top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-01-23

Ursula Le Guin has died

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/23/obituaries/ursula-k-le-guin-acclaimed-for-her-fantasy-fiction-is-dead-at-88.html

8 years ago

1125 upvotes – 188 comments

Ending Bitcoin Support

https://stripe.com/blog/ending-bitcoin-support

8 years ago

989 upvotes – 625 comments

Facebook open-sources Detectron

https://research.fb.com/facebook-open-sources-detectron/

8 years ago

801 upvotes – 178 comments

DuckDuckGo moves beyond search to also protect you while browsing

https://spreadprivacy.com/privacy-simplified/

8 years ago

727 upvotes – 322 comments

Show HN: Self-generated custom art for your home or Airbnb

https://www.eliotand.me

8 years ago

644 upvotes – 166 comments

Hetzner Cloud

https://www.hetzner.com/cloud

8 years ago

579 upvotes – 335 comments

Branchless Doom

https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/movfuscator/tree/master/validation/doom

8 years ago

★ 10.1kC
454 upvotes – 80 comments

Firefox 58

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/58.0/releasenotes/

8 years ago

359 upvotes – 191 comments

Why Discrete Math Is Important

https://artofproblemsolving.com/articles/discrete-math

8 years ago

297 upvotes – 124 comments

Amazon Go and the Future

https://stratechery.com/2018/amazons-go-and-the-future

8 years ago

284 upvotes – 172 comments

In-N-Out managers earn triple the industry average

https://medium.californiasun.co/in-n-out-store-managers-earn-160000-wages-b08fe6f1706f

8 years ago

280 upvotes – 203 comments

The U.S. drops out of the top 10 in innovation ranking

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-22/south-korea-tops-global-innovation-ranking-again-as-u-s-falls

8 years ago

251 upvotes – 139 comments

Craft Beer Is the Strangest, Happiest Economic Story in America

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2018/01/craft-beer-industry/550850/?single_page=true

8 years ago

240 upvotes – 163 comments

Show HN: Paper Programs – Run JavaScript on pieces of paper

https://paperprograms.org/

8 years ago

235 upvotes – 52 comments

It Takes Two Neurons to Ride a Bicycle (2004)

http://paradise.caltech.edu/~cook/papers/TwoNeurons.pdf

8 years ago

234 upvotes – 87 comments

Tsunami warning ends for B.C. after large earthquake strikes off Alaska

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/alaska-earthquake-tsunami-1.4499558

8 years ago

233 upvotes – 90 comments

Employees at Practice Fusion got nothing as execs pocketed millions

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/23/practice-fusion-workers-got-nothing-in-deal-as-execs-made-millions.html

8 years ago

227 upvotes – 136 comments

Reducing Memory Usage in Ruby

https://tenderlovemaking.com/2018/01/23/reducing-memory-usage-in-ruby.html

8 years ago

222 upvotes – 56 comments

Forging a Swiss Lens: How Zurich's tech scene changed my view of SV

https://nextrends.swissnexsanfrancisco.org/forging-a-swiss-lens-3-ways-zurich-changed-my-view-of-silicon-valley/

8 years ago

219 upvotes – 193 comments

The 10,000 Year Clock

http://longnow.org/clock/

8 years ago

200 upvotes – 56 comments

GitLab 10.4 released

https://about.gitlab.com/2018/01/22/gitlab-10-4-released/

8 years ago

198 upvotes – 169 comments

Taking Equifax to Small Claims Court

https://medium.com/@christianhaigh/i-won-8-000-from-equifax-in-small-claims-court-heres-how-you-can-too-f0ce6925c079

8 years ago

194 upvotes – 56 comments

The Challenges of Being in the New Contract Workforce

https://www.npr.org/2018/01/23/579720874/will-work-for-no-benefits-the-challenges-of-being-in-the-new-contract-workforce

8 years ago

193 upvotes – 293 comments

Does Depression Have an Evolutionary Purpose? (2017)

http://nautil.us/issue/45/power/does-depression-have-an-evolutionary-purpose

8 years ago

190 upvotes – 105 comments

Plotter Drawings: Five seconds of Donkey Kong

https://www.michaelfogleman.com/plotter/

8 years ago

185 upvotes – 65 comments

Show HN: A cryptocurrency news scraper inspired by Hacker News

https://cryptonewsagency.com/

8 years ago

183 upvotes – 102 comments

Why Don’t the 20 Cities on Amazon's HQ2 Shortlist Collectively Bargain?

https://theintercept.com/2018/01/22/amazon-headquarters-shortlist-hq2/

8 years ago

179 upvotes – 278 comments

Can staying awake beat depression?

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20180123-can-staying-awake-beat-depression

8 years ago

175 upvotes – 73 comments

The Transistor, Part 1: Groping in the Dark

https://technicshistory.wordpress.com/2018/01/20/the-transistor-part-1-groping-in-the-dark/

8 years ago

175 upvotes – 28 comments

Bolt: An End-To-End Payments Stack with Zero Fraud

http://bolt.com

8 years ago

171 upvotes – 152 comments

Perl 6 Optimism

https://p6weekly.wordpress.com/2018/01/22/2018-04-its-time-for-optimism/

8 years ago

157 upvotes – 232 comments

Where Planes Go to Die: A One Way Trip to the Mojave Boneyard (2015)

http://www.scoutingla.com/where-planes-go-to-die-a-one-way-trip-to-the-mojave-boneyard/

8 years ago

155 upvotes – 67 comments

The eardrums move when the eyes move

http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2018/01/22/1717948115

8 years ago

152 upvotes – 57 comments

OpenWrt in a WiFi card reader (2017)

https://phasenoise.livejournal.com/1500.html

8 years ago

147 upvotes – 22 comments

Ursula K. Le Guin has died

https://locusmag.com/2018/01/ursula-k-le-guin-1929-2018/

8 years ago

145 upvotes – 4 comments

Opening Remarks at the Securities Regulation Institute

https://www.sec.gov/news/speech/speech-clayton-012218

8 years ago

144 upvotes – 119 comments

Building a Distributed Log from Scratch: Sketching a New System

https://bravenewgeek.com/building-a-distributed-log-from-scratch-part-5-sketching-a-new-system/

8 years ago

140 upvotes – 7 comments

Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Author of Black Swan, on Bitcoin

https://medium.com/opacity/bitcoin-1537e616a074

8 years ago

135 upvotes – 123 comments

Tiny, Wealthy Qatar Goes Its Own Way, and Pays for It

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/22/world/middleeast/qatar-saudi-emir-boycott.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

8 years ago

134 upvotes – 142 comments

Resources for Learning about .NET Internals

http://www.mattwarren.org/2018/01/22/Resources-for-Learning-about-.NET-Internals/

8 years ago

131 upvotes – 9 comments

Printing and binding your own books and manuals (2003)

https://uazu.net/notes/binding.html

8 years ago

129 upvotes – 31 comments

Google thinks the sun is 15.81 light years from earth

https://www.google.com/search?q=distance+earth+to+sun&oq=distance+earth+to+sun

8 years ago

125 upvotes – 64 comments

Net neutrality bill in CA

http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB822

8 years ago

122 upvotes – 42 comments

Car insurers accused of discriminating against people with Hotmail accounts

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/shortcuts/2018/jan/23/a-sign-that-youre-not-keeping-up-the-trouble-with-hotmail-in-2018

8 years ago

122 upvotes – 219 comments

Tesla ‘on Autopilot’ slams into parked fire truck on freeway

https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/01/22/tesla-on-autopilot-slams-into-parked-fire-truck-on-freeway/

8 years ago

116 upvotes – 170 comments

Running BBS Door Games on Windows 10 with GameSrv and DOSBox

https://www.hanselman.com/blog/RunningBBSDoorGamesOnWindows10WithGameSrvDOSBoxPlusTelnetFunWithWSL.aspx

8 years ago

106 upvotes – 23 comments

A History of the Erlang VM (2011) [pdf]

http://www.erlang-factory.com/upload/presentations/389/EFSF11-ErlangVM.pdf

8 years ago

104 upvotes – 9 comments

Naomi Parker Fraley, the Real Rosie the Riveter, Dies at 96

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/22/obituaries/naomi-parker-fraley-the-real-rosie-the-riveter-dies-at-96.html

8 years ago

99 upvotes – 12 comments

Twitter's COO Noto Resigns to Become Chief Executive at SoFi

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-23/twitter-ceo-anthony-noto-resigns

8 years ago

98 upvotes – 31 comments

Fir: A Friendly, Interactive Ruby REPL

https://www.nasseri.io/posts/2.html

8 years ago

96 upvotes – 12 comments
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