top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-08-29

Show HN: I'm 12, learning JS, and wrote Wolfram's cellular automaton in Node

https://bitbucket.org/liamilan/wolfram-cellular-automata

8 years ago

1072 upvotes – 283 comments

Bye bye BetterSlack

https://g3rv4.com/2018/08/bye-bye-betterslack

8 years ago

839 upvotes – 383 comments

Teens who refuse to use social media

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/aug/29/teens-desert-social-media

8 years ago

453 upvotes – 361 comments

We Spent $3.3M Buying Out Investors: Why and How We Did It

https://open.buffer.com/buying-out-investors/

8 years ago

443 upvotes – 172 comments

Ask HN: What do you struggle with?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17867109

8 years ago

365 upvotes – 533 comments

Google, but for colors

https://picular.co/

8 years ago

349 upvotes – 102 comments

LiteTree: SQLite with Branches

https://github.com/aergoio/litetree

8 years ago

★ 1.6k C MIT
343 upvotes – 75 comments

Some Facebook Employees Unite to Challenge Its ‘Intolerant’ Liberal Culture

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/28/technology/inside-facebook-employees-political-bias.html

8 years ago

336 upvotes – 679 comments

Twitter’s deletion of its FB app caused old cross-posts to temporarily disappear

https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/28/facebook-has-removed-all-cross-posted-tweets/

8 years ago

324 upvotes – 212 comments

What Was the Microsoft Network?

http://www.codersnotes.com/notes/the-microsoft-network/

8 years ago

314 upvotes – 152 comments

Air pollution causes ‘huge’ reduction in intelligence: study

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/aug/27/air-pollution-causes-huge-reduction-in-intelligence-study-reveals

8 years ago

283 upvotes – 170 comments

Financial Modeling for Startups: An Introduction

https://www.fivecastfinancial.com/guides/financial-modeling-for-startups-an-introduction/

8 years ago

276 upvotes – 33 comments

Miami Will Be Underwater Soon. Its Drinking Water Could Go First

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-08-29/miami-s-other-water-problem

8 years ago

265 upvotes – 254 comments

A Missing Link in Postgres 11: Fast Column Creation with Defaults

https://brandur.org/postgres-default

8 years ago

219 upvotes – 44 comments

How to Succeed with a Startup [video]

https://blog.ycombinator.com/sam-altman-how-to-succeed-with-a-startup/

8 years ago

184 upvotes – 77 comments

Python Pandas: Tricks and Features

https://realpython.com/python-pandas-tricks/

8 years ago

180 upvotes – 8 comments

Beej's Quick Guide to GDB (2009)

https://beej.us/guide/bggdb/

8 years ago

174 upvotes – 28 comments

For $450, a Japanese Company Will Quit Your Job for You

https://www.npr.org/2018/08/28/642597968/for-450-this-japanese-company-will-quit-your-job-for-you

8 years ago

173 upvotes – 111 comments

CivJS: A JavaScript 4X Game (2015)

https://github.com/Venerons/CivJS

8 years ago

★ 571 JavaScript GPL-3.0
158 upvotes – 44 comments

FCC can define markets with only one ISP as “competitive,” court rules

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/08/fcc-can-define-markets-with-only-one-isp-as-competitive-court-rules/

8 years ago

157 upvotes – 52 comments

Transmuting Low-Value Programmer Cred into High-Value Status Illegibility

https://daedtech.com/transmuting-low-value-programmer-cred-into-high-value-status-lllegibility/

8 years ago

157 upvotes – 52 comments

How to use LEDs to detect light

https://makezine.com/projects/make-36-boards/how-to-use-leds-to-detect-light/

8 years ago

153 upvotes – 65 comments

Google donates money to help run the Kubernetes infrastructure

https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/29/google-steps-back-from-running-the-kubernetes-infrastructure/

8 years ago

152 upvotes – 51 comments

Sinister 'hunger stones' with dire warnings have surfaced as water levels drop

https://www.businessinsider.com/sinister-hunger-stones-dire-warnings-surfaced-europe-2018-8

8 years ago

149 upvotes – 77 comments

Lerna relicences to protest ICE

https://github.com/lerna/lerna/pull/1616

8 years ago

★ 36k TypeScript MIT
143 upvotes – 151 comments

Why the Future of Data Storage Is Still Magnetic Tape

https://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/hardware/why-the-future-of-data-storage-is-still-magnetic-tape

8 years ago

142 upvotes – 155 comments

A plea for lean software (1995) [pdf]

https://cr.yp.to/bib/1995/wirth.pdf

8 years ago

133 upvotes – 100 comments

Lobste.rs

https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters

8 years ago

★ 4.6k Ruby
133 upvotes – 48 comments

SurveyMonkey S-1

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1739936/000119312518261892/d494258ds1.htm

8 years ago

131 upvotes – 55 comments

We Discovered Helium 150 Years Ago. Are We Running Out?

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2018/08/news-helium-mri-superconducting-markets-reserve-technology/

8 years ago

130 upvotes – 137 comments

Germany, seeking independence from U.S., pushes cyber security research

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-cyber/germany-seeking-independence-from-u-s-pushes-cyber-security-research-idUSKCN1LE1FX

8 years ago

125 upvotes – 168 comments

Puffins are in trouble

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/08/29/climate/puffins-dwindling-iceland.html

8 years ago

124 upvotes – 55 comments

Using FOIA and public databases to track down Department of Defense contracts

https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2018/aug/24/how-use-foia-find-department-defense-contracts/

8 years ago

121 upvotes – 19 comments

Ecstasy as a Remedy for PTSD? You Probably Have Some Questions

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/01/us/ecstasy-molly-ptsd-mdma.html

8 years ago

116 upvotes – 133 comments

Madoko – a fast markdown processor for writing professional documents

https://www.madoko.net

8 years ago

113 upvotes – 27 comments

How TripAdvisor Changed Travel

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/aug/17/how-tripadvisor-changed-travel

8 years ago

113 upvotes – 87 comments

On Software Tooling

https://www.marcel.is/sw-tooling/

8 years ago

113 upvotes – 35 comments

Postgres data types you should consider using

https://www.citusdata.com/blog/2018/08/29/datatypes-you-should-consider-using/

8 years ago

112 upvotes – 37 comments

Diagrams: A diagram editor for the Mac

https://diagrams.app/

8 years ago

110 upvotes – 84 comments

Hackers sell data of 130M Chinese hotel guests on dark web for 8 Bitcoin

https://thenextweb.com/hardfork/2018/08/29/china-bitcoin-data-dark-web/

8 years ago

107 upvotes – 28 comments

‘Overtourism’ Worries Europe. How Much Did Technology Help Get Us There?

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/29/technology/technology-overtourism-europe.html

8 years ago

107 upvotes – 168 comments

Trump unblocks more Twitter users after U.S. court ruling

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-twitter/trump-unblocks-more-twitter-users-after-u-s-court-ruling-idUSKCN1LE08Q

8 years ago

105 upvotes – 82 comments

China’s Re-education Camps

https://www.wsj.com/articles/chinas-re-education-camps-1535497220

8 years ago

102 upvotes – 56 comments

Data Engineering Patterns with Apache Airflow [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23_1WlxGGM4

8 years ago

98 upvotes – 48 comments

Life on the Internet Is Hard When Your Last Name Is 'Butts'

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/9kmp9v/life-on-the-internet-is-hard-when-your-last-name-is-butts

8 years ago

92 upvotes – 138 comments

Show HN: A smarthome dashboard concept using zircle-ui

https://github.com/zircleUI/smarthome-tutorial

8 years ago

★ 212 Vue MIT
90 upvotes – 21 comments

Unimania: I Need Your Facebook Data, Location, and Your Browsing History

https://adguard.com/en/blog/unimania-spyware-campaign/

8 years ago

80 upvotes – 13 comments

Locals reportedly frustrated with Waymo's self-driving cars

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/28/locals-reportedly-frustrated-with-alphabets-waymo-self-driving-cars.html

8 years ago

77 upvotes – 162 comments
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