top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-05-30

Reddit just passed Facebook as #3 most popular website in US

https://www.alexa.com/topsites/countries/US

8 years ago

1361 upvotes – 584 comments

AI winter is well on its way

https://blog.piekniewski.info/2018/05/28/ai-winter-is-well-on-its-way/

8 years ago

993 upvotes – 492 comments

Uber, Google and others pay London Evening Standard for favorable coverage

https://www.opendemocracy.net/uk/james-cusick/george-osborne-s-london-evening-standard-promises-positive-news-coverage-to-uber-goo

8 years ago

492 upvotes – 100 comments

I Write Letters to CEOs

https://www.johnwdefeo.com/articles/why-i-write-letters-to-ceos

8 years ago

449 upvotes – 172 comments

Intel Announces Optane DIMMs

https://www.anandtech.com/show/12828/intel-launches-optane-dimms-up-to-512gb-apache-pass-is-here

8 years ago

446 upvotes – 183 comments

Actix: a small, pragmatic, and fast Rust web framework

https://actix.rs/

8 years ago

399 upvotes – 123 comments

Diamonds Suck (2006)

http://diamondssuck.com/

8 years ago

392 upvotes – 215 comments

Why Is Front-End Development So Unstable?

https://www.breck-mckye.com/blog/2018/05/why-is-front-end-development-so-unstable/

8 years ago

382 upvotes – 354 comments

Walmart will begin offering to subsidize college tuition for its U.S. workers

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/30/business/walmart-college-tuition.html

8 years ago

363 upvotes – 235 comments

Scrum disempowers developers

https://www.lambdacambridge.com/blog/how-scrum-disempowers-developers-and-destroys-agile

8 years ago

332 upvotes – 376 comments

China overtakes U.S. for healthy lifespan: WHO data

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-lifespan/china-overtakes-us-for-healthy-lifespan-who-data-idUSKCN1IV15L

8 years ago

311 upvotes – 206 comments

How to Sell – a guide for SaaS startups

https://www.entrepidpartners.com/how-to-sell-guide

8 years ago

303 upvotes – 44 comments

Show HN: Write every day, measure your progress, achieve your writing goals

https://writingstreak.io/?src=hn

8 years ago

262 upvotes – 79 comments

Announcing .NET Core 2.1

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2018/05/30/announcing-net-core-2-1/

8 years ago

256 upvotes – 118 comments

Nebulet: A microkernel that runs WebAssembly in Ring 0

https://github.com/nebulet/nebulet

8 years ago

★ 2.3k Rust MIT
248 upvotes – 125 comments

Predicting Stock Performance with Natural Language Deep Learning

https://www.microsoft.com/developerblog/2017/12/04/predicting-stock-performance-deep-learning/

8 years ago

233 upvotes – 96 comments

Mary Meeker Internet Trends Report 2018

https://www.slideshare.net/kleinerperkins/internet-trends-report-2018-99574140

8 years ago

225 upvotes – 70 comments

Lobotomizing Gnome

https://eklitzke.org/lobotomizing-gnome

8 years ago

225 upvotes – 221 comments

Ask HN: How to blog things I've learnt in graduate school?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17191206

8 years ago

213 upvotes – 51 comments

Architecture of a Database System (2007) [pdf]

http://db.cs.berkeley.edu/papers/fntdb07-architecture.pdf

8 years ago

210 upvotes – 13 comments

Depressing and faintly terrifying days for the C standard [pdf]

http://www.yodaiken.com/2018/05/20/depressing-and-faintly-terrifying-days-for-the-c-standard/

8 years ago

209 upvotes – 270 comments

Odyssey – Scalable PostgreSQL connection pooler

https://github.com/yandex/odyssey

8 years ago

★ 3.4k C BSD-3-Clause
203 upvotes – 40 comments

What I’ve Been Doing Since Quitting My Job

https://mtlynch.io/since-quitting/

8 years ago

199 upvotes – 120 comments

Cervus: A WebAssembly subsystem for Linux

https://github.com/cervus-v/cervus

8 years ago

★ 734 Rust GPL-2.0
198 upvotes – 57 comments

How a Pentagon Contract Became an Identity Crisis for Google

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/30/technology/google-project-maven-pentagon.html

8 years ago

168 upvotes – 199 comments

A Universal Law of Procrastination (2016)

https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/PT.3.3064

8 years ago

163 upvotes – 38 comments

Seven Pillars of Causal Reasoning with Reflections on Machine Learning [pdf]

http://ftp.cs.ucla.edu/pub/stat_ser/r481.pdf

8 years ago

158 upvotes – 12 comments

Signed Integers Are Two’s Complement

http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2018/p0907r0.html

8 years ago

158 upvotes – 123 comments

Build2, a Cargo-like dependency and build manager for C/C++

https://build2.org/build2-toolchain/doc/build2-toolchain-intro.xhtml

8 years ago

157 upvotes – 52 comments

Diamonds Are Bullshit

https://priceonomics.com/post/45768546804/diamonds-are-bullshit

8 years ago

149 upvotes – 45 comments

Ocean waves play greater role in trapping CO2 than previously understood

https://phys.org/news/2018-05-reveals-ocean-greater-role-carbon.html

8 years ago

142 upvotes – 39 comments

Zig: programming language designed for robustness optimality and clarity [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4oYSByyRak

8 years ago

136 upvotes – 70 comments

Accountancy used to be boring and safe, but today it’s neither

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/may/29/the-financial-scandal-no-one-is-talking-about-big-four-accountancy-firms

8 years ago

133 upvotes – 101 comments

IBM Watson Health slashes workforce

https://www.massdevice.com/report-ibm-watson-health-slashes-workforce/

8 years ago

132 upvotes – 75 comments

Playing hard exploration games by watching YouTube

https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.11592

8 years ago

127 upvotes – 11 comments

Buffett Proposed $3 Billion Uber Investment But Deal Crumbled

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-30/buffett-said-to-have-offered-uber-3-billion-but-talks-crumbled

8 years ago

125 upvotes – 80 comments

The Slippery Math of Causation

https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-math-of-causation-puzzle-20180530/

8 years ago

124 upvotes – 23 comments

How to Avoid Distractions and Start the Right Company

https://www.atrium.co/blog/sam-altman-start-the-right-company/?hn

8 years ago

123 upvotes – 53 comments

'Murdered' Journalist Is Alive and Well

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-44307611

8 years ago

119 upvotes – 88 comments

What is Software Engineering?

https://research.swtch.com/vgo-eng

8 years ago

114 upvotes – 24 comments

USA needs law 'a lot like GDPR' says Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/05/30/salesforce_q1_2019/?

8 years ago

114 upvotes – 221 comments

1958 Imperial: What It's Like to Drive an Auto-Pilot Car

http://www.imperialclub.com/Articles/58AutoPilot/index.htm

8 years ago

112 upvotes – 71 comments

How Futures Trading Changed Bitcoin Prices

https://www.frbsf.org/economic-research/publications/economic-letter/2018/may/how-futures-trading-changed-bitcoin-prices/

8 years ago

99 upvotes – 76 comments

GDPR, China and data sovereignty are ultimately wins for Amazon and Google

https://techcrunch.com/2018/05/29/gdpr-and-the-cloud-winners/

8 years ago

97 upvotes – 96 comments

Start colon cancer screening at 45, not 50, American Cancer Society urges

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/05/30/american-cancer-society-colon-cancer-screening-45/651959002/

8 years ago

93 upvotes – 67 comments

Bye, Chrome: Why I’m switching to Firefox

https://www.fastcodesign.com/90174010/bye-chrome-why-im-switching-to-firefox-and-you-should-too

8 years ago

91 upvotes – 44 comments

Post-Spectre Threat Model Re-Think

https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/docs/security/side-channel-threat-model.md

8 years ago

87 upvotes – 7 comments

When an implementation monoculture might be the right thing

https://blog.mozilla.org/nfroyd/2018/05/29/when-implementation-monoculture-right-thing/

8 years ago

86 upvotes – 67 comments

Y’all Ain’t Killing Me: The Rise of “Super Jobs.”

http://theunderemployedlife.com/yall-aint-killing-rise-super-jobs/

8 years ago

84 upvotes – 26 comments

Google spinoff Dandelion uses ground energy to heat and cool homes

https://www.cnet.com/news/google-spinoff-dandelion-uses-ground-energy-to-heat-and-cool-homes/?ftag=COS-05-10aaa0b&linkId=52352248#ftag=CAD590a51e

8 years ago

84 upvotes – 60 comments

Veblen goods

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

8 years ago

83 upvotes – 89 comments
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