top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-04-18

Mozilla WebThings

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/04/introducing-mozilla-webthings/

7 years ago

How the Boeing 737 Max disaster looks to a software Developer

https://spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace/aviation/how-the-boeing-737-max-disaster-looks-to-a-software-developer

7 years ago

Facebook 'unintentionally uploaded' 1.5M people's email contacts without consent

https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-uploaded-1-5-million-users-email-contacts-without-permission-2019-4

7 years ago

First Japan-Built Airliner in 50 Years Takes on Boeing and Airbus

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-17/first-japan-built-airliner-in-50-years-takes-on-boeing-airbus

7 years ago

Super Mario Bros. has been released for the Commodore 64

https://www.lemon64.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=71262

7 years ago

Advanced NLP with SpaCy

https://course.spacy.io/

7 years ago

The Healing Power of Gardens

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/18/opinion/sunday/oliver-sacks-gardens.html

7 years ago

The Mueller Report [pdf]

https://www.justice.gov/storage/report.pdf

7 years ago

Utah Bans Police from Searching Digital Data Without a Warrant, Closes Loophole

https://www.forbes.com/sites/nicksibilla/2019/04/16/utah-bans-police-from-searching-digital-data-without-a-warrant-closes-fourth-amendment-loophole/

7 years ago

Bling Fire: Finite state machine and regular expression manipulation library

https://github.com/Microsoft/BlingFire

7 years ago

★ 1.8k C++ MIT

Keeping master green at scale

https://eng.uber.com/research/keeping-master-green-at-scale/

7 years ago

IBM halting sales of Watson AI tool for drug discovery

https://www.statnews.com/2019/04/18/ibm-halting-sales-of-watson-for-drug-discovery/

7 years ago

What's new in Ubuntu 19.04

https://www.linuxuprising.com/2019/04/whats-new-in-ubuntu-1904-disco-dingo.html

7 years ago

Facebook asks users for email passwords, then “accidentally” uploads contacts

https://gizmodo.com/facebook-asked-some-users-for-their-email-passwords-th-1834129792

7 years ago

Optimizing M3: Halving Our Metrics Ingestion Latency by Forking the Go Compiler

https://eng.uber.com/optimizing-m3

7 years ago

Facebook stored millions of Instagram passwords in plain text

https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/18/18485599/facebook-instagram-passwords-plain-text-millions-users

7 years ago

How to Track Your Kids (and Other People's Kids) with the TicTocTrack Watch

https://www.troyhunt.com/how-to-track-your-kids-and-other-peoples-kids-with-the-tictoctrack-watch/

7 years ago

Donald E. Knuth: An Oral History (2018) [video]

https://purl.stanford.edu/jq248bz8097

7 years ago

Do people become happier after 40?

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2019/04/12/do-people-become-happier-after-40

7 years ago

A physics master’s degree opens doors to myriad careers

https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/PT.3.4180

7 years ago

Crystal 0.28.0 Released

https://crystal-lang.org/2019/04/17/crystal-0.28.0-released.html

7 years ago

Former student destroys 59 university computers using USB Killer device

https://www.zdnet.com/article/former-student-destroys-59-university-computers-using-usb-killer-device/

7 years ago

Mercury – Banking built for startups

https://mercury.co/#

7 years ago

Ask HN: I lost my ability to focus for hours on coding. How to regain?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19694091

7 years ago

Samsung's folding phone breaks for reviewers

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-47970788

7 years ago

Her Facebook life looked perfect. How social media masks mental illness (2015)

https://www.cbc.ca/news/trending/her-facebook-life-looked-perfect-madison-holleran-suicide-highlights-how-social-media-masks-mental-illness-1.3071302

7 years ago

AES-GCM-SIV: Nonce Misuse-Resistant Authenticated Encryption

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8452

7 years ago

Canada Group Sues Government over Google's Sidewalk Labs

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47956760

7 years ago

Show HN: hncynic – Generate Hacker News Comments from Titles

https://hncynic.leod.org/

7 years ago

World's tallest tropical tree discovered and climbed in Malaysian Borneo

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/04/worlds-tallest-tropical-tree-discovered-climbed-borneo/

7 years ago

How much can forests fight climate change?

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00122-z

7 years ago

The Power of Lifetimes

http://pling.jondgoodwin.com/post/lifetimes/

7 years ago

The Saltiest Users on HN

https://www.hackersalt.com/

7 years ago

Xubuntu 19.04: The Exhaustive Update

https://bluesabre.org/2019/04/18/xubuntu-19-04-the-exhaustive-update/

7 years ago

Working memory revived in older adults by synchronizing rhythmic brain circuits

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-019-0371-x

7 years ago

Collapsing Towers of Interpreters (2018) [pdf]

http://lampwww.epfl.ch/~amin/pub/collapsing-towers.pdf

7 years ago

People are pooping more than ever on the streets of San Francisco

https://www.businessinsider.com/san-francisco-human-poop-problem-2019-4

7 years ago

Bézier Curves and Surfaces: The Utah Teapot

https://www.scratchapixel.com/lessons/advanced-rendering/bezier-curve-rendering-utah-teapot

7 years ago

Designing a Full-Time Human Habitat on the Moon

https://www.citylab.com/design/2019/04/moon-village-som-mit-esa-space-urbanism-planning-habitat/587482/

7 years ago

Two Winning Pwn2Own JIT Vulnerabilities in Mozilla Firefox

https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/blog/2019/4/18/the-story-of-two-winning-pwn2own-jit-vulnerabilities-in-mozilla-firefox

7 years ago

Sensei's Library

https://senseis.xmp.net/

7 years ago

Social media is spreading 'toxic positivity'

https://www.glamourmagazine.co.uk/article/toxic-positivity

7 years ago

Facebook now says its password leak affected ‘millions’ of Instagram users

https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/18/instagram-password-leak-millions/

7 years ago

Microsoft Helped Build China’s Surveillance [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rpqq_hHr1o

7 years ago

Interface Dispatch (2018)

https://lukasatkinson.de/2018/interface-dispatch/

7 years ago

The Parker “51” (2018)

http://www.richardspens.com/ref/profiles/51.htm

7 years ago

Positional-only Parameters for Python

https://lwn.net/Articles/785245/

7 years ago

At Colorado, a Breach in Football’s Wall

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/18/sports/colorado-football.html

7 years ago

Wipro Intruders Targeted Other Major IT Firms

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/04/wipro-intruders-targeted-other-major-it-firms/

7 years ago

‘Our Lying Eyes’: Inaccurate eyewitness identifications and wrongful convictions

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2019/04/18/our-lying-eyes/

7 years ago

Starkey and the Future of Hearing Aids

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-04-18/the-future-of-wearable-tech-is-called-a-hearing-aid

7 years ago

Creating Heatmap from Scratch in Python (2018)

http://www.geodose.com/2018/01/creating-heatmap-in-python-from-scratch.html

7 years ago

Another ZFS Port on Linux

https://www.crossmeta.io/another-zfs-port-on-linux/

7 years ago

The Linux Edge (1999)

https://blog.corememory.io/the-linux-edge.html

7 years ago

Logic Puzzle: The Joy of Recursion

https://www.quantamagazine.org/logic-puzzle-the-joy-of-recursion-20190417/

7 years ago

BYD, the World’s Biggest Electric Car Maker

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-04-16/the-world-s-biggest-electric-vehicle-company-looks-nothing-like-tesla

7 years ago

Sampling a Procedural Sky

https://sergeneren.com/2019/04/17/sampling-a-procedural-sky/

7 years ago

Modern Clowning in Los Angeles

https://www.dorsia.io/cities/los-angeles/articles/clown-schools-los-angeles

7 years ago

Why Are Women Under-Represented in Physics?

https://quillette.com/2019/04/16/why-are-women-under-represented-in-physics/

7 years ago

Heat-Loving Microbes, Once Dormant, Thrive over Decades-Old Fire

https://www.quantamagazine.org/heat-loving-microbes-once-dormant-thrive-over-decades-old-fire-20190416/

7 years ago

A Pragmatic Introduction to Secure Multi-Party Computation

https://securecomputation.org/

7 years ago