top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-11-12

Web.dev by Google

https://web.dev

7 years ago

The poetry and brief life of a Foxconn worker

https://libcom.org/blog/xulizhi-foxconn-suicide-poetry

7 years ago

How to self-publish a book: A handy list of resources

https://blog.datascienceheroes.com/how-to-self-publish-a-book/

7 years ago

Aardman Animation Is Giving the Company to Their Employees

https://www.themarysue.com/aardman-shares-employees/

7 years ago

How one family built Qualtrics to an $8B exit

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-12/how-one-family-built-8-billion-startup-far-from-silicon-valley

7 years ago

Show HN: WriteFreely – minimalist, federated blogging platform

https://writefreely.org

7 years ago

Improving DuckDuckGo

https://duck.co/help/privacy/atb

7 years ago

YouTube CEO calls EU’s proposed copyright regulation financially impossible

https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/12/18087250/youtube-ceo-copyright-directive-article-13-european-union

7 years ago

Bitwarden Completes Third-Party Security Audit

https://blog.bitwarden.com/bitwarden-completes-third-party-security-audit-c1cc81b6d33

7 years ago

UFOs spotted off Irish coast under investigation

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-46181662

7 years ago

Linux apps running on iOS via userspace x86 emulation and syscall translation

https://ish.app/

7 years ago

A web-based mission control framework by NASA

https://github.com/nasa/openmct

7 years ago

★ 12.9k JavaScript

Google, Facebook, and Amazon benefit from an outdated definition of “monopoly”

https://qz.com/work/1460402/google-facebook-and-amazon-benefit-from-an-outdated-definition-of-monopoly/

7 years ago

Reasons to Fear Another ‘Great War’

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-11-11/100-years-after-world-war-i-there-s-reason-to-fear?srnd=premium-europe

7 years ago

Show HN: A JavaScript Handbook

https://jshandbook.com/

7 years ago

Show HN: HomelabOS – Ansible scripts to deploy self hosted cloud services

https://gitlab.com/NickBusey/HomelabOS

7 years ago

★ 1.2k MIT

Ask HN: Developers, how do you estimate projects and write proposals?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18433475

7 years ago

The Lie Behind the Lie Detector

https://antipolygraph.org/cgi-bin/forums/YaBB.pl?num=1541951242

7 years ago

Show HN: FreePizza.io – free pizza for usergroups, meetups, hackathons, talks

https://www.freepizza.io

7 years ago

XSStrike: XSS detection suite

https://github.com/s0md3v/XSStrike

7 years ago

★ 14.9k Python GPL-3.0

Web Writable Files API: Simplifying Local File Access

https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2018/11/writable-files

7 years ago

Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 iOS app

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/1-1-1-1-faster-internet/id1423538627?mt=8

7 years ago

Datomic: Event Sourcing without the hassle

https://vvvvalvalval.github.io/posts/2018-11-12-datomic-event-sourcing-without-the-hassle.html

7 years ago

Tantalizing but preliminary evidence of a “brain microbiome”

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/11/do-gut-bacteria-make-second-home-our-brains

7 years ago

What does WhatsApp’s upcoming monetisation mean for the company and its users?

https://factordaily.com/whatsapp-monetisation/

7 years ago

C2x: the next real revision of the C standard

https://gustedt.wordpress.com/2018/11/12/c2x/

7 years ago

Ask HN: Is Google Compute down?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18436187

7 years ago

Stan Lee dead at 95

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/stan-lee-marvel-comics-legend-721450

7 years ago

Show HN: TensorSpace.js – Neural network 3D visualization framework

https://github.com/tensorspace-team/tensorspace

7 years ago

★ 5.1k JavaScript Apache-2.0

Why Technology Favors Tyranny

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/10/yuval-noah-harari-technology-tyranny/568330/

7 years ago

A 100k Botnet Turns Home Routers to Email Spammers

https://blog.netlab.360.com/bcmpupnp_hunter-a-100k-botnet-turns-home-routers-to-email-spammers-en/

7 years ago

The Source History of Cat

https://twobithistory.org/2018/11/12/cat.html

7 years ago

A critique of Gmail's “smart replies”

https://medium.com/@okh/please-resist-googles-attempts-to-make-you-more-robotlike-2f5babd786aa

7 years ago

Why We Need Difficult Books

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/nov/10/anna-burns-milkman-difficult-novel

7 years ago

The Lost Art of Steam Heating (2017) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQB0KK2rxcw

7 years ago

Gradient Descent Finds Global Minima of Deep Neural Networks

https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.03804

7 years ago

RAMCloud Project

https://ramcloud.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/RAM/overview?mode=global

7 years ago

Preparations companies are making for Brexit

https://threader.app/thread/1061554026284834817

7 years ago

Glyphosate perturbs the gut microbiota of honey bees

http://www.pnas.org/content/115/41/10305

7 years ago

Pseudonyms to protect authors of controversial articles

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-46146766

7 years ago

Show HN: WebRTTY – Share a terminal session over WebRTC

https://github.com/maxmcd/webrtty

7 years ago

★ 2.8k Go MIT

Alchian–Allen effect

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alchian%E2%80%93Allen_effect

7 years ago

Douglas Rain, voice of HAL, has died

https://www.mystratfordnow.com/56807/stratford-festival-founder-dies/#

7 years ago

The rise of multivector DDoS attacks

https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-rise-of-multivector-amplifications/#

7 years ago

The War Inside 7-Eleven

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-11-09/7-eleven-is-at-war-with-its-own-franchisees-over-ice-raids

7 years ago

Drzymała's wagon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drzyma%C5%82a%27s_wagon

7 years ago

An 1861 illustrated Japanese book on the American revolutionary war

https://www.reddit.com/r/history/comments/9w2v7l/the_fully_scanned_contents_of_an_1861_illustrated

7 years ago

Parsing Excel Spreadsheets with Swift's Codable Protocols

https://desiatov.com/swift-codable-xlsx/#title

7 years ago

Colonial violence came home in the First World War

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/nov/10/how-colonial-violence-came-home-the-ugly-truth-of-the-first-world-war

7 years ago

What the Boston School Bus Schedule Can Teach Us about AI

https://www.wired.com/story/joi-ito-ai-and-bus-routes/

7 years ago

In China, Desperate Patients Smuggle Drugs or Make Their Own

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/11/business/china-drugs-smuggled-homemade.html

7 years ago

Shane Parrish has become an unlikely guru for Wall Street

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/11/business/intelligence-expert-wall-street.html

7 years ago

New Algorithm Solves Cake-Cutting Problem (2016)

http://www.quantamagazine.org/new-algorithm-solves-cake-cutting-problem-20161006

7 years ago

Shumway: Flash implementation in JavaScript

https://github.com/mozilla/shumway

7 years ago

★ 3.6k TypeScript Apache-2.0

Differentiable Monte Carlo Ray Tracing Through Edge Sampling

https://people.csail.mit.edu/tzumao/diffrt/

7 years ago

Puzzle Montage Art by Tim Klein

https://puzzlemontage.crevado.com/

7 years ago

A Commodore hacker’s story

https://ugur.ozyilmazel.com/page/en/about/

7 years ago