top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-04-09

Congress Is About to Ban the US Government from Offering Free Online Tax Filing

https://www.propublica.org/article/congress-is-about-to-ban-the-government-from-offering-free-online-tax-filing-thank-turbotax

7 years ago

1034 upvotes – 696 comments

Netlify Dev

https://www.netlify.com/products/dev/

7 years ago

873 upvotes – 229 comments

Protections Against Fingerprinting and Crypto Mining in Firefox Nightly and Beta

https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2019/04/09/protections-against-fingerprinting-and-cryptocurrency-mining-available-in-firefox-nightly-and-beta/

7 years ago

630 upvotes – 238 comments

Xg2xg: Lookup table of similar tech and services for ex-Googlers

https://github.com/jhuangtw-dev/xg2xg

7 years ago

369 upvotes – 126 comments

Microsoft says its data shows FCC reports overstate broadband adoption

https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/08/microsoft-says-its-data-shows-fcc-reports-massively-overstate-broadband-adoption/

7 years ago

341 upvotes – 102 comments

Phone Addicts Are the New Drunk Drivers

http://blog.zendrive.com/2019-distracted-driving-study-phone-addicts-are-the-new-drunk-drivers/

7 years ago

292 upvotes – 275 comments

Announcing Building Git

https://blog.jcoglan.com/2019/04/08/announcing-building-git/

7 years ago

291 upvotes – 52 comments

Show HN: Ethical Resources – 300 ethical alternatives to mainstream stuff

https://ethical.net/resources/

7 years ago

291 upvotes – 129 comments

China says it wants to eliminate Bitcoin mining

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-cryptocurrency/china-says-it-wants-to-eliminate-bitcoin-mining-idUSKCN1RL0C4

7 years ago

288 upvotes – 312 comments

Monotype launches the first redesign of Helvetica in 35 years

https://www.creativeboom.com/resources/monotype-launches-the-first-redesign-in-35-years-of-the-worlds-most-ubiquitous-font-helvetica/

7 years ago

278 upvotes – 100 comments

Aphantasia: 'My mind's eye is blind'

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-47830256

7 years ago

276 upvotes – 424 comments

Show HN: A minimalist blog based on Tufte CSS

https://lawler.io

7 years ago

260 upvotes – 74 comments

U.S. senators introduce social media bill to ban 'dark patterns' tricks

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-tech/u-s-senators-introduce-social-media-bill-to-ban-dark-patterns-tricks-idUSKCN1RL25Q

7 years ago

259 upvotes – 152 comments

Sweden will vote against the copyright deal/article 13

https://twitter.com/senficon/status/1115620746951262209

7 years ago

254 upvotes – 85 comments

Marissa Mayer on career growth and how a revenue guarantee almost killed Google

https://triplebyte.com/blog/marissa-mayer-interview

7 years ago

251 upvotes – 221 comments

Cloud Run beta pricing

https://cloud.google.com/run/pricing

7 years ago

247 upvotes – 162 comments

2019 Stack Overflow Developer Survey Results

https://stackoverflow.blog/2019/04/09/the-2019-stack-overflow-developer-survey-results-are-in/

7 years ago

235 upvotes – 185 comments

The key to loving your job in the age of burnout

https://qz.com/work/1571065/how-to-love-your-job-and-avoid-burnout/

7 years ago

228 upvotes – 133 comments

San Francisco’s Slow-Motion Suicide

https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/04/san-francisco-decline-failed-government-policies/

7 years ago

226 upvotes – 289 comments

Withdrawing from the Microsoft MVP Program

https://www.osr.com/blog/2019/04/08/withdrawing-from-the-microsoft-mvp-program/

7 years ago

226 upvotes – 75 comments

Clojure Concurrency Tutorial

https://purelyfunctional.tv/guide/clojure-concurrency/

7 years ago

222 upvotes – 41 comments

Ripcord – A desktop chat client for Discord and Slack

https://cancel.fm/ripcord/

7 years ago

214 upvotes – 166 comments

Cloud Run – Newest member of our serverless compute stack

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/serverless/announcing-cloud-run-the-newest-member-of-our-serverless-compute-stack

7 years ago

201 upvotes – 137 comments

Can the Law Be Copyrighted?

https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/09/can-the-law-be-copyrighted/

7 years ago

195 upvotes – 166 comments

Shenmue's Much-Hated Forklifts Feel Revolutionary Today

https://kotaku.com/shenmues-much-hated-forklifts-feel-revolutionary-today-1833817433

7 years ago

194 upvotes – 77 comments

DopplerFi – Communication Between BLE and Wi-Fi by Injecting Doppler Shifts

https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.10948

7 years ago

192 upvotes – 23 comments

Reborn 3: Desktop browser with Web 3, faster VPN and ad blocker

https://blogs.opera.com/desktop/2019/04/opera-60-reborn-3-web-3-0-vpn-ad-blocker/

7 years ago

186 upvotes – 160 comments

Show HN: Xmake, a modern C/C++ build utility

https://github.com/xmake-io/xmake

7 years ago

186 upvotes – 183 comments

Why airlines make flights longer on purpose

http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20190405-the-secret-about-delays-airlines-dont-want-you-to-know

7 years ago

186 upvotes – 140 comments

Bank of America is raising its minimum wage for employees to $20

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/09/bank-of-america-is-raising-its-minimum-wage-for-employees-to-20-an-hour.html

7 years ago

179 upvotes – 161 comments

Developer Survey Results 2019

https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019

7 years ago

174 upvotes – 61 comments

Nassim Talebs case against Nate Silver is bad math

http://m.nautil.us/blog/nassim-talebs-case-against-nate-silver-is-bad-math

7 years ago

168 upvotes – 201 comments

Why Physicists Tried to Put a Ferret in a Particle Accelerator

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/felicia-ferret-particle-accelerator-fermilab

7 years ago

158 upvotes – 59 comments

Anthos – Build and manage modern hybrid applications

https://cloud.google.com/anthos/

7 years ago

150 upvotes – 63 comments

Berkeley HS student tried to rig his own election, exposing cybersecurity flaws

https://www.berkeleyside.com/2019/04/09/berkeley-high-student-tried-to-rig-his-own-election-exposing-flaw-in-districts-cybersecurity

7 years ago

145 upvotes – 128 comments

NSA-style backdoor in Huawei laptops found by Microsoft

https://www.scmagazineuk.com/nsa-style-backdoor-huawei-laptops-found-microsoft/article/1580647?_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_qxEmmizNitJJhfiZVUhUFzBcCpckx0qp3FVFgtxqvB-oI6VMakcjZyItsxSy4F3pbJkQWc2KzjwrTLAEzbxo3DIXFrA&_hsmi=71312471

7 years ago

139 upvotes – 106 comments

My Roommate's Tik Tok Fame Made My Life Hell (2018)

https://flip.lease/blog/my-roommates-tik-tok-fame-made-my-life-hell

7 years ago

139 upvotes – 52 comments

Measuring the overhead of WebAssembly using libsodium

https://00f.net/2019/04/09/benchmarking-webassembly-using-libsodium/

7 years ago

131 upvotes – 43 comments

Ask HN: Mathematicians, what textbooks are best for learning these math topics?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19612528

7 years ago

125 upvotes – 33 comments

Income-sharing agreements let students trade future earnings for investment

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-09/college-grads-sell-stakes-in-themselves-to-wall-street

7 years ago

122 upvotes – 244 comments

737 Max: 1960s Design, 1990s Computing Power and Paper Manuals

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/08/business/boeing-737-max-.html

7 years ago

118 upvotes – 127 comments

Chinese tech firms are throwing out applicants over the age of 30

https://www.technologyreview.com/the-download/611067/chinese-tech-firms-are-throwing-out-applicants-over-the-age-of-30/

7 years ago

118 upvotes – 123 comments

Winter Is Coming for Java Updates

https://www.azul.com/winter-is-coming-for-java-updates/

7 years ago

116 upvotes – 80 comments

Wac: Minimal WebAssembly interpreter written in C

https://github.com/grassel/wac#wac---webassembly-in-c

7 years ago

111 upvotes – 41 comments

Google Cloud CEO says that he’s borrowing from the Oracle playbook

https://www.businessinsider.de/google-cloud-ceo-thomas-kurian-oracle-strategies-2019-4

7 years ago

110 upvotes – 105 comments

Electrical jolts to brain restored memory of elderly to that of 20-year-old

https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/04/brain-jolts-revive-memory-in-elderly-turning-clock-back-four-decades/

7 years ago

108 upvotes – 25 comments

New Satellite Photos Show Climate Change Is Sweeping Europe

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-04-09/new-satellite-photos-show-europe-s-changing-climate

7 years ago

106 upvotes – 68 comments

Roku is no longer a neutral platform after today’s Roku OS 9.1 update

https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/09/roku-is-no-longer-a-neutral-platform-after-todays-roku-os-9-1-update/

7 years ago

106 upvotes – 73 comments

Google features that Microsoft turned off in Chromium Edge

https://www.neowin.net/news/these-are-the-google-features-that-microsoft-turned-off-in-chromium-edge

7 years ago

105 upvotes – 90 comments

At high pressures, potassium adopts a mix of crystalline and liquid structure

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2019/04/new-phase-matter-confirmed-solid-and-liquid-same-time-potassium-physics/

7 years ago

103 upvotes – 47 comments

The Mysterious Disappearance of Fan Bingbing, the World’s Biggest Movie Star

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2019/03/the-untold-story-disappearance-of-fan-bingbing-worlds-biggest-movie-star

7 years ago

100 upvotes – 34 comments

Microsoft CTO on the future of software engineering [audio]

https://om.co/2019/04/08/microsoft-cto-kevin-scott-on-the-future-of-software-engineering-and-the-better-world-ahead/

7 years ago

97 upvotes – 66 comments

The Age of Robot Farmers

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/04/15/the-age-of-robot-farmers

7 years ago

97 upvotes – 85 comments

Google Cloud challenges AWS with new open-source integrations

https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/09/google-gives-aws-the-open-source-middle-finger/

7 years ago

96 upvotes – 23 comments

World Happiness Report, 2019

https://kyso.io/becca/world-happiness

7 years ago

94 upvotes – 60 comments

Astronomers spy an iron planet stripped of its crust around a burned-out star

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/04/astronomers-spy-iron-planet-stripped-its-crust-around-burned-out-star

7 years ago

92 upvotes – 24 comments

It is your moral obligation to use Firefox

https://0x46.net/thoughts/2019/04/09/use-firefox/

7 years ago

87 upvotes – 67 comments

Building the System/360 Mainframe Nearly Destroyed IBM

https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-history/silicon-revolution/building-the-system360-mainframe-nearly-destroyed-ibm

7 years ago

87 upvotes – 27 comments

The Future of Computing Depends on Making It Reversible (2017)

https://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/hardware/the-future-of-computing-depends-on-making-it-reversible

7 years ago

87 upvotes – 39 comments

Hacker from Russian crime group jailed for global blackmail conspiracy

https://nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/hacker-from-russian-crime-group-jailed-for-multi-million-pound-global-blackmail-conspiracy

7 years ago

84 upvotes – 50 comments

TF-IDF in a Nutshell

https://manticoresearch.com/2019/04/09/tf-idf-in-a-nutshell/

7 years ago

84 upvotes – 3 comments

I have been hired for more than 10 years, and I have this simple rule

https://twitter.com/rakyll/status/1114643660912517120

7 years ago

82 upvotes – 57 comments

The Death of an Adjunct

https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2019/04/adjunct-professors-higher-education-thea-hunter/586168/

7 years ago

79 upvotes – 90 comments

Volkswagen Originalteil Sausages

https://www.atlasobscura.com/foods/volkswagen-originalteil-sausages

7 years ago

76 upvotes – 22 comments
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