top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-04-12

Great developers are raised, not hired

https://sizovs.net/2019/04/10/the-best-developers-are-raised-not-hired/

7 years ago

620 upvotes – 329 comments

Learn more programming languages, even if you won't use them

https://thorstenball.com/blog/2019/04/09/learn-more-programming-languages/

7 years ago

602 upvotes – 304 comments

SpaceX nails triple booster landing after satellite delivery

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/science-environment-47903788/spacex-nails-triple-booster-landing-after-satellite-delivery

7 years ago

513 upvotes – 120 comments

Show HN: Tree of Reddit Sex Life

https://observablehq.com/@stared/tree-of-reddit-sex-life

7 years ago

494 upvotes – 119 comments

Emacs 26.2 Released

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2019-04/msg00503.html

7 years ago

491 upvotes – 265 comments

Setting Up a Pi Hole Made My Home Network Faster

https://www.brianchristner.io/how-a-single-raspberry-pi-made-my-home-network-faster/

7 years ago

383 upvotes – 193 comments

Slack Is Not Where 'Deep Work' Happens

https://blog.nuclino.com/slack-is-not-where-deep-work-happens

7 years ago

381 upvotes – 222 comments

As China Hacked, U.S. Businesses Turned a Blind Eye

https://www.npr.org/2019/04/12/711779130/as-china-hacked-u-s-businesses-turned-a-blind-eye

7 years ago

330 upvotes – 195 comments

Matrix.org hacked

https://web.archive.org/web/20190412060115/http://matrix.org/

7 years ago

324 upvotes – 258 comments

Please Don't Say Just Hello In Chat (2013)

http://www.nohello.com/

7 years ago

323 upvotes – 265 comments

I got tired of PHP and Perl, so I tried bash

https://github.com/nerdgeneration/www.sh

7 years ago

★ 733 Shell BSD-3-Clause
314 upvotes – 177 comments

Tell HN: GitHub deleted anti-censorship activist repositories

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19645296

7 years ago

293 upvotes – 63 comments

Ask HN: What are good resources for life advice?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19650044

7 years ago

271 upvotes – 163 comments

IPFS Project Roadmap

https://github.com/ipfs/roadmap

7 years ago

★ 298 MIT
242 upvotes – 149 comments

B.C. introduces law to require cars, trucks sold by 2040 be zero emission

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/b-c-introduces-law-to-require-cars-trucks-sold-by-2040-be-zero-emission-1.5093110

7 years ago

231 upvotes – 227 comments

Your terminal is not a terminal: An Introduction to Streams

https://lucasfcosta.com/2019/04/07/streams-introduction.html

7 years ago

223 upvotes – 52 comments

Coinbase Debit Card

https://www.coinbase.com/card

7 years ago

223 upvotes – 207 comments

500-year-old library catalogue reveals books lost to time

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/apr/10/extraordinary-500-year-old-library-catalogue-reveals-books-lost-to-time-libro-de-los-epitomes

7 years ago

218 upvotes – 42 comments

A researcher needed three hours to identify me from my DNA

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-12/a-researcher-needed-three-hours-to-identify-me-from-my-dna

7 years ago

212 upvotes – 164 comments

What design tools get wrong

https://kilianvalkhof.com/2019/design/what-design-tools-get-wrong/

7 years ago

199 upvotes – 79 comments

Migrating 23TB from S3 to B2 in 7 hours

https://nodecraft.com/blog/development/migrating-23tb-from-s3-to-b2-in-just-7-hours

7 years ago

192 upvotes – 66 comments

The case for rejecting the memristor as a fundamental circuit element (2018)

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-29394-7

7 years ago

191 upvotes – 46 comments

FB plans to pass your photos to advertisers, make users the stars of online ads

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2019/04/09/facebook-plans-pass-photographs-advertisers-make-users-stars/

7 years ago

186 upvotes – 94 comments

Ask HN: Non-VC backed founders, any tips on growth?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19645363

7 years ago

183 upvotes – 108 comments

Zarf’s Interactive Fiction (2017)

https://www.eblong.com/zarf/if.html

7 years ago

171 upvotes – 50 comments

BlackBerry cofounder Jim Balsillie is sounding the alarm about surveillance

https://thewalrus.ca/are-you-afraid-of-google-blackberry-cofounder-jim-balsillie-says-you-should-be/

7 years ago

171 upvotes – 45 comments

Connecticut moves to help low-paid workers hurt by noncompete rules

https://www.ctpost.com/politics/article/CT-moves-to-help-low-paid-workers-hurt-by-13745423.php

7 years ago

170 upvotes – 110 comments

The Horror of Hudson Yards Is How It Was Financed

https://www.citylab.com/equity/2019/04/hudson-yards-financing-eb5-investor-visa-program-immigration/586897/

7 years ago

169 upvotes – 82 comments

Amazon's empire rests on its low-key approach to AI

https://www.economist.com/business/2019/04/13/amazons-empire-rests-on-its-low-key-approach-to-ai

7 years ago

157 upvotes – 92 comments

Tbox: A GLib-like cross-platform C library

https://github.com/tboox/tbox

7 years ago

★ 5.1k C Apache-2.0
152 upvotes – 64 comments

My Laptop Bit Me – The Shocking Truth (2012)

http://enclydion.blogspot.com/2012/04/my-laptop-bit-me-shocking-truth.html

7 years ago

136 upvotes – 116 comments

Marijuana testing of job applicants is barred by NYC

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/11/nyregion/marijuana-drug-testing-nyc.html

7 years ago

136 upvotes – 132 comments

Apply Unix Principles to Write Testable Microservices

https://microservices-on-my-mind.blogspot.com/2019/04/break-functional-and-orchestration.html?m=1

7 years ago

135 upvotes – 29 comments

How Bad Is Your Colormap? (2014)

https://jakevdp.github.io/blog/2014/10/16/how-bad-is-your-colormap/

7 years ago

133 upvotes – 22 comments

YouTube is trying to reward “quality” content

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-11/to-answer-critics-youtube-tries-a-new-metric-responsibility

7 years ago

128 upvotes – 277 comments

Orange_slice: Research Kernel and Hypervisor in Rust

https://github.com/gamozolabs/orange_slice

7 years ago

★ 546 Rust MIT
126 upvotes – 32 comments

NuttX – A POSIX-compliant RTOS for embedded platforms

http://nuttx.org/

7 years ago

125 upvotes – 51 comments

Princeton IoT Inspector: discovers IoT devices and analyzes network traffic

https://iot-inspector.princeton.edu/

7 years ago

122 upvotes – 27 comments

Removing Array Duplicates

https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/removing-array-duplicates

7 years ago

119 upvotes – 190 comments

Italy’s austerity-fueled crisis is a warning to the Eurozone

https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/how-to-ruin-a-country-in-three-decades

7 years ago

109 upvotes – 144 comments

50 Years of Data Science (2015) [pdf]

http://courses.csail.mit.edu/18.337/2015/docs/50YearsDataScience.pdf

7 years ago

108 upvotes – 7 comments

Godson-3: A Scalable Multicore RISC Processor with x86 Emulation (2009)

https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/mi/2009/02/mmi2009020017/13rRUwvBy5P

7 years ago

107 upvotes – 30 comments

Bye lands orders for nearly 300 electric planes

https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all-news/2019/april/11/orders-for-eflyer-hit-300

7 years ago

102 upvotes – 127 comments

Tesla Shakes Up Model 3 Lineup

https://www.thedrive.com/tech/27400/tesla-shakes-up-model-3-lineup-killing-35000-base-price

7 years ago

95 upvotes – 181 comments

Proliferation of hydrocarbon-degrading microbes at the bottom of Mariana Trench

https://microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40168-019-0652-3

7 years ago

91 upvotes – 33 comments

Jumbo: Privacy Assistant for iPhone

https://www.jumboprivacy.com/

7 years ago

89 upvotes – 73 comments

Tea: High-Level Language and Runtime System for Automating Statistical Analysis

https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.05387

7 years ago

88 upvotes – 14 comments

Fisher-Price Recalls Rock ’N Play Sleeper Linked to Infant Deaths

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/12/business/fisher-price-rock-n-play-recall.html

7 years ago

85 upvotes – 65 comments

Netflix CEO Reed Hastings to Depart Facebook Board of Directors

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/12/netflix-ceo-reed-hastings-to-depart-facebook-board-of-directors.html

7 years ago

82 upvotes – 24 comments

Behind the Buzz: How Ketamine Changes the Depressed Patient's Brain

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/behind-the-buzz-how-ketamine-changes-the-depressed-patients-brain/

7 years ago

81 upvotes – 42 comments

The Geography of the Room

https://www.lesspenguiny.com/articles/the-geography-of-the-room

7 years ago

77 upvotes – 31 comments

Bringing the best of open source to Google Cloud customers

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/open-source/bringing-the-best-of-open-source-to-google-cloud-customers

7 years ago

75 upvotes – 16 comments

Matrix.org Security Incident

https://matrix.org/blog/2019/04/11/security-incident/

7 years ago

74 upvotes – 15 comments

Ask HN: How do you overcome Weltschmerz or fatalism about our future?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19643966

7 years ago

74 upvotes – 64 comments

DNSSEC Outage on www.cloudflare.com – 2019-03-21

https://ianix.com/pub/dnssec-outages/20190321-www.cloudflare.com/

7 years ago

73 upvotes – 35 comments

Haversine Formula

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haversine_formula

7 years ago

73 upvotes – 31 comments

Model 3 Lease Available

https://www.tesla.com/blog/update-our-vehicle-lineup

7 years ago

73 upvotes – 103 comments
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