top 50% 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

Tilemap generation from single example using ideas from quantum mechanics

https://github.com/mxgmn/WaveFunctionCollapse

8 years ago

★ 24.8k C#
153 upvotes – 9 comments

How Apple is paving the way to a ‘cloud dictatorship’ in China

https://www.hongkongfp.com/2018/02/17/apple-paving-way-cloud-dictatorship-china/

8 years ago

150 upvotes – 113 comments

A secret on the ocean floor

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/deep_sea_mining

8 years ago

147 upvotes – 56 comments

Thinking Critically About Social Justice

http://quillette.com/2018/02/17/thinking-critically-social-justice/

8 years ago

140 upvotes – 204 comments

So You Think You Have a Power Law (2007)

http://bactra.org/weblog/491.html

8 years ago

130 upvotes – 35 comments

The More Gender Equality, the Fewer Women in STEM

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/02/the-more-gender-equality-the-fewer-women-in-stem/553592/?utm_source=atlfb&single_page=true

8 years ago

129 upvotes – 182 comments

Finding the Greedy, Prodigal, and Suicidal Contracts at Scale

https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.06038

8 years ago

121 upvotes – 15 comments

A320-X DRM: What happened

https://forums.flightsimlabs.com/index.php?/announcement/11-a320-x-drm-what-happened/

8 years ago

116 upvotes – 74 comments

FlightSimLabs Alleged Malware Analysis

https://medium.com/@lukegorman97/flightsimlabs-alleged-malware-analysis-1427c4d23368

8 years ago

113 upvotes – 60 comments

How Toothpaste Became a Mainstream Product

https://capitalandgrowth.org/articles/859/book-summary-the-power-of-habit.html

8 years ago

105 upvotes – 37 comments

Statement on Visit to the USA by Professor Philip Alston

http://ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=22533&LangID=E

8 years ago

103 upvotes – 65 comments

The American Relief Expedition to Soviet Russia in the Famine of 1921 (2011)

https://news.stanford.edu/pr/2011/pr-famine-040411.html

8 years ago

103 upvotes – 112 comments

Latex-mimosis: A minimal and modern template for your thesis

https://github.com/Submanifold/latex-mimosis

8 years ago

★ 1.2k TeX MIT
99 upvotes – 23 comments

Ascii art – dead or alive?

https://blog.sourcerer.io/ascii-art-dead-or-alive-cc237391e5d8

8 years ago

99 upvotes – 39 comments

Xltrail – An open-source Git command line extension for Excel workbook files

https://www.xltrail.com/git-xltrail

8 years ago

95 upvotes – 23 comments

Why I Don't Like Golang (2016)

https://www.teamten.com/lawrence/writings/why-i-dont-like-go.html

8 years ago

93 upvotes – 148 comments
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