top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-10-14

The impossible dream of USB-C

https://marco.org/2017/10/14/impossible-dream-of-usb-c

8 years ago

635 upvotes – 306 comments

The software engineering notebook

http://winterflower.github.io/2017/08/17/software-engineering-notebook/

8 years ago

357 upvotes – 130 comments

IGN acquires Humble Bundle

https://techcrunch.com/2017/10/13/ign-acquires-pay-what-you-want-game-shop-humble-bundle/

8 years ago

340 upvotes – 171 comments

How JavaScript works: Event loop and the rise of Async programming

https://blog.sessionstack.com/how-javascript-works-event-loop-and-the-rise-of-async-programming-5-ways-to-better-coding-with-2f077c4438b5

8 years ago

336 upvotes – 141 comments

Using the Web Audio API to Make a Modem

https://martinmelhus.com/web-audio-modem/

8 years ago

307 upvotes – 63 comments

Coding Interview Cheatsheet

https://github.com/yangshun/tech-interview-handbook/blob/master/preparing/cheatsheet.md

8 years ago

★ 139kTypeScriptMIT
294 upvotes – 78 comments

Call for help: fund GIMP development and Libre animation

https://girinstud.io/news/2017/10/call-for-help-fund-gimp-development-libre-animation/

8 years ago

283 upvotes – 87 comments

Notes on Data Structures and Programming Techniques

http://cs.yale.edu/homes/aspnes/classes/223/notes.html

8 years ago

276 upvotes – 27 comments

Recompiler: Porting Xbox360 Executables to Windows

https://github.com/rexdex/recompiler#porting-xbox360-executables-to-windows

8 years ago

★ 1.7kC++MIT
265 upvotes – 58 comments

Paperclips

http://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/index2.html

8 years ago

257 upvotes – 112 comments

Some Insights from a Julia Developer

http://www.stochasticlifestyle.com/like-julia-scales-productive-insights-julia-developer/

8 years ago

255 upvotes – 236 comments

What I Learned from Reading Every Amazon Shareholders Letter

https://medium.com/@gsvpioneer/what-i-learned-from-reading-every-amazon-shareholders-letter-cdc35f309e8b

8 years ago

228 upvotes – 72 comments

There's No Fire Alarm for Artificial General Intelligence

https://intelligence.org/2017/10/13/fire-alarm/

8 years ago

219 upvotes – 206 comments

Inside the vintage Xerox Alto's display, a tiny lightbulb keeps it working

http://www.righto.com/2017/10/inside-vintage-xerox-altos-display-tiny.html

8 years ago

206 upvotes – 50 comments

Wolf Puppies Are Adorable, Then Comes the Call of the Wild

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/13/science/wolves-dogs-genetics.html

8 years ago

198 upvotes – 147 comments

I was sexually assaulted at Equinox and banned for reporting it

https://medium.com/@ColinHeilbut/i-was-sexually-assaulted-at-equinox-and-banned-for-reporting-it-b82a266fe25d

8 years ago

196 upvotes – 31 comments

Houston homeowners unaware that reservoir neighbourhoods are designed to flood

https://projects.propublica.org/graphics/harvey-reservoirs

8 years ago

193 upvotes – 175 comments

Data structures and algorithms interview questions and their solutions

https://techiedelight.quora.com/500-Data-Structures-and-Algorithms-practice-problems-and-their-solutions?__filter__&__nsrc__=2&__snid3__=1594232728&share=1

8 years ago

180 upvotes – 32 comments

Airbus Corruption Scandal May Lead Straight to the Top

http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/airbus-corruption-scandal-threatens-ceo-tom-enders-a-1171533.html

8 years ago

170 upvotes – 87 comments

F.lux v4

https://justgetflux.com/news/pages/v4/bigupdate/?v=4.55

8 years ago

155 upvotes – 97 comments

It's Time for a New Old Language – Guy Steele [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCuZkaaou0Q

8 years ago

152 upvotes – 45 comments

Tesla fired hundreds of employees in past week

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-tesla-jobs/tesla-fired-hundreds-of-employees-in-past-week-idUSKBN1CJ00L

8 years ago

136 upvotes – 144 comments

The real roots of early city states may rip up the textbooks

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23631462-700-the-real-roots-of-early-city-states-may-rip-up-the-textbooks/

8 years ago

133 upvotes – 77 comments

We fired our top talent. Best decision we ever made

https://medium.freecodecamp.org/we-fired-our-top-talent-best-decision-we-ever-made-4c0a99728fde

8 years ago

133 upvotes – 125 comments

Adguard found 220 sites that launch mining when a user opens their main page

https://blog.adguard.com/en/crypto-mining-fever/

8 years ago

129 upvotes – 80 comments

Elon Musk, ask me anything about BFR

https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/76e79c/i_am_elon_musk_ask_me_anything_about_bfr/

8 years ago

126 upvotes – 59 comments

Fraud Scandals Sap China’s Dream of Becoming a Science Superpower

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/13/world/asia/china-science-fraud-scandals.html

8 years ago

126 upvotes – 123 comments

Becoming a Steelworker Liberated Her, Then Her Job Moved to Mexico

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/14/us/union-jobs-mexico-rexnord.html

8 years ago

118 upvotes – 146 comments

A Boy and His Atom: Smallest Stop-Motion Film [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSCX78-8-q0

8 years ago

115 upvotes – 32 comments

Micro Front ends – extending the microservice idea to front end development

https://micro-frontends.org/

8 years ago

114 upvotes – 50 comments

Traceroute Lies: A Typical Misinterpretation Of Output

http://movingpackets.net/2017/10/06/misinterpreting-traceroute/

8 years ago

111 upvotes – 14 comments

The scale of tech winners

http://ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2017/10/12/scale-wetxp

8 years ago

111 upvotes – 62 comments

Waymo's big self-drive car report

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2017/10/5-things-we-learned-from-waymos-big-self-driving-car-report/

8 years ago

102 upvotes – 43 comments

SoftBank Close to Announcing Merger Deal for Sprint, T-Mobile

https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Deals/SoftBank-close-to-announcing-merger-deal-for-Sprint-T-Mobile

8 years ago

97 upvotes – 66 comments

Easter Island: a sustainable society has been falsely blamed for its own demise

https://theconversation.com/the-truth-about-easter-island-a-sustainable-society-has-been-falsely-blamed-for-its-own-demise-85563?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=The%20Weekend%20Conversation%20-%2085557084&utm_content=The%20Weekend%20Conversation%20-%2085557084+CID_f6932313f594bf0e743904f2f6d25bb4&utm_source=campaign_monitor_uk&utm_term=The%20truth%20about%20Easter%20Island%20a%20sustainable%20society%20has%20been%20falsely%20blamed%20for%20its%20own%20demise

8 years ago

97 upvotes – 20 comments

Seymour: Live Programming for the Classroom

https://harc.github.io/seymour-live2017/

8 years ago

88 upvotes – 8 comments

A few things I know about Lisp Machines

http://fare.tunes.org/LispM.html

8 years ago

85 upvotes – 7 comments

A Case for Clojure and GraphQL: Replacing Django

https://ckl.io/?p=5590

8 years ago

83 upvotes – 55 comments

Michel Jouvet, Who Unlocked REM Sleep’s Secrets, Dies at 91

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/11/obituaries/michel-jouvet-who-unlocked-rem-sleeps-secrets-dies-at-91.html?module=WatchingPortal&region=c-column-middle-span-region&pgType=Homepage&action=click&mediaId=thumb_square&state=standard&contentPlacement=17&version=internal&contentCollection=www.nytimes.com&contentId=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2017%2F10%2F11%2Fobituaries%2Fmichel-jouvet-who-unlocked-rem-sleeps-secrets-dies-at-91.html&eventName=Watching-article-click&_r=0

8 years ago

81 upvotes – 6 comments
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