top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-04-09

The Utter Uselessness of Job Interviews

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/08/opinion/sunday/the-utter-uselessness-of-job-interviews.html

9 years ago

563 upvotes – 400 comments

Does it scale? Who cares (2011)

https://jacquesmattheij.com/does-it-scale-who-cares

9 years ago

431 upvotes – 273 comments

Farmers look for ways to circumvent tractor software locks

http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2017/04/09/523024776/farmers-look-for-ways-to-circumvent-tractor-software-locks

9 years ago

428 upvotes – 343 comments

A quick look at the Ikea Trådfri lighting platform

https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/47803.html

9 years ago

412 upvotes – 137 comments

Textbook manifesto (2016)

http://greenteapress.com/wp/textbook-manifesto/

9 years ago

369 upvotes – 156 comments

How do you make programmers work 60-80 hours per week?

http://brianknapp.me/programmer-60-80-hour-weeks/

9 years ago

270 upvotes – 192 comments

High prevalence of diabetes among people exposed to organophosphates in India

https://genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13059-016-1134-6

9 years ago

268 upvotes – 94 comments

The presence of microplastics in commercial salts from different countries

http://www.nature.com/articles/srep46173

9 years ago

223 upvotes – 56 comments

How ski lifts are installed: Vail's new Chair 5 (2011) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CSxkYnyFg0

9 years ago

218 upvotes – 82 comments

Photos from Inside North Korea (2014)

http://www.earthnutshell.com/100-photos-from-north-korea-part1/

9 years ago

205 upvotes – 57 comments

Ponzu – An open-source HTTP server framework and CMS in Go

https://github.com/ponzu-cms/ponzu

9 years ago

★ 5.7kGoBSD-3-Clause
204 upvotes – 41 comments

GCC 7 Release Series – Changes, New Features, and Fixes

https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-7/changes.html

9 years ago

201 upvotes – 85 comments

How a Large Customer Can Kill a Startup

http://www.howardlove.com/dancing-elephants-dangerous/

9 years ago

197 upvotes – 56 comments

Ask HN: What are pros and cons of PostgreSQL and MySQL?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14070930

9 years ago

186 upvotes – 210 comments

Programming ARM Cortex-M Microcontrollers with Rust

https://github.com/japaric/copper

9 years ago

★ 292RustApache-2.0
179 upvotes – 57 comments

Unreasonable Ineffectiveness of Machine Learning in Computer Systems Research

https://www.sigarch.org/the-unreasonable-ineffectiveness-of-machine-learning-in-computer-systems-research/

9 years ago

168 upvotes – 97 comments

Bitcoin's ASICBOOST Problem Explained [pdf]

http://rubin.io/public/pdfs/Asicboost.pdf

9 years ago

152 upvotes – 123 comments

MathJax CDN shutting down on April 30, 2017

https://www.mathjax.org/cdn-shutting-down/

9 years ago

151 upvotes – 75 comments

PlatformIO, open source ecosystem for IoT

http://platformio.org/

9 years ago

143 upvotes – 34 comments

Spring vs. Java EE

https://gist.github.com/philwebb/b0ebfd4fc7c5c519d82361b8e9744fa4

9 years ago

140 upvotes – 116 comments

Why the Dow is a useless market index

http://erikrood.com/Posts/DJIA.html

9 years ago

129 upvotes – 63 comments

Uber banned in all of Italy

http://mashable.com/2017/04/07/uber-blocked-italy/

9 years ago

128 upvotes – 287 comments

Whereami – Using WiFi signals and machine learning to predict where you are

https://github.com/kootenpv/whereami/blob/master/README.md

9 years ago

★ 5.1kPythonAGPL-3.0
127 upvotes – 19 comments

Forget coding, we need to teach our kids how to dream

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/04/forget-coding-we-need-to-teach-our-kids-how-to-dream

9 years ago

120 upvotes – 73 comments

Identifying HTTPS-Protected Netflix Videos in Real Time [pdf]

http://www.mjkranch.com/docs/CODASPY17_Kranch_Reed_IdentifyingHTTPSNetflix.pdf

9 years ago

120 upvotes – 28 comments

OS/2 2.0, Summer ’91 Edition

http://www.os2museum.com/wp/os2-2-0-summer-91-edition/

9 years ago

119 upvotes – 103 comments

Sleep Is the New Status Symbol

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/08/fashion/sleep-tips-and-tools.html

9 years ago

115 upvotes – 56 comments

After Moving Servers to Russia, LiveJournal Bans ‘Political Solicitation’

https://advox.globalvoices.org/2017/04/04/after-moving-servers-to-russia-livejournal-bans-political-solicitation/

9 years ago

106 upvotes – 38 comments

Let's Fix OpenGL [pdf]

http://www.cs.cornell.edu/~asampson/media/papers/opengl-snapl2017-preprint.pdf

9 years ago

103 upvotes – 51 comments

3D support for X11 guests

https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/X11Guest3D

9 years ago

99 upvotes – 73 comments

Graffiti 'dying out' as kids dump spray cans for Instagram, Twitter etc.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/04/07/social_media_blamed_for_drop_in_graffiti_art/

9 years ago

96 upvotes – 57 comments

Ops in the serverless world: monitoring, logging, config management

https://medium.com/@theburningmonk/yubls-road-to-serverless-part-3-ops-6c82139bb7ee

9 years ago

95 upvotes – 48 comments

Effective Engineering Productivity

http://www.codesimplicity.com/post/effective-engineering-productivity/

9 years ago

92 upvotes – 25 comments

Pioneers of Soviet Computing [pdf]

http://www.sigcis.org/files/SIGCISMC2010_001.pdf

9 years ago

91 upvotes – 21 comments

The de Havilland Comet changed aviation for good

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170404-the-british-airliner-that-changed-the-world

9 years ago

84 upvotes – 60 comments
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