top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-01-18

I interviewed at six top companies in Silicon Valley in six days

https://blog.usejournal.com/i-interviewed-at-six-top-companies-in-silicon-valley-in-six-days-and-stumbled-into-six-job-offers-fe9cc7bbc996

7 years ago

My dog was killed on a walk with a walker ordered through Wag

https://www.facebook.com/nick.moore.7140/posts/3600186133211

7 years ago

Ask HN: How to self-study mathematics from the undergrad through graduate level?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18939913

7 years ago

50 Years Ago, the Sugar Industry Paid Scientists to Blame Fat (2016)

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/09/13/493739074/50-years-ago-sugar-industry-quietly-paid-scientists-to-point-blame-at-fat

7 years ago

Twins get different results when they put 5 ancestry DNA kits to the test

https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/dna-ancestry-kits-twins-marketplace-1.4980976

7 years ago

773M Password ‘Megabreach’ Is Years Old

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/01/773m-password-megabreach-is-years-old/

7 years ago

Costco opening a $440M chicken farm to escape America's chicken monopoly

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/12/05/costco--chickens-tyson-perdue-monopoly-america-agriculture-farming.html

7 years ago

Sequel Pro – Open source macOS native MySQL GUI client

https://www.sequelpro.com/

7 years ago

Inkscape launches versions 0.92.4 and 1.0 alpha

https://inkscape.org/news/2019/01/17/inkscape-launches-version-0924/

7 years ago

A Fifth of China’s Homes Are Empty (2018)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-08/a-fifth-of-china-s-homes-are-empty-that-s-50-million-apartments

7 years ago

Twitter warns that private tweets were public for years

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-46918859

7 years ago

Farms, More Productive Than Ever, Are Poisoning Drinking Water in Rural America

https://www.wsj.com/articles/farms-more-productive-than-ever-are-poisoning-drinking-water-in-rural-america-11547826031

7 years ago

What People Say Before They Die

https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2019/01/how-do-people-communicate-before-death/580303/

7 years ago

Is C++ fast?

https://zeuxcg.org/2019/01/17/is-c-fast/

7 years ago

Future of TypeScript on ESLint

https://eslint.org/blog/2019/01/future-typescript-eslint

7 years ago

The Scientist and Engineer's Guide to Digital Signal Processing (1999)

https://www.analog.com/en/education/education-library/scientist_engineers_guide.html

7 years ago

Judge unseals trove of internal Facebook documents from 2012 legal action

https://www.revealnews.org/blog/a-judge-unsealed-a-trove-of-internal-facebook-documents-following-our-legal-action

7 years ago

Company Update

https://www.tesla.com/blog/tesla-company-update

7 years ago

Building CockroachDB on top of RocksDB

https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/cockroachdb-on-rocksd/

7 years ago

Introduction to TLA+ Model Checking in the Command Line

https://medium.com/@bellmar/introduction-to-tla-model-checking-in-the-command-line-c6871700a6a2

7 years ago

CNC milling with open source software

https://opensource.com/article/19/1/cnc-milling-open-source-software

7 years ago

Problems plagued U.S. Navy destroyer Fitzgerald before fatal collision

https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2019/01/14/worse-than-you-thought-inside-the-secret-fitzgerald-probe-the-navy-doesnt-want-you-to-read/#.XEFOvOop_SM.twitter

7 years ago

Show HN: HTML5 Video Player in TypeScript

https://github.com/matvp91/indigo-player

7 years ago

★ 1.2k TypeScript Apache-2.0

To Cover China, There’s No Substitute for WeChat

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/09/technology/personaltech/china-wechat.html

7 years ago

How I use my Raspberry Pis to help me work on with my side projects

https://www.techcoil.com/blog/how-i-use-my-raspberry-pis-to-help-me-work-on-with-my-side-projects/

7 years ago

Show HN: Musish – Web client for Apple Music

https://musi.sh

7 years ago

L4Linux – Linux running on the L4 microkernel

http://l4linux.org/overview.shtml

7 years ago

Animating CSS Grid

https://css-irl.info/animating-css-grid/

7 years ago

A Go Custom Flutter Engine Embedder for Desktop

https://github.com/Drakirus/go-flutter-desktop-embedder

7 years ago

★ 96 Go BSD-3-Clause

5G: if you build it, we will fill it

https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2019/1/16/5g-if-you-build-it-we-will-fill-it

7 years ago

Tiny animal carcasses found in buried Antarctic lake

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00106-z

7 years ago

Study Identifies Effective Mental Strategies for Aversive Challenges

https://digest.bps.org.uk/2019/01/14/study-identifies-the-most-effective-mental-strategies-that-people-use-to-get-through-aversive-challenges/

7 years ago

Investing Prophet Jeremy Grantham Takes Aim at Climate Change

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-17/jeremy-grantham-s-1-billion-plan-to-fight-climate-change

7 years ago

Examples and best practices for building recommendation systems

https://github.com/Microsoft/Recommenders

7 years ago

★ 21.6k Python MIT

Being collateral damage in the culture wars of the West

https://medium.com/@therealsexycyborg/shenzhen-tech-girl-naomi-wu-part-2-over-the-wall-and-into-the-fire-5e8efc5c1509

7 years ago

Stanford Researchers Launch Free TV Service to Improve Live Streaming Using AI

https://thestreamable.com/guides/live-tv-streaming/news/exclusive-stanford-researchers-launch-free-streaming-service-to-improve-video-streaming-algorithms

7 years ago

Supporters of Mexico’s Soda Tax Targeted with NSO Exploit Links (2017)

https://citizenlab.ca/2017/02/bittersweet-nso-mexico-spyware/

7 years ago

The Art of Unix Programming (2003)

https://arp242.net/the-art-of-unix-programming/

7 years ago

New Ethereum Dev Tools from 0x

https://blog.0xproject.com/new-ethereum-dev-tools-from-0x-db80ee9e802

7 years ago

The cerebellum is your “little brain”, and it does some pretty big things

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-cerebellum-is-your-little-brain-and-it-does-some-pretty-big-things/

7 years ago

Brain Maps Out Ideas and Memories Like Spaces

https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-brain-maps-out-ideas-and-memories-like-spaces-20190114/

7 years ago

GitHub dashboard UI refresh

https://github.blog/2019-01-16-dashboard-ui-refresh/

7 years ago

Nike’s auto-laced future

https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/17/nikes-auto-laced-future/

7 years ago

Show HN: Hacker News 2018, Year in Review

https://chart.ly/stories/hacker-news-2018

7 years ago

Why Carmaggedon never comes – Seattle edition

http://cityobservatory.org/seattle_carmaggedon/

7 years ago

Iridium Completes Constellation Replacement

https://www.flyingmag.com/iridium-completes-constellation-replacement?cmpid=ene20190117&utm_source=internal&utm_medium=email&cid=46955&mid=405018335

7 years ago

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Wants to Raise Taxes on the Rich and Americans Agree

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-wants-to-raise-taxes-on-the-rich-and-americans-agree/

7 years ago

Prevent users registering with passwords from data breaches

https://jordanhall.co.uk/prevent-users-registering-with-passwords-from-data-breaches

7 years ago

Amazon is becoming more powerful than we realize

https://medium.com/s/2069/amazon-is-becoming-more-powerful-than-you-realize-2093d6860886

7 years ago

The Acid3 Test (2008)

http://acid3.acidtests.org/

7 years ago

Twenty legal battles that stand out across Ars’ 20 years of covering them

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/01/20-legal-cases-across-20-years-these-are-our-favorites/

7 years ago

Gunk: Modern front end and syntax for Protocol Buffers

https://github.com/gunk/gunk

7 years ago

★ 341 Go MIT

How the Government Shutdown Warps Time Itself

https://typesandtimes.net/2019/01/shutdown-warps-time

7 years ago