top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-11-13

Medium is a poor choice for blogging

https://medium.com/@nikitonsky/medium-is-a-poor-choice-for-blogging-bb0048d19133

7 years ago

909 upvotes – 374 comments

GitLab Made $10.5M in Revenue with Every Employee Working from Home

https://www.inc.com/cameron-albert-deitch/2018-inc5000-gitlab.html

7 years ago

833 upvotes – 418 comments

Build a do-it-yourself home air purifier for about $25

https://www.uofmhealth.org/news/sinus-hepa-0630

7 years ago

801 upvotes – 342 comments

Infinite procedurally-generated city with the Wave Function Collapse algorithm

https://marian42.itch.io/wfc

7 years ago

764 upvotes – 141 comments

How to Keep Your Job as Your Company Grows

https://steveblank.com/2018/11/13/its-not-change-you-fear-its-loss/

7 years ago

584 upvotes – 205 comments

Ask HN: What's the largest amount of bad code you have ever seen work?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18442637

7 years ago

428 upvotes – 578 comments

Amazon’s HQ2 Spectacle Should Be Illegal

https://www.theatlantic.com/article/575539/

7 years ago

406 upvotes – 285 comments

Ask HN: I've been a programmer for 6 years, and I can't solve basic CS problems

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18445609

7 years ago

404 upvotes – 296 comments

Boeing Withheld Information on 737 Model, According to Safety Experts and Others

https://www.wsj.com/articles/boeing-withheld-information-on-737-model-according-to-safety-experts-and-others-1542082575

7 years ago

398 upvotes – 209 comments

Internet Vulnerability Takes Down Google

https://blog.thousandeyes.com/internet-vulnerability-takes-down-google/

7 years ago

394 upvotes – 125 comments

Waymo CEO Says Alphabet Unit Plans to Launch Driverless Car Service

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/waymo-ceo-says-driverless-car-service-coming-soon-2018-11-13

7 years ago

376 upvotes – 348 comments

My App Is Dead in the Water

https://medium.com/@mds6058/my-app-is-dead-in-the-water-93a97a137eff

7 years ago

369 upvotes – 200 comments

Cadbury ‘pushing orangutans towards extinction by wrecking habitat for palm oil’

https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/orangutans-palm-oil-habitat-rainforest-cadbury-mondelez-oreos-indonesia-greenpeace-a8630801.html

7 years ago

326 upvotes – 145 comments

Redox – A Unix-Like Operating System Written in Rust

https://www.redox-os.org/

7 years ago

321 upvotes – 168 comments

The Dangerous Fetishization of ‘Hustle Porn’

https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/rise-grind-and-ruin-the-dangerous-fetishization-of-hustle-porn

7 years ago

268 upvotes – 161 comments

Tensorflow 2.0: models migration and new design

https://pgaleone.eu/tensorflow/gan/2018/11/04/tensorflow-2-models-migration-and-new-design/

7 years ago

246 upvotes – 85 comments

Snapshots of Tokyo’s vivid street life

https://www.huckmag.com/art-and-culture/photography-2/tokyo-street-photographer-mikiko-hara/

7 years ago

231 upvotes – 86 comments

Amazon Selects New York City and Northern Virginia for New Headquarters

https://blog.aboutamazon.com/company-news/amazon-selects-new-york-city-and-northern-virginia-for-new-headquarters

7 years ago

224 upvotes – 269 comments

Food taste 'not protected by copyright' rules EU court

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-46193818

7 years ago

205 upvotes – 86 comments

How Multi-Beam Flash Lidar Works

https://www.ouster.io/blog-posts/2018/11/8/how-multi-beam-flash-lidar-works

7 years ago

185 upvotes – 67 comments

Bill Godbout, a legend in the S-100 community, died in the Camp wildfire

http://vcfed.org/wp/2018/11/13/r-i-p-bill-godbout-79/

7 years ago

156 upvotes – 29 comments

Sourdough Hands: How Bakers and Bread Are a Microbial Match

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/11/12/665655220/sourdough-hands-how-bakers-and-bread-are-a-microbial-match

7 years ago

149 upvotes – 49 comments

New Study Details Toxic Particles Spewed by 3D Printers

https://gizmodo.com/new-study-details-all-the-toxic-shit-spewed-out-by-3d-p-1830379464

7 years ago

146 upvotes – 84 comments

Memory-Level Parallelism: Intel Skylake versus Apple A12/A12X

https://lemire.me/blog/2018/11/13/memory-level-parallelism-intel-skylake-versus-apple-a12-a12x/

7 years ago

141 upvotes – 18 comments

Amazon expected to announce NYC and Northern Virginia as new headquarters

https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-chooses-new-york-city-and-northern-virginia-for-additional-headquarters-1542075336

7 years ago

140 upvotes – 208 comments

Non cogito, ergo sum

https://www.1843magazine.com/content/ideas/ian-leslie/non-cogito-ergo-sum

7 years ago

138 upvotes – 77 comments

Abusing C macros to render the Mandelbrot Set at compile-time

https://gist.github.com/DavidBuchanan314/b9230fe7d335a1caf90483dbb00a5375

7 years ago

131 upvotes – 21 comments

BlackRock shelves unexplainable AI liquidity models

https://www.risk.net/asset-management/6119616/blackrock-shelves-unexplainable-ai-liquidity-models

7 years ago

129 upvotes – 98 comments

Fun with NFL Stats, Bokeh, and Pandas

https://j253.github.io/blog/fun-with-nfl-stats.html

7 years ago

129 upvotes – 27 comments

In the Works – AWS Region in Milan, Italy

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/in-the-works-aws-region-in-milan-italy/

7 years ago

126 upvotes – 61 comments

Copying objects in JavaScript

https://smalldata.tech/blog/2018/11/01/copying-objects-in-javascript

7 years ago

124 upvotes – 92 comments

Show HN: Squally – A Game to Teach Low Level Computer Science

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18445748

7 years ago

123 upvotes – 33 comments

People are “consistently inconsistent” in reasoning about controversial topics

https://digest.bps.org.uk/2018/11/13/people-are-consistently-inconsistent-in-how-they-reason-about-controversial-scientific-topics/

7 years ago

123 upvotes – 186 comments

There’s a Hole in the Bottom of the C: Effectiveness of Allocation Protection [pdf]

http://web.mit.edu/ha22286/www/papers/SecDev18.pdf

7 years ago

122 upvotes – 88 comments

FDA isn't doing enough to prevent medical device hacking, HHS report says

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/11/01/health/fda-unprepared-medical-device-hacking/index.html

7 years ago

121 upvotes – 47 comments

The Mundanity of Excellence (1989)

https://fermatslibrary.com/s/the-mundanity-of-excellence-an-ethnographic-report-on-stratification-and-olympic-swimmers

7 years ago

115 upvotes – 20 comments

C library system-call wrappers, or the lack thereof

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/771441/96f587a2dec5ba1a/

7 years ago

112 upvotes – 86 comments

SAP’s Sales Army Still Doesn’t Justify an $8B Deal

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-11-12/sap-has-to-prove-this-8-billion-deal-is-worth-it

7 years ago

110 upvotes – 43 comments

Compelled Decryption and the Privilege Against Self-Incrimination

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3248286

7 years ago

109 upvotes – 122 comments

Things nobody told me about being a software engineer

https://anaulin.org/blog/things-nobody-told-me-about-being-a-software-engineer/

7 years ago

102 upvotes – 114 comments

China scours social media, erases thousands of accounts

https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-china-censorship/china-scours-social-media-erases-thousands-of-accounts-idUKKCN1NI0CG

7 years ago

98 upvotes – 75 comments

Trip report: Fall ISO C++ standards meeting

https://herbsutter.com/2018/11/13/trip-report-fall-iso-c-standards-meeting-san-diego/

7 years ago

88 upvotes – 76 comments

How plants evolved to make ants their servants

https://phys.org/news/2018-11-evolved-ants-servants.html

7 years ago

88 upvotes – 51 comments

The Consistency of Arithmetic [pdf]

http://timothychow.net/consistent.pdf

7 years ago

87 upvotes – 10 comments

Chess Is the Killer App

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-11-13/world-chess-championship-2018-is-made-for-the-internet

7 years ago

86 upvotes – 62 comments

Decentralizing the web with Beaker

https://changelog.com/jsparty/42

7 years ago

76 upvotes – 24 comments
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