top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-12-16

My Dad's Friendship with Charles Barkley

https://www.wbur.org/onlyagame/2018/12/14/lin-wang-charles-barkley

7 years ago

467 upvotes – 40 comments

How the 0.001% invest

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2018/12/15/how-the-0001-invest

7 years ago

388 upvotes – 205 comments

Browsers

https://adactio.com/journal/14608

7 years ago

341 upvotes – 292 comments

Google AMP case study: leads dropped by 59%

https://kinsta.com/blog/disable-google-amp/

7 years ago

336 upvotes – 158 comments

Can Repelling Magnets Replace the Spring in a Pogo Stick?

https://www.kjmagnetics.com/blog.asp?p=pogo-stick-spring

7 years ago

292 upvotes – 142 comments

Johnson and Johnson knew for decades that asbestos lurked in its Baby Powder

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/johnsonandjohnson-cancer/

7 years ago

291 upvotes – 82 comments

4,400 year old Egyptian tomb discovered in the Saqqara pyramid complex

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-46580264

7 years ago

275 upvotes – 57 comments

German exclaves in Belgium separated by a bicycle path from the rest of Germany

https://fascinatingmaps.com/strange-german-exclaves-in-belgium-vennbahn/

7 years ago

272 upvotes – 155 comments

1980s Amiga has been running the AC and heat in 19 schools for 30 years

https://www.geek.com/news/commodore-amiga-computer-has-been-running-the-acheat-in-19-schools-for-30-years-1625147/

7 years ago

230 upvotes – 164 comments

Why Design Thinking Works

https://hbr.org/2018/09/why-design-thinking-works

7 years ago

218 upvotes – 96 comments

Linux: IO without entering the kernel

http://git.kernel.dk/cgit/linux-block/commit/?h=aio-poll&id=5aeaa1ad235c708e31ad930d1ff6ba6fd39bee91

7 years ago

210 upvotes – 75 comments

How Peter Jackson Made WWI Footage Seem Astonishingly New

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/16/movies/peter-jackson-war-movie.html

7 years ago

192 upvotes – 50 comments

Keyboardio Kickstarter Day 1278: A startling discovery

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/keyboardio/the-model-01-an-heirloom-grade-keyboard-for-seriou/posts/2369985

7 years ago

192 upvotes – 85 comments

Firefox 64 built with GCC and Clang

https://hubicka.blogspot.com/2018/12/firefox-64-built-with-gcc-and-clang.html

7 years ago

188 upvotes – 63 comments

Thoughts on, and pictures of, the original Macintosh User Manual

https://www.peterme.com/2007/08/27/thoughts-on-and-pics-of-the-original-macintosh-user-manual/

7 years ago

187 upvotes – 84 comments

Organizational Debt

https://boats.gitlab.io/blog/post/rust-2019/

7 years ago

185 upvotes – 40 comments

How McKinsey has helped raise the stature of authoritarian governments

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/15/world/asia/mckinsey-china-russia.html

7 years ago

169 upvotes – 39 comments

An Illustrated Theory of Numbers (2017)

http://illustratedtheoryofnumbers.com/

7 years ago

167 upvotes – 44 comments

Can functional programming be liberated from the von Neumann paradigm? (2010)

http://conal.net/blog/posts/can-functional-programming-be-liberated-from-the-von-neumann-paradigm

7 years ago

161 upvotes – 82 comments

Plastic Water Bottles, Which Enabled a Drinks Boom, Now Threaten Industry

https://www.wsj.com/articles/bottled-water-americas-most-popular-drink-has-a-plastic-problem-11544627923

7 years ago

149 upvotes – 256 comments

The Most Important Software Innovations (2001-2017)

https://dwheeler.com/innovation/innovation.html

7 years ago

146 upvotes – 68 comments

Systematic Parsing of X.509: Eradicating Security Issues with a Parse Tree

https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.04959

7 years ago

146 upvotes – 25 comments

Nvidia's $1,100 AI brain for robots goes on sale

https://www.engadget.com/2018/12/12/nvidia-jetson-agx-xavier-robot-processor-available/

7 years ago

144 upvotes – 86 comments

Ask HN: Best Centralized Backup Solution

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18692844

7 years ago

133 upvotes – 67 comments

Pampy: Pattern Matching for Python

https://github.com/santinic/pampy/blob/master/README.md

7 years ago

★ 3.5k Python MIT
126 upvotes – 44 comments

Headspace vs. Calm: A Meditation-App Battle That’s Anything but Zen

https://www.wsj.com/articles/headspace-vs-calm-the-meditation-battle-thats-anything-but-zen-11544889606

7 years ago

125 upvotes – 103 comments

Java’s Forgotten Forebear (2009)

https://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/javas-forgotten-forbear/

7 years ago

122 upvotes – 80 comments

Cofounder of Vine and HQ Trivia Dies at 35

https://www.businessinsider.com/colin-kroll-hq-trivia-and-vine-cofounder-found-dead-2018-12

7 years ago

119 upvotes – 17 comments

A lesson on thinking and acting long term

https://threader.app/thread/1074063712254857218

7 years ago

116 upvotes – 28 comments

World's first fully electric bus fleet quietens Chinese megacity

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/dec/12/silence-shenzhen-world-first-electric-bus-fleet

7 years ago

113 upvotes – 60 comments

Wireguard VPN: Typical Setup (2017)

https://www.ckn.io/blog/2017/11/14/wireguard-vpn-typical-setup/

7 years ago

105 upvotes – 50 comments

Breaking Into Android Phones with a 3D-Printed Head

https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2018/12/13/we-broke-into-a-bunch-of-android-phones-with-a-3d-printed-head/#305e5c2f1330

7 years ago

101 upvotes – 77 comments

The End of the Ad-Supported Web

https://medium.com/unlock-protocol/the-end-of-the-ad-supported-web-d4d093fb462f

7 years ago

100 upvotes – 71 comments

Sears to pay $25.3M in bonuses to top execs after filing for bankruptcy

https://thehill.com/policy/finance/421565-sears-gets-approval-to-pay-253-million-in-bonuses-to-top-execs-after-filing

7 years ago

96 upvotes – 94 comments

Blazor – A .NET web framework that runs in the browser with WebAssembly

https://github.com/aspnet/blazor

7 years ago

★ 9.2k PowerShell Apache-2.0
96 upvotes – 50 comments

Few people are actually trapped in filter bubbles. Why do they say they are?

http://www.niemanlab.org/2018/12/few-people-are-actually-trapped-in-filter-bubbles-why-do-they-like-to-say-that-they-are/

7 years ago

95 upvotes – 108 comments

Show HN: Single-header C++11 HTML document constructor

https://github.com/tinfoilboy/CTML

7 years ago

★ 226 C++ MIT
87 upvotes – 10 comments

LiveAgent: Over $250K monthly recurring revenue with a spin-off project

https://www.failory.com/mistakes/liveagent

7 years ago

87 upvotes – 36 comments

Pushback Derails Company That Thrived on Patent Lawsuits

https://www.wsj.com/articles/pushback-derails-company-that-thrived-on-patent-lawsuits-11544972671

7 years ago

84 upvotes – 8 comments

The Walter White of Wichita (2016)

http://interactive.fusion.net/death-by-fentanyl/the-walter-white-of-wichita.html

7 years ago

81 upvotes – 49 comments

Forget Fortnite–my son is still obsessed with Minecraft

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/12/forget-fortnite-my-son-is-still-obsessed-with-minecraft/

7 years ago

80 upvotes – 47 comments

The Accidental Room

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-accidental-room/

7 years ago

79 upvotes – 13 comments

Michelangelo PyML: Uber’s Platform for Rapid Python ML Model

https://eng.uber.com/michelangelo-pyml/

7 years ago

77 upvotes – 24 comments

Leonard Susskind on Feynman, the Holographic Principle, and Unanswered Physics

https://blog.ycombinator.com/leonard-susskind-on-richard-feynman-the-holographic-principle-and-unanswered-questions-in-physics/

7 years ago

76 upvotes – 12 comments

Typewriter Cartography

https://somethingaboutmaps.wordpress.com/2018/11/26/typewriter-cartography/

7 years ago

74 upvotes – 7 comments

There Are Now More Shows Streaming Than There Are on Broadcast or Cable

https://www.indiewire.com/2018/12/streaming-shows-outnumber-broadcast-cable-1202027973/

7 years ago

73 upvotes – 76 comments

Refactoring Large Functions

http://robert.muth.org/refactoring-large-functions.html

7 years ago

72 upvotes – 38 comments

NetSurf Web Browser

http://www.netsurf-browser.org

7 years ago

72 upvotes – 22 comments

New Neurons for the Brain

http://maxplanck.nautil.us/article/348/new-neurons-for-the-brain

7 years ago

69 upvotes – 17 comments

Rosetta witnesses birth of bow shock around comet

https://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Rosetta/Rosetta_witnesses_birth_of_baby_bow_shock_around_comet

7 years ago

66 upvotes – 3 comments

How We Deal with Data Quality Using Circuit Breakers

https://quickbooks-engineering.intuit.com/taming-data-quality-with-circuit-breakers-dbe550d3ca78

7 years ago

66 upvotes – 4 comments

Amazon Targets Unprofitable Items, with a Sharper Focus on the Bottom Line

https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-targets-unprofitable-items-with-a-sharper-focus-on-the-bottom-line-11544965201

7 years ago

65 upvotes – 51 comments

Show HN: My 7th Grade Young Entrepreneur Project -- interactive holiday cards

https://github.com/ellailan/ColourMeCards

7 years ago

★ 15 JavaScript MIT
65 upvotes – 15 comments
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