top 20 hacker news stories for 2019-01-23

Why are glasses so expensive? The eyewear industry prefers to keep that blurry

https://www.latimes.com/business/lazarus/la-fi-lazarus-why-are-eyeglasses-so-expensive-20190122-story.html#nws=mcnewsletter

7 years ago

Twitter migrates data to Google Cloud

https://cloud.google.com/twitter/

7 years ago

New Dell XPS 13 developer edition now available

https://bartongeorge.io/2019/01/23/the-new-dell-xps-13-developer-edition-now-available-in-the-us-europe-and-canada/

7 years ago

Travis CI acquired by Idera

https://blog.travis-ci.com/2019-01-23-travis-ci-joins-idera-inc

7 years ago

Why I use old hardware

https://drewdevault.com/2019/01/23/Why-I-use-old-hardware.html?

7 years ago

Chromecast Support for Firefox

https://hensm.github.io/fx_cast/

7 years ago

Our Software Dependency Problem

https://research.swtch.com/deps

7 years ago

Alarming Decline of Quality Youth Playtime

https://houseoflawandorder.com/the-alarming-decline-of-quality-youth-playtime/

7 years ago

Julia Language Co-Creators Win James H. Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software

https://sinews.siam.org/Details-Page/january-prize-spotlight-jeff-bezanson-steven-l-brunton-jack-dongarra-stefan-karpinski-and-viral-b-shah

7 years ago

Oracle allegedly underpaid $400M in wages to underrepresented employees

https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/22/oracle-discrimination-400-million/

7 years ago

Mendeley encrypts users' database after Zotero provides an importer

https://www.zotero.org/support/kb/mendeley_import

7 years ago

Queueing theory: The science of waiting in line

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2019/01/23/queueing/

7 years ago

Microsoft’s Azure DevOps: An Unsatisfying Adventure

https://toxicbakery.github.io/vsts-devops/microsoft-devops-ci/

7 years ago

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Absolutely Right About Racist Algorithms

https://breakermag.com/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-is-absolutely-right-about-racist-algorithms/

7 years ago

Show HN: Simple Opt Out – Makes it easier to opt out of data sharing

http://simpleoptout.com/

7 years ago

WasmWinforms – .NET WinForms in a browser

https://github.com/roozbehid/WasmWinforms

7 years ago

★ 547 C# MIT

Don't Pay to Acquire Your First Users

https://www.kapwing.com/blog/dont-pay-to-acquire-your-first-users/

7 years ago

Particle physics may have reached the end of the line

http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2019/01/particle-physics-may-have-reached-end.html?m=1

7 years ago

Customer Service Agents Can See What You're Typing in Real Time

https://gizmodo.com/be-warned-customer-service-agents-can-see-what-youre-t-1830688119

7 years ago

Canadian meat giant Maple Leaf debuts new plant-based burger

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-23/canadian-meat-giant-maple-leaf-debuts-new-plant-based-burger

7 years ago