top 20 hacker news stories for 2018-12-31

Netflix stops paying the ‘Apple tax’ on its $853M in annual iOS revenue

https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/31/netflix-stops-paying-the-apple-tax-on-its-853m-in-annual-ios-revenue/

7 years ago

The Elements of UI Engineering

https://overreacted.io/the-elements-of-ui-engineering/

7 years ago

Let's Encrypt: Looking Forward to 2019

https://letsencrypt.org/2018/12/31/looking-forward-to-2019.html

7 years ago

Ask HN: Engineers from non-CS background, how did you pivot into ML/AI?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18793849

7 years ago

Federal judge finds state law governing who is an engineer violates free speech

https://www.oregonlive.com/news/2018/12/federal-judge-finds-state-law-governing-who-is-an-engineer-violates-free-speech.html

7 years ago

Living paycheck to paycheck is disturbingly common

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2018/12/28/living-paycheck-paycheck-is-disturbingly-common-i-see-no-way-out

7 years ago

An Idiot’s guide to Support vector machines (2003) [pdf]

http://web.mit.edu/6.034/wwwbob/svm-notes-long-08.pdf

7 years ago

“In 2018 the blockchain/decentralization story fell apart”

https://twitter.com/random_walker/status/1079759096272818178

7 years ago

The Uncharity of College: The Big Business Nobody Understands

https://www.conradbastable.com/essays/the-uncharity-of-college-the-big-business-nobody-understands

7 years ago

When Too Cute Is Too Much, the Brain Can Get Aggressive

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/12/31/679832549/when-too-cute-is-too-much-the-brain-can-get-aggressive

7 years ago

People with Depression Use Language Differently

https://theconversation.com/people-with-depression-use-language-differently-heres-how-to-spot-it-90877

7 years ago

Long Life Vehicle

https://postalmuseum.si.edu/collections/object-spotlight/llv.html

7 years ago

Build your own IoT/MQTT node for less than $2

http://albert-david.blogspot.com/2018/12/build-your-own-iotmqtt-node-for-less.html

7 years ago

Wielding Rocks and Knives, Arizonans Attack Self-Driving Cars

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/31/us/waymo-self-driving-cars-arizona-attacks.html

7 years ago

Nancy Grace Roman, 'Mother of Hubble' Space Telescope, Has Died

https://www.npr.org/2018/12/30/680994535/nancy-grace-roman-mother-of-hubble-space-telescope-has-died

7 years ago

Russian Cosmonauts Say That the Hole in the Soyuz Was Drilled from the Inside

https://www.universetoday.com/140996/russian-cosmonaut-says-that-the-hole-in-the-iss-was-drilled-from-the-inside/

7 years ago

What If Linus Torvalds Gets Hit by a Bus? (2000)

https://www.crummy.com/writing/segfault.org/Bus.html

7 years ago

Ask HN: What was your experience using a graph database?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18795498

7 years ago

Nasa's New Horizons: Final flyby commands given to distant probe

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-46699737

7 years ago

Potholes to avoid when migrating to IPv6

https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2018/12/30/v6/

7 years ago