top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-12-01

A Programmer's Introduction to Mathematics

https://jeremykun.com/2018/12/01/a-programmers-introduction-to-mathematics/

7 years ago

Psychology’s Replication Crisis Is Real

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/11/psychologys-replication-crisis-real/576223/

7 years ago

The EU Copyright Directive: What Redditors in Europe Need to Know

https://redditblog.com/2018/11/28/the-eu-copyright-directive-what-redditors-in-europe-need-to-know/

7 years ago

Show HN: Cross-platform open-source 3D modeling software

https://dust3d.org/

7 years ago

The Octopus Is Smart as Heck, But Why?

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/30/science/animal-intelligence-octopus-cephalopods.html

7 years ago

8K is now being broadcast in Japan

https://www.newsshooter.com/2018/12/01/8k-is-now-being-broadcast-in-japan/

7 years ago

“I didn’t meet my girlfriend until 12 years after our daughter was born”

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/28/style/modern-love-how-i-met-my-children.html

7 years ago

The Second Edition of “Refactoring”

https://martinfowler.com/articles/refactoring-2nd-ed.html

7 years ago

The Making Of Dust (2003)

https://www.johnsto.co.uk/design/making-dust/

7 years ago

The little black book of scams (2016)

https://www.accc.gov.au/publications/the-little-black-book-of-scams

7 years ago

Portal for the C64

https://www.jamiefuller.com/portal/

7 years ago

Dark web dealers voluntarily ban deadly fentanyl

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/dec/01/dark-web-dealers-voluntary-ban-deadly-fentanyl

7 years ago

New Parents Complain Amazon Baby-Registry Ads Are Deceptive

https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-parents-complain-amazon-ads-are-deceptive-1543417201

7 years ago

Cambridge Analytica Used Fashion Tastes to Identify Right-Wing Voters

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/29/style/cambridge-analytica-fashion-data.html

7 years ago

I Put Words on This Webpage So You Have to Listen to Me Now

https://christine.website/blog/experimental-rilkef-2018-11-30

7 years ago

Researchers have significantly increased the scope of the Rowhammer threat

https://www.wired.com/story/rowhammer-ecc-memory-data-hack/

7 years ago

Podcast Advertising: What We Learned

https://ahrefs.com/blog/podcast-advertising/

7 years ago

The deepest problem with deep learning

https://medium.com/@GaryMarcus/the-deepest-problem-with-deep-learning-91c5991f5695

7 years ago

The World's Most Efficient Languages (2016)

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/06/complex-languages/489389/

7 years ago

The Bare Minimum You Should Do to Protect Your Family's Data

https://blog.mozilla.org/internetcitizen/2018/11/25/the-bare-minimum-you-should-do-to-protect-your-familys-data/

7 years ago

Clojure's missing piece (2017)

http://nathanmarz.com/blog/clojures-missing-piece.html

7 years ago

What are you waiting for?

http://science.sciencemag.org/content/362/6414/610.long

7 years ago

Why Don’t We Forget How to Ride a Bike?

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-dont-we-forget-how-to-ride-a-bike/

7 years ago

CIA Intercepts Underpin Assessment Saudi Crown Prince Targeted Khashoggi

https://www.wsj.com/articles/cia-intercepts-underpin-assessment-saudi-crown-prince-targeted-khashoggi-1543640460

7 years ago

What Startups Really Mean by “Why Should We Hire You?”

https://angel.co/blog/what-startups-really-mean-by-why-should-we-hire-you

7 years ago

Twitter user hacks 50k printers to tell people to subscribe to PewDiePie

https://www.zdnet.com/google-amp/article/twitter-user-hacks-50000-printers-to-tell-people-to-subscribe-to-pewdiepie/

7 years ago

I’m Chinese, Google’s DragonFly Must Go On

https://github.com/ithinco/i-am-chinese-the-dragonfly-must-go-on

7 years ago

★ 1.3k MIT

Google rescinds candidate verbal offer due to low GPA

https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/a1xqeo/verbal_offer_rescinded_due_to_gpa/

7 years ago

Flutter on desktop, a real competitor to Electron

https://medium.com/flutter-community/flutter-on-desktop-a-real-competitor-to-electron-4f049ea6b061

7 years ago

YugaByteDB – A Transactional Database with Cassandra, Redis and PostgreSQL APIs

https://github.com/YugaByte/yugabyte-db

7 years ago

★ 10.2k C

Party REPL – A multi-player REPL built for pair-programming [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJING0Vigpg

7 years ago

TypeScript in 5 minutes

https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/typescript-in-5-minutes.html

7 years ago

How the West Was Digitized: The Making of Rockstar Games’ Red Dead Redemption 2

http://www.vulture.com/2018/10/the-making-of-rockstar-games-red-dead-redemption-2.html

7 years ago

It took seven miles to pull over a Tesla with a seemingly asleep driver

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/11/cops-pull-over-tesla-cruising-on-a-freeway-with-apparently-asleep-driver/

7 years ago

Student Team Wins Amazon Alexa Artificial Intelligence Challenge

https://www.ucdavis.edu/news/student-team-wins-amazon-alexa-artificial-intelligence-challenge/

7 years ago

Undefined Behavior Is Really Undefined

https://cryptoservices.github.io/fde/2018/11/30/undefined-behavior.html

7 years ago

Categories for the Working Hacker [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gui_SE8rJUM

7 years ago

The Arcane Algorithm Archive

https://www.algorithm-archive.org/

7 years ago

Direct Democracy in Switzerland

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switzerland#Direct_democracy

7 years ago

Show HN: Asdfasdf.co – emails from the internet's gibberish form fills

https://medium.com/p/52aad86af33a

7 years ago