top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-12-03

Ask HN: What are your “brain hacks” that help you manage everyday situations?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18588727

7 years ago

1322 upvotes – 366 comments

The Friendship That Made Google Huge

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/12/10/the-friendship-that-made-google-huge

7 years ago

532 upvotes – 101 comments

Tumblr will ban all adult content on December 17th

https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/3/18123752/tumblr-adult-content-porn-ban-date-explicit-changes-why-safe-mode

7 years ago

472 upvotes – 450 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2018)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18589702

7 years ago

421 upvotes – 928 comments

UBlock Origin 1.17.4 released

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/releases/tag/1.17.4

7 years ago

★ 63.4k JavaScript GPL-3.0
418 upvotes – 149 comments

How I Wrote a Modern C++ Library in Rust

https://hsivonen.fi/modern-cpp-in-rust/

7 years ago

406 upvotes – 116 comments

The U.S. Yield Curve Has Inverted

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-12-03/u-s-yield-curve-just-inverted-that-s-huge

7 years ago

388 upvotes – 265 comments

PhysX SDK 4.0, an Open-Source Physics Engine

https://news.developer.nvidia.com/announcing-physx-sdk-4-0-an-open-source-physics-engine/

7 years ago

368 upvotes – 117 comments

AlphaFold: Using AI for scientific discovery

https://deepmind.com/blog/alphafold/

7 years ago

363 upvotes – 123 comments

How Does React Tell a Class from a Function?

https://overreacted.io/how-does-react-tell-a-class-from-a-function/

7 years ago

348 upvotes – 130 comments

C.S. Lewis on the Reading of Old Books

https://reasonabletheology.org/cs-lewis-on-reading-old-books/

7 years ago

335 upvotes – 175 comments

I Quit Google Over Its Censored Chinese Search Engine

https://theintercept.com/2018/12/01/google-china-censorship-human-rights/

7 years ago

319 upvotes – 250 comments

QEMU Advent Calendar: A surprise disk image each day until Christmas

https://qemu-advent-calendar.org/

7 years ago

274 upvotes – 34 comments

Ask HN: What should an ideal developer interview process look like?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18585677

7 years ago

261 upvotes – 278 comments

Immutable Web Apps

https://immutablewebapps.org/

7 years ago

248 upvotes – 62 comments

Building a Language and Compiler for Machine Learning

https://julialang.org/blog/2018/12/ml-language-compiler

7 years ago

243 upvotes – 46 comments

Lime and Bird are growing rapidly

https://www.futureengine.org/articles/scooters-are-worth-10b

7 years ago

219 upvotes – 472 comments

Simple Encrypted Arithmetic Library goes open source

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/the-microsoft-simple-encrypted-arithmetic-library-goes-open-source/

7 years ago

215 upvotes – 62 comments

China ‘Is the Only One in the Race’ to Make Electric Buses, Taxis and Trucks

https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-has-early-lead-on-electric-commercial-vehicles-1543755601

7 years ago

214 upvotes – 334 comments

Pointers in C (2010)

https://boredzo.org/pointers/

7 years ago

214 upvotes – 102 comments

Firefox Profilemaker

https://ffprofile.com/

7 years ago

213 upvotes – 87 comments

NULL: The worst mistake of computer science? (2015)

https://www.lucidchart.com/techblog/2015/08/31/the-worst-mistake-of-computer-science/

7 years ago

209 upvotes – 368 comments

Developer on Call

https://henrikwarne.com/2018/12/03/developer-on-call/

7 years ago

193 upvotes – 238 comments

Israeli Software Helped Saudis Spy on Khashoggi, Lawsuit Says

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/02/world/middleeast/saudi-khashoggi-spyware-israel.html

7 years ago

190 upvotes – 139 comments

Buying an Amiga 30 years later

https://www.vintagewave.net/blog/2018/11/30/buying-a-commodore-amiga-30-years-later

7 years ago

180 upvotes – 97 comments

Wall Street Rule for the #MeToo Era: Avoid Women at All Cost

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-03/a-wall-street-rule-for-the-metoo-era-avoid-women-at-all-cost

7 years ago

177 upvotes – 227 comments

SpaceX Launches 19th Rocket in a Year, a Company Record

https://www.wsj.com/articles/spacex-launches-19th-rocket-in-a-year-a-company-record-1543862707

7 years ago

176 upvotes – 96 comments

Building a Language and Compiler for Machine Learning

https://julialang.org/blog/2018/12/ml-language-compiler

7 years ago

161 upvotes – 24 comments

Steam’s discovery algorithm killed my sales

http://greyaliengames.com/blog/steams-discovery-algorithm-killed-my-sales/

7 years ago

154 upvotes – 127 comments

Scientists Find Gut Bacteria in the Human Brain

http://nautil.us/issue/66/clockwork/are-there-bacteria-in-your-brain

7 years ago

147 upvotes – 8 comments

Designing and building an FPGA sprite-based graphics accelerator (2014)

http://andybrown.me.uk/2014/06/01/ase/

7 years ago

146 upvotes – 14 comments

TAWS – The Amiga Workbench Simulation

http://www.taws.ch/WB.html

7 years ago

139 upvotes – 58 comments

Optimizing Siri on HomePod in Far‑Field Settings

https://machinelearning.apple.com/2018/12/03/optimizing-siri-on-homepod-in-far-field-settings.html

7 years ago

132 upvotes – 71 comments

A novel way to stop the spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2018/12/01/a-novel-way-to-stop-the-spread-of-antibiotic-resistant-bacteria

7 years ago

132 upvotes – 53 comments

Show HN: McFly, a smart Bash history search CLI in Rust with a neural network

https://github.com/cantino/mcfly

7 years ago

★ 7.7k Rust MIT
130 upvotes – 56 comments

How Feynman Diagrams Almost Saved Space

https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-feynman-diagrams-are-so-important-20160705/

7 years ago

113 upvotes – 21 comments

Unknown Civil War Faces are Being Identified Through Facial Recognition App

https://www.thevintagenews.com/2018/12/01/civil-war-photo-sleuth/

7 years ago

108 upvotes – 47 comments

Teensy 3.1 bare metal: Writing a USB driver (2014)

http://kevincuzner.com/2014/12/12/teensy-3-1-bare-metal-writing-a-usb-driver/

7 years ago

106 upvotes – 15 comments

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2018)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18589704

7 years ago

106 upvotes – 168 comments

It's all about typography

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18588069

7 years ago

102 upvotes – 51 comments

GNU Wallpapers

https://www.gnu.org/graphics/wallpapers.en.html

7 years ago

102 upvotes – 51 comments

Stripe open-sources Skycfg, a configuration builder for Kubernetes

https://github.com/stripe/skycfg

7 years ago

★ 674 Go Apache-2.0
97 upvotes – 35 comments

Overdose Deaths Set a Record Last Year

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/11/29/upshot/fentanyl-drug-overdose-deaths.html

7 years ago

96 upvotes – 106 comments

A Collector of Math and Physics Surprises

https://www.quantamagazine.org/tadashi-tokieda-collects-math-and-physics-surprises-20181127/

7 years ago

95 upvotes – 15 comments

Maxwell's fluid model of magnetism (2015)

https://arxiv.org/abs/1502.05926

7 years ago

91 upvotes – 27 comments

After publishers sued Sci-Hub, Russian ISPs are preventing access

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/gy7d7j/sci-hub-and-lib-gen-continue-to-get-attacked-around-the-world

7 years ago

84 upvotes – 23 comments

Anthropologists Say Gladiators and Soldiers in Ancient Rome Were Vegetarian

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3761927/

7 years ago

83 upvotes – 104 comments

Sir David Attenborough: Climate change 'our greatest threat'

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-46398057

7 years ago

82 upvotes – 101 comments
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