top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-04-22

Otonomo, with nearly $55M in funding, is cloning our product

https://smartcar.com/blog/how-otonomo-is-cloning-our-product/

7 years ago

2292 upvotes – 603 comments

Ask HN: What Hacker News comments have you bookmarked?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19716401

7 years ago

740 upvotes – 184 comments

PySnooper: Never use print for debugging again

https://github.com/cool-RR/pysnooper

7 years ago

★ 16.5k Python MIT
675 upvotes – 168 comments

Manim – 3Blue1Brown's animation engine for explanatory math videos

https://github.com/3b1b/manim

7 years ago

★ 86.3k Python MIT
669 upvotes – 80 comments

Svelte 3: Rethinking Reactivity

https://svelte.dev/blog/svelte-3-rethinking-reactivity

7 years ago

639 upvotes – 179 comments

TurboTax Uses Dark Patterns to Trick You into Paying to File Your Taxes

https://www.propublica.org/article/turbotax-just-tricked-you-into-paying-to-file-your-taxes

7 years ago

608 upvotes – 274 comments

Beyond Meat S-1

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1655210/000162828019004543/beyondmeats-1a5.htm

7 years ago

477 upvotes – 417 comments

Tesla Live Stream – Autonomy Day [video]

https://livestream.tesla.com/

7 years ago

360 upvotes – 524 comments

Amazon Quits China Market

https://pandaily.com/amazon-quits-china-market-another-u-s-e-commerce-giant-failing-in-china/

7 years ago

339 upvotes – 295 comments

Google Walkout Organizers Say They're Facing Retaliation

https://www.wired.com/story/google-walkout-organizers-say-theyre-facing-retaliation/

7 years ago

333 upvotes – 245 comments

Modern C++ Won't Save Us

https://alexgaynor.net/2019/apr/21/modern-c++-wont-save-us/

7 years ago

326 upvotes – 388 comments

Menstrual Cups Help Keep Kenyan Girls in School

http://www.spiegel.de/international/tomorrow/blood-sisters-menstrual-cups-help-keep-kenyan-girls-in-school-a-1161016.html

7 years ago

300 upvotes – 98 comments

GB Studio – Retro adventure game creator for Game Boy

https://www.gbstudio.dev/

7 years ago

295 upvotes – 29 comments

AJIT, a ‘Made in India’ Microprocessor

https://researchmatters.in/news/welcome-ajit-%E2%80%98made-india%E2%80%99-microprocessor

7 years ago

287 upvotes – 108 comments

A book to learn R and Python in parallel for Data Science

https://github.com/rnorm/book_sample

7 years ago

★ 616 Python
286 upvotes – 88 comments

Why Turning on HTTP/2 Was a Mistake

https://www.lucidchart.com/techblog/2019/04/10/why-turning-on-http2-was-a-mistake/

7 years ago

277 upvotes – 151 comments

Mozilla announces WebAssembly System Interface, what JVM should have been

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/03/29/mozilla_wasi_spec/

7 years ago

259 upvotes – 152 comments

EU votes to create gigantic biometrics database

https://www.zdnet.com/article/eu-votes-to-create-gigantic-biometrics-database/

7 years ago

258 upvotes – 190 comments

Linux Network Queues Overview

https://github.com/leandromoreira/linux-network-performance-parameters

7 years ago

★ 5.7k BSD-3-Clause
250 upvotes – 8 comments

Think You’re Discreet Online? Think Again

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/21/opinion/computational-inference.html

7 years ago

218 upvotes – 133 comments

Rise of the Zombie Deer

https://thecompost.io/archive/rise-of-the-zombie-deer

7 years ago

206 upvotes – 96 comments

Credit cards automatically providing updated card info to subscribing merchants

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/banking-information-shared-with-third-parties-1.5102931

7 years ago

199 upvotes – 137 comments

The Fight to Save Coral (2017)

https://scienceline.org/2017/03/fight-save-coral/

7 years ago

182 upvotes – 50 comments

A Profile of Zoom CEO Eric Yuan

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2019/04/19/zoom-zoom-zoom-the-exclusive-inside-story-of-the-new-billionaire-behind-techs-hottest-ipo

7 years ago

182 upvotes – 109 comments

The global population pyramid

https://ourworldindata.org/global-population-pyramid

7 years ago

176 upvotes – 166 comments

In African Villages, Phones Can Become Ultrasound Scanners

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/15/health/medical-scans-butterfly-iq.html

7 years ago

176 upvotes – 54 comments

Mathematicians are hoarding a type of Japanese chalk (2015)

https://gizmodo.com/why-mathematicians-are-hoarding-this-special-type-of-ja-1711008881

7 years ago

170 upvotes – 123 comments

Downsized dwellings: Inside Tokyo's tiny living spaces

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2019/04/20/lifestyle/tokyos-tiny-living-spaces/

7 years ago

162 upvotes – 156 comments

O(N^2) in CreateProcess

https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2019/04/21/on2-in-createprocess/

7 years ago

154 upvotes – 58 comments

P = NP Proofs: Advice to claimers

https://rjlipton.wordpress.com/2019/04/21/pnp-proofs/

7 years ago

153 upvotes – 156 comments

Fooling surveillance cameras: adversarial patches to attack person detection

https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.08653

7 years ago

148 upvotes – 23 comments

Dear AI startups: Your ML models are dying quietly

https://sanau.co/ML-models-are-dying-quietly

7 years ago

132 upvotes – 39 comments

Things I Enjoy in Rust: Error Handling

https://blog.jonstodle.com/things-i-enjoy-in-rust-error-handling/

7 years ago

118 upvotes – 85 comments

The Predator That Makes Great White Sharks Flee in Fear

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/04/great-white-sharks-flee-killer-whales/587563/

7 years ago

110 upvotes – 69 comments

Defeating Racket’s separate compilation guarantee

https://lexi-lambda.github.io/blog/2019/04/21/defeating-racket-s-separate-compilation-guarantee/

7 years ago

109 upvotes – 5 comments

Changing San Francisco Is Foreseen as a Haven for Wealthy and Childless (1981)

https://www.nytimes.com/1981/06/09/us/changing-san-francisco-is-foreseen-as-a-haven-for-wealthy-and-childless.html

7 years ago

106 upvotes – 109 comments

The Rise and Fall of Internet Art Communities

https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-rise-fall-internet-art-communities

7 years ago

104 upvotes – 52 comments

Buca di Beppo, America’s Most Postmodern Red Sauce Chain

https://www.bonappetit.com/story/bizarre-history-buca-di-beppo

7 years ago

104 upvotes – 82 comments

The Whanganui River in New Zealand is a legal person

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/2019/04/maori-river-in-new-zealand-is-a-legal-person/

7 years ago

103 upvotes – 106 comments

JavaScript debuggers are broken

https://samdesota.com/2019/04/21/javascript-debuggers-are-broken.html

7 years ago

95 upvotes – 118 comments

Show HN: Procedural Character Animation with Machine Learning in Three.js

https://github.com/sneha-belkhale/AI4Animation-js

7 years ago

★ 245 JavaScript
94 upvotes – 27 comments

Agony of an African Programmer (2014)

https://www.iafrikan.com/2014/04/03/agony-of-an-african-programmer/

7 years ago

92 upvotes – 83 comments

The End of Scientific Linux

https://lwn.net/Articles/786422/

7 years ago

91 upvotes – 24 comments

In Venezuela, life has gone from bad to worse. And the world has quit noticing

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-ocanto-venezuela-guaido-maduro-trujillo-radio-20190421-story.html

7 years ago

90 upvotes – 123 comments

The Singular Power of Writing

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-singular-power-of-writing-a-conversation-with-thomas-chatterton-williams/

7 years ago

88 upvotes – 14 comments

Botanists rediscover rare Hawaiian flower thought extinct, thanks to a drone

https://qz.com/1600255/botanists-are-using-drones-to-rediscover-extinct-flowers/

7 years ago

86 upvotes – 13 comments

A telescope fan sabotaged an astronomy forum. He ended up in prison (2018)

https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/10/18131024/ddos-attack-telescope-forum-cfaa-prison

7 years ago

86 upvotes – 56 comments

What can we learn from the matrix.org compromise?

https://medium.com/@tomsparks/what-can-we-learn-from-the-matrix-org-compromise-c6ae06dcaab

7 years ago

84 upvotes – 73 comments
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