top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-01-21

The Death of Microservice Madness in 2018

http://www.dwmkerr.com/the-death-of-microservice-madness-in-2018/

8 years ago

993 upvotes – 441 comments

A summary of what quantitative trading firms do

https://blog.headlandstech.com/2017/08/03/quantitative-trading-summary/

8 years ago

545 upvotes – 118 comments

The city I write this in protected its name, so I am not allowed to use it

https://blog.r3bl.me/en/the-city-whose-name-i-cannot-mention/

8 years ago

483 upvotes – 163 comments

Brushing up on operating systems and C programming

http://www.shubhro.com/2018/01/20/brushing-up-os-c/

8 years ago

422 upvotes – 85 comments

Fellow Engineers: This is where your money comes from

https://lianza.org/blog/2018/01/21/fellow-engineers-this-is-where-your-money-comes-from/

8 years ago

341 upvotes – 144 comments

Org-Mode for Visual Studio Code

https://github.com/ajtoo/vscode-org-mode

8 years ago

★ 1.7k TypeScript GPL-3.0
331 upvotes – 124 comments

Guide to JavaScript Frameworks

https://javascriptreport.com/the-ultimate-guide-to-javascript-frameworks/

8 years ago

325 upvotes – 225 comments

Inside Amazon Go

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/21/technology/inside-amazon-go-a-store-of-the-future.html

8 years ago

317 upvotes – 283 comments

Reverse Engineering a Mysterious UDP Stream in My Hotel (2016)

https://gkbrk.com/2016/05/hotel-music/

8 years ago

266 upvotes – 15 comments

Surfers three times more likely to have antibiotic-resistant bacteria in guts

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-01/uoe-stt011118.php

8 years ago

238 upvotes – 84 comments

The Rise of German Board Games

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2018/01/german-board-games-catan/550826/?single_page=true

8 years ago

237 upvotes – 127 comments

The CLARA Method of De-Escalation

https://calimac.dreamwidth.org/798770.html

8 years ago

233 upvotes – 70 comments

Dvxk: A Vulkan-Based D3D11 Implementation for Linux with Wine

https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk

8 years ago

★ 17k C++ Zlib
216 upvotes – 51 comments

Why is only half of Mars magnetized?

http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2008/1710.html

8 years ago

206 upvotes – 28 comments

Donald Knuth turns 80, seeks problem-solvers for The Art of Computer Programming

https://developers.slashdot.org/story/18/01/21/1853236/donald-knuth-turns-80-seeks-problem-solvers-for-taocp

8 years ago

204 upvotes – 41 comments

Why you can’t buy a high-end graphics card at Best Buy

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/01/cryptocurrency-boom-creates-insane-global-graphics-card-shortage/

8 years ago

200 upvotes – 210 comments

Redox OS Crash Challenge

https://github.com/redox-os/redox/issues/1136

8 years ago

★ 16.2k Rust MIT
179 upvotes – 80 comments

High-end art is one of the most manipulated markets (2013)

https://qz.com/103091/high-end-art-is-one-of-the-most-manipulated-markets-in-the-world/

8 years ago

173 upvotes – 146 comments

Show HN: 2D multiplayer battle royale game

http://surviv.io/

8 years ago

163 upvotes – 40 comments

Show HN: On-disk B+ tree for Python 3

https://github.com/NicolasLM/bplustree

8 years ago

★ 770 Python MIT
159 upvotes – 21 comments

More Things I Wish I’d Known About Bash

https://zwischenzugs.com/ten-more-things-i-wish-id-known-about-bash/

8 years ago

150 upvotes – 49 comments

Yacob and Amo: African precursors to Enlightenment thinkers

https://aeon.co/essays/yacob-and-amo-africas-precursors-to-locke-hume-and-kant

8 years ago

149 upvotes – 50 comments

Mobile Device Management invades privacy

https://blog.cdemi.io/never-accept-an-mdm-policy-on-your-personal-phone/

8 years ago

145 upvotes – 72 comments

Help Recover Climate Data from Old Ship Logs

https://www.oldweather.org/

8 years ago

144 upvotes – 7 comments

Low-Latency Video Processing Using Thousands of Tiny Threads [pdf]

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/nsdi17/nsdi17-fouladi.pdf

8 years ago

140 upvotes – 31 comments

I am a roboticist in a cheese factory

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/i-am-a-roboticist-in-a-cheese-factory/

8 years ago

139 upvotes – 89 comments

Year in Pixels

https://year-in-pixels.glitch.me/

8 years ago

132 upvotes – 35 comments

A Simple Compiler in JavaScript

https://github.com/mgechev/tiny-compiler/blob/master/tiny.js

8 years ago

★ 776 JavaScript
126 upvotes – 38 comments

Chemotherapy, Then and Now

https://www.sarah-constantin.org/blog/2018/1/14/chemotherapy-then-and-now

8 years ago

120 upvotes – 59 comments

United States v. Microsoft Corp

http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/united-states-v-microsoft-corp/

8 years ago

119 upvotes – 27 comments

Ask HN: Remote workers, how do you show your work?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16197364

8 years ago

105 upvotes – 45 comments

Replace Skype with Discord for Better Audio Quality and Web-Based Interviews

https://www.macobserver.com/tips/deep-dive/podcasters-replace-skype-discord/

8 years ago

98 upvotes – 57 comments

Inside Moscow's Metro

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-sight/wp/2018/01/19/inside-the-theater-of-moscows-metro/

8 years ago

95 upvotes – 47 comments

The Joys of Victimhood (1989)

http://www.nytimes.com/1989/07/02/magazine/the-joys-of-victimhood.html?pagewanted=2&pagewanted=all

8 years ago

93 upvotes – 68 comments
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