top 50% 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

How to Start Learning Computer Graphics Programming

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

7 years ago

Tree Style Tabs

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

7 years ago

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

Hacker's guide to Neural Networks (2012)

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

7 years ago

Build your own Mint

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

7 years ago

★ 2.5k HTML MIT

Dive into Deep Learning: Berkeley Course

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

7 years ago

Show HN: Trilium Notes – Scriptable note-taking application

https://github.com/zadam/trilium

7 years ago

★ 35.7k TypeScript AGPL-3.0

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

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

7 years ago

Would you still pick Elixir in 2019?

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

7 years ago

★ 1.6k Elixir

Ask HN: How do you organise your hard drive?

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

7 years ago

Why Telegram is insecure (2015)

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

7 years ago

Chess Steganography

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

7 years ago

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

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

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

7 years ago

★ 809 C Apache-2.0

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

Olive, a new non-linear video editor

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

7 years ago

A Primer on Database Replication (2017)

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

7 years ago

Kernel quality control, or the lack thereof

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

7 years ago

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

What I Learned from Working 32 Hours a Week

https://spin.atomicobject.com/2019/01/04/32-hours-lessons/

7 years ago

Amazon Says It Has Over 10k Employees Working on Alexa, Echo

https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-says-it-has-over-10-000-employees-working-on-alexa-echo-1542138284

7 years ago

Mapping and visualization

https://scottreinhard.com/Mapping-and-Visualization

7 years ago

Do Not Use Task Manager for Memory Info

https://mahdytech.com/2019/01/05/task-manager-memory-info/

7 years ago

Show HN: Dimage.js – Never settle for two dimensions

https://jjkaufman.github.io/dimage.js/

7 years ago

What Left-Handedness Reveals About How the Brain Works (2014)

https://www.brainpickings.org/2014/03/31/left-handedness-david-wolman/

7 years ago

The Phone That’s Failing Apple: iPhone XR

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-phone-thats-failing-apple-iphone-xr-11546779603

7 years ago

Billion laughs attack

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

7 years ago

Tox – An encrypted P2P chat protocol that does not rely on central servers

https://tox.chat/

7 years ago

Threema – Seriously secure messaging

https://threema.ch/en

7 years ago

Netheads vs. Bellheads (1996)

https://www.wired.com/1996/10/atm-3/

7 years ago

ARP founder Alan R. Pearlman has died

http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2019/01/06/arp-founder-alan-r-pearlman-has-died/

7 years ago

Understanding Parser Combinators (2015)

https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/posts/understanding-parser-combinators/

7 years ago

Developments around Microservices, API Gateways, Kubernetes and Service Mesh

https://glasnostic.com/blog/2018-review-predictions-microservices-api-gateways-kubernetes-service-mesh

7 years ago

C programmers with Mac experience wanted for revival of Eudora eMail client

https://www.reddit.com/r/opensource/comments/ad27vg/help_wanted_c_programmers_with_mac_experience/

7 years ago

DuckDuckGo now fingerprinting visitors?

https://forums.whonix.org/t/duckduckgo-now-fingerprinting-visitors/6497

7 years ago

It will become easier to buy a house

https://www.economist.com/britain/2019/01/05/cheer-up-millennials-it-will-become-easier-to-buy-a-house

7 years ago

Single C file TLS 1.2/1.3 implementation using tomcrypt

https://github.com/eduardsui/tlse

7 years ago

★ 669 C

Radiation-hardened quine (2014)

https://github.com/mame/radiation-hardened-quine

7 years ago

★ 705 Ruby

Skipper – An HTTP router and reverse proxy for service composition

https://github.com/zalando/skipper

7 years ago

★ 3.2k Go

DAN64, an AVR based 8-bit microcomputer

https://www.usebox.net/jjm/dan64/

7 years ago

Lasers vs. Microwaves: A Billion-Dollar Bet on the Future of Magnetic Storage

https://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/hardware/lasers-vs-microwaves-the-billiondollar-bet-on-the-future-of-magnetic-storage

7 years ago

Photograph Your Work

https://etbe.coker.com.au/2019/01/06/photograph-your-work/

7 years ago

A Critique of Standard ML (1992) [pdf]

http://cs.princeton.edu/~appel/papers/critique.pdf

7 years ago