top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-09-05

How to do a code review

https://google.github.io/eng-practices/review/reviewer/

6 years ago

1471 upvotes – 367 comments

How to learn D3.js

https://wattenberger.com/blog/d3

6 years ago

895 upvotes – 106 comments

Stripe Capital

https://stripe.com/capital

6 years ago

804 upvotes – 261 comments

Sites with dumb password rules

https://github.com/dumb-password-rules/dumb-password-rules

6 years ago

485 upvotes – 320 comments

US city rejects $5.3M ransom demand and restores encrypted files from backup

https://secalerts.co/article/city-knocks-back-ransom-demand-and-restores-files-from-backup/c785f0f3

6 years ago

467 upvotes – 238 comments

Apple has copied some of the most popular apps in the App Store

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/09/05/how-apple-uses-its-app-store-copy-best-ideas/

6 years ago

465 upvotes – 309 comments

Why Finnish babies sleep in cardboard boxes (2013)

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-22751415

6 years ago

442 upvotes – 253 comments

Samsung Announces Key-Value SSD Prototype

https://www.anandtech.com/show/14839/samsung-announces-standardscompliant-keyvalue-ssd-prototype

6 years ago

441 upvotes – 237 comments

Facebook Dating

https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2019/09/facebook-dating/

6 years ago

432 upvotes – 439 comments

PowerToys: Windows system utilities to maximize productivity

https://github.com/Microsoft/PowerToys

6 years ago

343 upvotes – 126 comments

Judge Rules Terrorism Watchlist Violates Constitutional Rights

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/04/us/politics/terrorism-watchlist-constitution.html

6 years ago

331 upvotes – 262 comments

Apple Music Web Client

http://beta.music.apple.com/

6 years ago

325 upvotes – 205 comments

A critique of the claim that passive investing is a bubble

https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2019/09/debunking-the-silly-passive-is-a-bubble-myth/

6 years ago

308 upvotes – 191 comments

Graphics Programming Black Book by Michael Abrash (2001)

https://github.com/jagregory/abrash-black-book

6 years ago

307 upvotes – 82 comments

WeWork Parent Weighs Slashing Its Valuation in Half

https://www.wsj.com/articles/wework-parent-weighs-slashing-its-valuation-roughly-in-half-11567689174?mod=rsswn

6 years ago

294 upvotes – 218 comments

Slow Mornings May Be a Secret to Tech-Life Balance

https://elemental.medium.com/why-slow-mornings-may-be-the-secret-to-tech-life-balance-b44c2139963b

6 years ago

278 upvotes – 148 comments

Three Tribes of Programming (2017)

https://josephg.com/blog/3-tribes/

6 years ago

270 upvotes – 119 comments

Enabling developers and organizations to use differential privacy

https://developers.googleblog.com/2019/09/enabling-developers-and-organizations.html

6 years ago

261 upvotes – 169 comments

I wrote a self-hosting C compiler in 40 days (2015)

https://www.sigbus.info/how-i-wrote-a-self-hosting-c-compiler-in-40-days

6 years ago

259 upvotes – 44 comments

Ask HN: Good Remote Work Literature?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20884974

6 years ago

255 upvotes – 50 comments

In a small trial, drugs seemed to rejuvenate the body’s ‘epigenetic clock’

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02638-w

6 years ago

253 upvotes – 187 comments

Weighted blankets might ease insomnia and anxiety

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/home/weighted-blankets-might-ease-insomnia-and-anxiety-heres-what-to-know-before-buying-one/2019/01/18/71b1aefa-1a6f-11e9-8813-cb9dec761e73_story.html

6 years ago

234 upvotes – 188 comments

Secushare: A decentralized, secure social network built on GNUnet

https://secushare.org/

6 years ago

191 upvotes – 51 comments

Memory Layout of a Program in C

http://web.eecs.utk.edu/~huangj/cs360/360/notes/Memory/lecture.html

6 years ago

189 upvotes – 37 comments

Slack’s Shares Plunge After It Predicts a Larger Loss

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/04/technology/slack-earnings.html

6 years ago

188 upvotes – 219 comments

Librem 5 Shipping Announcement

https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-shipping-announcement/

6 years ago

188 upvotes – 88 comments

TP-82 Cosmonaut survival pistol

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TP-82_Cosmonaut_survival_pistol

6 years ago

174 upvotes – 74 comments

Mystery surrounds lost German sea data station

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-49592330

6 years ago

169 upvotes – 85 comments

Statisticians want to abandon science’s standard measure of ‘significance’

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/statisticians-standard-measure-significance-p-values

6 years ago

168 upvotes – 136 comments

Driving an Ambulance in the Age of Narcan

https://hazlitt.net/longreads/magic-eraser-juice

6 years ago

166 upvotes – 145 comments

Differentiable Programming Mega-Proposal

https://forums.swift.org/t/differentiable-programming-mega-proposal/28547

6 years ago

162 upvotes – 74 comments

Review of Moneyland by Oliver Bullough (2018)

https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2018/08/moneyland-how-super-rich-looted-their-own-countries-create-elite-global-haven

6 years ago

153 upvotes – 88 comments

Cloudflare-sync – Tool for using Cloudflare as a dynamic DNS provider

https://github.com/mxplusb/cloudflare-sync

6 years ago

146 upvotes – 42 comments

A Philosopher Reviews Judea Pearl's “The Book of Why”

https://bostonreview.net/science-nature/tim-maudlin-why-world

6 years ago

146 upvotes – 42 comments

Squirrels listen in to birds' conversations as signal of safety

https://phys.org/news/2019-09-squirrels-birds-conversations-safety.html

6 years ago

143 upvotes – 41 comments

Was Etsy too good to be true?

https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/9/4/20841475/etsy-free-shipping-amazon-handmade-josh-silverman

6 years ago

143 upvotes – 123 comments

The growing need for human robot-minders could juice the remote workforce

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-next-hot-job-pretending-to-be-a-robot-11567224001?mod=rsswn

6 years ago

141 upvotes – 98 comments

Mach kernel

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mach_(kernel)

6 years ago

139 upvotes – 95 comments

'Co-living': the end of urban loneliness or cynical corporate dormitories?

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/sep/03/co-living-the-end-of-urban-loneliness-or-cynical-corporate-dormitories

6 years ago

135 upvotes – 130 comments

A hierarchy of software engineering discourse

https://uvwx.github.io/hierarchy.html

6 years ago

134 upvotes – 53 comments

Apple Change Causes Scramble Among Private Messaging App Makers

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/apple-change-causes-scramble-among-private-messaging-app-makers?pu=hackernewsff2o9j&utm_source=hackernews&utm_medium=unlock

6 years ago

133 upvotes – 104 comments

Let the callers of your API control allocations

https://dave.cheney.net/2019/09/05/dont-force-allocations-on-the-callers-of-your-api

6 years ago

130 upvotes – 73 comments

Segment Security Incident

https://segment.com/security/bulletins/incident090519/

6 years ago

125 upvotes – 58 comments

Will the Long-Term Stock Exchange Make a Difference?

https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2019/06/08/will-the-long-term-stock-exchange-make-a-difference/

6 years ago

110 upvotes – 51 comments

Debate in Austria over enshrining use of cash in the constitution

https://www.euractiv.com/section/data-protection/news/debate-rages-in-austria-over-enshrining-use-of-cash-in-the-constitution/

6 years ago

109 upvotes – 149 comments

How Amazon Hooked America on Fast Delivery, Avoiding Responsibility for Crashes

https://features.propublica.org/amazon-delivery-crashes/how-amazon-hooked-america-on-fast-delivery-while-avoiding-responsibility-for-crashes/

6 years ago

107 upvotes – 57 comments

Jepsen: YugaByte DB 1.3.1

https://jepsen.io/analyses/yugabyte-db-1.3.1

6 years ago

106 upvotes – 23 comments

Cobol Web Development

http://www.infogoal.com/cbd/cbdweb.htm

6 years ago

105 upvotes – 34 comments

The Porsche Taycan's Two-Speed Gearbox

https://www.wired.com/story/electric-car-two-speed-transmission-gearbox/

6 years ago

104 upvotes – 210 comments

Windows File Manager re-released

https://github.com/microsoft/winfile

6 years ago

97 upvotes – 48 comments

Stegasuras: Neural Linguistic Steganography

https://steganography.live/

6 years ago

97 upvotes – 25 comments

How social networks can be used to bias votes

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02616-2

6 years ago

94 upvotes – 55 comments

Are We Wrong About Black Holes?

https://www.quantamagazine.org/craig-callender-are-we-all-wrong-about-black-holes-20190905/

6 years ago

93 upvotes – 51 comments
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