Hacker News on 20 April 2019

• Joe Armstrong has died
• We Don't Have a Talent Shortage. We Have a Sucker Shortage
• Vendors must start adding physical on/off switches to devices that can spy on us
• Half of England Is Owned by Less Than 1% of Its Population, Researcher Says
• Commit messages guide
• Show HN: Should you buy a house and rent it out?
• Antenna Theory (2016)
• A visual proof that neural nets can approximate any function
• The Mueller Report Can’t Be Copyrighted, Is Flagged by Copyright Bots Anyway
• Python overtakes JavaScript as most questioned language on StackOverflow