top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-05-06

Launch HN: Prometheus (YC W19) – Remove CO2 from Air and Turn It into Gasoline

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19842240

7 years ago

.NET 5

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/introducing-net-5/

7 years ago

Is Conference Room Air Making Us Dumber?

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/06/health/conference-room-air.html

7 years ago

Up to one million species are on the verge of extinction, U.N. panel says

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2019/05/06/one-million-species-face-extinction-un-panel-says-humans-will-suffer-result/

7 years ago

Windows gets a new terminal

https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/06/windows-gets-a-new-terminal/

7 years ago

Practices for writing high-performance Go

https://github.com/dgryski/go-perfbook

7 years ago

★ 10.8k

Clear is better than clever [pdf]

https://dave.cheney.net/paste/clear-is-better-than-clever.pdf

7 years ago

Rolling your own servers with Kubernetes

https://gravitational.com/blog/aws_vs_colocation/

7 years ago

A final proposal for Rust await syntax

https://boats.gitlab.io/blog/post/await-decision/

7 years ago

Microsoft is going to ship a full Linux kernel in Windows 10

https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/6/18534687/microsoft-windows-10-linux-kernel-feature

7 years ago

Remote-Powered Developer Tools

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/intelligent-productivity-and-collaboration-from-anywhere/

7 years ago

JMAP: A modern, open email protocol

https://www.ietf.org/blog/jmap/

7 years ago

Introducing Windows Terminal

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/introducing-windows-terminal/

7 years ago

Using Altair for most of my visualization in Python

http://fernandoi.cl/blog/posts/altair/

7 years ago

Shipping a Linux Kernel with Windows

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/shipping-a-linux-kernel-with-windows/

7 years ago

Efficient IO with io_uring [pdf]

http://kernel.dk/io_uring.pdf

7 years ago

'One Ring' Phone Scam

https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/one-ring-phone-scam

7 years ago

How I manage customer feedback for my bootstrapped SaaS

https://blog.checklyhq.com/how-i-manage-customer-feedback-for-my-bootstrapped-saas/

7 years ago

Automated Refactoring of a U.S. Department of Defense Mainframe to AWS

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/apn/automated-refactoring-of-a-u-s-department-of-defense-mainframe-to-aws/?mc_cid=f69afe9fe7&mc_eid=1c2ecb2a49

7 years ago

Chinese Spies Got the NSA’s Hacking Tools, and Used Them for Attacks

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/06/us/politics/china-hacking-cyber.html

7 years ago

Microsoft Launches React Native for Windows

https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/06/microsoft-launches-react-native-for-windows/

7 years ago

Tetris clone written in Zig running on WebGL and WebAssembly

https://raulgrell.github.io/tetris/

7 years ago

A Psychedelic Renaissance

https://www.philanthropy.com/article/With-Government-Skittish-About/246170?key=GCZRFFWJmdWfHIIYJmst8JP0M4DTMThB3J8gWMr73DvMQUzdvlnIckIeopOfeeXEQzk0Y0xhRF9fcWRWUGIyYTctTklFRXFZdTRyRVA1aFUwbGdhN0hPUk9tOA

7 years ago

Statistical Modeling: The Two Cultures (2001) [pdf]

https://projecteuclid.org/download/pdf_1/euclid.ss/1009213726

7 years ago

Epic Games is killing Linux support for games and software it acquired

https://twitter.com/taciturasa/status/1125157955895164930

7 years ago

Uses This: Joe Armstrong

https://usesthis.com/interviews/joe.armstrong/

7 years ago

Denver voters consider next frontier in decriminalizing drugs: magic mushrooms

https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-denver-magic-mushrooms-20190506-story.html

7 years ago

South Korea's booming 'webtoons'

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/05/business/tech/south-koreas-booming-webtoons-put-japans-print-manga-notice/

7 years ago

Lithium-ion batteries from Amazon are exploding

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/04/lithium-ion-batteries-amazon-are-exploding/587005/

7 years ago

Browser Fingerprinting: A Survey

https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.01051

7 years ago

From Dead Code to Company: The FullCalendar JavaScript Lib Turns 10

https://fullcalendar.io/blog/2019/05/fullcalendar-turns-10

7 years ago

Show HN: Nextjournal – seamless data science for teams

https://nextjournal.com

7 years ago

Protecting democratic elections through secure, verifiable voting

https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2019/05/06/protecting-democratic-elections-through-secure-verifiable-voting/

7 years ago

How C array sizes become part of the binary interface of a library

https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2019/05/06/how-c-array-sizes-become-part-of-the-binary-interface-of-a-library/

7 years ago

How Idle Heroes Made $100M in a Year

https://www.deconstructoroffun.com/blog/2018/2/27/u6ap146ff5rkmm7fj1qzuhggp395l4

7 years ago

Momo-3 is Japan's first private rocket to reach space

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/04/business/tech/momo-3-becomes-first-privately-developed-japanese-rocket-reach-outer-space/#.XM-C3BYpDYU

7 years ago

Microsoft Is Building Internet Explorer into Its New Chromium Edge

https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/6/18527875/microsoft-chromium-edge-new-features-build-2019

7 years ago

Microsoft Solitaire Inducted into World Video Game Hall of Fame

https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/6/18530946/microsoft-solitaire-world-video-game-hall-of-fame

7 years ago

Banks Look Safer with Deposits

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-05-06/banks-look-safer-with-deposits

7 years ago

Modeling Adversaries with TLA+

https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/adversaries/

7 years ago

Who to Sue When a Robot Loses Your Fortune

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-06/who-to-sue-when-a-robot-loses-your-fortune

7 years ago

Taking care of the elderly in Silicon Valley – a personal story

https://venturebeat.com/2019/05/03/taking-care-of-the-elderly-in-silicon-valley-a-personal-story/

7 years ago

Understanding Bloom Filters with Pharo

https://osoco.es/thoughts/2019/05/understanding-bloom-filters-with-pharo-smalltalk/

7 years ago

Reycling Plastic from the Inside Out

https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2019/05/06/recycling-plastic-from-the-inside-out/

7 years ago

Intel XED – x86 Encoder Decoder

https://intelxed.github.io/

7 years ago

Tertill Weeding Robot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwTWhMbnq9g

7 years ago

Optimizing Magic Pocket for cold storage

https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech/2019/05/how-we-optimized-magic-pocket-for-cold-storage/

7 years ago

A small town, a chemical plant and the residents' desperate fight for clear air

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2019/may/06/cancertown-louisana-reserve-special-report

7 years ago

Show HN: Talk to Transformer – Generate Text with OpenAI's Latest GPT-2 Model

https://talktotransformer.com/

7 years ago

The 'Future Book' Is Here, but It's Not What We Expected (2018)

https://www.wired.com/story/future-book-is-here-but-not-what-we-expected/

7 years ago

Guido blames social media for his decision to abandon the supervision of Python

https://www.revyuh.com/2019/05/guido-blames-social-media-in-part-for-his-decision-to-abandon-the-supervision-of-python/

7 years ago

Amazon can already ship to 72% of US population in a day, map shows

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/05/amazon-can-already-ship-to-72percent-of-us-population-in-a-day-map-shows.html

7 years ago

Ticketing App AXS Scrapes Everything It Can Get from Your Phone (2018)

https://theoutline.com/post/5628/how-a-concert-ticket-steals-your-personal-data

7 years ago

Hyper 3.0.0

https://github.com/zeit/hyper/releases/tag/3.0.0

7 years ago

★ 44.5k TypeScript MIT

Microsoft launches Visual Studio Online, an online code editor

https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/06/microsoft-launches-visual-studio-online-an-online-code-editor/

7 years ago

Google terminated my developer account and started a competing business

https://medium.com/@pekkasipila/google-terminated-my-developer-account-and-started-a-competing-business-a-case-for-app-neutrality-570750c8a8f

7 years ago