top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-01-26

When a Bike Company Put a TV on Its Box, Shipping Damages Went Down (2017)

https://www.bicycling.com/news/a20027122/vanmoof-tv-on-box-damaged-bikes/

7 years ago

Bill Gates promises to add his own billions if Congress does nuclear power push

https://www.geekwire.com/2019/report-bill-gates-promises-add-billions-congress-helps-nuclear-power-push/

7 years ago

How to Hack an Expensive Camera

https://alexhude.github.io/2019/01/24/hacking-leica-m240.html

7 years ago

Game Loop

http://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/game-loop.html

7 years ago

H-1B: Oracle favored hiring foreign graduates of US colleges over American grads

https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/01/25/h-1b-oracle-favored-hiring-foreign-graduates-of-u-s-colleges-over-american-grads-feds-allege

7 years ago

Mark Zuckerberg Speaks Down to Users and Misses the Point

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/01/wsj-op-ed-mark-zuckerberg-speaks-down-users-and-misses-point

7 years ago

My Losing Battle with Enterprise Sales

https://lukekanies.com/my-losing-battle-with-enterprise-sales/

7 years ago

Undercover Agents Target Citizen Lab

https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2019/01/25/us/ap-cybersecurity-undercover-operatives.html

7 years ago

Snark Barker: A 100% compatible replica of the famed SB 1.0 soundcard

https://github.com/schlae/snark-barker

7 years ago

★ 678 C++

“Facebook are going to monetize encrypted messaging by consolidating metadata”

https://threader.app/thread/1088914192847917056

7 years ago

Why Are Young People Pretending to Love Work?

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/26/business/against-hustle-culture-rise-and-grind-tgim.html

7 years ago

Fossil vs Git

https://fossil-scm.org/fossil/doc/trunk/www/fossil-v-git.wiki

7 years ago

LaTeX Coffee Stains (2009) [pdf]

http://hanno-rein.de/downloads/coffee.pdf

7 years ago

Memory usage of a toy C# server and client with 500K concurrent connections on

https://github.com/kjpgit/techdemo/blob/master/dotnet_client_server/README.md

7 years ago

★ 127 C#

Google Memo on Cost Cuts Sparks Heated Debate Inside Company

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-26/google-memo-on-cost-cuts-sparks-heated-debate-inside-company

7 years ago

We value your privacy now, but maybe not later

https://raimue.blog/2019/01/26/we-value-your-privacy-now-but-maybe-not-later/

7 years ago

We Can't Just Assume that Facebook Will Do Its Best

https://www.zeit.de/digital/internet/2019-01/privacy-katarina-barley-data-protection-facebook-ad-targeting-mark-zuckerberg

7 years ago

Germany lays out a path to quit coal by 2038

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/26/world/europe/germany-quit-coal-2038.html

7 years ago

Professional Software Development

https://mixmastamyk.bitbucket.io/pro_soft_dev/index.html

7 years ago

Open source, privacy-enabled smartphone operating systems

https://gitlab.e.foundation/e

7 years ago

Facebook: The Normalization of What Should Never Have Been Accepted as Normal

https://www.forbes.com/sites/enriquedans/2019/01/26/facebook-the-normalization-of-what-should-never-have-been-accepted-as-normal/#690c52831e41

7 years ago

Making C Less Dangerous in the Linux Kernel [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY9SbqTO5GQ

7 years ago

Show HN: Deep Learning in TensorFlow – The Roadmap for Study and Learning

https://github.com/astorfi/TensorFlow-Roadmap

7 years ago

★ 21 Python

Demand and Salaries for Data Scientists Continue to Climb

https://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/at-work/tech-careers/demand-and-salaries-for-data-scientists-continue-to-climb

7 years ago

Geek heroes rescue Tonga from worst case fibre optic cable blackout

https://matangitonga.to/2019/01/26/geek-heroes-rescue-tonga-worst%20case

7 years ago

The Perils and Pleasures of Bartending in Antarctica (2017)

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/bartender-antarctica-south-pole

7 years ago

Facil.io: A micro-framework for C web applications

https://github.com/boazsegev/facil.io

7 years ago

★ 2.3k C MIT

The China Conundrum – are we headed for a supply chain meltdown?

https://diginomica.com/2019/01/25/the-china-conundrum-are-we-headed-for-a-supply-chain-meltdown/

7 years ago

OpenStreetMap Foundation investigation into unusual membership signups [pdf]

https://openstreetmap.lu/MWGGlobalLogicReport20181226.pdf

7 years ago

Automation Agenda of the Davos Elite

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/25/technology/automation-davos-world-economic-forum.html

7 years ago

List of review articles on ML and AI that are on arXiv

https://freenode-machinelearning.github.io/Resources/ArticlesReview.html#papers

7 years ago

1600s England Through the Eyes of One of the First Modern Travel Writers (2017)

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/see-1600s-england-through-eyes-one-first-travel-writers-180963536/

7 years ago

Podman and Buildah available in RHEL 7.6 and RHEL 8 Beta

https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2018/11/20/buildah-podman-containers-without-daemons/

7 years ago