top 20 hacker news stories for 2019-01-06

Ask HN: How did you decide what problems to solve in your lifetime?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18837334

7 years ago

985 upvotes – 439 comments

How to Start Learning Computer Graphics Programming

https://erkaman.github.io/posts/beginner_computer_graphics.html

7 years ago

754 upvotes – 120 comments

Tree Style Tabs

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-tab/

7 years ago

455 upvotes – 192 comments

Facebook Knows How to Track You Using the Dust on Your Camera Lens

https://gizmodo.com/facebook-knows-how-to-track-you-using-the-dust-on-your-1821030620

7 years ago

403 upvotes – 221 comments

Hacker's guide to Neural Networks (2012)

http://karpathy.github.io/neuralnets/

7 years ago

383 upvotes – 24 comments

Build your own Mint

https://github.com/yyx990803/build-your-own-mint

7 years ago

380 upvotes – 111 comments

Dive into Deep Learning: Berkeley Course

http://d2l.ai/chapter_introduction/index.html

7 years ago

349 upvotes – 14 comments

Show HN: Trilium Notes – Scriptable note-taking application

https://github.com/zadam/trilium

7 years ago

328 upvotes – 124 comments

Ask HN: How do you keep track of your creative thoughts?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18837345

7 years ago

325 upvotes – 278 comments

Would you still pick Elixir in 2019?

https://github.com/dwyl/learn-elixir/issues/102

7 years ago

317 upvotes – 240 comments

Ask HN: How do you organise your hard drive?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18836472

7 years ago

275 upvotes – 244 comments

Why Telegram is insecure (2015)

https://medium.com/@thegrugq/operational-telegram-cbbaadb9013a

7 years ago

230 upvotes – 246 comments

Chess Steganography

https://incoherency.co.uk/chess-steg/

7 years ago

224 upvotes – 48 comments

Why is Maxwell's theory so hard to understand? (2007) [pdf]

http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/tong/em/dyson.pdf

7 years ago

222 upvotes – 125 comments

Tinyalloc: replacement for malloc/free in unmanaged, linear memory situations

https://github.com/thi-ng/tinyalloc

7 years ago

199 upvotes – 56 comments

The Sounds That Haunted US Diplomats in Cuba? Lovelorn Crickets, Scientists Say

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/04/science/sonic-attack-cuba-crickets.html

7 years ago

196 upvotes – 131 comments

Olive, a new non-linear video editor

http://libregraphicsworld.org/blog/entry/introducing-olive-new-non-linear-video-editor

7 years ago

195 upvotes – 77 comments

A Primer on Database Replication (2017)

https://www.brianstorti.com/replication/

7 years ago

187 upvotes – 12 comments

Kernel quality control, or the lack thereof

https://lwn.net/Articles/774114/

7 years ago

174 upvotes – 46 comments

The Overloaded Soldier: Why U.S. Infantry Now Carry More Weight Than Ever

https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/research/a25644619/soldier-weight/

7 years ago

156 upvotes – 143 comments
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