top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-10-19

Thank HN: From Google form to $1k in revenue in one month

https://blog.oldgeekjobs.com/from-google-form-to-1000-in-revenue-in-one-month-3f5cd75b6089

10 years ago

1071 upvotes – 247 comments

How the Web Became Unreadable

https://backchannel.com/how-the-web-became-unreadable-a781ddc711b6#.r3lqzaeqq

10 years ago

532 upvotes – 344 comments

LTE Has Slowed by 50% in the US This Year

http://twinprime.com/lte-has-slowed-by-50-in-the-us/

10 years ago

492 upvotes – 159 comments

An External Replication on the Effects of Test-driven Development [pdf]

http://people.brunel.ac.uk/~csstmms/FucciEtAl_ESEM2016.pdf

10 years ago

406 upvotes – 323 comments

The Anti-Helicopter Parent’s Plea: Let Kids Play

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/23/magazine/the-anti-helicopter-parents-plea-let-kids-play.html

10 years ago

394 upvotes – 391 comments

Fixing Python Performance with Rust

https://blog.sentry.io/2016/10/19/fixing-python-performance-with-rust.html

10 years ago

331 upvotes – 103 comments

Radar – A new set of integrated tools to help prevent fraud

https://stripe.com/radar?

10 years ago

293 upvotes – 113 comments

Italy’s rarest pasta

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20161014-the-secret-behind-italys-rarest-pasta

10 years ago

284 upvotes – 138 comments

More than 90% of ‘genuine’ Apple chargers and cables sold on Amazon are fake

https://9to5mac.com/2016/10/19/amazon-fake-apple-chargers-cables/

10 years ago

284 upvotes – 250 comments

Show HN: Get encrypted data from people that don’t know how to encrypt

https://github.com/whitesmith/hawkpost

10 years ago

★ 952 Python MIT
275 upvotes – 93 comments

Netflix Chaos Monkey Upgraded

http://techblog.netflix.com/2016/10/netflix-chaos-monkey-upgraded.html

10 years ago

271 upvotes – 84 comments

T-Mobile will pay a $48M fine for throttling ‘unlimited data’ plans

http://www.theverge.com/2016/10/19/13330158/t-mobile-unlimited-data-settlement-fine-discount-free-data

10 years ago

232 upvotes – 123 comments

Why Are America's Most Innovative Companies Still Stuck in 1950s Suburbia?

http://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/stuck-in-1950s-suburbia/

10 years ago

213 upvotes – 271 comments

Wait continues for European Schiaparelli Mars lander

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-37707776

10 years ago

212 upvotes – 91 comments

Astronauts enter China's space station [video]

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-37699910?ocid=socialflow_twitter

10 years ago

199 upvotes – 119 comments

Final – A credit card built for the 21st century

https://getfinal.com/

10 years ago

185 upvotes – 215 comments

Introducing Google Cloud Shell’s new code editor

https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/10/introducing-Google-Cloud-Shels-new-code-editor.html?m=1

10 years ago

173 upvotes – 50 comments

Minimal Raspberry Pi VPU firmware

https://github.com/christinaa/rpi-open-firmware/blob/master/README.md

10 years ago

★ 25 C
171 upvotes – 60 comments

UK Government proposes porn-viewing ID

https://boingboing.net/2016/10/18/uk-government-proposes-issuing.html

10 years ago

162 upvotes – 226 comments

Ask HN: What is the state of C++ vs. Rust?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12744317

10 years ago

154 upvotes – 154 comments

Virus and Two Types of Bacteria as Major Causes of Alzheimer’s

http://neurosciencenews.com/microbes-alzheimers-neurology-3826/

10 years ago

149 upvotes – 34 comments

Donald Knuth used an Erlang-like notation

http://videlalvaro.github.io/2016/10/knuth-first-erlang-programmer.html

10 years ago

149 upvotes – 93 comments

Invoke Win32 applications with Bash on Windows

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/commandline/wsl/interop

10 years ago

146 upvotes – 50 comments

SpaCy v1.0: Deep Learning with custom pipelines and Keras

https://explosion.ai/blog/spacy-deep-learning-keras

10 years ago

142 upvotes – 14 comments

Thankful and lucky to have helped build Khan Academy

http://bjk5.com/post/147398152966/thankful-and-lucky-to-have-helped-build-khan

10 years ago

141 upvotes – 20 comments

Show HN: TrueJob 1.0 – Pandora for jobs and data for everyone

https://www.truejob.com/?release=1.0

10 years ago

140 upvotes – 59 comments

Russian Hacker, Wanted by F.B.I., Is Arrested in Prague, Czechs Say

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/20/world/europe/prague-russian-hacker.html

10 years ago

132 upvotes – 150 comments

Semi-hosting on ARM with Rust

http://embed.rs/articles/2016/semi-hosting-rust/

10 years ago

131 upvotes – 31 comments

The greatest role of Bill Murray’s life has been playing Bill Murray

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/the-greatest-role-of-bill-murrays-life-has-been-playing-bill-murray/2016/10/19/8f6b2794-913e-11e6-9c52-0b10449e33c4_story.html

10 years ago

130 upvotes – 38 comments

Europe and Russia prepare for historic landing on Mars

http://www.nature.com/news/europe-and-russia-prepare-for-historic-landing-on-mars-1.20812

10 years ago

130 upvotes – 66 comments

How One Goldman Sachs Trader Made More Than $100M

http://www.wsj.com/articles/how-one-goldman-sachs-trader-made-more-than-100-million-1476869402

10 years ago

127 upvotes – 110 comments

Germans React to UK’s micro:bit

http://hackaday.com/2016/10/18/germans-react-to-uks-microbit/

10 years ago

126 upvotes – 74 comments

The Strange and Sudden Disappearance of a Coding Bootcamp Founder

http://www.inc.com/salvador-rodriguez/devschool-coding-bootcamps.html

10 years ago

117 upvotes – 72 comments

Micro:bit developer community

http://tech.microbit.org/

10 years ago

115 upvotes – 36 comments

Why the Film Industry Hasn't Been Disrupted Yet, Part 5

http://endcrawl.com/blog/film-not-disrupted-yet-part-5/

10 years ago

112 upvotes – 89 comments

An empirical study on the impact of C++ lambdas and programmer experience

http://dl.acm.org/authorize?N03390

10 years ago

108 upvotes – 105 comments

Do the math: too much calculus? (2012)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/class-struggle/post/do-the-math-too-much-calculus/2012/08/16/9a35034e-e4fd-11e1-8f62-58260e3940a0_blog.html

10 years ago

104 upvotes – 212 comments

Where do all the old programmers go?

http://www.infoworld.com/article/2617093/it-careers/it-careers-where-do-all-the-old-programmers-go.html

10 years ago

103 upvotes – 97 comments

The e-waste mountains – in pictures

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/gallery/2016/oct/18/the-e-waste-reduce-waste-old-technology-mountains-in-pictures

10 years ago

101 upvotes – 33 comments

Raspberry Pi (2 and 3) support in Fedora 25 Beta

https://fedoramagazine.org/raspberry-pi-support-fedora-25-beta/

10 years ago

100 upvotes – 62 comments

Bill Belichick Throws in the Tablet

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/19/sports/football/bill-belichick-patriots-might-be-a-mac-guy.html

10 years ago

93 upvotes – 115 comments

Modern Web 101: From Free Software Fetishism to Free Web

https://www.nexedi.com/blog/blog-Modern.Web

10 years ago

86 upvotes – 66 comments

Uncovering depression's web in the brain

http://newatlas.com/depressions-brain-web-decoded/46005/

10 years ago

85 upvotes – 26 comments

Security bug lifetime

https://outflux.net/blog/archives/2016/10/18/security-bug-lifetime/

10 years ago

84 upvotes – 28 comments

UK24727: a shortest-possible walking tour through the pubs of the United Kingdom

http://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/tsp/pubs/

10 years ago

83 upvotes – 21 comments

Why Do These Straight Men Want Nothing to Do with Women?

http://narrative.ly/why-do-these-straight-men-want-nothing-to-do-with-women/?utm_source=nextdraft&utm_medium=email

10 years ago

81 upvotes – 156 comments

Show HN: Tdo – keyboard driven, hackable todo list

https://mstijak.github.io/tdo/

10 years ago

78 upvotes – 51 comments

Introducing GitHub Community Guidelines

https://github.com/blog/2267-introducing-github-community-guidelines

10 years ago

76 upvotes – 126 comments

Apple’s expected Mac event on October 27 is official

https://9to5mac.com/2016/10/19/apple-october-event-official/

10 years ago

76 upvotes – 101 comments

Have Humans Evolved to Be Inaccurate Decision Makers?

http://duboue.net/blog22.html

10 years ago

75 upvotes – 51 comments

The power of prediction markets

http://www.nature.com/news/the-power-of-prediction-markets-1.20820

10 years ago

74 upvotes – 35 comments

Extreme side-effects of antidepressants

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-37682355

10 years ago

72 upvotes – 95 comments

CHICKEN internals: the garbage collector

http://www.more-magic.net/posts/internals-gc.html

10 years ago

68 upvotes – 9 comments
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