top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-05-07

Conversations with a six-year-old on functional programming

https://byorgey.wordpress.com/2018/05/06/conversations-with-a-six-year-old-on-functional-programming/

8 years ago

2074 upvotes – 310 comments

The Economics of Writing a Technical Book

https://medium.com/p/the-economics-of-writing-a-technical-book-689d0c12fe39

8 years ago

519 upvotes – 149 comments

Ask HN: How do you continuously monitor web logs for hack attempts?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17014818

8 years ago

477 upvotes – 224 comments

Cutting Edge Deep Learning for Coders, Part 2

http://course.fast.ai/part2.html

8 years ago

425 upvotes – 75 comments

The Various Kinds of IO – Blocking, Non-Blocking, Multiplexed and Async

https://www.rubberducking.com/2018/05/the-various-kinds-of-io-blocking-non.html

8 years ago

370 upvotes – 64 comments

Who controls glibc?

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/753646/a6ebb50040c5862c/

8 years ago

339 upvotes – 506 comments

Show HN: How to Tune a Guitar

https://mathisonian.github.io/idyll/how-to-tune-a-guitar/

8 years ago

338 upvotes – 119 comments

Uber vehicle reportedly saw but ignored woman it struck

https://techcrunch.com/2018/05/07/uber-vehicle-reportedly-saw-but-ignored-woman-it-struck/

8 years ago

337 upvotes – 426 comments

Surviving Your 40s

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/04/opinion/sunday/how-to-survive-your-40s.html

8 years ago

316 upvotes – 186 comments

Tech watchdogs call on Facebook, Google for transparency around censored content

https://techcrunch.com/2018/05/07/santa-clara-principles-eff-cdt-aclu-facebook-google-twitter/

8 years ago

305 upvotes – 237 comments

List of screw drives

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_screw_drives

8 years ago

303 upvotes – 255 comments

Concorde ‘B’

https://www.heritageconcorde.com/concorde-b

8 years ago

288 upvotes – 324 comments

Ask HN: What are your favorite terminal programs?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17011227

8 years ago

279 upvotes – 199 comments

International Obfuscated C Code Contest – 2018 Winning Entries

http://www.ioccc.org/years.html#2018

8 years ago

276 upvotes – 53 comments

Self-Awareness for Introverts [pdf]

http://cliffc.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/AWarOfWords.pdf

8 years ago

256 upvotes – 102 comments

Core Erlang by Example

http://blog.erlang.org/core-erlang-by-example/

8 years ago

241 upvotes – 37 comments

Twitter suspended our Open Data project's account and wiped all our followers

http://www.openbenches.org/blog/2018/05/twitter-suspended-our-account-and-wiped-all-our-followers/

8 years ago

235 upvotes – 148 comments

12-year study will look at effects of universal basic income

http://mitsloan.mit.edu/newsroom/articles/12-year-study-looks-at-effects-of-universal-basic-income/

8 years ago

224 upvotes – 138 comments

Reinforcement Learning – Bandit Problems

https://oneraynyday.github.io/ml/2018/05/03/Reinforcement-Learning-Bandit/

8 years ago

218 upvotes – 40 comments

Sublime Text 3.1 Released

https://www.sublimetext.com/blog/articles/sublime-text-3-point-1

8 years ago

205 upvotes – 108 comments

Is it worth supporting Firefox?

https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/8hha0r/is_it_worth_supporting_firefox/

8 years ago

195 upvotes – 219 comments

Lyme Disease Is on the Rise Again

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/05/07/607782359/lyme-disease-is-on-the-rise-again-heres-how-to-prevent-it

8 years ago

193 upvotes – 173 comments

As Kubernetes grows, a startup ecosystem develops in its wake

https://techcrunch.com/2018/05/07/as-kubernetes-grows-a-startup-ecosystem-develops-in-its-wake/

8 years ago

184 upvotes – 155 comments

Virtlet: run VMs as Kubernetes pods

https://www.mirantis.com/blog/virtlet-run-vms-as-kubernetes-pods/

8 years ago

179 upvotes – 23 comments

Examples of marketing tactics

https://johnmcelborough.com/growth-hacking-strategies/

8 years ago

172 upvotes – 41 comments

Cilium 1.0: Bringing the BPF Revolution to Kubernetes Networking and Security

https://cilium.io/blog/2018/04/24/cilium-10/

8 years ago

151 upvotes – 32 comments

Machine Learning for .NET

https://github.com/dotnet/machinelearning

8 years ago

★ 9.3k C# MIT
143 upvotes – 20 comments

Using Prediction Markets to Track Information Flows: Evidence from Google [pdf]

https://www.stat.berkeley.edu/users/aldous/157/Papers/GooglePredictionMarketPaper.pdf

8 years ago

139 upvotes – 19 comments

Teaching Programming Languages by Experimental and Adversarial Thinking

http://cs.brown.edu/~sk/Publications/Papers/Published/pkf-teach-pl-exp-adv-think/

8 years ago

136 upvotes – 17 comments

How to get your personal data from apps you use

https://try.mydatarequest.com/

8 years ago

133 upvotes – 6 comments

Russian ALFA Class interceptor submarine

http://www.hisutton.com/Alfa_Class_Submarine.html

8 years ago

124 upvotes – 58 comments

That New Memory Smell: Tech Can Tell If Your Flash Is New or Recycled

https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/semiconductors/memory/that-new-memory-smell-tech-can-tell-you-if-your-flash-is-new-or-recycled

8 years ago

122 upvotes – 39 comments

Volvo to Use Google Assistant, Play Store and Maps in Next-Gen Infotainment

https://www.media.volvocars.com/us/en-us/media/pressreleases/228639/volvo-cars-to-embed-google-assistant-google-play-store-and-google-maps-in-next-generation-infotainme

8 years ago

121 upvotes – 126 comments

A giant 360 LED clock

https://www.mathieupassenaud.fr/ledclock/

8 years ago

114 upvotes – 28 comments

Why I'm leaving Open Source

https://ticki.github.io/blog/why_im_leaving_open_source/

8 years ago

109 upvotes – 72 comments

A 1950s-Era New York Knife Law Has Landed Thousands in Jail

https://www.villagevoice.com/2014/10/07/how-a-50s-era-new-york-knife-law-has-landed-thousands-in-jail/#page-all

8 years ago

108 upvotes – 42 comments

Buffett bashes Bitcoin as nonproductive, thriving on mystique

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-berkshire-buffett-cnbc/buffett-bashes-bitcoin-as-nonproductive-thriving-on-mystique-idUSKBN1I813F?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FtopNews+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Top+News%29

8 years ago

105 upvotes – 184 comments

Ask HN: How to deal with a dysfunctional relationship with a 50/50 co-founder?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17014072

8 years ago

101 upvotes – 103 comments

How We Found New Patterns in LA’s Homeless Arrest Data

https://source.opennews.org/articles/how-we-found-new-patterns-la-homeless-arrest/

8 years ago

100 upvotes – 86 comments

Aibo – A new story begins

https://aibo.sony.jp/en/

8 years ago

99 upvotes – 52 comments

Operation Ivy Bells

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ivy_Bells

8 years ago

98 upvotes – 31 comments

Show HN: Corral – A Serverless MapReduce Framework

https://github.com/bcongdon/corral

8 years ago

★ 694 Go MIT
92 upvotes – 36 comments

The relationship between humans and parrots can be surprisingly profound

https://www.topic.com/birds-of-a-feather

8 years ago

91 upvotes – 28 comments

How to accelerate revenue for SaaS startups

https://www.plainflow.com/blog/account-based-marketing-tactics/

8 years ago

88 upvotes – 27 comments

Show HN: When my builds fail I pay money to charity

https://medium.com/football-whispers-engineering-and-data-sci/failed-builds-cost-more-than-just-time-4e7c196cc8bc

8 years ago

87 upvotes – 77 comments

Process and Leverage in Fundraising

https://blog.ycombinator.com/process-and-leverage-in-fundraising/

8 years ago

86 upvotes – 10 comments

SkyKnit: When knitters teamed up with a neural network

http://aiweirdness.com/post/173096796277/skyknit-when-knitters-teamed-up-with-a-neural

8 years ago

84 upvotes – 7 comments
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