top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-01-14

Notion – All-in-one workspace for notes, tasks, wikis, and databases

https://www.notion.so

7 years ago

970 upvotes – 479 comments

Feds Can't Force You to Unlock Your iPhone with Finger or Face, Judge Rules

https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2019/01/14/feds-cant-force-you-to-unlock-your-iphone-with-finger-or-face-judge-rules/#12fbd51842b7

7 years ago

787 upvotes – 281 comments

Writing an OS in Rust: Introduction to Paging

https://os.phil-opp.com/paging-introduction/

7 years ago

597 upvotes – 79 comments

Android vendors, don’t kill my app

https://dontkillmyapp.com/

7 years ago

515 upvotes – 402 comments

AWS, MongoDB, and the Economic Realities of Open Source

https://stratechery.com/2019/aws-mongodb-and-the-economic-realities-of-open-source/

7 years ago

502 upvotes – 248 comments

Project Alias hacks Amazon Echo and Google Home to protect privacy

https://www.fastcompany.com/90290703/this-is-the-first-truly-great-amazon-alexa-and-google-home-hack

7 years ago

463 upvotes – 291 comments

Porting 30K lines of code from Flow to TypeScript

https://davidgom.es/porting-30k-lines-of-code-from-flow-to-typescript/

7 years ago

434 upvotes – 227 comments

Show HN: HeyFromTheFuture – Advice people wish they had at your age

https://heyfromthefuture.com/age/

7 years ago

355 upvotes – 167 comments

Google Earth Reverse Engineering

https://github.com/retroplasma/earth-reverse-engineering.git

7 years ago

★ 2.3k C
342 upvotes – 37 comments

FoundationDB Record Layer

https://www.foundationdb.org/blog/announcing-record-layer/

7 years ago

321 upvotes – 78 comments

Guix: An advanced operating system

https://ambrevar.xyz/guix-advance/index.html

7 years ago

313 upvotes – 168 comments

Secure and Ad-Free Internet Anywhere with Streisand and Pi Hole

https://ifelse.io/2019/01/12/secure-ad-free-internet-anywhere-with-streisand-and-pi-hole/

7 years ago

306 upvotes – 108 comments

I'm leaving GitLab to help everyone work remotely

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/im-leaving-gitlab-help-everyone-work-remotely-job-van-der-voort/

7 years ago

301 upvotes – 227 comments

Managing Remote Teams

http://klinger.io/post/180989912140/managing-remote-teams-a-crash-course

7 years ago

291 upvotes – 46 comments

Ask HN: How do you motivate yourself to keep working on a project?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18903886

7 years ago

252 upvotes – 171 comments

Incident Response Documentation

https://response.pagerduty.com/

7 years ago

246 upvotes – 60 comments

Composing Programs in Python, SICP Style

https://composingprograms.com/

7 years ago

244 upvotes – 17 comments

Elixir v1.8 released

https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2019/01/14/elixir-v1-8-0-released/

7 years ago

241 upvotes – 19 comments

Analyzing the chords of 1300 popular songs for patterns

http://www.hooktheory.com/blog/i-analyzed-the-chords-of-1300-popular-songs-for-patterns-this-is-what-i-found/

7 years ago

222 upvotes – 114 comments

We wasted $50K on Google Search Ads and the insights we got on the way

https://www.indiehackers.com/@AntonElfimov/we-wasted-50k-on-google-ads-so-you-don-t-have-to-af688095de

7 years ago

201 upvotes – 72 comments

Kubernetes Security Best Practices

https://www.cncf.io/blog/2019/01/14/9-kubernetes-security-best-practices-everyone-must-follow/

7 years ago

195 upvotes – 17 comments

Ask HN: What is your best passive income 2019?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18906094

7 years ago

186 upvotes – 84 comments

SSD Storage: 2018 in review

https://www.anandtech.com/show/13752/anandtech-year-in-review-2018-ssds

7 years ago

173 upvotes – 126 comments

Australian Government Design System

https://designsystem.gov.au/

7 years ago

172 upvotes – 56 comments

Ideology Impairs Sound Reasoning

https://psyarxiv.com/hspjz

7 years ago

169 upvotes – 177 comments

China sentences Canadian man to death in drug case linked to Huawei row

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/china-sentences-canadian-man-to-death-in-drug-case-linked-to-huawei-row/2019/01/14/058306a0-17fb-11e9-a804-c35766b9f234_story.html

7 years ago

163 upvotes – 208 comments

Here is my collection of 600+ “old” digital cameras

http://old-digitalcameras.com/

7 years ago

151 upvotes – 83 comments

Computational and Inferential Thinking: The Foundations of Data Science

https://www.inferentialthinking.com/chapters/intro.html

7 years ago

146 upvotes – 4 comments

PG&E Sparked at Least 1,500 California Fires, Now Faces Collapse

https://www.wsj.com/articles/pg-e-sparked-at-least-1-500-california-fires-now-the-utility-faces-collapse-11547410768

7 years ago

140 upvotes – 185 comments

Ask HN: How did you escape your safe 9-5 job?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18902436

7 years ago

139 upvotes – 118 comments

U.S. proposes to allow drone operation at night, over people

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-drones/u-s-proposes-to-allow-drone-operation-at-night-over-people-idUSKCN1P828W

7 years ago

134 upvotes – 193 comments

Slack Plans to Follow Spotify on Unconventional IPO Route

https://www.wsj.com/articles/slack-planning-to-pursue-direct-listing-11547202723

7 years ago

126 upvotes – 61 comments

What is Life? by Erwin Schrödinger (1944) [pdf]

http://www.whatislife.ie/downloads/What-is-Life.pdf

7 years ago

121 upvotes – 38 comments

AlaSQL.js – JavaScript SQL Database for Browser and Node.js

https://github.com/agershun/alasql

7 years ago

★ 7.2k JavaScript MIT
120 upvotes – 43 comments

Halo was written with a Lisp dialect called blamscript (2014)

https://opencarnage.net/index.php?/topic/4156-scripting-guide/

7 years ago

119 upvotes – 36 comments

Serverless computing: one step forward, two steps back

https://blog.acolyer.org/2019/01/14/serverless-computing-one-step-forward-two-steps-back/

7 years ago

117 upvotes – 12 comments

Chezmoi: manage your dotfiles securely across multiple machines

https://github.com/twpayne/chezmoi

7 years ago

★ 19.4k Go MIT
113 upvotes – 35 comments

Joy of Being a Woman in Her 70s

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/12/opinion/sunday/women-older-happiness.html

7 years ago

109 upvotes – 70 comments

Mitochondrial DNA can be inherited from fathers, not just mothers

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00093-1

7 years ago

109 upvotes – 28 comments

Ask HN: What's the most important piece of code you've written?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18899809

7 years ago

105 upvotes – 108 comments

Intel Core I9-9990XE: Up to 5.0 GHz, Auction Only

https://www.anandtech.com/show/13804/intel-core-i9-9990xe-up-to-5-ghz-auction-only

7 years ago

100 upvotes – 86 comments

Getting an IBM AS/400 Midrange Computer on the Internet

https://justanotherelectronicsblog.com/?p=503

7 years ago

96 upvotes – 40 comments

A Fairy Tale of F# and Durable Functions

https://hackernoon.com/a-fairy-tale-of-f-and-durable-functions-975ccc4d46b8

7 years ago

94 upvotes – 30 comments

Tidal Under Criminal Investigation in Norway Over 'Faked' Streams

https://www.engadget.com/2019/01/14/tidal-criminal-investigation-faked-streams/

7 years ago

91 upvotes – 26 comments

Our culture has two types of forgetting

http://nautil.us/issue/68/context/how-well-forget-john-lennon

7 years ago

90 upvotes – 46 comments

Z80 arithmetic: also surprisingly terrible (2018)

http://cowlark.com/2018-03-18-z80-arithmetic/index.html

7 years ago

89 upvotes – 67 comments

Disable Flash support by default in Firefox 69

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1519434

7 years ago

83 upvotes – 58 comments

A summary and curation of the top-ranked content on Node.js best practices

https://github.com/i0natan/nodebestpractices

7 years ago

★ 105.2k Dockerfile CC-BY-SA-4.0
79 upvotes – 7 comments

Tensor Considered Harmful Part 2

http://nlp.seas.harvard.edu/NamedTensor2

7 years ago

77 upvotes – 25 comments
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