Top 50% Hacker News Stories for 2018-07-14

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The hotel bathroom puzzle

https://nevalalee.wordpress.com/2015/11/27/the-hotel-bathroom-puzzle/

7 years ago

561 upvotes – 260 comments

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Why Use OpenStreetMap Instead of Google Maps?

https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/jbelien/diary/44356

7 years ago

557 upvotes – 209 comments

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Show HN: Router7 – A pure-Go implementation of a small home internet router

https://github.com/rtr7/router7

★ 2.7kGoApache-2.07 years ago

★ 2.7kGoApache-2.0

461 upvotes – 102 comments

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The Great Apple Keyboard Cover-Up

https://ifixit.org/blog/10279/apple-macbook-keyboard-cover-up/

7 years ago

406 upvotes – 179 comments

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Cognitive Distortions of People Who Get Stuff Done (2012) [pdf]

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/presentation/1a59/7a9ca8b03d86ae9a2f86dd90e7bbff481fab.pdf

7 years ago

386 upvotes – 151 comments

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Ask HN: Favorite note-taking software?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17532094

7 years ago

374 upvotes – 429 comments

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Labour HQ used Facebook ads to deceive Jeremy Corbyn during election campaign

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/labour-hq-used-facebook-ads-to-deceive-jeremy-corbyn-during-election-campaign-grlx75c27

7 years ago

305 upvotes – 146 comments

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The everything-is-a-file principle – Linus Torvalds

https://yarchive.net/comp/linux/everything_is_file.html

7 years ago

293 upvotes – 217 comments

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Air Gapping a MacBook Air: The Great BCM15700A2 Mystery

https://tech.firstlook.media/macbook-air-broadcom-bcm15700a2-mystery

7 years ago

227 upvotes – 77 comments

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American Cities Are Drowning in Car Storage

https://usa.streetsblog.org/2018/07/12/american-cities-are-drowning-in-car-storage/

7 years ago

219 upvotes – 291 comments

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Unlike most millennials, Norway's are rich

http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20180709-unlike-most-millennials-norways-are-rich

7 years ago

216 upvotes – 282 comments

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How to scale a distributed system [pdf]

https://cdn.oreillystatic.com/en/assets/1/event/244/How%20to%20scale%20a%20distributed%20system%20Presentation.pdf

7 years ago

214 upvotes – 10 comments

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An Illustrated Proof of the CAP Theorem

https://mwhittaker.github.io/blog/an_illustrated_proof_of_the_cap_theorem/

7 years ago

209 upvotes – 71 comments

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Finding and exploiting hidden features of Animal Crossing's NES emulator

https://jamchamb.github.io/2018/07/11/animal-crossing-nes-emulator-hacks.html

7 years ago

191 upvotes – 13 comments

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Almond – The Open Virtual Assistant

https://almond.stanford.edu/

7 years ago

156 upvotes – 11 comments

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Libaco: A fast and lightweight C asymmetric coroutine library

https://github.com/hnes/libaco

★ 3.6kCApache-2.07 years ago

★ 3.6kCApache-2.0

152 upvotes – 55 comments

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Intel to Acquire eASIC: Lower Cost ASICs in FPGA Design Time

https://www.anandtech.com/show/13075/intel-acquires-easic-lower-cost-asics-in-fpga-design-time

7 years ago

151 upvotes – 19 comments

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Zero-Knowledge Proofs

https://zkp.science/

7 years ago

142 upvotes – 21 comments

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Ask HN: Why do you keep a personal knowledge base?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17530498

7 years ago

136 upvotes – 96 comments

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PC market has seen its first growth quarter in six years

https://venturebeat.com/2018/07/12/gartner-global-pc-shipments-grew-1-4-in-q2-2018-first-increase-in-6-years/

7 years ago

133 upvotes – 86 comments

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Optimising a Trebuchet [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gn2RGPqe_A

7 years ago

128 upvotes – 22 comments

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Measuring abstract reasoning in neural networks

https://deepmind.com/blog/measuring-abstract-reasoning/

7 years ago

127 upvotes – 25 comments

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Ask HN: How to be found as a technology co-founder?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17528195

7 years ago

124 upvotes – 62 comments

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Open source, privacy-enabled smartphone operating systems

https://e.foundation/

7 years ago

119 upvotes – 68 comments

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Cambridge Analytica staff set up new firm

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-44807093

7 years ago

118 upvotes – 19 comments

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Vista Equity Partners revamps software companies by following detailed protocols

https://www.wsj.com/articles/billionaires-secret-buyout-formula-110-instructions-and-an-intelligence-test-1531151197

7 years ago

116 upvotes – 90 comments

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The Shareholder Value Myth (2013)

http://www.europeanfinancialreview.com/?p=883

7 years ago

104 upvotes – 83 comments

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Ask HN: How to find an effective career coach?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17528588

7 years ago

94 upvotes – 23 comments

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Hunting the Con Queen of Hollywood

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/hunting-con-queen-hollywood-1125932

7 years ago

86 upvotes – 29 comments

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The Bay Area caste system

https://www.wired.com/story/how-silicon-valley-fuels-an-informal-caste-system/

7 years ago

85 upvotes – 47 comments

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How to port your OS to EC2

http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2018-07-14-port-OS-to-EC2.html

7 years ago

84 upvotes – 0 comments

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Spiffy: Enabling File-System Aware Storage Applications

https://www.usenix.org/conference/fast18/presentation/sun

7 years ago

84 upvotes – 5 comments

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Escape Compasses

http://www.paratrooper.be/articles/escape-compasses/

7 years ago

81 upvotes – 26 comments

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Two Generals and Time Machines

https://mwhittaker.github.io/blog/two_generals_and_time_machines/

7 years ago

81 upvotes – 66 comments