top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-10-31

Compare career levels across companies

https://www.levels.fyi/SE/Google/Facebook/Microsoft

7 years ago

832 upvotes – 411 comments

My somewhat complete salary history as a software engineer

https://humanwhocodes.com/blog/2018/10/my-somewhat-complete-salary-history-software-engineer/

7 years ago

726 upvotes – 650 comments

JavaScript is now required to sign in to Google

https://security.googleblog.com/2018/10/announcing-some-security-treats-to.html

7 years ago

593 upvotes – 499 comments

Unicode Dicks

https://www.revk.uk/2018/10/unicode-dicks.html

7 years ago

536 upvotes – 102 comments

When Adolescents Give Up Pot, Their Cognition Quickly Improves

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/10/30/662127406/when-adolescents-give-up-pot-their-cognition-quickly-improves

7 years ago

477 upvotes – 515 comments

Build Your Own Professional-Grade Audio Amp on the Sort-Of Cheap

https://spectrum.ieee.org/consumer-electronics/audiovideo/build-your-own-professionalgrade-audio-amp-on-the-sort-of-cheap

7 years ago

444 upvotes – 256 comments

System76 on US Manufacturing and Open Hardware

https://blog.system76.com/post/179592732883/system76-on-us-manufacturing-and-open-hardware

7 years ago

404 upvotes – 157 comments

Clojure at Netflix (2013) [slides]

https://speakerdeck.com/daveray/clojure-at-netflix

7 years ago

369 upvotes – 300 comments

Why Pencils Are Yellow (2017)

https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-little-known-reason-pencils-yellow

7 years ago

303 upvotes – 109 comments

Neuron, a new VS Code extension for data science

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/uk_faculty_connection/2018/10/29/data-science-in-visual-studio-code-using-neuron-a-new-vs-code-extension/

7 years ago

259 upvotes – 59 comments

Howler.js – JavaScript audio library for the modern web

https://howlerjs.com

7 years ago

257 upvotes – 18 comments

Hawaii Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Building Thirty Meter Telescope

http://www.staradvertiser.com/2018/10/30/breaking-news/supreme-court-rules-in-favor-of-tmt/

7 years ago

208 upvotes – 80 comments

Feds: Chinese spies orchestrated hack that stole aviation secrets

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/10/feds-say-chinese-spies-and-their-hired-hackers-stole-aviation-secrets/

7 years ago

195 upvotes – 84 comments

Primitive – recreate your photos with vector-based geometric primitives

https://primitive.lol

7 years ago

182 upvotes – 22 comments

Two Objects Not Namespaced by the Linux Kernel (2017)

https://blog.jessfraz.com/post/two-objects-not-namespaced-linux-kernel/

7 years ago

169 upvotes – 58 comments

Available on Google Cloud: Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory

https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/partners/available-first-on-google-cloud-intel-optane-dc-persistent-memory

7 years ago

167 upvotes – 70 comments

Reinforcement Learning with Prediction-Based Rewards

https://blog.openai.com/reinforcement-learning-with-prediction-based-rewards/

7 years ago

165 upvotes – 38 comments

The Missing Computer Skills of High School Students

https://nullprogram.com/blog/2018/10/31/

7 years ago

163 upvotes – 191 comments

Indirection Is Not Abstraction

https://www.silasreinagel.com/blog/2018/10/30/indirection-is-not-abstraction/

7 years ago

163 upvotes – 39 comments

Kernel RCE in iOS/macOS with ICMP

https://lgtm.com/blog/apple_xnu_icmp_error_CVE-2018-4407

7 years ago

163 upvotes – 64 comments

You can't impress developers. So don't try

https://baus.net/you-cant-impress-developers/

7 years ago

162 upvotes – 97 comments

Show HN: Basilica – word2vec for anything

https://www.basilica.ai/

7 years ago

153 upvotes – 77 comments

Advantages of Using R Notebooks Instead of Jupyter Notebooks (2017)

https://minimaxir.com/2017/06/r-notebooks/

7 years ago

142 upvotes – 47 comments

Solar foods

http://www.solarfoods.fi/

7 years ago

137 upvotes – 53 comments

Transforming Wikipedia into a cultural knowledge quiz

https://medium.com/@mjbaldwin/transforming-wikipedia-into-an-accurate-cultural-knowledge-quiz-b0a0f74877c#hn

7 years ago

132 upvotes – 46 comments

TensorFlow Code for Google Research's BERT: Pre-Training Method for NLP Tasks

https://github.com/google-research/bert

7 years ago

★ 40k Python Apache-2.0
129 upvotes – 13 comments

China Telecom diverted internet traffic in U.S. and Canada, report finds

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-china-telecom-hijacked-internet-traffic-in-us-and-canada-report/

7 years ago

126 upvotes – 23 comments

CFDPython: A sequence of Jupyter notebooks featuring "12 Steps to Navier-Stokes"

https://github.com/barbagroup/CFDPython

7 years ago

★ 3.9k Jupyter Notebook
126 upvotes – 5 comments

Jin Yong, the 'Tolkien of Chinese literature', has died

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-46040266

7 years ago

124 upvotes – 90 comments

Japanese Woodblock Print Search

https://ukiyo-e.org/

7 years ago

121 upvotes – 29 comments

How a Month Without Computers Changed Me

https://dev.to/iskin/how-a-month-without-computers-changed-me-1ho4

7 years ago

117 upvotes – 40 comments

Executive accused of harassment at Alphabet 'X' unit is out

https://www.axios.com/executive-accused-of-harassment-at-alphabet-x-unit-is-out-6f583d1e-91e3-4a8b-ae2b-51fd4517ec74.html

7 years ago

115 upvotes – 82 comments

The 2018 MacBook Air is the iPhone X’s ASP strategy all over again

https://9to5mac.com/2018/10/31/asp/

7 years ago

114 upvotes – 103 comments

Windows Defender detects malware in DMD

https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18786

7 years ago

112 upvotes – 68 comments

Using parallel sequential scan in PostgreSQL

https://rafiasabih.blogspot.com/2018/10/using-parallel-sequential-scan-in.html

7 years ago

110 upvotes – 3 comments

The art of Virtual Analog filter design [pdf]

https://www.native-instruments.com/fileadmin/ni_media/downloads/pdf/VAFilterDesign_2.1.0.pdf

7 years ago

103 upvotes – 10 comments

CloudWatch Is of the Devil, but I Must Use It

https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/cloudwatch-devil-i-must-use-it

7 years ago

102 upvotes – 22 comments

Monzo, a U.K. challenger bank, raises £85M Series E

https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/30/monzocorn/

7 years ago

102 upvotes – 178 comments

How I lost my faith in Lisp (2002)

https://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/msg/6f75cfb5a289d3f6?pli=1

7 years ago

96 upvotes – 60 comments

Oceans warming faster than anticipated, study finds

http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-oceans-study-climate-change-20181031-story.html

7 years ago

86 upvotes – 73 comments

‘Ghost kanji’ lurk in the Japanese lexicon

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2018/10/29/language/ghost-kanji-lurk-japanese-lexicon/

7 years ago

85 upvotes – 12 comments

Fun with Symbolic Derivatives in Lisp

http://taeric.github.io/CodeAsData.html

7 years ago

84 upvotes – 40 comments

Musk shakes up SpaceX in race to make satellite launch window: sources

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-spacex-starlink-insight/musk-shakes-up-spacex-in-race-to-make-satellite-launch-window-sources-idUSKCN1N50FC

7 years ago

84 upvotes – 75 comments

What Our Diversions Reveal about Us (1670)

http://stmaryvalleybloom.org/pascal-diversion.html

7 years ago

83 upvotes – 11 comments

Why Democracies Are Turning Against Chinese Influence

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/china/2018-10-24/why-democracies-are-turning-against-belt-and-road

7 years ago

78 upvotes – 60 comments

Own the Demand

https://florentcrivello.com/index.php/2018/10/22/own-the-demand/

7 years ago

77 upvotes – 21 comments

Machine Learning Algorithms Examples in MatLab/Octave

https://github.com/trekhleb/machine-learning-octave

7 years ago

★ 895 MATLAB MIT
72 upvotes – 7 comments

Show HN: Gravity – Kubernetes snapshots for on-premise deployments

https://github.com/gravitational/gravity

7 years ago

★ 1k Go Apache-2.0
70 upvotes – 4 comments

Inspection Paradox (2015)

https://allendowney.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-inspection-paradox-is-everywhere.html?m=1

7 years ago

69 upvotes – 13 comments
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