top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-09-30

Questions

https://patrickcollison.com/questions

8 years ago

1106 upvotes – 470 comments

Ask HN: What are the best textbooks in your field of expertise?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18104814

8 years ago

850 upvotes – 272 comments

How companies use fake sites, backdated articles to censor Google results (2017)

https://www.lumendatabase.org/blog_entries/800

8 years ago

573 upvotes – 121 comments

Growing Our SaaS to $1M+ ARR: 7 People, 3 Years, No VC Money

https://medium.com/everhour/growing-our-saas-company-to-1m-arr-7-people-3-years-no-vc-money-key-lessons-learned-2d53766507d2

8 years ago

411 upvotes – 146 comments

Tiddlywiki – A non-linear personal web notebook

https://tiddlywiki.com/

8 years ago

331 upvotes – 108 comments

A cache invalidation bug in Linux memory management

https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2018/09/a-cache-invalidation-bug-in-linux.html

8 years ago

312 upvotes – 82 comments

Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces

http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/OSTEP/

8 years ago

303 upvotes – 26 comments

Please Google, let us revert to the classic Gmail look

https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!msg/gmail/465HItQGwVI/_QQsSD6TAQAJ

8 years ago

288 upvotes – 181 comments

Plans for the Next Iteration of Vue.js

https://medium.com/the-vue-point/plans-for-the-next-iteration-of-vue-js-777ffea6fabf

8 years ago

271 upvotes – 149 comments

Molten: A modern Python (3.6+) web framework

https://moltenframework.com/v0.5.2/index.html

8 years ago

218 upvotes – 79 comments

Estonia sues Gemalto for €152M over ID card flaws

https://www.reuters.com/article/estonia-gemalto/estonia-sues-gemalto-for-152-mln-euros-over-id-card-flaws-idUSL8N1WD5JZ

8 years ago

181 upvotes – 43 comments

Firefox: The Effect of Ad Blocking on User Engagement with the Web [pdf]

https://research.mozilla.org/files/2018/04/The-Effect-of-Ad-Blocking-on-User-Engagement-with-the-Web.pdf

8 years ago

181 upvotes – 154 comments

Inside Wayback Machine, the internet’s time capsule

https://thehustle.co/inside-wayback-machine-internet-archive

8 years ago

175 upvotes – 17 comments

OCaml All the Way Down – How Jane Street Builds FPGA Designs [video]

https://www.janestreet.com/tech-talks/ocaml-all-the-way-down/

8 years ago

170 upvotes – 30 comments

Why Most Published Research Findings Are False (2005)

https://fermatslibrary.com/s/why-most-published-research-findings-are-false

8 years ago

142 upvotes – 40 comments

MIT D4M: Mathematics of Big Data and Machine Learning [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCAZLl6nq4c&list=PLUl4u3cNGP62DPmPLrVyYfk3-Try_ftJJ&index=1

8 years ago

136 upvotes – 5 comments

Browsable History of Philosophy

https://www.denizcemonduygu.com/philo/browse/

8 years ago

133 upvotes – 45 comments

A bone-marrow transplant treated a patient’s leukemia – and his schizophrenia

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/29/opinion/sunday/schizophrenia-psychiatric-disorders-immune-system.html

8 years ago

131 upvotes – 64 comments

Payments on the Solid Framework

https://docs.solidpay.org/

8 years ago

130 upvotes – 47 comments

Marriage Costs in China Are Out of Control

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-09-29/why-marriage-costs-in-china-are-out-of-control

8 years ago

129 upvotes – 123 comments

In-Depth: Static Code Analysis (2011)

https://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/128836/InDepth_Static_Code_Analysis.php

8 years ago

122 upvotes – 13 comments

What is going on with measures of programming language popularity?

https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/30/what-the-heck-is-going-on-with-measures-of-programming-language-popularity/amp/

8 years ago

112 upvotes – 86 comments

Germans don’t do tech startups – more access to capital might change that

https://qz.com/1404647/germans-dont-do-tech-startups-more-access-to-capital-might-change-that/

8 years ago

104 upvotes – 161 comments

Kindle DX as E-Ink computer monitor (2012)

https://tinyapps.org/docs/e-ink-monitor.html

8 years ago

104 upvotes – 51 comments

Ask HN: What are some alternatives to Google maps?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18106827

8 years ago

104 upvotes – 68 comments

Masayoshi Son, SoftBank, and the $100B Blitz on Sand Hill Road

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-09-27/masayoshi-son-softbank-and-the-100-billion-blitz-on-sand-hill-road

8 years ago

103 upvotes – 49 comments

Hajnal line

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hajnal_line

8 years ago

102 upvotes – 38 comments

Inform: Past, Present, Future

http://www.emshort.com/ifmu/inform.html

8 years ago

96 upvotes – 10 comments

Niels Bohr’s Argument for the Irreducibility of Biology to Physics (1994)

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-015-8106-6_10

8 years ago

95 upvotes – 90 comments

Two bits per transistor: high-density ROM in Intel's 8087 floating point chip

http://www.righto.com/2018/09/two-bits-per-transistor-high-density.html

8 years ago

93 upvotes – 13 comments

RMSbolt – An implementation of the Godbolt compiler-explorer for Emacs

https://gitlab.com/jgkamat/rmsbolt

8 years ago

★ 117 AGPL-3.0
91 upvotes – 9 comments

Mandatory paternity leave would help close the wage gap

https://www.wsj.com/articles/want-equality-make-new-dads-stay-home-1538151219

8 years ago

91 upvotes – 199 comments

Colour Clash: The Engineering Miracle of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum

https://paleotronic.com/2018/09/29/loading-ready-run-sinclair-edition-the-zx-spectrum/

8 years ago

89 upvotes – 47 comments

Late Bloomers: Why Do We Equate Genius with Precocity? (2008)

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/10/20/late-bloomers-malcolm-gladwell

8 years ago

87 upvotes – 41 comments

Cellular automata as convolutional neural networks

https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.02942

8 years ago

83 upvotes – 6 comments
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