top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-08-29

Google just deleted my nearly 10-year-old free and open-source Android app

https://medium.com/@mmathieum/google-just-deleted-my-nearly-10-year-old-free-open-source-android-app-7fbc52edc50a

7 years ago

John Carmack on the Joe Rogan Experience [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udlMSe5-zP8

7 years ago

Apple expands parts access to more independent repair businesses

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/08/apple-offers-customers-even-more-options-for-safe-reliable-repairs/

7 years ago

Software made me loathe my car

https://mikkel.hoegh.org/2019/08/29/how-software-made-me-loathe-my-luxury-car

7 years ago

Is Perl 6 Being Renamed?

http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2019/08/is-perl-6-being-renamed.html

7 years ago

Linux kernel drivers in Rust might become an option in the future

https://lwn.net/Articles/797828/

7 years ago

Flawed Algorithms Are Grading Millions of Students’ Essays

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/pa7dj9/flawed-algorithms-are-grading-millions-of-students-essays

7 years ago

Uber proposes policy that would pay drivers a minimum wage of $21 per hour

https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/28/uber-proposes-policy-that-would-pay-drivers-a-minimum-wage-of-21-per-hour/

7 years ago

Building a Raspberry Pi 3B+ full keyboard handheld

https://0x0f0f0f.github.io/posts/2019/08/building-a-raspberry-pi-3b-full-keyboard-handheld.-part-1/

7 years ago

3.8M-year-old skull of an early ape-like human ancestor discovered in Ethiopia

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-49486980

7 years ago

Wikipedia Is Now a Brave Verified Publisher

https://brave.com/wikipedia-verified-publisher/

7 years ago

Bontrager’s WaveCel material more effective at preventing concussions than MIPS

https://pelotonmagazine.com/gear/bontragers-new-wavecel-bests-mips-at-concussion-prevention/

7 years ago

Thank you, Chris

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2019/08/29/thank-you-chris/

7 years ago

Emacs 26.3

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2019-08/msg00577.html

7 years ago

Microsoft Is Killing ePub Support in Edge Classic

https://www.thurrott.com/cloud/web-browsers/microsoft-edge/213350/microsoft-is-killing-epub-support-in-edge-classic

7 years ago

U.S. Surgeon General’s Advisory: Marijuana Use and the Developing Brain

https://www.hhs.gov/surgeongeneral/reports-and-publications/addiction-and-substance-misuse/advisory-on-marijuana-use-and-developing-brain/index.html

7 years ago

Introduction to Event-Driven Architectures with RabbitMQ

https://blog.theodo.com/2019/08/event-driven-architectures-rabbitmq/

7 years ago

Children of a Thailand tribe who see with clarity beneath the waves (2016)

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160229-the-sea-nomad-children-who-see-like-dolphins

7 years ago

The Mobility Trap: Why We'll Never Fix Congestion by Speeding Up Traffic

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2019/8/28/the-mobility-trap-why-well-never-fix-congestion-by-speeding-up-traffic

7 years ago

A deep dive into Linux namespaces, part 4

http://ifeanyi.co/posts/linux-namespaces-part-4/

7 years ago

Understanding SAT by Implementing a Simple SAT Solver in Python (2014)

https://sahandsaba.com/understanding-sat-by-implementing-a-simple-sat-solver-in-python.html

7 years ago

What we get wrong about meetings, and how to make them worth attending

http://timharford.com/2019/08/what-we-get-wrong-about-meetings-and-how-to-make-them-worth-attending/

7 years ago

A Molecular Near Miss

http://isohedral.ca/a-molecular-near-miss/

7 years ago

How We Manage a Million Push Notifications an Hour

https://blog.gojekengineering.com/how-we-manage-a-million-push-notifications-an-hour-549a1e3ca2c2

7 years ago

Write Fuzzable Code

https://blog.regehr.org/archives/1687

7 years ago

Reasons Not to Use Google (2015)

https://stallman.org/google.html

7 years ago

Show HN: Real world (Jupyter notebook embed) way to assess data scientists

https://www.hackerrank.com/tests/7j6a5mhn6lb/78766bda888f6c08605024290c926550

7 years ago

Live Avatars with face-api.js

https://blog.pragli.com/live-avatars-with-faceapi-js/

7 years ago

Misinterpreting hurricane forecasts

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/29/opinion/hurricane-dorian-forecast-map.html

7 years ago

FileKit: An open source end-to-end encrypted cloud storage service in JavaScript

https://github.com/TankerHQ/sdk-js/tree/master/packages/filekit

7 years ago

★ 799 TypeScript

Show HN: Zepel, a Jira alternative for product teams

https://zepel.io

7 years ago

Tooltips: Secret weapon for improving feature discovery

https://uxdesign.cc/tooltips-your-secret-weapon-for-improving-deature-discovery-e1c380562f2e

7 years ago

Show HN: ShapeForm – Schema Driven Forms for React

https://github.com/TakeShape/shape-form

7 years ago

★ 302 JavaScript MIT

Portugal Tax Authority: Bitcoin Trading and Payments Are Tax-Free

https://cointelegraph.com/news/portugal-tax-authority-bitcoin-trading-and-payments-are-tax-free/

7 years ago

Recap of the `funding` experiment

https://feross.org/funding-experiment-recap/

7 years ago

DDSketch: A fast, fully-mergeable quantile sketch with relative-error guarantees

https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.10693

7 years ago

Scaling Static Analyses at Facebook

https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2019/8/238344-scaling-static-analyses-at-facebook/fulltext

7 years ago

Duty, Democracy and the Threat of Tribalism

https://www.wsj.com/articles/jim-mattis-duty-democracy-and-the-threat-of-tribalism-11566984601?mod=rsswn

7 years ago

A New Algorithm for Controlled Randomness

https://probablydance.com/2019/08/28/a-new-algorithm-for-controlled-randomness/

7 years ago

Growing up in post-communist Romania – thoughts on learning English

https://viorel.me/2019/thoughts-on-learning-english/

7 years ago

Ask HN: What type of restrictions does your employer have on side gigs?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20831105

7 years ago

Universal algorithm set to boost microscopes

https://actu.epfl.ch/news/universal-algorithm-set-to-boost-microscopes/

7 years ago

Robotic thread is designed to slip through the brain's blood vessels

https://techxplore.com/news/2019-08-robotic-thread-brain-blood-vessels.html

7 years ago

“That is either genius, or a seriously diseased mind.” – Linus Torvalds

https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/3/20/845

7 years ago

Deep Reinforcement Learning

https://blog.dominodatalab.com/deep-reinforcement-learning/

7 years ago

SSB Rooms: a new server type for Scuttlebutt

https://www.manyver.se/blog/announcing-ssb-rooms

7 years ago

Why spiky shapes seem angry and round sounds are calming

https://digest.bps.org.uk/2019/08/28/heres-why-spiky-shapes-seem-angry-and-round-sounds-are-calming/

7 years ago