top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-06-01

Justice Department Is Preparing Antitrust Investigation of Google

https://www.wsj.com/articles/justice-department-is-preparing-antitrust-investigation-of-google-11559348795

6 years ago

870 upvotes – 414 comments

Google's PageRank patent has expired

https://patents.google.com/patent/US6285999B1/en

6 years ago

507 upvotes – 220 comments

Boeing Built Deadly Assumptions into 737 Max, Blind to a Late Design Change

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/01/business/boeing-737-max-crash.html

6 years ago

478 upvotes – 270 comments

Ask HN: I need ideas to impress fifth graders with technology

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20069714

6 years ago

473 upvotes – 237 comments

Tokyo proves that housing shortages are a political choice

https://www.citymetric.com/fabric/tokyo-proves-housing-shortages-are-political-choice-4623

6 years ago

363 upvotes – 212 comments

Net worth of Americans aged 18 to 35 has dropped 34 percent since 1996: study

https://thehill.com/policy/finance/446372-net-worth-of-americans-aged-18-to-35-has-dropped-34-percent-since-1996-study

6 years ago

337 upvotes – 295 comments

The XY Problem (2014)

http://xyproblem.info/

6 years ago

319 upvotes – 158 comments

Tips for Writing a Technical Book

https://performancejs.com/post/31b361c/13-Tips-for-Writing-a-Technical-Book

6 years ago

300 upvotes – 67 comments

Tiananmen 30 years on – China's great act of 'forgettance'

https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-china-blog-48455582

6 years ago

283 upvotes – 88 comments

Facebook reportedly argues there's no 'expectation of privacy' on social media

https://www.cnet.com/news/facebook-reportedly-thinks-theres-no-expectation-of-privacy-on-social-media/

6 years ago

269 upvotes – 109 comments

Lack of leadership in open source results in source-available licenses

https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/30/lack-of-leadership-in-open-source-results-in-source-available-licenses/

6 years ago

263 upvotes – 229 comments

Discrete Mathematics and Functional Programming (2016)

https://cs.wheaton.edu/~tvandrun/dmfp/

6 years ago

229 upvotes – 18 comments

Confessions of a Reddit Karma Whore

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/3k359n/confessions-of-a-reddit-karma-whore

6 years ago

225 upvotes – 142 comments

Moscow Publishes Photocopies of Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, Secret Protocols

http://windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2019/06/for-first-time-moscow-publishes.html

6 years ago

223 upvotes – 120 comments

Behavioral Ad Targeting Not Paying Off for Publishers, Study Suggests

https://www.wsj.com/articles/behavioral-ad-targeting-not-paying-off-for-publishers-study-suggests-11559167195

6 years ago

220 upvotes – 75 comments

Alexa shows private Wyze Cam feed to stranger [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQGX4iMGlUI

6 years ago

215 upvotes – 81 comments

A new round of antitrust questions can’t go well for Google

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/google-afraid-very-afraid-121312132.html

6 years ago

210 upvotes – 178 comments

Multiplayer Deck of Cards

https://deck.of.cards

6 years ago

190 upvotes – 73 comments

Stripped-down Kubernetes on the Raspberry Pi

https://blog.alexellis.io/test-drive-k3s-on-raspberry-pi/

6 years ago

171 upvotes – 57 comments

Reinventing the Small Wind Turbine

https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2019/06/small-wooden-wind-turbines.html

6 years ago

167 upvotes – 55 comments

Researchers strapped video cameras on cats and let them do their thing

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/05/researchers-strapped-video-cameras-16-cats-and-let-them-do-their-thing-here-s-what-they

6 years ago

166 upvotes – 60 comments

Whistled Turkish

https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=43016

6 years ago

164 upvotes – 28 comments

Property managers bring in Alexa to manage tenants

https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazons-plan-to-move-in-to-your-next-apartment-before-you-do-11559361605

6 years ago

156 upvotes – 166 comments

Large number of Twitter accounts critical of China suspended

https://twitter.com/YaxueCao/status/1134607732718407680

6 years ago

155 upvotes – 20 comments

The Z3 Theorem Prover

https://github.com/Z3Prover/z3

6 years ago

137 upvotes – 29 comments

Police Post Racist and Violent Messages on Facebook, a Review Shows

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/emilyhoerner/police-facebook-racist-violent-posts-comments-philadelphia

6 years ago

135 upvotes – 63 comments

An examination of Uber’s economics

https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2019/05/ubers-path-of-destruction/

6 years ago

131 upvotes – 72 comments

US newspapers run more photos of school shooting suspects than victims (2018)

https://journalistsresource.org/studies/society/news-media/newspaper-photos-shooting-suspects-victims/

6 years ago

129 upvotes – 105 comments

Is everything we eat associated with cancer? A systematic cookbook review

https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/article/97/1/127/4576988

6 years ago

127 upvotes – 61 comments

Cameras Came to the Newsroom

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/01/opinion/surveillance-cameras-work.html

6 years ago

126 upvotes – 90 comments

WebAssembly on the Server: How System Calls Work

https://christine.website/talks/webassembly-on-the-server-system-calls-2019-05-31

6 years ago

124 upvotes – 50 comments

Teens Define Themselves in Terms of Positive Traits, Adults More by Social Roles

https://digest.bps.org.uk/2019/05/28/teenagers-define-themselves-mostly-in-terms-of-their-traits-adults-more-in-terms-of-their-social-roles

6 years ago

124 upvotes – 32 comments

Childhood Adversity Linked to Earlier Puberty, Premature Brain Development

https://www.pennmedicine.org/news/news-releases/2019/may/childhood-adversity-linked-to-earlier-puberty

6 years ago

120 upvotes – 109 comments

Remembering Murray Gell-Mann

https://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2019/05/remembering-murray-gell-mann-1929-2019-inventor-of-quarks/

6 years ago

117 upvotes – 39 comments

Sunfish: A simple but strong chess engine written in Python

https://github.com/thomasahle/sunfish

6 years ago

112 upvotes – 39 comments

Perl 6's given: switch on steroids

https://tenesianu.blogspot.com/2019/05/perl-6s-given-switch-on-steroids.html

6 years ago

109 upvotes – 64 comments

Imagining Life as a Stack of Mental States

http://onelobotomyplease.com/imagining-life-as-a-stack-of-mental-states/

6 years ago

108 upvotes – 35 comments

A Peer to Peer Voting Algorithm [pdf]

http://vixra.org/pdf/1905.0239v1.pdf

6 years ago

105 upvotes – 57 comments

Carrier Group in Recent UFO Encounters Had New Air Defense Tech

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/28305/carrier-group-in-recent-ufo-encounters-had-new-air-defense-tech-just-like-nimitz-in-2004-incident

6 years ago

94 upvotes – 99 comments
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