top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-04-20

Joe Armstrong has died

https://twitter.com/FrancescoC/status/1119596234166218754

7 years ago

We Don't Have a Talent Shortage. We Have a Sucker Shortage

https://resumeskills.us/talent/shortage

7 years ago

Vendors must start adding physical on/off switches to devices that can spy on us

https://larrysanger.org/2019/04/vendors-must-start-adding-physical-on-off-switches-to-devices-that-can-spy-on-us/

7 years ago

Half of England Is Owned by Less Than 1% of Its Population, Researcher Says

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/19/world/europe/england-land-inequality.html

7 years ago

Commit messages guide

https://github.com/RomuloOliveira/commit-messages-guide

7 years ago

★ 6.7k CC-BY-4.0

Show HN: Should you buy a house and rent it out?

https://causal.app/buy-to-rent/

7 years ago

Antenna Theory (2016)

http://www.antenna-theory.com/

7 years ago

A visual proof that neural nets can approximate any function

http://neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com/chap4.html

7 years ago

The Mueller Report Can’t Be Copyrighted, Is Flagged by Copyright Bots Anyway

https://www.eff.org/takedowns/mueller-report-cant-be-copyrighted-flagged-copyright-bots-anyway

7 years ago

Python overtakes JavaScript as most questioned language on StackOverflow

https://www.globalapptesting.com/blog/picking-apart-stackoverflow-what-bugs-developers-the-most

7 years ago

Show HN: I Built Darwin Mail as a Google Inbox Replacement

https://www.darwinmail.app

7 years ago

Working as a librarian gave me PTSD symptoms

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-oliver-librarian-the-public-movie-20190419-story.html

7 years ago

Should that be a microservice? Factors to keep in mind

https://content.pivotal.io/blog/should-that-be-a-microservice-keep-these-six-factors-in-mind

7 years ago

Erlang: The Movie [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXmOlCy0oBM

7 years ago

Hardening SSH with 2FA

https://gist.github.com/lizthegrey/9c21673f33186a9cc775464afbdce820

7 years ago

Was There a Civilization on Earth Before Humans?

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/04/are-we-earths-only-civilization/557180/

7 years ago

OpenCV-Python Cheat Sheet: From Importing Images to Face Detection

https://heartbeat.fritz.ai/opencv-python-cheat-sheet-from-importing-images-to-face-detection-52919da36433

7 years ago

The new features of Fortran 2018 [pdf]

https://isotc.iso.org/livelink/livelink?func=ll&objId=19441669&objAction=Open

7 years ago

Red Hat Replaces Oracle as OpenJDK 8, OpenJDK 11 Steward

https://www.theserverside.com/news/252461945/Red-Hat-replaces-Oracle-as-OpenJDK-8-OpenJDK-11-steward

7 years ago

Neuroscientist Larry Cahill on the ‘neurosexism’ debate

https://medium.com/s/meghan-daum/male-and-female-brains-are-different-should-it-matter-6db82ead5e20

7 years ago

Apple said Qualcomm’s tech was no good, but privately it was ‘the best’

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/04/19/apple-said-qualcomms-tech-was-no-good-private-communications-it-was-best/

7 years ago

Ask HN: How do I improve our data infrastructure?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19705461

7 years ago

How Venice Works [video]

https://vimeo.com/21688538

7 years ago

Sinclair ZX81 1KB Chess vs. Stockfish Chess Engine (2018) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3By_rdwxSg

7 years ago

Surprisingly little evidence for usual wisdom about teeth

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/30/upshot/surprisingly-little-evidence-for-the-usual-wisdom-about-teeth.html

7 years ago

Show HN: Mockit – Open-source app to create and configure HTTP mocked endpoints

https://mockit.netlify.com/

7 years ago

High-Deductible Health Policies Linked to Delayed Diagnosis and Treatment

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/04/18/713887452/high-deductible-health-policies-linked-to-delayed-diagnosis-and-treatment

7 years ago

A Technical and Cultural Assessment of the Mueller Report PDF

https://www.pdfa.org/a-technical-and-cultural-assessment-of-the-mueller-report-pdf/

7 years ago

Joe Armstrong on Elixir (2018)

https://elixirforum.com/t/learning-elixir-frst-impressions-plz-dont-kill-me/16424/52

7 years ago

Show HN: Tetris Implemented in ClojureScript

https://djblue.github.io/tetris/

7 years ago

Kustomize – Templating in Kubernetes

https://blog.stack-labs.com/code/kustomize-101/

7 years ago

Fh: File history with ed, diff, awk, sed, and sh

https://github.com/xorhash/fh

7 years ago

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Claims of Shoddy Production Draw Scrutiny to a Second Boeing Jet

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/20/business/boeing-dreamliner-production-problems.html

7 years ago

Germans Who Refused to Execute Civilians During World War II (1988) [pdf]

https://sci-hub.tw/10.2307/1429971

7 years ago

Visualization techniques for different data sets

https://mlwhiz.com/blog/2019/04/19/awesome_seaborn_visuals/

7 years ago

Minetime.ai – A Calendar for the 21st Century

https://minetime.ai/

7 years ago

Half of Instacart’s drivers earn less than minimum wage, labor group claims

https://www.fastcompany.com/90337972/half-of-instacarts-drivers-earn-less-than-minimum-wage-labor-group-claims

7 years ago

Nana: A modern C++ GUI library

http://nanapro.org/

7 years ago