top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-02-10

H-1B visas mainly go to Indian outsourcing firms

http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21716630-not-good-argument-against-them-h-1b-visas-do-mainly-go-indian-outsourcing

9 years ago

456 upvotes – 401 comments

Software Engineering at Google

https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.01715

9 years ago

442 upvotes – 156 comments

Structured Procrastination: Do Less and Deceive Yourself

http://web.archive.org/web/20160227122619/http://www.structuredprocrastination.com/

9 years ago

388 upvotes – 78 comments

Trump2cash – A stock trading bot powered by Trump tweets

https://github.com/maxbbraun/trump2cash

9 years ago

★ 6.4k Python MIT
380 upvotes – 156 comments

Postmortem of database outage of January 31

https://about.gitlab.com/2017/02/10/postmortem-of-database-outage-of-january-31/

9 years ago

377 upvotes – 257 comments

Considerations on Cost Disease

http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/02/09/considerations-on-cost-disease/?

9 years ago

369 upvotes – 232 comments

Go Web Examples

https://gowebexamples.github.io/

9 years ago

357 upvotes – 90 comments

pfSense: Open source network firewall distribution

https://pfsense.org/

9 years ago

309 upvotes – 185 comments

JavaScript Start-up Performance

https://medium.com/@addyosmani/javascript-start-up-performance-69200f43b201

9 years ago

304 upvotes – 130 comments

A Low-Cost Solution to Traffic

http://www.governing.com/columns/urban-notebook/gov-traffic-housing-sun-belt.html

9 years ago

289 upvotes – 290 comments

The AI Threat Isn’t Skynet – It’s the End of the Middle Class

https://www.wired.com/2017/02/ai-threat-isnt-skynet-end-middle-class/

9 years ago

286 upvotes – 254 comments

Google Code-In winner whose Cameroon hometown is cut off from the internet

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-38922819

9 years ago

248 upvotes – 49 comments

The Curse of Smart People (2014)

http://apenwarr.ca/log/?m=201407#01

9 years ago

246 upvotes – 153 comments

Change at Buffer: The Next Phase, and Why Our Co-Founder and CTO Are Moving On

https://open.buffer.com/change-at-buffer/

9 years ago

237 upvotes – 150 comments

Ellie – An Elm Live Editor

https://www.humblespark.com/ellie-announcement/

9 years ago

224 upvotes – 84 comments

How Do You Know a Developer Is Doing a Good Job?

http://blog.professorbeekums.com/2017/01/how-do-you-know-developer-is-doing-good.html

9 years ago

217 upvotes – 212 comments

There Are Three Programming Paradigms (2013)

http://wiki.c2.com/?ThereAreExactlyThreeParadigms

9 years ago

216 upvotes – 111 comments

How Satya Nadella revived Microsoft

http://www.afr.com/brand/boss/how-satya-nadella-revived-microsoft-in-just-three-years-20161220-gtf1i7?&utm_source=social&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=nc&eid=socialn:twi-14omn0055-optim-nnn:nonpaid-27/06/2014-social_traffic-all-organicpost-nnn-afr-o&campaign_code=nocode&promote_channel=social_twitter

9 years ago

199 upvotes – 138 comments

Show HN: Aragon – Everything you need to run your company on Ethereum

https://aragon.one

9 years ago

191 upvotes – 117 comments

How New York City Gets Its Electricity

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/02/10/nyregion/how-new-york-city-gets-its-electricity-power-grid.html?pagewanted=all&hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

9 years ago

183 upvotes – 51 comments

Wall Street Is Giving Up On Twitter

https://www.bloomberg.com/gadfly/articles/2017-02-10/wall-street-is-giving-up-on-revenue-challenged-twitter

9 years ago

182 upvotes – 232 comments

UK Teen Hacked 150,000 Printers

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/this-teen-hacked-150000-printers-to-show-how-the-internet-of-things-is-shit?utm_source=mbnl

9 years ago

173 upvotes – 94 comments

Zelda: Link's Awakening: Kennel Glitch

http://artemis251.fobby.net/zelda/kennel/kennel.php

9 years ago

170 upvotes – 44 comments

Analysis of Soviet smoke detector plutonium

https://carlwillis.wordpress.com/2017/02/07/analysis-of-soviet-smoke-detector-plutonium/

9 years ago

169 upvotes – 34 comments

Fuzzing PCI express: security in plaintext

https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/02/fuzzing-PCI-Express-security-in-plaintext.html

9 years ago

161 upvotes – 19 comments

How the Flash Crash Trader’s $50M Fortune Vanished

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-02-10/how-the-flash-crash-trader-s-50-million-fortune-vanished

9 years ago

158 upvotes – 176 comments

Pom-pom crabs fight over tiny anemones, which they hold like boxing gloves

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/02/03/watch-pom-pom-crabs-fight-over-tiny-anemones-which-they-hold-like-boxing-gloves/

9 years ago

155 upvotes – 64 comments

Honest status reporting and AWS service status “truth”

https://blog.ably.io/honest-status-reporting-and-aws-service-status-truth-in-a-post-truth-world-8b9a31c8cc90

9 years ago

142 upvotes – 55 comments

Ask HN: Why Haven't GUI Front End Editors Caught On?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13616535

9 years ago

139 upvotes – 133 comments

Intel Confirms 8th Gen Core on 14nm, Data Center First to New Nodes

http://www.anandtech.com/show/11115/intel-confirms-8th-gen-core-on-14nm-data-center-first-to-new-nodes

9 years ago

130 upvotes – 64 comments

iCloud was storing cleared browsing histories

http://www.theverge.com/2017/2/9/14559376/apple-icloud-cleared-browsing-history-stored

9 years ago

129 upvotes – 67 comments

Jupiter From Below

https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/jpl/pia21381/jupiter-from-below-enhanced-color

9 years ago

125 upvotes – 23 comments

Grammar isn't merely part of language (2016)

http://www.dam.brown.edu/people/mumford/blog/2016/grammar.html

9 years ago

124 upvotes – 68 comments

Cryptographically Secure PHP Development

https://paragonie.com/blog/2017/02/cryptographically-secure-php-development

9 years ago

114 upvotes – 30 comments

How to play mathematics

https://aeon.co/essays/theres-more-maths-in-slugs-and-corals-than-we-can-think-of

9 years ago

109 upvotes – 16 comments

CPython migration to GitHub scheduled for today

https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2017-February/147341.html

9 years ago

105 upvotes – 46 comments

Submarine cable map

http://www.submarinecablemap.com/

9 years ago

103 upvotes – 35 comments

A GNU-Readline-like library for .NET

https://github.com/tsolarin/readline

9 years ago

★ 828 C# MIT
95 upvotes – 15 comments

Evolving Steam

http://steamcommunity.com/games/593110/announcements/detail/558846854614253751

9 years ago

94 upvotes – 52 comments

Monitor web page changes with Go

http://silviosimunic.com/blog/monitor-web-page-changes-with-go/

9 years ago

93 upvotes – 43 comments

Show HN: A React components library for building interactive maps

https://github.com/appbaseio/reactivemaps/blob/master/README.md

9 years ago

★ 942 JavaScript
88 upvotes – 10 comments

Last Page of The Great Gatsby (1997)

http://home.sprynet.com/~eric/Gatsby.htm

9 years ago

87 upvotes – 30 comments

Inside CERN's multi-megawatt data center

https://home.cern/about/computing

9 years ago

84 upvotes – 28 comments

Backing up a Linux system to Usenet

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/02/bored-with-ho-hum-cloud-backups-use-usenet-yes-usenet-instead/

9 years ago

80 upvotes – 79 comments

Revert the GitHub dark header

https://github.com/DennisSnijder/MakeGithubGreatAgain

9 years ago

★ 1k CSS
79 upvotes – 34 comments

Show HN: We Freelance, a community where freelancers share stories and resources

https://we-freelance.com

9 years ago

78 upvotes – 19 comments

Finland's Largest Trade Union Slams Basic Income as ‘Useless’

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-02-08/-useless-basic-income-trial-fails-test-at-biggest-finnish-union

9 years ago

76 upvotes – 121 comments

How UPS trucks saved millions of dollars by eliminating left turns

http://gadgets.ndtv.com/transportation/features/how-ups-trucks-saved-million-of-dollars-by-eliminating-left-turns-1657808

9 years ago

75 upvotes – 92 comments

Barney Frank: here's how to not waste your time pressuring lawmakers

https://mic.com/articles/167878/barney-frank-heres-how-to-not-waste-your-time-pressuring-lawmakers#.JnUQHPOt0

9 years ago

71 upvotes – 28 comments

Trump's visa plan leaks: American techies first

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/01/31/trumps_h1b_plan_leaks_american_techies_first/

9 years ago

68 upvotes – 71 comments

George Washington: A Descendant of Odin?

http://publicdomainreview.org/2017/02/08/george-washington-a-descendant-of-odin/

9 years ago

68 upvotes – 64 comments

Ask HN: How to make more than $1mn+/yr as a software engineer?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13613911

9 years ago

67 upvotes – 75 comments

Don’t Pursue Programming if You Aren’t Passionate About It

https://medium.com/@ebbv/dont-pursue-programming-if-you-aren-t-passionate-about-it-a5bd4e33cd01?source=linkShare-9058e34c01fe-1486724324

9 years ago

66 upvotes – 78 comments

How a fake story about Angela Merkel led to a far-right cluster on Reddit

https://medium.com/@DFRLab/spread-it-on-reddit-3170a463e787

9 years ago

66 upvotes – 64 comments
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