top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-08-19

Don’t Do This in Production

https://stephenmann.io/post/dont-do-this-in-production/

7 years ago

696 upvotes – 284 comments

Insurance copays are higher than the cost of the drug about 25% of the time

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/why-a-patient-paid-a-285-copay-for-a-40-drug

7 years ago

488 upvotes – 291 comments

The scientists who starved to death surrounded by food

https://www.amusingplanet.com/2018/08/the-scientists-who-starved-to-death.html

7 years ago

348 upvotes – 82 comments

Headless Chrome support in Cloud Functions and App Engine

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp/introducing-headless-chrome-support-in-cloud-functions-and-app-engine

7 years ago

333 upvotes – 79 comments

Introduction to Go Modules

https://roberto.selbach.ca/intro-to-go-modules/

7 years ago

252 upvotes – 101 comments

The un-celebrity president: Jimmy Carter shuns riches, lives modestly

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/national/wp/2018/08/17/feature/the-un-celebrity-president-jimmy-carter-shuns-riches-lives-modestly-in-his-georgia-hometown/

7 years ago

235 upvotes – 103 comments

Bumper Sticker Computer Science (1985) [pdf]

http://www.bowdoin.edu/~ltoma/teaching/cs340/spring05/coursestuff/Bentley_BumperSticker.pdf

7 years ago

231 upvotes – 49 comments

Ask HN: How did you find your current job?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17791766

7 years ago

199 upvotes – 207 comments

The 1970s calculator race

https://twitter.com/pulplibrarian/status/1030830856720527360

7 years ago

169 upvotes – 60 comments

AV1 and the Video Wars of 2027

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/08/the-video-wars-of-2027/

7 years ago

160 upvotes – 103 comments

MIT 6.886 – Graph Analytics – Spring 2018

https://people.csail.mit.edu/jshun/6886-s18/

7 years ago

154 upvotes – 4 comments

How Amsterdam’s Airport Is Fighting Noise Pollution with Land Art

https://www.amusingplanet.com/2017/06/how-amsterdams-airport-is-fighting.html

7 years ago

147 upvotes – 62 comments

The short history of the “about:” URL (2013)

http://www.montulli.org/lou/about_urls

7 years ago

143 upvotes – 21 comments

Netflix will now interrupt series binges with video ads for its other series

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/08/netflix-begins-testing-ads-for-its-own-series-between-binge-season-episodes/

7 years ago

141 upvotes – 131 comments

What It’s Like Living As a Diagnosed Psychopath

https://www.thecut.com/2018/08/my-life-as-a-psychopath.html

7 years ago

137 upvotes – 110 comments

On Loneliness and Solitude

https://www.pa-mar.net/Lifestyle/Solitude.html

7 years ago

136 upvotes – 36 comments

Pop Songs Written by Native Speakers of Swedish

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/08/15/pop-songs-in-english-written-by-native-speakers-of-swedish/

7 years ago

135 upvotes – 148 comments

Show HN: Umbrella JS, a 2.5kb jQuery alternative

https://umbrellajs.com/

7 years ago

132 upvotes – 75 comments

What happens when a Pacific island upsets China

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-pacific-china-palau-insight/empty-hotels-idle-boats-what-happens-when-a-pacific-island-upsets-china-idUSKBN1L4036

7 years ago

125 upvotes – 149 comments

Details of horrific first voyages in transatlantic slave trade revealed

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/transatlantic-slave-trade-voyages-ships-log-details-africa-america-atlantic-ocean-deaths-disease-a8494546.html

7 years ago

117 upvotes – 52 comments

Archaeologists explore a rural field in Kansas, and a lost city emerges

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-kansas-lost-city-20180819-htmlstory.html

7 years ago

116 upvotes – 38 comments

One in five genetics papers contains Excel errors (2016)

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/08/one-five-genetics-papers-contains-errors-thanks-microsoft-excel

7 years ago

115 upvotes – 59 comments

The personal SOS messages the BBC used to send

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-35815747

7 years ago

114 upvotes – 26 comments

Show HN: FreshJobs – An aggregator of junior and entry-level jobs

https://freshjobs.io

7 years ago

106 upvotes – 31 comments

LI2: Lego Institute for Lego Investigation

http://norvig.com/LI2/

7 years ago

104 upvotes – 19 comments

A Haskell Compiler – Slides on GHC Implementation (2013)

http://www.scs.stanford.edu/11au-cs240h/notes/ghc-slides.html

7 years ago

101 upvotes – 18 comments

Let’s all go back to Tumblr

https://theoutline.com/post/5811/why-tumblr-is-better-than-twitter-and-we-should-bring-it-back

7 years ago

99 upvotes – 134 comments

SIGGRAPH 2018 Papers: Machine Learning, Graphics, and Rendering

https://medium.com/@jcowles/siggraph-2018-papers-ee2bb1be9050

7 years ago

92 upvotes – 11 comments

The Chinese Wheelbarrow (2011)

http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2011/12/the-chinese-wheelbarrow.html

7 years ago

88 upvotes – 33 comments

A Detailed Look at RFC 8446 (a.k.a. TLS 1.3)

https://blog.cloudflare.com/rfc-8446-aka-tls-1-3/

7 years ago

86 upvotes – 8 comments

The greatest paper map of the United States, made by one guy in Oregon (2012)

http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2012/01/the_best_american_wall_map_david_imus_the_essential_geography_of_the_united_states_of_america_.html

7 years ago

81 upvotes – 4 comments

Detailed articles on the avionics of NASA’s space shuttle

https://spaceflight.nasa.gov/shuttle/reference/shutref/orbiter/avionics/

7 years ago

79 upvotes – 12 comments

Greek island to run on wind, solar power

https://techxplore.com/news/2018-08-renewable-resort-greek-island-solar.html

7 years ago

79 upvotes – 45 comments

Is Lisp Still Unique? Or at Least Different? (2002)

http://norvig.com/Lisp-retro.html

7 years ago

78 upvotes – 85 comments

They Don't Build Them Like They Used To: The New Construction Shortage

https://www.zillow.com/research/new-construction-shortgage-20991/

7 years ago

73 upvotes – 80 comments

Generating Mazes with Inductive Graphs

http://jelv.is/blog/Generating-Mazes-with-Inductive-Graphs/

7 years ago

72 upvotes – 3 comments
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