top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-11-29

Go 2, here we come

https://blog.golang.org/go2-here-we-come

7 years ago

816 upvotes – 516 comments

‘I’m Broke and Mostly Friendless, and I’ve Wasted My Whole Life’

https://www.thecut.com/2018/11/im-broke-and-friendless-and-ive-wasted-my-whole-life.html

7 years ago

672 upvotes – 635 comments

NES.css: 8-bit style CSS framework

https://bcrikko.github.io/NES.css/

7 years ago

663 upvotes – 90 comments

Advent of Code 2018

https://adventofcode.com/2018

7 years ago

547 upvotes – 94 comments

New for AWS Lambda: Use Any Programming Language and Share Common Components

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-for-aws-lambda-use-any-programming-language-and-share-common-components/

7 years ago

480 upvotes – 211 comments

Strange earthquake waves rippled around Earth

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2018/11/strange-earthquake-waves-rippled-around-world-earth-geology/

7 years ago

441 upvotes – 113 comments

Google Shut Out Privacy and Security Teams from Secret China Project

https://theintercept.com/2018/11/29/google-china-censored-search/

7 years ago

364 upvotes – 100 comments

'Talent Wants Transit': Companies Near Transportation Gaining the Upper Hand

https://www.npr.org/2018/11/29/671203167/talent-wants-transit-companies-near-transportation-gaining-the-upper-hand

7 years ago

328 upvotes – 317 comments

FoundationDB Document Layer

https://www.foundationdb.org/blog/announcing-document-layer/

7 years ago

297 upvotes – 35 comments

Lenovo to pay $7.3M for installing adware in laptops

https://www.hackread.com/lenovo-to-pay-fine-for-installing-adware-in-laptops/

7 years ago

281 upvotes – 126 comments

Microsoft Is Worth as Much as Apple. How Did That Happen?

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/29/technology/microsoft-apple-worth-how.html

7 years ago

273 upvotes – 306 comments

LearnDB: Learn how to build a database

https://learndb.net/

7 years ago

269 upvotes – 53 comments

Tracking China's Muslim Gulag

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/muslims-camps-china/

7 years ago

259 upvotes – 146 comments

Starting a Business in Silicon Valley

http://www.tlalexander.com/business/

7 years ago

257 upvotes – 135 comments

Programs to Read

http://wiki.c2.com/?ProgramsToRead

7 years ago

248 upvotes – 56 comments

Fed Says Millennials Are Just Like Their Parents, Only Poorer

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-29/fed-says-millennials-are-just-like-their-parents-only-poorer

7 years ago

242 upvotes – 274 comments

Learn React for free

https://scrimba.com/g/glearnreact

7 years ago

227 upvotes – 72 comments

Major sites running unauthenticated JavaScript on their payment pages

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2018/11/major-sites-running-unauthenticated-javascript-on-their-payment-pages/

7 years ago

214 upvotes – 88 comments

U.S. Life Expectancy Falls Further

https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-life-expectancy-falls-further-1543467660

7 years ago

209 upvotes – 266 comments

Clojure REBL [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c52QhiXsmyI

7 years ago

205 upvotes – 99 comments

De-facto closed source: the case for understandable software

https://13brane.net/rants/de-facto-closed-source/

7 years ago

198 upvotes – 169 comments

Advent of Nim

https://nim-lang.org/blog/2018/11/26/advent-of-nim.html

7 years ago

197 upvotes – 128 comments

Pwning eBay – How I Dumped eBay Japan's Website Source Code

https://slashcrypto.org/2018/11/28/eBay-source-code-leak/

7 years ago

193 upvotes – 107 comments

Predatory lenders have co-opted New York’s court system

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-confessions-of-judgment-new-york-court-clerks/

7 years ago

192 upvotes – 48 comments

GAN Dissection: Visualizing and Understanding Generative Adversarial Networks

https://gandissect.csail.mit.edu

7 years ago

180 upvotes – 18 comments

When starting school, younger children are more likely to be diagnosed with ADHD

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2018/11/when-starting-school-younger-children-are-more-likely-to-be-diagnosed-with-adhd-study-says/

7 years ago

167 upvotes – 249 comments

Asana raises $50M at a $1.5B valuation

https://techcrunch.com/2018/11/29/asana-a-work-management-platform-nabs-50m-growth-round-at-a-1-5b-valuation/

7 years ago

165 upvotes – 130 comments

How we built the largest database of police use of force in N.J. history

https://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2018/11/how_we_built_the_most_comprehensive_statewide_database_of_police_force_in_the_us.html

7 years ago

160 upvotes – 72 comments

Competition Is Dying, and Taking Capitalism with It?

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-11-25/the-myth-of-capitalism-exposed

7 years ago

157 upvotes – 205 comments

30,000 empty homes and nowhere to live: inside Dublin’s housing crisis

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/nov/29/empty-dublin-housing-crisis-airbnb-homelessness-landlords

7 years ago

154 upvotes – 141 comments

Observable Playground

https://beta.observablehq.com/playground

7 years ago

152 upvotes – 15 comments

UTF-7: a ghost from the time before UTF-8

https://crawshaw.io/blog/utf7

7 years ago

149 upvotes – 134 comments

Learn how to bring animation to your web projects

https://github.com/cssanimation/css-animation-101

7 years ago

146 upvotes – 14 comments

Mitochondrial DNA can come from both parents

https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/11/plot-twist-mitochondrial-dna-can-come-from-both-parents/

7 years ago

142 upvotes – 35 comments

Twitter’s Kafka adoption story

https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/insights/2018/twitters-kafka-adoption-story.html

7 years ago

137 upvotes – 67 comments

Corners Don't Look Like That: Regarding Screenspace Ambient Occlusion (2012)

http://nothings.org/gamedev/ssao/

7 years ago

134 upvotes – 36 comments

New York City’s highest-earning official is a debt collector

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

7 years ago

134 upvotes – 95 comments

Two Celebrities Charged with Unlawfully Touting Coin Offerings

https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2018-268

7 years ago

133 upvotes – 67 comments

MacLua5.3: Classic MacOS port of Lua 5.3

https://github.com/SolraBizna/MacLua5.3

7 years ago

131 upvotes – 40 comments

Learning to Predict Depth on the Pixel 3 Phones

https://ai.googleblog.com/2018/11/learning-to-predict-depth-on-pixel-3.html

7 years ago

130 upvotes – 19 comments

Deutsche searched in money laundering probe over Panama Papers

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-deutsche-bank-moneylaundering-idUSKCN1NY0ZN

7 years ago

129 upvotes – 42 comments

GraphQL: A Retrospective

https://verve.co/engineering/graphql-a-retrospective/

7 years ago

128 upvotes – 47 comments

‘Emerging’ as a Writer After 40

https://longreads.com/2018/11/28/emerging-as-a-writer-after-40/

7 years ago

127 upvotes – 62 comments

The Digital Maginot Line

https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2018/11/28/the-digital-maginot-line/

7 years ago

121 upvotes – 50 comments

An Amazon revolt could be brewing as tech giant exerts more control over brands

https://www.recode.net/2018/11/29/18023132/amazon-brand-policy-changes-marketplace-control-one-vendor

7 years ago

115 upvotes – 109 comments

The Frightening Power of Ransomware Done Right

http://nautil.us/issue/66/clockwork/the-100-million-bot-heist

7 years ago

111 upvotes – 53 comments

Pythran as a bridge between fast prototyping and code deployment

http://serge-sans-paille.github.io/pythran-stories/pythran-as-a-bridge-between-fast-prototyping-and-code-deployment.html

7 years ago

108 upvotes – 25 comments

How to design co-programs

https://patternsinfp.wordpress.com/2018/11/21/how-to-design-co-programs/

7 years ago

104 upvotes – 21 comments

The Unified Theory of Ram Dass

https://www.gq.com/story/the-unified-theory-of-ram-dass

7 years ago

97 upvotes – 81 comments

Soft Silicone Pneumatics Are 3D-printed in a Tub of Gel

https://hackaday.com/2018/11/27/soft-silicone-pneumatics-are-3d-printed-in-a-tub-of-gel/

7 years ago

95 upvotes – 27 comments

The Latest Crop of Instagram Influencers: Medical Students

https://slate.com/technology/2018/11/medical-students-instagram-influencers-ethics-debate.html

7 years ago

94 upvotes – 72 comments

Fixed – Fixed-place decimal math library for Go

https://github.com/robaho/fixed

7 years ago

94 upvotes – 67 comments

The Pontoon Bridges That Carry Millions at Kumbh Mela

https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2018/11/the-pontoon-bridges-that-carry-millions-at-kumbh-mela/576823/

7 years ago

91 upvotes – 22 comments

AWS App Mesh – Service Mesh for Microservices on AWS

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/introducing-aws-app-mesh-service-mesh-for-microservices-on-aws/

7 years ago

91 upvotes – 33 comments

Mathematical Simplicity May Drive Evolution's Speed

https://www.quantamagazine.org/computer-science-and-biology-explore-algorithmic-evolution-20181129/

7 years ago

90 upvotes – 32 comments

Show HN: An experimental code search engine

https://codegrep.com

7 years ago

88 upvotes – 35 comments

Inside the Marriott-Starwood Loyalty Program Turbulence

https://www.wsj.com/articles/inside-the-marriott-starwood-loyalty-program-turbulence-1543416010

7 years ago

82 upvotes – 69 comments

Why small tweaks and split testing don't work, and what to do instead

https://www.cortes.design/post/saas-website-conversion-split-test

7 years ago

82 upvotes – 46 comments

Reading minds with deep learning

https://blog.floydhub.com/reading-minds-with-deep-learning/

7 years ago

82 upvotes – 26 comments

A new look for rust-lang.org

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2018/11/29/a-new-look-for-rust-lang-org.html

7 years ago

79 upvotes – 113 comments

There Is Gas Under the Tundra

https://www.lensculture.com/articles/charles-xelot-there-is-gas-under-the-tundra

7 years ago

77 upvotes – 76 comments

Show HN: Arcentry – Create Interactive Cloud Diagrams

https://arcentry.com/

7 years ago

75 upvotes – 34 comments

The YouTube Premium Concept Is All but Done

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/bastard-machine/critics-notebook-youtube-premium-concept-is-all-but-done-1164556

7 years ago

75 upvotes – 115 comments

Twilight of the Taj Mahal

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/twilight_of_the_taj

7 years ago

75 upvotes – 94 comments

Rust Runtime for AWS Lambda

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/rust-runtime-for-aws-lambda/

7 years ago

71 upvotes – 2 comments

PHP Sadness

http://phpsadness.com/

7 years ago

69 upvotes – 86 comments

New York’s Wealthiest Cut Losses as Manhattan Real Estate Falters

https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-yorks-wealthiest-cut-losses-as-manhattan-real-estate-falters-1543508960

7 years ago

69 upvotes – 117 comments

Dell announces security breach

https://www.zdnet.com/article/dell-announces-security-breach/

7 years ago

66 upvotes – 27 comments

Announcing Ruby Support for AWS Lambda

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/announcing-ruby-support-for-aws-lambda/

7 years ago

66 upvotes – 9 comments

A 96-year-old artist who saved a village

http://www.bbc.com/travel/gallery/20181128-the-96-year-old-painter-who-saved-a-village

7 years ago

65 upvotes – 3 comments
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