top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-10-04

Pricing niche products

https://kevinlynagh.com/notes/pricing-niche-products/

6 years ago

769 upvotes – 356 comments

Making My Own Glasses

https://www.eidel.io/2019/04/24/making-my-own-glasses/

6 years ago

629 upvotes – 187 comments

Calibre 4.0

https://calibre-ebook.com/new-in/thirteen

6 years ago

552 upvotes – 302 comments

Paypal Withdraws from Facebook's Libra Cryptocurrency

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/04/paypal-withdraws-from-facebooks-libra-cryptocurrency.html

6 years ago

538 upvotes – 283 comments

Streamlit: Turn a Python script into an interactive data analysis tool

https://towardsdatascience.com/coding-ml-tools-like-you-code-ml-models-ddba3357eace

6 years ago

470 upvotes – 65 comments

Lab-made primordial soup yields RNA bases

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02622-4

6 years ago

400 upvotes – 127 comments

Apple approves previously rejected HKMap.live app

https://twitter.com/hkmaplive/status/1180137132842610688

6 years ago

379 upvotes – 224 comments

Caddy Proposal: Permanently change all proprietary licensing to open source

https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/issues/2786

6 years ago

357 upvotes – 76 comments

Political Operatives Faked Millions of Comments Against Net Nuetrality

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jsvine/net-neutrality-fcc-fake-comments-impersonation

6 years ago

351 upvotes – 85 comments

It's time to ban cars from Manhattan?

https://ny.curbed.com/2019/10/3/20896837/nyc-traffic-history-pedestrian-cars

6 years ago

328 upvotes – 315 comments

Why does 1.1.1.1 not resolve archive.is?

https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/135222/why-does-1-1-1-1-not-resolve-archive-is/135223#135223

6 years ago

313 upvotes – 157 comments

Fundamentals of Python Programming [pdf]

https://python.cs.southern.edu/pythonbook/pythonbook.pdf

6 years ago

302 upvotes – 37 comments

Mastodon 3.0

https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/releases/tag/v3.0.0

6 years ago

296 upvotes – 90 comments

A Cheating Scandal Rocking the Poker World

https://www.theringer.com/2019/10/4/20899034/poker-cheating-mike-postle-stones-gambling-hall-twitch-no-limit-holdem-sacramento-veronica-brill

6 years ago

295 upvotes – 301 comments

Show HN: Imagededup – Finding duplicate images made easy

https://github.com/idealo/imagededup

6 years ago

290 upvotes – 57 comments

A new Linux memory controller promises to save lots of RAM

https://thenewstack.io/a-new-linux-memory-controller-promises-to-save-lots-of-ram/

6 years ago

278 upvotes – 90 comments

In the Pancreas, Common Fungi May Drive Cancer

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/03/health/pancreatic-cancer-fungi.html

6 years ago

268 upvotes – 136 comments

A Swiss Lesson in Enlightened Street Design

https://www.citylab.com/perspective/2019/09/urban-planning-zurich-public-transit-street-design-traffic/599011/

6 years ago

265 upvotes – 153 comments

Show HN: Able – an alternative to Medium

https://able.bio/rhett/the-new-able-editor--596ha6x

6 years ago

248 upvotes – 134 comments

A brief history of government efforts to stop people from wearing masks

https://qz.com/1721901/hong-kong-anti-mask-law-a-history-of-mask-bans-around-the-world/

6 years ago

236 upvotes – 134 comments

Vulnerabilities exploited in VPN products used worldwide

https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/news/alert-vpn-vulnerabilities

6 years ago

233 upvotes – 133 comments

Signal: Incoming call can be connected without user interaction

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1943

6 years ago

231 upvotes – 30 comments

Disney Bans Netflix Ads as Streaming’s Marketing Wars Intensify

https://www.wsj.com/articles/disney-bans-netflix-ads-as-streamings-marketing-wars-intensify-11570199291?mod=rsswn

6 years ago

226 upvotes – 329 comments

Paralysed man moves in mind-reading exoskeleton

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-49907356

6 years ago

214 upvotes – 51 comments

College Students Just Want Normal Libraries

https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2019/10/college-students-dont-want-fancy-libraries/599455/

6 years ago

207 upvotes – 177 comments

Unsteady income in young adulthood linked to thinking problems in middle age

https://www.aan.com/PressRoom/Home/PressRelease/2750

6 years ago

205 upvotes – 249 comments

Streets with Nooks and Crannies Are Beloved and Endangered

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/urbs/streets-with-nooks-and-crannies-are-beloved-and-endangered/

6 years ago

191 upvotes – 139 comments

Ask HN: What are your arguments in favor of end-to-end encryption?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21156664

6 years ago

190 upvotes – 245 comments

Google Cloud Worth $225B, Deutsche Bank Says

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-03/google-cloud-worth-double-ibm-s-market-cap-deutsche-bank-says

6 years ago

186 upvotes – 214 comments

Uber makes JFK airport helicopter taxis available to all users

https://in.reuters.com/article/uber-copter/uber-makes-jfk-airport-helicopter-taxis-available-to-all-users-idINKBN1WI15X

6 years ago

182 upvotes – 122 comments

One of the oldest known human settlements is about to be flooded by a dam

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2019-10-03/ancient-city-hasankeyf-underwater

6 years ago

170 upvotes – 166 comments

We decided to go for the big rewrite

https://tech.channable.com/posts/2019-10-04-why-we-decided-to-go-for-the-big-rewrite.html

6 years ago

167 upvotes – 70 comments

Oppenheimer and the Gita (2014)

http://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2014/05/23/oppenheimer-gita/

6 years ago

162 upvotes – 69 comments

Facebook Now Allows Politicians to Lie in Paid Ads

https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2019/10/facebook-now-allows-politicians-to-lie-in-paid-ads.html

6 years ago

156 upvotes – 74 comments

We are on the cusp of a disruption in food and agricultural production

https://www.rethinkx.com/food-and-agriculture-executive-summary

6 years ago

154 upvotes – 156 comments

The rise of the financial machines

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2019/10/03/the-rise-of-the-financial-machines

6 years ago

153 upvotes – 89 comments

Scientist Who Discredited Meat Guidelines Didn’t Report Past Food Industry Ties

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/04/well/eat/scientist-who-discredited-meat-guidelines-didnt-report-past-food-industry-ties.html

6 years ago

152 upvotes – 62 comments

The Walking Arm Trebuchet

https://www.instructables.com/id/Worlds-Simplest-and-Newest-Trebuchet-Walking-Arm-T/

6 years ago

136 upvotes – 17 comments

Pigs recorded using tools

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2019/10/first-tool-use-pigs-visayan-endangered/

6 years ago

134 upvotes – 60 comments

Canada’s fossil fuel subsidies amount to $1,650 per Canadian

https://thenarwhal.ca/canadas-fossil-fuel-subsidies-amount-to-1650-per-canadian-its-got-to-stop/

6 years ago

133 upvotes – 32 comments

A dissident who beats up Tai Chi masters

https://deadspin.com/he-never-intended-to-become-a-political-dissident-but-1838706430

6 years ago

132 upvotes – 67 comments

Hundreds of Propaganda Accounts Targeting Iran and Qatar Removed from Facebook

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/janelytvynenko/uae-propaganda

6 years ago

130 upvotes – 74 comments

Vue.js v3 released (pre alpha)

https://github.com/vuejs/vue-next

6 years ago

130 upvotes – 90 comments

Global groundwater extraction a “ticking time bomb”

https://cosmosmagazine.com/earth-sciences/global-groundwater-extraction-a-ticking-time-bomb

6 years ago

128 upvotes – 44 comments

Parsing C++ is literally undecidable (2013)

http://blog.reverberate.org/2013/08/parsing-c-is-literally-undecidable.html

6 years ago

111 upvotes – 142 comments

Fast HSV to RGB Conversion

http://www.vagrearg.org/content/hsvrgb

6 years ago

110 upvotes – 8 comments

Green AI

https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.10597

6 years ago

104 upvotes – 60 comments

Shenanigans in the Microkitchen

http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2019/10/03/thirst/

6 years ago

102 upvotes – 108 comments

India’s elephant-friendly tea garden

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20191003-indias-elephant-friendly-tea-garden

6 years ago

101 upvotes – 11 comments

Highlight negative results to improve science

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02960-3

6 years ago

93 upvotes – 17 comments

Why printk() is so complicated, and how to fix it

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/800946/a9ad9aba46f14e78/

6 years ago

90 upvotes – 13 comments

XMPP: A Communication Protocol for the Internet of Things

https://www.briskbraintech.com/xmpp-a-communication-protocol-for-the-internet-of-things/

6 years ago

89 upvotes – 73 comments

Oracle demands $12K from network biz that doesn't use its software

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/10/04/oracle_virtualbox_merula/

6 years ago

88 upvotes – 24 comments
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