top 20 hacker news stories for 2019-08-09

Alan Kay's answer to ‘what are some forgotten books programmers should read?’

https://www.quora.com/Experienced-programmers-and-computer-scientists-what-are-some-really-old-or-even-nearly-forgotten-books-you-think-every-new-programmer-should-read/answer/Alan-Kay-11?share=1

7 years ago

Home Chip Fab

http://sam.zeloof.xyz/category/semiconductor/

7 years ago

Who Owns Huawei?

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3372669

7 years ago

Eat less meat: UN climate change report calls for change to human diet

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02409-7

7 years ago

Google to Offer a Best Price Guarantee on Certain Flights

https://www.blog.google/products/flights-hotels/best-prices-for-your-trips/

7 years ago

Coinbase: Responding to Firefox 0-days in the wild

https://blog.coinbase.com/responding-to-firefox-0-days-in-the-wild-d9c85a57f15b

7 years ago

Rice University researchers propose a way to boost solar efficiency

https://polyarch.co/rice-university-research-heat-into-light/

7 years ago

Big Pharma is using faux generics to keep drug prices high, critics say

https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/08/big-pharma-is-using-faux-generics-to-keep-drug-prices-high-critics-say/

7 years ago

Kubernetes Security Assessment [pdf]

https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/wg-security-audit/findings/Kubernetes%20Final%20Report.pdf

7 years ago

★ 12.8k Jupyter Notebook Apache-2.0

Open-source firmware

https://mullvad.net/ja/blog/2019/8/7/open-source-firmware-future/

7 years ago

Swap, swap, swap, and bad places to work

http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2019/08/08/swap/

7 years ago

Why Aren’t We Talking About LinkedIn?

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/08/style/linkedin-social-media.html

7 years ago

The Erlang Rationale

https://rvirding.blogspot.com/2019/01/the-erlang-rationale.html

7 years ago

‘No One Saw a Thing’: When a Midwest Town Banded Together to Kill the Town Bully

https://www.thedailybeast.com/no-one-saw-a-thing-when-a-small-midwest-town-banded-together-to-kill-the-town-bully

7 years ago

How Command and Conquer: Tiberian Sun punished the computers of the day [video]

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/02/video-to-make-tiberian-sun-westwood-had-to-find-the-right-pathfinding-system/

7 years ago

What’s the difference between statistics and machine learning?

https://thestatsgeek.com/2019/08/08/whats-the-difference-between-statistics-and-machine-learning/

7 years ago

AMD EPYC processors come to Google, and to Google Cloud

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/amd-epyc-processors-come-to-google-and-to-google-cloud

7 years ago

Show HN: Tailwind.run – An Online Playground for Tailwind CSS

https://tailwind.run

7 years ago

Hundreds of exposed Amazon cloud backups found leaking sensitive data

https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/09/aws-ebs-cloud-backups-leak

7 years ago

CEOs Who Cheat in Bedroom Will Cheat in Boardroom: Study

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-09/ceos-who-cheat-on-spouse-twice-as-likely-to-cheat-at-work-study

7 years ago