top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-10-16

What I loved about Paul Allen

https://www.gatesnotes.com/About-Bill-Gates/Remembering-Paul-Allen?WT.mc_id=10_16_2018_10_PaulAllen_BG-TW_&WT.tsrc=BGTW&linkId=58288095

7 years ago

964 upvotes – 114 comments

GitHub launches Actions, its workflow automation tool

https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/16/github-launches-actions-its-workflow-automation-tool/

7 years ago

642 upvotes – 145 comments

How Lisp Became God's Own Programming Language

https://twobithistory.org/2018/10/14/lisp.html

7 years ago

614 upvotes – 307 comments

Life Got You Down? Time to Read The Master and Margarita

https://lithub.com/life-got-you-down-time-to-read-the-master-and-margarita/

7 years ago

534 upvotes – 177 comments

China May Have $5.8T in Hidden Debt with ‘Titanic’ Risks

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-16/china-may-have-5-8-trillion-in-hidden-debt-with-titanic-risks

7 years ago

482 upvotes – 241 comments

Modern Microprocessors – A 90-Minute Guide (2001-2016)

http://www.lighterra.com/papers/modernmicroprocessors/

7 years ago

443 upvotes – 87 comments

Ask HN: What discontinued company/product do you wish was still around?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18225760

7 years ago

393 upvotes – 1052 comments

How Exercise Might “Clean” the Alzheimer's Brain

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-exercise-might-clean-the-alzheimers-brain1/

7 years ago

390 upvotes – 209 comments

Ask HN: Is there a modern “power on to basic” computer, for kids to learn on?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18228740

7 years ago

387 upvotes – 328 comments

To become a software consultant, avoid letting clients pay you for code (2017)

https://daedtech.com/key-becoming-software-consultant/

7 years ago

332 upvotes – 132 comments

Our Solar System Is Even Stranger Than We Thought

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/our-solar-system-is-even-stranger-than-we-thought/

7 years ago

331 upvotes – 139 comments

Concepts to help developers master JavaScript

https://github.com/leonardomso/33-js-concepts

7 years ago

★ 66.3kJavaScriptMIT
316 upvotes – 51 comments

American Mercenaries Were Hired to Assassinate Politicians in the Middle East

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/aramroston/mercenaries-assassination-us-yemen-uae-spear-golan-dahlan?fbclid=IwAR08TqB-uGvRrRsnylMTMTiHmvuPEdQ0hj0xFSBSH3tT4SN9S3VBNqf4nbA

7 years ago

307 upvotes – 236 comments

MongoDB switches up its open source license

https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/16/mongodb-switches-up-its-open-source-license/

7 years ago

306 upvotes – 467 comments

Ex-Google engineer describing the company's role in China censorship

https://threader.app/thread/1051725524064591872

7 years ago

282 upvotes – 238 comments

Alarming study shows massive insect loss

https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2018/10/15/hyperalarming-study-shows-massive-insect-loss/

7 years ago

273 upvotes – 83 comments

Do We Worship Complexity?

https://www.innoq.com/de/blog/do-we-worship-complexity/

7 years ago

260 upvotes – 256 comments

A guide to rhythm in web typography

https://betterwebtype.com/rhythm-in-web-typography

7 years ago

256 upvotes – 87 comments

The History of Sears Predicts Nearly Everything Amazon Is Doing (2017)

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/09/sears-predicts-amazon/540888/?single_page=true

7 years ago

219 upvotes – 116 comments

Responder: A familiar HTTP Service Framework

http://python-responder.org

7 years ago

205 upvotes – 111 comments

Flight rules for Git

https://github.com/k88hudson/git-flight-rules

7 years ago

★ 42.4kCC-BY-SA-4.0
203 upvotes – 131 comments

Google to Charge Phone Makers for Android Apps in Europe

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/16/technology/google-android-europe-apps.html

7 years ago

203 upvotes – 239 comments

ChuChu TV is responsible for widely-viewed toddler content on YouTube

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/11/raised-by-youtube/570838/

7 years ago

192 upvotes – 296 comments

Making Windows Slower Part 2: Process Creation

https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2018/10/15/making-windows-slower-part-2-process-creation/

7 years ago

179 upvotes – 32 comments

Backblaze Drive Stats: 2018 Q3 Hard Drive Failure Rates

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/2018-hard-drive-failire-rates/

7 years ago

175 upvotes – 49 comments

Why is FFTW written in OCaml and what makes it so fast?

https://www.quora.com/Why-is-FFTW-written-in-OCaml-and-what-makes-it-so-fast?share=1

7 years ago

172 upvotes – 29 comments

Acquiring absolute pitch in adulthood is difficult but possible

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2018/07/03/355933

7 years ago

171 upvotes – 146 comments

How Employers Track Their Workers

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2018/10/employee-surveillance/568159/?single_page=true

7 years ago

170 upvotes – 81 comments

App Engine’s New Go 1.11 Runtime

https://blog.golang.org/appengine-go111

7 years ago

168 upvotes – 96 comments

China cracks down on religion, crosses burned at Christian churches

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-09-25/crosses-burned-in-china-religion-crackdown/10301956

7 years ago

126 upvotes – 120 comments

U.S. Is World’s Most Competitive Economy for First Time in a Decade

https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-is-worlds-most-competitive-economy-for-first-time-in-a-decade-1539727213

7 years ago

122 upvotes – 117 comments

Uber Proposals Value It at $120B in Possible 2019 IPO

https://www.wsj.com/articles/uber-proposals-value-company-at-120-billion-in-a-possible-ipo-1539690343

7 years ago

120 upvotes – 96 comments

Does being bored make us more creative? (2014)

https://fermatslibrary.com/s/does-being-bored-make-us-more-creative

7 years ago

113 upvotes – 44 comments

Piano Genie: An Intelligent Musical Interface

https://magenta.tensorflow.org/pianogenie

7 years ago

112 upvotes – 27 comments

Gartner picks digital ethics and privacy as a strategic trend for 2019

https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/16/gartner-picks-digital-ethics-and-privacy-as-a-strategic-trend-for-2019/

7 years ago

110 upvotes – 23 comments

How the Sears Catalog Undermined White Supremacy in the Jim Crow South

https://kottke.org/18/10/how-the-sears-catalog-undermined-white-supremacy-in-the-jim-crow-south

7 years ago

106 upvotes – 9 comments

Securing your users' authentication

https://www.stavros.io/posts/securing-user-authentication/

7 years ago

104 upvotes – 50 comments

Formality – An efficient programming language and proof assistant

https://github.com/maiavictor/formality

7 years ago

★ 45JavaScriptMIT
102 upvotes – 23 comments

The new fast.ai research datasets collection, on AWS Open Data

http://www.fast.ai/2018/10/16/aws-datasets/

7 years ago

95 upvotes – 5 comments

Brain pollution: Evidence builds that dirty air causes Alzheimer’s, dementia

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/01/brain-pollution-evidence-builds-dirty-air-causes-alzheimer-s-dementia

7 years ago

95 upvotes – 26 comments

A Genocide Incited on Facebook, With Posts From Myanmar’s Military

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/15/technology/myanmar-facebook-genocide.html

7 years ago

94 upvotes – 52 comments

UGears – 3D Wooden Mechanical Model Kits, 3D Puzzles

https://ugears.us/

7 years ago

92 upvotes – 20 comments

New half-light half-matter particles may hold the key to a computing revolution

https://www.exeter.ac.uk/news/featurednews/title_686973_en.html

7 years ago

89 upvotes – 12 comments

First analysis of how Uber and Lyft have affected roadway congestion in SF

https://www.sfcta.org/emerging-mobility/tncs-and-congestion

7 years ago

88 upvotes – 98 comments
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