Hacker News new | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit | 2016-05-04 login
Stories from May 4, 2016
Go back a day, month, or year. Go forward a day, month, or year.
1. Medical error is third biggest cause of death in the US, experts say (theguardian.com)
636 points by lemming on May 4, 2016 | 502 comments
2. New Record Bid Set for World's Cheapest Solar, Undercutting Coal (bloomberg.com)
367 points by Osiris30 on May 4, 2016 | 205 comments
3. The Startup Zeitgeist (macro.ycombinator.com)
469 points by loyalelectron on May 4, 2016 | 153 comments
4. 78% of Reddit Threads with 1,000+ Comments Mention Nazis (curiousgnu.com)
303 points by gk1 on May 4, 2016 | 201 comments
5. Programming by poking: why MIT stopped teaching SICP (posteriorscience.net)
478 points by brunoc on May 4, 2016 | 232 comments
6. Simplevisor: Intel x64 Windows-specific hypervisor (ionescu007.github.io)
178 points by transpute on May 4, 2016 | 24 comments
7. Uvloop: Fast Python networking (magic.io)
456 points by c17r on May 4, 2016 | 130 comments
8. Why most mobile development projects fail (clean-swift.com)
154 points by bontoJR on May 4, 2016 | 103 comments
9. The curious case of slow downloads (cloudflare.com)
207 points by jgrahamc on May 4, 2016 | 55 comments
10. I wrote a small piece on planned death (hintjens.com)
405 points by okket on May 4, 2016 | 104 comments
11. Our Brain Uses Statistics to Calculate Confidence, Make Decisions (neuroscientistnews.com)
172 points by brahmwg on May 4, 2016 | 107 comments
12. Refined Twitter (github.com/sindresorhus)
179 points by mofle on May 4, 2016 | 108 comments
13. Introducing docs.microsoft.com (microsoft.com)
249 points by yread on May 4, 2016 | 187 comments
14. IBM Wants Everyone to Try a Quantum Computer (nytimes.com)
203 points by jonbaer on May 4, 2016 | 59 comments
15. Serializable, Lockless, Distributed: Isolation in CockroachDB (cockroachlabs.com)
130 points by orangechairs on May 4, 2016 | 52 comments
16. Triplebyte Engineer Genome Project (triplebyte.com)
94 points by kwi on May 4, 2016 | 38 comments
17. Life Lessons from a Lifestyle Business: Interview with founder of Metafilter (medium.com/strong-words)
159 points by tim_sw on May 4, 2016 | 54 comments
18. Select a document and have it certified in the Bitcoin blockchain (proofofexistence.com)
130 points by ptr on May 4, 2016 | 62 comments
19. Google Deactivates Web Search API (ajax.googleapis.com)
199 points by woodruffw on May 4, 2016 | 129 comments
20. Lead Water Pipes in 1900 Caused Higher Crime Rates in 1920? (motherjones.com)
147 points by curtis on May 3, 2016 | 67 comments
21. We asked 15,000 people how they're learning to program (freecodecamp.com)
123 points by quincyla on May 4, 2016 | 91 comments
22. Preparing for the Future of Artificial Intelligence (whitehouse.gov)
174 points by apsec112 on May 3, 2016 | 90 comments
23. Google: End of the Online Advertising Bubble (kalkis-research.com)
295 points by skuas on May 4, 2016 | 188 comments
24. Nine years of censorship (nature.com)
302 points by michaelmachine on May 4, 2016 | 125 comments
25. Ruby Bug: SecureRandom should try /dev/urandom first (ruby-lang.org)
161 points by JBiserkov on May 3, 2016 | 135 comments
26. Two Tesla Production Chiefs to Leave Ahead of Model 3 Ramp-Up (bloomberg.com)
76 points by mgevans on May 4, 2016 | 48 comments
27. PieMessage: iMessage on Android (github.com/bboyairwreck)
83 points by mikeflynn on May 3, 2016 | 31 comments
28. Target=”_blank” is an underestimated vulnerability (medium.com/jitbit)
183 points by SimplyUseless on May 4, 2016 | 53 comments
29. Python manylinux (github.com/pypa)
59 points by awinter-py on May 4, 2016 | 9 comments
30. The Bug in the Physical Building (two-wrongs.com)
148 points by signa11 on May 4, 2016 | 32 comments

Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: