top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-10-19

Japan's Hometown Tax

https://www.kalzumeus.com/2018/10/19/japanese-hometown-tax/

8 years ago

847 upvotes – 249 comments

Apple CEO Tim Cook Calling for Bloomberg to Retract Its Chinese Spy Chip Story

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/johnpaczkowski/apple-tim-cook-bloomberg-retraction

8 years ago

530 upvotes – 317 comments

The City of Seattle Accidentally Gave Me 32M Emails for $40

https://mchap.io/that-time-the-city-of-seattle-accidentally-gave-me-32m-emails-for-40-dollars4997.html

8 years ago

516 upvotes – 233 comments

Microservices Are Something You Grow Into, Not Begin With

https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/microservices-are-something-you-grow-into-not-begin-with

8 years ago

338 upvotes – 153 comments

Show HN: Applying for jobs? Manage all your interviews in one place

https://afterinterview.com/

8 years ago

306 upvotes – 126 comments

Winamp 5.8 Release – First update in 5 years

https://www.winamp.com/

8 years ago

283 upvotes – 135 comments

Hackintosh-KVM Guide: High Sierra+ Using QEMU's I440fx Chipset

https://passthroughpo.st/hackintosh-kvm-guide-high-sierra-using-qemus-i440fx-chipset/

8 years ago

248 upvotes – 95 comments

This Old Lisp

http://thisoldlisp.com/talks/els-2018/

8 years ago

238 upvotes – 106 comments

42 percent of new cancer patients lose their life savings

https://bigthink.com/how-much-does-cancer-cost-2612936248.html

8 years ago

230 upvotes – 289 comments

Business card-sized Japanese phone bucks the giant-phone trend

https://arstechnica.com/?p=1396657

8 years ago

229 upvotes – 172 comments

Repair Café

https://repaircafe.org/en/

8 years ago

227 upvotes – 65 comments

Intel 9th Gen Review

https://www.anandtech.com/print/13400/intel-9th-gen-core-i9-9900k-i7-9700k-i5-9600k-review

8 years ago

221 upvotes – 174 comments

Did Facebook’s faulty data push publishers to make terrible decisions on video?

http://www.niemanlab.org/2018/10/did-facebooks-faulty-data-push-news-publishers-to-make-terrible-decisions-on-video/

8 years ago

207 upvotes – 106 comments

Sunshine Helps Kill Germs Indoors

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/10/18/658335490/grandma-was-right-sunshine-helps-kill-germs-indoors

8 years ago

205 upvotes – 183 comments

How the Finnish survive without small talk

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20181016-how-the-finnish-survive-without-small-talk

8 years ago

191 upvotes – 199 comments

Ask HN: First month job anxiety. Am I actually an impostor?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18257767

8 years ago

187 upvotes – 87 comments

New York Attorney General Expands Inquiry into Net Neutrality Comments

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/16/technology/net-neutrality-inquiry-comments.html

8 years ago

184 upvotes – 41 comments

Church-Turing Thesis Cannot Possibly Be True [video]

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/video/church-turing-thesis-cannot-possibly-be-true/

8 years ago

174 upvotes – 147 comments

Consistency Without Clocks: FaunaDB's Distributed Transaction Protocol

https://fauna.com/blog/consistency-without-clocks-faunadb-transaction-protocol

8 years ago

171 upvotes – 101 comments

Brand New ODroid Single Board Computer

https://forum.odroid.com/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=32536

8 years ago

171 upvotes – 72 comments

Slack on a SNES

https://bert.org/2018/10/18/slack-on-a-snes/

8 years ago

164 upvotes – 27 comments

Asterix in Translation: The Genius of Anthea Bell and Derek Hockridge

https://auntymuriel.com/2012/12/23/asterix-in-translation-the-genius-of-anthea-bell-and-derek-hockridge/

8 years ago

161 upvotes – 70 comments

FT8 – Tipping Point for Ham Radio?

https://www.flexradio.com/ft8-tipping-point-for-ham-radio/?fbclid=IwAR3S90pJsOMx8xOc3W34IsAbw9x6skK48WHWrZ6ZTzW0UARl4snnIEQzqqQ

8 years ago

158 upvotes – 113 comments

A tutorial on Principal Component Analysis

https://tkv.io/posts/tutorial-on-pca

8 years ago

156 upvotes – 16 comments

Ubuntu 18.10 Cosmic Cuttlefish Released

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CosmicCuttlefish/ReleaseNotes

8 years ago

147 upvotes – 174 comments

A Hacker from South Africa Rescued the First NASA Computer in Space (2016)

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/a-hacker-from-south-africa-just-rescued-the-first-nasa-computer-in-space

8 years ago

140 upvotes – 5 comments

Let’s talk about PAKE

https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2018/10/19/lets-talk-about-pake/

8 years ago

138 upvotes – 98 comments

A Love Story That Upended the Texas Prison System

https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/love-story-upended-texas-prison-system/

8 years ago

136 upvotes – 37 comments

Proposition C

https://stripe.com/press/prop-c

8 years ago

133 upvotes – 158 comments

3factor apps: a pattern for fast iteration, resilience and high scalability

https://3factor.app/

8 years ago

132 upvotes – 48 comments

Euclidea – Geometric construction game with straightedge and compass

https://www.euclidea.xyz/

8 years ago

129 upvotes – 27 comments

C++ Programming Questions to Ask on Interview (2017)

https://tests4geeks.com/cpp-interview-questions/

8 years ago

113 upvotes – 109 comments

The Early Days of GitHub – Interview with Tom Preston-Werner

https://www.heavybit.com/library/podcasts/enterpriseready/ep-2-the-early-days-of-github-with-tom-preston-werner/

8 years ago

111 upvotes – 25 comments

How to Build a Real-Time Object Detection iOS App Using TensorFlow

https://heartbeat.fritz.ai/https-heartbeat-fritz-ai-building-a-real-time-object-recognition-ios-app-that-detects-sushi-c4a3a2c32298

8 years ago

101 upvotes – 15 comments

Apple using CBP to seize Rossmanns shipment of original Macbook batteries

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVL65qwBGnw

8 years ago

101 upvotes – 13 comments

Systems, not Programs

https://shalabh.com/programmable-systems/systems-not-programs.html

8 years ago

101 upvotes – 28 comments

The Chamber of Guf

https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/10/15/the-chamber-of-guf/

8 years ago

100 upvotes – 19 comments

Brave 0.55 released

https://brave.com/new-brave-browser-release-available-for-general-download/

8 years ago

92 upvotes – 90 comments

Improving AI language understanding by combining multiple word representations

https://code.fb.com/ai-research/dynamic-meta-embeddings/

8 years ago

86 upvotes – 7 comments

“Whole Earth” origin (1976)

http://sb.longnow.org/SB_homepage/WholeEarth_buton.html

8 years ago

85 upvotes – 17 comments

Raymarching Distance Fields (2013)

http://9bitscience.blogspot.com/2013/07/raymarching-distance-fields_14.html

8 years ago

78 upvotes – 2 comments

GraphSense – A Scalable Cryptocurrency Analytics Platform

http://graphsense.info/

8 years ago

77 upvotes – 10 comments

Show HN: Occupod – a solid mobile sleeping shelter

https://www.occupod.org/

8 years ago

73 upvotes – 62 comments

Mill vs. Spectre: Performance and Security [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8E4qs2irmpc

8 years ago

71 upvotes – 31 comments

Cleveland.com’s ‘right to be forgotten’ removes names from some crime stories

https://www.imediaethics.org/cleveland-coms-new-right-to-be-forgotten-program-removes-names-from-some-expunged-crime-stories/

8 years ago

71 upvotes – 110 comments

Extreme Botany: The Precarious Science of Endangered Rare Plants

https://e360.yale.edu/features/extreme-botany-the-precarious-science-of-saving-rare-endangered-plants

8 years ago

68 upvotes – 3 comments

FTC hearings on tech companies included economists who take money from them

https://www.fastcompany.com/90253465/should-we-break-up-the-tech-giants-not-if-you-ask-the-economists-who-take-money-from-them

8 years ago

68 upvotes – 38 comments

Tesla quietly drops “full self-driving” option as it adds $45,000 Model 3

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2018/10/tesla-quietly-drops-full-self-driving-option-as-it-adds-45000-model-3/

8 years ago

68 upvotes – 57 comments
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