top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-08-18

My dad’s resume and skills from 1980

https://github.com/runvnc/dadsresume

7 years ago

★ 1.7k
814 upvotes – 397 comments

Stacking concrete blocks is a surprisingly efficient way to store energy

https://qz.com/1355672/stacking-concrete-blocks-is-a-surprisingly-efficient-way-to-store-energy/

7 years ago

726 upvotes – 382 comments

HUD Files Housing Discrimination Complaint Against Facebook

https://www.hud.gov/press/press_releases_media_advisories/HUD_No_18_085

7 years ago

469 upvotes – 525 comments

Mastodon Is Better Than Twitter: Elevator Pitch

https://www.codesections.com/blog/mastodon-elevator-pitch/

7 years ago

467 upvotes – 375 comments

Facebook addiction linked to staking your self-worth on social acceptance

https://www.psypost.org/2018/08/facebook-addiction-linked-to-staking-your-self-worth-on-social-acceptance-51987

7 years ago

317 upvotes – 144 comments

This AI is bad at drawing but will try anyways

http://aiweirdness.com/post/177091486527/this-ai-is-bad-at-drawing-but-will-try-anyways

7 years ago

313 upvotes – 122 comments

The new MacBook Pros with T2 chips do indeed kernel panic randomly

https://twitter.com/bdkjones/status/1030140659729133568

7 years ago

257 upvotes – 311 comments

Researcher at center of epic fraud remains an enigma to those who exposed him

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/08/researcher-center-epic-fraud-remains-enigma-those-who-exposed-him

7 years ago

240 upvotes – 83 comments

Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2018 – Show and tell

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17790306

7 years ago

227 upvotes – 151 comments

Is serverless insecure? Let's find out

http://www.lambdashell.com/

7 years ago

222 upvotes – 52 comments

Redux vs. The React Context API

https://daveceddia.com/context-api-vs-redux/

7 years ago

207 upvotes – 73 comments

Shamir's Secret Sharing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamir%27s_Secret_Sharing

7 years ago

177 upvotes – 45 comments

Show HN: TinyGo – LLVM-based Go compiler for microcontrollers

https://github.com/aykevl/tinygo

7 years ago

★ 17.3kGo
177 upvotes – 22 comments

Kofi Annan has died

https://twitter.com/KofiAnnan/status/1030752165663567873

7 years ago

176 upvotes – 29 comments

Netflix Has Deleted Every User Review Ever Posted to Its Website

https://www.indiewire.com/2018/08/netflix-user-reviews-deleted-1201996038/

7 years ago

176 upvotes – 171 comments

The Ugly Truth of Ugly Produce

http://www.phatbeetsproduce.org/uglyproduce/

7 years ago

168 upvotes – 181 comments

What happens if you mistakenly apply for British citizenship?

https://www.freemovement.org.uk/what-happens-if-you-mistakenly-apply-for-british-citizenship-instead-of-indefinite-leave-to-remain/

7 years ago

167 upvotes – 177 comments

Never patterns, exhaustive matching, and uninhabited types in Rust

http://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2018/08/13/never-patterns-exhaustive-matching-and-uninhabited-types-oh-my/

7 years ago

161 upvotes – 76 comments

Create a simple cross-platform desktop game with Go

https://sausheong.github.io/posts/cross-platform-games-with-go/

7 years ago

151 upvotes – 21 comments

Vitamin D, the Sunshine Supplement, Has Shadowy Money Behind It

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/18/business/vitamin-d-michael-holick.html

7 years ago

150 upvotes – 65 comments

Criticisms of EU plans for copyright censorship machines removed from Google

https://juliareda.eu/2018/08/censorship-machines-gonna-censor/

7 years ago

146 upvotes – 33 comments

Making $25k/month selling chocolate dicks

https://www.failory.com/mistakes/dick-at-your-door

7 years ago

144 upvotes – 53 comments

Stockholm’s deepest subway station is also an ecological wonder

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/kungstradgarden-metro-station

7 years ago

143 upvotes – 26 comments

A Nerd’s Way to Walk Up the Stairs (2011)

http://blog.tanyakhovanova.com/2011/06/a-nerds-way-to-walk-up-the-stairs/

7 years ago

139 upvotes – 94 comments

Two player Karateka using a 42 byte patch

http://retroconnector.com/karateka-two-player/

7 years ago

137 upvotes – 22 comments

When You’re Hot, You’re Hot: Career Successes Come in Clusters

https://insight.kellogg.northwestern.edu/article/career-hot-streaks

7 years ago

134 upvotes – 42 comments

Dear Academia, I loved you, but I’m leaving you (2014)

http://anothersb.blogspot.com/2014/04/dear-academia-i-loved-you-but-im.html

7 years ago

129 upvotes – 87 comments

Design errors Satoshi made

https://twitter.com/deadalnix/status/1007548856375095296?s=09

7 years ago

128 upvotes – 53 comments

Companies from the YC Summer 2018 Batch

https://blog.ycombinator.com/s18-16-companies/

7 years ago

123 upvotes – 95 comments

Regarding the Most Recent Amazon Mechanical Turk Data Contamination

https://www.maxhuibai.com/blog/evidence-that-responses-from-repeating-gps-are-random

7 years ago

120 upvotes – 28 comments

Impossible Burgers’ key, bloody ingredient gets long awaited nod from FDA

https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/07/ingredient-that-makes-meatless-impossible-burgers-meaty-finally-accepted-by-fda/

7 years ago

112 upvotes – 101 comments

Going FLOSS-only on Android

https://codingquark.com/floss/2018/07/04/android-floss-life.html

7 years ago

109 upvotes – 89 comments

An EPYC NixOS Build Farm

https://grahamc.com/blog/an-epyc-nixos-build-farm

7 years ago

109 upvotes – 36 comments

The Absurdity of Detecting Gravitational Waves (2017) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iphcyNWFD10

7 years ago

108 upvotes – 61 comments

Border between Belgium and the Netherlands at Baarle-Hertog/Baarle-Nassau (2017)

https://brilliantmaps.com/baarle-hertogbaarle-nassau/

7 years ago

105 upvotes – 70 comments

Overnight Brain Stimulation Improves Memory

http://www.jneurosci.org/content/38/33/7314

7 years ago

103 upvotes – 34 comments

GoAWK: an AWK interpreter written in Go

https://github.com/benhoyt/goawk

7 years ago

★ 2kGoMIT
101 upvotes – 36 comments

'Acoustic attack' report on US diplomats in Cuba is flawed, neurologists say

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/14/cuban-acoustic-attack-report-on-us-diplomats-flawed-say-neurologists

7 years ago

101 upvotes – 66 comments

An Ultrahot Exoplanet Has Metallic Skies

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/this-ultrahot-exoplanet-has-metallic-skies/

7 years ago

96 upvotes – 31 comments

OpenSSH user enumeration

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/08/15/5

7 years ago

94 upvotes – 87 comments

Show HN: Favioli – Replace blank tab icons with unique per-domain emoji

https://eligrey.com/blog/favioli/

7 years ago

94 upvotes – 17 comments

Clover: 4-Bit Quantized Linear Algebra

https://astojanov.github.io/projects/clover/

7 years ago

94 upvotes – 18 comments

Getting Deep into EVM: How Ethereum Works Backstage

https://hackernoon.com/getting-deep-into-evm-how-ethereum-works-backstage-ac7efa1f0015

7 years ago

93 upvotes – 4 comments

California Is Deteriorating into a Feudal Society of Inherited Land Wealth

https://slate.com/business/2018/08/californias-proposition-58-has-created-a-whole-lot-of-second-homes-and-rental-properties.html

7 years ago

90 upvotes – 31 comments

Lifeguard Drone Rescues Swimmer in Spain

http://www.thedrive.com/tech/22976/general-drones-auxdron-lifeguard-uav-rescues-swimmer-in-spain

7 years ago

83 upvotes – 53 comments

Should Rivers Have Rights? A Growing Movement Says It’s Time

https://e360.yale.edu/features/should-rivers-have-rights-a-growing-movement-says-its-about-time

7 years ago

78 upvotes – 62 comments

Data Organization in Spreadsheets

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00031305.2017.1375989

7 years ago

77 upvotes – 27 comments

Bringing macros to Python by abusing type annotations

https://tinkering.xyz/abusing-type-annotations/

7 years ago

75 upvotes – 17 comments

Dummy houses in the heart of London (2007)

http://www.urban75.org/london/leinster.html

7 years ago

73 upvotes – 13 comments
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