top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-12-19

Bye Bye Mongo, Hello Postgres

https://www.theguardian.com/info/2018/nov/30/bye-bye-mongo-hello-postgres

7 years ago

1562 upvotes – 417 comments

For First Time in More Than 20 Years, Copyrighted Works Will Enter Public Domain

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/first-time-20-years-copyrighted-works-enter-public-domain-180971016/?preview

7 years ago

814 upvotes – 264 comments

MailChimp deleted my account with no warning

https://blog.rongarret.info/2018/12/mailchimp-deleted-my-account-with-no.html

7 years ago

715 upvotes – 253 comments

Windows Sandbox

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Windows-Kernel-Internals/Windows-Sandbox/ba-p/301849?ranMID=43674&ranEAID=je6NUbpObpQ&ranSiteID=je6NUbpObpQ-_UZUOlZ2ZyTOTejYypcnAQ&epi=je6NUbpObpQ-_UZUOlZ2ZyTOTejYypcnAQ&irgwc=1&OCID=AID681541_aff_7795_1243925&tduid=(ir__i0avhykzmgkfrw2i0ckzh9lp2u2xhyajo2v1pvjr00)(7795)(1243925)(je6NUbpObpQ-_UZUOlZ2ZyTOTejYypcnAQ)()&irclickid=_i0avhykzmgkfrw2i0ckzh9lp2u2xhyajo2v1pvjr00

7 years ago

597 upvotes – 319 comments

As Facebook Raised a Privacy Wall, It Carved an Opening for Tech Giants

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/18/technology/facebook-privacy.html

7 years ago

499 upvotes – 190 comments

Introducing Project Mu

https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2018/12/19/%e2%80%afintroducing-project-mu/

7 years ago

465 upvotes – 143 comments

Google Tech Dev Guide

https://techdevguide.withgoogle.com/

7 years ago

428 upvotes – 238 comments

What I learned from reading a thousand emergency room bills

https://www.vox.com/health-care/2018/12/18/18134825/emergency-room-bills-health-care-costs-america

7 years ago

424 upvotes – 583 comments

Writing copy for landing pages

https://stripe.com/atlas/guides/landing-page-copy

7 years ago

416 upvotes – 84 comments

Python gets a new governance model

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/775105/5db16cfe82e78dc3/

7 years ago

414 upvotes – 175 comments

What I learned in ten years of blogging

https://ferrucc.io/posts/starting-a-blog/

7 years ago

356 upvotes – 162 comments

Man sues feds after being detained for refusing to unlock his phone at airport

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/12/man-sues-feds-after-being-detained-for-refusing-to-unlock-his-phone-at-airport/

7 years ago

339 upvotes – 237 comments

With trust destroyed, Facebook is haunted by old data deals

https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/19/all-out-of-faithbook/

7 years ago

308 upvotes – 153 comments

Facebook gave Spotify and Netflix access to users’ private messages

https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/18/18147616/facebook-user-data-giveaway-nyt-apple-amazon-spotify-netflix

7 years ago

297 upvotes – 81 comments

LibreRouter: Powering community networks with free and open hardware

https://blog.apnic.net/2018/12/18/librerouter-powering-community-networks-with-free-and-open-hardware/

7 years ago

290 upvotes – 86 comments

Estimating Value of Facebook by Paying Users to Stop Using It

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0207101

7 years ago

284 upvotes – 191 comments

The Future of ZFS in FreeBSD

https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2018-December/072422.html

7 years ago

258 upvotes – 101 comments

Shanghai City in panoramic view in 195 gigapixels

http://sh-meet.bigpixel.cn/

7 years ago

256 upvotes – 86 comments

K-Cup creator John Sylvan regrets inventing Keurig coffee pod system

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/k-cup-creator-john-sylvan-regrets-inventing-keurig-coffee-pod-system-1.2982660

7 years ago

243 upvotes – 339 comments

Go Modules in 2019

https://blog.golang.org/modules2019

7 years ago

238 upvotes – 175 comments

Knowledge from small number of debates outperforms wisdom of large crowds (2017)

https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.00045##

7 years ago

235 upvotes – 116 comments

Facebook’s Clear History privacy feature is still months from launching

https://www.recode.net/2018/12/17/18140062/facebook-clear-history-update-privacy-targeting-data-collection

7 years ago

226 upvotes – 49 comments

Jack Ma: US wasted trillions on warfare instead of investing in infrastructure

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/01/18/chinese-billionaire-jack-ma-says-the-us-wasted-trillions-on-warfare-instead-of-investing-in-infrastructure.html

7 years ago

224 upvotes – 190 comments

Why Can’t We Find Planet Nine?

https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-cant-we-find-planet-nine-20180703/

7 years ago

200 upvotes – 149 comments

Amazon driver arrested after taking GPS 'bait' package off Washington Co. porch

https://kcby.com/news/local/amazon-delivery-driver-admits-to-taking-gps-bait-package-off-porch-in-washington-county

7 years ago

196 upvotes – 163 comments

Kademlia: A Peer-To-peer Information System Based on the XOR Metric (2002) [pdf]

https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/~petar/papers/maymounkov-kademlia-lncs.pdf

7 years ago

191 upvotes – 40 comments

Breakthrough ultrasound treatment to reverse dementia moves to human trials

https://newatlas.com/ultrasound-dementia-alzheimers-human-trials/57725/

7 years ago

174 upvotes – 42 comments

Der Spiegel published around 60 stories from a fraudster

http://www.spiegel.de/international/the-relotius-case-answers-to-the-most-important-questions-a-1244653.html

7 years ago

171 upvotes – 106 comments

Jack Parsons and the Occult Roots of JPL

http://www.spacesafetymagazine.com/aerospace-engineering/rocketry/jack-parsons-occult-roots-jpl/

7 years ago

168 upvotes – 63 comments

Korg NuTube, vacuum tube for the 21st century

https://korgnutube.com/en/

7 years ago

168 upvotes – 88 comments

Clearing Up a Few Things About Facebook’s Partners

https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/12/facebooks-partners/

7 years ago

167 upvotes – 145 comments

Download all of your GitHub data

https://blog.github.com/2018-12-19-download-your-data/

7 years ago

151 upvotes – 38 comments

Elon Musk Unveils Boring Co's First Tunnel

https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-elon-musk-tunnel-20181218-story.html

7 years ago

151 upvotes – 224 comments

Searching statically-linked vulnerable library functions in executable code

https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2018/12/searching-statically-linked-vulnerable.html

7 years ago

150 upvotes – 37 comments

Real-time air pollution map

https://www.purpleair.com/map#1/25/-30

7 years ago

143 upvotes – 45 comments

JavaScript Getter-Setter Pyramid

https://staltz.com/javascript-getter-setter-pyramid.html

7 years ago

142 upvotes – 50 comments

Improving compression at scale with Zstandard

https://code.fb.com/core-data/zstandard/

7 years ago

139 upvotes – 87 comments

US Senate Passes Sweeping Criminal Justice Reform Bill

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46613564

7 years ago

130 upvotes – 108 comments

OpsMop – Config management and app deployment from the creator of Ansible

https://github.com/opsmop/opsmop

7 years ago

128 upvotes – 58 comments

Manhole Covers Serve as Antennas Expanding Wireless Network Coverage

https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/telecom/wireless/manhole-covers-serve-as-antennas-expanding-network-coverage

7 years ago

125 upvotes – 53 comments

Show HN: CoolQLCool – Turn Websites into GraphQL Accessible APIs

https://coolql.cool

7 years ago

124 upvotes – 22 comments

We Have Given People Amyloid Disease

http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2018/12/17/we-have-given-people-amyloid-disease

7 years ago

123 upvotes – 11 comments

Unmanned grocery delivery is underway in Arizona

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/autos/mobility/2018/12/18/unmanned-grocery-delivery-underway-arizona/38762315/

7 years ago

121 upvotes – 139 comments

Let Google do the patching with new managed base images

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/containers-kubernetes/exploring-container-security-let-google-do-the-patching-with-new-managed-base-images

7 years ago

120 upvotes – 70 comments

An Epidemic Is Killing Thousands of Coal Miners

https://www.npr.org/2018/12/18/675253856/an-epidemic-is-killing-thousands-of-coal-miners-regulators-could-have-stopped-it

7 years ago

118 upvotes – 66 comments

Intro to Quantum Information Science

https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=3943

7 years ago

114 upvotes – 6 comments

US Surgeon General Declares E-cigarette Epidemic Among Youth [pdf]

https://e-cigarettes.surgeongeneral.gov/documents/surgeon-generals-advisory-on-e-cigarette-use-among-youth-2018.pdf

7 years ago

111 upvotes – 156 comments

Tech Unicorns Are Going Public at Near-Record Pace

https://www.wsj.com/articles/tech-unicorns-are-going-public-at-near-record-pace-11545138000

7 years ago

106 upvotes – 92 comments

Why are amplitudes complex?

https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=4021

7 years ago

103 upvotes – 35 comments

3D airplane visualization

https://mdbootstrap.com/snippets/jquery/ascensus/212648

7 years ago

103 upvotes – 22 comments

O-bahn Busway

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O-Bahn_Busway

7 years ago

97 upvotes – 36 comments

The Property Industry Is Falling Out of Love with WeWork

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-19/wework-keeps-pushing-now-landlords-rivals-are-pushing-back

7 years ago

92 upvotes – 111 comments

Open-sourcing DeepFocus, an AI-powered system for more realistic VR images

https://code.fb.com/virtual-reality/deepfocus/

7 years ago

92 upvotes – 11 comments

What, No Python in RHEL 8 Beta?

https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2018/11/27/what-no-python-in-rhel-8-beta/

7 years ago

88 upvotes – 60 comments
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