top 20 hacker news stories for 2018-11-04

An error message, still found in Windows 10, is a mistake from 1974

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1058676834940776450.html

7 years ago

791 upvotes – 252 comments

Microsoft Releases a Linux Version of the ProcDump Sysinternals Tool

https://github.com/Microsoft/ProcDump-for-Linux

7 years ago

★ 3k C MIT
455 upvotes – 354 comments

Google's interview system: it's not about solving the problem

https://threader.app/thread/1058433116002381824

7 years ago

389 upvotes – 415 comments

Prison time, hefty fines for data privacy violations: draft U.S. Senate bill

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-internet-privacy/prison-time-hefty-fines-for-data-privacy-violations-draft-u-s-senate-bill-idUSKCN1N65U2?

7 years ago

386 upvotes – 270 comments

30 spies dead after Iran cracked CIA comms network

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/11/02/iran_cracked_cia_google/

7 years ago

353 upvotes – 105 comments

My Amazon Interview Horror Story

https://www.igorkromin.net/index.php/2018/11/04/my-amazon-interview-horror-story/

7 years ago

351 upvotes – 292 comments

An OCR cliche: Into his/her anus (2009)

https://wraabe.wordpress.com/2009/03/07/an-ocr-cliche-into-hisher-anus/

7 years ago

343 upvotes – 90 comments

Harvard Converts Millions of Legal Documents into Open Data

http://www.govtech.com/analytics/Harvard-Converts-Millions-of-Legal-Documents-into-Open-Data.html

7 years ago

331 upvotes – 31 comments

Philosophy Has Made Plenty of Progress

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/philosophy-has-made-plenty-of-progress/

7 years ago

248 upvotes – 326 comments

Engineers Shouldn’t Write ETL

https://multithreaded.stitchfix.com/blog/2016/03/16/engineers-shouldnt-write-etl/

7 years ago

248 upvotes – 115 comments

Bussed out: how America moves thousands of homeless people around the country

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2017/dec/20/bussed-out-america-moves-homeless-people-country-study

7 years ago

239 upvotes – 119 comments

So You Want to Learn Physics (2016)

https://www.susanjfowler.com/blog/2016/8/13/so-you-want-to-learn-physics

7 years ago

229 upvotes – 122 comments

Apple's T2 chip will prevent hackers from eavesdropping on your microphone

https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/30/apple-t2-security-chip-microphone-eavesdropping/

7 years ago

218 upvotes – 151 comments

GoCity – Code City metaphor for visualizing Go source code

https://go-city.github.io

7 years ago

210 upvotes – 35 comments

Jeri Ellsworth and the Robot Uprising of 2038

http://blog.robertelder.org/jeri-ellsworth-robot-uprising/

7 years ago

199 upvotes – 65 comments

A key ingredient for a universal flu vaccine may come from llamas

http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-universal-flu-vaccine-llamas-20181102-story.html

7 years ago

184 upvotes – 49 comments

Show HN: Above-average products selling for below-average prices

https://www.goodcheapandfast.com

7 years ago

183 upvotes – 65 comments

Show HN: Technical note app that builds a knowledge base

http://monocorpus.com

7 years ago

180 upvotes – 52 comments

Edward Snowden says a report critical to an NSA lawsuit is authentic

https://techcrunch.com/2018/11/03/edward-snowden-nsa-lawsuit-jewel-authentic/

7 years ago

166 upvotes – 64 comments

Academia is a cult?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/academia-is-a-cult/2018/10/31/eea787a0-bd08-11e8-b7d2-0773aa1e33da_story.html?noredirect=on

7 years ago

156 upvotes – 125 comments
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