top 20 hacker news stories for 2019-08-20

IBM Open-Sources Power Chip Instruction Set

https://www.nextplatform.com/2019/08/20/big-blue-open-sources-power-chip-instruction-set/

7 years ago

Hundreds of extreme self-citing scientists revealed in new database

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02479-7

7 years ago

Time to Get Serious about Tick-Borne Diseases

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/its-time-to-get-serious-about-tick-borne-diseases/

7 years ago

People love working remotely

https://usefyi.com/remote-work-report/

7 years ago

Juul, Philip Morris Sued Under Racketeer Act for Targeting Kids

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-19/juul-philip-morris-sued-under-racketeer-act-for-targeting-kids

7 years ago

Most startup theory is ex-post, therefore bs

https://shafyy.com/post/startup-theory-ex-post/

7 years ago

‘They Get Fired All the Time. And They Have No Idea Why’

https://www.institutionalinvestor.com/article/b1gq9tqwk8z108/They-Get-Fired-All-the-Time-And-They-Have-No-Idea-Why

7 years ago

A Beginner’s Introduction to Python Web Frameworks (2018)

https://stxnext.com/blog/2018/09/27/beginners-introduction-python-frameworks/

7 years ago

Sunsetting Mercurial Support in Bitbucket

https://bitbucket.org/blog/sunsetting-mercurial-support-in-bitbucket

7 years ago

Google's software mistreats or harms the user

https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/malware-google.html

7 years ago

IRS budget cuts cost $34.3B in lost revenue from big business

https://www.accountingtoday.com/news/irs-budget-cuts-mean-34-3b-in-lost-revenue-from-big-business

7 years ago

Rest-client gem is hijacked

https://github.com/rest-client/rest-client/issues/713

7 years ago

★ 5.2k Ruby MIT

Why ElementaryOS Left Medium

https://blog.elementary.io/welcome-to-the-new-blog/

7 years ago

Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music

http://music.ishkur.com/

7 years ago

My Sudden Trip to Hell

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/my-sudden-trip-hell-mark-attila-opauszky/

7 years ago

The GitHub registry public beta is live

https://help.github.com/en/articles/about-github-package-registry

7 years ago

Pagemap: A mini map for your website

https://larsjung.de/pagemap/

7 years ago

Yubico launches its dual USB-C and Lightning two-factor security key

https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/20/yubikey-dual-usb-c-lightning/

7 years ago

Scientists Have Been Underestimating the Pace of Climate Change

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/scientists-have-been-underestimating-the-pace-of-climate-change/

7 years ago

Walmart sues Tesla over fires at stores fitted with its solar panels

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-walmart-tesla-solar-lawsuit/walmart-sues-tesla-over-fires-at-stores-fitted-with-its-solar-panels-idUSKCN1VA26B

7 years ago