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

You Are Not Google (2017)

https://blog.bradfieldcs.com/you-are-not-google-84912cf44afb

7 years ago

1623 upvotes – 572 comments

Adventures of putting 16 GB of RAM in a motherboard that doesn’t support it

https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2019/04/adventures-of-putting-16-gb-of-ram-in-a-motherboard-that-doesnt-support-it/

7 years ago

817 upvotes – 178 comments

93% of Paint Splatters Are Valid Perl Programs

http://colinm.org/sigbovik/

7 years ago

689 upvotes – 132 comments

Show HN: I made a platform for journalists to “open source” their fact checking

https://sourcedfact.com

7 years ago

593 upvotes – 298 comments

Agile Lite: Agile without all the burnout

https://github.com/davebs/AgileLite

7 years ago

★ 2k
427 upvotes – 280 comments

Second-Order Thinking: What Smart People Use to Outperform (2016)

https://fs.blog/2016/04/second-order-thinking/

7 years ago

397 upvotes – 139 comments

When Microsoft's eBook store closes, your books disappear too

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-47810367

7 years ago

347 upvotes – 289 comments

But I'm Not a Lawyer, I'm an Agent

https://davidsimon.com/but-im-not-a-lawyer-im-an-agent/

7 years ago

346 upvotes – 100 comments

The Heart of a Swimmer vs. the Heart of a Runner

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/03/well/move/heart-health-swimming-running-exercise.html

7 years ago

334 upvotes – 206 comments

MIT cuts ties with Chinese tech firms Huawei, ZTE

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-huawei-tech-zte/elite-u-s-school-mit-cuts-ties-with-chinese-tech-firms-huawei-zte-idUSKCN1RG0FS

7 years ago

309 upvotes – 197 comments

The Streets Were Never Free. Congestion Pricing Finally Makes That Plain

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/04/upshot/the-streets-were-never-free-congestion-pricing-finally-makes-that-plain.html

7 years ago

273 upvotes – 358 comments

Ethiopian Airlines 737 MAX Investigation Preliminary Report

http://www.ecaa.gov.et/documents/20435/0/Preliminary+Report+B737-800MAX+%2C%28ET-AVJ%29.pdf/4c65422d-5e4f-4689-9c58-d7af1ee17f3e

7 years ago

243 upvotes – 323 comments

Linus Torvalds Says Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram Are 'A Disease'

https://www.businessinsider.com/linus-torvalds-says-twitter-facebook-instagram-a-disease-2019-4

7 years ago

228 upvotes – 127 comments

Less Pizza, More Yoga: E-Sports Embraces Traditional Training Methods

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/02/sports/esports-league-of-legends.html

7 years ago

222 upvotes – 159 comments

1969 and 1970 at Bell Labs

http://www.larryluckham.com/1969%20&%2070%20-%20Bell%20Labs/album/index.html

7 years ago

214 upvotes – 75 comments

Natural Language Processing with Deep Learning

http://web.stanford.edu/class/cs224n/

7 years ago

210 upvotes – 28 comments

Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 pilots 'could not stop nosedive'

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-47812225

7 years ago

203 upvotes – 266 comments

Google cancels AI ethics board in response to outcry

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/4/4/18295933/google-cancels-ai-ethics-board

7 years ago

199 upvotes – 355 comments

PostgreSQL Performance on Raspberry Pi

https://blog.rustprooflabs.com/2019/04/postgrseql-pgbench-raspberry-pi

7 years ago

188 upvotes – 99 comments

Combine statistical and symbolic artificial intelligence techniques

http://news.mit.edu/2019/teaching-machines-to-reason-about-what-they-see-0402

7 years ago

181 upvotes – 25 comments

Filing Your Taxes Is an Expensive Time Sink. That’s Not an Accident

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/04/american-tax-returns-dont-need-be-painful/586369/

7 years ago

177 upvotes – 155 comments

Idiomatic Monads in Rust

https://varkor.github.io/blog/2019/03/28/idiomatic-monads-in-rust.html

7 years ago

174 upvotes – 88 comments

Show HN: Learn to use email with Git

https://git-send-email.io

7 years ago

170 upvotes – 71 comments

You elected them to write new laws. They’re letting corporations do it instead

https://publicintegrity.org/state-politics/copy-paste-legislate/you-elected-them-to-write-new-laws-theyre-letting-corporations-do-it-instead/

7 years ago

170 upvotes – 60 comments

Unreasonable Effectiveness of SQL

https://blog.couchbase.com/unreasonable-effectiveness-of-sql/

7 years ago

166 upvotes – 72 comments

Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg Addresses the Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 Report

https://boeing.mediaroom.com/2019-04-04-Boeing-CEO-Dennis-Muilenburg-Addresses-the-Ethiopian-Airlines-Flight-302-Preliminary-Report

7 years ago

165 upvotes – 324 comments

The Myspace Dragon Hoard (2008-2010)

https://archive.org/details/myspace_dragon_hoard_2010

7 years ago

156 upvotes – 22 comments

The Army thought a veteran faked his health issues while having lead poisoning

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/03/magazine/lead-poisoning-military-soldiers.html

7 years ago

154 upvotes – 105 comments

Why Don't Americans Understand How Poor Their Lives Are?

http://www.danielsjourney.com/2017/12/21/america.html

7 years ago

151 upvotes – 308 comments

Tesla’s First-Quarter Deliveries Plummet

https://www.wsj.com/articles/teslas-first-quarter-deliveries-plummet-11554337912

7 years ago

149 upvotes – 472 comments

Malicious remote code execution backdoor discovered bootstrap-sass Ruby gem

https://snyk.io/blog/malicious-remote-code-execution-backdoor-discovered-in-the-popular-bootstrap-sass-ruby-gem/

7 years ago

147 upvotes – 59 comments

Geek Social Fallacies (2003)

http://www.plausiblydeniable.com/opinion/gsf.html

7 years ago

145 upvotes – 44 comments

Prince Harry and Meghan took my Instagram name

https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-47813521

7 years ago

143 upvotes – 131 comments

“Problems” with git format-patch

https://public-inbox.org/git/CAHk-=whP1stFZNAaJiMi5eZ9rj0MRt20Y_yHVczZPH+O01d+sA@mail.gmail.com/

7 years ago

134 upvotes – 49 comments

Peter's Evil Overlord List (1996)

http://www.eviloverlord.com/lists/overlord.html

7 years ago

132 upvotes – 54 comments

Australia Passes Law to Punish Social Media Companies for Violent Posts

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/03/world/australia/social-media-law.html

7 years ago

131 upvotes – 102 comments

Inverse Live Coding: A practice for learning web development

https://computinged.wordpress.com/2019/02/04/inverse-live-coding-a-practice-for-teaching-web-development/

7 years ago

127 upvotes – 28 comments

Oregon students returned thousands of fake iPhones, costing Apple $900k

https://www.businesstelegraph.co.uk/2-oregon-students-returned-thousands-of-fake-iphones-costing-apple-900000-feds-say-the-olympian/

7 years ago

125 upvotes – 134 comments

Mountain View approves razing rent-controlled units for $1.5M homes

https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/04/03/mountain-view-approves-razing-rent-controlled-units-for-homes-worth-1-5-million/

7 years ago

120 upvotes – 104 comments

How China Turned a City into a Prison

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/04/04/world/asia/xinjiang-china-surveillance-prison.html

7 years ago

120 upvotes – 72 comments

What Is Idempotence?

https://lispcast.com/what-is-idempotence/

7 years ago

107 upvotes – 51 comments

A Conversation with Language Creators: Guido, James, Anders and Larry [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csL8DLXGNlU

7 years ago

106 upvotes – 66 comments

Banish missing glyphs with Unifont

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2019/04/banish-the-%ef%bf%bd-with-unifont/

7 years ago

105 upvotes – 100 comments

An unusual class of molecules could revolutionise the electronics industry

https://www.rsc.org/news-events/journals-highlights/2019/apr/molecular-electronics/

7 years ago

103 upvotes – 23 comments

The Biggest Saudi Oil Field Is Fading Faster Than Anyone Guessed

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-02/saudi-aramco-reveals-sharp-output-drop-at-super-giant-oil-field

7 years ago

98 upvotes – 109 comments

Fantastic Mr. Fox (2005)

https://granta.com/fantastic-mr-fox/

7 years ago

96 upvotes – 23 comments

The Mystery of Time’s Arrow

http://nautil.us/issue/71/flow/the-mystery-of-times-arrow-rp

7 years ago

94 upvotes – 53 comments

Why Some Doctors Hesitate to Screen Smokers for Lung Cancer (2015)

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/04/13/398101515/why-some-doctors-are-hesitant-to-screen-smokers-for-lung-cancer?t=1554391785239

7 years ago

91 upvotes – 90 comments

TSMC and OIP Deliver Industry’s First Complete Design Infrastructure 5nm Process

https://www.tsmc.com/tsmcdotcom/PRListingNewsAction.do?action=detail&newsid=THPGWQTHTH&language=E

7 years ago

88 upvotes – 45 comments

Puzzle Drawers

https://incoherency.co.uk/blog/stories/puzzle-drawers.html

7 years ago

86 upvotes – 9 comments

German chemicals giant Bayer victim of year long cyber attack

https://techerati.com/news-hub/bayer-cyber-attack-malware-china/

7 years ago

86 upvotes – 33 comments

Finland’s Basic Income Experiment Shows Recipients Are Happier and More Secure

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-04/finland-says-basic-income-recipients-less-financially-insecure

7 years ago

83 upvotes – 199 comments
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