top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-09-13

Get Started Making Music

https://learningmusic.ableton.com/

7 years ago

Estimates that mineral levels in vegetables have dropped by up to 90% since 1914

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6163803/

7 years ago

Color Emulation

https://byuu.net/video/color-emulation

7 years ago

Medical equipment pricing is completely broken when a sling costs $200

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2019-09-12/medical-equipment-pricing

7 years ago

MoviePass will shut down for good on Sept. 14

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/13/moviepass-will-shut-down-for-good-on-sept-14.html

7 years ago

BLUF: A military standard to make writing more powerful

https://www.animalz.co/blog/bottom-line-up-front/

7 years ago

The SR-71's predecessor used cesium-laced fuel to create radar-absorbing exhaust

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/29787/the-sr-71-blackbirds-predecessor-created-plasma-stealth-by-burning-cesium-laced-fuel

7 years ago

Algorithm No One Knows About (2016)

https://getkerf.wordpress.com/2016/03/30/the-best-algorithm-no-one-knows-about/

7 years ago

Interview with Edward Snowden

https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/interview-with-edward-snowden-about-his-story-a-1286605.html

7 years ago

Toyota is trying to put solar panels on a Prius to charge battery during the day

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-12/a-car-running-on-empty-isn-t-impossible-if-toyota-gets-its-way

7 years ago

Our Brains Are Not Multi-Threaded

http://www.calnewport.com/blog/2019/09/10/our-brains-are-not-multi-threaded/

7 years ago

The Myth of the Wealthy Welder

https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2019/09/welding-doesnt-pay-as-well-as-republicans-think/597733/

7 years ago

Hundreds of dogs in Norway hit by mystery illness

https://www.mattilsynet.no/language/english/serious_illness_in_dogs.36035

7 years ago

DevOps didn’t exist when I started as a developer

https://circleci.com/blog/devops-did-not-exist/

7 years ago

Carcinogens Have Infiltrated the Generic Drug Supply in the U.S.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-09-12/how-carcinogen-tainted-generic-drug-valsartan-got-past-the-fda

7 years ago

Shopify Overtakes eBay as Second Biggest Shopping Site After Amazon

https://observer.com/2019/09/shopify-ebay-amazon-ecommerce-growth/

7 years ago

The grandmaster diet: How to lose weight while barely moving

https://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/id/27593253/why-grandmasters-magnus-carlsen-fabiano-caruana-lose-weight-playing-chess

7 years ago

Absolute Scale Corrupts Absolutely

https://apenwarr.ca/log/20190819

7 years ago

Types for Python HTTP APIs

https://instagram-engineering.com/types-for-python-http-apis-an-instagram-story-d3c3a207fdb7

7 years ago

Don't build growth teams

https://conversionxl.com/blog/dont-build-growth-teams/

7 years ago

Billiards Is a Good Game (1975)

https://mag.uchicago.edu/billiards

7 years ago

New York Uncovers $1B in Sackler Family Wire Transfers

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/13/health/sacklers-purdue-opioids.html

7 years ago

WeWork considers IPO valuation of as low as $10B

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-wework-ipo-valuation-exclusive/exclusive-wework-considers-ipo-valuation-of-as-low-as-10-billion-sources-idUSKCN1VY1PB

7 years ago

Google to pay $1B in France to settle fiscal fraud probe

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-tech-google-tax/google-agrees-to-550-million-fine-in-france-to-settle-fiscal-fraud-probe-idUSKCN1VX1SM

7 years ago

U.S. to leave global postal union next month barring last-minute action

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/us-to-leave-global-postal-union-next-month

7 years ago

If you have something important to say, don't say it in a paywalled publication

https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1172434260176732161

7 years ago

Elevating original reporting in Search

https://www.blog.google/products/search/original-reporting/

7 years ago

Simple SFTP Hosting

https://rsync.net/products/sftp.html

7 years ago

Alabama tracking students' locations to penalize them for leaving games early

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/12/sports/alabama-tracking-app.html

7 years ago

The ancient world teemed with birds

https://aeon.co/essays/the-ancient-world-teemed-with-birds-now-we-think-with-them

7 years ago

Positional Scarcity

https://alexdanco.com/2019/09/07/positional-scarcity/

7 years ago

A Game That Made Rats Jump for Joy

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/09/why-scientists-taught-rats-play-hide-and-seek/597799/

7 years ago

Cabin releases 2nd-gen fleet of sleeper bus from SF to LA and back

https://www.ridecabin.com/product

7 years ago

Another heavily-funded AR headset startup is shutting down

https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/12/another-high-flying-heavily-funded-ar-headset-startup-is-shutting-down/

7 years ago

The history and legacy of jQuery

https://blog.logrocket.com/the-history-and-legacy-of-jquery/

7 years ago

Commercial Solar

https://www.tesla.com/bigsolar

7 years ago

Ask HN: What are some of your recent successes?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20963149

7 years ago

Deterministic thinking: a problem in how we think, not just in how we act

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2019/09/13/deterministic-thinking-dichotomania/

7 years ago

Facebook removed a fact-check on anti-abortion video after Ted Cruz complained

https://www.businessinsider.nl/facebook-removes-anti-abortion-factcheck-after-senators-complain-2019-9/

7 years ago

Storm Area 51: The joke that became a ‘possible humanitarian disaster’

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49667295

7 years ago

Show HN: Noric-bot – A bot to stress-test text-based MUDs, written in Scala 3

https://github.com/ryanberckmans/noric-bot

7 years ago

★ 50 Scala MIT

Greta Thunberg has done her science homework

https://faktabaari.fi/greta-thunberg-has-done-her-science-homework/

7 years ago

Ruby One-Liners

https://benoithamelin.tumblr.com/ruby1line/

7 years ago

How common was it for parents to lose a child?

https://ourworldindata.org/parents-losing-their-child

7 years ago

Time to Abolish "Statistical Significance"?

http://conversableeconomist.blogspot.com/2019/03/time-to-abolish-statistical-significance.html

7 years ago

Show HN: Vue-file-agent – Uploader with multi-file, preview, progress support

https://safrazik.github.io/vue-file-agent

7 years ago

Mapping Ancient Rome

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/urbs/will-mapping-ancient-rome-save-western-urbanism-and-civilization/

7 years ago

Whole Foods to cut health-care benefits for 1,900 part-time employees in 2020

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/12/whole-foods-to-cut-healthcare-for-1900-part-time-employees-in-2020.html

7 years ago

The Fall of Overstock’s Mad King, Patrick Byrne

https://www.forbes.com/sites/laurendebter/2019/08/22/the-exclusive-inside-story-of-the-fall-of-overstocks-mad-king-patrick-byrne/

7 years ago

The End of the Golden Era of American Chess

https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2019/09/pal-benko-shelby-lyman-and-chess-bobby-fischer-era/597343/

7 years ago

In Aging Singapore, 65-Year-Olds Are Learning How to Code

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-13/in-aging-singapore-65-year-olds-learn-how-to-program-software

7 years ago

Remove Richard Stallman

https://medium.com/@selamie/remove-richard-stallman-fec6ec210794

7 years ago

Using Deep Learning to Inform Differential Diagnoses of Skin Diseases

https://ai.googleblog.com/2019/09/using-deep-learning-to-inform.html

7 years ago

Kickstarter Has Fired Two Union Organizers in 8 Days

https://slate.com/technology/2019/09/kickstarter-union-organizing.html?via=gdpr-consent

7 years ago

Twelve Words

https://www.kenyonreview.org/journal/septoct-2019/selections/brian-trapp/

7 years ago

Show HN: Discover and listen to artists performing in your city this week

http://discoverlocal.fm

7 years ago

Scientists extract genetic information from a 1.77M-year-old rhino tooth

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/09/190911142731.htm

7 years ago

Super Wood (2018)

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/stronger-than-steel-able-to-stop-a-speeding-bullet-mdash-it-rsquo-s-super-wood/

7 years ago

The Meritocracy Trap

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/12/opinion/markovits-meritocracy.html

7 years ago