top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-09-03

A military technique for falling asleep in two minutes

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fall-asleep-two-minutes-how-to-military-secret-trick-a8520991.html

8 years ago

829 upvotes – 224 comments

All Things Sales: Mini-lessons for startup founders

https://a16z.com/2018/09/02/sales-startups-technical-founders/

8 years ago

568 upvotes – 59 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2018)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17902901

8 years ago

486 upvotes – 906 comments

A Fighter Pilot’s Guide to Surviving on the Roads

https://www.portsmouthctc.org.uk/a-fighter-pilots-guide-to-surviving-on-the-roads/

8 years ago

312 upvotes – 182 comments

Why I never finish my Haskell programs

https://blog.plover.com/2018/09/03/#what-goes-wrong

8 years ago

296 upvotes – 217 comments

Learning BASIC Like It's 1983

https://twobithistory.org/2018/09/02/learning-basic.html

8 years ago

284 upvotes – 160 comments

Amazon Sets Its Sights on the $88B Online Ad Market

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/03/business/media/amazon-digital-ads.html

8 years ago

280 upvotes – 232 comments

Shifting Gears

https://jenkins.io/blog/2018/08/31/shifting-gears/

8 years ago

264 upvotes – 118 comments

Want to Be More Creative? Take a Walk (2014)

https://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/04/30/want-to-be-more-creative-take-a-walk/

8 years ago

262 upvotes – 43 comments

Source for theguardian.com

https://github.com/guardian/frontend

8 years ago

★ 5.8k Scala
251 upvotes – 97 comments

Unexpected benefit with Ryzen – reducing power for build server

http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/users/2018-September/357883.html

8 years ago

247 upvotes – 59 comments

20M historical artifacts destroyed in Brazil National Museum fire

https://www.cnet.com/news/20-million-historical-artifacts-destroyed-in-brazil-national-museum-fire

8 years ago

236 upvotes – 72 comments

Vocore2, a ridiculously small Linux PC

http://vocore.io/

8 years ago

218 upvotes – 66 comments

US Court of Appeals: An IP address isn't enough to identify a pirate

https://www.techspot.com/news/76190-us-court-appeals-ip-address-isnt-enough-identify.html

8 years ago

207 upvotes – 65 comments

Implementing a network protocol in Go

https://about.sourcegraph.com/go/gophercon-2018-implementing-a-network-protocol-in-go/

8 years ago

181 upvotes – 4 comments

An ode to Apple’s awful MacBook keyboard

https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/01/an-ode-to-apples-awful-mac-keyboard/

8 years ago

178 upvotes – 236 comments

The Ocean Cleanup Is Starting

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffkart/2018/08/28/the-ocean-cleanup-is-starting-aims-to-cut-garbage-patch-by-90-by-2040/#69796ad0253e

8 years ago

160 upvotes – 76 comments

Fear the reaper: characterization and fast detection of card skimmers

https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/09/03/fear-the-reaper-characterization-and-fast-detection-of-card-skimmers/

8 years ago

150 upvotes – 171 comments

Deep Angel: AI that erases objects from images

http://deepangel.media.mit.edu/

8 years ago

147 upvotes – 57 comments

I was told I would become quadriplegic

https://abishekmuthian.com/i-was-told-i-would-become-quadriplegic-68c0371e6f05

8 years ago

141 upvotes – 73 comments

Reading with a pencil

https://austinkleon.com/2018/08/30/reading-with-a-pencil/

8 years ago

139 upvotes – 83 comments

Temperature Anomalies by Country 1880-2017

https://www.flickr.com/photos/150411108@N06/30562013098/in/photostream/

8 years ago

131 upvotes – 88 comments

A Constructive Look at TempleOS (2015)

http://www.codersnotes.com/notes/a-constructive-look-at-templeos/

8 years ago

130 upvotes – 53 comments

The aesthetics of science fiction spaceship design

https://uwspace.uwaterloo.ca/handle/10012/4935

8 years ago

124 upvotes – 61 comments

Tell Your Co-Workers How Much Money You Make

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/31/smarter-living/pay-secrecy-national-labor-rights-act.html

8 years ago

123 upvotes – 88 comments

Lisp-Flavoured Erlang

http://lfe.io/

8 years ago

122 upvotes – 57 comments

In Kenya, “sugar” relationships have become both more common and more visible

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/sex_and_the_sugar_daddy

8 years ago

117 upvotes – 85 comments

The Path to Biological Numeracy

http://book.bionumbers.org/

8 years ago

109 upvotes – 12 comments

Show HN: Feediary – RSS reader with zero tracking and zero ads

https://feediary.com/

8 years ago

109 upvotes – 89 comments

Interactive Camera Simulator

http://photography-mapped.com/interact.html

8 years ago

95 upvotes – 19 comments

A tour of JavaScript timers on the web

https://nolanlawson.com/2018/09/01/a-tour-of-javascript-timers-on-the-web/

8 years ago

95 upvotes – 26 comments

The New Science of Seeing Around Corners

https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-new-science-of-seeing-around-corners-20180830/

8 years ago

93 upvotes – 10 comments

Big Changes for Mainstream Chip Architectures

https://semiengineering.com/big-changes-for-mainstream-chip-architectures/

8 years ago

90 upvotes – 5 comments

Awesome Tmux

https://github.com/rothgar/awesome-tmux

8 years ago

★ 9.8k
89 upvotes – 18 comments

AVA: The Art and Science of Image Discovery at Netflix

https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/ava-the-art-and-science-of-image-discovery-at-netflix-a442f163af6

8 years ago

89 upvotes – 9 comments

Hard Lessons Breathe New Life Into Retail Stores

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/03/business/retail-walmart-amazon-economy.html

8 years ago

87 upvotes – 72 comments
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