top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-04-17

The Decline of Usability

https://datagubbe.se/decusab/

6 years ago

996 upvotes – 695 comments

Show HN: A basketball hoop to maximize shots that go in [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtN4tkvcBMA

6 years ago

971 upvotes – 162 comments

Learning to See in the Dark (2018)

https://github.com/cchen156/Learning-to-See-in-the-Dark

6 years ago

★ 5.5k Python MIT
645 upvotes – 170 comments

ICANN delays .org selloff after California’s attorney general intervenes

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/04/17/icann_california_org_sale_delay/

6 years ago

537 upvotes – 139 comments

Is BGP Safe Yet?

https://isbgpsafeyet.com/

6 years ago

505 upvotes – 107 comments

Userscripts Are Fun and Are Still Very Much Relevant

https://dutzi.party/userscripts-are-fun/

6 years ago

402 upvotes – 138 comments

Why do we need Flask, Celery, and Redis? (2019)

https://ljvmiranda921.github.io/notebook/2019/11/08/flask-redis-celery-mcdo/

6 years ago

345 upvotes – 181 comments

Gleam: A statically typed language for the Erlang VM

https://gleam.run/

6 years ago

331 upvotes – 109 comments

Show HN: ZoomerBackgrounds – community-sourced virtual video backgrounds

https://zoomerbackgrounds.com

6 years ago

327 upvotes – 78 comments

Shopify CTO: our platform is now handling Black Friday level traffic every day

https://twitter.com/jmwind/status/1250816681024331777

6 years ago

315 upvotes – 126 comments

NASA, SpaceX set May 27 as target date for first crew launch

https://spaceflightnow.com/2020/04/17/nasa-spacex-set-may-27-as-target-date-for-first-crew-launch/

6 years ago

304 upvotes – 71 comments

Building an end-to-end Speech Recognition model in PyTorch

https://www.assemblyai.com/blog/end-to-end-speech-recognition-pytorch

6 years ago

288 upvotes – 33 comments

Roger Penrose – Is Mathematics Invented or Discovered? [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujvS2K06dg4

6 years ago

286 upvotes – 311 comments

A Guide to Pricing Plans

https://capitalandgrowth.org/answers/Article/3169972/The-Definitive-Guide-to-Pricing-Plans

6 years ago

282 upvotes – 75 comments

Exceptionally gifted children: long-term outcomes of acceleration (2006) [pdf]

http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ746290.pdf

6 years ago

263 upvotes – 249 comments

How the coronavirus is driving new surveillance programs globally

https://onezero.medium.com/the-pandemic-is-a-trojan-horse-for-surveillance-programs-around-the-world-887fa6f12ec9

6 years ago

254 upvotes – 82 comments

Ask HN: How is your PPP loan application coming along?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22901237

6 years ago

254 upvotes – 207 comments

Possible dinosaur DNA has been found

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/possible-dinosaur-dna-has-been-found/

6 years ago

240 upvotes – 114 comments

Crank.js – Write JSX-driven components with functions, promises and generators

https://crank.js.org/

6 years ago

205 upvotes – 101 comments

Dianne Feinstein's reply to constituents' opposition to EARN IT act

https://pastebin.com/CYbtjtb8

6 years ago

203 upvotes – 83 comments

Fix Boyer-Moore searcher with the Rytter correction

https://github.com/microsoft/STL/pull/724

6 years ago

★ 11k C++
193 upvotes – 53 comments

Vue 3 Beta

https://github.com/vuejs/vue-next/releases/tag/v3.0.0-beta.1

6 years ago

★ 53.5k TypeScript MIT
190 upvotes – 100 comments

Writing Python inside Rust

https://blog.m-ou.se/writing-python-inside-rust-1/

6 years ago

187 upvotes – 85 comments

Rust Survey 2019 Results

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2020/04/17/Rust-survey-2019.html

6 years ago

185 upvotes – 202 comments

XB-1's wings are officially closed out

https://blog.boomsupersonic.com/xb-1-s-wings-are-officially-closed-out-c9b53591252e

6 years ago

175 upvotes – 176 comments

In Pursuit of PPE

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2010025

6 years ago

173 upvotes – 196 comments

Climate-Driven Megadrought Is Emerging in Western U.S., Says Study

https://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2020/04/16/climate-driven-megadrought-emerging-western-u-s/

6 years ago

171 upvotes – 123 comments

The curious tale of Bhutan's playable record postage stamps (2015)

https://thevinylfactory.com/features/the-curious-tale-of-bhutans-playable-record-postage-stamps/

6 years ago

165 upvotes – 30 comments

Amazon employees plan ‘online walkout’ to protest treatment of warehouse workers

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/16/amazon-employees-plan-online-walkout-over-firings-work-conditions.html

6 years ago

162 upvotes – 135 comments

Opt out of Clearview.ai

https://clearview.ai/privacy/requests

6 years ago

150 upvotes – 109 comments

Deep sea squid communicate by glowing like e-readers

https://www.npr.org/2020/04/17/820707276/deep-sea-squid-communicate-by-glowing-like-e-readers

6 years ago

147 upvotes – 41 comments

Cooperative Corporation of Dot-Org Registrants

https://www.ccor.org

6 years ago

142 upvotes – 34 comments

Watch Zoox’s autonomous car drive around San Francisco for an hour

https://venturebeat.com/2020/04/17/watch-zooxs-autonomous-car-drive-around-san-francisco-for-an-hour/

6 years ago

139 upvotes – 172 comments

How to Run Wordpress on AWS

https://twitter.com/QuinnyPig/status/1250910042246660096/photo/1

6 years ago

134 upvotes – 98 comments

Covid-19 Antibody Seroprevalence in Santa Clara County, California

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.14.20062463v1

6 years ago

122 upvotes – 200 comments

A list of all the great engineers laid off. Help them land on their feet

https://parachutelist.com/

6 years ago

117 upvotes – 53 comments

Zoom Endpoint-Security Considerations

https://dev.io/posts/zoomzoo/

6 years ago

112 upvotes – 74 comments

Privacy Not Included

https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/

6 years ago

110 upvotes – 65 comments

Show HN: Sound visualisation, better than FFT (iOS)

https://vsound.app

6 years ago

98 upvotes – 117 comments

Surgical mask brace creates a seal making standard masks comparable to N95s

https://www.fixthemask.com/

6 years ago

91 upvotes – 60 comments

Covid-19 Antibody Seroprevalence in Santa Clara County, California

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.14.20062463v1?__cf_chl_jschl_tk__=89a2f55cc81dc237b2b0b6070f170b66bdd209a4-1587140368-0-AZZr41SPj_Z9BrovTE9GgnMIHhtjnd6LqSbsAtVsSGtFQtUuAtm1u-KlAzRvCHUBrQI5YaVnkaw0bkSgceLbJ2mK1zcmGSBRRsH5HfZ8l-ktYx-3S4kRH27YFMjBIJcmNyHCqF795P7A8WnLePHcHEqDX8s-IUED_iej79ogpKe1MKMkue-Xl4EPrGLbhc7AgUl-nQqm9Tss46MbWuj0EeeAxCNpvDGwjaqg3HXMOPrpkE578Tmbxl8oga62jhIXbtvMPebquf-xPT2RRIyp1jyL-crUC568aHseNdXj2KXjQK9P7psKWXLgZQWU6fCS6PbvJ60zRTLpXD8mkmAS5bY

6 years ago

89 upvotes – 2 comments

Vox Media is cutting pay and furloughing 9% of employees

https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/17/vox-media-furloughs/

6 years ago

86 upvotes – 90 comments

FBI Says Foreign States Hacked into U.S. Covid-19 Research Centers

https://www.sciencetechniz.com/2020/04/fbi-says-foreign-states-hacked-into-us.html

6 years ago

79 upvotes – 46 comments

Improving G1 out-of-the-box performance

https://kstefanj.github.io/2020/04/16/g1-ootb-performance.html

6 years ago

76 upvotes – 25 comments

Show HN: Create apps from GraphQL APIs without writing code

https://graphiteapps.com

6 years ago

75 upvotes – 52 comments

Vegetables get freakish in the land of the midnight sun (2014)

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/08/20/341884706/why-vegetables-get-freakish-in-the-land-of-the-midnight-sun

6 years ago

73 upvotes – 41 comments

A Graph Convolutional Neural Network Approach to Antibiotic Discovery

https://www.welcometothejungle.com/en/articles/btc-covid19-convolutional-neural-network

6 years ago

70 upvotes – 6 comments
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