top 20 hacker news stories for 2019-05-17

The struggles of an open source maintainer

http://antirez.com/news/129

7 years ago

Aldi, a brutally efficient grocery chain, is upending America's supermarkets

https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2019/05/business/aldi-walmart-low-food-prices/index.html

7 years ago

Walking Away from the Product I Spent a Year Building

https://www.derrickreimer.com/essays/2019/05/17/im-walking-away-from-the-product-i-spent-a-year-building.html

7 years ago

Why play a music CD? No ads, no privacy terrors, no algorithms

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/15/technology/personaltech/music-streaming-cd.html

7 years ago

New Game: Minecraft Earth

https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/new-game--minecraft-earth#

7 years ago

Game Engine Black Books Update

http://fabiensanglard.net/gebb/index.html

7 years ago

Guide to Deep Work

https://doist.com/blog/complete-guide-to-deep-work/

7 years ago

Black – Uncompromising Python code formatter

https://github.com/python/black

7 years ago

★ 41.4k Python MIT

Gmail tracks the history of things you buy, and it’s hard to delete

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/17/google-gmail-tracks-purchase-history-how-to-delete-it.html

7 years ago

Hertz bug leads to people being erroneously arrested and jailed

https://www.thedrive.com/news/27976/people-are-being-arrested-and-jailed-due-to-hertz-erroneously-reporting-rental-cars-stolen-report

7 years ago

Get Your Book, Make It Free

http://www.realtimerendering.com/blog/get-your-book-make-it-free/

7 years ago

Intel vulnerabilities costing 25% CPU performance loss to a cloud provider

https://twitter.com/waxzce/status/1128711501206913028

7 years ago

Security Update

https://stackoverflow.blog/2019/05/16/security-update/

7 years ago

Salesforce enables ‘modify all’ in user profiles

https://www.reddit.com/r/salesforce/comments/bpq336/salesforce_enables_modify_all_in_all_user_profiles/

7 years ago

Genomics – A programmer’s guide

https://gist.github.com/andy-thomason/f304850bdf20d2cd2ecbb042d81b5e54

7 years ago

Hewlett Packard Enterprise to Buy Supercomputer Maker Cray

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cray-m-a-hpe/hewlett-packard-enterprise-to-buy-supercomputer-maker-cray-in-1-30-billion-deal-idUSKCN1SN1CN

7 years ago

As Suicides Rise, Insurers Find Ways to Deny Mental Health Coverage

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-05-16/insurance-covers-mental-health-but-good-luck-using-it

7 years ago

Homeless Population Jumps by Thousands Across the San Francisco Bay Area

https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-northern-california-homeless-count-20190517-story.html

7 years ago

Has the Python GIL Been Slain? Subinterpreters in Python 3.8

https://hackernoon.com/has-the-python-gil-been-slain-9440d28fa93d

7 years ago

Update to Security Incident

https://stackoverflow.blog/2019/05/17/update-to-security-incident-may-17-2019/

7 years ago