top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-07-25

Saving Lydia

https://medium.com/lydian-accelerator/saving-lydia-62a1c0bdf0fb

6 years ago

639 upvotes – 111 comments

Some items from my “reliability list”

http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2019/07/21/reliability/

6 years ago

567 upvotes – 169 comments

CERN migrates to open-source technologies

https://home.cern/news/news/computing/migrating-open-source-technologies

6 years ago

498 upvotes – 141 comments

Square’s Growth Framework for Engineers and Engineering Managers

https://developer.squareup.com/blog/squares-growth-framework-for-engineers-and-engineering-managers/

6 years ago

486 upvotes – 239 comments

Photographers, Instagrammers: Stop Being So Selfish and Disrespectful

https://petapixel.com/2019/07/22/photographers-instagrammers-stop-being-so-dmn-selfish-and-disrespectful/

6 years ago

436 upvotes – 215 comments

Vital Wikipedia Articles

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Vital_articles

6 years ago

436 upvotes – 77 comments

“My GitHub account has been restricted due to US sanctions as I live in Crimea”

https://github.com/tkashkin/GameHub/issues/289

6 years ago

396 upvotes – 380 comments

A History of Visa

http://minesafetydisclosures.com/blog/2019/5/29/part-l-a-history-of-visa

6 years ago

324 upvotes – 88 comments

The Rust compiler is still getting faster

https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/2019/07/25/the-rust-compiler-is-still-getting-faster/

6 years ago

324 upvotes – 96 comments

Submit Your Claim in the Equifax Breach Settlement

https://www.equifaxbreachsettlement.com/

6 years ago

301 upvotes – 199 comments

Alibaba partner announces 16 core RISC-V chip

https://www.caixinglobal.com/2019-07-25/alibaba-chip-subsidiary-launches-first-product-using-open-source-architecture-101443785.html

6 years ago

294 upvotes – 258 comments

An Introduction to Recurrent Neural Networks

https://victorzhou.com/blog/intro-to-rnns/

6 years ago

281 upvotes – 23 comments

MQTT: A Conceptual Deep-Dive

https://www.ably.io/concepts/mqtt

6 years ago

265 upvotes – 56 comments

McKinsey Advised Johnson and Johnson on Increasing Opioid Sales

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/25/business/mckinsey-johnson-and-johnson-opioids.html

6 years ago

261 upvotes – 156 comments

Teenage Engineering has won over kids and professionals with a synthesizer

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/25/magazine/electronic-music-synthesizers.html

6 years ago

253 upvotes – 164 comments

Ask HN: What did you do when you suddenly got rich?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20521902

6 years ago

248 upvotes – 183 comments

Apple to acquire the majority of Intel's smartphone modem business

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/07/apple-to-acquire-the-majority-of-intels-smartphone-modem-business/

6 years ago

219 upvotes – 70 comments

Chris Hughes, a Facebook Founder, Is Working With the Government to Break It Up

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/25/technology/chris-hughes-facebook-breakup.html

6 years ago

202 upvotes – 93 comments

Tulsi Gabbard Sues Google for Suspending Ad Account

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/25/technology/tulsi-gabbard-sues-google.html

6 years ago

192 upvotes – 238 comments

What an attacker gets from Apple devices if they sniff Bluetooth traffic

https://hexway.io/blog/apple-bleee/

6 years ago

190 upvotes – 81 comments

Cryptocurrency trading bot in ~40 lines of JavaScript

https://github.com/thomasdavis/blockbid-ccxt-tutorials

6 years ago

180 upvotes – 77 comments

Approaching Peak Housing Dysfunction in California

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2019/7/24/approaching-peak-housing-dysfunction-in-california

6 years ago

174 upvotes – 247 comments

Crafting Interpreters: Calls and Functions

https://craftinginterpreters.com/calls-and-functions.html

6 years ago

172 upvotes – 34 comments

US proposes barring tech companies from offering financial services

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/15/us-proposes-barring-tech-companies-from-offering-financial-services.html

6 years ago

171 upvotes – 173 comments

Paris breaks all-time high temperature as deadly heat wave grips Europe

https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/scorching-heat-produces-all-time-record-highs-in-belgium-netherlands-as-western-europe-swelters-under-heat-wave/70008886

6 years ago

171 upvotes – 167 comments

In the US, wells being drilled ever deeper as groundwater vanishes

https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/07/wells-are-getting-deeper-as-groundwater-gets-depleted/

6 years ago

169 upvotes – 179 comments

The Hidden Costs of Automated Thinking

https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/the-hidden-costs-of-automated-thinking

6 years ago

166 upvotes – 59 comments

ChaiScript – Easy to Use Scripting for C++

http://chaiscript.com/

6 years ago

160 upvotes – 89 comments

How to Write a Thesis (1977)

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/umberto-eco-how-to-write-a-thesis/

6 years ago

153 upvotes – 22 comments

Beijing says military could intervene in Hong Kong

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2019-07-24/beijing-strikes-ominous-tone-saying-military-could-intervene-in-hong-kong

6 years ago

152 upvotes – 189 comments

Kyoto Animation artworks go on display nationwide in remembrance of arson attack

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/24/national/kyoto-animation-artworks-go-display-nationwide-remembrance-arson-attack/

6 years ago

146 upvotes – 41 comments

I thought I was being ‘blacklisted’, so I demanded to see colleagues’ emails

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/university-blacklist-academic-phd-a9016186.html

6 years ago

140 upvotes – 193 comments

Mental models

https://nesslabs.com/mental-models

6 years ago

140 upvotes – 37 comments

How Weight Training Might Change the Brain

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/24/well/move/how-weight-training-changes-the-brain.html

6 years ago

136 upvotes – 174 comments

Show HN: CLI forensics tool for tracking USB device artifacts on Linux

https://github.com/snovvcrash/usbrip

6 years ago

136 upvotes – 24 comments

Kern Microtechnik: Accurate CNC Machines [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ijl6uDa_kQU

6 years ago

134 upvotes – 67 comments

Raspberry Pi microSD follow-up, SD Association fools me twice?

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2019/raspberry-pi-microsd-follow-sd-association-fools-me-twice

6 years ago

133 upvotes – 96 comments

Valonia ventricosa

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

6 years ago

132 upvotes – 39 comments

Amazon deforestation accelerating to unrecoverable 'tipping point'

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/25/amazonian-rainforest-near-unrecoverable-tipping-point

6 years ago

131 upvotes – 63 comments

The Internet Loves a Rest Stop in Breezewood, Pennsylvania

https://www.citylab.com/design/2019/07/breezewood-meme-pennsylvania-turnpike-i-70-rest-stop-photos/594559/

6 years ago

129 upvotes – 100 comments

Could wooden building be a solution to climate change?

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20190717-climate-change-wooden-architecture-concrete-global-warming

6 years ago

128 upvotes – 114 comments

A Permanently Magnetic Liquid

https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-have-printed-droplets-of-permanently-magnetic-liquid-and-boy-is-it-trippy

6 years ago

127 upvotes – 32 comments

Alphabet Announces Second Quarter 2019 Results [pdf]

https://abc.xyz/investor/static/pdf/2019Q2_alphabet_earnings_release.pdf

6 years ago

127 upvotes – 147 comments

Amazon.com Announces Second Quarter Sales Up 20%

https://ir.aboutamazon.com/news-releases/news-release-details/amazoncom-announces-second-quarter-sales-20-634-billion

6 years ago

125 upvotes – 140 comments

Cargo ships that ‘liquefy’ (2018)

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20180905-the-cargo-ships-that-liquefy

6 years ago

119 upvotes – 53 comments

Alpha Compositing

https://ciechanow.ski/alpha-compositing/

6 years ago

118 upvotes – 27 comments

I Used to Be a Human Being (2016)

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2016/09/andrew-sullivan-my-distraction-sickness-and-yours.html

6 years ago

110 upvotes – 33 comments

Spaced Repetition

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

6 years ago

106 upvotes – 112 comments

Man Who Built the Retweet: “We Handed a Loaded Weapon to 4-Year-Olds”

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/alexkantrowitz/how-the-retweet-ruined-the-internet

6 years ago

106 upvotes – 137 comments

Google Cloud's run rate is now over $8B

https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/25/google-clouds-run-rate-is-now-over-8b/

6 years ago

106 upvotes – 64 comments

Alaskan glaciers melting 100 times faster than previously thought

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/07/alaskan-glaciers-melting-faster-than-previously-thought/

6 years ago

106 upvotes – 29 comments

Math versus Dirty Data

https://jeremykun.com/2019/06/08/math-versus-data/

6 years ago

103 upvotes – 16 comments

Equifax CEO pushed out after data hack getting nearly $20M in bonuses

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/equifax-data-breach-settlement-disgraced-former-ceo-getting-nearly-20-million-in-bonuses-after-the-hack/

6 years ago

102 upvotes – 27 comments

How Much Water Do You Need to Drink?

https://elemental.medium.com/how-much-water-do-you-really-need-to-drink-7a6cf683b211

6 years ago

96 upvotes – 159 comments

Anxiety nightmare comes true for pianist at competition

https://www.inquirer.com/news/curtis-institute-music-20190721.html

6 years ago

93 upvotes – 64 comments

Gin, Sex, Malaria, and the Hunt for Academic Prestige

https://www.chronicle.com/interactives/20190724-king-mead

6 years ago

88 upvotes – 5 comments

YouTube isn’t for kids, but kids videos are among its most popular

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2019-07-24/pew-study-youtube-children-content

6 years ago

88 upvotes – 131 comments

Pineapple Day: How I Started a Global Holiday

https://startupandrew.com/posts/how-i-started-pineapple-day-holiday/

6 years ago

87 upvotes – 31 comments

How to Build Minesweeper with JavaScript

https://mitchum.blog/how-to-build-minesweeper-with-javascript/

6 years ago

79 upvotes – 59 comments

GitHub and Trade Controls

https://help.github.com/en/articles/github-and-trade-controls

6 years ago

79 upvotes – 71 comments

Ask HN: Twitter perma-banned my popular bot for a false reason

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20522546

6 years ago

77 upvotes – 28 comments

In Order to Become More Competitive We've Decided To Make Your Job Worse

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/in-order-to-become-more-competitive-in-our-sector-weve-decided-to-make-a-series-of-terrible-decisions-that-will-make-your-job-way-worse

6 years ago

75 upvotes – 3 comments

Wanderland: A journey through Iran’s wild west

https://www.1843magazine.com/journeys/wanderland-a-journey-through-irans-wild-west

6 years ago

73 upvotes – 10 comments

Toxorhynchites – Mosquito Eater

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

6 years ago

73 upvotes – 41 comments

Europe’s Cities Weren’t Built for This Kind of Heat

https://www.citylab.com/environment/2019/07/europe-heat-wave-temperature-cities-climate-change-plan/594811/

6 years ago

73 upvotes – 112 comments
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