top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-11-14

Private by Design: How We Built Firefox Sync

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/11/firefox-sync-privacy/

7 years ago

529 upvotes – 174 comments

Delay, Deny and Deflect: How Facebook’s Leaders Fought Through Crisis

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/14/technology/facebook-data-russia-election-racism.html

7 years ago

517 upvotes – 159 comments

Chinese Tokamak reaches over 100M degrees

http://english.hf.cas.cn/new/news/rn/201811/t20181113_201186.html

7 years ago

411 upvotes – 232 comments

Facebook Morale Takes a Tumble Along with Stock Price

https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-morale-takes-a-tumble-along-with-stock-price-1542200400

7 years ago

382 upvotes – 285 comments

Corretto – No-cost, multiplatform, developer-preview distribution of OpenJDK

https://aws.amazon.com/fr/corretto/

7 years ago

377 upvotes – 143 comments

Mondelez cuts ties with 12 palm oil suppliers, citing deforestation

https://www.supplychaindive.com/news/mondelez-cuts-ties-12-palm-oil-suppliers-deforestation/542100/

7 years ago

370 upvotes – 138 comments

The C++ Build Process Explained

https://github.com/green7ea/cpp-compilation/blob/master/README.md

7 years ago

358 upvotes – 126 comments

NY state tax break is $48k per Amazon HQ job

http://www.fox5ny.com/news/48k-per-amazon-hq-job

7 years ago

346 upvotes – 343 comments

Q: Run SQL Directly on CSV Files

https://harelba.github.io/q/

7 years ago

284 upvotes – 96 comments

Facebook hired PR firm that wrote negative articles about Apple and Google

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/14/facebook-hired-pr-firm-that-wrote-negative-articles-about-rivals-nyt.html

7 years ago

280 upvotes – 49 comments

Google May Have to Get Used to Third Place in the Cloud

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-13/google-may-have-to-get-used-to-third-place-in-the-cloud

7 years ago

278 upvotes – 288 comments

Fallout 76 Day One Patch Is Larger Than the Game Itself

https://hothardware.com/news/fallout-76-day-one-patch-largerthe-game-itself-54gb

7 years ago

275 upvotes – 282 comments

Google accused of 'trust demolition' over health app

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-46206677

7 years ago

261 upvotes – 198 comments

Real-Time Noise Suppression Using Deep Learning

https://devblogs.nvidia.com/nvidia-real-time-noise-suppression-deep-learning/

7 years ago

256 upvotes – 64 comments

Uber Revenue Slows as Quarterly Loss Surges to $1.1B

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-14/uber-revenue-slows-as-quarterly-loss-surges-to-1-1-billion

7 years ago

255 upvotes – 318 comments

A new Venezuelan ID, created with China's ZTE, tracks citizen behavior

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/venezuela-zte/

7 years ago

253 upvotes – 211 comments

Astronomers discover super-Earth around Barnard's star

https://phys.org/news/2018-11-astronomers-super-earth-barnard-star.html

7 years ago

239 upvotes – 125 comments

Show HN: Edabit – Like Duolingo for Learning to Code

https://edabit.com/challenges

7 years ago

217 upvotes – 130 comments

Chrome OS: Ready for Web Development [video]

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

7 years ago

211 upvotes – 220 comments

Fast line-following robots

https://www.a1k0n.net/2018/11/13/fast-line-following.html

7 years ago

207 upvotes – 26 comments

When Hospitals Merge to Save Money, Patients Often Pay More

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/14/health/hospital-mergers-health-care-spending.html

7 years ago

205 upvotes – 126 comments

Data Structure and Algorithms Interview Questions for Programmers

https://hackernoon.com/50-data-structure-and-algorithms-interview-questions-for-programmers-b4b1ac61f5b0

7 years ago

198 upvotes – 102 comments

I Used to Be Homeless

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/used-homeless-apos-everyone-gets-201049080.html

7 years ago

197 upvotes – 314 comments

Evolved antenna

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolved_antenna

7 years ago

192 upvotes – 67 comments

Rendered Insecure: GPU Side Channel Attacks Are Practical [pdf]

http://www.cs.ucr.edu/~zhiyunq/pub/ccs18_gpu_side_channel.pdf

7 years ago

185 upvotes – 28 comments

Best practices for migrating an Oracle database to Amazon PostgreSQL

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/best-practices-for-migrating-an-oracle-database-to-amazon-rds-postgresql-or-amazon-aurora-postgresql-migration-process-and-infrastructure-considerations/

7 years ago

170 upvotes – 55 comments

Study finds reducing carbs and replacing with fats leads to increased metabolism

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/14/well/eat/how-a-low-carb-diet-might-help-you-maintain-a-healthy-weight.html

7 years ago

163 upvotes – 99 comments

Mobile Patterns – UI UX Inspirational Gallery for iOS and Android

https://www.mobile-patterns.com/

7 years ago

162 upvotes – 32 comments

A Better Way to Implement Bit Fields

https://andrewkelley.me/post/a-better-way-to-implement-bit-fields.html

7 years ago

159 upvotes – 33 comments

Testosterone Treatment and Alleviation of Depressive Symptoms in Men

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/article-abstract/2712976?widget=personalizedcontent&previousarticle=2712974

7 years ago

158 upvotes – 84 comments

Blue Apron lays off more workers

https://www.wsj.com/articles/blue-apron-lays-off-more-workers-1542148447

7 years ago

156 upvotes – 335 comments

Designing 2D graphics in the Japanese industry

https://vgdensetsu.tumblr.com/post/179656817318/designing-2d-graphics-in-the-japanese-industry

7 years ago

154 upvotes – 32 comments

Privacy not included: Holiday gift list for privacy and security

https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/

7 years ago

153 upvotes – 48 comments

Night Sight: Seeing in the Dark on Pixel Phones

https://ai.googleblog.com/2018/11/night-sight-seeing-in-dark-on-pixel.html

7 years ago

152 upvotes – 85 comments

America’s Hidden Duopoly

http://freakonomics.com/podcast/politics-industry/

7 years ago

147 upvotes – 163 comments

A book list for OS kernel developers and device driver writers (2006)

http://jdebp.eu./FGA/operating-system-books.html

7 years ago

144 upvotes – 15 comments

Toronto Cleared Cars Off a Major Transit Corridor

https://usa.streetsblog.org/2018/11/13/toronto-cleared-cars-off-a-major-transit-corridor-and-it-worked/

7 years ago

133 upvotes – 58 comments

Destruction of evidence charges filed for remotely wiping iPhone

https://dailygazette.com/article/2018/11/08/police-woman-remotely-wipes-phone-in-evidence-after-shooting

7 years ago

129 upvotes – 150 comments

Show HN: Smallest Node.js Docker images

https://github.com/astefanutti/scratch-node

7 years ago

120 upvotes – 65 comments

Snap Says DOJ and SEC Are Investigating IPO Disclosures

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-14/snap-says-doj-and-sec-are-investigating-ipo-disclosures

7 years ago

115 upvotes – 60 comments

Hacking Gmail’s UX with 'From' Fields – Another Phishing Vector

https://blog.cotten.io/hacking-gmail-with-weird-from-fields-d6494254722f

7 years ago

114 upvotes – 34 comments

Big-box retailers are slashing their property taxes through a legal loophole

https://www.citylab.com/equity/2018/11/property-tax-dark-store-theory-retail-apocalypse-walmart/574123/

7 years ago

111 upvotes – 80 comments

Indigenous women kept from seeing their newborns until agreeing to sterilization

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/the-current-for-november-13-2018-1.4902679/indigenous-women-kept-from-seeing-their-newborn-babies-until-agreeing-to-sterilization-says-lawyer-1.4902693

7 years ago

109 upvotes – 27 comments

Show HN: Group video chat with no signups or downloads

https://itshello.co

7 years ago

91 upvotes – 34 comments

KDevelop 5.3 released

https://www.kdevelop.org/news/kdevelop-530-released

7 years ago

90 upvotes – 8 comments

Crossing the Sahara in the Fourteenth Century

https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/crossing-sahara-fourteenth-century

7 years ago

88 upvotes – 23 comments

China's brightest children are being recruited to weaponize AI

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/2172141/chinas-brightest-children-are-being-recruited-develop-ai-killer

7 years ago

87 upvotes – 111 comments

Fake fingerprints can imitate real ones in biometric systems

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/nov/15/fake-fingerprints-can-imitate-real-fingerprints-in-biometric-systems-research

7 years ago

83 upvotes – 40 comments

Ask HN: What is the best way to find remote full time work?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18448598

7 years ago

80 upvotes – 20 comments

HyperMinHash: Bringing intersections to HyperLogLog

https://github.com/axiomhq/hyperminhash

7 years ago

79 upvotes – 9 comments

Pattern Matching Without Regex – Introducing the Rosie Pattern Language

https://spin.atomicobject.com/2018/11/14/rosie-pattern-language/#.W-xEPiyim0g.hackernews

7 years ago

76 upvotes – 26 comments

Winds of Change: The Case for New Digital Currency

https://www.imf.org/en/News/Articles/2018/11/13/sp111418-winds-of-change-the-case-for-new-digital-currency

7 years ago

73 upvotes – 33 comments

Ask HN: Are any of you IEEE members?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18450564

7 years ago

70 upvotes – 54 comments

Python Patterns

https://python-patterns.guide/

7 years ago

68 upvotes – 3 comments

Uber posts $1B loss

https://mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKCN1NJ2YM

7 years ago

66 upvotes – 40 comments
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