top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-11-23

I'm on the FCC. Please stop us from killing net neutrality

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-rosenworcel-fcc-net-neutrality-repeal-20171122-story.html

8 years ago

966 upvotes – 407 comments

“I thought I could ship at least 700 units to stay in business”

https://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/ConstantinBacioiu/20171121/310012/Post_Mortem_I_thought_I_could_ship_at_least_700_units_to_stay_in_business.php

8 years ago

585 upvotes – 335 comments

Workers at Amazon's main Italian hub, German warehouses strike on Black Friday

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-amazon-italy-strike/workers-at-amazons-main-italian-site-to-hold-first-strike-on-black-friday-idUSKBN1DN1DS

8 years ago

419 upvotes – 324 comments

Why we never thank open source maintainers

https://windsooon.github.io/2017/11/23/Why%20we%20never%20thank%20open%20source%20maintainers/

8 years ago

382 upvotes – 209 comments

Show HN: Nebula – Alarm clock where you grow stars while you sleep

https://alextumanov.com/

8 years ago

345 upvotes – 154 comments

Using a logbook to improve your programming

https://routley.io/tech/2017/11/23/logbook.html

8 years ago

295 upvotes – 74 comments

Dither stabilisation

https://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=40832.msg1363742#msg1363742

8 years ago

291 upvotes – 20 comments

Glowstone: open-source Minecraft server

https://glowstone.net

8 years ago

290 upvotes – 76 comments

FCC Releases Net Neutrality Killing Order, Hopes You're Too Busy Cooking Turkey

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20171122/09473038669/fcc-releases-net-neutrality-killing-order-hopes-youre-too-busy-cooking-turkey-to-read-it.shtml

8 years ago

272 upvotes – 58 comments

To Save Net Neutrality, We Must Build Our Own Internet

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/7x4y8a/net-neutrality-fcc-community-networks

8 years ago

266 upvotes – 156 comments

How to Stop Advertising Notifications from the Google Photo App

https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/photos/qwJMmOiAvZY;context-place=forum/photos

8 years ago

264 upvotes – 139 comments

I don’t want to be a software developer anymore

https://medium.com/@melissamcewen/i-just-dont-want-to-be-a-software-developer-anymore-a371422069a1

8 years ago

256 upvotes – 305 comments

Improving Ruby Performance with Rust

https://blog.codeship.com/improving-ruby-performance-with-rust/

8 years ago

235 upvotes – 71 comments

From Markdown to remote code execution in Atom

https://statuscode.ch/2017/11/from-markdown-to-rce-in-atom/

8 years ago

234 upvotes – 145 comments

Ditching Go for Node.js

https://github.com/maxpert/raspchat/releases/tag/v1.0.0-alpha

8 years ago

★ 422 JavaScript MIT
234 upvotes – 176 comments

Announcing Rust 1.22

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2017/11/22/Rust-1.22.html

8 years ago

233 upvotes – 99 comments

Ethereum Now Handles More Transactions Than All Digital Currencies Combined

http://www.trustnodes.com/2017/11/22/ethereum-now-handles-transactions-digital-currencies-combined

8 years ago

220 upvotes – 134 comments

Bitcoin Is More Expensive to Keep Safe Than Gold

https://www.fool.sg/2017/11/22/bitcoin-is-15-times-more-expensive-to-keep-safe-than-gold/

8 years ago

210 upvotes – 137 comments

The Government Is Keeping a U.S. Citizen Secretly Locked Up Without Charges

https://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security/detention/trump-administration-keeping-us-citizen-secretly-locked-without

8 years ago

201 upvotes – 63 comments

Run Windows 2000 in your browser

https://bellard.org/jslinux/vm.html?url=https://bellard.org/jslinux/win2k.cfg&mem=192&graphic=1&w=1024&h=768

8 years ago

190 upvotes – 78 comments

Station X Linux Machines

https://stationx.rocks/

8 years ago

189 upvotes – 169 comments

VCV Rack – Open-source virtual modular synthesizer

https://vcvrack.com/

8 years ago

173 upvotes – 52 comments

Gofpdf: Generate PDFs from Go with No Dependencies

https://github.com/jung-kurt/gofpdf#gofpdf

8 years ago

★ 4.4k Go MIT
168 upvotes – 34 comments

Ajit Pai and the FCC want it to be legal for Comcast to block BitTorrent

https://www.theverge.com/2017/11/22/16691794/net-neutrality-fcc-ajit-pai-comcast-block-bittorrent

8 years ago

162 upvotes – 46 comments

Armed with tough computer chips, scientists are ready to return to Venus

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/11/armed-tough-computer-chips-scientists-are-ready-return-hell-venus

8 years ago

147 upvotes – 20 comments

Last Words of Programmer Bill Zeller (2011)

https://gizmodo.com/5726667/the-agonizing-last-words-of-bill-zeller

8 years ago

145 upvotes – 44 comments

Cloudflare Might Be Exploring a Way to Slow Down Ajit Pai's Home Internet Speed

https://twitter.com/eastdakota/status/933490344624304130

8 years ago

145 upvotes – 71 comments

That Interstellar Asteroid Is Pretty Strange

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/outthere/2017/11/23/interstellar-asteroid-mystery/

8 years ago

143 upvotes – 67 comments

Hijacking Bitcoin: Routing Attacks on Cryptocurrencies

https://btc-hijack.ethz.ch/

8 years ago

141 upvotes – 45 comments

Thanks Homebrew maintainers and contributors

https://discourse.brew.sh/t/thanks-to-all-the-maintainers-and-contributors/1334

8 years ago

139 upvotes – 20 comments

FCC ignored your net neutrality comment unless you made ‘serious’ legal argument

https://www.theverge.com/2017/11/22/16689838/fcc-net-neutrality-comments-were-largely-ignored

8 years ago

117 upvotes – 50 comments

AI-controlled brain implants for mood disorders tested in people

http://www.nature.com/news/ai-controlled-brain-implants-for-mood-disorders-tested-in-people-1.23031

8 years ago

116 upvotes – 34 comments

Atari and the dawn of video game culture

https://thesixfifty.com/game-changer-lasting-legacy-of-the-atari-2600-4bea9717bf3

8 years ago

116 upvotes – 0 comments

Due to Bitcoin network fees, customer loses $10 trying to buy $25 game on Steam

https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/7e7wsq/shady_business_of_bitpay_buy_29_game_on_steam/

8 years ago

115 upvotes – 70 comments

Run the First Edition of Unix with Docker

https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/run-the-first-edition-of-unix-1972-with-docker

8 years ago

114 upvotes – 25 comments

Windows 10 switchover will cost Linux champion Munich €50m

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/windows-10-switchover-will-cost-linux-champion-munich-50m/?ftag=COS-05-10aaa0g&utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A%20Trending%20Content&utm_content=5a14ac6f00bd470007dd3c20&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter

8 years ago

109 upvotes – 75 comments

Faecal transplant effectively treats recurrent or unresponsive Clostridium diff

https://discover.dc.nihr.ac.uk/portal/article?id=SIG-5000506&utm_content=buffere8198&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

8 years ago

106 upvotes – 49 comments

Why 3D doesn't work and never will (2011)

http://www.rogerebert.com/rogers-journal/why-3d-doesnt-work-and-never-will-case-closed

8 years ago

104 upvotes – 91 comments

Quantum Algorithm Zoo

http://math.nist.gov/quantum/zoo/

8 years ago

95 upvotes – 6 comments

Cling – An interactive C++ interpreter built on top of LLVM and Clang

https://root.cern.ch/cling

8 years ago

91 upvotes – 21 comments

Treasury Department Concludes Fraud Investigation into Internet Safety Software

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/11/treasury-inspector-general-concludes-fraud-investigation-computercop-internet

8 years ago

88 upvotes – 1 comments

A logarithmic image transformation (2008)

http://www.josleys.com/article_show.php?id=82

8 years ago

87 upvotes – 4 comments

Call of Duty WW2 has made a significant step forward in face rendering

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2017/11/23/call-of-duty-ww2-graphics/

8 years ago

84 upvotes – 27 comments

Tim Ferris comments on his move from Silicon Valley

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/7erct8/i_am_tim_ferriss_host_of_the_tim_ferriss_show_and/dq6zrh1?context=1

8 years ago

83 upvotes – 3 comments

Jobs people are most likely to inherit from their mother and father

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/11/22/upshot/the-jobs-youre-most-likely-to-inherit-from-your-mother-and-father.html

8 years ago

83 upvotes – 48 comments

Why we have banned default exports in JavaScript

https://blog.neufund.org/why-we-have-banned-default-exports-javascript-and-you-should-do-the-same-d51fdc2cf2ad

8 years ago

82 upvotes – 72 comments

History of Ball Bearings (1981) [pdf]

https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19810009866.pdf

8 years ago

78 upvotes – 12 comments

Impact of Depression and Its Treatment on Productivity

https://acesounderglass.com/2017/11/20/impact-of-depression-and-its-treatment-on-productivity/

8 years ago

77 upvotes – 5 comments

SWORD dropbox: An OpenWRT-based DIY disposable pen-test tool

https://medium.com/@tomac/a-15-openwrt-based-diy-pen-test-dropbox-26a98a5fa5e5

8 years ago

76 upvotes – 5 comments
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