top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-02-11

Google Docs gets an API for task automation

https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/11/google-docs-gets-an-api-for-task-automation/

7 years ago

The Psychological Trap of Freelancing

https://www.thecut.com/2019/02/why-freelancing-creates-anxiety-about-money.html

7 years ago

Undercover spy exposed in NYC was one of many

https://apnews.com/a1d1af4256c04cc5a36347667e966a14

7 years ago

The Raspberry Pi store is much cooler than an Apple Store

https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/07/the-raspberry-pi-store-is-much-cooler-than-an-apple-store/

7 years ago

None of my projects want to be SPAs

https://whatisjasongoldstein.com/writing/help-none-of-my-projects-want-to-be-spas

7 years ago

38% of bugs at Airbnb could have been prevented by using types

https://www.reddit.com/r/typescript/comments/aofcik/38_of_bugs_at_airbnb_could_have_been_prevented_by/

7 years ago

Arborists Have Cloned Ancient Redwoods from Their Massive Stumps

https://e360.yale.edu/digest/arborists-have-cloned-ancient-redwoods-from-their-massive-stumps

7 years ago

Amazon is buying Eero

https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/11/amazon-is-buying-home-mesh-router-startup-eero/

7 years ago

Tasks That Can Be Done with Pure HTML and CSS

https://www.256kilobytes.com/content/show/4399/get-these-dependencies-off-my-lawn-5-tasks-you-didnt-know-could-be-done-with-pure-html-and-css

7 years ago

Mars One, which offered 1-way trips to Mars, declared bankrupt

https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/mars-one-bankrupt-1.5014522

7 years ago

What's next for SemVer

https://words.steveklabnik.com/what-s-next-for-semver

7 years ago

The Brain’s “Inner GPS” Creates Conceptual Spaces in the Mind

http://nautil.us/blog/new-evidence-for-the-geometry-of-thought

7 years ago

An optimization guide for assembly programmers and compiler makers (2018) [pdf]

https://www.agner.org/optimize/microarchitecture.pdf

7 years ago

Pricing Experiments You Can Learn From (2011)

https://conversionxl.com/blog/pricing-experiments-you-might-not-know-but-can-learn-from/

7 years ago

NBC took Bob Costas off the Super Bowl for speaking out about concussions

http://www.espn.com/espn/otl/story/_/id/25914913/inside-story-how-legendary-nfl-broadcaster-bob-costas-ended-excised-football-nbc-espn

7 years ago

A letter to Steven Pinker about global poverty

https://www.jasonhickel.org/blog/2019/2/3/pinker-and-global-poverty

7 years ago

Next.js 8 released

https://nextjs.org/blog/next-8

7 years ago

CVE-2019-5736: runc container breakout

https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2019/q1/119

7 years ago

Datashader: turns even the largest data into images, accurately

http://datashader.org/

7 years ago

Cheap and simple medical devices have to overcome deeply rooted biases

https://www.newyorker.com/science/elements/reverse-innovation-could-save-lives-why-isnt-western-medicine-embracing-it

7 years ago

Build your own dial-up ISP in 2019

https://dogemicrosystems.ca/wiki/Build_you_own_dial_up_ISP_in_2019

7 years ago

PyPy v7.0.0: triple release of 2.7, 3.5 and 3.6-alpha

https://morepypy.blogspot.com/2019/02/pypy-v700-triple-release-of-27-35-and.html

7 years ago

Dolly Parton Gives a Library of 100M Books (2018)

https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2018/03/01/589912466/dolly-parton-gives-the-gift-of-literacy-a-library-of-100-million-books

7 years ago

Ask HN: Is it just me or did Google search recently get a lot worse?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19132927

7 years ago

Reflecting on the Soul of a New Machine

http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2019/02/10/reflecting-on-the-soul-of-a-new-machine/

7 years ago

Ask HN: Resources for engineers new to system design

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19133097

7 years ago

Bounty Hunt Announced on Swiss eVoting System

https://onlinevote-pit.ch/details/

7 years ago

Low Level Programming of the Raspberry Pi in C (2013)

http://www.pieter-jan.com/node/15

7 years ago

Why I quit a $500K job at Amazon to work for myself

https://danielvassallo.com/only-intrinsic-motivation-lasts/

7 years ago

What It’s Like to Work Inside Apple’s ‘Black Site’

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-02-11/apple-black-site-gives-contractors-few-perks-little-security

7 years ago

YC Interviews in NYC

https://blog.ycombinator.com/yc-interviews-in-nyc/

7 years ago

World’s oldest known wild bird is a mother again on Midway Atoll

https://www.staradvertiser.com/2019/02/11/hawaii-news/worlds-oldest-known-wild-bird-is-a-mother-again-on-midway-atoll-2/

7 years ago

Microsoft: 70 percent of all security bugs are memory safety issues

https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-70-percent-of-all-security-bugs-are-memory-safety-issues/

7 years ago

The Bias Bias in Behavioral Economics

https://www.nowpublishers.com/article/Details/RBE-0092

7 years ago

Russia considers 'unplugging' from internet

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-47198426

7 years ago

Forge – Work with Git forges from the comfort of Magit

https://github.com/magit/forge/

7 years ago

★ 1.5k Emacs Lisp GPL-3.0

Openrsync imported into the tree

https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20190211081518

7 years ago

The Mathematics of the Rubik’s Cube (2009) [pdf]

https://web.mit.edu/sp.268/www/rubik.pdf

7 years ago

Air Canada agents reveal overselling practices

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/air-canada-agents-reveal-oversell-practices-1.5008217

7 years ago

What Is Differentiable Programming?

https://fluxml.ai/2019/02/07/what-is-differentiable-programming.html

7 years ago

Neural Networks, Manifolds, and Topology (2014)

https://colah.github.io/posts/2014-03-NN-Manifolds-Topology/

7 years ago

Be: Fundraising Misadventures

https://mondaynote.com/50-years-in-tech-part-16-be-fundraising-misadventures-23c566b82085

7 years ago

Unity Technologies Targeting 2020 IPO

https://cheddar.com/media/unity-technologies-targeting-2020-ipo-sources

7 years ago

Private Mossad for Hire

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/02/18/private-mossad-for-hire

7 years ago

Ask HN: How bad is freelancing?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19133864

7 years ago

AMD Ryzen 5 2500X and Ryzen 3 2300X CPU Review

https://www.anandtech.com/show/13945/the-amd-ryzen-5-2500x-and-ryzen-3-2300x-cpu-review

7 years ago

The Next Wave of ‘Unicorn’ Startups

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/10/technology/new-wave-unicorn-start-ups.html

7 years ago

Russia to disconnect from the internet as part of a planned test

https://www.zdnet.com/article/russia-to-disconnect-from-the-internet-as-part-of-a-planned-test/

7 years ago

Apple's iPhone Shipments Plunge in China as Huawei Tightens Grip

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-11/apple-s-iphone-shipments-plunge-in-china-as-huawei-tightens-grip

7 years ago

Feynman on Fermat's Last Theorem (2016)

http://www.lbatalha.com/blog/feynman-on-fermats-last-theorem

7 years ago

Activision Blizzard staff reportedly bracing for layoffs

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2019-02-11-activision-blizzard-staff-reportedly-bracing-for-layoffs

7 years ago

The Chinese fascination with numbers

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20190210-why-china-is-obsessed-with-numbers

7 years ago

Shipwreck reveals ancient market for knock-off consumer goods

https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/02/shipwreck-reveals-ancient-market-for-knock-off-consumer-goods/

7 years ago

Launch HN: Aura Vision (YC W19) – Google Analytics for Physical Stores

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19136734

7 years ago

The Dream Hoarders: How America's Top Percent Perpetuates Inequality

https://bostonreview.net/class-inequality-education-opportunity/richard-v-reeves-dream-hoarders-how-americas-top-20-percent

7 years ago

Chrome plugin that adds a laugh track to all videos

https://labs.earthpeople.se/2019/02/make-all-videos-fun-to-watch/

7 years ago

Dialogical logic programming

http://boxbase.org/entries/2019/feb/11/dialogical-logic-programming/

7 years ago

The Data Science of MathOverflow

https://blog.wolfram.com/2019/02/01/the-data-science-of-mathoverflow/

7 years ago

SoftBank’s next bet: $940M into autonomous delivery startup Nuro

https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/11/softbanks-next-bet-940m-into-autonomous-delivery-startup-nuro/

7 years ago

Metabase, an Uber Co-Founder’s New Big Data Startup, Raises $13M

https://news.crunchbase.com/news/metabase-an-uber-co-founders-new-big-data-startup-raises-13m/30/

7 years ago

Ironies of Automation (1983) [pdf]

https://www.ise.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Bainbridge_1983_Automatica.pdf

7 years ago

I tried to keep my unborn child secret from Facebook and Google

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/the-internet-hates-secrets

7 years ago

Developers Are the Problem, Not Monoliths

https://codeboje.de/developers-problem-not-monoliths/

7 years ago

The night parrot, Australia's most elusive bird

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-02-10/night-parrot-chase/10612496

7 years ago