top 20 hacker news stories for 2019-08-18

We Have Ruined Childhood

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/17/opinion/sunday/childhood-suicide-depression-anxiety.html

7 years ago

Apple will soon treat online web tracking the same as a security vulnerability

https://thenextweb.com/privacy/2019/08/16/apple-will-soon-treat-online-web-tracking-the-same-as-a-security-vulnerability/

7 years ago

YAML: Probably not so great after all

https://arp242.net/yaml-config.html

7 years ago

Rules for Intuitive UX

https://learnui.design/blog/4-rules-intuitive-ux.html

7 years ago

The Architecture of Open Source Applications

http://www.aosabook.org/en/index.html

7 years ago

Open letter from an Android developer to the Google Play team

https://medium.com/@tokata/how-google-play-terminated-a-developer-for-no-reason-e4d760e9f472

7 years ago

Ask HN: What book to read to get a footing in CS theory?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20729252

7 years ago

Dirty tricks 6502 programmers use

https://nurpax.github.io/posts/2019-08-18-dirty-tricks-6502-programmers-use.html

7 years ago

Python vs. Rust for Neural Networks

https://ngoldbaum.github.io/posts/python-vs-rust-nn/

7 years ago

Media Can’t Stop Presenting Horrifying Stories as ‘Uplifting’ Perseverance Porn

https://fair.org/home/media-just-cant-stop-presenting-horrifying-stories-as-uplifting-perseverance-porn/

7 years ago

35% Faster Than The Filesystem (2017)

https://www.sqlite.org/fasterthanfs.html

7 years ago

Die With Me – A chat app you can only use when you have less than 5% battery

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/die-with-me/id1317265106

7 years ago

Why doesn't mathematics collapse, though humans often make mistakes in proofs?

https://mathoverflow.net/questions/338607/why-doesnt-mathematics-collapse-down-even-though-humans-quite-often-make-mista

7 years ago

In the US, it's cheaper to build and operate wind farms than buy fossil fuels

https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/08/wind-power-prices-now-lower-than-the-cost-of-natural-gas/

7 years ago

Building ages in the Netherlands

https://parallel.co.uk/netherlands/#13.8/52.365/4.9/0/40

7 years ago

She Wanted a Man with a Good Job Who Is Nice to Animals

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/16/style/modern-love-man-who-is-nice-to-animals.html

7 years ago

Ruffle – An Adobe Flash Player Written in Rust Compiled to WebAssembly

https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle

7 years ago

★ 18k Rust

Giving up on Julia (2016)

https://www.zverovich.net/2016/05/13/giving-up-on-julia.html

7 years ago

Laws of Showrunning (2016) [pdf]

http://okbjgm.weebly.com/uploads/3/1/5/0/31506003/11_laws_of_showrunning_nice_version.pdf

7 years ago

Résumés Are Starting to Look Like Instagram, and Sometimes Even Tinder

https://www.wsj.com/articles/resumes-are-starting-to-look-like-instagramand-sometimes-even-tinder-11565707364?mod=rsswn

7 years ago