top 20 hacker news stories for 2018-12-02

I quit Instagram and Facebook and it made me happier

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/12/01/social-media-detox-christina-farr-quits-instagram-facebook.html

7 years ago

574 upvotes – 312 comments

How Google Code Search Worked: Regex Matching with a Trigram Index (2012)

https://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp4.html

7 years ago

434 upvotes – 70 comments

Amazon FBA Experiment

https://fbaexperiment.com/start-amazon-fba-experiment/

7 years ago

319 upvotes – 161 comments

Mozilla hit with takedown request for anti-paywall addons

https://github.com/nextgens/anti-paywall/issues/109#issuecomment-441097828

7 years ago

★ 686 JavaScript
311 upvotes – 387 comments

What makes BeOS and Haiku unique

https://osvoyager.wordpress.com/2018/11/30/what-makes-beos-and-haiku-unique/

7 years ago

303 upvotes – 219 comments

Canadian team confirms presence of huge unexplored cave in British Columbia

https://www.canadiangeographic.ca/article/canadian-team-confirms-presence-huge-unexplored-cave-british-columbia

7 years ago

245 upvotes – 79 comments

New Metal-Air Transistor Replaces Semiconductors

https://spectrum.ieee.org/nanoclast/semiconductors/devices/new-metalair-transistor-replaces-semiconductors

7 years ago

216 upvotes – 101 comments

Receiving NOAA Weather Satellite Images with $10 USB SDR Device (2014) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0efTTWMl3v0

7 years ago

195 upvotes – 33 comments

Moving to GitLab

https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/ghc-devs/2018-December/016613.html

7 years ago

189 upvotes – 58 comments

Algebras we love

https://kubuszok.com/2018/algebras-we-love/

7 years ago

175 upvotes – 33 comments

Emulate Mac OS 9 with QEMU

https://www.jamesbadger.ca/2018/11/07/emulate-mac-os-9-with-qemu/

7 years ago

166 upvotes – 64 comments

Valve creates new revenue sharing tiers to give big sellers a break

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/331922/Valve_creates_new_rev_share_tiers_to_give_big_sellers_a_break.php

7 years ago

156 upvotes – 184 comments

Seven tough lessons from ten years in bootstrapped business

https://likewise.am/2018/12/01/seven-tough-lessons-from-ten-years-in-bootstrapped-business/

7 years ago

148 upvotes – 47 comments

Terminals Are Sexy

https://terminalsare.sexy/

7 years ago

147 upvotes – 79 comments

But why is a sphere's surface area four times its shadow? [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNcFjFmqEc8

7 years ago

141 upvotes – 61 comments

Three academics are launching a new journal for arguments to be made anonymously

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/dec/02/journal-of-controversial-ideas-jeff-mcmahan-peter-singer-francesca-minerva-identity-politics

7 years ago

121 upvotes – 49 comments

Facebook's Open-Source Reinforcement Learning Platform – A Deep Dive

https://xaviergeerinck.com/facebook-horizon

7 years ago

118 upvotes – 10 comments

Microsoft is Dead (2007)

http://www.paulgraham.com/microsoft.html

7 years ago

111 upvotes – 96 comments

German cartel office investigates Amazon’s treatment of small sellers

https://www.handelsblatt.com/today/companies/antitrust-german-cartel-office-investigates-amazons-treatment-of-small-sellers/23701670.html?ticket=ST-6205428-k5gUAoSGgp5JpMDs2mkz-ap1

7 years ago

104 upvotes – 27 comments

Paleotronic's 12 Years of Retro-Christmas Year One: 1980

https://paleotronic.com/2018/12/02/paleotronics-12-years-of-christmas-year-one-1980/

7 years ago

104 upvotes – 23 comments
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