top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-05-11

Adults learn language to fluency nearly as well as children: study

https://medium.com/@chacon/mit-scientists-prove-adults-learn-language-to-fluency-nearly-as-well-as-children-1de888d1d45f

7 years ago

Show HN: I replaced Google Analytics with simple log-based analytics

https://benhoyt.com/writings/replacing-google-analytics/

7 years ago

Twilio Super SIM

https://www.twilio.com/wireless/super-sim

7 years ago

Pilotwings demos act differently depending on when the cartridge was made

https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1126996260026605568

7 years ago

Why CRDT didn't work out as well for collaborative editing xi-editor

https://github.com/xi-editor/xi-editor/issues/1187#issuecomment-491473599

7 years ago

★ 19.8k Rust Apache-2.0

Boeing altered key switches in 737 MAX cockpit limiting ability to shut off MCAS

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/boeing-altered-key-switches-in-737-max-cockpit-limiting-ability-to-shut-off-mcas/

7 years ago

What I gained, lost and learned while working for Microsoft

https://medium.com/@alicjaes/saying-goodbye-to-microsoft-bb5db8662656

7 years ago

Show HN: Python Machine Learning – A Crash Course

https://github.com/machinelearningmindset/machine-learning-course

7 years ago

★ 7k Python

Calculus with Julia

https://calculuswithjulia.github.io/

7 years ago

The Feynman Lectures on Physics now free

http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/

7 years ago

To reinvent the processor

https://medium.com/@veedrac/to-reinvent-the-processor-671139a4a034

7 years ago

A city for the rich, built poorly: The construction of Hudson Yards

https://www.villagespoke.com/2019/05/03/a-city-for-the-rich-built-poorly-the-construction-of-hudson-yards/

7 years ago

Google Creates 'Dedicated Placement' in Search Results for AMP Stories

https://venturebeat.com/2019/05/09/google-creates-dedicated-placement-in-search-results-for-amp-stories-starting-with-travel-category/

7 years ago

Show HN: Person Identification by Keyboard Typing

https://gradtype.darksi.de/

7 years ago

Surprising Bash Variables

https://zwischenzugs.com/2019/05/11/seven-surprising-bash-variables/

7 years ago

GraalVM 19.0

https://www.graalvm.org/docs/release-notes/#1900

7 years ago

Books and lectures don't work

https://andymatuschak.org/books/

7 years ago

Oracle Wallet Master Key Lost

https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/bn38pp/oracle_wallet_master_key_lost/

7 years ago

What It's Like to Work on Ultra-Violent Games Like Mortal Kombat

https://www.kotaku.com.au/2019/05/id-have-these-extremely-graphic-dreams-what-its-like-to-work-on-ultra-violent-games-like-mortal-kombat-11/

7 years ago

Shenandoah GC in production: experience report

http://clojure-goes-fast.com/blog/shenandoah-in-production/

7 years ago

Apple Is Giving Design A Bad Name (2015)

https://www.fastcompany.com/3053406/how-apple-is-giving-design-a-bad-name

7 years ago

Simple KVM Firmware in Rust

https://github.com/intel/rust-hypervisor-firmware

7 years ago

★ 660 Rust Apache-2.0

Scientific Errors in Nat Geo Milky Way Photos

https://petapixel.com/2019/05/10/scientific-errors-in-those-nat-geo-milky-way-photos/

7 years ago

Adventures in WhatsApp DB – extracting messages from backups, with code examples

https://medium.com/@1522933668924/extracting-whatsapp-messages-from-backups-with-code-examples-49186de94ab4

7 years ago

Windows Implementation Libraries: type-safe C++ interfaces for Windows patterns

https://github.com/Microsoft/wil

7 years ago

★ 2.9k C++ MIT

The Empty Promise of Data Moats

https://a16z.com/2019/05/09/data-network-effects-moats/

7 years ago

Is Noise Pollution the Next Big Public-Health Crisis?

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/05/13/is-noise-pollution-the-next-big-public-health-crisis

7 years ago

Schoolgirls who defied the Stasi

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/may/11/schoolgirls-defied-the-stasi-across-the-border

7 years ago

The Peculiar Blindness of Experts

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/06/how-to-predict-the-future/588040/

7 years ago

Adobe tells users of old Premiere versions that they are not allowed to use them

https://twitter.com/ashleylynch/status/1126899335419981824

7 years ago

India orders anti-trust probe of Google for alleged Android abuse

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-google-india-antitrust-exclusive/exclusive-india-orders-anti-trust-probe-of-google-for-alleged-android-abuse-sources-idUSKCN1SG17O

7 years ago

Blow up: how half a tonne of cocaine transformed the life of an island

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/may/10/blow-up-how-half-a-tonne-of-cocaine-transformed-the-life-of-an-island

7 years ago

Interior Mapping: rendering real rooms without geometry (2018)

https://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/JoostVanDongen/20180925/327159/Interior_Mapping_rendering_real_rooms_without_geometry.php

7 years ago

Mothers Are the Unsung Heroes of Prison

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2019/05/09/why-mothers-are-the-unsung-heroes-of-prison

7 years ago

Japanese railway company starts testing 249mph bullet train speeds

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2019/05/japanese-railway-company-starts-testing-249mph-bullet-train-speeds/

7 years ago

Swift for Tensorflow 0.3.1

https://groups.google.com/a/tensorflow.org/forum/m/?pli=1#!topic/swift/S6KyX1szLuY

7 years ago

Humane by Design

https://humanebydesign.com/

7 years ago

GitLab Strategy

https://about.gitlab.com/company/strategy/

7 years ago

How Hot Chicken Happened

https://bittersoutherner.com/how-hot-chicken-really-happened

7 years ago

Markov Chain Text Generation

https://blog.demofox.org/2019/05/11/markov-chain-text-generation/

7 years ago

A new camera can photograph from 45 kilometers away

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/613457/a-new-camera-can-photograph-you-from-45-kilometers-away/

7 years ago

OCaPIC: PIC microcontrollers programmed in OCaml

http://www.algo-prog.info/ocapic/web/

7 years ago

Helium Shortage Is Hurting Parties and the Pharma Industry

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-11/helium-shortage-is-hurting-parties-and-the-pharma-industry

7 years ago

Why what we think we know about schizophrenia is wrong

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/may/11/nathan-filer-schizophrenia

7 years ago