top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-01-24

How to Be Successful

http://blog.samaltman.com/how-to-be-successful

7 years ago

AlphaStar: Mastering the Real-Time Strategy Game StarCraft II

https://deepmind.com/blog/alphastar-mastering-real-time-strategy-game-starcraft-ii/

7 years ago

Google Urged the U.S. to Limit Protection for Activist Workers

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-24/google-urged-the-u-s-to-limit-protection-for-activist-workers

7 years ago

Microsoft acquires Citus Data (YC S11)

https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2019/01/24/microsoft-acquires-citus-data-re-affirming-its-commitment-to-open-source-and-accelerating-azure-postgresql-performance-and-scale/

7 years ago

Practical Linux Hardening Guide

https://github.com/trimstray/the-practical-linux-hardening-guide

7 years ago

★ 10.4k MIT

Google Search Operators: A Complete List (2018)

https://ahrefs.com/blog/google-advanced-search-operators/

7 years ago

Nearly Half of Game Developers Want to Unionize

https://www.engadget.com/2019/01/24/nearly-half-of-game-developers-want-to-unionize/

7 years ago

Yarn's Future – v2 and beyond

https://github.com/yarnpkg/yarn/issues/6953

7 years ago

★ 41.5k JavaScript

Oracle v. Google and the future of software development

https://www.blog.google/outreach-initiatives/public-policy/our-fight-protect-future-software-development/

7 years ago

Apple Lays Off 200 Employees from Autonomous Car Unit

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/24/apple-lays-off-over-200-from-project-titan-autonomous-vehicle-group.html

7 years ago

Design Patterns for Managing Up

https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3308563

7 years ago

Deliveroo users are getting defrauded

https://www.newstatesman.com/science-tech/security/2019/01/deliveroo-users-are-getting-defrauded-and-it-could-be-fined-millions

7 years ago

Right to Repair is already hurling into action in 2019

https://ifixit.org/blog/13003/right-to-repair-2019

7 years ago

Canada's New Food Guide

https://food-guide.canada.ca/en/

7 years ago

Office 365 is now on Mac App Store

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/01/the-mac-app-store-welcomes-office-365/

7 years ago

Special Cases Are a Code Smell

https://blog.conjur.org/special-cases-are-a-code-smell/

7 years ago

Movfuscator – Single instruction C compiler

https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/movfuscator

7 years ago

★ 10.1k C

Evolution of the x86 context switch in Linux (2018)

http://www.maizure.org/projects/evolution_x86_context_switch_linux/

7 years ago

A little fail-safe filesystem designed for microcontrollers (2017)

https://github.com/ARMmbed/littlefs

7 years ago

★ 6.6k C BSD-3-Clause

Let's Talk Concurrency with Sir Tony Hoare

https://www.erlang-solutions.com/blog/let-s-talkconcurrency-with-sir-tony-hoare.html

7 years ago

BuzzFeed to Cut 15% of Its Workforce

https://www.wsj.com/articles/buzzfeed-to-cut-15-of-its-workforce-11548286211

7 years ago

American justice system ignores science in the pursuit of convictions

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/we-are-going-backward-how-justice-system-ignores-science-pursuit-n961256

7 years ago

Hard Part of Computer Science? Getting into Class

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/24/technology/computer-science-courses-college.html

7 years ago

Compilers for Free

https://codon.com/compilers-for-free

7 years ago

Geometric Understanding of Deep Learning (2018)

https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.10451

7 years ago

Microsoft confirms Bing is down in China

https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/23/microsoft-confirms-bing-is-down-in-china/

7 years ago

DeepMind StarCraft II Demonstration [video]

https://www.twitch.tv/StarCraft

7 years ago

Lessons from Failed DocuSign Integration

https://profsmallpine.com/writing/lessons-from-failed-docusign-integration

7 years ago

An investigative reporter has changed his tech habits after what he has learned

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/23/technology/personaltech/facebook-online-privacy.html

7 years ago

Richard Feynman and the Connection Machine (1989)

http://longnow.org/essays/richard-feynman-and-connection-machine/

7 years ago

Tensorflow 2.0 Preview

https://www.tensorflow.org/versions/r2.0/api_docs/python/tf

7 years ago

Pear.php.net shuts down after maintainers discover serious supply-chain attack

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/01/pear-php-site-breach-lets-hackers-slip-malware-into-official-download/

7 years ago

Facebook lobbied in favour of upload filters

https://boingboing.net/2019/01/24/quisling-zuckermonsters.html

7 years ago

Steganography Based Ad Payload That Drops Shlayer Trojan on Mac Users

https://blog.confiant.com/confiant-malwarebytes-uncover-steganography-based-ad-payload-that-drops-shlayer-trojan-on-mac-cd31e885c202

7 years ago

Stackoverflow 2019 Developer Survey Is Open

https://stackoverflow.blog/2019/01/23/our-2019-developer-survey-is-open-to-coders-everywhere/

7 years ago

CockroachDB's Consistency Model

https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/consistency-model/

7 years ago

InfluxDB 2.0 Alpha and the Road Ahead

https://www.influxdata.com/blog/influxdb-2-0-alpha-release-and-the-road-ahead/

7 years ago

How OneGraph onboards users who are new to GraphQL

https://www.onegraph.com/blog/2019/01/24/How_OneGraph_onboards_users_new_to_GraphQL.html

7 years ago

Notes from a 1984 trip to Xerox PARC

https://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2019/01/notes-from-1984-trip-to-xerox-parc.html?m=1

7 years ago

GPUVideoDecode on Linux is impossible without patching

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=463440

7 years ago

Show HN: CloudQuery – Turn any website to serverless API with SPA support

https://github.com/cloudfetch/cloudquery

7 years ago

★ 2.1k JavaScript GPL-3.0

TLS Termination for Network Load Balancers

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-tls-termination-for-network-load-balancers/

7 years ago

Gum disease–causing bacteria could spur Alzheimer’s

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/01/gum-disease-causing-bacteria-could-spur-alzheimer-s

7 years ago

DLS – The digital logic simulator game

https://makingartstudios.itch.io/dls

7 years ago

Seeing Theory

https://seeing-theory.brown.edu

7 years ago

Why are pianos traditionally tuned “out of tune” at the extremes?

https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/14244/why-are-pianos-traditionally-tuned-out-of-tune-at-the-extremes

7 years ago

1859 Carrington Event

https://hackaday.com/2019/01/22/the-1859-carrington-event/

7 years ago

Dirty lenses (2016)

http://kurtmunger.com/dirty_lens_articleid35.html

7 years ago

Lapis Lazuli: A Blue More Precious Than Gold

https://hyperallergic.com/315564/lapis-lazuli-a-blue-more-precious-than-gold/

7 years ago

Coming Soon to a Police Station Near You: The DNA ‘Magic Box’

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/21/science/dna-crime-gene-technology.html

7 years ago

MDT9100

https://trmm.net/MDT9100

7 years ago

Period-Tracking Apps Are Monetizing Women’s Extremely Personal Data

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-24/how-period-tracking-apps-are-monetizing-women-s-extremely-personal-data

7 years ago

Mockingbirds show heightened aggression after lead exposure

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-01/maf-mtr012319.php

7 years ago

New High Resolution Image of Ultima Thule

http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/Galleries/Featured-Images/image.php?image_id=586

7 years ago

Show HN: Fnm – Fast and simple Node.js version manager built in ReasonML

https://github.com/Schniz/fnm

7 years ago

★ 25.2k Rust GPL-3.0

Theranos CEO Says 'I Don't Know' 600+ Times in Deposition

https://abcnews.go.com/beta-story-container/Business/theranos-ceo-elizabeth-holmes-600-times-broadcast-deposition/story?id=60576630

7 years ago

Remastered 1964 films show origins of Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

https://www6.slac.stanford.edu/news/2019-01-16-remastered-films-show-slac-origins.aspx

7 years ago

Advocacy groups are pushing the FTC to break up Facebook

https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/24/18195959/facebook-advocacy-groups-ftc-break-up-cambridge-analytica-scandal-data-breach

7 years ago