top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-01-07

Announcing unlimited free private repos

https://blog.github.com/2019-01-07-new-year-new-github/

7 years ago

2867 upvotes – 684 comments

Show HN: Mkcert – Valid HTTPS certificates for localhost

https://blog.filippo.io/mkcert-valid-https-certificates-for-localhost/

7 years ago

839 upvotes – 115 comments

The Hand Licking Incident

https://raisingfutureadults.blogspot.com/2019/01/the-hand-licking-incident.html

7 years ago

641 upvotes – 339 comments

We can confirm that there was a successful 51% attack on Ethereum Classic

https://twitter.com/etherchain_org/status/1082329360948969472

7 years ago

549 upvotes – 274 comments

Thank u, next

https://words.steveklabnik.com/thank-u-next

7 years ago

537 upvotes – 174 comments

Game dev: Linux users were only 0.1% of sales but 20% of crashes and tickets

https://twitter.com/bgolus/status/1080213166116597760

7 years ago

414 upvotes – 400 comments

Ask HN: High-Quality Online Degree for Mathematics?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18844420

7 years ago

398 upvotes – 96 comments

Supporting open source with 3% of our revenue

https://blog.geteventbot.com/2019/01/06/how-we-support-open-source-software.html

7 years ago

345 upvotes – 66 comments

Digitized Books from 1923 Now Available at the Internet Archive

http://www.openculture.com/2019/01/11000-digitized-books-from-1923-are-now-available-online-at-the-internet-archive.html

7 years ago

324 upvotes – 59 comments

I learnt C++ in 2018 and have no regrets

https://vishnubharathi.codes/blog/learning-cpp-2018/

7 years ago

304 upvotes – 251 comments

How to Choose a Startup to Work for by Thinking Like an Investor

https://triplebyte.com/blog/how-to-choose-a-startup-to-work-for

7 years ago

302 upvotes – 151 comments

Ask HN: Is web development still a viable career choice?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18843518

7 years ago

292 upvotes – 240 comments

Tennessee doctors earn big money denying disability claims

https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2019/01/06/tennessee-doctors-disability-claims/1077220002/

7 years ago

269 upvotes – 156 comments

SQL Is No Excuse to Avoid DevOps

https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3300018

7 years ago

263 upvotes – 118 comments

Huawei Unveils High-Performance ARM-Based CPU

https://www.huawei.com/en/press-events/news/2019/1/huawei-unveils-highest-performance-arm-based-cpu

7 years ago

233 upvotes – 132 comments

Is Your Cat 6 Cable a Dog? (2013)

http://www.bluejeanscable.com/articles/is-your-cat6-a-dog.htm

7 years ago

223 upvotes – 113 comments

Why isn't bamboo wood a bigger industry?

https://www.quora.com/Why-isnt-bamboo-wood-a-bigger-worldwide-industry-since-it-grows-so-quickly-and-is-so-strong-Couldnt-it-replace-lumber-and-save-many-trees/answer/Raphaël-du-Sablon?share=1

7 years ago

210 upvotes – 98 comments

The money, job, marriage myth: are you happy yet?

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jan/06/happiness-index-wellbeing-survey-uk-population-paul-dolan-happy-ever-after

7 years ago

207 upvotes – 185 comments

WebGL + Rust: Basic Water Tutorial

http://chinedufn.com/3d-webgl-basic-water-tutorial/

7 years ago

202 upvotes – 19 comments

Pizza Dough

https://github.com/hendricius/pizza-dough

7 years ago

★ 3.6k HTML MIT
190 upvotes – 139 comments

Red Programming Language: Plans for 2019

https://www.red-lang.org/2019/01/full-steam-ahead.html

7 years ago

185 upvotes – 136 comments

A rocker’s guide to management

https://www.1843magazine.com/features/a-rockers-guide-to-management

7 years ago

183 upvotes – 69 comments

$1T is leaving Britain because of Brexit

https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/07/investing/brexit-banks-moving-assets/index.html

7 years ago

179 upvotes – 271 comments

Marc Andreessen: VR will be 1,000 times bigger than AR

https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/05/marc-andreessen-audio-will-be-titanically-important-and-vr-will-be-1000-times-bigger-than-ar/

7 years ago

175 upvotes – 308 comments

Asciidoctor – A fast, open-source text processor and publishing toolchain

https://asciidoctor.org/

7 years ago

169 upvotes – 42 comments

Ditching Medium

https://www.joshjahans.com/ditching-medium/

7 years ago

165 upvotes – 120 comments

Best of Show: PDP-7 and PDP-11/40 emulation

https://www.ioccc.org/2018/mills/hint.html

7 years ago

157 upvotes – 27 comments

Most lives are lived by default (2012)

https://www.raptitude.com/2012/07/most-lives-are-lived-by-default/

7 years ago

156 upvotes – 61 comments

How to architect a Qt/C++ Application

https://www.cleanqt.io/blog/crash-course-in-qt-for-c%2B%2B-developers,-part-7

7 years ago

155 upvotes – 61 comments

The melting pot of JavaScript (2017)

https://increment.com/development/the-melting-pot-of-javascript/

7 years ago

153 upvotes – 194 comments

Capitalism the Apple Way vs. Capitalism the Google Way (2017)

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/07/apple-google-capitalism/532995/

7 years ago

151 upvotes – 98 comments

Cdecl – Turns English phrases into C declarations

https://cdecl.org/

7 years ago

150 upvotes – 50 comments

Politicians cannot block social media foes: U.S. appeals court

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-virginia-facebook-decision/politicians-cannot-block-social-media-foes-u-s-appeals-court-idUSKCN1P11SC

7 years ago

150 upvotes – 134 comments

At the Blackboard: Kurt Vonnegut diagrams the shapes of stories (2005)

https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/arts-letters/blackboard

7 years ago

146 upvotes – 32 comments

Show HN: Convert blog articles to high-quality audio

https://websitevoice.com

7 years ago

146 upvotes – 64 comments

Apple’s Errors

https://stratechery.com/2019/apples-errors/

7 years ago

145 upvotes – 131 comments

Things You Can’t Say About Assange or WikiLeaks

https://emma.best/2019/01/07/140-things-youre-not-allowed-to-say-about-assange-or-wikileaks/

7 years ago

144 upvotes – 215 comments

Before the Electric Car Takes Over, Someone Needs to Reinvent the Battery

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-06/before-the-electric-car-takes-over-someone-needs-to-reinvent-the-battery

7 years ago

135 upvotes – 266 comments

The Relentlessness of Modern Parenting

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/25/upshot/the-relentlessness-of-modern-parenting.html

7 years ago

124 upvotes – 157 comments

Anker PowerPort PD 1 USB-C Wall Charger Teardown

http://www.chargerlab.com/archives/1565.html

7 years ago

123 upvotes – 110 comments

Fusion Power Is About to Become a Reality?

https://medium.com/s/2069/finally-fusion-power-is-about-to-become-a-reality-c6b8b5915cf5

7 years ago

118 upvotes – 161 comments

Linux 5.0-rc1

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wgKYnrL3LjhVkH2Fp+ecmWhLqezT9zmR6CzfcpwcJX0qA@mail.gmail.com/t/

7 years ago

117 upvotes – 49 comments

Concrete blocks that once protected Britain

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-46348917

7 years ago

114 upvotes – 13 comments

Ask HN: Can we write a programming language for biology?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18847253

7 years ago

113 upvotes – 51 comments

Introduction to Dart VM

https://mrale.ph/dartvm/

7 years ago

109 upvotes – 27 comments

Warning Signs in Experimental Design and Interpretation (2007)

http://norvig.com/experiment-design.html

7 years ago

107 upvotes – 12 comments

C++ Headers are Expensive

http://virtuallyrandom.com/c-headers-are-expensive/

7 years ago

107 upvotes – 109 comments

Nvidia Announces GeForce RTX 2060

https://www.anandtech.com/show/13796/nvidia-announces-geforce-rtx-2060-349-dollars-january-15th

7 years ago

106 upvotes – 86 comments

Adding Glue to a Desktop Environment

https://venam.nixers.net/blog/unix/2019/01/07/win-automation.html

7 years ago

104 upvotes – 36 comments

Everything – Locate files and folders by name instantly on Windows

https://www.voidtools.com/

7 years ago

103 upvotes – 59 comments

Record Numbers of Americans Want to Leave the U.S

https://news.gallup.com/poll/245789/record-numbers-americans-leave.aspx

7 years ago

100 upvotes – 252 comments

Steve Jobs on why Xerox failed

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_1rXqD6M614

7 years ago

97 upvotes – 86 comments

Tails – simplified installation method

https://tails.boum.org/news/test_usb_images/

7 years ago

95 upvotes – 16 comments

Chinese venture funding in U.S. startups has slowed under new regulatory regime

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venture-china-regulation-insight/chinese-tech-investors-flee-silicon-valley-as-trump-tightens-scrutiny-idUSKCN1P10CB

7 years ago

94 upvotes – 60 comments

History of the Plan 9 kernel (1990 – 2003)

https://github.com/0intro/9hist

7 years ago

★ 143 C MIT
86 upvotes – 3 comments
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