top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-02-22

A Heavily-Commented Linux Kernel Source Code [pdf]

http://www.oldlinux.org/download/ECLK-5.0-WithCover.pdf

7 years ago

739 upvotes – 40 comments

Mark Zuckerberg Promised a Clear History Tool Almost a Year Ago

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/facebook-privacy-optics-clear-history-zuckerberg

7 years ago

578 upvotes – 185 comments

You Do Not Need Blockchain: Popular Use Cases and Why They Do Not Work

https://blog.smartdec.net/you-do-not-need-blockchain-eight-popular-use-cases-and-why-they-do-not-work-f2ecc6cc2129

7 years ago

515 upvotes – 392 comments

Linus Torvalds on Why ARM Won't Win the Server Space

https://www.realworldtech.com/forum/?threadid=183440&curpostid=183486

7 years ago

510 upvotes – 529 comments

Hayabusa-2: Japan Spacecraft Touches Down on Asteroid

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-47293317

7 years ago

450 upvotes – 144 comments

New York governor orders probe into Facebook access to data from other apps

https://www.reuters.com/article/facebook-new-york/new-york-governor-cuomo-orders-probe-into-facebook-access-to-personal-data-idUSKCN1QB2BK

7 years ago

410 upvotes – 92 comments

Firefox to Block All 3rd Party Trackers by Default

https://twitter.com/jensimmons/status/1098335173089873920

7 years ago

401 upvotes – 186 comments

New ‘past’ link on HN front page

https://news.ycombinator.com/front

7 years ago

350 upvotes – 174 comments

An update about Redis developments in 2019

http://antirez.com/news/126

7 years ago

339 upvotes – 88 comments

Apple Is Blocking Linux User-Agent on appleid.apple.com

https://fosstodon.org/@alexbuzzbee/101633318704187857

7 years ago

335 upvotes – 140 comments

RIP Culture War Thread

https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/02/22/rip-culture-war-thread/

7 years ago

301 upvotes – 293 comments

Apple to Close Stores in Eastern District of Texas to Fight Patent Trolls

https://www.macrumors.com/2019/02/22/apple-closing-stores-in-eastern-district-texas/

7 years ago

300 upvotes – 187 comments

Four new DNA letters double life’s alphabet

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00650-8

7 years ago

277 upvotes – 116 comments

How to Make Other Developers Hate to Work with You

https://anaxi.com/blog/2019/02/20/how-to-make-other-developers-hate-to-work-with-you/

7 years ago

272 upvotes – 179 comments

Outrage culture is out of control

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-rommelmann-me-too-portland-20190222-story.html

7 years ago

236 upvotes – 143 comments

Launch HN: Modern Labor (YC W19) – Paying People to Learn to Code

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19227441

7 years ago

229 upvotes – 261 comments

Microsoft Workers Demand It Drop $450M U.S. Army Contract

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-microsoft-army/microsoft-workers-demand-it-drop-450-million-u-s-army-contract-idUSKCN1QB2LV

7 years ago

227 upvotes – 290 comments

12-Year-Old Claims to Have Achieved Nuclear Fusion at Home (2018)

http://www.fusor.net/board/viewtopic.php?t=12115#p78866

7 years ago

217 upvotes – 92 comments

Programming Books You Wish You Read Earlier

https://zeroequalsfalse.press/posts/programming-books-you-wish-you-read-earlier/

7 years ago

208 upvotes – 39 comments

Facebook collects a wide range of private data from developers

https://www.wsj.com/articles/you-give-apps-sensitive-personal-information-then-they-tell-facebook-11550851636

7 years ago

207 upvotes – 69 comments

Notes from Malcolm Gladwell's Writing Masterclass

https://taimur.me/posts/notes-from-malcolm-gladwell-s-writing-masterclass-part-1

7 years ago

197 upvotes – 87 comments

Show HN: Material Kit – Open Source UI for Bootstrap, React, Vuejs, React Native

https://github.com/creativetimofficial/material-kit

7 years ago

★ 5.9k HTML MIT
193 upvotes – 59 comments

EA and Activision Blizzard CEOs Featured in 'The 100 Most Overpaid CEOs' Report

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/337304/EA_and_Activision_Blizzard_CEOs_featured_in_The_100_Most_Overpaid_CEOs_report.php

7 years ago

191 upvotes – 1 comments

Datomic, Datalog, GraphQL, APIs, etc.

http://tank.hyperfiddle.com/:dustingetz!timothy-baldridge-datomic-datalog/

7 years ago

177 upvotes – 11 comments

Gitlab 11.8 Released

https://about.gitlab.com/2019/02/22/gitlab-11-8-released/

7 years ago

175 upvotes – 56 comments

Apple to Close Retail Stores in Patent Troll-Favored Eastern District of Texas

https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/22/apple-confirms-its-plans-to-close-retail-stores-in-the-patent-troll-favored-eastern-district-of-texas/

7 years ago

174 upvotes – 2 comments

An Office Designed for Workers with Autism

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/02/21/magazine/autism-office-design.html

7 years ago

167 upvotes – 76 comments

YouTube Just Demonetized Anti-Vax Channels

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/carolineodonovan/youtube-just-demonetized-anti-vax-channels

7 years ago

161 upvotes – 234 comments

Computer Modeling Should Become a Popular Hobby

http://www.qrg.northwestern.edu/papers/files/simhobby-local.htm

7 years ago

160 upvotes – 50 comments

Forecasting in Python with Prophet

https://mode.com/example-gallery/forecasting_prophet_python_cookbook/

7 years ago

151 upvotes – 23 comments

A Brutal Look at Balanced Parentheses, Computing Machines, and Pushdown Automata

http://raganwald.com/2019/02/14/i-love-programming-and-programmers.html

7 years ago

146 upvotes – 77 comments

Useful Postgres Extension: Pg_stat_statements

https://www.citusdata.com/blog/2019/02/08/the-most-useful-postgres-extension-pg-stat-statements/

7 years ago

141 upvotes – 4 comments

World's largest bee ‘rediscovered’ after 38 years

http://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2019/february/the-worlds-largest-bee-rediscovered-after-38-years.html

7 years ago

130 upvotes – 42 comments

Ask HN: How Would You or Did Convince Your Boss That You Can Work Remote?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19224830

7 years ago

129 upvotes – 119 comments

It Started With a Jolt: How New York Became a Tech Town

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/22/technology/nyc-tech-startups.html

7 years ago

127 upvotes – 187 comments

Facebook Will Shut Down Its Spyware VPN App Onavo

https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/21/facebook-removes-onavo/

7 years ago

124 upvotes – 31 comments

Breaking Out of Docker via RunC

https://www.twistlock.com/labs-blog/breaking-docker-via-runc-explaining-cve-2019-5736/

7 years ago

116 upvotes – 20 comments

Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 6GB Review

https://www.anandtech.com/show/13973/nvidia-gtx-1660-ti-review-feat-evga-xc-gaming

7 years ago

115 upvotes – 88 comments

What Charles Bukowski’s Glamorous Displays of Alcoholism Left Out

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/20/books/review/charles-bukowski-on-drinking.html

7 years ago

112 upvotes – 76 comments

Why I prefer objects over switch statements

https://enmascript.com/articles/2018/10/22/why-I-prefer-objects-over-switch-statements

7 years ago

112 upvotes – 99 comments

When Algorithms Think You Want to Die

https://www.wired.com/story/when-algorithms-think-you-want-to-die/

7 years ago

102 upvotes – 61 comments

Ask HN: Which companies are improving recruiting?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19222939

7 years ago

98 upvotes – 62 comments

Ask HN: How Can I Sell My Project?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19224866

7 years ago

97 upvotes – 36 comments

I Left a Buddhist Retreat in Handcuffs

https://www.esquire.com/uk/latest-news/a25651175/the-other-side-of-paradise-how-i-left-a-buddhist-retreat-in-handcuffs/

7 years ago

91 upvotes – 96 comments

National Geospatial Intelligence Agency Open Source Software

https://github.com/ngageoint

7 years ago

89 upvotes – 12 comments

Cambridge University Launches Archive of Aerial Photos Going Back to 1945

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2019/feb/22/historical-google-earth-project-changing-britain-aerial-photography

7 years ago

88 upvotes – 15 comments

Roma's Wounding Confession

http://churchlife.nd.edu/2019/02/22/romas-wounding-confession/

7 years ago

86 upvotes – 31 comments

Scientists Release Genetically Modified Mosquitoes in High-Security Lab

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2019/02/20/693735499/scientists-release-controversial-genetically-modified-mosquitoes-in-high-securit

7 years ago

71 upvotes – 73 comments
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