top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-08-05

All the best engineering advice I stole from non-technical people

https://medium.com/@bellmar/all-the-best-engineering-advice-i-stole-from-non-technical-people-eb7f90ca2f5f

7 years ago

Terminating Service for 8Chan

https://new.blog.cloudflare.com/terminating-service-for-8chan/

7 years ago

8chan goes dark after hardware provider discontinues service

https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/5/20754943/8chan-epik-offline-voxility-service-cutoff-hate-speech-ban

7 years ago

Europe is edging towards making post-car cities a reality

https://www.economist.com/europe/2019/08/01/streets-ahead

7 years ago

Why I Turned Down an AWS Job Offer

https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/why-i-turned-down-an-aws-job-offer-hn/

7 years ago

The Linux kernel's inability to gracefully handle low memory pressure

https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/8/4/15

7 years ago

There is no evil like reCAPTCHA

https://thestoic.me/there-is-no-evil-like-recaptcha

7 years ago

Death Note: L, Anonymity and Eluding Entropy (2017)

https://www.gwern.net/Death-Note-Anonymity

7 years ago

Amazon Is a Monopoly

https://www.marketplacepulse.com/articles/amazon-is-a-monopoly-an-interview-with-sally-hubbard

7 years ago

Speed matters: Why working quickly is more important than it seems (2015)

http://jsomers.net/blog/speed-matters

7 years ago

Information Theory for Intelligent People (2018) [pdf]

http://tuvalu.santafe.edu/~simon/it.pdf

7 years ago

Rust Language Cheat Sheet

https://cheats.rs/

7 years ago

Calculus For The People

https://www.geogebra.org/m/x39ys4d7#material/phuyhqtw

7 years ago

U.S. Designates China as Currency Manipulator

https://www.wsj.com/articles/chinas-currency-weakening-escalates-trade-war-11565027431?mod=rsswn

7 years ago

RegExr

https://regexr.com/

7 years ago

Roblox hits 100M monthly active users, bigger than Minecraft

https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/04/roblox-hits-100-million-monthly-active-users/

7 years ago

Administration Using the Full Power of the Surveillance State on Whistleblowers

https://theintercept.com/2019/08/04/whistleblowers-surveillance-fbi-trump/

7 years ago

BlazingSQL is Now Open Source

https://blog.blazingdb.com/blazingsql-is-now-open-source-b859d342ec20

7 years ago

Germans Grow Frustrated with Their Slow-Poke Internet

https://www.wsj.com/articles/germans-grow-frustrated-with-their-slow-poke-internet-11565002666?mod=rsswn

7 years ago

Mental Models Box – A collection of models useful in everyday life

https://www.mentalmodelsbox.com/

7 years ago

Syslog: Complete System Administrator Guide

https://devconnected.com/syslog-the-complete-system-administrator-guide/

7 years ago

Memory Management in Python

https://rushter.com/blog/python-memory-managment/

7 years ago

Let's Build a Video Card

https://eater.net/vga

7 years ago

Yield curve is blaring loudest recession warning since 2007

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-05/yield-curve-blares-loudest-u-s-recession-warning-since-2007

7 years ago

Google Employee Alleges Discrimination Against Pregnant Women in Viral Memo

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/59nmkx/google-employee-alleges-discrimination-against-pregnant-women-in-viral-memo

7 years ago

How to get 30k Hacker News visitors to your website

https://marketingexamples.com/content/drive-traffic-from-hacker-news

7 years ago

Flutter looks good, but is painful

https://medium.com/@bernaferrari/from-android-dev-flutter-looks-good-but-is-painful-here-are-my-frustrations-with-it-81b4bbe739f8

7 years ago

Climate change made European heatwave up to 3°C hotter

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02384-z

7 years ago

China lets yuan break 7-per-dollar level for first time in over a decade

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-markets/china-lets-yuan-break-key-7-level-for-first-time-in-decade-as-trade-war-worsens-idUSKCN1UV061

7 years ago

How I finally won my name from domain resellers after nine years of waiting

https://jerryalex.com/how-i-finally-won-my-name-from-domain-squatters-after-9-years-of-waiting/

7 years ago

SpaceX Smallsat Rideshare Program

https://www.spacex.com/smallsat

7 years ago

Disassembling the Sony FE 135mm F/1.8 GM

https://www.lensrentals.com/blog/2019/06/disassembling-the-sony-fe-135mm-f1-8-gm/

7 years ago

Nutrient deficiencies in rice grown under higher carbon dioxide

https://phys.org/news/2019-07-nutrient-deficiencies-rice-grown-higher.html

7 years ago

Why the French love to say no

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20190804-why-the-french-love-to-say-no

7 years ago

How Biotech Startup Funding Will Change in the Next 10 Years

https://blog.ycombinator.com/how-biotech-startup-funding-will-change-in-the-next-10-years/

7 years ago

Inventing Monads

https://blog.kabir.sh/posts/inventing-monads.html

7 years ago

How the Stock Market Works

http://shashankr.me/2019/07/27/everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-the-stock-market-but-were-too-afraid-to-ask.html

7 years ago

Launch HN: Compound (YC S19) – helping employees understand equity compensation

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20615760

7 years ago

Scale (YC S16) Raises $100M from Accel and Founders Fund at $1B Valuation

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-05/scale-ai-is-silicon-valley-s-latest-unicorn

7 years ago

Dow plunges more than 950 points after China devalues its currency

https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/05/investing/dow-stock-market-today/index.html

7 years ago

Switching from Common Lisp to Julia (2017)

https://tamaspapp.eu/post/common-lisp-to-julia/

7 years ago