top 20 hacker news stories for 2019-01-29

Facebook has been paying people to install a “Research” VPN

https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/29/facebook-project-atlas/

7 years ago

1454 upvotes – 445 comments

Instacart paying 80 cents an hour because worker received a large tip

https://www.workingwa.org/instacart-eighty-cents

7 years ago

1320 upvotes – 675 comments

Firefox 65.0 released

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/65.0/releasenotes/

7 years ago

724 upvotes – 414 comments

Show HN: Open startups with their revenue, metrics, and stories

https://postmake.io/open

7 years ago

475 upvotes – 82 comments

A Self-Learning, Modern Computer Science Curriculum

https://functionalcs.github.io/curriculum/

7 years ago

394 upvotes – 30 comments

Advice to new programmers

http://olafurw.com/2019-01-27-programmer-advice/

7 years ago

391 upvotes – 117 comments

The Man Who Invented Information Theory (2017)

http://bostonreview.net/science-nature/tom-rutledge-man-who-invented-information-theory

7 years ago

380 upvotes – 100 comments

AresDB: Uber’s GPU-Powered Open-Source, Real-Time Analytics Engine

https://eng.uber.com/aresdb/

7 years ago

375 upvotes – 107 comments

Apple was warned about the FaceTime eavesdropping bug last week

https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/29/18202398/apple-facetime-bug-warned-eavesdropping

7 years ago

361 upvotes – 131 comments

Ask HN: Highest paying remote companies?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19024575

7 years ago

356 upvotes – 97 comments

Office 365 global authentication outage

https://status.office365.com/

7 years ago

342 upvotes – 154 comments

Systemd as tragedy

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/777595/a71362cc65b1c271/

7 years ago

288 upvotes – 401 comments

Visual Programming Doesn’t Suck

https://blog.statebox.org/why-visual-programming-doesnt-suck-2c1ece2a414e

7 years ago

280 upvotes – 325 comments

YC 120

https://blog.ycombinator.com/yc-120/

7 years ago

273 upvotes – 137 comments

Gmail Services Global Outage

https://outage.report/gmail

7 years ago

272 upvotes – 159 comments

Lessons learned scaling a PostgreSQL database to 1.2bn records/month

https://medium.com/@gajus/lessons-learned-scaling-postgresql-database-to-1-2bn-records-month-edc5449b3067

7 years ago

259 upvotes – 73 comments

Analyzing the Performance of WebAssembly vs. Native Code

https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.09056

7 years ago

250 upvotes – 172 comments

The Tao of Programming (1987)

http://www.textfiles.com/100/taoprogram.pro

7 years ago

245 upvotes – 57 comments

A New Golden Age for Computer Architecture

https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2019/2/234352-a-new-golden-age-for-computer-architecture/fulltext

7 years ago

231 upvotes – 84 comments

Show HN: Deep Learning GUI to Create, Train and Visualize Models in a Browser

https://beta.aifiddle.io/

7 years ago

216 upvotes – 44 comments
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