top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-02-19

Reflecting on one very, very strange year at Uber

https://www.susanjfowler.com/blog/2017/2/19/reflecting-on-one-very-strange-year-at-uber

9 years ago

4107 upvotes – 1013 comments

How I Ruined Office Productivity with a Face-Replacing Slack Bot

http://blog.zikes.me/post/how-i-ruined-office-productivity-with-a-slack-bot/

9 years ago

657 upvotes – 74 comments

Ask HN: What're the best-designed things you've ever used?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13682949

9 years ago

597 upvotes – 1064 comments

$5 Showdown: Linode vs. DigitalOcean vs. Amazon Lightsail vs. Vultr

https://joshtronic.com/2017/02/14/five-dollar-showdown-linode-vs-digitalocean-vs-lightsaild-vs-vultr/

9 years ago

482 upvotes – 151 comments

AMD Ryzen 7 1800X Benchmarked – Giving Intel’s $1000 Chips A Run For It

http://wccftech.com/amd-ryzen-7-1800x-8-core-benchmarks/

9 years ago

427 upvotes – 262 comments

Show HN: Generate a quiz from a Wikipedia page

https://github.com/alexgreene/WikiQuiz

9 years ago

★ 803JavaScriptMIT
388 upvotes – 85 comments

Norway: 37% of new vehicles sold in January were electric

https://electrek.co/2017/02/15/norway-electric-vehicle-market-share-record/

9 years ago

327 upvotes – 173 comments

Scientists have detected a major change to the Earth’s oceans

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/02/15/its-official-the-oceans-are-losing-oxygen-posing-growing-threats-to-marine-life/?utm_term=.8e8242767461

9 years ago

292 upvotes – 181 comments

Dear Apple

https://github.com/dear-apple/dear-apple

9 years ago

291 upvotes – 203 comments

Hero Patterns – A collection of SVG background patterns for your web projects

http://www.heropatterns.com

9 years ago

279 upvotes – 20 comments

Adventures in /usr/bin and the likes

http://ablagoev.github.io/linux/adventures/commands/2017/02/19/adventures-in-usr-bin.html

9 years ago

268 upvotes – 78 comments

Linux 4.10 is out

https://lwn.net/Articles/714943/

9 years ago

250 upvotes – 68 comments

The Mark Zuckerberg Manifesto Is a Blueprint for Destroying Journalism

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/02/the-mark-zuckerberg-manifesto-is-a-blueprint-for-destroying-journalism/517113/?single_page=true

9 years ago

238 upvotes – 195 comments

Java libraries you can't miss in 2017

http://blog.jevsejev.io/2017/02/19/java-libraries-you-cannot-miss-in-2017/?utm_source=ycombinator

9 years ago

237 upvotes – 101 comments

Teaching Kubernetes

http://blog.slashdeploy.com/2017/02/19/teaching-kubernetes/

9 years ago

223 upvotes – 85 comments

Amit’s Game Programming Information

http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~amitp/gameprog.html

9 years ago

213 upvotes – 13 comments

Recommendations about coding in C++

https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/the-ultimate-question-of-programming-refactoring-and-everything

9 years ago

200 upvotes – 66 comments

How terrible code gets written by sane people

http://chrismm.com/blog/how-terrible-code-gets-written-by-perfectly-sane-people/?2

9 years ago

197 upvotes – 144 comments

Geek Career Paths

https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2017/02/18/Geek-Career-Paths

9 years ago

175 upvotes – 37 comments

How copying an int made my code 11 times faster

https://medium.com/@robertgrosse/how-copying-an-int-made-my-code-11-times-faster-f76c66312e0f#.bg7ino1f9

9 years ago

168 upvotes – 51 comments

Kirby is a file-based CMS

https://getkirby.com/

9 years ago

166 upvotes – 97 comments

Growing a cron job monitoring side project into a real business

https://www.indiehackers.com/businesses/cronitor

9 years ago

160 upvotes – 27 comments

FCC chief wants smartphones’ hidden FM radios turned on

http://www.theverge.com/2017/2/16/14636508/ajit-pai-smartphone-fm-radio-activation

9 years ago

148 upvotes – 105 comments

Mathematics of Civilization V

http://civilization.wikia.com/wiki/Mathematics_of_Civilization_V

9 years ago

136 upvotes – 14 comments

Cafe overwhelmed with customers after it is accidentally awarded a Michelin star

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/02/18/workmens-cafe-overwhelmed-customers-accidentally-given-michelin/

9 years ago

136 upvotes – 43 comments

As Obesity Rises, Remote Pacific Islands Plan to Abandon Junk Food

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/19/world/asia/junk-food-ban-vanuatu.html?_r=0

9 years ago

129 upvotes – 137 comments

Torus development has been stopped at CoreOS

https://github.com/coreos/torus/commit/4df3e5633f466f90047071b995a41fca3ecca5ad

9 years ago

★ 1.7kGoApache-2.0
124 upvotes – 58 comments

SpaceX: CRS-10 Hosted webcast

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giNhaEzv_PI

9 years ago

124 upvotes – 39 comments

Getting started with vim

http://lucapette.me/getting-started-with-vim

9 years ago

123 upvotes – 90 comments

Ask HN: How can I volunteer my software skills online?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13678952

9 years ago

121 upvotes – 58 comments

The Great Moon Hoax

http://hoaxes.org/archive/permalink/the_great_moon_hoax

9 years ago

118 upvotes – 52 comments

Yahoo hack warning: What happened and should you be worried?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2017/02/16/yahoo-hack-warning-happened-should-worried/

9 years ago

115 upvotes – 40 comments

Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper (1807)

http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/amendI_speechs29.html

9 years ago

115 upvotes – 133 comments

Can Changing When and What We Eat Help Outwit Disease?

http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/02/19/514179856/can-changing-when-and-what-we-eat-help-outwit-disease

9 years ago

111 upvotes – 37 comments
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