top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-01-25

Websocketd

http://websocketd.com/

7 years ago

Cancelling Dropbox Pro is hard

https://www.useloom.com/share/8d148b2be54444909e8408398ab07f83

7 years ago

Apple is patenting Swift features

https://forums.swift.org/t/apple-is-indeed-patenting-swift-features/19779

7 years ago

Practical Deep Learning for Coders 2019

https://www.fast.ai/2019/01/24/course-v3/

7 years ago

Oslo made its city center basically car-free

https://www.fastcompany.com/90294948/what-happened-when-oslo-decided-to-make-its-downtown-basically-car-free

7 years ago

Facebook to integrate the infrastructure for WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/25/technology/facebook-instagram-whatsapp-messenger.html

7 years ago

US shutdown: Flight delays caused by staff shortages

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47006907

7 years ago

Facebook Let Kids Rack Up Charges on Parents' Credit Cards

https://www.revealnews.org/article/facebook-knowingly-duped-game-playing-kids-and-their-parents-out-of-money/

7 years ago

It’s Time to Move on from Two Phase Commit

http://dbmsmusings.blogspot.com/2019/01/its-time-to-move-on-from-two-phase.html

7 years ago

Humaaans: Mix-and-match illustrations of people with a design library

https://www.humaaans.com

7 years ago

Revery – Native, high-performance, cross-platform desktop apps

https://github.com/revery-ui/revery

7 years ago

★ 8k Reason MIT

JMAP: Like IMAP but Not Really

https://unencumberedbyfacts.com/2019/01/24/jmap-its-like-imap-but-not-really/

7 years ago

What Happens When You Try to Sue Your Boss

https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2019-arbitration-hell/

7 years ago

Party is over for dirt-cheap solar panels, says China executive

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-davos-meeting-solar-gcl-idUSKCN1PI2OQ

7 years ago

ProseMirror – A toolkit for building rich-text editors on the web

http://prosemirror.net/

7 years ago

SCRIPT-8: An 8 Bit Fantasy Computer Programmed with Javascript

https://script-8.github.io/

7 years ago

The “Bug-O” Notation

https://overreacted.io/the-bug-o-notation/

7 years ago

Facebook Let Kids Rack Up Charges on Parents' Credit Cards

https://gizmodo.com/facebook-let-kids-rack-up-charges-on-parents-credit-car-1832053733

7 years ago

FCC accused of colluding with Big Cable to game 5G legal challenge

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/01/25/fcc_accused_of_colluding/

7 years ago

Coding Problems from Programming Job Interviews

http://www.java67.com/2018/05/top-75-programming-interview-questions-answers.html

7 years ago

The Art of Decision-Making

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/01/21/the-art-of-decision-making

7 years ago

Things we've learned about Series As

https://blog.ycombinator.com/things-we-learned-about-series-as/

7 years ago

How Big Firms Keep Wages Low

https://www.forbes.com/sites/teresaghilarducci/2019/01/21/uncovering-the-mystery-of-your-sluggish-paycheck/#70a9b2371d79

7 years ago

Show HN: I wanted to measure CO2 in my office, so I build a C++ WebServer/App

https://github.com/Maddimax/MadCO2

7 years ago

★ 104 C++

APL\iv: an APL interpreter and stream processor written in Go

https://github.com/ktye/iv

7 years ago

★ 135 Go

Continuing our work to improve recommendations on YouTube

https://youtube.googleblog.com/2019/01/continuing-our-work-to-improve.html

7 years ago

Your live coding demo is boring me (2015)

https://inconshreveable.com/11-13-2015/your-live-coding-demo-is-boring/

7 years ago

In a Hot Labor Market, Some Employees Are 'Ghosting' Bad Bosses

https://www.npr.org/2019/01/25/688303552/in-a-hot-labor-market-some-employees-are-ghosting-on-bad-bosses

7 years ago

Massive mortgage and loan data leak gets worse, original documents also exposed

https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/24/mortgage-loan-leak-gets-worse/

7 years ago

Why media layoffs keep happening

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1088503510184927233.html

7 years ago

Show HN: Queueing theory intro for software developers

https://github.com/joelparkerhenderson/queueing_theory

7 years ago

★ 2.2k

Autograms: Self-enumerating Sentences

http://autograms.net/

7 years ago

Former Google Design Ethicist: Big Tech in Schools Is Race to the Bottom (2018)

https://www.edsurge.com/news/2018-02-07-former-google-design-ethicist-relying-on-big-tech-in-schools-is-a-race-to-the-bottom

7 years ago

New Feelings: Selfish Intimacy

https://reallifemag.com/new-feelings-selfish-intimacy/

7 years ago

At least 14,000 unpaid IRS workers did not show up for work

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/01/25/least-unpaid-irs-workers-did-not-show-up-work-broad-shutdown-disruption-hits-tax-agency-according-house-aides/

7 years ago

The pros and cons of placebo buttons

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2019/01/26/the-pros-and-cons-of-placebo-buttons

7 years ago

Canada's Toughest Border Crossing

https://thewalrus.ca/canadas-toughest-border-crossing/

7 years ago

U.S. Hospitals Are Asking Their Own Patients to Donate Money

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/24/business/hospitals-asking-patients-donate-money.html

7 years ago

Badger vs. RocksDB

https://blog.dgraph.io/post/badger-over-rocksdb-in-dgraph/

7 years ago

Mystery tracks being 'forced' on your Spotify

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-46898211

7 years ago

U.S. Patent Operations May Shut Down in Second Week of February

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-24/u-s-patent-operations-may-shut-down-in-second-week-of-february

7 years ago

Soros at Davos: China's social credit system and Big IT are mortal threat

https://www.businessinsider.com/george-soros-davos-2019-criticism-of-china-xi-jinping-ai-it-monopolies-2019-1

7 years ago

Millions of Americans Flood into Mexico for Health Care

https://truthout.org/articles/millions-of-americans-flood-into-mexico-for-health-care/

7 years ago