top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-01-02

Algorithms, by Jeff Erickson

http://jeffe.cs.illinois.edu/teaching/algorithms/?

7 years ago

New Horizons’ first hi-res imagery of Ultima Thule

http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/News-Center/News-Article.php?page=20190102

7 years ago

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2019)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18807017

7 years ago

Cafe opens in Tokyo staffed by robots controlled by paralyzed people

https://soranews24.com/2018/11/29/cafe-opens-in-tokyo-staffed-by-robots-controlled-by-paralyzed-people/

7 years ago

Letter from Tim Cook to Apple Investors

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/01/letter-from-tim-cook-to-apple-investors/

7 years ago

Scratch 3.0

https://scratch.mit.edu/discuss/topic/326861/

7 years ago

Lessons from Running a Small-Scale Electronics Factory in My Guest Bedroom

https://spun.io/2018/12/15/lessons-from-running-a-small-scale-electronics-factory-in-my-guest-bedroom-part-1-design/

7 years ago

Flair: A simple framework for natural language processing

https://github.com/zalandoresearch/flair

7 years ago

★ 14.3k Python

Migrating from Google Analytics

https://thomashunter.name/posts/2018-12-28-migrating-from-google-analytics

7 years ago

Marble Marcher: ray-traced real time game on the surface of evolving fractals

https://codeparade.itch.io/marblemarcher

7 years ago

Thunderbird in 2019

https://blog.mozilla.org/thunderbird/2019/01/thunderbird-in-2019/

7 years ago

Monorepos: Please don’t

https://medium.com/@mattklein123/monorepos-please-dont-e9a279be011b

7 years ago

IQ is largely a pseudoscientific swindle

https://medium.com/incerto/iq-is-largely-a-pseudoscientific-swindle-f131c101ba39

7 years ago

What I learned at work this year

https://www.gatesnotes.com/About-Bill-Gates/Year-in-Review-2018

7 years ago

How to Use JSON Web Tokens

https://github.com/dwyl/learn-json-web-tokens/blob/master/README.md

7 years ago

★ 4.1k JavaScript MIT

AI Can Detect Alzheimer’s Disease Six Years Before a Diagnosis

https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2018/12/412946/artificial-intelligence-can-detect-alzheimers-disease-brain-scans-six-years

7 years ago

Norway's electric cars zip to new record: almost a third of all sales

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-norway-autos/norways-electric-cars-zip-to-new-record-almost-a-third-of-all-sales-idUSKCN1OW0YP

7 years ago

Non-Euclidean Worlds Engine [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEB11PQ9Eo8

7 years ago

How to DIY a Product Launch Video with No Experience, and for Free

https://clearfounder.com/how-to-diy-a-product-launch-video-with-no-experience-and-for-free/

7 years ago

OpenSCAD: Software for creating solid 3D CAD objects

https://www.openscad.org

7 years ago

A Visual Exploration of Gaussian Processes

https://www.jgoertler.com/visual-exploration-gaussian-processes/

7 years ago

Analyzing Core I9-9900K performance with Spectre and Meltdown mitigations

https://www.anandtech.com/show/13659/analyzing-core-i9-9900k-performance-with-spectre-and-meltdown-hardware-mitigations

7 years ago

USB Type-C to Become More Secure with Authentication Standard

http://www.eweek.com/security/usb-type-c-to-become-more-secure-with-authentication-standard

7 years ago

Childhood's End: The digital revolution has turned into something else

https://www.edge.org/conversation/george_dyson-childhoods-end

7 years ago

A sane introduction to maximum likelihood estimation and maximum a posteriori

http://blog.christianperone.com/2019/01/a-sane-introduction-to-maximum-likelihood-estimation-mle-and-maximum-a-posteriori-map/

7 years ago

Txqr: Transfer data via animated QR codes

https://github.com/divan/txqr

7 years ago

★ 3k Go MIT

Warby Parker built a 1,400-employee company by focusing on team culture

https://jilt.com/upsell/warby-parker-culture/

7 years ago

Adding a Trackpoint to an Inexpensive Mechanical Keyboard

https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=98733.0

7 years ago

Automatic categorization of text is a core tool now

https://abe-winter.github.io/2019/01/01/nlp-18.html

7 years ago

“The default name prefix is changed to be ‘sqlite’ spelled backwards” (2006)

https://github.com/endlesssoftware/sqlite3/blob/master/os.h#L133

7 years ago

★ 26 C

Exploiting the Math.expm1 typing bug in V8

https://abiondo.me/2019/01/02/exploiting-math-expm1-v8/

7 years ago

Kuleshov effect

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuleshov_effect

7 years ago

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2019)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18807015

7 years ago

Apple Early Chip Design

http://www.byrdsight.com/apple-macintosh/

7 years ago

Google wins U.S. approval for radar-based hand motion sensor

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-google-sensor/google-wins-u-s-approval-for-radar-based-hand-motion-sensor-idUSKCN1OV1SH

7 years ago

Tesla cuts prices as Model 3 deliveries narrowly miss estimates

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-02/tesla-cuts-prices-as-model-3-deliveries-narrowly-miss-estimates

7 years ago

How ‘Magic Angle’ Graphene Is Stirring Up Physics

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07848-2

7 years ago

GIMP and GEGL in 2018

https://www.gimp.org/news/2019/01/02/gimp-and-gegl-in-2018/

7 years ago

Unions Did Great Things for the American Working Class

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-06-13/unions-did-great-things-for-the-american-working-class

7 years ago

Smalltalk 80 – Blue Book (1983) [pdf]

http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr/FreeBooks/BlueBook/Bluebook.pdf

7 years ago

Peddling the ‘Secrets’ to Getting Rich on Amazon

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/01/men-peddling-secrets-getting-rich-amazon/578443/

7 years ago

Fully static, unprivileged, self-contained, containers as executable binaries

https://github.com/genuinetools/binctr

7 years ago

★ 2.5k Go MIT

What Is Going to Happen in 2019

https://avc.com/2019/01/what-is-going-to-happen-in-2019/

7 years ago

The Worst Interface Ever: The Self-Destruct Switch (2004)

https://asktog.com/columns/065WorstInterface.html

7 years ago

Apple knows 5G is about infrastructure, not mobile phones (2018)

https://www.cringely.com/2018/11/21/apple-knows-5g-is-about-infrastructure-not-mobile-phones/

7 years ago

A landmark 2012 paper transformed how software recognizes images

https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/12/how-computers-got-shockingly-good-at-recognizing-images/

7 years ago

Chicago’s Deep Tunnel: The solution to urban flooding, or a cautionary tale?

https://slate.com/business/2019/01/chicagos-deep-tunnel-is-it-the-solution-to-urban-flooding-or-a-cautionary-tale.html?via=homepage_taps_top

7 years ago

DIY Spectrum Analyzer 0 to 1750MHz (1999)

http://lea.hamradio.si/~s53mv/spectana/sa.html

7 years ago

Inside the booming business of background music

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/nov/06/inside-the-booming-business-of-background-music

7 years ago

Xi Jinping says Taiwan “must and will be” reunited with China

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-46733174

7 years ago

What Isaac Asimov Taught Us About Predicting the Future

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/31/books/review/isaac-asimov-psychohistory.html

7 years ago