top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-01-10

How I Built a $5K a Month Side Project

https://campfirelabs.co/blog-1/2019/1/10/how-i-built-a-5000-per-month-side-project

7 years ago

647 upvotes – 239 comments

So Long, Macbook. Hello Again, Linux

http://richardmavis.info/so-long-macbook-hello-again-linux

7 years ago

491 upvotes – 519 comments

Anxiety and burnout: why kids are consumed with worry

https://www.vox.com/first-person/2019/1/10/18174263/anxiety-kids-burnout

7 years ago

436 upvotes – 437 comments

AT&T says it’ll stop selling location data amid calls for federal investigation

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/01/10/phone-companies-are-selling-your-location-data-now-some-lawmakers-want-federal-investigation/

7 years ago

413 upvotes – 104 comments

Happy Birthday, Ruby

https://github.com/ruby-no-kai/ruby25/blob/master/dave_thomas.en.md

7 years ago

★ 142
387 upvotes – 232 comments

System Down: A systemd-journald exploit

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/01/09/3

7 years ago

385 upvotes – 344 comments

People older than 65 share the most fake news, a new study finds

https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/9/18174631/old-people-fake-news-facebook-share-nyu-princeton

7 years ago

381 upvotes – 416 comments

The richest families in Florence in 1427 are still the richest (2016)

https://qz.com/694340/the-richest-families-in-florence-in-1427-are-still-the-richest-families-in-florence/

7 years ago

380 upvotes – 255 comments

AWS gives open source the middle finger?

https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/09/aws-gives-open-source-the-middle-finger

7 years ago

332 upvotes – 282 comments

How We Designed the Librem 5 Dev Kit with Free Software

https://puri.sm/posts/how-we-designed-the-librem-5-dev-kit-with-100-free-software/

7 years ago

329 upvotes – 119 comments

Use perfect hashing, instead of binary search, for keyword lookup

https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/E1ghOVt-0007os-2V%40gemulon.postgresql.org

7 years ago

328 upvotes – 111 comments

Tell HN: I Hugely Regret Using Stripe Atlas

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18870886

7 years ago

321 upvotes – 99 comments

Skin printer wipes years from your face [video]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/technology-46831270/ces-2019-skin-printer-wipes-years-from-your-face

7 years ago

306 upvotes – 129 comments

Making a Game Boy Game. Part 1: Getting Started

https://invisibleup.neocities.org/articles/18/

7 years ago

275 upvotes – 33 comments

Show HN: JournalBook – Privacy centric, offline first, personal journal app

https://journalbook.co.uk

7 years ago

268 upvotes – 110 comments

Privacy Tools – Encryption Against Global Mass Surveillance

https://www.privacytools.io/

7 years ago

267 upvotes – 71 comments

Microsoft Bing not only shows child pornography, it suggests it

https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/10/unsafe-search/

7 years ago

266 upvotes – 299 comments

Unity Engine ToS change makes cloud-based SpatialOS games illegal

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/01/unity-engine-tos-change-makes-cloud-based-spatialos-games-illegal/

7 years ago

264 upvotes – 268 comments

IBM releases Elm-powered app

https://discourse.elm-lang.org/t/ibm-releases-elm-powered-app/2364

7 years ago

263 upvotes – 188 comments

Roadmap to becoming a web developer in 2019

https://github.com/kamranahmedse/developer-roadmap

7 years ago

★ 353.8k TypeScript
255 upvotes – 130 comments

How I Finally Hit 2000 on Lichess and Improved My Rating

https://www.trapezemobile.com/2019/01/10/how-i-finally-hit-2000-on-lichess-and-improved-my-chess-rating-by-200-points-in-16-days/

7 years ago

250 upvotes – 168 comments

Using Fourier Transforms to Multiply Numbers

http://blog.robertelder.org/fast-multiplication-using-fourier-transform/

7 years ago

208 upvotes – 43 comments

Earth’s magnetic field is acting up

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00007-1?utm_source=twt_nnc&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=naturenews&sf205680051=1

7 years ago

191 upvotes – 79 comments

Chariot is shutting down

https://blog.chariot.com/2019/01/10/important-update-from-chariot/

7 years ago

179 upvotes – 191 comments

Anonymous Google Employees Voted Arms Control Persons of the Year

https://www.armscontrol.org/pressroom/2018-acpoy-winner

7 years ago

178 upvotes – 143 comments

Personal Finance Lessons for Technology Professionals

https://www.troyhunt.com/10-personal-finance-lessons-for-technology-professionals/

7 years ago

173 upvotes – 76 comments

Underclocking the ESP8266 Leads to WiFi Weirdness

https://hackaday.com/2019/01/04/underclocking-the-esp8266-leads-to-wifi-weirdness/

7 years ago

159 upvotes – 33 comments

Show HN: Docker-based immutable workstation

https://github.com/mikadosoftware/workstation

7 years ago

★ 490 Python MIT
155 upvotes – 50 comments

“The Book of Why” by Pearl and Mackenzie

https://andrewgelman.com/2019/01/08/book-pearl-mackenzie/

7 years ago

155 upvotes – 71 comments

The Early History of F# [pdf]

https://fsharp.org/history/hopl-draft-1.pdf

7 years ago

147 upvotes – 53 comments

Designing the Flexbox Inspector

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/01/designing-the-flexbox-inspector/

7 years ago

142 upvotes – 19 comments

Fun with compute shaders and fluid dynamics

https://blog.kummerlaender.eu/article/fun_with_compute_shaders_and_fluid_dynamics/

7 years ago

141 upvotes – 12 comments

Recreating the Death Star Trench Run Scene with Lego

https://blog.arduino.cc/2019/01/09/recreating-the-death-star-trench-run-scene-with-lego/

7 years ago

140 upvotes – 53 comments

We won a CES robotics innovation award, then they took it back

https://loradicarlo.com/pages/cesgenderbias

7 years ago

135 upvotes – 82 comments

Cardiologist-Level Arrhythmia Detection Using a Deep Neural Network

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-018-0268-3

7 years ago

131 upvotes – 28 comments

Oft-quoted paper on spread of fake news is retracted

https://retractionwatch.com/2019/01/09/oft-quoted-paper-on-spread-of-fake-news-turns-out-to-befake-news/

7 years ago

131 upvotes – 75 comments

Lisp Badge – Self-contained ATmega1284 Lisp computer

http://www.technoblogy.com/show?2AEE

7 years ago

129 upvotes – 25 comments

Show HN: Shellvault – Cloud SSH terminal accessible from any browser

https://www.shellvault.io/?pw_campaign=hnjan10

7 years ago

114 upvotes – 101 comments

High Performance Numeric Programming with Swift: Explorations and Reflections

https://www.fast.ai/2019/01/10/swift-numerics/

7 years ago

113 upvotes – 45 comments

Poker player bets $100k he can last 30 days in pitch black solitary confinement

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/jan/10/rich-alati-poker-player-bet-dark-room-isolation

7 years ago

111 upvotes – 44 comments

For Owners of Ring Security Cameras, Strangers May Have Been Watching Too

https://theintercept.com/2019/01/10/amazon-ring-security-camera/

7 years ago

106 upvotes – 131 comments

OpenRex – Open Source Hardware Project

https://www.imx6rex.com/open-rex/

7 years ago

104 upvotes – 24 comments

The Weight I Carry

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2019/01/weight-loss-essay-tomlinson/579832/

7 years ago

103 upvotes – 135 comments

Ask HN: Which Wiki or internal documentation tools do you use?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18874707

7 years ago

102 upvotes – 76 comments

How Coca-Cola shaped obesity science and policy in China

https://www.bmj.com/content/364/bmj.k5050

7 years ago

97 upvotes – 108 comments

OpenBSD: New console font Spleen made default

https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20190110064857

7 years ago

96 upvotes – 56 comments

New memristor better mimics synapses

https://news.umich.edu/toward-brain-like-computing-new-memristor-better-mimics-synapses/

7 years ago

90 upvotes – 18 comments

US is an oligarchy, not a democracy (2014)

https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-echochambers-27074746

7 years ago

89 upvotes – 81 comments

Pipelining Consensus Writes to Speed Up Distributed SQL Transactions

https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/transaction-pipelining/

7 years ago

85 upvotes – 1 comments

Ethereum: A number of hard forks turn out to be scams

https://decryptmedia.com/4439/ethereum-hard-fork-scam

7 years ago

79 upvotes – 110 comments

Hubble telescope camera is broken and US government shutdown could delay repairs

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00094-0

7 years ago

79 upvotes – 41 comments

Revolutionary radio telescope detects bevy of fast radio bursts

http://news.mit.edu/2019/revolutionary-radio-telescope-detects-bevy-fast-radio-bursts-0109

7 years ago

77 upvotes – 18 comments

NLP Architect by Intel AI Lab

http://nlp_architect.nervanasys.com/

7 years ago

77 upvotes – 11 comments

Avo: Better X86 Assembly Generation from Go

https://github.com/mmcloughlin/avo#readme

7 years ago

★ 2.9k Go BSD-3-Clause
77 upvotes – 19 comments

How I Organize My GitHub Repositories

https://andreicioara.com/how-i-organize-my-github-repositories-ce877db2e8b6

7 years ago

76 upvotes – 19 comments

The Datacenter as a Computer: Designing Warehouse-Scale Machines

https://www.morganclaypool.com/doi/10.2200/S00874ED3V01Y201809CAC046

7 years ago

74 upvotes – 6 comments

'Traditional masculinity' labeled 'harmful' by the American Psychological Assc

https://www.latimes.com/health/ny-news-traditional-masculinity-harmful-psychological-association-20190109-story.html

7 years ago

71 upvotes – 100 comments
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