top 10 hacker news stories for 2018-12-29

Inter UI, a typeface designed for user interfaces

https://rsms.me/inter/

7 years ago

664 upvotes – 92 comments

How DOOM fire was done

http://fabiensanglard.net/doom_fire_psx/

7 years ago

637 upvotes – 115 comments

Guesstimate – A Spreadsheet for things that aren't certain

https://www.getguesstimate.com/

7 years ago

529 upvotes – 67 comments

Windows file access performance compared to Linux

https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/873#issuecomment-425272829

7 years ago

★ 32k C++ MIT
518 upvotes – 278 comments

Doctors ask engineers to spend more time in the hospital before building apps

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/12/27/doctors-are-asking-technologists-from-google-to-shadow-them-before-they-build-medical-apps-.html

7 years ago

366 upvotes – 211 comments

How Facebook Keeps Messenger from Crashing on New Year's Eve

https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/computing/software/how-facebooks-software-engineers-prepare-messenger-for-new-years-eve

7 years ago

275 upvotes – 113 comments

A little-known C feature: Static array indices in parameter declarations (2013)

https://hamberg.no/erlend/posts/2013-02-18-static-array-indices.html

7 years ago

259 upvotes – 60 comments

PayPal has permanently banned The Hacker News and hold funds for 180 days

https://twitter.com/TheHackersNews/status/1078907851995860992

7 years ago

233 upvotes – 224 comments

It is fast or it is wrong

http://tonsky.me/blog/slow-wrong/

7 years ago

212 upvotes – 182 comments

Why Are Printed Circuit Boards Usually Green? (2017)

http://www.seeedstudio.com/blog/2017/07/23/why-are-printed-circuit-boards-are-usually-green-in-colour/

7 years ago

203 upvotes – 68 comments
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