top 20 hacker news stories for 2019-04-06

Nuclear power is the fastest way to slash greenhouse gas emissions, decarbonize

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/06/opinion/sunday/climate-change-nuclear-power.html

7 years ago

712 upvotes – 712 comments

Dieter Rams designed products to last, is horrified how we throw things away

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-04-06/dieter-rams-the-braun-design-who-made-products-to-last-lifetime/10970850

7 years ago

541 upvotes – 302 comments

Battery Reality: There’s Nothing Better Than Lithium-Ion Coming Soon

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-03/battery-reality-there-s-nothing-better-than-lithium-ion-coming-soon

7 years ago

443 upvotes – 249 comments

NirSoft, a collection of small and useful freeware utilities

https://www.nirsoft.net/

7 years ago

352 upvotes – 58 comments

Quirk – Open-Source Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

https://github.com/flaque/quirk

7 years ago

★ 2.2k TypeScript GPL-3.0
346 upvotes – 62 comments

Linux-based 4G phones with Google Assistant sold for $7 in Indonesia

https://tuxphones.com/smart-feature-phones-revolution-kai-os/

7 years ago

309 upvotes – 200 comments

Rise of Candida auris embodies a serious and growing public health threat

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/06/health/drug-resistant-candida-auris.html

7 years ago

295 upvotes – 83 comments

SQL databases come up with algorithms you’d never have dreamed of (2017) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTPGW1PNy_Y

7 years ago

292 upvotes – 121 comments

I let a stranger watch me work for a day and I've never been more productive

https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/focusmate-review-productivity-work-hack

7 years ago

290 upvotes – 165 comments

Ask HN: Which great products didn't succeed?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19592697

7 years ago

278 upvotes – 636 comments

Overview of differential equations [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_di4Zn4wz4&list=PLZHQObOWTQDNPOjrT6KVlfJuKtYTftqH6&index=2&t=0s

7 years ago

273 upvotes – 22 comments

Lessons learned porting 50k loc from Java to Go

https://blog.kowalczyk.info/article/19f2fe97f06a47c3b1f118fd06851fad/lessons-learned-porting-50k-loc-from-java-to-go.html

7 years ago

218 upvotes – 132 comments

NNCP: Lossless Data Compression with Neural Networks

https://bellard.org/nncp/

7 years ago

214 upvotes – 33 comments

Heaven or High Water – Selling Miami's Last 50 Years

https://popula.com/2019/04/02/heaven-or-high-water/

7 years ago

211 upvotes – 147 comments

Polish general who fought with Washington may have been female

https://asunow.asu.edu/20190405-discoveries-asu-bioarchaeologist-uncovers-200-year-old-mystery

7 years ago

209 upvotes – 59 comments

FamilyTreeDNA: It’s Our ‘Moral Responsibility’ to Give FBI Access to Your DNA

https://gizmodo.com/ancestry-testing-company-it-s-our-moral-responsibilit-1833774781

7 years ago

207 upvotes – 83 comments

Samsung warns profit to fall 60%

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/biz/archives/2019/04/06/2003712873

7 years ago

199 upvotes – 113 comments

Cosmologist claims Universe may not be expanding (2013)

https://www.nature.com/news/cosmologist-claims-universe-may-not-be-expanding-1.13379

7 years ago

192 upvotes – 94 comments

r/ChangeMyView Is Graduating Reddit: Introducing ChangeAView.com

https://changeaview.org/2019/04/06/r-changemyview-is-graduating-reddit-introducing-changeaview-com/

7 years ago

188 upvotes – 164 comments

x86 Assembly Guide (2018)

http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs216/guides/x86.html

7 years ago

187 upvotes – 20 comments
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