top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-01-12

An Experimental Course on Operating Systems

https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs140e/

8 years ago

Tea if by sea, cha if by land: Why the world only has two words for tea

https://qz.com/1176962/map-how-the-word-tea-spread-over-land-and-sea-to-conquer-the-world/

8 years ago

Advice for First Time Founders

https://blog.ycombinator.com/advice-for-first-time-founders/

8 years ago

Harvard Study Shows Why Big Telecom Is Terrified of Community-Run Broadband

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/d345pv/harvard-study-shows-why-big-telecom-is-terrified-of-community-run-broadband

8 years ago

New DHS policy on demands for passwords to travelers’ electronic devices

https://papersplease.org/wp/2018/01/05/new-dhs-policy-on-demands-for-passwords-to-travelers-electronic-devices/

8 years ago

Half of the US government's financial assets are student loans

https://community.finimize.com/t/graphic-of-the-week/1044/25?u=anders_finimize

8 years ago

One model to learn them all

https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/01/12/one-model-to-learn-them-all/

8 years ago

Mothers who regret having children are speaking out

http://www.macleans.ca/regretful-mothers/

8 years ago

Facebook Overhauls News Feed to Focus on What Friends and Family Share

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/11/technology/facebook-news-feed.html

8 years ago

Dogecoin's inventor looks to the past for insight into the future

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/9kng57/dogecoin-my-joke-cryptocurrency-hit-2-billion-jackson-palmer-opinion

8 years ago

Intel Security Issue Update: Addressing Reboot Issues

https://newsroom.intel.com/news/intel-security-issue-update-addressing-reboot-issues/

8 years ago

Firefox bullshit removal

https://gist.github.com/haasn/69e19fc2fe0e25f3cff5

8 years ago

DNSFS – Store files in others' DNS resolver caches

https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/dns-filesystem-true-cloud-storage-dnsfs

8 years ago

Social Media: Making Us Dumber?

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/11/opinion/social-media-dumber-steven-pinker.html

8 years ago

Things you must know before you can understand Meltdown as a developer

https://razorpay.com/blog/meltdown-paper-summary/

8 years ago

Why is the ocean salty?

https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/whysalty.html

8 years ago

MacBook Pro? No

http://shahidkamal.com/macbook-pro-no/

8 years ago

How to sleep a million years (2013)

https://idea.popcount.org/2013-07-19-how-to-sleep-a-million-years/

8 years ago

How Oprah Winfrey Helped Create Our Irrational, Pseudoscientific Fantasyland

https://slate.com/health-and-science/2018/01/oprah-winfrey-helped-create-our-irrational-pseudoscientific-american-fantasyland.html

8 years ago

Visualizing Meltdown on AWS

https://blog.appoptics.com/visualizing-meltdown-aws/

8 years ago

How to Think Like a Medieval Monk (2017)

https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/how-think-medieval-monk

8 years ago

Create mixed reality models in PowerShell

http://www.cosmosdarwin.com/2018/01/12/create-mixed-reality-models-in-powershell.html

8 years ago

Online shopping in Africa doesn’t work because of shipping and billing forms

https://medium.com/@oquidave/online-shopping-in-africa-doesnt-work-because-of-this-web-form-e4974a8d165a

8 years ago

Show HN: Bato – A Filipino Programming Language

https://github.com/jjuliano/bato

8 years ago

★ 345 Ruby MIT

How to Interview Entry Level Software Engineers

https://technology.cloverhealth.com/how-to-interview-entry-level-software-engineers-daaecf9db97

8 years ago

Rat poison from pot farms is poisoning owls, study finds

http://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Rat-poison-from-pot-farms-poisoning-owls-study-12489063.php

8 years ago

Wood gas vehicles: firewood in the fuel tank

http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2010/01/wood-gas-cars.html

8 years ago

A Security Issue in Intel’s Active Management Technology

https://business.f-secure.com/intel-amt-security-issue

8 years ago

H3: A Hexagonal Hierarchical Geospatial Indexing System

https://github.com/uber/h3

8 years ago

★ 6.2k C Apache-2.0

A proof-of-concept system for counter-surveillance against spy drones

https://www.wired.com/story/a-clever-radio-trick-can-tell-if-a-drone-is-watching-you/

8 years ago

Kotlin: The Problem with null

http://arturdryomov.online/posts/kotlin-the-problem-with-null/

8 years ago

Fifty Years of Shannon Theory (1998) [pdf]

https://www.princeton.edu/~verdu/reprints/IT44.6.2057-2078.pdf

8 years ago

Real World Crypto 2018

https://rwc.iacr.org/2018/

8 years ago

Ex-Google Employee's Memo Says Executives Shut Down Pro-Diversity Discussions

https://gizmodo.com/ex-google-employees-memo-says-executives-shut-down-pro-1821996513

8 years ago

Mechanical Computing Systems Using Only Links and Rotary Joints

https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.03534

8 years ago

'The desire to have a child never goes away': The Involuntarily Childless

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/oct/02/the-desire-to-have-a-child-never-goes-away-how-the-involuntarily-childless-are-forming-a-new-movement

8 years ago

The browser “Brave” loads major news sites 2x – 8x faster

https://brave.com/

8 years ago

The Stress of Remote Working

https://hackernoon.com/the-stress-of-remote-working-38be5bdcf4da

8 years ago

Mr. Amazon Steps Out

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/12/technology/jeff-bezos-amazon.html

8 years ago

Intel Security Issue Update: Initial Performance Data Results for Client Systems

https://newsroom.intel.com/editorials/intel-security-issue-update-initial-performance-data-results-client-systems/

8 years ago

Hacker News equivalent for other fields

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16133952

8 years ago