top 20 hacker news stories for 2018-08-15

Markov Chains Explained Visually (2014)

http://setosa.io/ev/markov-chains/

8 years ago

779 upvotes – 68 comments

Katie's New Face

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2018/09/face-transplant-katie-stubblefield-story-identity-surgery-science/

8 years ago

493 upvotes – 321 comments

Software development requires servant leaders

https://adl.io/essays/why-software-development-requires-servant-leaders/

8 years ago

475 upvotes – 197 comments

The easiest way to keep your web apps accessible: Just use text

https://blog.logrocket.com/the-easiest-way-to-keep-your-web-apps-accessible-c2b57506cc2a

8 years ago

393 upvotes – 260 comments

The Akrasia Effect: Why We Don’t Follow Through on What We Set Out to Do

https://jamesclear.com/akrasia

8 years ago

389 upvotes – 149 comments

Launch HN: The Buttermilk Company (YC S18) – Homemade Indian Food in 5 Minutes

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17767789

8 years ago

377 upvotes – 441 comments

Georgia Tech Creates Cybersecurity Master’s Degree Online for Less Than $10k

https://www.news.gatech.edu/2018/08/08/georgia-tech-creates-cybersecurity-masters-degree-online-less-10000

8 years ago

374 upvotes – 281 comments

YC China and Qi Lu

https://blog.ycombinator.com/yc-china-qi-lu/

8 years ago

351 upvotes – 345 comments

TinyWM – A tiny window manager in around 50 lines of C

http://incise.org/tinywm.html

8 years ago

335 upvotes – 104 comments

SQLite Release 3.25.0 adds support for window functions

https://www.sqlite.org/draft/releaselog/current.html

8 years ago

333 upvotes – 115 comments

Companies Shouldn’t Be Accountable Only to Shareholders

https://www.wsj.com/articles/companies-shouldnt-be-accountable-only-to-shareholders-1534287687

8 years ago

323 upvotes – 414 comments

Osx-kvm: Run macOS on QEMU/KVM

https://github.com/kholia/OSX-KVM

8 years ago

★ 23.2k Shell
299 upvotes – 106 comments

Introducing the Windows Pseudo Console (ConPty)

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/2018/08/02/windows-command-line-introducing-the-windows-pseudo-console-conpty/

8 years ago

297 upvotes – 190 comments

Leo Editor

https://www.leoeditor.com/

8 years ago

257 upvotes – 108 comments

SQLite – The “server-process-edition” branch

https://sqlite.org/src/artifact/0c6bc6f55191b690

8 years ago

236 upvotes – 75 comments

Inside the die of Intel's 8087 coprocessor chip, root of modern floating point

http://www.righto.com/2018/08/inside-die-of-intels-8087-coprocessor.html

8 years ago

226 upvotes – 73 comments

Bullshit-sensitivity predicts prosocial behavior

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0201474

8 years ago

212 upvotes – 279 comments

Code review review is the manager’s job

https://hecate.co/blog/code-review-review-is-the-managers-job

8 years ago

182 upvotes – 103 comments

TimescaleDB vs. InfluxDB: built differently for time-series data

https://blog.timescale.com/timescaledb-vs-influxdb-for-time-series-data-timescale-influx-sql-nosql-36489299877

8 years ago

178 upvotes – 46 comments

Reversing the effects of long programming sessions

https://www.poppastring.com/blog/ReversingTheEffectsOfLongProgrammingSessions.aspx

8 years ago

173 upvotes – 139 comments
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