479
237
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
450
141
A debt-collection machine that’s chewing up small businesses across America
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-confessions-of-judgment/
429
108
“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
417
76
Autodesk to Acquire PlanGrid (YC W12) to Accelerate Construction Productivity
https://adsknews.autodesk.com/pressrelease/autodesk-to-acquire-plangrid
347
456
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
327
437
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
318
118
For a brief period, the Windows kernel tried to deal with gamma rays
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20181120-00/?p=100275
307
308
You might not need Kubernetes
https://blog.jessfraz.com/post/you-might-not-need-k8s/
299
174
Ask HN: Resources for introverted devs to learn workplace politics?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18495093
274
56
The Graphic Art of Incredibles 2
http://joshholtsclaw.com/blog/2018/3/5/the-graphic-art-of-incredibles-2
270
316
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
267
Bringing the Android kernel back to the mainline
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/771974/ade4e5fb18058302/
253
61
Show HN: Shortcut Roulette – Dangerous, unhelpful shortcut for iOS 12
http://shortcutroulette.com
252
33
OpenCV 4.0
https://opencv.org/opencv-4-0-0.html
251
207
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
227
148
Dead sperm whale found in Indonesia had ingested '6kg of plastic'
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-46275742
213
42
Shamir’s Secret Sharing Scheme
https://ericrafaloff.com/shamirs-secret-sharing-scheme/
197
166
$200 retail whole genome sequencing now available
https://us.dantelabs.com
190
98
Karl Friston: a neuroscientist who might hold the key to true AI
https://www.wired.com/story/karl-friston-free-energy-principle-artificial-intelligence
178
109
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
177
130
Ask HN: How to deal with incompetent people
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18494028
170
44
Django core no more
https://www.b-list.org/weblog/2018/nov/20/core/
JAB Code – A high-capacity 2D color bar code
https://github.com/jabcode/jabcode
169
92
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
163
Brain.fm: Music to improve focus, meditation and sleep
https://brain.fm
158
54
Rot8000
http://rot8000.com/Index
156
28
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
155
104
TKE: Modern Tcl/Tk-based text editor
http://tke.sourceforge.net/index.html
154
70
Sousveillance
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sousveillance
153
16
To predict the future, the brain uses two clocks
https://news.berkeley.edu/2018/11/19/brainclocks/
150
86
IBM z14 Microprocessor and System Control Design
https://fuse.wikichip.org/news/941/isscc-2018-the-ibm-z14-microprocessor-and-system-control-design/
40
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
89
CDC Food Safety Alert: E. Coli Outbreak Linked to Romaine Lettuce
https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2018/s1120-ecoli-romain-lettuce.html
146
59
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/
143
12
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
123
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
138
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
128
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
127
20
Automatic Differentiation in Machine Learning: A Survey [pdf]
http://jmlr.org/papers/volume18/17-468/17-468.pdf
125
83
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
23
Gabor Maté on Addiction to Ideology and Social Media [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2YdpvnwtGc
120
68
The spread of low-credibility content by social bots
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-06930-7
117
38
Casey Neistat’s Viral Marketing Strategy
https://medium.com/the-set-list/viral-marketing-77aa2fc94b95
116
17
2018 Engineering Gift Guide
https://engineering.purdue.edu/INSPIRE/EngineeringGiftGuide
115
64
Ask HN: Why and how is Gartner Inc. still relevant?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18498657
112
57
Ford Eyes Use of Customers’ Personal Data to Boost Profits
https://threatpost.com/ford-eyes-use-of-customers-personal-data-to-boost-profits/139209/
103
71
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
99
24
CakeML – A Verified Implementation of ML
https://cakeml.org/
Set up a production-ready realtime GraphQL backend
https://hasura.io/diy-graphql-baas
95
119
Visual Programming – Why It’s a Bad Idea
http://mikehadlow.blogspot.com/2018/10/visual-programming-why-its-bad-idea.html
69
Valve discontinues the Steam Link
https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2018/11/19/18103672/valve-discontinues-steam-link-streaming-set-top-box
81
The Predictions of Robert A. Heinlein, from the Cold War to the Waterbed
https://rossdawson.com/futurist/best-futurists-ever/robert-heinlein/
80
6
Mini-Internet using LXC
https://github.com/flesueur/mi-lxc
78
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
77
34
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/
Charter, Comcast don’t have First Amendment right to discriminate, court rules
