top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-09-23

Serverless: slower and more expensive

http://einaregilsson.com/serverless-15-percent-slower-and-eight-times-more-expensive/

7 years ago

Apple’s New Mac Pro to Be Made in Texas

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/09/apples-new-mac-pro-to-be-made-in-texas/

7 years ago

Nim 1.0

https://nim-lang.org//blog/2019/09/23/version-100-released.html

7 years ago

Scott’s Supreme Quantum Supremacy FAQ

https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=4317

7 years ago

.NET Core 3.0

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/announcing-net-core-3-0/

7 years ago

Gridgarden: A cool game to learn CSS Grid

http://www.cssgridgarden.com

7 years ago

Is the era of the $100 graphing calculator coming to an end?

https://thehustle.co/graphing-calculators-expensive/

7 years ago

Keyhut POS: Free Point-of-Sale Software for DOS

http://keyhut.com/pos.htm

7 years ago

Snap Detailed Facebook’s Aggressive Tactics in ‘Project Voldemort’ Dossier

https://www.wsj.com/articles/snap-detailed-facebooks-aggressive-tactics-in-project-voldemort-dossier-11569236404?mod=rsswn

7 years ago

Silicon Valley is one of the most polluted places in the country

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/09/silicon-valley-full-superfund-sites/598531/

7 years ago

Thomas Cook collapses, stranding 150k UK holidaymakers

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/sep/22/thomas-cook-in-last-ditch-talks-to-avoid-collapse

7 years ago

Edward Snowden in His Own Words: Why I Became a Whistle-Blower

https://www.wired.com/story/edward-snowden-in-his-own-words-why-i-became-a-whistle-blower/

7 years ago

Open-Source Seeds

https://www.opensourceseeds.org/en/home

7 years ago

Building a Dark Web Crawler in Go

https://creekorful.me/building-fast-modern-web-crawler/

7 years ago

Simple words that save lives: lessons from “expert talkers”

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20190919-the-simple-words-that-save-lives

7 years ago

My Talk at Microsoft

https://www.stallman.org/articles/microsoft-talk.html

7 years ago

The Awkward but Essential Art of Office Chitchat

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/17/style/the-awkward-art-of-office-small-talk.html

7 years ago

Update from Chef

https://blog.chef.io/2019/09/23/an-important-update-from-chef/

7 years ago

Show HN: Instant, Self-Destructing Websites

https://sdnotes.com/faq

7 years ago

Federal Prosecutors Conducting Criminal Probe of Juul

https://www.wsj.com/articles/federal-prosecutors-conducting-criminal-probe-of-juul-11569268759

7 years ago

600k Images Removed from ImageNet After Art Project Exposes Racist Bias

https://hyperallergic.com/518822/600000-images-removed-from-ai-database-after-art-project-exposes-racist-bias/

7 years ago

OLPC’s $100 laptop was going to change the world (2018)

https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/16/17233946/olpcs-100-laptop-education-where-is-it-now

7 years ago

Farm animals in India and China are becoming more resistant to antibiotics

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02861-5

7 years ago

Google Employees Explain How They Were Retaliated Against for Reporting Abuse

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/vb53wy/45-google-employees-explain-how-they-were-retaliated-against-for-reporting-abuse

7 years ago

How Google Discovered the Value of Surveillance

https://longreads.com/2019/09/05/how-google-discovered-the-value-of-surveillance/

7 years ago

Is Stack Overflow allowing ads to use fingerprinting to track users?

https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/332974/is-se-allowing-ads-to-use-fingerprinting-to-track-users

7 years ago

Show HN: A website speed test tool to compare uBlock Origin with plain Chrome

https://webtest.app/?url=https://www.theguardian.com

7 years ago

Podcast sponsorship revenue continues to fuel NPR’s financial growth

https://current.org/2019/09/podcast-sponsorship-revenues-continue-to-fuel-nprs-financial-growth/

7 years ago

“Did You Eat the Whole Cake?” On Learning Estonian

https://deepbaltic.com/2019/09/12/did-you-eat-the-whole-cake-on-learning-estonian/

7 years ago

A guide to set up your own round-robin DNS-over-HTTPS proxy for privacy

https://dohproxy.com/

7 years ago

Show HN: Stack – Save and explore books and book lists

https://stack.app

7 years ago

Suicide Data Reveal New Intervention Spots, Such as Motels and Animal Shelters

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/suicide-data-reveal-new-intervention-spots-such-as-motels-and-animal-shelters/

7 years ago

Crystal 0.31

https://crystal-lang.org/2019/09/23/crystal-0.31.0-released.html

7 years ago

Face transplant recipient’s donor face now failing

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2019-09-22/face-transplant-woman-needs-second-operation

7 years ago

Germany's Vanishing Monasteries

https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/vanishing-monasteries-in-germany-the-last-of-the-monks-a-1287265.html#ref=rss

7 years ago

DNA is held together by hydrophobic forces

https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-were-wrong-about-dna-it-is-actually-held-together-by-hydrophobic-forces/

7 years ago

.NET Core gRPC

https://grpc.io/blog/grpc-on-dotnetcore/

7 years ago

Building a Relational Database Using Kafka

https://yokota.blog/2019/09/23/building-a-relational-database-using-kafka/

7 years ago

Reinventing Home Directories

https://media.ccc.de/v/ASG2019-164-reinventing-home-directories

7 years ago

Will America's debt doom us?

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/columnist/2019/09/22/debt-debt-doom-america/2384550001/

7 years ago

Where Theory Meets Chalk, Dust Flies

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/23/science/mathematicians-blackboard-photographs-jessica-wynne.html

7 years ago

RaptorCS Power9 Blackbird PC: An expensive mistake

https://drewdevault.com/2019/09/23/RaptorCS-Blackbird-a-horror-story.html

7 years ago

Travel without a phone

https://sivers.org/tp1

7 years ago

Australia uses new technology to catch drivers on phones

https://ktar.com/story/2754759/australia-uses-new-technology-to-catch-drivers-on-phones/

7 years ago

The Dark Side of Techno-Utopianism

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/09/30/the-dark-side-of-techno-utopianism

7 years ago

How to Make Medieval Soap

http://www.medievalists.net/2019/09/how-to-make-medieval-soap/

7 years ago

Ask HN: How do you handle/maintain local Python environments?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21054462

7 years ago

Cleaning up bad bots

https://blog.cloudflare.com/cleaning-up-bad-bots/?ref=twitter

7 years ago

Widespread fraud in the generic drug industry

https://peterattiamd.com/katherineeban/

7 years ago

Ask HN: How did you prepare for being a first-time parent?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21053211

7 years ago

Will there ever be a cure for chronic pain?

https://www.1843magazine.com/features/will-there-ever-be-a-cure-for-chronic-pain

7 years ago