top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-11-20

Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/11/20/jobs/quit-social-media-your-career-may-depend-on-it.html

10 years ago

1131 upvotes – 548 comments

Scientist discovers particular seaweed nearly eliminates cow methane emissions

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/pei-cow-farting-1.3856202

10 years ago

442 upvotes – 147 comments

Computer Science courses with video lectures

https://github.com/Developer-Y/cs-video-courses

10 years ago

★ 80.5k
347 upvotes – 23 comments

Wal-Mart Tells Workers: Don’t Download Labor Group’s Chat App

http://www.wsj.com/articles/wal-mart-tells-workers-dont-download-labor-groups-chat-app-1479214510

10 years ago

279 upvotes – 249 comments

German Cities Are Solving the Age-Old Public Toilet Problem

https://www.fastcoexist.com/3065278/german-cities-are-solving-the-age-old-public-toilet-problem?utm_content=buffer06058&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

10 years ago

269 upvotes – 170 comments

New for AWS Lambda – Environment Variables and Serverless Application Model

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-for-aws-lambda-environment-variables-and-serverless-application-model/

10 years ago

264 upvotes – 83 comments

Why the MacBook Pro Is Limited to 16GB of RAM

https://macdaddy.io/macbook-pro-limited-16gb-ram/

10 years ago

257 upvotes – 349 comments

Show HN: StockDroids.com – A curated list of near-stock Android devices

http://www.stockdroids.com

10 years ago

245 upvotes – 106 comments

CS294: Program Synthesis for Everyone

https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~bodik/cs294fa12

10 years ago

241 upvotes – 23 comments

I had a health crisis in France

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-lamar-french-healthcare-20161118-story.html

10 years ago

232 upvotes – 301 comments

Let’s replace Twitter with something much better

https://cpbotha.net/2016/11/19/lets-replace-twitter-with-something-much-better/

10 years ago

227 upvotes – 182 comments

Tutorial – Write a System Call

https://brennan.io/2016/11/14/kernel-dev-ep3/

10 years ago

198 upvotes – 16 comments

Second Chinese Firm in a Week Found Hiding Backdoor in Android Devices

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/second-chinese-firm-in-a-week-found-hiding-backdoor-in-firmware-of-android-devices/

10 years ago

186 upvotes – 47 comments

US launches next-gen weather satellite that will revolutionize forecasting

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2016/11/19/u-s-launches-next-generation-weather-satellite-that-will-revolutionize-forecasting/

10 years ago

185 upvotes – 97 comments

Programmers confess unethical, illegal tasks asked of them

http://uk.businessinsider.com/programmers-confess-unethical-illegal-tasks-asked-of-them-2016-11?r=US&IR=T

10 years ago

181 upvotes – 184 comments

Modern Anti-Spam and E2E Crypto (2014)

https://moderncrypto.org/mail-archive/messaging/2014/000780.html

10 years ago

180 upvotes – 45 comments

Why does it take so long for us to form our first memory?

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160726-the-mystery-of-why-you-cant-remember-being-a-baby

10 years ago

180 upvotes – 73 comments

WebExtensions in Firefox 52

https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2016/11/18/webextensions-in-firefox-52/

10 years ago

167 upvotes – 69 comments

Learn X in Y minutes

https://learnxinyminutes.com/

10 years ago

161 upvotes – 22 comments

To-Do Lists Are Not the Answer to Getting Things Done

https://medium.com/personal-growth/to-do-lists-are-not-the-answer-to-getting-things-done-f38ff04c53d4

10 years ago

146 upvotes – 75 comments

A $900B Oil Treasure Lies Beneath West Texas Desert

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-15/permian-s-wolfcamp-holds-20-billion-barrels-of-oil-u-s-says

10 years ago

140 upvotes – 157 comments

Ask HN: What's your backup solution?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12999934

10 years ago

140 upvotes – 145 comments

Anatomy of a Program in Memory (2009)

http://duartes.org/gustavo/blog/post/anatomy-of-a-program-in-memory/

10 years ago

129 upvotes – 6 comments

Learning to Superoptimize Programs

https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.01787

10 years ago

121 upvotes – 24 comments

Spikey Spheres

http://www.solipsys.co.uk/new/SpikeySpheres.html?HN_20161120

10 years ago

116 upvotes – 45 comments

Increasing Attacker Cost Using Immutable Infrastructure

https://diogomonica.com/2016/11/19/increasing-attacker-cost-using-immutable-infrastructure/

10 years ago

110 upvotes – 36 comments

Lessons learned after 300 books in 4 years

http://www.jovicailic.org/2016/11/lessons-learned-300-books-4-years/

10 years ago

102 upvotes – 87 comments

Reinforcement learning with unsupervised auxiliary tasks

https://deepmind.com/blog/reinforcement-learning-unsupervised-auxiliary-tasks/

10 years ago

102 upvotes – 2 comments

Yiwu: The Chinese city where Christmas is made and sold

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20141218-the-hidden-home-of-christmas

10 years ago

99 upvotes – 19 comments

Ask HN: As a developer, how can I take advantage of time spent driving to work?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13000859

10 years ago

93 upvotes – 113 comments

There's the Wrong Way and Jacques Pépin's Way (2011)

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/19/dining/jacques-pepin-demonstrates-cooking-techniques.html?_r=0

10 years ago

90 upvotes – 62 comments

The Math That’s Too Difficult for Physics

https://www.quantamagazine.org/20161118-the-math-thats-too-difficult-for-physics/

10 years ago

86 upvotes – 11 comments

New Zealand's Tectonic Dragon Awakens

http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/new-zealands-tectonic-dragon-awakens

10 years ago

84 upvotes – 66 comments

Announcing pydoc.io beta

https://blog.readthedocs.com/announcing-pydoc-io/

10 years ago

76 upvotes – 24 comments
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