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

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

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

7 years ago

Firefox 65.0 released

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

7 years ago

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

https://postmake.io/open

7 years ago

A Self-Learning, Modern Computer Science Curriculum

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

7 years ago

Advice to new programmers

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

7 years ago

The Man Who Invented Information Theory (2017)

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

7 years ago

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

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

7 years ago

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

Ask HN: Highest paying remote companies?

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

7 years ago

Office 365 global authentication outage

https://status.office365.com/

7 years ago

Systemd as tragedy

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

7 years ago

Visual Programming Doesn’t Suck

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

7 years ago

YC 120

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

7 years ago

Gmail Services Global Outage

https://outage.report/gmail

7 years ago

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

Analyzing the Performance of WebAssembly vs. Native Code

https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.09056

7 years ago

The Tao of Programming (1987)

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

7 years ago

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

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

https://beta.aifiddle.io/

7 years ago