top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-07-23

No CS Degree – Interviews with self-taught developers

http://www.nocsdegree.com

7 years ago

Want to hire the best programmers? Offer growth

https://triplebyte.com/blog/want-hire-best-programmers-offer-growth

7 years ago

Mitchell Feigenbaum (1944–2019), 4.66920160910299067185320382…

https://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2019/07/mitchell-feigenbaum-1944-2019-4-66920160910299067185320382/

7 years ago

Ask HN: What people skills do you wish you learned earlier in your career?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20503813

7 years ago

I'm writing a book about algorithms and Lisp

https://lisp-univ-etc.blogspot.com/2019/07/programming-algorithms-book.html

7 years ago

Prototype: Puppeteer for Firefox

https://github.com/GoogleChrome/puppeteer/tree/master/experimental/puppeteer-firefox

7 years ago

★ 94.2k TypeScript Apache-2.0

Justice Department to Open Broad, New Antitrust Review of Big Tech Companies

https://www.wsj.com/articles/justice-department-to-open-broad-new-antitrust-review-of-big-tech-companies-11563914235?mod=rsswn

7 years ago

Lyft releases self-driving research dataset

https://medium.com/lyftlevel5/unlocking-access-to-self-driving-research-the-lyft-level-5-dataset-and-competition-d487c27b1b6c

7 years ago

Composable multi-threaded parallelism in Julia

https://julialang.org/blog/2019/07/multithreading

7 years ago

New York City to Consider Banning Sale of Cellphone Location Data

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/23/nyregion/cellphone-tracking-location-data.html

7 years ago

Toilets of the World

https://toilet-guru.com/

7 years ago

Facebook's fake account problem

http://www.aarongreenspan.com/writing/20190723/mark-zuckerbergs-ponzi-scheme/

7 years ago

Nodes – JavaScript-based 2D canvas for computational thinking

http://nodes.io/story/

7 years ago

The Man with the Golden Airline Ticket

https://narratively.com/the-man-with-the-golden-airline-ticket/

7 years ago

Files Are Fraught with Peril

https://danluu.com/deconstruct-files/

7 years ago

Show HN: Poli – An easy-to-use, open-source BI alternative

https://github.com/shzlw/poli

7 years ago

★ 1.9k Java MIT

Facebook deceived users about the way it used phone numbers, FTC to allege

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/07/23/facebook-deceived-users-about-way-it-used-phone-numbers-facial-recognition-ftc-allege-complaint/

7 years ago

Multi-Layer Dictionary (2016)

http://learnthesewordsfirst.com/about/what-is-a-multi-layer-dictionary.html

7 years ago

I Took Apple To Court And Won, Twice

https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/cgi7ro/i_took_apple_to_court_and_won_twice_water_damaged/

7 years ago

A Thriving Civilization in Malta Collapsed 4k Years Ago

http://nautil.us/blog/why-a-thriving-civilization-in-malta-collapsed-4000-years-ago

7 years ago

Attorney general: Americans should accept security risks of encryption backdoors

https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/23/william-barr-consumers-security-risks-backdoors/

7 years ago

Manual Work is a Bug – Always be automating (2018)

https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3197520

7 years ago

The video game industry can't go on like this

https://kotaku.com/the-video-game-industry-cant-go-on-like-this-1836606033

7 years ago

Are we happier when we spend more time with others?

https://ourworldindata.org/happiness-and-friends

7 years ago

My 300 Mile Lyft Ride From Chicago to Bradford

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2019/07/23/my-300-mile-lyft-ride-from-chicago-to-bradford

7 years ago

AI Portraits

https://aiportraits.com/

7 years ago

Mauritius Leaks exposes tiny tax haven's role in vast offshore system

https://www.icij.org/investigations/mauritius-leaks/treasure-island-leak-reveals-how-mauritius-siphons-tax-from-poor-nations-to-benefit-elites/

7 years ago

SVG Icons Using MIT License

https://github.com/edent/SuperTinyIcons/issues/214

7 years ago

★ 15.3k Python

AI is supercharging the creation of maps around the world

https://tech.fb.com/ai-is-supercharging-the-creation-of-maps-around-the-world/

7 years ago

List of programming talks

https://github.com/hellerve/programming-talks

7 years ago

★ 7.3k Python

L2 Regularization and Batch Norm

https://blog.janestreet.com/l2-regularization-and-batch-norm/

7 years ago

‘No girls born’ for past three months in area of India covering 132 villages

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/no-girls-born-india-villages-female-foeticide-sex-selective-abortions-a9015541.html

7 years ago

Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg’s Fake Accounts Ponzi Scheme

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2019/07/facebook-mark-zuckerbergs-fake-accounts-ponzi-scheme.html

7 years ago

Pen Refills Guide

https://unsharpen.com/pen-refill-guide/

7 years ago

Fighting persistent Lyme disease symptoms

https://elemental.medium.com/what-its-like-to-have-lyme-disease-forever-e207ae5e6f82

7 years ago

Quantum Darwinism, an Idea to Explain Objective Reality, Passes First Tests

https://www.quantamagazine.org/quantum-darwinism-an-idea-to-explain-objective-reality-passes-first-tests-20190722/

7 years ago

Retro 5″ Black and White TV as a computer monitor – A tale of pointlessness

https://blog.uchujin.co.uk/2019/07/retro-5-black-and-white-tv-as-a-computer-monitor-a-tale-of-pointlessness/

7 years ago

Simple Startup Cashflow Projections

https://docs.sendwithses.com/random-stuff/startup-cashflow-projections-spreadsheet

7 years ago

Why Google Poses a Serious Threat to Democracy, and How to End That Threat [pdf]

https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Epstein%20Testimony.pdf

7 years ago

Common Lisp Style Guide

https://lisp-lang.org/style-guide/

7 years ago

Christopher Kraft, NASA’s Face and Voice of Mission Control, Dies at 95

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/22/science/christopher-kraft-dead-nasa.html

7 years ago

Never-Googlers: Web users take the ultimate step to guard their data

https://www.thehour.com/news/article/Never-Googlers-Web-users-take-the-ultimate-step-14116157.php

7 years ago

Remembering Chris Kraft

https://www.nasa.gov/chris-kraft

7 years ago

Efficiently Generating Python Hash Collisions

https://www.leeholmes.com/blog/2019/07/23/efficiently-generating-python-hash-collisions/

7 years ago

Watch the Ridgecrest earthquake shatter desert floor in before-and-after images

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-07-22/ridgecrest-earthquake-images-broken-ground

7 years ago

Linux System Programming by Robert Love – Reading Notes

https://xmonkee.com/posts/LinuxSystemProgrammingCh1-4

7 years ago

Vimeo Disabled My Account for Submitting HTML

https://blog.michaelscepaniak.com/vimeo-disabled-my-account-for-submitting-html

7 years ago

How Stack Overflow upgraded from Windows Server 2012

https://stackoverflow.blog/2019/07/22/how-stack-overflow-upgraded-from-windows-server-2012/?cb=1

7 years ago

Coroutine Theory (2017)

https://lewissbaker.github.io/2017/09/25/coroutine-theory

7 years ago

The Black Market for Social Media Manipulation

https://www.stratcomcoe.org/black-market-social-media-manipulation

7 years ago

What it’s like to own an electric car

http://www.robertjacksonbennett.com/blog/what-its-like-to-own-an-electric-car

7 years ago