752
358
Ask HN: One-person SaaS apps that are profitable?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19701783
7 years ago
573
627
Its butterfly keyboard design has failed, but Apple has yet to admit its mistake
https://theoutline.com/post/7315/apple-keyboards-still-suck-insanely-bad?zd=1&zi=qklqjspx
508
276
Austrian government seeks to eliminate internet anonymity, with severe penalties
http://derstandard.at/2000101677286/Government-Seeks-to-Eliminate-Internet-Anonymity-With-Severe-Penalties
106
Applied Category Theory
https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-s097-applied-category-theory-january-iap-2019/index.htm
493
147
26 States Now Ban or Restrict Community Broadband
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/kzmana/report-26-states-now-ban-or-restrict-community-broadband
420
231
Refused U.S. visa eight times, Zoom CEO is now a billionaire
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-18/u-s-refused-his-visa-eight-times-now-zoom-ceo-is-a-billionaire
416
53
Ikonate – fully customisable and accessible vector icons
https://www.ikonate.com
387
210
Types will be part of Ruby 3 stdlib source
https://twitter.com/darkdimius/status/1119115657776209920
339
160
Micro-promotions and mentorship: impact of small actions in engineering culture
https://circleci.com/blog/micro-promotions-and-mentorship-the-big-impact-of-small-actions-in-an-engineering-culture/
310
33
How to register a company in the USA: the most comprehensive guide for founders
http://aynuriev.com/how-to-register-company-usa/
289
72
Learning Parser Combinators with Rust
https://bodil.lol/parser-combinators/
263
171
Fastly S-1
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1517413/000119312519111675/d702138ds1.htm
262
169
Instagram hides Like counts in leaked design prototype
https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/18/instagram-no-like-counter/
246
103
Scribd taking down the Mueller Report is the future the EU has voted for
https://qz.com/1599975/scribd-taking-down-the-mueller-report-is-what-eu-article-13-looks-like/
215
68
Chinese spies stole trade secrets from Dutch chip machine maker ASML: report
https://nltimes.nl/2019/04/11/chinese-spies-stole-trade-secrets-dutch-chip-maker-asml-report
204
What is ZIL anyway?
http://blog.zarfhome.com/2019/04/what-is-zil-anyway.html
188
18
Claude Shannon’s “Creative Thinking” Speech (2017)
https://medium.com/the-mission/a-genius-explains-how-to-be-creative-claude-shannons-long-lost-1952-speech-fbbcb2ebe07f
186
230
After a $14B Upgrade, New Orleans’ Levees Are Sinking
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/after-a-14-billion-upgrade-new-orleans-levees-are-sinking/
67
France's Basque Region Creates Its Own Currency
http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20190418-the-french-region-with-a-new-currency
168
7
Software Heritage and GNU Guix join forces to enable long term reproducibility
https://www.softwareheritage.org/2019/04/18/software-heritage-and-gnu-guix-join-forces-to-enable-long-term-reproducibility/
161
54
Writing a Technical Book for Manning
https://www.tunetheweb.com/blog/writing-a-technical-book-for-manning/
158
105
“Be yourself” is terrible advice
https://theoutline.com/post/7142/be-yourself-is-terrible-advice
148
175
1980 Atari 800 ad: “It will never become obsolete”
https://www.bookofjoe.com/2014/07/1980-atari-800-ad-it-will-never-become-obsolete.html
146
16
Asynchronous Programming in Rust
https://blog.yoshuawuyts.com/runtime/
144
79
Search Benchmarking: RediSearch vs. Elasticsearch
https://redislabs.com/blog/search-benchmarking-redisearch-vs-elasticsearch/
141
136
What Is Suspension Trauma a.k.a. Harness Hang Syndrome?
https://www.dynamicrescue.com/blogs/news/13262417-ask-a-pro-what-is-suspension-trauma-aka-harness-hang-syndrome
132
83
Samurai Helmets
https://news.kynosarges.org/2019/04/19/samurai-helmets/
129
205
U.S.-Thai pair facing death for 'sea home' should fight charge, Thailand says
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-thailand-seahome/u-s-thai-pair-facing-death-for-sea-home-should-fight-the-charge-thailand-says-idUSKCN1RV0KM
126
13
Visualizing Commodore 1541 Disk Contents
https://www.pagetable.com/?p=1070
120
110
AI is not coming for you
http://blairreeves.me/2019/04/18/ai-is-not-coming-for-you/
114
27
Huawei’s claim of 100% employee ownership false, may be state-owned: paper
https://technode.com/2019/04/19/who-owns-huawei-clearly-not-its-employees-paper/
113
Hacker dumps thousands of sensitive Mexican embassy documents online
https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/19/mexican-embassy-hack/
86
Malware researcher Marcus Hutchins, known as ’MalwareTech’, pleads guilty
https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/19/malwaretech-legal-case-over/
99
111
Major U.S. cancer center ousts ‘Asian’ researchers after NIH flags foreign ties
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/04/exclusive-major-us-cancer-center-ousts-asian-researchers-after-nih-flags-their-foreign
95
Days since last Facebook scandal
https://dayssincelastfacebookscandal.com/
87
128
Why have so many physicists shrugged off the paradoxes of quantum mechanics?
https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/make-physics-real-again
24
The Museum of Soviet Space Travel
https://designyoutrust.com/2019/04/out-of-this-world-photographer-egor-rogalev-visits-the-museum-of-soviet-space-travel/
84
115
“Android is reaching EOL in the next 4-5 years”
https://twitter.com/DroidAlexandra/status/1119207230782550017
82
85
US Wages Finally Get Back to Where They Were in 1973
https://thesoundingline.com/in-brief-us-wages-finally-get-back-to-where-they-were-in-1973/
80
Regolith Linux – A desktop with less visual bullshit
http://Regolith-linux.org
78
73
US halts recent practice of disclosing nuclear weapon total
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2019/04/18/us-halts-recent-practice-of-disclosing-nuclear-weapon-total/
77
Why Alan Turing Wanted AI Agents to Make Mistakes
https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/tech-history/dawn-of-electronics/untold-history-of-ai-why-alan-turing-wanted-ai-to-make-mistakes
76
71
Ask HN: How do you secure your Windows PC?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19698620
75
8
Giving Generative Art Its Due
https://www.artnome.com/news/2019/4/17/giving-generative-art-its-due
Malware researcher Marcus Hutchins, known as ’MalwareTech’, pleads guilty