top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-07-30

Math Basics for Computer Science and Machine Learning [pdf]

http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~jean/math-basics.pdf

6 years ago

883 upvotes – 118 comments

Employee happiness and business success are linked

https://www.economist.com/business/2019/07/28/employee-happiness-and-business-success-are-linked

6 years ago

690 upvotes – 221 comments

Blender 2.80

https://www.blender.org/download/releases/2-80/

6 years ago

674 upvotes – 216 comments

BootOS: Monolithic operating system in 512 bytes of x86 machine code

https://github.com/nanochess/bootOS

6 years ago

588 upvotes – 121 comments

Capital One’s breach was inevitable, because we did nothing after Equifax

https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/29/capital-one-breach-was-inevitable/

6 years ago

467 upvotes – 157 comments

Google reveals fistful of flaws in Apple's iMessage app

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-49165946

6 years ago

433 upvotes – 346 comments

What’s New in ES2019

https://blog.tildeloop.com/posts/javascript-what%E2%80%99s-new-in-es2019

6 years ago

433 upvotes – 398 comments

Ethiopia Plants 350M Trees in One Day to Combat Drought and Climate Change

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-29/ethiopia-plants-350-million-trees-in-one-day-to-combat-drought

6 years ago

389 upvotes – 247 comments

Tracking Sex: Implications of widespread data leakage and tracking on porn sites

https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.06520

6 years ago

348 upvotes – 222 comments

A Look at Overnight Stays at US National Parks

http://jordan-vincent.com/night-under-the-stars

6 years ago

318 upvotes – 98 comments

Stop Blaming America’s Poor for Their Poverty

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-07-30/u-s-economy-personal-bad-behavior-isn-t-what-causes-poverty

6 years ago

300 upvotes – 366 comments

Apple Reports Declining Profits and Slowing Growth Again

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/30/technology/apple-earnings-iphone.html

6 years ago

299 upvotes – 503 comments

How I Became a Machine Learning Practitioner

https://blog.gregbrockman.com/how-i-became-a-machine-learning-practitioner

6 years ago

290 upvotes – 47 comments

Technician keeps computer made in 1959 still humming along

http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201907280007.html

6 years ago

284 upvotes – 109 comments

One week of empathy training

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2019/07/i-feel-hopeless-rejected-and-a-burden-on-society-one-week-of-empathy-training/https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2019/07/i-feel-hopeless-rejected-and-a-burden-on-society-one-week-of-empathy-training/

6 years ago

242 upvotes – 83 comments

A Programmer’s Regret: Neglecting Math at University

https://awalterschulze.github.io/blog/post/neglecting-math-at-university/

6 years ago

239 upvotes – 119 comments

“We plan to hide ‘https’ scheme and subdomain ‘www’ in Chrome omnibox in M76”

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=883038#c114

6 years ago

230 upvotes – 316 comments

Monorepo is great if you're really good

https://yosefk.com/blog/dont-ask-if-a-monorepo-is-good-for-you-ask-if-youre-good-enough-for-a-monorepo.html

6 years ago

225 upvotes – 151 comments

Fast and flexible observability with canonical log lines

https://stripe.com/blog/canonical-log-lines

6 years ago

221 upvotes – 39 comments

So, you want to build a CubeSat?

https://orbitalindex.com/archive/2019-07-30-Issue-23/

6 years ago

215 upvotes – 69 comments

Middle-aged vlogger who used filter to look young caught in live-stream glitch

https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-49151042

6 years ago

208 upvotes – 153 comments

Capital One attacker may have breached other major corporations

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/07/capital-one-data-theft-impacts-106m-people/

6 years ago

205 upvotes – 60 comments

Web Scraping and Crawling Are Perfectly Legal, Right? (2017)

https://benbernardblog.com/web-scraping-and-crawling-are-perfectly-legal-right/

6 years ago

204 upvotes – 125 comments

Humans Interbred with Four Extinct Hominin Species, Research Finds

http://www.sci-news.com/othersciences/anthropology/humans-hominin-introgression-07438.html

6 years ago

193 upvotes – 165 comments

Most internet service providers are gone – Sonic has survived and thrived

https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Most-internet-service-providers-are-gone-Sonic-14188418.php

6 years ago

192 upvotes – 121 comments

'Five Eyes' nations discuss backdoor access to WhatsApp

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/jul/30/five-eyes-backdoor-access-whatsapp-encryption

6 years ago

188 upvotes – 126 comments

Amazon as experiment

https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2019/7/26/amazon-as-experiment

6 years ago

185 upvotes – 65 comments

The Hottest Phones for the Next Billion Users Aren’t Smartphones

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-hottest-phones-for-the-next-billion-users-arent-smartphones-11563879608?mod=rsswn

6 years ago

183 upvotes – 174 comments

Moving the Linux desktop to another reality

https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/moving-the-linux-desktop-to-another-reality.html

6 years ago

175 upvotes – 93 comments

LoRaWAN distance world record broken twice: 766km using 25mW power

https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/article/lorawan-distance-world-record

6 years ago

172 upvotes – 66 comments

On Costliest U.S. Warship Ever, Navy Can’t Get Munitions on Deck

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-30/flawed-elevators-on-13-billion-carrier-miss-another-deadline

6 years ago

172 upvotes – 298 comments

New bill would ban autoplay videos and endless scrolling

https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/30/20746878/josh-hawley-dark-patterns-platform-design-autoplay-youtube-videos-scrolling-snapstreaks-illegal

6 years ago

169 upvotes – 238 comments

Introduction to Bayesian Filter

https://leimao.github.io/article/Introduction-to-Bayesian-Filter/

6 years ago

167 upvotes – 7 comments

You’re Paying into a Broken System Whenever You Buy Something on iOS

https://onezero.medium.com/youre-paying-into-a-broken-system-whenever-you-buy-something-on-ios-3f3aa88ecf8c

6 years ago

163 upvotes – 224 comments

Google unlocks 33% of publisher paywalls on July 30

https://whatsnewinpublishing.com/google-unlocks-33-of-publisher-paywalls-on-july-30-this-is-what-happens-next/

6 years ago

157 upvotes – 219 comments

The Story of the Ping Program (1997)

https://ftp.arl.army.mil/~mike/ping.html

6 years ago

150 upvotes – 35 comments

Show HN: Bild – A collection of parallel image processing algorithms in Go

https://github.com/anthonynsimon/bild

6 years ago

138 upvotes – 21 comments

Amazon, Walmart, Ikea targeted in University of California light bulb lawsuits

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-retailers-university-of-california-la/amazon-walmart-ikea-targeted-in-university-of-california-light-bulb-lawsuits-idUSKCN1UP24S

6 years ago

131 upvotes – 95 comments

High-performance, exactly-once, failure-oblivious distributed programming (2018)

http://christophermeiklejohn.com/pl/2018/12/15/ambrosia.html

6 years ago

129 upvotes – 26 comments

Lock-free multithreading with atomic operations

https://www.internalpointers.com/post/lock-free-multithreading-atomic-operations

6 years ago

129 upvotes – 66 comments

Elementary Algebra (1971) [pdf]

http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/apl/Papers/ElementaryAlgebra

6 years ago

127 upvotes – 4 comments

The Moon is older than previously believed

https://phys.org/news/2019-07-moon-older-previously-believed.html

6 years ago

123 upvotes – 21 comments

The Origin of Most Coal on Earth (2016)

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/phenomena/2016/01/07/the-fantastically-strange-origin-of-most-coal-on-earth/

6 years ago

111 upvotes – 66 comments

Show HN: Drag and drop page building for any site

https://builder.io

6 years ago

109 upvotes – 35 comments

I'm a College Professor Who Faked Dissertation Data on the Side

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/nea8bx/im-a-college-professor-who-faked-dissertation-data-on-the-side

6 years ago

108 upvotes – 124 comments

Blender 2.80

https://www.blender.org/download/releases/2-80/

6 years ago

105 upvotes – 17 comments

Why Kids Invent Imaginary Friends

https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2019/07/why-do-kids-have-imaginary-friends/594919/

6 years ago

104 upvotes – 78 comments

When Having Friends Is More Alluring Than Being Right

https://www.theferrett.com/2019/07/29/when-having-friends-is-more-alluring-than-being-right/

6 years ago

103 upvotes – 98 comments

Ray tracing with uLisp

http://www.ulisp.com/show?2NWA

6 years ago

102 upvotes – 10 comments

Stripe subsidiary plans to open office in Baltimore

https://www.bizjournals.com/baltimore/news/2019/07/29/san-francisco-tech-firm-picks-locust-point-for-200.html

6 years ago

102 upvotes – 50 comments

Dark emerges with ‘deployless’ software model

https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/29/dark-emerges-from-stealth-with-unique-deployless-software-model/

6 years ago

97 upvotes – 161 comments

Ask HN: How did you automate your day job?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20564687

6 years ago

96 upvotes – 48 comments

Andy Rachleff on 35 years in Silicon Valley, Wealthfront and telling stories

http://www.startuplessonslearned.com/2019/06/lean-startup-conference-speaker-andy.html?m=1

6 years ago

93 upvotes – 24 comments

Launch HN: FeaturePeek (YC S19) – Front-end review for the whole team

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20566785

6 years ago

90 upvotes – 42 comments

The Fifth Generation Computing Project

https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2019/07/25/the-fifth-generation-computing-project/

6 years ago

86 upvotes – 49 comments

A Trump-era purge of military scientists at a legendary think tank

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-trump-science/

6 years ago

86 upvotes – 60 comments

Humans Will Never Colonize Mars

https://gizmodo.com/humans-will-never-colonize-mars-1836316222

6 years ago

82 upvotes – 134 comments

The Near Impossible 20-Year Journey to Translate 'Fire Emblem: Thracia 776'

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/mb8mvv/the-near-impossible-20-year-journey-to-translate-fire-emblem-thracia-776

6 years ago

82 upvotes – 10 comments

A Critique of Pure Learning: What Neural Networks Can Learn from Animal Brains

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/582643v1

6 years ago

82 upvotes – 20 comments

Disabling server-side logging of Siri requests

https://github.com/jankais3r/Siri-NoLoggingPLS

6 years ago

81 upvotes – 17 comments

‘No Way to Prevent This’ Says Development Community Where This Regularly Happens

https://medium.com/@nimelrian/no-way-to-prevent-this-says-only-development-community-where-this-regularly-happens-8ef59e6836de

6 years ago

81 upvotes – 47 comments
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