top 20 hacker news stories for 2018-09-21

Google Suppresses Memo Revealing Plans to Closely Track Search Users in China

https://theintercept.com/2018/09/21/google-suppresses-memo-revealing-plans-to-closely-track-search-users-in-china/

8 years ago

541 upvotes – 289 comments

NewSQL databases fail to guarantee consistency and I blame Spanner

http://dbmsmusings.blogspot.com/2018/09/newsql-database-systems-are-failing-to.html

8 years ago

510 upvotes – 301 comments

Ask HN: What open source project, in your opinion, has the highest code quality?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18037613

8 years ago

458 upvotes – 286 comments

Postgres 11 – A First Look

http://www.craigkerstiens.com/2018/09/20/postgresql-11-a-first-look/

8 years ago

390 upvotes – 188 comments

Functional core, imperative shell (2012)

https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/screencasts/catalog/functional-core-imperative-shell

8 years ago

389 upvotes – 126 comments

Thanks for the Surprise Integration with My Website, Apple

https://www.asaph.org/2018/09/jguitar-apple-ios-shortcut.html

8 years ago

389 upvotes – 210 comments

Nvidia Vid2vid: High-resolution photorealistic video-to-video translation

https://github.com/NVIDIA/vid2vid

8 years ago

★ 8.7k Python
303 upvotes – 127 comments

Freezing your credit is now free in all states under a new law

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2018/09/21/equifax-free-credit-freeze-new-law/1377815002/

8 years ago

258 upvotes – 104 comments

A forgotten hero stopped the My Lai massacre 50 years ago

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-wiener-my-lai-hugh-thompson-20180316-story.html#

8 years ago

249 upvotes – 98 comments

Apple File System Reference [pdf]

https://developer.apple.com/support/apple-file-system/Apple-File-System-Reference.pdf

8 years ago

248 upvotes – 64 comments

Making a racist AI without really trying (2017)

http://blog.conceptnet.io/posts/2017/how-to-make-a-racist-ai-without-really-trying/

8 years ago

229 upvotes – 119 comments

Deep learning experiments in OCaml

https://blog.janestreet.com/deep-learning-experiments-in-ocaml/

8 years ago

218 upvotes – 97 comments

Go team adding a Go language server to core

https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/tools/+/136676#message-11c783bc9a9f6adf6119bbb85c89510fda25abe9

8 years ago

218 upvotes – 92 comments

Holding a Program in One's Head (2007)

http://paulgraham.com/head.html

8 years ago

215 upvotes – 79 comments

A DMT trip 'feels like dying' – and scientists now agree

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/article/dd52796e-5935-414e-af0c-de9686d02afa

8 years ago

213 upvotes – 133 comments

Marzipan: Porting iOS Apps to the Mac

https://pspdfkit.com/blog/2018/porting-ios-apps-to-mac-marzipan-iosmac-uikit-appkit/

8 years ago

192 upvotes – 56 comments

The Dangers of DNA Testing

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/21/opinion/the-dangers-of-dna-testing.html

8 years ago

185 upvotes – 61 comments

Qualcomm’s Chain of Trust

https://lineageos.org/engineering/Qualcomm-Firmware/

8 years ago

180 upvotes – 130 comments

Running a database on EC2? Your clock could be slowing you down

https://heapanalytics.com/blog/engineering/clocksource-aws-ec2-vdso

8 years ago

178 upvotes – 92 comments

Inside cpyext: Why emulating CPython C API is so Hard

https://morepypy.blogspot.com/2018/09/inside-cpyext-why-emulating-cpython-c.html

8 years ago

173 upvotes – 39 comments
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