top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-02-11

Slack is the opposite of organizational memory

https://abe-winter.github.io/plea%27s/help/2018/02/11/slack.html

8 years ago

461 upvotes – 250 comments

Insider trading has been rife on Wall Street, academics conclude

https://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21736561-one-study-suggests-insiders-profited-even-global-financial-crisis-another?frsc=dg%7Ce

8 years ago

459 upvotes – 417 comments

Solid aims to radically change the way web applications work

https://solid.mit.edu/

8 years ago

354 upvotes – 125 comments

Flat UI Colors – Color palettes for use in projects, designs, presentations

http://flatuicolors.com/

8 years ago

311 upvotes – 51 comments

Strace – My Favourite Secret Weapon (2011)

https://zwischenzugs.com/2011/08/29/my-favourite-secret-weapon-strace/

8 years ago

311 upvotes – 55 comments

Protecting sites from Cryptojacking with CSP and SRI

https://scotthelme.co.uk/protect-site-from-cyrptojacking-csp-sri/

8 years ago

237 upvotes – 76 comments

How and why we moved to Vue.js

https://mkdev.me/en/posts/how-and-why-mkdev-moved-to-vue-js

8 years ago

233 upvotes – 172 comments

Ask HN: What are the books you wish your colleagues had read?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16351310

8 years ago

225 upvotes – 124 comments

Answers to front-end developer job interview questions

https://github.com/yangshun/front-end-interview-handbook

8 years ago

★ 43.9k MDX MIT
217 upvotes – 103 comments

Linux'izing your Windows PC into a dev machine

https://cepa.io/2018/02/10/linuxizing-your-windows-pc-part1/

8 years ago

182 upvotes – 138 comments

Show HN: Generating GraphQL servers for Go

https://github.com/vektah/gqlgen

8 years ago

★ 10.7k Go MIT
172 upvotes – 29 comments

Startup Won't Give in to Motivational Health Messaging's $35k Patent Demand

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/02/startup-wont-give-motivational-health-messagings-35000-patent-demand

8 years ago

171 upvotes – 29 comments

Why does drug resistance easily evolve but vaccine resistance does not?

http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/284/1851/20162562

8 years ago

171 upvotes – 41 comments

Containers Will Not Fix a Broken Culture

https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3185224

8 years ago

170 upvotes – 74 comments

How black people still need to outwit racists in rural America

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/feb/11/green-book-facebook-black-motorists-racist-america-road-trip-pitstops-safe

8 years ago

163 upvotes – 104 comments

Udash – Scala and Scala.js Reactive Web Framework

https://udash.io/

8 years ago

158 upvotes – 45 comments

The Co-Founder Relationship

http://avc.com/2018/01/the-co-founder-relationship/

8 years ago

156 upvotes – 71 comments

Self driving cars and beyond

https://a16z.com/2018/02/03/autonomy-ecosystem-frank-chen-summit/

8 years ago

145 upvotes – 116 comments

Spry Language

http://www.sprylang.org

8 years ago

135 upvotes – 39 comments

BitGrail lost $170M because only client-side validation was used

https://twitter.com/bascule/status/962740918053888000

8 years ago

134 upvotes – 62 comments

The Fields Medal should return to its roots

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-00513-8

8 years ago

122 upvotes – 129 comments

Docker for Data Science

https://towardsdatascience.com/docker-for-data-science-4901f35d7cf9

8 years ago

118 upvotes – 59 comments

Chrome extension to play Netflix in 1080p

https://github.com/truedread/netflix-1080p

8 years ago

★ 2.7k JavaScript MIT
117 upvotes – 76 comments

Guide to Take-home Coding Challenges

https://www.fullstackinterviewing.com/2018/02/02/the-ultimate-guide-to-kicking-ass-on-take-home-coding-challenges.html

8 years ago

99 upvotes – 147 comments

Ancient kids’ toys have been hiding in the archaeological record

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/ancient-toys-kids-archaeological-record

8 years ago

97 upvotes – 27 comments

Pace Layering: How Complex Systems Learn and Keep Learning

https://jods.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/issue3-brand

8 years ago

96 upvotes – 9 comments

Every Society Invents the Failed Utopia It Deserves

http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/every-society-invents-the-failed-utopia-it-deserves/

8 years ago

94 upvotes – 12 comments

Four companies dominate our daily lives unlike any other in human history

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a15895746/bust-big-tech-silicon-valley/

8 years ago

92 upvotes – 79 comments

Experimental Drug Promises to Kill the Flu Virus in a Day

https://www.wsj.com/articles/experimental-drug-promises-to-kill-the-flu-virus-in-a-day-1518264004

8 years ago

92 upvotes – 59 comments

A 'Walden' for the YouTube Age

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/02/06/walden-youtube-age/?utm_source=Weekly+Daily+20180209&utm_medium=Weekly+Daily+20180209&utm_campaign=Weekly+Daily+20180209&utm_term=Weekly+Daily+20180209&utm_content=Weekly+Daily+20180209&bt_ee=uAcVBJO46GjsTNXlvrcFQhBwsSxJYwSAfzUsbA7IsBd1ArJjC7BvSu3v6IZkJHdO&bt_ts=1518201601268

8 years ago

87 upvotes – 22 comments

Opening the Hood of a Word Processor (1984) [pdf]

http://worrydream.com/refs/Kay%20-%20Opening%20the%20Hood%20of%20a%20Word%20Processor.pdf

8 years ago

85 upvotes – 11 comments

A transcriber on the Isle of Man can decipher almost anything

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/transcribe-old-documents-unreadable-handwriting

8 years ago

85 upvotes – 8 comments

Galois Field in Cryptography (2012) [pdf]

https://sites.math.washington.edu/~morrow/336_12/papers/juan.pdf

8 years ago

84 upvotes – 11 comments

CI/CD Is Not a Progression

https://hackernoon.com/ci-cd-is-not-a-progression-86ebc896571b

8 years ago

82 upvotes – 32 comments
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