top 20 hacker news stories for 2018-11-21

Silent and Simple Ion Engine Powers a Plane with No Moving Parts

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/silent-and-simple-ion-engine-powers-a-plane-with-no-moving-parts/

7 years ago

Thinking About Thinking (1999)

https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/books-and-monographs/psychology-of-intelligence-analysis/art4.html

7 years ago

Amazon admits it exposed customer email addresses, but refuses to give details

https://techcrunch.com/2018/11/21/amazon-admits-it-exposed-customer-email-addresses-doubles-down-on-secrecy/

7 years ago

Why Aren't There C Conferences?

https://nullprogram.com/blog/2018/11/21/

7 years ago

Slow Software

https://www.inkandswitch.com/slow-software.html

7 years ago

Ask HN: Have you ever regretted working on a product?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18499843

7 years ago

A list of practical projects that anyone can solve in any programming language

https://github.com/karan/Projects

7 years ago

★ 47.6k MIT

Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People (2016)

http://idlewords.com/talks/superintelligence.htm

7 years ago

Learn Git Branching

https://learngitbranching.js.org/

7 years ago

Amp – A complete text editor for the terminal

https://amp.rs/

7 years ago

Some Amazon employees bought NYC condos before news of HQ2 location emerged

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/417633-amazon-employees-bought-new-york-city-condos-before-company-announced-hq2

7 years ago

D compilation is too slow and I am forking the compiler

https://blog.thecybershadow.net/2018/11/18/d-compilation-is-too-slow-and-i-am-forking-the-compiler/

7 years ago

A small French privacy ruling could remake adtech

https://techcrunch.com/2018/11/20/how-a-small-french-privacy-ruling-could-remake-adtech-for-good/

7 years ago

You Snooze, You Lose: Insurers Make the Old Adage Literally True

https://www.propublica.org/article/you-snooze-you-lose-insurers-make-the-old-adage-literally-true

7 years ago

Fundamental Algorithms of Machine Learning

https://www.dropbox.com/s/qiq2c85cle9ydb6/Chapter3.pdf?dl=0

7 years ago

Popular dark-web hosting provider hacked, 6,500 sites down

https://www.zdnet.com/article/popular-dark-web-hosting-provider-got-hacked-6500-sites-down/

7 years ago

Concurrency Glossary

https://slikts.github.io/concurrency-glossary/

7 years ago

Video Games in East Germany: The Stasi Played Along

https://www.zeit.de/digital/games/2018-11/computer-games-gdr-stasi-surveillance-gamer-crowd/komplettansicht

7 years ago

My hiring experience as a submarine sonar operator in the Norwegian Navy

https://www.brautaset.org/articles/2018/submarine-sonar-hiring.html

7 years ago

This JavaScript can snoop on other browser tabs to work out what you're visiting

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/11/21/unmasking_browsers_side_channels/

7 years ago