-to-block-sci-hub-and-libgen-190331/

7 years ago

Sweden Wants to Revive Europe’s Overnight Trains

https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2019/04/europe-night-train-sweden-eco-travel-sleeper-car-fossil-free/586228/

7 years ago

Ask HN: Amazon delisted me – what do I do?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19551590

7 years ago

No one should have to travel in fear

https://medium.com/@andreasgal/no-one-should-have-to-travel-in-fear-b2bff4c460e5

7 years ago

Sci-Hub and Alexandra Basic Information

https://engineuring.wordpress.com/2019/03/31/sci-hub-and-alexandra-basic-information/

7 years ago

From Show HN to Series D

https://segment.com/blog/show-hn-to-series-d/

7 years ago

Why Evernote failed to realize its potential

https://usefyi.com/evernote-history

7 years ago

Editor.js – Block Styled Editor

https://editorjs.io/

7 years ago

The MacBook keyboard fiasco is way worse than Apple thinks

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

7 years ago

YOLO: Real-Time Object Detection

https://pjreddie.com/darknet/yolo/

7 years ago

Why Do Buses Bunch?

http://setosa.io/bus/

7 years ago

Idaho sets record low solar price as it starts on shift to 100pct renewables

https://reneweconomy.com.au/idaho-sets-record-low-solar-price-as-it-starts-on-shift-to-100pct-renewables-38566/

7 years ago

Who has the fastest website in F1?

https://jakearchibald.com/2019/f1-perf/

7 years ago

How I Eat for Free in NYC Using Python, Automation, AI, and Instagram

https://medium.com/@chrisbuetti/how-i-eat-for-free-in-nyc-using-python-automation-artificial-intelligence-and-instagram-a5ed8a1e2a10

7 years ago

The CIA Campaign to Steal Apple's Secrets (2015)

https://theintercept.com/2015/03/10/ispy-cia-campaign-steal-apples-secrets/

7 years ago

Rare Persian manuscripts dating back to 13th century now online

https://www.loc.gov/item/prn-19-036/

7 years ago

The Difference Between ‘Violet’ and ‘Purple’ (2015)

https://jakubmarian.com/difference-between-violet-and-purple/

7 years ago

What comes after open source

https://words.steveklabnik.com/what-comes-after-open-source

7 years ago

Simplify Gmail: Bringing the Simplicity of Google Inbox to Gmail

https://simpl.fyi/gmail/

7 years ago

Averages Can Be Misleading: Try a Percentile (2014)

https://www.elastic.co/blog/averages-can-dangerous-use-percentile

7 years ago

Implementing API Billing with Stripe

https://www.daily.co/blog/implementing-api-billing-with-stripe

7 years ago

Restoring natural forests is the best way to remove atmospheric carbon

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01026-8

7 years ago

Klotho – There May Be a Drug to Turbocharge Your Brain. Who Should Get It?

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/02/health/klotho-brain-enhancement-dementia-alzheimers.html

7 years ago

Exercise as a treatment for depression: a meta-analysis (2016)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/26978184/

7 years ago

Why It’s Easy for a Bounty Hunter to Find People

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/02/opinion/fcc-wireless-regulation.html

7 years ago

Patagonia Stops Selling Vests To Some Finance Firms

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/katienotopoulos/patagonia-power-vest-policy-change

7 years ago

Nikoli Puzzles

http://nikoli.co.jp/en/puzzles/

7 years ago

Google requiring contractors get health care coverage, parental leave

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/436939-google-will-require-healthcare-parental-leave-for-extended-workforce

7 years ago

Major Chinese-made web browsers are reportedly blocking 996ICU's GitHub repo

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=zh-CN&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2F996icu%2F996.ICU%2Fpull%2F24904%23issuecomment-478881871

7 years ago

Trying to make sense of CompuServe server hard disk images

https://medium.com/@mpnet/trying-to-make-sense-of-compuserve-server-hard-disk-images-posted-on-archive-org-b1c62ce6012b

7 years ago

On-Demand Startups Are Hemorrhaging Tens of Billions a Year

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-01/on-demand-startups-are-hemorrhaging-tens-of-billions-a-year

7 years ago

Study Linking Autism to 'Male Brain' Retracted, Replaced

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/910982?nlid=129068_3901&src=wnl_newsalrt_190327_MSCPEDIT&uac=267659MN&impID=1919559&faf=1

7 years ago

Chef extends open-source licensing to all its software

https://blog.chef.io/2019/04/02/chef-software-announces-the-enterprise-automation-stack/

7 years ago

World's deepest pool to open in Poland

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/worlds-deepest-pool-scli-intl/index.html

7 years ago

Boeing delays 737 MAX software fix delivery

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/04/boeing-delays-737-max-software-fix-delivery/

7 years ago

Buster Keaton: Anarchitect

http://www.lapsuslima.com/buster-keaton-anarchitect/

7 years ago

How Big Tech Built the Iron Cage

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/building-the-digital-iron-cage

7 years ago

Something on Mars Is Producing Gas Usually Made by Living Things on Earth

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/01/science/mars-methane-gas.html

7 years ago

Verilator: Fast, Free Verilog HDL Simulator

https://www.veripool.org/wiki/verilator

7 years ago

For Centuries, Know-It-Alls Carried Beautiful Miniature Almanacs

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/miniature-almanacs

7 years ago

Amundsen – Lyft’s data discovery and metadata engine

https://eng.lyft.com/amundsen-lyfts-data-discovery-metadata-engine-62d27254fbb9

7 years ago

Woman from China Carrying Malware Arrested After Entering Mar-a-Lago

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/02/us/mar-a-lago-zhang-chinese-secret-service.html

7 years ago

Show HN: Open-Source Business Intelligence for BigQuery – Looker Alternative

https://mprove.io

7 years ago

C++ State Machines

http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/cpp_state_machines.html

7 years ago

Google+ cannot be used with customer or brand accounts anymore

https://plus.google.com/

7 years ago

The Art of DJing: Jeff Mills

https://www.residentadvisor.net/features/3436

7 years ago

Why Wolfram Tech Isn’t Open Source

https://blog.wolfram.com/2019/04/02/why-wolfram-tech-isnt-open-source-a-dozen-reasons/

7 years ago

Monte Carlo instead of Alpha-Beta for chess programs?

https://en.chessbase.com/post/monte-carlo-instead-of-alpha-beta

7 years ago

Domain-Oriented Observability

https://martinfowler.com/articles/domain-oriented-observability.html

7 years ago

A philosophy-quoting homeless man in China has fled internet fame

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/the-internet-was-obsessed-with-this-philosophy-quoting-homeless-man-in-china-now-hes-fled-the-fame/2019/04/01/519e43e2-5220-11e9-bdb7-44f948cc0605_story.html

7 years ago

Statistical mechanics of money (2000)

https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0001432

7 years ago

Open-sourcing PyTorch-BigGraph for faster embeddings of extremely large graphs

https://ai.facebook.com/blog/open-sourcing-pytorch-biggraph-for-faster-embeddings-of-extremely-large-graphs

7 years ago

Emoji are showing up as evidence in court more frequently

https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/18/18225231/emoji-emoticon-court-case-reference

7 years ago