top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-04-21

Ask HN: What is your money-making side project outside programming?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19712057

7 years ago

1134 upvotes – 717 comments

Goodbye Joe

https://ferd.ca/goodbye-joe.html

7 years ago

875 upvotes – 22 comments

Why OO Sucks by Joe Armstrong (2000)

http://www.cs.otago.ac.nz/staffpriv/ok/Joe-Hates-OO.htm

7 years ago

656 upvotes – 380 comments

The Web is missing an essential part of infrastructure: an open web index

https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.03846

7 years ago

548 upvotes – 129 comments

Elixir, Phoenix, Absinthe, GraphQL, React, and Apollo

https://schneider.dev/blog/elixir-phoenix-absinthe-graphql-react-apollo-absurdly-deep-dive/

7 years ago

526 upvotes – 153 comments

Joe the office mate

https://github.com/lukego/blog/issues/32

7 years ago

495 upvotes – 47 comments

SuperTuxKart 1.0 Release

http://blog.supertuxkart.net/2019/04/supertuxkart-10-release.html

7 years ago

457 upvotes – 80 comments

Planting 1.2T Trees Could Cancel Out a Decade of CO2 Emissions

https://e360.yale.edu/digest/planting-1-2-trillion-trees-could-cancel-out-a-decade-of-co2-emissions-scientists-find

7 years ago

447 upvotes – 324 comments

Is everything an MLM

https://annehelen.substack.com/p/is-everything-an-mlm

7 years ago

352 upvotes – 284 comments

China Bans the Word 'Leica' on Social Media

https://gizmodo.com/china-bans-the-word-leica-on-social-media-1834163199

7 years ago

324 upvotes – 260 comments

Ask HN: What does your ML pipeline look like?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19712465

7 years ago

318 upvotes – 49 comments

Sleep quality and stress level matter more than languages or practices

https://twitter.com/hillelogram/status/1119709859979714560

7 years ago

244 upvotes – 52 comments

Smoke seen for miles as SpaceX Crew Dragon suffers anomaly at Cape Canaveral

https://www.floridatoday.com/story/tech/science/space/2019/04/20/smoke-seen-miles-spacex-crew-dragon-suffers-anomaly-cape-canaveral/3531086002/

7 years ago

243 upvotes – 153 comments

Webcam in a Favicon

https://twitter.com/davywtf/status/1119783380734836737

7 years ago

225 upvotes – 35 comments

Ask HN: Will there ever be a resurgence of interest in symbolic AI?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19713791

7 years ago

225 upvotes – 95 comments

At 30, Game Boys live on in unexpected ways

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/herocomplex/la-et-hc-nintendo-game-boy-anniversary-20190421-story.html

7 years ago

199 upvotes – 117 comments

Japan's 'vanishing' Ainu will finally be recognized as indigenous people

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/04/20/asia/japan-ainu-indigenous-peoples-bill-intl/index.html

7 years ago

182 upvotes – 86 comments

Janet Airlines

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_(airline)

7 years ago

180 upvotes – 56 comments

Simple cooking methods flush arsenic out of rice (2015)

https://www.nature.com/news/simple-cooking-methods-flush-arsenic-out-of-rice-1.18034

7 years ago

153 upvotes – 59 comments

Researchers Made 25-Ton Boulders They Can Move by Hand

https://gizmodo.com/researchers-made-25-ton-boulders-they-can-move-by-hand-1834106230

7 years ago

144 upvotes – 45 comments

Generate Hacker News Comments from Titles

https://hncynic.leod.org/index.html

7 years ago

138 upvotes – 80 comments

Fearing More Violence, Sri Lanka Silences Social Media

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/21/world/asia/sri-lanka-social-media.html

7 years ago

134 upvotes – 106 comments

NLP on Mueller Report

https://twitter.com/spdustin/status/1119118085443559425

7 years ago

132 upvotes – 41 comments

Embracing Swift for Deep Learning

https://www.fast.ai/2019/03/06/fastai-swift/

7 years ago

127 upvotes – 58 comments

Comparing JVM alternatives to JavaScript

https://renato.athaydes.com/posts/comparing-jvm-alternatives-to-js.html

7 years ago

123 upvotes – 76 comments

Excerpts from Richard Stallman's talk in Mandya, India

https://factordaily.com/richard-stallman-india/

7 years ago

123 upvotes – 92 comments

AA A321 takes off after smashing ground sign at JFK

http://avherald.com/h?article=4c68c5a8&opt=0

7 years ago

116 upvotes – 42 comments

Kidnapping: An Efficient Business

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2019/05/09/kidnapping-efficient-business/

7 years ago

111 upvotes – 35 comments

China is working to silence critics of its prisonlike re-education camps

https://world.wng.org/2019/04/striking_the_messenger

7 years ago

110 upvotes – 21 comments

Ways to Lie with Charts (2014)

http://nautil.us/issue/19/illusions/five-ways-to-lie-with-charts

7 years ago

109 upvotes – 20 comments

Show HN: BepuPhysics – 3D real-time physics simulation library in C#

https://github.com/bepu/bepuphysics2

7 years ago

108 upvotes – 25 comments

Project Xanadu

http://www.xanadu.net/

7 years ago

103 upvotes – 32 comments

Parable of the Polygons (2014)

http://ncase.me/polygons/

7 years ago

99 upvotes – 27 comments

U.S. Nuclear Power Plants Weren’t Built for Climate Change

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2019-nuclear-power-plants-climate-change

7 years ago

99 upvotes – 106 comments

Istio Observability with Go, gRPC, and Protocol Buffers-Based Microservices

https://itnext.io/istio-observability-with-go-grpc-and-protocol-buffers-based-microservices-d09e34c1255a

7 years ago

98 upvotes – 56 comments

Buck: A high-performance build tool

https://buckbuild.com/

7 years ago

94 upvotes – 69 comments

A deaf girl who found her voice after brain surgery

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-47974844

7 years ago

94 upvotes – 21 comments

Compress Objects, Not Cache Lines: An Object-Based Compressed Memory Hierarchy

https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=3297858.3304006

7 years ago

92 upvotes – 1 comments

The Value of Bitemporality – Whose Time Is It Anyway?

https://juxt.pro/blog/posts/value-of-bitemporality.html

7 years ago

91 upvotes – 37 comments

Grandpa's Beer

https://popula.com/2019/04/11/grandpas-beer/

7 years ago

91 upvotes – 25 comments
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