top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-12-11

Firefox 64 Released

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/12/firefox-64-released/

7 years ago

954 upvotes – 513 comments

DigitalOcean launches its container service

https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/11/digital-ocean-launches-its-container-service/

7 years ago

765 upvotes – 251 comments

Super Micro says review found no malicious chips in motherboards

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-supermicro-chips/super-micro-says-review-found-no-malicious-chips-in-motherboards-idUSKBN1OA12R

7 years ago

629 upvotes – 336 comments

Windows Server 2019 Includes OpenSSH

https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2018/12/11/windows-server-2019-includes-openssh/

7 years ago

431 upvotes – 280 comments

The Cube Rule of Food Identification (2017)

http://cuberule.com

7 years ago

363 upvotes – 183 comments

How the Dreamcast Copy Protection Was Defeated

http://fabiensanglard.net/dreamcast_hacking/

7 years ago

345 upvotes – 161 comments

After landing a lucrative job at a tech startup, I had made a terrible mistake

https://torontolife.com/tech/truth-tech-insider-got/

7 years ago

336 upvotes – 185 comments

PracticalAI – A practical approach to learning machine learning

https://github.com/GokuMohandas/practicalAI

7 years ago

335 upvotes – 8 comments

Just tell me how to use Go Modules

https://www.kablamo.com.au/blog-1/2018/12/10/just-tell-me-how-to-use-go-modules

7 years ago

331 upvotes – 127 comments

FreeBSD 12.0 is now available

https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-announce/2018-December/001856.html

7 years ago

327 upvotes – 150 comments

Why I'm usually unnerved when modern SSDs die on us

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/SSDDeathDisturbing

7 years ago

314 upvotes – 248 comments

Twenty Years of Open Source Erlang: A Retrospective from the trenches

https://www.erlang-solutions.com/blog/twenty-years-of-open-source-erlang.html

7 years ago

287 upvotes – 66 comments

GoDaddy is a scam

https://www.reddit.com/r/web_design/comments/a562gv/godaddy_is_a_scam/

7 years ago

281 upvotes – 118 comments

Norwegian frigate sinking has far-reaching implications

https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/norwegian-frigate-sinking-has-far-reaching-implications/

7 years ago

275 upvotes – 204 comments

SIGIL, a New Doom Campaign by John Romero

https://www.romerogames.ie/sigil/

7 years ago

264 upvotes – 77 comments

EU Copyright: Block Everything, Never Make Mistakes, but Don't Use Upload Filter

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20181210/09323241194/latest-eu-copyright-proposal-block-everything-never-make-mistakes-dont-use-upload-filters.shtml

7 years ago

251 upvotes – 256 comments

Tetris

https://www.colinfahey.com/tetris/tetris.html

7 years ago

245 upvotes – 57 comments

People who disagree aren't trying to make things complex

http://m50d.github.io/2018/12/11/people-who-disagree

7 years ago

237 upvotes – 154 comments

Harvard Quietly Amasses California Vineyards and the Water Underneath

https://www.wsj.com/articles/harvard-quietly-amasses-california-vineyardsand-the-water-underneath-1544456396

7 years ago

214 upvotes – 113 comments

Compiz: Ubuntu Desktop's little known best friend

https://code.mradford.com/post/the-ubuntu-compiz-desktop

7 years ago

199 upvotes – 119 comments

The Golden Age of Rich People Not Paying Their Taxes

http://theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/12/rich-people-are-getting-away-not-paying-their-taxes/577798/

7 years ago

199 upvotes – 182 comments

Amazon, Amid Crackdown on Seller Scams, Fires Employees Over Data Leak

https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-amid-crackdown-on-seller-scams-fires-employees-over-data-leak-1544437800

7 years ago

190 upvotes – 175 comments

Fintech startup Plaid raises $250M at a $2.65B valuation

https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/11/fintech-startup-plaid-raises-250m-at-a-2-65b-valuation/

7 years ago

188 upvotes – 138 comments

“Diagram of All Space and Time” by Carl Sagan (1960s?)

https://www.loc.gov/resource/mss85590.084/

7 years ago

184 upvotes – 30 comments

A newly discovered tea plant is caffeine-free

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2018/11/17/a-newly-discovered-tea-plant-is-caffeine-free

7 years ago

180 upvotes – 119 comments

The Firefox Dilemma

https://blog.tawhidhannan.co.uk/tech-zoomed-out/industry/firefox-dilemma/

7 years ago

175 upvotes – 204 comments

Linux Kernel Developers Discuss Dropping x32 Support

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-Potentially-Drops-x32

7 years ago

174 upvotes – 108 comments

San Diego's Bird Scooter Hoarding Problem

http://www.scottresearch.com/blog/san-diegos-bird-scooter-hoarding-problem-with-screencaptures

7 years ago

168 upvotes – 190 comments

Project A119

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_A119

7 years ago

150 upvotes – 49 comments

Michael Seibel on Leadership Attributes in Successful Startup Leaders

https://torch.io/ceo-interview-series-michael-seibel-on-leadership-attributes-in-successful-startup-leaders/

7 years ago

149 upvotes – 38 comments

Population Mountains

https://pudding.cool/2018/12/3d-cities-story/index.html

7 years ago

146 upvotes – 21 comments

'Dying All Tensed-Up': 30 Years Since the Troubled Secret Mission of STS-27

https://www.americaspace.com/2018/12/09/dying-all-tensed-up-30-years-since-the-troubled-secret-mission-of-sts-27/

7 years ago

145 upvotes – 55 comments

A Swiss Dress from the 16th Century (2015)

https://whiljascorner.wordpress.com/2015/05/01/a-swiss-dress-from-the-16th-century/

7 years ago

141 upvotes – 28 comments

Songcraft Beta – A songwriting tool and guitar tab builder

https://songcraft.io/

7 years ago

141 upvotes – 54 comments

Forrest Mims, Radio Shack, and the Notebooks That Launched a Thousand Careers

https://hackaday.com/2017/01/18/forrest-mims-radio-shack-and-the-notebooks-that-launched-a-thousand-careers/

7 years ago

139 upvotes – 50 comments

US Border Officers Don’t Always Delete Collected Traveler Data

https://www.engadget.com/2018/12/11/cbp-officers-fail-to-delete-traveler-data/

7 years ago

133 upvotes – 40 comments

How AI could help us with ancient languages like Sumerian

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20181207-how-ai-could-help-us-with-ancient-languages-like-sumerian

7 years ago

123 upvotes – 44 comments

Adventures in Video Conferencing Part 1: The Wild World of WebRTC

https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2018/12/adventures-in-video-conferencing-part-1.html

7 years ago

123 upvotes – 36 comments

A tale of 132 e's

https://linuxwit.ch/blog/2018/12/e98e/

7 years ago

122 upvotes – 33 comments

The Complexity Trap: Think Before You Leap

https://danielwestheide.com/blog/2018/12/07/the-complexity-trap.html

7 years ago

120 upvotes – 44 comments

Show HN: Egeria, a multidimensional spreadsheet for everybody

https://egeria.rocks/

7 years ago

113 upvotes – 55 comments

Benchmarks for Startup Spend and Cash Burn

https://brex.com/blog/state-of-spend

7 years ago

109 upvotes – 35 comments

Grasp2Vec: Learning Object Representations from Self-Supervised Grasping

https://ai.googleblog.com/2018/12/grasp2vec-learning-object.html

7 years ago

106 upvotes – 9 comments

Inside the Philly DA’s side hustle –selling seized homes to speculators and cops

http://planphilly.com/articles/2018/12/07/inside-the-philadelphia-da-s-side-hustle-selling-seized-homes-to-speculators-and-cops

7 years ago

105 upvotes – 24 comments

Millennials Didn’t Kill the Economy. The Economy Killed Millennials

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/12/stop-blaming-millennials-killing-economy/577408/

7 years ago

97 upvotes – 142 comments

InVision, valued at $1.9B, picks up $115M Series F

https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/11/invision-valued-at-1-9-billion-picks-up-115-million-series-f/

7 years ago

97 upvotes – 86 comments

RefactoringUI Book

https://refactoringui.com/book/

7 years ago

92 upvotes – 30 comments

Python machine learning notebooks for beginners and experts

https://github.com/GokuMohandas/practicalAI/blob/master/README.md

7 years ago

91 upvotes – 2 comments

Page Views on Black Friday and Cyber Monday

https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-truth-about-black-friday-and-cyber-monday/

7 years ago

89 upvotes – 34 comments

Google Fusion Tables Shutting Down

https://support.google.com/fusiontables/answer/9185417

7 years ago

85 upvotes – 45 comments

Uber exec in March: “we shouldn’t be hitting things every 15,000 miles”

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/12/uber-exec-warned-of-rampant-safety-problems-days-before-fatal-crash/

7 years ago

83 upvotes – 83 comments

NYC Subway Trains Might Start Moving Faster

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/10/nyregion/new-york-subway-delay.html

7 years ago

80 upvotes – 34 comments
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