top 20 hacker news stories for 2018-10-20

Fake review factories that run on Facebook and post five-star Amazon reviews

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2018/oct/20/facebook-fake-amazon-review-factories-uncovered-which-investigation

8 years ago

Ask HN: What do you do in your 1-on-1s with your direct reports?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18264245

8 years ago

So You Want to Open a Small Press Bookstore/Artist-Run Space? A Cautionary Tale

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2018/04/so-you-want-to-open-a-small-press-bookstore-artist-run-space-a-cautionary-tale

8 years ago

Not exercising worse than smoking, diabetes and heart disease study finds

https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/19/health/study-not-exercising-worse-than-smoking/index.html

8 years ago

How I Became a Knife Steel Metallurgist

https://knifesteelnerds.com/2018/10/08/how-i-became-a-knife-steel-metallurgist/

8 years ago

Show HN: Lipreading with Deep Learning

https://github.com/astorfi/lip-reading-deeplearning

8 years ago

★ 1.9k Python Apache-2.0

Arcan versus Xorg – Approaching Feature Parity

https://arcan-fe.com/2018/10/17/arcan-versus-xorg-approaching-feature-parity/

8 years ago

Microsoft’s problem isn’t how often it updates Windows, it’s how it develops it

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/10/microsofts-problem-isnt-shipping-windows-updates-its-developing-them/

8 years ago

The rise of the robot farmer

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/oct/20/space-robots-lasers-rise-robot-farmer

8 years ago

Erlang/OTP by Example

http://erlangbyexample.org

8 years ago

Massachusetts gas fires: Another technological tragedy

http://bit-player.org/2018/another-technological-tragedy

8 years ago

Zero-day in jQuery plugin sample code exploited for at least three years

https://www.zdnet.com/article/zero-day-in-popular-jquery-plugin-actively-exploited-for-at-least-three-years/

8 years ago

Signing Your Apps for Gatekeeper

https://developer.apple.com/developer-id/

8 years ago

Understanding Quaternions

https://www.3dgep.com/understanding-quaternions/

8 years ago

Mio – Cross-platform header-only C++11 library for memory-mapped file IO

https://github.com/mandreyel/mio

8 years ago

★ 1.9k C++ MIT

Some studies show an association between the herpes virus and Alzheimer’s

http://theconversation.com/alzheimers-disease-mounting-evidence-that-herpes-virus-is-a-cause-104943

8 years ago

Meow Hash: A high-speed non-cryptographic hash function

https://mollyrocket.com/meowhash

8 years ago

Time to End Factory Farming?

https://quillette.com/2018/10/20/why-its-time-to-end-factory-farming/

8 years ago

The Joy of Haxe

https://medium.com/@fontstruct/the-joy-of-haxe-84f933f4b859

8 years ago

Validating UTF-8 bytes using only 0.45 cycles per byte (AVX edition)

https://lemire.me/blog/2018/10/19/validating-utf-8-bytes-using-only-0-45-cycles-per-byte-avx-edition/

8 years ago