top 20 hacker news stories for 2018-02-19

Ask HN: What has HN given you?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16409768

8 years ago

1095 upvotes – 570 comments

Ask HN: Is it 'normal' to struggle so hard with work?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16411662

8 years ago

802 upvotes – 369 comments

Maybe you don't need Rust and WASM to speed up your JS

http://mrale.ph/blog/2018/02/03/maybe-you-dont-need-rust-to-speed-up-your-js.html

8 years ago

600 upvotes – 181 comments

Elm changed my mind about unpopular languages

https://blog.realkinetic.com/elm-changed-my-mind-about-unpopular-languages-190a23f4a834

8 years ago

509 upvotes – 312 comments

Working remotely, 4 years in

https://jvns.ca/blog/2018/02/18/working-remotely--4-years-in/

8 years ago

424 upvotes – 199 comments

The Real History of TechCrunch

https://uncrunched.com/2018/02/18/the-real-history-of-techcrunch/

8 years ago

356 upvotes – 89 comments

Rust things I miss in C

https://people.gnome.org/~federico/blog/rust-things-i-miss-in-c.html

8 years ago

335 upvotes – 162 comments

Peace and quiet is all about the noise in your head

http://nautil.us/issue/38/noise/this-is-your-brain-on-silence-rp

8 years ago

299 upvotes – 109 comments

OneLang – A tool to help writing code in multiple languages at the same time

https://ide.onelang.io

8 years ago

262 upvotes – 63 comments

The duties of John von Neumann's assistant (1993)

https://shitpost.plover.com/m/math.jobs-you-dont-want.html

8 years ago

249 upvotes – 66 comments

Google's CardDAV server isn't standards compliant (2014)

https://evertpot.com/google-carddav-issues/

8 years ago

240 upvotes – 62 comments

Researchers Use CRISPR to Detect HPV and Zika

https://www.engadget.com/2018/02/15/crispr-detect-hpv-and-zika/

8 years ago

236 upvotes – 70 comments

A Hacker Has Wiped a Spyware Company’s Servers

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/3k7a5k/hacker-wipes-spyware-retina-x-flexispy

8 years ago

219 upvotes – 110 comments

A Clojure learning journey

https://www.stuttaford.me/2018/02/18/a-clojure-learning-journey/

8 years ago

215 upvotes – 66 comments

A 1700-ton telco building that was relocated while running in 1950

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/managed-retreat/2/

8 years ago

212 upvotes – 47 comments

Founder lived in a nursing home for 3 months to get his start-up off the ground

https://www.msn.com/en-us/finance/markets/this-founder-lived-in-a-nursing-home-for-3-months-to-get-his-start-up-off-the-ground/ar-BBJfGMA

8 years ago

207 upvotes – 82 comments

What to do when tech jobs go bad

https://medium.com/@xevix/what-to-do-when-tech-jobs-go-bad-93e631a1bdc9

8 years ago

196 upvotes – 126 comments

Norris Numbers – Walls you hit in program size (2014)

https://www.teamten.com/lawrence/writings/norris-numbers.html

8 years ago

189 upvotes – 81 comments

Use streaming JSON to reduce latency on mobile

https://instantdomainsearch.com/articles/streaming_json_jsons/

8 years ago

189 upvotes – 84 comments

Advanced Data Analysis from an Elementary Point of View (2017) [pdf]

http://www.stat.cmu.edu/~cshalizi/ADAfaEPoV/ADAfaEPoV.pdf

8 years ago

168 upvotes – 26 comments
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