top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-11-20

The Second Half of Watergate Was Bigger, Worse, and Forgotten by the Public

https://longreads.com/2018/11/20/the-second-half-of-watergate-was-bigger-worse-and-forgotten-by-the-public/

7 years ago

A debt-collection machine that’s chewing up small businesses across America

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-confessions-of-judgment/

7 years ago

“The 's' is sad”: 4-year-old submits Linux kernel doc patch (2014)

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=690b0543a813b0ecfc51b0374c0ce6c8275435f0

7 years ago

Autodesk to Acquire PlanGrid (YC W12) to Accelerate Construction Productivity

https://adsknews.autodesk.com/pressrelease/autodesk-to-acquire-plangrid

7 years ago

NYC subway and bus services have entered 'death spiral', experts say

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/nov/20/new-york-city-subway-bus-death-spiral-mta-fares

7 years ago

No End in Sight for Crypto Sell-Off as Bitcoin Breaches $4,250

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-20/no-end-in-sight-for-crypto-sell-off-as-tokens-take-fresh-hit

7 years ago

For a brief period, the Windows kernel tried to deal with gamma rays

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20181120-00/?p=100275

7 years ago

You might not need Kubernetes

https://blog.jessfraz.com/post/you-might-not-need-k8s/

7 years ago

Ask HN: Resources for introverted devs to learn workplace politics?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18495093

7 years ago

The Graphic Art of Incredibles 2

http://joshholtsclaw.com/blog/2018/3/5/the-graphic-art-of-incredibles-2

7 years ago

The Homeless Crisis Is Getting Worse in America’s Richest Cities

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-11-20/the-homeless-crisis-is-getting-worse-in-america-s-richest-cities

7 years ago

Bringing the Android kernel back to the mainline

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/771974/ade4e5fb18058302/

7 years ago

Show HN: Shortcut Roulette – Dangerous, unhelpful shortcut for iOS 12

http://shortcutroulette.com

7 years ago

OpenCV 4.0

https://opencv.org/opencv-4-0-0.html

7 years ago

The present phase of stagnation in the foundations of physics is not normal

http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2018/11/the-present-phase-of-stagnation-in.html

7 years ago

Dead sperm whale found in Indonesia had ingested '6kg of plastic'

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-46275742

7 years ago

Shamir’s Secret Sharing Scheme

https://ericrafaloff.com/shamirs-secret-sharing-scheme/

7 years ago

$200 retail whole genome sequencing now available

https://us.dantelabs.com

7 years ago

Karl Friston: a neuroscientist who might hold the key to true AI

https://www.wired.com/story/karl-friston-free-energy-principle-artificial-intelligence

7 years ago

A Binary Star Is About to Go Supernova and Could Produce a Gamma-Ray Burst

https://www.sciencealert.com/this-jaw-dropping-binary-star-is-about-to-go-supernova-and-it-shouldn-t-even-be-here

7 years ago

Ask HN: How to deal with incompetent people

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18494028

7 years ago

Django core no more

https://www.b-list.org/weblog/2018/nov/20/core/

7 years ago

JAB Code – A high-capacity 2D color bar code

https://github.com/jabcode/jabcode

7 years ago

★ 990 C

China Is Paying for Most of Trump's Trade War, Research Says

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-19/china-is-paying-for-most-of-trump-s-trade-war-research-says

7 years ago

Brain.fm: Music to improve focus, meditation and sleep

https://brain.fm

7 years ago

Rot8000

http://rot8000.com/Index

7 years ago

Police Barged into My Room While I Was Covering Fujian Chemical Spill

https://www.caixinglobal.com/2018-11-20/police-barged-into-my-room-while-i-was-covering-fujian-chemical-spill-101349591.html

7 years ago

TKE: Modern Tcl/Tk-based text editor

http://tke.sourceforge.net/index.html

7 years ago

Sousveillance

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

7 years ago

To predict the future, the brain uses two clocks

https://news.berkeley.edu/2018/11/19/brainclocks/

7 years ago

IBM z14 Microprocessor and System Control Design

https://fuse.wikichip.org/news/941/isscc-2018-the-ibm-z14-microprocessor-and-system-control-design/

7 years ago

The day MIT won the Harvard-Yale game

http://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/25276347/best-college-football-prank-harvard-yale-mit-balloon

7 years ago

CDC Food Safety Alert: E. Coli Outbreak Linked to Romaine Lettuce

https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2018/s1120-ecoli-romain-lettuce.html

7 years ago

Charter, Comcast don’t have First Amendment right to discriminate, court rules

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/11/charter-cant-use-1st-amendment-to-refuse-black-owned-tv-channels-court-rules/

7 years ago

How much bandwidth does the L2 have to give, anyway?

https://github.com/travisdowns/uarch-bench/wiki/How-much-bandwidth-does-the-L2-have-to-give,-anyway%3F

7 years ago

★ 766 C++ MIT

Bitcoin-Rigging Criminal Probe Focused on Tie to Tether

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-20/bitcoin-rigging-criminal-probe-is-said-to-focus-on-tie-to-tether

7 years ago

Architects have a lot to learn from the sound engineering of the ancients

http://nautil.us/issue/24/error/why-we-should-let-the-pantheon-crack

7 years ago

Tumblr was removed from Apple’s App Store over child pornography issues

https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/20/18104366/tumblr-ios-app-child-pornography-removed-from-app-store

7 years ago

Automatic Differentiation in Machine Learning: A Survey [pdf]

http://jmlr.org/papers/volume18/17-468/17-468.pdf

7 years ago

Google says its sex misconduct policy change doesn't apply to claims in progress

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/daveyalba/google-lawyer-says-sexual-misconduct-policy-change-does-not

7 years ago

Gabor Maté on Addiction to Ideology and Social Media [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2YdpvnwtGc

7 years ago

The spread of low-credibility content by social bots

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-06930-7

7 years ago

Casey Neistat’s Viral Marketing Strategy

https://medium.com/the-set-list/viral-marketing-77aa2fc94b95

7 years ago

2018 Engineering Gift Guide

https://engineering.purdue.edu/INSPIRE/EngineeringGiftGuide

7 years ago

Ask HN: Why and how is Gartner Inc. still relevant?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18498657

7 years ago

Ford Eyes Use of Customers’ Personal Data to Boost Profits

https://threatpost.com/ford-eyes-use-of-customers-personal-data-to-boost-profits/139209/

7 years ago

Wiped-Out Hedge Fund Manager Confessed His Losses on YouTube

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-19/hedge-fund-s-accounts-liquidated-amid-energy-market-volatility

7 years ago

CakeML – A Verified Implementation of ML

https://cakeml.org/

7 years ago

Set up a production-ready realtime GraphQL backend

https://hasura.io/diy-graphql-baas

7 years ago

Visual Programming – Why It’s a Bad Idea

http://mikehadlow.blogspot.com/2018/10/visual-programming-why-its-bad-idea.html

7 years ago

Valve discontinues the Steam Link

https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2018/11/19/18103672/valve-discontinues-steam-link-streaming-set-top-box

7 years ago

The Predictions of Robert A. Heinlein, from the Cold War to the Waterbed

https://rossdawson.com/futurist/best-futurists-ever/robert-heinlein/

7 years ago

Mini-Internet using LXC

https://github.com/flesueur/mi-lxc

7 years ago

★ 345 Shell AGPL-3.0

Where are they? Why I hope the search for ET life finds nothing (2008)

https://fermatslibrary.com/s/where-are-they-why-i-hope-the-search-for-extraterrestrial-life-finds-nothing

7 years ago

Classic and contemporary psychology experiments replicated

https://cos.io/about/news/28-classic-and-contemporary-psychology-findings-replicated-more-60-laboratories-each-across-three-dozen-nations-and-territories/

7 years ago