top 20 hacker news stories for 2019-01-20

When hiring senior engineers, you’re not buying, you’re selling

https://hiringengineersbook.com/post/trouble-hiring/

7 years ago

973 upvotes – 662 comments

Windows 98 Icons are Great (2015)

https://alexmeub.com/old-windows-icons/

7 years ago

553 upvotes – 354 comments

Kubernetes Failure Stories

https://srcco.de/posts/kubernetes-failure-stories.html

7 years ago

513 upvotes – 236 comments

Netflix claims Fortnite is now a bigger competitor than HBO

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/334702/Netflix_claims_Fortnite_is_now_a_bigger_competitor_than_HBO.php

7 years ago

480 upvotes – 412 comments

Internals of PostgreSQL

http://www.interdb.jp/pg/index.html

7 years ago

464 upvotes – 25 comments

Proper Breathing Brings Better Health

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/proper-breathing-brings-better-health/

7 years ago

404 upvotes – 139 comments

Students learn from people they love

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/17/opinion/learning-emotion-education.html

7 years ago

388 upvotes – 101 comments

Switching my parents over to Linux saved me a lot of headache and support calls

https://write.as/simonfrey/how-switching-my-parents-over-to-linux-saved-me-a-lot-of-headache-and-support

7 years ago

359 upvotes – 289 comments

Most “ugly” produce gets turned into soups, sauces, salsa, jam

https://twitter.com/SarahTaber_bww/status/1086055092321697794

7 years ago

349 upvotes – 214 comments

Paris Will Make Public Transportation Free for Kids

https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2019/01/paris-metro-tickets-prices-kids-bus-ride-disability-fares/580759/

7 years ago

305 upvotes – 227 comments

Japan's Rail Workers Pointing at Things (2017)

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/pointing-and-calling-japan-trains

7 years ago

272 upvotes – 107 comments

Tesla laid off my disabled veteran husband then cancelled his sign on bonus

https://twitter.com/_kariedaway_/status/1086913043932446721

7 years ago

234 upvotes – 186 comments

Lines of bare C++: raytracing made simple

https://github.com/ssloy/tinyraytracer/wiki

7 years ago

207 upvotes – 9 comments

Inside the C Standard Library

https://begriffs.com/posts/2019-01-19-inside-c-standard-lib.html

7 years ago

206 upvotes – 57 comments

My Parents Are Flat Earthers

https://jameshfisher.com/2019/01/20/my-parents-are-flat-earthers

7 years ago

179 upvotes – 207 comments

Decidim: Free Open-Source participatory democracy for cities and organizations

https://decidim.org/

7 years ago

175 upvotes – 36 comments

Amazon Ruined Online Shopping

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/01/amazon-made-online-commerce-bewildering/580660/

7 years ago

169 upvotes – 216 comments

Reahl – A Python-only web framework

https://www.reahl.org/

7 years ago

165 upvotes – 101 comments

Google launches an AI contest for social good

https://ai.google/social-good/impact-challenge

7 years ago

164 upvotes – 97 comments

Ferrock: A Stronger, Greener Alternative to Concrete?

https://buildabroad.org/2016/09/27/ferrock/

7 years ago

161 upvotes – 87 comments
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