top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-04-16

Stripe raises $600M at nearly $36B valuation

https://www.axios.com/stripe-fundraising-600-million-1f1f38b6-fde6-4316-b111-2f3b0e868ab7.html

6 years ago

For Donald Knuth, good coding is synonymous with beautiful expression

https://www.quantamagazine.org/computer-scientist-donald-knuth-cant-stop-telling-stories-20200416/

6 years ago

Ask HN: Who Is Firing?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22887346

6 years ago

Phoenix LiveDashboard

https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_live_dashboard

6 years ago

★ 2.1k Elixir MIT

Workstream: A fast virtual computer you can use for anything

https://workstream.paperspace.com/

6 years ago

Coronavirus clue? Most cases aboard U.S. aircraft carrier are symptom-free

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-military-sympt/coronavirus-clue-most-cases-aboard-u-s-aircraft-carrier-are-symptom-free-idUSKCN21Y2GB

6 years ago

Apple changes default MacBook charging behavior to improve battery health

https://sixcolors.com/post/2020/04/apple-battery-health-management/

6 years ago

Y Combinator cuts its pro rata stake and makes later investments case-by-case

https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/16/changing-policy-y-combinator-cuts-its-pro-rata-stake-and-makes-investments-case-by-case/

6 years ago

SQL is a better API language than GraphQL – Convince me otherwise

https://twitter.com/simonw/status/1250803209871847426

6 years ago

Cloudflare Workers now supports COBOL

https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-workers-now-support-cobol/

6 years ago

Fruit Trenches: Cultivating Subtropical Plants in Freezing Temperatures

https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2020/04/fruit-trenches-cultivating-subtropical-plants-in-freezing-temperatures.html

6 years ago

Embedding Binary Objects in C

https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/embedding-binary-objects-in-c

6 years ago

Goat2Meeting

https://www.sweetfarm.org/goat-2-meeting

6 years ago

Now I understand why almost no one uses encrypted email

https://cheapskatesguide.org/articles/encrypted-email.html

6 years ago

Cleaning algorithm finds 20% of errors in major image recognition datasets

https://deepomatic.com/en/how-we-improved-computer-vision-metrics-by-more-than-5-percent-only-by-cleaning-labelling-errors/

6 years ago

Lidar: Peek into the Future with iPad Pro

https://blog.halide.cam/lidar-peek-into-the-future-with-ipad-pro-11d38910e9f8

6 years ago

EventReduce: An algorithm to optimize database queries that run multiple times

https://github.com/pubkey/event-reduce/blob/master/README.md

6 years ago

★ 753 TypeScript MIT

10-core i9-10900F desktop CPU lags behind 8-core Ryzen 9 4900HS mobile APU

https://www.notebookcheck.net/10-core-Intel-Core-i9-10900F-desktop-CPU-does-well-in-Geekbench-multi-core-test-but-then-gets-put-to-shame-by-8-core-AMD-Ryzen-9-4900HS-mobile-APU.461162.0.html

6 years ago

Why editorial illustrations look so similar these days (2019)

https://qz.com/quartzy/1728767/why-editorial-illustrations-look-so-similar-these-days/

6 years ago

Auth0 JWT Auth Bypass: Case-Sensitive Blacklisting Is Harmful

https://insomniasec.com/blog/auth0-jwt-validation-bypass

6 years ago

Freenode IRC logging archive Echelog is shutting down

https://echelog.com

6 years ago

Show HN: FoundersList – Looking for a cofounder or a new startup to work on?

https://founderslist.com/cofounders

6 years ago

Melting ice reveals a Viking-era pass in Norway’s mountains

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/melting-ice-reveals-a-lost-viking-era-pass-in-norways-mountains/

6 years ago

Hand Scraping a Truly Flat Plane (1908) [pdf]

http://www.galleyrack.com/images/artifice/machine-shop/surface-finishing/hand-scraping/engineeringremin00port-pp233-237-img303-307-production-of-an-original-surface-plate.pdf

6 years ago

I built a website to occupy people during quarantine that updates midnight UTC

http://fixmyquarantine.com/

6 years ago

GoPro cuts workforce, changes sales strategy

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-15/gopro-cuts-more-than-20-of-workforce-changes-sales-strategy

6 years ago

Understanding RAID: How performance scales from one disk to eight

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/04/understanding-raid-how-performance-scales-from-one-disk-to-eight/

6 years ago

Rämixx500 – An Open Hardware remake of the Commodore Amiga 500+ mainboard

https://github.com/SukkoPera/Raemixx500

6 years ago

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Security lapse exposed Clearview AI source code

https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/16/clearview-source-code-lapse/

6 years ago

Show HN: Video conference and synchronized YouTube video to do fitness in groups

https://www.co-train.space/

6 years ago

Could the Earth be an evaporated gas giant planet?

https://demystifyingscience.com/blog/is-earth-captured-rogue-chthonian

6 years ago

A book on algorithmic programming in Lisp

https://leanpub.com/progalgs/read

6 years ago

Telescope Sees Star Dance Around Supermassive Black Hole, Proves Einstein Right

https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2006/

6 years ago

Kanboard – Kanban Project Management Software

https://kanboard.org/

6 years ago

Show HN: Open – Free React landing page template

https://github.com/cruip/open-react-template

6 years ago

★ 4.6k TypeScript

Grain, a startup built atop of Zoom for note-taking and video-clip making

https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/16/grain-a-startup-built-expressly-atop-of-zoom-for-note-taking-and-video-clip-making-raises-4-million/

6 years ago

Architects and engineers are turning old shipping containers into mobiled ICUs

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/day6/architects-and-engineers-are-turning-old-shipping-containers-into-mobile-intensive-care-units-1.5527523

6 years ago

What happens when a ccTLD is retired? Exploring the potential risks of .io

https://salt.agency/blog/biot-chagos-islands-risk-to-io-cctld-domains/

6 years ago

Will Asia Rewrite Human History?

https://www.sapiens.org/archaeology/early-human-migrations/

6 years ago

Git: Newline injection in credential helper protocol

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=2021

6 years ago

Show HN: Get notified when grocery pickup slots are available

https://curb.run

6 years ago

Opendoor is cutting 35% of its employees

https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/15/softbank-backed-opendoor-has-announced-a-massive-layoff-cutting-35-of-its-employees/

6 years ago

More Than 5.2M More U.S. Workers Filed for Unemployment

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/16/business/stock-market-today-coronavirus.html

6 years ago

Ask HN: Tricks to improve posture?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22892205

6 years ago

Bolsonaro fires health minister, calls to reopen economy

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil/bolsonaro-fires-health-minister-calls-to-reopen-economy-idUSKBN21Y338

6 years ago

Show HN: Glass Dome — an Alfred workflow to fight link rot in markdown notes

https://github.com/macedotavares/Glass-Dome

6 years ago

★ 69 Python CC0-1.0

Show HN: I wrote an open source cloud gaming service by WebRTC and Golang

https://webrtchacks.com/open-source-cloud-gaming-with-webrtc/

6 years ago

Michigan's Ex-Gov. Snyder Knew About Flint's Toxic Water – and Lied About It

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/z3bdp9/michigans-ex-gov-rick-snyder-knew-about-flints-toxic-waterand-lied-about-it

6 years ago

The Guile in TeXmacs (2019) [pdf]

https://www.iam.uni-bonn.de/fileadmin/user_upload/gubinelli/texmacs/talk-texmacs-guile-strasbourg-june-2019.pdf

6 years ago

Gilead data suggests coronavirus patients are responding to treatment

https://www.statnews.com/2020/04/16/early-peek-at-data-on-gilead-coronavirus-drug-suggests-patients-are-responding-to-treatment/

6 years ago