top 20 hacker news stories for 2019-02-13

Why can’t a bot tick the 'I'm not a robot' box?

https://www.quora.com/Why-can-t-a-bot-tick-the-Im-not-a-robot-box/answer/Oliver-Emberton?share=1

7 years ago

1002 upvotes – 618 comments

SQL: One of the most valuable skills

http://www.craigkerstiens.com/2019/02/12/sql-most-valuable-skill/

7 years ago

821 upvotes – 382 comments

Nasa’s Mars Rover Opportunity Concludes a 15-Year Mission

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/13/science/mars-opportunity-rover-dead.html

7 years ago

728 upvotes – 221 comments

Whitespace killed an enterprise app

https://uxdesign.cc/how-white-space-killed-an-enterprise-app-and-why-data-density-matters-b3afad6a5f2a

7 years ago

708 upvotes – 435 comments

The Tech Behind SpaceX’s New Engine

https://hackaday.com/2019/02/13/the-impossible-tech-behind-spacexs-new-engine/

7 years ago

443 upvotes – 123 comments

FCC threatens carriers with 'regulatory intervention' over robocalls

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/429867-fcc-threatens-carriers-with-regulatory-intervention-on-robocalls

7 years ago

382 upvotes – 254 comments

Earnest Capital is live

https://earnestcapital.com/is-earnest-capital-live-yet/

7 years ago

368 upvotes – 144 comments

The text of Article 13 and the EU Copyright Directive has been finalised

https://juliareda.eu/2019/02/eu-copyright-final-text/

7 years ago

354 upvotes – 215 comments

Leon: An open-source personal assistant

https://github.com/leon-ai/leon

7 years ago

332 upvotes – 64 comments

Show HN: DeskGap – Like Electron, but uses the system webview

https://deskgap.com/

7 years ago

318 upvotes – 260 comments

Fyre Festival Was a Huge Scam. Is Netflix’s Fyre Documentary a Scam, Too?

https://newrepublic.com/article/153095/fyre-festival-huge-scam-netflixs-fyre-documentary-scam-too

7 years ago

314 upvotes – 152 comments

How hard is it to have a conversation on Twitter? So hard even the CEO can’t

https://www.recode.net/2019/2/12/18222558/kara-swisher-jack-dorsey-twitter-interview-conversation-karajack-livetweet

7 years ago

293 upvotes – 236 comments

Linux Reverse Engineering CTFs for Beginners

https://osandamalith.com/2019/02/11/linux-reverse-engineering-ctfs-for-beginners/

7 years ago

286 upvotes – 31 comments

The Theory of Relational Databases (1983)

http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~maier/TheoryBook/TRD.html

7 years ago

261 upvotes – 24 comments

Amazon in Its Prime: Doubles Profits, Pays $0 in Federal Income Taxes

https://itep.org/amazon-in-its-prime-doubles-profits-pays-0-in-federal-income-taxes/

7 years ago

228 upvotes – 311 comments

Show HN: I implemented Pong as a cellular automaton

https://ericu.github.io/CellCulTuring/

7 years ago

225 upvotes – 33 comments

Algorithms Behind Modern Storage Systems

https://www.infoq.com/presentations/storage-algorithms

7 years ago

211 upvotes – 5 comments

Handling 1M websocket connections in Go

https://github.com/eranyanay/1m-go-websockets

7 years ago

207 upvotes – 63 comments

A proof that Unix utility sed is Turing complete

https://catonmat.net/proof-that-sed-is-turing-complete

7 years ago

202 upvotes – 106 comments

Making a Menger sponge in stained glass

http://joshmillard.com/sgmenger/

7 years ago

171 upvotes – 29 comments
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