top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-02-05

Ask HN: What books changed the way you think about almost everything?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19087418

7 years ago

2009 upvotes – 1165 comments

Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation

https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/05/raiseit/

7 years ago

774 upvotes – 835 comments

HTTP/3 explained

https://http3-explained.haxx.se/en/

7 years ago

716 upvotes – 233 comments

About V, the language Volt is written in

https://volt.ws/lang

7 years ago

570 upvotes – 342 comments

Article 13 Is Back On: Worse, Not Better

https://juliareda.eu/2019/02/article-13-worse/

7 years ago

490 upvotes – 228 comments

Security Researcher Assaulted Following Vulnerability Disclosure

https://www.secjuice.com/security-researcher-assaulted-ice-atrient/

7 years ago

399 upvotes – 110 comments

Data Structure Visualizations (2011)

https://www.cs.usfca.edu/~galles/visualization/Algorithms.html

7 years ago

384 upvotes – 33 comments

How A Young Woman Followed Two Hackers' Lies to Her Death

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/josephbernstein/tomi-masters-down-the-rabbit-hole-i-go

7 years ago

366 upvotes – 134 comments

Lectures in Quantitative Economics as Python and Julia Notebooks

https://lectures.quantecon.org/

7 years ago

355 upvotes – 48 comments

Tarrare

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarrare

7 years ago

311 upvotes – 72 comments

Mandrill has been down for over 30 hours with no explanation

https://twitter.com/teotwaki/status/1092624972252618754

7 years ago

290 upvotes – 110 comments

Ask HN: Did offering a money-back guarantee help your business?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19085526

7 years ago

215 upvotes – 153 comments

Ike Jime, the Japanese Slaughter Method for Tastier Fish

https://guide.michelin.com/sg/dining-out/what-is-ike-jime/news

7 years ago

212 upvotes – 222 comments

Stop Reading News (2013)

https://fs.blog/2013/12/stop-reading-news/

7 years ago

211 upvotes – 202 comments

Floating Point Visually Explained (2017)

http://fabiensanglard.net/floating_point_visually_explained/index.php

7 years ago

206 upvotes – 17 comments

Ursula K. Le Guin Was a Creator of Worlds

https://www.neh.gov/article/ursula-k-le-guin-was-creator-worlds

7 years ago

199 upvotes – 61 comments

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation backtracks on one-year parental leaves

https://qz.com/work/1541822/the-bill-melinda-gates-foundation-is-backtracking-on-year-long-parental-leaves/

7 years ago

198 upvotes – 393 comments

Small World: The Tiny House Trend

https://believermag.com/small-world/

7 years ago

195 upvotes – 329 comments

Business networking is overrated (2017)

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/24/opinion/sunday/networking-connections-business.html

7 years ago

175 upvotes – 91 comments

The Decline of Historical Thinking

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-decline-of-historical-thinking

7 years ago

153 upvotes – 104 comments

Previous: NeXT computer hardware emulator

http://previous.alternative-system.com/

7 years ago

153 upvotes – 25 comments

The Hanabi Challenge: A New Frontier for AI Research

https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.00506

7 years ago

150 upvotes – 66 comments

X265 3.0 released

https://bitbucket.org/multicoreware/x265/src/46b84ff665fd301e384328972d3d1312a8c74599/doc/reST/releasenotes.rst?at=default&fileviewer=file-view-default

7 years ago

138 upvotes – 119 comments

Ketamine Could Soon Be Used to Treat Suicidal Ideation

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-02-05/ketamine-could-soon-be-used-to-treat-suicidal-ideation

7 years ago

135 upvotes – 143 comments

Electron v5.0 Timeline

https://electronjs.org/blog/electron-5-0-timeline

7 years ago

135 upvotes – 97 comments

The Bleak Reality of the Instagram Experience

https://thewalrus.ca/the-bleak-reality-of-the-instagram-experience/

7 years ago

130 upvotes – 87 comments

Journalism generated by machine is on the rise

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/05/business/media/artificial-intelligence-journalism-robots.html

7 years ago

123 upvotes – 59 comments

Swift 5 Exclusivity Enforcement

https://swift.org/blog/swift-5-exclusivity/

7 years ago

115 upvotes – 61 comments

Model Metropolis

https://logicmag.io/06-model-metropolis/

7 years ago

112 upvotes – 60 comments

Show HN: AskData – API to Translate Natural Language-2-Sql

https://www.askdata.com/product

7 years ago

111 upvotes – 22 comments

Apple Names Deirdre O’Brien Senior Vice President of Retail and People

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/02/apple-names-deirdre-obrien-senior-vice-president-of-retail-and-people/

7 years ago

111 upvotes – 106 comments

“100 spies” will monitor all SMS and email that goes in and out of Norway

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nettavisen.no%2Fnyheter%2F100-spioner-skal-overvake-alle-sms-er-og-e-poster-som-gar-inn-og-ut-av-norge%2F3423589246.html

7 years ago

108 upvotes – 46 comments

Real-time Continuous Transcription with Live Transcribe

https://ai.googleblog.com/2019/02/real-time-continuous-transcription-with.html

7 years ago

105 upvotes – 30 comments

How long will a 64 bit Transaction-ID last in PostgreSQL?

https://andreas.scherbaum.la/blog/archives/970-How-long-will-a-64-bit-Transaction-ID-last-in-PostgreSQL.html

7 years ago

101 upvotes – 32 comments

Chrome Never-Slow Mode Prototype

https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromium/src/+/1265506

7 years ago

96 upvotes – 71 comments

Vuvuzela: Metadata-private messaging

https://vuvuzela.io/getstarted

7 years ago

94 upvotes – 29 comments

Containers and Virtual Machines at the Edge

https://blog.stackpath.com/introducing-containers-and-virtual-machines-at-the-edge

7 years ago

93 upvotes – 19 comments

Our physiological processes become increasingly simple as we age

http://nautil.us/issue/68/context/the-real-secret-of-youth-is-complexity-rp

7 years ago

93 upvotes – 32 comments

Show HN: My Implementation of "Quick, Draw", a Game Developed by Google

https://github.com/vietnguyen91/QuickDraw

7 years ago

93 upvotes – 12 comments

The Multi-Armed Bandit Problem and Its Solutions (2018)

https://lilianweng.github.io/lil-log/2018/01/23/the-multi-armed-bandit-problem-and-its-solutions.html

7 years ago

92 upvotes – 24 comments

The Apple iPhone XR Review

https://www.anandtech.com/show/13912/the-apple-iphone-xr-review-brilliant-battery-life

7 years ago

91 upvotes – 153 comments

UUIDs in MySQL are really not random

https://blog.waleson.com/2019/02/uuids-in-mysql-are-really-not-random.html

7 years ago

86 upvotes – 67 comments

Doing Good Makes It Easier to Be Bad

http://nautil.us/blog/-why-doing-good-makes-it-easier-to-be-bad

7 years ago

78 upvotes – 45 comments

Running TensorFlow at Petascale and Beyond

https://www.nextplatform.com/2019/02/04/running-tensorflow-at-petascale-and-beyond/

7 years ago

77 upvotes – 28 comments

Ask HN: Work-life balance?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19085772

7 years ago

76 upvotes – 110 comments

Benchmarking Go vs. Node vs. Elixir

https://stressgrid.com/blog/benchmarking_go_vs_node_vs_elixir/

7 years ago

75 upvotes – 32 comments

Lazarus 2.0.0

http://forum.lazarus-ide.org/index.php?topic=44161

7 years ago

74 upvotes – 15 comments
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