top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-11-16

International System of Units overhauled in historic vote

http://www.npl.co.uk/news/international-system-of-units-overhauled-in-historic-vote

7 years ago

834 upvotes – 576 comments

Big List of Naughty Strings

https://github.com/minimaxir/big-list-of-naughty-strings

7 years ago

780 upvotes – 146 comments

I Found the Best Burger Place in America, Then I Killed It

https://www.thrillist.com/eat/portland/stanichs-closed-will-it-reopen-burger-quest

7 years ago

613 upvotes – 387 comments

Elementary OS – Fast, open, privacy-respecting replacement for Windows and macOS

https://elementary.io/

7 years ago

561 upvotes – 421 comments

Across the West powerful firms are becoming even more powerful

https://www.economist.com/special-report/2018/11/15/across-the-west-powerful-firms-are-becoming-even-more-powerful

7 years ago

329 upvotes – 111 comments

Python Data Visualization 2018: Why So Many Libraries?

https://www.anaconda.com/blog/developer-blog/python-data-visualization-2018-why-so-many-libraries/

7 years ago

302 upvotes – 101 comments

Microsoft Is Putting Ads on the Mail App in Windows 10

https://www.thurrott.com/windows/windows-10/192251/microsoft-is-adding-ads-to-the-mail-app-in-windows-10

7 years ago

293 upvotes – 397 comments

PSA: Firefox Nightly now with experimental Wayland support

https://glandium.org/blog/?p=3899

7 years ago

288 upvotes – 97 comments

Golua – A Lua 5.3 engine implemented in Go

https://github.com/Azure/golua

7 years ago

277 upvotes – 89 comments

C Portability Lessons from Weird Machines

https://begriffs.com/posts/2018-11-15-c-portability.html

7 years ago

270 upvotes – 117 comments

Transitioning Google Cloud leadership after three great years

https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/inside-google-cloud/transitioning-google-cloud-after-three-great-years

7 years ago

251 upvotes – 239 comments

AI Playbook

http://aiplaybook.a16z.com

7 years ago

249 upvotes – 20 comments

Microsoft’s enterprise products covertly gather personal data on users

https://thenextweb.com/microsoft/2018/11/15/report-microsofts-enterprise-products-covertly-gather-personal-data-on-users/

7 years ago

247 upvotes – 131 comments

Ask HN: Older textbooks/papers you consider classics still worth studying today?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18469649

7 years ago

237 upvotes – 85 comments

Scientists who make apps addictive

https://www.1843magazine.com/features/the-scientists-who-make-apps-addictive

7 years ago

227 upvotes – 46 comments

Facebook Applied for Patent to Predict Who’s in House Based on Family Photos

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/nicolenguyen/facebook-household-prediction-patent

7 years ago

225 upvotes – 168 comments

Show HN: Find a Study Buddy for your MOOC

https://stacks.courses/

7 years ago

217 upvotes – 64 comments

Orangutans are the only great apes besides humans to ‘talk’ about the past

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/11/orangutans-are-only-great-apes-besides-humans-talk-about-past

7 years ago

204 upvotes – 93 comments

Build a do-it-yourself IMSI Catcher for about $20

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/gy7qm9/how-i-made-imsi-catcher-cheap-amazon-github

7 years ago

200 upvotes – 62 comments

A chemical so hot it destroys nerve endings – in a good way

https://www.wired.com/story/resiniferatoxin/

7 years ago

185 upvotes – 59 comments

Quietly, Japan has established itself as a power in the aerospace industry

https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/11/long-on-tradition-japan-grapples-with-a-rapidly-changing-rocket-industry/

7 years ago

178 upvotes – 127 comments

The Art of Mathematics

https://krieger.jhu.edu/magazine/fall-2018-v16n1/the-art-of-mathematics/

7 years ago

163 upvotes – 22 comments

Rare microbes lead scientists to discover new branch on the tree of life

https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/hemimastigotes-supra-kingdom-1.4715823

7 years ago

157 upvotes – 17 comments

Built to Burn

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/built-to-burn/

7 years ago

157 upvotes – 68 comments

Amazon S3 Block Public Access: Protection for Your Accounts and Buckets

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-s3-block-public-access-another-layer-of-protection-for-your-accounts-and-buckets/

7 years ago

150 upvotes – 85 comments

The Art and Science of Leading Projects

https://www.teamgantt.com/art-science-of-leading-projects

7 years ago

149 upvotes – 20 comments

Science Is Getting Less Bang for Its Buck

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/11/diminishing-returns-science/575665/

7 years ago

138 upvotes – 148 comments

Imaginary worlds dreamed by BigGAN

http://aiweirdness.com/post/178619746932/imaginary-worlds-dreamed-by-biggan

7 years ago

129 upvotes – 35 comments

Prosecutors Have Prepared Indictment of Julian Assange, a Filing Reveals

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/16/us/politics/julian-assange-indictment-wikileaks.html

7 years ago

127 upvotes – 162 comments

Insomnia: 'No link' between sleepless nights and early death

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-46223386

7 years ago

123 upvotes – 77 comments

What the Lion Air Pilots May Have Needed to Do to Avoid a Crash

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/11/16/world/asia/lion-air-crash-cockpit.html

7 years ago

118 upvotes – 48 comments

Singapore to test facial recognition on lampposts, stoking privacy fears

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-singapore-surveillance/singapore-to-test-facial-recognition-on-lampposts-stoking-privacy-fears-idUSKBN1HK0RV

7 years ago

117 upvotes – 97 comments

Pachyderm Raises $10M to Bring Data Provenance to the Enterprise

http://www.pachyderm.io/2018/11/15/Series-A.html

7 years ago

102 upvotes – 27 comments

Simplicity awakes

http://jehanne.io/2018/11/15/simplicity-awakes.html

7 years ago

99 upvotes – 17 comments

Subsidies to Amazon Are Uneconomical, Un-American, and Unconstitutional

https://promarket.org/subsidies-amazon-unamerican/

7 years ago

98 upvotes – 58 comments

Make Buyers Want to Pay

https://www.gkogan.co/blog/buyers/

7 years ago

98 upvotes – 40 comments

In poor countries technology can make big improvements to education

https://www.economist.com/international/2018/11/17/in-poor-countries-technology-can-make-big-improvements-to-education

7 years ago

95 upvotes – 62 comments

Ask HN: Dontrecruit.me – A website to collect stories about bad recruiters

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18468694

7 years ago

94 upvotes – 139 comments

A Look Inside the Tactics of Definers, Facebook’s Attack Dog

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/15/technology/facebook-definers-opposition-research.html

7 years ago

89 upvotes – 50 comments

MiSafes' child-tracking smartwatches are easy to hack

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-46195189

7 years ago

86 upvotes – 43 comments

Official support for Windows 10 on ARM development

https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2018/11/15/official-support-for-windows-10-on-arm-development/

7 years ago

79 upvotes – 49 comments

Third Pilots' Union Raises Concern About Boeing 737 Max Jet

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-15/third-pilots-union-raises-concern-about-boeing-s-737-max-jet

7 years ago

79 upvotes – 49 comments

Running Windows Software on ARM Devices with Wine

https://gist.github.com/MIvanchev/14de59fa2552d315ac74c30cf1c0b01e

7 years ago

77 upvotes – 39 comments

Shaved Heads, Snipped Tubes, Imperial Marines and Dope Fiends: On Synanon (2013)

http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/48/pendle.php

7 years ago

73 upvotes – 27 comments

US homeless fundraiser: GoFundMe campaign 'based on a lie'

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-46221766

7 years ago

71 upvotes – 28 comments

The US military is testing stratospheric balloons that never have to come down

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612417/darpa-is-testing-stratospheric-balloons-that-ride-the-wind-so-they-never-have-to-come-down/

7 years ago

70 upvotes – 27 comments

What Facebook Knew and Tried to Hide [audio]

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/16/podcasts/the-daily/facebook-zuckerberg-sandberg-russia-election-data.html

7 years ago

68 upvotes – 10 comments

Insomnia: To Pursue Sleep So Hard You Become Invigorated by the Chase

https://longreads.com/2018/11/15/insomnia-to-pursue-sleep-so-hard-you-become-invigorated-by-the-chase/

7 years ago

67 upvotes – 17 comments

Expresso: A simple expressions language with polymorphic extensible row types

https://github.com/willtim/Expresso

7 years ago

67 upvotes – 21 comments

IllumiPaper: Illuminated Interactive Paper

https://imld.de/en/research/research-projects/illumipaper/

7 years ago

65 upvotes – 17 comments
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