top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-04-11

Julian Assange arrested in London

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-47891737

7 years ago

Katie Bouman, the computer scientist behind the first black hole image

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-47891902

7 years ago

Uber S-1

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1543151/000119312519103850/d647752ds1.htm

7 years ago

Arabsat-6A mission [video]

https://spacex.com/webcast

7 years ago

Julian Assange Deserves First Amendment Protection

https://harpers.org/archive/2019/04/more-than-a-data-dump-julian-assange/

7 years ago

Cambridge's Ambitious Protected Bike Lane Law

https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2019/04/protected-bike-lanes-traffic-safety-cambridge-bicycle-plan/586876/

7 years ago

Web Components could replace frontend frameworks?

https://www.dannymoerkerke.com/blog/web-components-will-replace-your-frontend-framework

7 years ago

Random Forests for Complete Beginners

https://victorzhou.com/blog/intro-to-random-forests/

7 years ago

Facebook showed me my data is everywhere and I have absolute no control over it

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/katienotopoulos/facebook-advertisers-data-brokers-car-dealerships

7 years ago

Israel’s Beresheet Spacecraft Moon Landing Attempt Appears to End in Crash

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/11/science/israel-moon-landing-beresheet.html

7 years ago

Rust 1.34.0

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2019/04/11/Rust-1.34.0.html

7 years ago

Google makes BigQuery available in Sheets

https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/10/google-makes-the-power-of-bigquery-available-in-sheets/

7 years ago

Godot Engine Awarded $50k by Mozilla Open Source Support Program

https://godotengine.org/article/godot-engine-awarded-50000-mozilla-open-source-support-program

7 years ago

Ford CEO says the company 'overestimated' self-driving cars

https://www.engadget.com/2019/04/10/ford-ceo-says-the-company-overestimated-self-driving-cars/

7 years ago

Pentagon names Microsoft and Amazon as $10B cloud contract finalists

https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/11/much-to-oracles-chagrin-pentagon-names-microsoft-and-amazon-as-10b-jedi-cloud-contract-finalists/

7 years ago

Jailbreaking Subaru StarLink

https://github.com/sgayou/subaru-starlink-research/blob/master/doc/README.md

7 years ago

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A private spacecraft from Israel will attempt a moon landing Thursday

https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/04/a-private-spacecraft-from-israel-will-attempt-a-moon-landing-thursday/

7 years ago

Lvalues, rvalues, glvalues, prvalues, xvalues, help (2018)

https://blog.knatten.org/2018/03/09/lvalues-rvalues-glvalues-prvalues-xvalues-help/

7 years ago

Ask HN: Best place to start learning about Markov Chains?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19633212

7 years ago

Japanese study uncovers protein that keeps skin youthful

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/04/national/science-health/japanese-study-uncovers-protein-keeps-skin-youthful-helping-strong-cells-squeeze-weak/

7 years ago

Show HN: EdgeDB – Next generation database

https://edgedb.com/blog/edgedb-1-0-alpha-1

7 years ago

You Don't Have to Like Assange to Defend Him

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/04/julian-assange-arrested-journalists-defend/586936/

7 years ago

Benefit of Microbiota Transfer Therapy on autism symptoms and gut microbiota

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-42183-0

7 years ago

Google Wing will deliver to about 100 homes in Canberra

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-47880288

7 years ago

Building a front end with no JavaScript

https://javascript.works-hub.com/learn/a-javascript-free-frontend-61275

7 years ago

Tesla and Panasonic freeze spending on $4.5B Gigafactory

https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Companies/Tesla-and-Panasonic-freeze-spending-on-4.5bn-Gigafactory

7 years ago

DHS, FBI say election systems in all 50 states were targeted in 2016

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/04/dhs-fbi-say-election-systems-in-50-states-were-targeted-in-2016/

7 years ago

French court finds Monsanto guilty of poisoning farmer

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/apr/11/french-court-finds-monsanto-guilty-of-poisoning-farmer

7 years ago

Windows 3.1 in my BIOS? It's more likely than you think

https://hackaday.com/2019/04/10/windows-3-1-in-my-bios-its-more-likely-than-you-think/

7 years ago

Keybase's new Proof Integration Guide

https://keybase.io/docs/proof_integration_guide

7 years ago

A backdoor in the Ruby gem bootstrap-sass

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/785386/7792816b5e552e7e/

7 years ago

F18 Fortran compiler and runtime project is accepted as part of LLVM project

https://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2019-April/131703.html

7 years ago

Ice cold archive storage

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/storage-data-transfer/whats-cooler-than-being-cool-ice-cold-archive-storage

7 years ago

A German court forced the removal of a Wikipedia article’s history

https://wikimediafoundation.org/2019/04/11/a-german-court-forced-us-to-remove-part-of-a-wikipedia-articles-history-heres-what-that-means/

7 years ago

Unheard History of Bodybuilding Forums

https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/the-unheard-history-of-bodybuilding-forums-as-told-by-the-trolls-and-counter-trolls-who-made-them-huge

7 years ago

The Day Feynman Worked Out Black-Hole Radiation on My Blackboard

http://nautil.us/blog/the-day-feynman-worked-out-black_hole-radiation-on-my-blackboard

7 years ago

‘China’s Manhattan’ Borrowed Heavily, but the People Have Yet to Arrive

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/10/business/china-economy-debt-tianjin.html

7 years ago

Serious flaws leave WPA3 vulnerable to hacks that steal Wi-Fi passwords

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/04/serious-flaws-leave-wpa3-vulnerable-to-hacks-that-steal-wi-fi-passwords/

7 years ago

Firefox Beta for Windows 10 on Qualcomm Snapdragon Now Available

https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2019/04/11/firefox-beta-for-windows-10-on-qualcomm-snapdragon-always-connected-pcs-now-available/

7 years ago

It's Time to Panic About Privacy

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/04/10/opinion/internet-data-privacy.html

7 years ago

Spotify Saved the Music Industry (But Not Necessarily Musicians)

http://freakonomics.com/podcast/spotify/

7 years ago

Dagen H: The Day Sweden Switched Traffic Sides

https://www.amusingplanet.com/2019/04/dagen-h-day-sweden-switched-traffic.html

7 years ago

Photos from Crude Sketches: Nvidia's GauGAN Explained Visually

https://adamdking.com/blog/gaugan/

7 years ago

PagerDuty pops nearly 60% in debut as tech IPO market heats up

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/11/pagerduty-pops-more-than-50percent-in-debut-as-tech-ipo-market-heats-up.html

7 years ago

Zircon Fair Scheduler

https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/fuchsia/+/refs/heads/master/zircon/docs/fair_scheduler.md

7 years ago

Traditional journalists may abandon WikiLeaks’ Assange at their own peril

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/traditional-journalists-may-abandon-wikileaks-assange-at-their-own-peril/2019/04/11/45ae985c-5c84-11e9-842d-7d3ed7eb3957_story.html

7 years ago

Anonymity Trilemma: Anonymity, Low Bandwidth Overhead, Low Latency – Choose Two

https://freedom.cs.purdue.edu/anonymity/index.html

7 years ago

Jeff Bezos has confirmed Amazon’s growth is slowing

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-04-11/jeff-bezos-just-confirmed-amazon-s-growth-is-slowing

7 years ago

Rockset – Serverless search and analytics engine

https://www.rockset.com

7 years ago

Julian Assange Indictment (2018)

https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1153486/download

7 years ago

Nasa Twins Study: A multidimensional analysis of a year-long human spaceflight

http://science.sciencemag.org/content/364/6436/eaau8650

7 years ago

Pengwin – A Linux Distro Optimized for WSL Based on Debian

https://github.com/WhitewaterFoundry/Pengwin

7 years ago

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Feds take down $1B Medicare fraud scheme

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/feds-take-down-1-billion-fraud-scheme-operation-brace-yourself-n992481

7 years ago

Boeing 737 Max Crashes: Sensors Vulnerable to Failure

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-11/sensors-linked-to-737-crashes-vulnerable-to-failure-data-show

7 years ago

EFF Statement on Assange Indictment and Arrest

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/04/eff-statement-assange-indictment-and-arrest-f

7 years ago

Traffic Director: Traffic management for open service mesh

https://cloud.google.com/traffic-director/

7 years ago

Atom 1.36

https://blog.atom.io/2019/04/09/atom-1-36.html

7 years ago

The Billionaire Next Door (2007)

https://www.dmagazine.com/publications/d-magazine/2007/march/the-billionaire-next-door/

7 years ago