top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-04-25

MuseNet

https://openai.com/blog/musenet/

7 years ago

Crypto Market Roiled by New Allegations Against Tether, Bitfinex

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-25/bitfinex-operator-accused-by-new-york-of-850-million-coverup?utm_source=google&utm_medium=bd&cmpId=google

7 years ago

Amazon Has Gone from Neutral Platform to Cutthroat Competitor: Open Source Devs

https://onezero.medium.com/open-source-betrayed-industry-leaders-accuse-amazon-of-playing-a-rigged-game-with-aws-67177bc748b7?gi=356d74c0b36e

7 years ago

A Recipe for Training Neural Networks

https://karpathy.github.io/2019/04/25/recipe/

7 years ago

People Who Claim to Work 75-Hour Weeks Usually Only Work About 50 Hours

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/04/people-who-claim-to-work-75-hour-weeks-are-lying.html

7 years ago

Flutter desktop shells

https://github.com/flutter/flutter/wiki/Desktop-shells

7 years ago

★ 176.1k Dart BSD-3-Clause

Bullshitters: Who Are They and What Do We Know about Their Lives? [pdf]

http://ftp.iza.org/dp12282.pdf

7 years ago

How to hide from the AI surveillance state with a color printout

https://www.technologyreview.com/f/613409/how-to-hide-from-the-ai-surveillance-state-with-a-color-printout/

7 years ago

Could ImGUI Be the Future of GUIs?

https://games.greggman.com/game/imgui-future/

7 years ago

Stepping Away from Sass

https://cathydutton.co.uk/posts/why-i-stopped-using-sass/

7 years ago

Speedgate: World’s First Sport Generated by AI

https://news.developer.nvidia.com/speedgate-worlds-first-sport-generated-by-ai

7 years ago

Ask HN: Has there been any academic research into software interviewing?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19747821

7 years ago

Gitlab 11.10 Released

https://about.gitlab.com/2019/04/22/gitlab-11-10-released/

7 years ago

ProtonMail now offers elliptic curve cryptography

https://protonmail.com/blog/elliptic-curve-cryptography/

7 years ago

Setting Up an Ad-Blocking VPN with WireGuard and Pihole

https://drexl.me/guides/wireguard-pihole-vpn-setup.html

7 years ago

Antarctica: Thousands of emperor penguin chicks died in 2016 weather event

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-48041487

7 years ago

Immediate Mode GUI

http://behindthepixels.io/IMGUI/

7 years ago

Chinese Number Websites: The Secret Meaning of URLs (2014)

https://newrepublic.com/article/117608/chinese-number-websites-secret-meaning-urls

7 years ago

Lisp Operating System (2015)

http://metamodular.com/Common-Lisp/lispos.html

7 years ago

Cross-Platform GUI Toolkit Trainwreck (2016)

https://blog.johnnovak.net/2016/05/29/cross-platform-gui-trainwreck-2016-edition/

7 years ago

In England, rhubarb is grown by candlelight

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20190424-the-english-vegetable-picked-by-candlelight

7 years ago

Behind the Yakuza: documenting the women of Japan’s mafia (2018)

https://www.dazeddigital.com/art-photography/article/40877/1/chloe-jafe-i-give-you-my-life-yakuza-documenting-women-japans-mafia

7 years ago

Hacker Finds He Can Remotely Kill Car Engines After Breaking into GPS Tracking

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/zmpx4x/hacker-monitor-cars-kill-engine-gps-tracking-apps

7 years ago

U.S. Navy drafting new guidelines for reporting UFOs

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/04/23/us-navy-guidelines-reporting-ufos-1375290

7 years ago

Why the Flow of Time Is an Illusion

http://nautil.us/issue/71/flow/why-the-flow-of-time-is-an-illusion

7 years ago

Who Killed Lard? (2012)

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2012/02/03/146356117/who-killed-lard

7 years ago

Android updates are getting slower and slower, despite Google's best efforts

https://unlikekinds.com/article/android-updates-are-getting-slower-and-slower-despite-googles-best-efforts

7 years ago

KaiOS takes on the Apple-Android mobile duopoly

https://www.economist.com/business/2019/04/27/kaios-takes-on-the-apple-android-mobile-duopoly

7 years ago

WebAssembly Troubles Part 4: Microwasm

http://troubles.md/posts/microwasm/

7 years ago

Show HN: Quinesnake – A quine that plays snake over its own source

https://github.com/taylorconor/quinesnake

7 years ago

★ 925 C++ Apache-2.0

VPN services blocked in Sri Lanka as information controls tighten

https://netblocks.org/reports/vpn-services-blocked-in-sri-lanka-as-information-controls-tighten-RAe2blBg

7 years ago

Psychology of Human Misjudgment

https://neilkakkar.com/Psychology-of-Human-Misjudgment.html

7 years ago

AI-powered laundry-folding robot company has filed for bankruptcy

https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/23/18512529/laundroid-laundry-folding-robot-seven-dreamers-bankrupt-ces

7 years ago

Checking Email Less Often Leads to More Productive Workdays

https://www.studyfinds.org/study-checking-email-less-often-more-productive-workday-managers/

7 years ago

How healthy is the internet?

https://internethealthreport.org/2019/

7 years ago

Unseen Clockwork Orange 'Follow-Up' by Anthony Burgess Unearthed

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-48036694

7 years ago

Americans Are Among the Most Stressed People in the World, Poll Finds

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/25/us/americans-stressful.html

7 years ago

Potato farmers cry foul as PepsiCo sues them

https://www.thehindu.com/business/Industry/potato-farmers-cry-foul-as-pepsico-sues-them/article26936480.ece?homepage=true

7 years ago

AWS Web Console Down?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19749781

7 years ago

Chimpanzee Browsing Instagram on iPhone with Precision

https://9to5mac.com/2019/04/25/chimpanzee-using-instagram-iphone/

7 years ago

An anatomy of a modern hit job

https://www.spectator.co.uk/2019/04/the-scruton-tapes-an-anatomy-of-a-modern-hit-job/

7 years ago

SaaS vs. Open Core Software: An Introduction

https://gravitational.com/blog/open-core-vs-saas-intro/

7 years ago

Ask HN: Do Udacity nanodegrees get anyone a job without academic background?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19749717

7 years ago

3M to cut 2K jobs globally, lowers 2019 profit outlook

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-3m-results/3m-to-cut-2000-jobs-globally-lowers-2019-profit-outlook-idUSKCN1S11EI

7 years ago

Programming language ray tracing benchmarks project

https://github.com/niofis/raybench

7 years ago

★ 96 Rust

Revolut is at risk of losing its European banking licenses

https://www.siliconrepublic.com/companies/revolut-kremlin-lithuania-banking-license

7 years ago

Non-Photorealistic Rendering Using a Painting Robot [pdf]

http://graphics.uni-konstanz.de/publikationen/Lindemeier2015HardwareBasedNon/Lindemeier2015HardwareBasedNon.pdf

7 years ago

Photography and racial bias

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/25/lens/sarah-lewis-racial-bias-photography.html

7 years ago

Disembodied pig brains revived: Your questions answered

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01289-1

7 years ago

A crowd-sourced social media swarm that is betting Tesla will crash

https://www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-hy-tesla-short-sellers-musk-20190408-story.html

7 years ago

Propose HN: 'Countless' experiment – hiding all karmic integers

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19745267

7 years ago

US Uber drivers plan 12-hour shutdown over pay and conditions

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-48051646

7 years ago

A Man Who’s Going to Save Your Neighborhood Grocery Store

https://longreads.com/2019/04/23/the-man-whos-going-to-save-your-grocery-store/

7 years ago

Implementing tile encoding in rav1e

https://blog.rom1v.com/2019/04/implementing-tile-encoding-in-rav1e/

7 years ago

Ask HN: How to get this fraudulent copy of our website shut down?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19744741

7 years ago

A Mother-Son Duo Translating Astrophysics Into Blackfoot

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/translating-astrophysics-into-blackfoot

7 years ago

Show HN: My first open-source project release – RandomJson

https://github.com/mangatmodi/RandomJson

7 years ago

★ 74 Kotlin MIT