top 50% 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

The Jury Is In: Monolithic OS Design Is Flawed [pdf]

http://ts.data61.csiro.au/publications/csiro_full_text/Biggs_LH_18.pdf

8 years ago

172 upvotes – 194 comments

Dropbear SSH, a lightweight alternative to OpenSSH

https://www.librebyte.net/en/network/dropbear-ssh-a-lightweight-alternative-to-openssh/

8 years ago

161 upvotes – 105 comments

Why There Are So Many Thai Restaurants in America

https://munchies.vice.com/en_us/article/paxadz/the-surprising-reason-that-there-are-so-many-thai-restaurants-in-america

8 years ago

153 upvotes – 151 comments

Intangible investment behaves differently

https://www.gatesnotes.com/Books/Capitalism-Without-Capital

8 years ago

149 upvotes – 89 comments

$100M Was Once Big Money for a Startup. Now, It’s Common

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/14/technology/venture-capital-mega-round.html

8 years ago

145 upvotes – 153 comments

Blind: an anonymous, corporate social network

https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/11/blind-loyalty/

8 years ago

141 upvotes – 95 comments

Scaling Your Static Site to a Global Market for a Fraction of the Cost on AWS

https://medium.com/@elliot_f/scaling-your-static-site-to-a-global-market-for-a-fraction-of-the-cost-on-aws-12d23f30f877

8 years ago

138 upvotes – 61 comments

Exploring Error Handling Patterns in Go

https://8thlight.com/blog/kyle-krull/2018/08/13/exploring-error-handling-patterns-in-go.html

8 years ago

133 upvotes – 77 comments

Issues relating to a bug in Intel cpus

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=153431475429367&w=2

8 years ago

124 upvotes – 21 comments

Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System

http://donellameadows.org/archives/leverage-points-places-to-intervene-in-a-system/

8 years ago

114 upvotes – 12 comments

Ajit Pai grilled by lawmakers on why FCC spread “myth” of DDoS attack

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/08/ajit-pai-must-answer-for-fccs-lies-to-congress-about-ddos-senators-say/

8 years ago

110 upvotes – 29 comments

New Zealand Passes Law to Crack Down on Foreign Home Buyers

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-14/new-zealand-poised-to-impose-crackdown-on-foreign-home-buyers

8 years ago

106 upvotes – 173 comments

Irony Alert: Disney About 'Overzealous Copyright Holders'

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180815/01040040434/irony-alert-disney-yes-disney-whines-about-overzealous-copyright-holders.shtml

8 years ago

103 upvotes – 20 comments

Show HN: Eno – A lightning fast, user-friendly YAML/TOML alternative

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17765426

8 years ago

102 upvotes – 65 comments

Search Engine for Web Page Source Code with 300M Sites Indexed

https://publicwww.com/

8 years ago

101 upvotes – 24 comments

The TTY demystified (2008)

https://www.linusakesson.net/programming/tty/

8 years ago

98 upvotes – 12 comments

Show HN: A Go implementation of TensorFlow's streaming quantiles estimator

https://github.com/axiomhq/quantiles

8 years ago

★ 162 Go MIT
98 upvotes – 6 comments

Cubans cheer as internet goes nationwide for a day

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cuba-internet/cubans-cheer-as-internet-goes-nationwide-for-a-day-idUSKBN1KZ2CB

8 years ago

97 upvotes – 89 comments

Products Are Functions

http://www.feltpresence.com/functions.html

8 years ago

89 upvotes – 27 comments

What makes Paris look like Paris? (2012)

https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2015/12/194622-what-makes-paris-look-like-paris/fulltext

8 years ago

88 upvotes – 84 comments

Leg exercise is critical to brain and nervous system health

https://blog.frontiersin.org/2018/06/07/neuroscience-leg-exercise-brain-nervous-system-health/

8 years ago

88 upvotes – 12 comments

Collective awareness, or the models that we use to understand the world

https://www.edge.org/conversation/j_doyne_farmer-collective-awareness

8 years ago

85 upvotes – 5 comments

What It Takes to Hold Your Breath for 24 Minutes (2017)

https://www.wired.com/story/what-it-takes-to-hold-your-breath-for-24-minutes-yeah-its-a-thing/

8 years ago

83 upvotes – 45 comments

Geospatial indexing on Hilbert curves

https://blog.zen.ly/geospatial-indexing-on-hilbert-curves-2379b929addc

8 years ago

82 upvotes – 18 comments

How to start an e-commerce store that doesn’t dropship

https://medium.com/@kentf/how-to-start-an-e-commerce-store-that-doesnt-dropship-742adb1087f3

8 years ago

80 upvotes – 35 comments

The Revolution Against the Revolution: Looking Back on Shays’ Rebellion

https://www.city-journal.org/html/shays-rebellion-16041.html

8 years ago

77 upvotes – 120 comments

Algorithm and Blues: The Tyranny of the Coming Smart-Tech Utopia

http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/publications/algorithm-and-blues-tyranny-coming-smart-tech-utopia

8 years ago

77 upvotes – 44 comments

Salt-infused graphene creates an infrared cloaking device

https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/08/salt-infused-graphene-makes-for-a-infrared-cloaking-device/

8 years ago

75 upvotes – 7 comments

Alexa, be my friend: Children talk to technology, but how does it respond?

http://www.washington.edu/news/2018/08/06/alexa-be-my-friend-children-talk-to-technology-but-how-does-it-respond/

8 years ago

73 upvotes – 75 comments

Break a dozen secret keys, get a million more for free (2015)

https://ecrypt-eu.blogspot.com/2015/11/break-dozen-secret-keys-get-million.html

8 years ago

72 upvotes – 9 comments

Do electrons think? (1949)

https://quantumlifescience.wordpress.com/2014/04/10/do-electrons-think-erwin-schrodinger-bbc-1949/

8 years ago

71 upvotes – 60 comments

QLBridge – Go SQL Runtime Engine

https://github.com/araddon/qlbridge

8 years ago

★ 869 Go MIT
71 upvotes – 1 comments

Dissecting a Shader Quine

https://gpfault.net/posts/shader-quine.txt.html

8 years ago

71 upvotes – 12 comments
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