top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-07-16

YouTube video has its own URL in it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6L__oR1O9A

7 years ago

DuckDuckGo Expands Use of Apple Maps

https://spreadprivacy.com/duckduckgo-apple-mapkit-js-update/

7 years ago

What every computer science major should know (2011)

http://matt.might.net/articles/what-cs-majors-should-know/

7 years ago

Declined Proposal: A built-in Go error check function, “try”

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/32437#issuecomment-512035919

7 years ago

★ 133.6k Go BSD-3-Clause

Your nines are not my nines

http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2019/07/15/giant/

7 years ago

Ask HN: How to deal with constantly getting cut off in work discussions?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20453248

7 years ago

Show HN: OctoSQL – Query and join multiple databases and files, written in Go

https://github.com/cube2222/octosql

7 years ago

★ 5.2k Go MPL-2.0

Sia – Decentralized cloud storage network

https://blog.sia.tech/meet-sia-the-most-viable-non-financial-application-of-blockchain-technology-afe6e7412a25

7 years ago

Google Protest Leader Leaves

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-16/google-protest-leader-meredith-whittaker-is-leaving-the-company

7 years ago

The helicopter team that films the Tour de France

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2019/07/how-helicopters-bring-us-amazing-views-of-the-tour-de-france/

7 years ago

King – Man + Woman = King?

https://medium.com/p/king-man-woman-king-9a7fd2935a85

7 years ago

Cobol Still Powers the Global Economy

https://www.tpr.org/post/how-cobol-still-powers-global-economy-60-years-old

7 years ago

Going Quiet: More States Are Hiding 911 Recordings

https://www.propublica.org/article/more-states-are-hiding-911-recordings-from-families-lawyers-and-the-general-public

7 years ago

Maps Reveal the Difference in How Cities Are Perceived by Tourists and Locals

https://www.archdaily.com/920002/a-series-of-maps-reveals-the-difference-in-how-cities-are-perceived-by-tourists-and-locals

7 years ago

Owl – OCaml Scientific Computing

http://ocaml.xyz

7 years ago

Inaccurate chart led to unwarranted fears of 5G wireless technology

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/16/science/5g-cellphones-wireless-cancer.html

7 years ago

Apple Plans to Bankroll Original Podcasts to Fend Off Rivals

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-16/apple-plans-to-bankroll-original-podcasts-to-fend-off-rivals

7 years ago

NASA Says Earth Is Greener Today Than 20 Years Ago Thanks to China, India

https://www.forbes.com/sites/trevornace/2019/02/28/nasa-says-earth-is-greener-today-than-20-years-ago-thanks-to-china-india/#15a5334e6e13

7 years ago

Anyone made the jump from MySQL to PostreSQL? It is worth it?

https://old.reddit.com/r/PHP/comments/cdgxxu/anyone_made_the_jump_from_mysql_to_postresql_it/

7 years ago

Lunar Eclipse: An Email to a Daughter and Son-in-Law

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/b-a-s/9rcz9MbC5p8/2Q8txQgGBAAJ

7 years ago

Vugu – Modern UI Library for Go and WebAssembly

https://www.vugu.org/

7 years ago

An interview with Margaret Hamilton

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jul/13/margaret-hamilton-computer-scientist-interview-software-apollo-missions-1969-moon-landing-nasa-women

7 years ago

Tesla employees say they took shortcuts, worked through harsh conditions

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/15/tesla-workers-in-ga4-tent-describe-pressure-to-make-model-3-goals.html

7 years ago

Ask HN: Best way to relearn basic math?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20446796

7 years ago

Apollo 11 50th Anniversary

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_11

7 years ago

Russia’s permafrost is melting and it could have a devastating global effect

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/07/melting-russian-permafrost-could-speed-up-global-warming-devastating-global-effect/

7 years ago

Remove Moving Objects from Video

https://medium.com/syncedreview/magically-remove-moving-objects-from-video-dfc789fe092d

7 years ago

Thiel Urges U.S. Probe of Google's 'Seemingly Treasonous' Acts

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-15/thiel-urges-u-s-probe-of-google-s-seemingly-treasonous-acts

7 years ago

A material way to make Mars habitable

https://www.seas.harvard.edu/news/2019/07/material-way-to-make-mars-habitable

7 years ago

Jeison – An Emacs library for declarative JSON parsing

https://github.com/SavchenkoValeriy/jeison

7 years ago

★ 120 Emacs Lisp GPL-3.0

Effect of High-Dose Vitamin D3 Supplementation on Colorectal Cancer

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2730112

7 years ago

Highlights from Facebook’s Libra Senate hearing

https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/16/libra-in-messenger-whatsapp/

7 years ago

A Quantitative Approach to Product Market Fit

https://tribecap.co/a-quantitative-approach-to-product-market-fit/

7 years ago

Substack

https://a16z.com/2019/07/16/substack/

7 years ago

Wikipedia's robots.txt

https://en.wikipedia.org/robots.txt

7 years ago

Show HN: LessPhone – A minimal Android launcher to reduce phone use

https://lessphone.app

7 years ago

Raspberry Pi 4 Review

https://www.electromaker.io/blog/article/raspberry-pi-4-review-hands-on-with-the-raspberry-pi-4-a-true-raspberry-pi-desktop

7 years ago

Why I’m turning my son into a cyborg

https://qz.com/1650393/transhumanist-parents-are-turning-their-children-into-cyborgs/

7 years ago

My Last Macbook Pro

https://theswiftdev.com/2019/07/16/my-very-last-macbook-pro/

7 years ago

Amazon's Vanishing Cardboard Box

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/07/16/business/amazon-cardboard-box-prime-day/index.html

7 years ago

Amazon offers $10 to Prime Day shoppers who hand over their data

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-amazon-com-prime-day/amazon-offers-10-to-prime-day-shoppers-who-hand-over-their-data-idUSKCN1UB164

7 years ago

Trump signals scrutiny of Google's ties with China after Thiel comments

https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-signals-scrutiny-of-googles-ties-with-china-after-thiel-comments-11563285110?mod=rsswn

7 years ago

We Changed YugaByte DB Licensing to Apache 2.0

https://blog.yugabyte.com/why-we-changed-yugabyte-db-licensing-to-100-open-source/

7 years ago

Italian police raid of neo-fascist militants finds air-to-air missile

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/07/italian-police-raid-of-neo-fascist-militants-finds-air-to-air-missile/

7 years ago

Tesla drops cheapest Model X, S variants, cuts prices to simplify lineup

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tesla-prices/tesla-drops-cheapest-model-x-s-variants-cuts-prices-to-simplify-lineup-idUSKCN1UB055

7 years ago

Unprecedented North Pole Heat Wave in Progress

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/heat-wave-alert-nunavut-1.5212801

7 years ago

Out-of-Place Artifact

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out-of-place_artifact

7 years ago

Deadly Cargo Still Rides the Rails

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/16/world/canada/lac-megantic-quebec-train-explosion.html

7 years ago

Sweet.js – Hygienic Macros for JavaScript

https://www.sweetjs.org/

7 years ago

Pentagon Ordered to Tell Congress If It Weaponized Ticks and Released Them

https://gizmodo.com/pentagon-ordered-to-tell-congress-if-it-weaponized-tick-1836391549

7 years ago

1994 Bolivian earthquake reveals mountains 660 kilometers below our feet

https://www.princeton.edu/news/2019/02/14/massive-1994-bolivian-earthquake-reveals-mountains-660-kilometers-below-our-feet

7 years ago

Tensorflow 2.0 Inference on Google Cloud Functions

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/how-to-serve-deep-learning-models-using-tensorflow-2-0-with-cloud-functions

7 years ago

Owning a Pet Is Good for Well-Being

https://www.psychreg.org/pet-well-being/

7 years ago