top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-08-25

The Future of Notebooks: Lessons from JupyterCon

http://willcrichton.net/notes/lessons-from-jupytercon/

7 years ago

353 upvotes – 154 comments

Skim reading is the new normal. The effect on society is profound

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/aug/25/skim-reading-new-normal-maryanne-wolf

7 years ago

327 upvotes – 211 comments

Set Theory and Algebra in CS: Introduction to Mathematical Modeling (2013) [pdf]

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/d106/6b6de601c1d7d5af25af3f7091bc7ad3ad51.pdf

7 years ago

317 upvotes – 50 comments

If you’re unsure whether to quit your job or break up, you probably should

https://80000hours.org/2018/08/randomised-experiment-if-youre-really-unsure-whether-to-quit-your-job-or-break-up-you-really-probably-should/

7 years ago

290 upvotes – 208 comments

Elm 0.19 Broke Us

https://dev.to/kspeakman/elm-019-broke-us--khn

7 years ago

276 upvotes – 226 comments

Centralized Wins. Decentralized Loses

http://highscalability.com/blog/2018/8/22/what-do-you-believe-now-that-you-didnt-five-years-ago-centra.html

7 years ago

275 upvotes – 150 comments

Money Really Does Lead to a More Satisfying Life

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/24/business/money-satisfaction-lottery-study.html

7 years ago

263 upvotes – 146 comments

Japan to add millions of new nodes to federated Nextcloud network

https://nextcloud.com/blog/japan-to-add-millions-of-new-nodes-to-federated-nextcloud-network/

7 years ago

237 upvotes – 64 comments

The Student Debt Problem Is Worse Than We Imagined

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/08/25/opinion/sunday/student-debt-loan-default-college.html

7 years ago

222 upvotes – 358 comments

Energy Department teams up with Bill Gates to move mini-nuclear plants to market

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/energy/energy-department-teams-up-with-bill-gates-to-move-mini-nuclear-plants-to-market

7 years ago

207 upvotes – 114 comments

A satellite engineer explains the basics of space electronics

http://blog.snapeda.com/2018/08/16/engineer-spotlight-brady-salz-from-astranis/

7 years ago

183 upvotes – 49 comments

Go 1.11 and Beyond

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1EwuJhEHR5Trr2aXBPQajZ2Hcoh29tm_LQCpgfrCnuRk/edit#slide=id.g33148270ac_0_143

7 years ago

182 upvotes – 81 comments

An Oral History of ‘GoldenEye 007’ on the N64

https://melmagazine.com/an-oral-history-of-goldeneye-007-on-the-n64-129844f1c5ab

7 years ago

175 upvotes – 95 comments

Great Barrier Reef headed for ‘massive death’

https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2018/08/world/great-barrier-reef/

7 years ago

169 upvotes – 124 comments

Office Life Is Destroying Your Butt

https://melmagazine.com/your-office-life-is-destroying-your-butt-b0b19a08cf3d

7 years ago

167 upvotes – 129 comments

The Berklee College of Music Sampling Archive

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sound_samples

7 years ago

155 upvotes – 20 comments

Staying Public

https://www.tesla.com/blog/staying-public

7 years ago

155 upvotes – 102 comments

How to Fit a Large Program into a Small Machine (1999)

http://mud.co.uk/richard/htflpism.htm

7 years ago

148 upvotes – 35 comments

The Paradox of Karl Popper

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/the-paradox-of-karl-popper/

7 years ago

147 upvotes – 78 comments

I Delivered Packages for Amazon and It Was a Nightmare

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/06/amazon-flex-workers/563444/

7 years ago

136 upvotes – 138 comments

Plastic Straws Aren’t the Problem

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-06-07/plastic-straws-aren-t-the-problem

7 years ago

134 upvotes – 164 comments

Beyond the pixel plane: sensing and learning in 3D

https://thegradient.pub/beyond-the-pixel-plane-sensing-and-learning-in-3d/

7 years ago

129 upvotes – 15 comments

Fortnite Android Installer allowed hackers to download and install anything

https://www.androidcentral.com/epic-games-first-fortnite-installer-allowed-hackers-download-install-silently

7 years ago

116 upvotes – 72 comments

Paradise Lost: How Tourists Are Destroying the Places They Love

http://www.spiegel.de/international/paradise-lost-tourists-are-destroying-the-places-they-love-a-1223502.html

7 years ago

112 upvotes – 152 comments

TKVDB: radix tree persistent key/value storage engine written in ANSI C

https://github.com/vmxdev/tkvdb

7 years ago

★ 343CISC
105 upvotes – 20 comments

Recycling in the United States is in serious trouble. How does it work?

https://mashable.com/2018/08/18/how-recycling-works/

7 years ago

99 upvotes – 94 comments

JSCPP, a simple C++ interpreter written in JavaScript

https://github.com/felixhao28/JSCPP

7 years ago

★ 877TypeScriptMIT
98 upvotes – 31 comments

Hatchful – Create stunning logos in seconds

https://hatchful.shopify.com/

7 years ago

96 upvotes – 22 comments

What stable kernel should I use?

http://kroah.com/log/blog/2018/08/24/what-stable-kernel-should-i-use/

7 years ago

94 upvotes – 20 comments

Federated Learning

https://florian.github.io/federated-learning/

7 years ago

89 upvotes – 12 comments

Evenly distributing points on a sphere

http://extremelearning.com.au/evenly-distributing-points-on-a-sphere/

7 years ago

88 upvotes – 20 comments

Predict Economic Indicators with OpenStreetMap

https://janakiev.com/blog/osm-predict-economic-indicators/

7 years ago

87 upvotes – 13 comments

Ethical OS and Silicon Valley’s Guilty Conscience

https://librarianshipwreck.wordpress.com/2018/08/24/striving-to-minimize-technical-and-reputational-risks-ethical-os-and-silicon-valleys-guilty-conscience/

7 years ago

86 upvotes – 40 comments

Thorium power has a protactinium problem

https://thebulletin.org/2018/08/thorium-power-has-a-protactinium-problem/

7 years ago

79 upvotes – 24 comments

Sarcasm Analysis Using Conversation Context

https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.07531

7 years ago

78 upvotes – 19 comments

The hidden reality of ridiculously complicated algorithms

https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/ridiculously-complicated-algorithms/

7 years ago

77 upvotes – 35 comments

Divergence and curl: The language of Maxwell's equations and more [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rB83DpBJQsE

7 years ago

75 upvotes – 9 comments

Tesla Semi made it ‘across the country alone’

https://electrek.co/2018/08/25/tesla-semi-drove-across-country-supercharger-elon-musk/

7 years ago

74 upvotes – 42 comments

Hackable humans and digital dictators: Q&A with Yuval Noah Harari

https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/hackable-humans-digital-dictators-qa-yuval-noah-harari-180824095306982.html

7 years ago

74 upvotes – 30 comments

Javascript Fundamentals: ‘this’ keyword

https://blog.bloomca.me/2018/08/24/javascript-fundamentals-this.html

7 years ago

73 upvotes – 53 comments

German Cryptanalytic Attacks on the British World War II “TYPEX” Machine

https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/blog//2018-08/2018-08-24.html

7 years ago

73 upvotes – 19 comments
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