top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-11-15

Sr.ht, the hacker's forge, now open for public alpha

https://drewdevault.com/2018/11/15/sr.ht-general-availability.html

7 years ago

How Smart People Sabotage Their Success

https://hbr.org/2018/11/5-ways-smart-people-sabotage-their-success

7 years ago

‘I Don’t Really Want to Work for Facebook.’ Say Some Computer Science Students

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/15/technology/jobs-facebook-computer-science-students.html

7 years ago

Estimating the chances of something that hasn’t happened yet

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2010/03/30/statistical-rule-of-three/

7 years ago

Companies struggling to fill jobs 'should try paying more,' Fed's Kashkari says

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/13/firms-trying-to-fill-jobs-should-try-paying-more-feds-kashkari-says.html

7 years ago

Japan's cyber-security minister has 'never used a computer'

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-46222026

7 years ago

SpaceX just got FCC approval to launch 7,518 satellites

https://www.fastcompany.com/90268592/elon-musks-spacex-just-got-fcc-approval-to-launch-7518-satellites

7 years ago

Slate JS – A customizable framework for building rich text editors

https://docs.slatejs.org

7 years ago

Airtable raises $100M at a $1.1B valuation

https://techcrunch.com/2018/11/15/airtable-maker-of-a-coding-platform-for-non-techies-raises-100m-at-a-1-1b-valuation/

7 years ago

Krisp.ai – Mute background noise during your calls

https://krisp.ai/index.html

7 years ago

Why Sleep Apnea Patients Rely on a CPAP Machine Hacker

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/xwjd4w/im-possibly-alive-because-it-exists-why-sleep-apnea-patients-rely-on-a-cpap-machine-hacker

7 years ago

Tulsa Remote

https://tulsaremote.com/#hero

7 years ago

The US Is Preparing to Prosecute Julian Assange

https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-is-optimistic-it-will-prosecute-assange-1542323142

7 years ago

SpamAssassin is back

https://lwn.net/Articles/769917/

7 years ago

PG&E stock plunged 32% after it disclosed a possible link to California’s fire

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-14/pg-e-plunges-in-early-trading-amid-wildfire-destruction

7 years ago

Beyond Passwords: 2FA, U2F and Google Advanced Protection

https://www.troyhunt.com/beyond-passwords-2fa-u2f-and-google-advanced-protection/

7 years ago

Facebook reportedly discredited critics by linking them to George Soros

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/nov/14/facebook-george-soros-pr-firm-discredit-critics-crisis

7 years ago

How Zapier Reached $35M ARR

https://ryanberg.co/how-zapier-reached-35m-arr-with-this-saas-seo-strategy/

7 years ago

A cheaper, smaller Raspberry Pi 3 is now available

https://www.engadget.com/2018/11/15/a-cheaper-smaller-raspberry-pi-3-is-now-available/

7 years ago

What is the highest point on Earth as measured from Earth's center?

https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/highestpoint.html

7 years ago

Space Harrier – Developer Interview Collection

http://shmuplations.com/spaceharrier/

7 years ago

The Power of Web Components

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/11/the-power-of-web-components/

7 years ago

Amateur Mathematician Finds Smallest Universal Cover

https://www.quantamagazine.org/amateur-mathematician-finds-smallest-universal-cover-20181115/

7 years ago

Suicide increasing among American workers

https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2018/p1115-Suicide-american-workers.html

7 years ago

UKL: A Unikernel Based on Linux

https://next.redhat.com/2018/11/14/ukl-a-unikernel-based-on-linux/

7 years ago

Ask HN: Does Shareware still work in 2018?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18459164

7 years ago

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Beta

https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/powering-its-future-while-preserving-present-introducing-red-hat-enterprise-linux-8-beta

7 years ago

Type inference

https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2018/type-inference/

7 years ago

Germany plans €3B in AI investments

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-intelligence/german-government-has-set-aside-around-3-billion-euros-for-artificial-intelligence-report-idUSKCN1NI1AP

7 years ago

Researchers discover seven new Meltdown and Spectre attacks

https://www.zdnet.com/article/researchers-discover-seven-new-meltdown-and-spectre-attacks/

7 years ago

Antifungal resistance is here

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/11/when-tulips-kill/574489/

7 years ago

The Case Against Quantum Computing

https://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/hardware/the-case-against-quantum-computing

7 years ago

Doctors Are Fed Up with Being Turned into Debt Collectors

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-15/doctors-are-fed-up-with-being-turned-into-debt-collectors

7 years ago

Google and Facebook are monopolies. Does it matter? [audio]

https://innovationforallcast.com/2018/11/14/the-case-for-regulating-tech-companies

7 years ago

Letter to an Aspiring Doctor

https://www.firstthings.com/article/2018/12/letter-to-an-aspiring-doctor

7 years ago

Deploying Mastodon on Digital Ocean

https://startuplab.io/post/deploying-mastodon-on-digital-ocean

7 years ago

Western lifestyle may cause blood pressure to rise with age

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/nov/14/western-lifestyle-high-blood-pressure-age-hypertension

7 years ago

The Human Brain Is a Time Traveler

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/11/15/magazine/tech-design-ai-prediction.html

7 years ago

Computing Higher Order Derivatives of Matrix and Tensor Expressions [pdf]

http://www.matrixcalculus.org/matrixcalculus.pdf

7 years ago

Amazon DynamoDB encrypts all customer data at rest

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/amazon-dynamodb-encrypts-all-customer-data-at-rest/

7 years ago

Crater under Greenland points to climate-altering impact in the time of humans

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/11/massive-crater-under-greenland-s-ice-points-climate-altering-impact-time-humans

7 years ago

Standard Cognition Raises $40M Series A to Deliver Autonomous Checkout

https://techcrunch.com/2018/11/15/standard-cognition/

7 years ago

Facebook Betrayed America

https://newrepublic.com/article/152253/facebook-betrayed-america

7 years ago

Canonical Extends Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Linux Support to 10 Years

https://www.serverwatch.com/server-news/canonical-extends-ubuntu-18.04-lts-linux-support-to-10-years.html

7 years ago

Vue Lazy Image Loading

https://github.com/subotkevic/vue-lazy-image-loading

7 years ago

★ 325 JavaScript MIT