top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-04-29

Ask HN: Are you put off building something because it already exists?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19774997

7 years ago

1046 upvotes – 292 comments

Topics in Advanced Data Structures [pdf]

http://web.stanford.edu/class/cs166/handouts/100%20Suggested%20Final%20Project%20Topics.pdf

7 years ago

931 upvotes – 83 comments

SpaceX Gets FCC Approval to Sell Wireless High-Speed Home Internet from Space

https://www.cordcuttersnews.com/spacex-gets-fcc-approval-to-sell-wireless-high-speed-home-internet-from-space/

7 years ago

797 upvotes – 524 comments

Belgian programmer solves MIT’s 20-year-old time capsule cryptographic puzzle

https://www.csail.mit.edu/news/belgian-programmer-solves-mits-20-year-old-cryptographic-puzzle

7 years ago

698 upvotes – 118 comments

I Can’t Answer Standardized Test Questions About My Own Poems (2017)

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/standardized-tests-are-so-bad-i-cant-answer-these_b_586d5517e4b0c3539e80c341

7 years ago

617 upvotes – 443 comments

Ask HN: How do you stay disciplined in the long run?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19777976

7 years ago

537 upvotes – 171 comments

Apache Software Foundation joins GitHub open source community

https://github.blog/2019-04-29-apache-joins-github-community/

7 years ago

476 upvotes – 244 comments

Jenkins Is Getting Old

https://itnext.io/jenkins-is-getting-old-2c98b3422f79

7 years ago

461 upvotes – 328 comments

WeWork Files for IPO

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/29/business/dealbook/wework-ipo-filing.html

7 years ago

299 upvotes – 310 comments

Unauthorized access to Docker Hub database

https://success.docker.com/article/docker-hub-user-notification

7 years ago

296 upvotes – 62 comments

People Are Clamoring to Buy Old Insulin Pumps

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/04/looping-created-insulin-pump-underground-market/588091/

7 years ago

295 upvotes – 152 comments

Burger King is rolling out meatless Impossible Whoppers nationwide

https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/29/18522637/burger-king-impossible-whopper-nationwide-rollout-meatless-vegetarian

7 years ago

290 upvotes – 357 comments

Giving up on wlroots-rs

http://way-cooler.org/blog/2019/04/29/rewriting-way-cooler-in-c.html

7 years ago

283 upvotes – 124 comments

Tsinghua law professor who criticized Xi Jinping barred from leaving China

https://www.inkstonenews.com/politics/law-professor-xu-zhangrun-barred-leaving-china/article/3008103

7 years ago

267 upvotes – 50 comments

Show HN: Stretch – A high-performance cross-platform layout engine in Rust

https://vislyhq.github.io/stretch/

7 years ago

213 upvotes – 58 comments

Google Staffers Share Stories of ‘Systemic’ Retaliation

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-26/google-staffers-share-350-stories-of-systemic-retaliation

7 years ago

212 upvotes – 226 comments

Insurers Know How Often American Drivers Touch Their Phones

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-29/insurers-know-exactly-how-often-american-drivers-touch-their-phones

7 years ago

202 upvotes – 280 comments

Indie Game Removed from Switch After Dev Reveals It Has a Hidden Code Editor

http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2019/04/indie_game_removed_from_switch_eshop_after_dev_reveals_it_contains_a_hidden_code_editor

7 years ago

199 upvotes – 175 comments

Are the dead taking over Facebook?

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2053951719842540

7 years ago

191 upvotes – 148 comments

Indonesia Plans to Move Its Capital Out of Jakarta, a City That's Sinking

https://www.npr.org/2019/04/29/718234878/indonesia-plans-to-move-its-capital-out-of-jakarta-a-city-thats-sinking

7 years ago

188 upvotes – 57 comments

Mail a Letter Online

http://www.mailaletter.com/

7 years ago

179 upvotes – 110 comments

How Many Type Parameters Can a Java Method Have?

http://justinblank.com/experiments/howmanytypeparameterscanajavamethodhave.html

7 years ago

174 upvotes – 46 comments

Gravitational Wormhole: WireGuard for Kubernetes

https://gravitational.com/blog/announcing_wormhole/

7 years ago

170 upvotes – 31 comments

Go 1.13: xerrors

https://crawshaw.io/blog/xerrors

7 years ago

157 upvotes – 145 comments

The Paris Compressed-Air Power Network (2018)

http://www.douglas-self.com/MUSEUM/POWER/airnetwork/airnetwork.htm

7 years ago

157 upvotes – 35 comments

Hundred-Tonne Robots That Help Keep New Zealand Running [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQ8WI3nc1l0

7 years ago

155 upvotes – 39 comments

An algorithm wipes clean the criminal pasts of thousands

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-48072164

7 years ago

152 upvotes – 54 comments

The Life of a Cherry Drying Pilot (2009)

https://www.aneclecticmind.com/2009/06/13/the-life-of-a-cherry-drying-pilot/

7 years ago

147 upvotes – 96 comments

Launch HN: Trexo Robotics (YC W19) – Robotic Legs for Kids with Cerebral Palsy

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19780127

7 years ago

132 upvotes – 22 comments

Thoughts on macOS Package Managers

https://saagarjha.com/blog/2019/04/26/thoughts-on-macos-package-managers/

7 years ago

124 upvotes – 91 comments

Software, the Tough Tomato Principle, and the Great Weirdening of the World

https://florentcrivello.com/index.php/2019/04/29/software-the-tough-tomato-principle-and-the-great-weirdening-of-the-world/

7 years ago

122 upvotes – 28 comments

$35 Atomic Pi Cherry Trail Linux SBC

https://www.cnx-software.com/2019/04/26/buy-atomic-pi-cherry-trail-sbc/

7 years ago

117 upvotes – 85 comments

The Amiga Before the Amiga: The Amiga Development System

https://amigalove.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=1031

7 years ago

116 upvotes – 18 comments

Show HN: My interview with patio11 and other profitable side project hackers

http://www.sideprojectbook.com

7 years ago

115 upvotes – 19 comments

In its fight to keep drug prices high, big pharma leans on charities

https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-drug-prices-charity-20190429-story.html

7 years ago

111 upvotes – 93 comments

Motion Estimation with Optical Flow

https://blog.nanonets.com/optical-flow/

7 years ago

101 upvotes – 22 comments

Pprint: Pretty Printer for Modern C++

https://github.com/p-ranav/pprint

7 years ago

★ 935 C++ MIT
100 upvotes – 35 comments

Ask HN: How to deal with a senior colleague who acts like he's boss?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19776335

7 years ago

97 upvotes – 119 comments

Getting to Know Python 3.7- Data Classes, Async-Await and More

https://blog.heroku.com/python37-dataclasses-async-await

7 years ago

95 upvotes – 13 comments

How category theory is applied

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2019/04/29/how-category-theory-is-applied/

7 years ago

94 upvotes – 19 comments

The Evolution of Disk Storage and an Introduction to NVMe

https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/data-flash-part-i-evolution-disk-storage-and-introduction-nvme

7 years ago

92 upvotes – 36 comments

Boeing waited until after Lion Air crash to tell Southwest safety alert was off

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/28/boeing-didnt-tell-southwest-that-safety-feature-on-737-max-was-turned-off-wsj.html

7 years ago

91 upvotes – 64 comments

HyperCard Stack: Douglas Adams' Megapode Nest Volume Calculator (1991)

https://archive.org/details/DouglasAdamsMegapode

7 years ago

89 upvotes – 19 comments

Show HN: A game I made in 48 hours

https://joemanaco.itch.io/timezone

7 years ago

85 upvotes – 61 comments

Alphabet Announces First Quarter 2019 Results

https://abc.xyz/investor/static/pdf/2019Q1_alphabet_earnings_release.pdf?cache=8ac2b86

7 years ago

84 upvotes – 40 comments

I Merged My One-Person Software Company with a Bigger Player (2018)

https://philderksen.com/why-i-merged/

7 years ago

82 upvotes – 30 comments

Valitor Sentenced to Pay 1.2B ISK over Wikileaks Payment Block

https://grapevine.is/news/2019/04/25/valitor-sentenced-to-pay-1-2-billion-isk-over-wikileaks-payment-block/

7 years ago

81 upvotes – 10 comments

Tell HN: Hours left to protest ICANN's plan to uncap prices of legacy TLDs

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19777869

7 years ago

80 upvotes – 9 comments

Old emotions remain salient in insomnia disorder

https://academic.oup.com/brain/advance-article/doi/10.1093/brain/awz089/5477778

7 years ago

79 upvotes – 21 comments

Show HN: Python virtual environment, but backed by Docker

https://github.com/se7entyse7en/pydockenv

7 years ago

★ 475 Go Apache-2.0
78 upvotes – 24 comments
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