top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-05-31

"DigitalOcean Killed Our Company"

https://twitter.com/w3Nicolas/status/1134529316904153089

6 years ago

1343 upvotes – 596 comments

Undervalued Engineering Skills: Writing Well

https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/on-writing-well/

6 years ago

1109 upvotes – 371 comments

Maine passes bill to prevent ISPs from selling browsing data without consent

https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/30/maine-internet-history-data/

6 years ago

1077 upvotes – 224 comments

Show HN: Switch from Medium to your own blog

https://github.com/mathieudutour/medium-to-own-blog

6 years ago

494 upvotes – 130 comments

I Grew Up Gifted, but My Life Didn’t Turn Out the Way I Expected

https://www.cbc.ca/parents/learning/view/i-grew-up-gifted-but-my-life-didnt-turn-out-the-way-i-expected

6 years ago

453 upvotes – 408 comments

Betrayed by an app she had never heard of

https://www.privacyinternational.org/case-study/2997/betrayed-app-she-had-never-heard-how-truecaller-endangering-journalists

6 years ago

442 upvotes – 241 comments

Ask HN: A Good Alternative for ReCaptcha?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20058697

6 years ago

368 upvotes – 199 comments

Scaling to 1M active GraphQL subscriptions on Postgres

https://github.com/hasura/graphql-engine/blob/master/architecture/live-queries.md

6 years ago

353 upvotes – 80 comments

James Webb Space Telescope emerges successfully from final thermal vacuum test

https://phys.org/news/2019-05-james-webb-space-telescope-emerges.html

6 years ago

345 upvotes – 157 comments

Why Was Mini USB Deprecated in Favor of Micro USB?

https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/18552/why-was-mini-usb-deprecated-in-favor-of-micro-usb

6 years ago

292 upvotes – 210 comments

California is cracking down on the gig economy

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/5/30/18642535/california-ab5-misclassify-employees-contractors

6 years ago

264 upvotes – 321 comments

One SQL to Rule Them All: Management of Streams and Tables

https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.12133

6 years ago

260 upvotes – 35 comments

Unity Editor for Linux

https://blogs.unity3d.com/2019/05/30/announcing-the-unity-editor-for-linux/

6 years ago

250 upvotes – 56 comments

Abuses show Assange case was never about law

https://www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2019-05-27/abuses-show-assange-case-was-never-about-law/

6 years ago

246 upvotes – 136 comments

Billions wasted on Hadoop startups, the same will eventually be true of Docker

http://www.smashcompany.com/technology/billions-were-wasted-on-hadoop-startups-and-the-same-will-eventually-be-true-of-docker

6 years ago

227 upvotes – 209 comments

Urql: a GraphQL client library

https://formidable.com/blog/2019/urql-2019/

6 years ago

217 upvotes – 77 comments

Medium pressured freeCodeCamp to put the articles behind the firewall

https://twitter.com/oleg008/status/1134475953470656513

6 years ago

210 upvotes – 66 comments

Space firm founded by billionaire Paul Allen closing operations

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-space-exploration-stratolaunch-exclus/exclusive-space-firm-founded-by-billionaire-paul-allen-closing-operations-sources-idUSKCN1T12FD

6 years ago

198 upvotes – 80 comments

Lisp System Implementation

http://www.t3x.org/lsi/index.html

6 years ago

195 upvotes – 42 comments

Semantic: Parsing, analyzing, and comparing source code across many languages

https://github.com/github/semantic

6 years ago

193 upvotes – 25 comments

Amethyst: Data-driven game engine written in Rust

https://amethyst.rs/

6 years ago

192 upvotes – 35 comments

GM fungus can rapidly kill mosquitoes that spread malaria, study suggests

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-48464510

6 years ago

190 upvotes – 149 comments

Next browser – web browser in Common LISP

https://next.atlas.engineer/

6 years ago

182 upvotes – 49 comments

‘Limbic Capitalism’ Preys on Our Addicted Brains

https://quillette.com/2019/05/31/how-limbic-capitalism-preys-on-our-addicted-brains/

6 years ago

179 upvotes – 85 comments

Eating Jell-O with Chopsticks

https://granolashotgun.com/2019/05/27/eating-jell-o-with-chopsticks/

6 years ago

179 upvotes – 118 comments

UN expert says "collective persecution" of Julian Assange must end

https://ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=24665&LangID=E

6 years ago

175 upvotes – 58 comments

The last Soviet citizen: The cosmonaut who was left behind in space

https://www.rbth.com/history/330415-last-soviet-citizen-cosmonaut

6 years ago

166 upvotes – 14 comments

Google/Oracle’s $9B Copyright Case Could Be Headed for the Supreme Court

https://www.newsweek.com/2019/06/07/google-oracle-copyright-case-supreme-court-1433037.html

6 years ago

162 upvotes – 263 comments

Let’s fix up Notre Dame with concrete and steel, but let the sun shine into it

https://stainedglassattitudes.wordpress.com/2019/05/21/lets-fix-up-notre-dame-with-concrete-and-steel-but-let-the-sun-shine-into-it/

6 years ago

161 upvotes – 114 comments

Another Step Toward the End of Moore’s Law

https://spectrum.ieee.org/semiconductors/devices/another-step-toward-the-end-of-moores-law

6 years ago

148 upvotes – 130 comments

The Collapsing Crime Rates of the ’90s Might Have Been Driven by Cellphones

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/05/how-mobile-phones-could-have-changed-the-drug-game/590503/

6 years ago

147 upvotes – 77 comments

New Social Media Question on DS-160 and DS-260 Visa Applications

http://immigrationgirl.com/new-social-media-question-on-ds-160-and-ds-260-visa-applications/

6 years ago

138 upvotes – 83 comments

Irish Supreme Court Dismisses Facebook’s Complaint on NSA Surveillance [pdf]

https://noyb.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/SC_PA.pdf

6 years ago

135 upvotes – 27 comments

Ways to travel at nearly the speed of light

https://phys.org/news/2019-05-ways.html

6 years ago

134 upvotes – 71 comments

How Plaid Reconciles Pending and Posted Transactions

https://blog.plaid.com/finding-the-right-fit-how-plaid-reconciles-pending-and-posted-transactions/

6 years ago

127 upvotes – 26 comments

Implementing a Convolutional Neural Network Using Only NumPy

https://victorzhou.com/blog/intro-to-cnns-part-2/

6 years ago

126 upvotes – 12 comments

What Is Electricity? (2013)

https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/what-is-electricity/

6 years ago

126 upvotes – 45 comments

Apple Plans End of iTunes

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-31/apple-s-future-ios-13-macos-10-15-watchos-6-tvos-13-mac-pro

6 years ago

119 upvotes – 194 comments

They Fictionalize Nuclear Disasters Like Chernobyl Because They Kill So Few

https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2019/05/09/the-reason-they-fictionalize-nuclear-disasters-like-chernobyl-is-because-they-kill-so-few-people/

6 years ago

117 upvotes – 166 comments

Pilosa: An open source, distributed index

https://www.pilosa.com/docs/latest/data-model/

6 years ago

110 upvotes – 28 comments

Information Security Mental Models

https://chrissanders.org/2019/05/infosec-mental-models/

6 years ago

103 upvotes – 9 comments

Cracking open the black box of automated machine learning

http://news.mit.edu/2019/atmseer-machine-learning-black-box-0531

6 years ago

101 upvotes – 9 comments

Maintainable ETL Practices at Stitchfix

https://multithreaded.stitchfix.com/blog/2019/05/21/maintainable-etls/

6 years ago

99 upvotes – 19 comments

Fallout: Reading Kernel Writes from User Space

https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.12701

6 years ago

98 upvotes – 16 comments

A NY School District Defies State, Plans To Proceed With Facial Recognition Test

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/daveyalba/lockport-school-district-defies-new-york-education

6 years ago

98 upvotes – 57 comments

Instagram influencer with 2M followers fails to sell 36 t-shirts

https://www.iafrikan.com/2019/05/31/an-influencer-with-2-million-followers-fails-to-sell-36-t-shirts/

6 years ago

98 upvotes – 36 comments

Faster Parallel Python Without Python Multiprocessing

https://towardsdatascience.com/10x-faster-parallel-python-without-python-multiprocessing-e5017c93cce1

6 years ago

93 upvotes – 29 comments

Household radar can sense a person’s breathing and heart rate, even emotions

https://spectrum.ieee.org/telecom/wireless/household-radar-can-see-through-walls-and-knows-how-youre-feeling

6 years ago

92 upvotes – 21 comments

PureScript 0.13 Release

https://github.com/purescript/purescript/releases/tag/v0.13.0

6 years ago

90 upvotes – 38 comments

Generating the Mandelbrot Set

https://scionofbytes.me/misc/generating-mandelbrot-fractals/

6 years ago

90 upvotes – 76 comments

Metadata is the biggest little problem plaguing the music industry

https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/29/18531476/music-industry-song-royalties-metadata-credit-problems

6 years ago

89 upvotes – 47 comments

Show HN: Real-Time Video Analytics with Redis

https://github.com/RedisGears/EdgeRealtimeVideoAnalytics

6 years ago

85 upvotes – 7 comments
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