top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-07-11

The San Franciso Fire Department makes its own wooden ladders by hand

https://gizmodo.com/inside-san-francisos-fire-department-where-ladders-are-1552279252

8 years ago

579 upvotes – 321 comments

Unified access to the best community-driven cheat sheets repositories

https://github.com/chubin/cheat.sh

8 years ago

★ 41.2k Python MIT
474 upvotes – 83 comments

Solar Just Hit a Record Low Price in the U.S

https://earther.com/solar-just-hit-a-record-low-price-in-the-u-s-1826830592

8 years ago

456 upvotes – 339 comments

Employers will do almost anything to find workers except pay them more

http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-employment-20180710-story.html

8 years ago

427 upvotes – 441 comments

Bitwarden – Open Source Password Manager

https://bitwarden.com/

8 years ago

337 upvotes – 160 comments

FCC Proposes Changing Comment System After WSJ Found Thousands of Fakes

https://www.wsj.com/articles/fcc-proposes-rebuilding-comment-system-after-thousands-revealed-as-fake-1531315654

8 years ago

321 upvotes – 195 comments

Arm kills off its anti-RISC-V site after own staff revolt

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/07/10/arm_riscv_website/

8 years ago

312 upvotes – 144 comments

Red Flags Signaling That a Rebuild Will Fail

http://www.pkc.io/blog/five-red-flags-signaling-your-rebuild-will-fail/

8 years ago

289 upvotes – 137 comments

Djbsort: A new software library for sorting arrays of integers

https://sorting.cr.yp.to/

8 years ago

284 upvotes – 149 comments

Firefox switching to clang-cl for Windows builds

https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/mozilla.dev.platform/wwO48xXFx0A

8 years ago

280 upvotes – 80 comments

Unix system programming in OCaml (2014)

https://ocaml.github.io/ocamlunix/index.html

8 years ago

269 upvotes – 48 comments

Why Isn't Debugging Treated as a First-Class Activity?

https://robert.ocallahan.org/2018/07/why-isnt-debugging-treated-as-first.html

8 years ago

244 upvotes – 190 comments

Show HN: Solving Rush Hour, the 6x6 Sliding Block Puzzle

https://www.michaelfogleman.com/rush/

8 years ago

223 upvotes – 46 comments

Show HN: Markdown New Tab – A new tab replacement to jot down notes in Markdown

https://github.com/plibither8/markdown-new-tab

8 years ago

★ 838 JavaScript MIT
218 upvotes – 116 comments

TSA screeners win immunity from flier abuse claims: U.S. appeals court

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-tsa-lawsuit/tsa-screeners-win-immunity-from-flier-abuse-claims-u-s-appeals-court-idUSKBN1K125W

8 years ago

191 upvotes – 134 comments

How ProPublica Illinois Uses GNU Make to Load Data

https://www.propublica.org/nerds/gnu-make-illinois-campaign-finance-data-david-eads-propublica-illinois#146596

8 years ago

191 upvotes – 62 comments

Bulletproofs – Short zero-knowledge arguments of knowledge

https://github.com/adjoint-io/bulletproofs

8 years ago

★ 550 Haskell BSD-3-Clause
185 upvotes – 60 comments

Chrome will mark all HTTP sites as ‘not secure’ starting in July

https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/8/16991254/chrome-not-secure-marked-http-encryption-ssl

8 years ago

179 upvotes – 133 comments

Battling Fake Accounts, Twitter to Slash Millions of Followers

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/11/technology/twitter-fake-followers.html

8 years ago

176 upvotes – 112 comments

Show HN: Oathkeeper – Cloud-Native Identity and Access Proxy

https://github.com/ory/oathkeeper

8 years ago

★ 3.5k Go Apache-2.0
174 upvotes – 82 comments

A Clone of the Classic Mac OS Finder in Modern Cocoa and Objective-C

https://bszyman.com/blog/classic-finder

8 years ago

172 upvotes – 76 comments

How Postcards Solved the Problem of Disappearing Rice

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2018/07/10/627355954/how-postcards-solved-the-problem-of-disappearing-rice

8 years ago

166 upvotes – 60 comments

DeepLog: Anomaly Detection and Diagnosis from System Logs (2017) [pdf]

https://acmccs.github.io/papers/p1285-duA.pdf

8 years ago

164 upvotes – 30 comments

Comparing City Street Orientations

http://geoffboeing.com/2018/07/comparing-city-street-orientations/

8 years ago

161 upvotes – 48 comments

Show HN: Online challenge: Build a CPU from scratch

http://nandgame.com/

8 years ago

143 upvotes – 60 comments

Interrobang

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/interrobang/

8 years ago

140 upvotes – 119 comments

Fallacies of Distributed Computing Explained (2006) [pdf]

http://www.rgoarchitects.com/Files/fallacies.pdf

8 years ago

134 upvotes – 3 comments

Loon and Wing graduate from Google/Alphabet X

https://www.wired.com/story/alphabet-google-x-innovation-loon-wing-graduation/

8 years ago

133 upvotes – 57 comments

Internally, NASA believes Boeing ahead of SpaceX in commercial crew

https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/07/nasa-commercial-crew-analysis-finds-boeing-slightly-ahead-of-spacex/

8 years ago

130 upvotes – 79 comments

‘No Poach’ Deals for Fast-Food Workers Face Scrutiny

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/09/business/no-poach-fast-food-wages.html

8 years ago

124 upvotes – 65 comments

Random Points on a Sphere

https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2018/07/10/random-points-on-a-sphere-part-1/

8 years ago

120 upvotes – 29 comments

Using Apple’s New Controls to Limit a Teenager’s iPhone Time

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/11/technology/personaltech/apple-iphone-screen-time.html

8 years ago

118 upvotes – 103 comments

The Agave Plant's Asparagus Death Fetish (2017)

https://www.theawl.com/2017/06/the-agave-plants-asparagus-death-fetish/

8 years ago

112 upvotes – 32 comments

SQLite with a Fine-Toothed Comb (2016)

https://blog.regehr.org/archives/1292

8 years ago

109 upvotes – 31 comments

Why local US newspapers are sounding the alarm

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44688274

8 years ago

109 upvotes – 124 comments

DIRT Protocol raises $3M to build a Wikipedia for structured data

https://medium.com/dirt-protocol/dirt-protocol-raises-3m-from-general-catalyst-greylock-lightspeed-and-pantera-to-build-a-a76c3295f227

8 years ago

106 upvotes – 91 comments

Bringing Blogging to the Fediverse

https://write.as/matt/bringing-blogging-to-the-fediverse

8 years ago

105 upvotes – 32 comments

The Entire History of Steel

https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/infrastructure/a20722505/history-of-steel/

8 years ago

104 upvotes – 34 comments

Causal Inference Book

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/miguel-hernan/causal-inference-book/

8 years ago

104 upvotes – 14 comments

How I Fully Quit Google (And You Can, Too)

https://medium.com/s/story/how-i-fully-quit-google-and-you-can-too-4c2f3f85793a

8 years ago

103 upvotes – 42 comments

Launch HN: Synthetic Minds (YC S18) – Program Synthesis to Protect Dapps

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17508562

8 years ago

99 upvotes – 42 comments

An Ex-Porter of AAA Games to Linux Talks about the Future of Linux Gaming

https://boilingsteam.com/an-interview-with-peter-mulholland-ex-vp/

8 years ago

95 upvotes – 59 comments

Building the Google Photos Web UI

https://medium.com/google-design/google-photos-45b714dfbed1

8 years ago

93 upvotes – 18 comments

The Battle of the Schedulers: FreeBSD ULE vs. Linux CFS [pdf]

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/atc18/atc18-bouron.pdf

8 years ago

90 upvotes – 14 comments

Uber executive resigns following probe into racial discrimination

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-uber-resignation/uber-executive-resigns-following-probe-into-racial-discrimination-idUSKBN1K109G

8 years ago

85 upvotes – 71 comments

Ask HN: Anyone rather just be alone during work day?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17508607

8 years ago

84 upvotes – 52 comments

At Initialized Capital, Odd Couple Looks to Do VC Differently

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2018/07/09/at-initialized-capital-odd-couple-alexis-ohanian-and-garry-tan-look-to-do-vc-differently/#456e13c43efe

8 years ago

83 upvotes – 42 comments

A Look Back at Why Blockbuster Really Failed and Why It Didn't Have To (2014)

https://www.forbes.com/sites/gregsatell/2014/09/05/a-look-back-at-why-blockbuster-really-failed-and-why-it-didnt-have-to/#552a986c1d64

8 years ago

81 upvotes – 103 comments

The libkern C++ Runtime

https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/DeviceDrivers/Conceptual/WritingDeviceDriver/CPluPlusRuntime/CPlusPlusRuntime.html

8 years ago

80 upvotes – 47 comments

Reverse-Engineering WebAssembly [pdf]

https://www.pnfsoftware.com/reversing-wasm.pdf

8 years ago

78 upvotes – 25 comments

APL\3000 – HP Journal – July 1977 [pdf]

http://www.hpl.hp.com/hpjournal/pdfs/IssuePDFs/1977-07.pdf

8 years ago

75 upvotes – 18 comments
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