top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-12-27

Please do not attempt to simplify this code

https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/ec2e767e59395376fa191d7c56a74f53936b7653/pkg/controller/volume/persistentvolume/pv_controller.go

7 years ago

1552 upvotes – 627 comments

Hospital prices are about to go public in the U.S.

https://www.ajc.com/news/national/hospital-prices-are-about-public/2jXYHgoR5CObBj6fSJQQUO/

7 years ago

592 upvotes – 375 comments

Fridge 0.2

http://joeyh.name/blog/entry/fridge_0.2/

7 years ago

584 upvotes – 144 comments

Seeing Theory: A visual introduction to probability and statistics (2017)

https://seeing-theory.brown.edu/index.html

7 years ago

526 upvotes – 18 comments

Ask HN: What do you use for authentication and authorization?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18767767

7 years ago

457 upvotes – 236 comments

Steve Jobs hired a career juggler to teach programming to developers

https://www.cake.co/conversations/w3j7jDp/that-time-steve-jobs-hired-a-career-juggler-to-teach-programming-to-developers

7 years ago

380 upvotes – 100 comments

A fake hitman, a kill list, a darknet vigilante, and a murder

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/kill-list-dark-web-hitmen

7 years ago

271 upvotes – 98 comments

Epic Games banked a $3B profit in 2018

https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/27/epic-fortnite-3-billion-profit/

7 years ago

266 upvotes – 297 comments

Krita in 2018 and 2019

https://krita.org/en/item/krita-in-2018-and-2019/

7 years ago

258 upvotes – 46 comments

Facebook’s Secret Rulebook for Global Political Speech

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/27/world/facebook-moderators.html

7 years ago

241 upvotes – 188 comments

ULID: Universally Unique Lexicographically Sortable Identifier

https://github.com/ulid/spec

7 years ago

238 upvotes – 129 comments

35th Chaos Communication Congress Live Streams

https://streaming.media.ccc.de/35c3/

7 years ago

231 upvotes – 22 comments

AirPods get stuck in low-quality 16 kHz audio mode when starting a VM

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2018/airpods-get-stuck-low-quality-16-khz-audio-mode-when-starting-vm

7 years ago

227 upvotes – 168 comments

Haiku Beta is finally here

http://medium.com/@andrewgreimann_62789/haiku-beta-the-release-heard-around-the-world-d776cae5f3e7

7 years ago

208 upvotes – 53 comments

Japan to withdraw from the International Whaling Commission

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-46682976

7 years ago

207 upvotes – 233 comments

Sketches of Elixir

https://blog.zdsmith.com/posts/sketches-of-elixir.html

7 years ago

204 upvotes – 78 comments

LibreSilicon: Decentralizing semiconductor manufacturing [video]

https://media.ccc.de/v/35c3-9410-libresilicon

7 years ago

203 upvotes – 30 comments

What Kagglers Are Using for Text Classification

https://mlwhiz.com/blog/2018/12/17/text_classification/

7 years ago

203 upvotes – 66 comments

Clojure is Capable

http://ahungry.com/blog/2018-12-26-Clojure-is-Capable.html

7 years ago

198 upvotes – 56 comments

The Social Credit System in China [video]

https://media.ccc.de/v/35c3-9904-the_social_credit_system

7 years ago

195 upvotes – 139 comments

JMAP is on the home straight

https://fastmail.blog/2018/12/27/jmap-is-on-the-home-straight/

7 years ago

193 upvotes – 50 comments

Foundations of Animation

http://www.angryanimator.com/word/2018/04/23/21-foundations-of-animation/

7 years ago

191 upvotes – 18 comments

Our Cellphones Aren't Safe

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/26/opinion/cellphones-security-spying.html

7 years ago

189 upvotes – 139 comments

Liquid: Vim and Emacs-inspired editor written in Clojure

https://github.com/mogenslund/liquid/blob/master/README.md

7 years ago

183 upvotes – 23 comments

Ask HN: What should I do when I'm bored with my career?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18769266

7 years ago

180 upvotes – 109 comments

Users report losing Bitcoin in clever hack of Electrum wallets

https://www.zdnet.com/article/users-report-losing-bitcoin-in-clever-hack-of-electrum-wallets/

7 years ago

171 upvotes – 204 comments

Public access Linux system: Your non-profit shell provider since 2002

https://freeshell.de/

7 years ago

159 upvotes – 40 comments

I Got Banned from Photographing Arch Enemy

https://www.metalblast.net/blog/how-i-got-banned-from-photographing-arch-enemy/

7 years ago

157 upvotes – 141 comments

British Doctors May Soon Prescribe Art, Music, Dance, Singing Lessons

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/british-doctors-may-soon-prescribe-art-music-dance-singing-lessons-180970750/

7 years ago

152 upvotes – 62 comments

Halide: a language for fast, portable computation on images and tensors

http://halide-lang.org

7 years ago

146 upvotes – 23 comments

Kanren – Logic Programming in Python

https://github.com/logpy/logpy

7 years ago

136 upvotes – 24 comments

Let the Fountain Pens Flow

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/26/style/fountain-pens.html

7 years ago

130 upvotes – 114 comments

One year into legal pot sales California doesn’t have expected bustling industry

https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-marijuana-year-anniversary-review-20181227-story.html

7 years ago

126 upvotes – 153 comments

Detroit News Vehicle of the Year is a Tesla

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/opinion/columnists/henry-payne/2018/12/26/detroit-news-vehicle-year/2379185002/

7 years ago

123 upvotes – 139 comments

Bullet Journaling (2016)

https://www.popsci.com/bullet-journal-guide

7 years ago

120 upvotes – 71 comments

The Best History Books 2018

https://www.historytoday.com/history-today/best-history-books-2018

7 years ago

119 upvotes – 28 comments

How to Block Stingray Devices

https://oaklandmofo.com/blog/block-stringray-devices

7 years ago

109 upvotes – 57 comments

The Now Habit (2015)

https://www.2uo.de/the-now-habit

7 years ago

109 upvotes – 30 comments

Text Matching Using Cosine Similarity

https://kanoki.org/2018/12/27/text-matching-cosine-similarity/

7 years ago

102 upvotes – 19 comments

Athletes Don’t Own Their Tattoos – a Problem for Video Game Developers

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/27/style/tattoos-video-games.html

7 years ago

98 upvotes – 86 comments

Researchers are keeping pig brains alive outside the body

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/611007/researchers-are-keeping-pig-brains-alive-outside-the-body/

7 years ago

96 upvotes – 106 comments

IBM‘s Project Debater does debate club-style discussions with humans

https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/18/17477686/ibm-project-debater-ai

7 years ago

96 upvotes – 72 comments

Ask HN: What is a secure way to allow 2FA resets?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18769705

7 years ago

96 upvotes – 74 comments

NetBeans 10.0

https://netbeans.apache.org/download/nb100/index.html

7 years ago

94 upvotes – 41 comments

Ask HN: How do you store photos and videos?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18770366

7 years ago

90 upvotes – 101 comments

The impact of homelessness and the opioid crisis on San Francisco streets

https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/27/health/drug-use-san-francisco-streets/index.html

7 years ago

88 upvotes – 113 comments

How the Netherlands Feeds the World (2017)

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/09/holland-agriculture-sustainable-farming/

7 years ago

84 upvotes – 57 comments

Home Assistant Data Science

https://data.home-assistant.io/

7 years ago

84 upvotes – 4 comments

It’s 2019 and I Still Make Websites with My Bare Hands

https://medium.com/@mattholt/its-2019-and-i-still-make-websites-with-my-bare-hands-73d4eec6b7

7 years ago

84 upvotes – 29 comments

If San Francisco Is So Great, Why Is Everyone I Love Leaving?

https://medium.com/s/story/if-san-francisco-is-so-great-why-is-everyone-i-love-leaving-d2b167471c35

7 years ago

82 upvotes – 114 comments

How to break the most popular cryptocurrency hardware wallets

https://wallet.fail/

7 years ago

81 upvotes – 5 comments

Custom string delimiters in Swift 5

https://ericasadun.com/2018/12/26/swift-5-gives-us-nice-things-custom-string-delimiters/

7 years ago

80 upvotes – 61 comments

LinkedIn Co-Founder Apologizes for Deception in Alabama Senate Race

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/26/us/reid-hoffman-alabama-election-disinformation.html

7 years ago

79 upvotes – 34 comments

Powerful Photos of Life in the Old Glasgow Tenement Blocks – 1969-72

https://flashbak.com/powerful-photos-of-glasgow-slums-1969-72-54283/

7 years ago

75 upvotes – 35 comments

Ask HN: How to handle being sidelined gracefully?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18768980

7 years ago

74 upvotes – 35 comments

Orphaned currency: the odd case of Somali shillings (2013)

https://jpkoning.blogspot.com/2013/03/orphaned-currency-odd-case-of-somali.html

7 years ago

72 upvotes – 48 comments

Swedish startup Rdot is trying to take on E Ink

https://goodereader.com/blog/e-paper/swedish-startup-rdot-is-trying-to-take-on-e-ink

7 years ago

72 upvotes – 52 comments
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