top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-12-09

JIRA is an antipattern

https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/09/jira-is-an-antipattern/

7 years ago

1012 upvotes – 367 comments

Show HN: Visalist – Find visa requirements for countries around the world

https://visalist.io

7 years ago

565 upvotes – 252 comments

Do I really need to get out the soldering-iron again?

http://www.naughtycomputer.uk/do_i_really_need_to_get_out_the_soldering_iron_again.html

7 years ago

425 upvotes – 417 comments

The Game Engine Black Book: Doom

http://fabiensanglard.net/gebbdoom/

7 years ago

363 upvotes – 146 comments

Tracking leaks on NDA beta Xbox 360s by embedding serial number on-screen

https://twitter.com/cullend/status/1071884772064944128

7 years ago

357 upvotes – 140 comments

Crypto Market Crash Leaving Bankrupt Startups in Its Wake

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-06/crypto-market-crash-is-causing-startups-to-shutter-operations

7 years ago

329 upvotes – 497 comments

Why Aren’t Rich People Happy With the Money They Have?

https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2018/12/rich-people-happy-money/577231/

7 years ago

316 upvotes – 342 comments

The Life of a Backpacker in Asia in the 1970s

https://www.perceptivetravel.com/issues/1218/kelly.html

7 years ago

226 upvotes – 90 comments

How Does setState Know What to Do?

https://overreacted.io/how-does-setstate-know-what-to-do/

7 years ago

218 upvotes – 65 comments

Inside Rust's Async Transform

https://blag.nemo157.com/2018/12/09/inside-rusts-async-transform.html

7 years ago

203 upvotes – 75 comments

Introduction to A* (2014)

https://www.redblobgames.com/pathfinding/a-star/introduction.html

7 years ago

201 upvotes – 14 comments

The Programming Languages Zoo

http://plzoo.andrej.com/

7 years ago

178 upvotes – 13 comments

Some unexplained physical symptoms may be caused by unresolved emotional trauma

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health-and-fitness/article-their-pain-is-real-and-for-patients-with-mystery-illnesses-help-is/

7 years ago

164 upvotes – 94 comments

On Self-Publishing “A Programmer’s Introduction to Mathematics”

https://medium.com/@jeremyjkun/on-self-publishing-a-programmers-introduction-to-mathematics-1472b7511c99

7 years ago

163 upvotes – 24 comments

Coinbase is exploring the addition of new currencies

https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/07/coinbase-dabbles-in-shitcoins/

7 years ago

159 upvotes – 251 comments

This is the United States’ third biggest housing boom in the modern era

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/07/business/housing-boom-how-long-can-it-last.html

7 years ago

155 upvotes – 158 comments

Dutch hospitals to drop U.S. body brokers, cite ethical concerns

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-bodies-dutch-exclusive/exclusive-dutch-hospitals-to-drop-u-s-body-brokers-cite-ethical-concerns-idUSKBN1O70RT

7 years ago

130 upvotes – 79 comments

Yangtze River Port and Logistics: On-The-Ground Research Shows Assets Fabricated

https://hindenburgresearch.com/yangtze-river-port-logistics-total-zero-on-the-ground-research-shows-assets-appear-to-be-largely-fabricated/

7 years ago

111 upvotes – 40 comments

An Epidemic of Loneliness in America?

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/08/opinion/letters/loneliness-epidemic.html

7 years ago

109 upvotes – 117 comments

MX-80 – Ahead of its time: A small, lightweight computer printer

https://global.epson.com/company/corporate_history/milestone_products/11_mx80.html

7 years ago

107 upvotes – 78 comments

Rediscovering My Daughter Through Instagram

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/08/opinion/sunday/parenting-instagram-adolescence.html

7 years ago

104 upvotes – 68 comments

The price of the Manhattan Project (2013)

http://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2013/05/17/the-price-of-the-manhattan-project/

7 years ago

103 upvotes – 67 comments

'Say hello to my little vacuum cleaner': US DEA puts spycams in cleaner's kit

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/12/07/dea_vacuum_cleaner/

7 years ago

101 upvotes – 29 comments

Show HN: A UI That Lets Readers Control How Much Information They See

https://kayce.basqu.es/blog/information-control

7 years ago

100 upvotes – 64 comments

Group led by Thomas Piketty presents plan for ‘a fairer Europe’

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/dec/09/eu-brexit-piketty-tax-google-facebook-apple-manifesto

7 years ago

96 upvotes – 124 comments

Cross-Platform Language Design [pdf]

http://lampwww.epfl.ch/~doeraene/thesis/doeraene-thesis-2018-cross-platform-language-design.pdf

7 years ago

94 upvotes – 16 comments

Git v2.20.0

http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1812.1/00293.html

7 years ago

93 upvotes – 16 comments

How Premium Mediocre Conquered Fashion

https://www.businessoffashion.com/articles/opinion/op-ed-how-premium-mediocre-conquered-fashion

7 years ago

88 upvotes – 101 comments

Kweb: A new approach to building rich webapps, in Kotlin

http://kweb.io/

7 years ago

88 upvotes – 38 comments

Review of Mortal Republic: How Rome Fell into Tyranny

https://www.economist.com/books-and-arts/2018/12/08/lessons-from-the-fall-of-a-great-republic

7 years ago

87 upvotes – 83 comments

Can Dirt Save the Earth?

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/18/magazine/dirt-save-earth-carbon-farming-climate-change.html

7 years ago

83 upvotes – 51 comments

Simulating identification by zip code, sex, and birthdate

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2018/12/07/simulating-zipcode-sex-birthdate/

7 years ago

82 upvotes – 36 comments

Was the Antikythera Mechanism the world’s first computer? (2007)

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/05/14/fragmentary-knowledge

7 years ago

80 upvotes – 56 comments

Ocasio-Cortez's Green New Deal Is a Winning Climate Strategy

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/12/ocasio-cortez-green-new-deal-winning-climate-strategy/576514/

7 years ago

77 upvotes – 70 comments
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