top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-04-07

I Lied When I Said We Did Everything We Could

https://www.doximity.com/doc_news/v2/entries/18293779

7 years ago

Show HN: Water.css – A just-add-css collection of styles to make websites nicer

https://github.com/kognise/water.css

7 years ago

★ 8.6k CSS MIT

All of Toyota’s electric vehicle patents are now royalty-free

https://www.topgear.com/car-news/electric/toyota-sharing-its-ev-secrets-free

7 years ago

How to increase your chances of finding a hidden camera

https://sixfortwelve.wordpress.com/2019/04/06/how-to-increase-your-chances-of-finding-a-hidden-camera/

7 years ago

Programming: Doing it more vs. doing it better

https://kevinmartinjose.com/2019/04/08/programming-doing-it-more-vs-doing-it-better/

7 years ago

Busy Person Patterns (2006) [pdf]

https://hillside.net/plop/2006/Papers/Library/PLoP%20Busy%20Person%20Pattern%20v8.pdf

7 years ago

An Iraqi who saved Norway from oil (2009)

https://web.archive.org/web/20100123225932/http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/99680a04-92a0-11de-b63b-00144feabdc0.html

7 years ago

When to Use TypeScript – A Detailed Guide Through Common Scenarios

https://khalilstemmler.com/articles/when-to-use-typescript-guide/

7 years ago

How Apps on Android Share Data with Facebook (2018)

https://privacyinternational.org/report/2647/how-apps-android-share-data-facebook-report

7 years ago

Prisma – Database tools for modern application development

https://www.prisma.io/

7 years ago

IBM Watson Overpromised and Underdelivered on AI Health Care

https://spectrum.ieee.org/biomedical/diagnostics/how-ibm-watson-overpromised-and-underdelivered-on-ai-health-care

7 years ago

How to Improve MacBook Pro Performance and Thermals

https://bsid.io/posts/2019/03/how-to-improve-macbook-pro-performance-and-thermals/

7 years ago

It's VHS vs. Beta all over again, but worse

https://www.johnnygrubb.com/its-vhs-vs-beta-all-over-again-but-worse

7 years ago

Study: Two Monitors or One Ultrawide

https://keenethics.com/blog/1497078000000-two-monitors-or-one-ultrawide

7 years ago

Chrome, Safari, and Edge to Prevent Disabling of Click Tracking Privacy Risk

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/software/major-browsers-to-prevent-disabling-of-click-tracking-privacy-risk/

7 years ago

Fast Directory Listing on Linux

https://github.com/romkatv/gitstatus/blob/master/docs/listdir.md

7 years ago

★ 1.8k C++ GPL-3.0

Fat, Not Meat, May Have Led to Bigger Hominin Brains

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fat-not-meat-may-have-led-to-bigger-hominin-brains/

7 years ago

Iconic consoles of the IBM System/360 mainframes, 55 years old today

http://www.righto.com/2019/04/iconic-consoles-of-ibm-system360.html

7 years ago

The Secret Rules For Getting Hired

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2019/04/the-secret-rules-for-getting-hired/

7 years ago

Foods for healthier people and a healthier planet [pdf]

https://www.wwf.org.uk/sites/default/files/2019-02/Knorr_Future_50_Report_FINAL_Online.pdf

7 years ago

P. gingivalis in Alzheimer's disease brains

http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/1/eaau3333

7 years ago

Show HN: Muon, a low-level programming language inspired by C, C# and Go

https://github.com/nickmqb/muon

7 years ago

★ 779 C MIT

The Nokia N9 Alarm Clock (2014)

http://nition.momentstudio.co.nz/2014/08/the-nokia-n9-alarm-clock/

7 years ago

Reddit's /r/Piracy is deleting almost ten years of history to avoid ban

https://torrentfreak.com/reddits-r-piracy-deleting-almost-10-years-of-history-to-avoid-ban-190407/

7 years ago

Lopdf: Rust library for PDF document manipulation

https://github.com/J-F-Liu/lopdf

7 years ago

★ 2.1k Rust MIT

One night of telescope time rules out black hole/dark matter idea

https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/04/one-night-of-telescope-time-rules-out-black-holedark-matter-idea/

7 years ago

Ghidra Decompiler Analysis Engine

https://ghidra-decompiler-docs.netlify.com/

7 years ago

Does the LHC collide protons at twice the speed of light?

http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2019/04/dear-dr-b-does-lhc-collide-protons-at.html

7 years ago

Multiple Boeing 787s in China experienced GPS 20 years rollover issue

https://twitter.com/ChinaAvReview/status/1114802018919411712

7 years ago

In San Francisco, Making a Living from Your Billionaire Neighbor’s Trash

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/07/us/trash-pickers-san-francisco-zuckerberg.html

7 years ago

Poor public transport explains the UK’s productivity puzzle

https://www.citymetric.com/transport/birmingham-isn-t-big-city-peak-times-how-poor-public-transport-explains-uk-s-productivity

7 years ago

Show HN: Dbdot – Golang tool to help generate Postgres schema diagrams

https://github.com/akarki15/dbdot

7 years ago

★ 396 Go MIT

Manipulating the YouTube Algorithm [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PGm8LslEb4

7 years ago

Facebook Team Lands at Delhi Man's House for ID Verification over Political Post

https://www.news18.com/news/india/facebook-does-physical-verification-of-an-indian-user-for-a-political-post-report-2092397.html

7 years ago

Netherlands makes trains free on national book day for those who show a book

https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/netherlands-free-train-national-book-day-tickets-travel-tickets-ns-a8849606.html

7 years ago

Native image lazy-loading for the web

https://addyosmani.com/blog/lazy-loading/

7 years ago

Chrome to get lazy load below-the-fold images and iframes

https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/blink-dev/jxiJvQc-gVg

7 years ago

El Grapho: High Performance WebGL Graph Data Visualization Engine

https://github.com/ericdrowell/ElGrapho

7 years ago

★ 1.6k JavaScript

Fixed Layout Prototyping – Hexagonal Electronics Breadboard

http://davidrowntree.co.uk/fixed-layout-prototyping/

7 years ago

Radiation concerns halt Brussels 5G development, for now

http://www.brusselstimes.com/brussels/14753/radiation-concerns-halt-brussels-5g-for-now

7 years ago

Robert A. Caro on the means and ends of power

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/04/01/magazine/robert-caro-working-memoir.html

7 years ago

The Archetypal Resonance of Classic JRPGs

https://www.hyperindexed.com/blog/2019/4/6/the-archetypal-resonance-of-classic-jrpgs

7 years ago

Simply Logical: Intelligent Reasoning by Example (1994)

https://book.simply-logical.space

7 years ago

The high speed of society has jammed our internal clock

http://nautil.us/issue/71/flow/why-your-brain-hates-slowpokes-rp

7 years ago

Facebook are 'morally bankrupt, pathological liars' – NZ Privacy Commissioner

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12220247

7 years ago

Is It Time to Rewrite the Operating System in Rust? [video]

https://youtube.com/watch?v=HgtRAbE1nBM

7 years ago

Perl6: The World's Worst ML?

https://aearnus.github.io//2019/04/05/perl6-is-the-world-s-worst-ml

7 years ago

AWS Mesh Generally Available

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/03/aws-app-mesh-is-now-generally-available/

7 years ago

How to design perfect software products (2013)

http://hintjens.com/blog:19

7 years ago

Proquints: Identifiers That Are Readable, Spellable, and Pronounceable (2009)

https://arxiv.org/html/0901.4016

7 years ago