top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-01-08

Sears has another chance to avoid closing down

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/06/sears-rejects-eddie-lamperts-bid-to-save-company-will-liquidate-.html

7 years ago

Mobile customer location data is ending up in the hands of bounty hunters

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/nepxbz/i-gave-a-bounty-hunter-300-dollars-located-phone-microbilt-zumigo-tmobile

7 years ago

The US spends more on healthcare for no gain says new report from Johns Hopkins

https://www.jhsph.edu/news/news-releases/2018/us-health-care-spending-highest-among-developed-countries.html

7 years ago

Coolest Things I Learned in 2018

http://www.perell.com/blog/coolest-things-2018

7 years ago

Bash 5.0 released

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2019-01/msg00063.html

7 years ago

Ask HN: How to found a company as a single founder?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18855704

7 years ago

Meat-free 'Impossible Burger 2.0' tastes even closer to the real deal

https://www.engadget.com/2019/01/07/impossible-burger-2/

7 years ago

How LinkedIn detects browser extensions

https://github.com/dandrews/nefarious-linkedin

7 years ago

★ 841 JavaScript

WeWork Gets a Visit from Financial Reality

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-01-08/wework-gets-a-visit-from-financial-reality

7 years ago

The unlikely resurgence of Dungeons and Dragons

https://www.inlander.com/spokane/nearly-45-years-after-its-creation-a-fantasy-game-played-with-paper-pencil-and-dice-is-having-its-biggest-year-yet-in-the-inland-northwest-a/Content?oid=15615918

7 years ago

Ask HN: What is your favorite HN post?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18853966

7 years ago

Designing an audio adblocker

https://www.adblockradio.com/blog/2018/11/15/designing-audio-ad-block-radio-podcast/

7 years ago

The dangers of streaming across versions of glibc: A cautionary tale (2014)

https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/BA6132ED-1F6B-4A0B-AC22-81278F5AB81E%40tripadvisor.com

7 years ago

SQLer – Turn Your SQL queries into RESTful APIs without any programming language

https://github.com/alash3al/sqler

7 years ago

★ 2k Go Apache-2.0

What’s the rush? The power of a slow morning

https://www.wsj.com/articles/whats-the-rush-the-power-of-a-slow-morning-11546958541

7 years ago

Complete guide to GDPR compliance

https://gdpr.eu/

7 years ago

Cancer Progress: Much More Than You Wanted To Know (2018)

https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/08/01/cancer-progress-much-more-than-you-wanted-to-know/

7 years ago

Unprovability comes to machine learning

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00012-4

7 years ago

No Tuition, but You Pay a Percentage of Your Income if You Find a Job

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/08/business/dealbook/education-student-loans-lambda-schools.html

7 years ago

A Guide for Adults Going to College

https://www.npr.org/2018/12/23/678799694/in-never-too-late-finally-a-guide-for-adults-going-to-college

7 years ago

Implicit model of other people’s visual attention as an invisible beam

https://www.pnas.org/content/116/1/328.long

7 years ago

Free Movies Online: Great Classics, Indies, Noir, Westerns, etc

http://www.openculture.com/freemoviesonline

7 years ago

Maze-solving algorithm implemented in sed

https://devpost.com/software/sed-pathfinder

7 years ago

Google’s Project Soli radar is sensitive enough to count sheets of paper

https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/4/18168083/google-project-soli-radar-hardware-applications-radarcat-solinteraction-university-of-st-andrews

7 years ago

MIT Deep Learning Tutorial Repository

https://github.com/lexfridman/mit-deep-learning/blob/master/README.md#mit-deep-learning

7 years ago

★ 10.4k Jupyter Notebook MIT

Node-Red – Flow-Based Programming for the Internet of Things

https://nodered.org/

7 years ago

Mozilla Announces Deal to Bring Firefox Reality to HTC VIVE Devices

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2019/01/08/mozilla-announces-deal-to-bring-firefox-reality-to-htc-vive-devices/

7 years ago

Why I Am Not an Austrian Economist

http://econfaculty.gmu.edu/bcaplan/whyaust.htm

7 years ago

Just a few drinks can change how memories are formed

https://news.brown.edu/articles/2018/10/alcohol

7 years ago

Lazarus 2.0 RC3 – Delphi-compatible cross-platform IDE

http://forum.lazarus-ide.org/index.php/topic,43665.0.html

7 years ago

Laws of Tech: Commoditize Your Complement (2018)

https://www.gwern.net/Complement

7 years ago

Interesting Tech Markets for 2019

http://blog.eladgil.com/2019/01/interesting-markets-2019-edition.html

7 years ago

New documents link Huawei to suspected front companies in Iran, Syria

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-huawei-iran-exclusive/exclusive-new-documents-link-huawei-to-suspected-front-companies-in-iran-syria-idUSKCN1P21MH

7 years ago

Graph Neural Networks: A Review of Methods and Applications

https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.08434

7 years ago

Crafting a life

https://www.1843magazine.com/features/crafting-a-life

7 years ago

Alibaba acquires Berlin-based data Artisans for $103M

https://www.dealstreetasia.com/stories/alibaba-acquires-berlin-based-data-artisans-for-103m-report-116452/

7 years ago

Voltaire's Luck: The French Philosopher Outsmarts the Lottery

https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/luck/voltaires-luck

7 years ago

How we achieve growth by ignoring conventional startup advice

https://medium.com/swlh/how-we-achieve-65-yoy-growth-by-ignoring-conventional-startup-advice-24a3eef619c1

7 years ago

How Estimates of the Gig Economy Went Wrong

https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-estimates-of-the-gig-economy-went-wrong-11546857000

7 years ago

Monorepos and the Fallacy of Scale

https://presumably.de/monorepos-and-the-fallacy-of-scale.html

7 years ago

The rise and fall of the skills gap

https://www.vox.com/2019/1/7/18166951/skills-gap-modestino-shoag-ballance

7 years ago

Modchips of the State

https://trmm.net/Modchips

7 years ago

Toyota Lifts the Veil on Its Guardian Driver-Assist System

https://spectrum.ieee.org/cars-that-think/transportation/self-driving/ces-toyota-lifts-veil-from-driver-assist-system

7 years ago

GitLab’s CEO reflects on GitHub’s move to offer free private repos

https://about.gitlab.com/2019/01/07/github-offering-free-private-repos-for-up-to-three-collaborators/

7 years ago

Human spatial memory is made up of numerous individual maps (2016)

http://maxplanck.nautil.us/article/351/orientation-without-a-master-plan

7 years ago

Drone Sighting Halts Departures at Heathrow Airport

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/08/world/europe/heathrow-drone-sighting.html

7 years ago

Gauss's Principle of Least Constraint (2017)

http://preetum.nakkiran.org/misc/gauss/

7 years ago

Show HN: Graphite Publishing – A decentralized, user owned blogging platform

https://publishing.graphitedocs.com

7 years ago

Star topics that interest you

https://blog.github.com/2019-01-08-topic-starring/

7 years ago

IBM Q System One

https://www.research.ibm.com/ibm-q/system-one/

7 years ago

How to make sure your talk doesn't suck (2011) [pdf]

http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/tong/talks/talk.pdf

7 years ago