top 20 hacker news stories for 2019-10-02

Ask HN: Who Wants to Be Fired?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21133181

6 years ago

942 upvotes – 831 comments

Iraq blocks Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, and Instagram, shuts down internet

https://netblocks.org/reports/iraq-blocks-facebook-twitter-whatsapp-and-instagram-amid-civil-unrest-zA4zGlyR

6 years ago

560 upvotes – 304 comments

New In Postgres 12: Generated Columns

https://pgdash.io/blog/postgres-12-generated-columns.html

6 years ago

516 upvotes – 190 comments

Show HN: Ledonardo, my light painting hardware project

https://www.stavros.io/posts/behold-ledonardo/?

6 years ago

442 upvotes – 91 comments

No evidence that testosterone reduces cognitive empathy

https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/largest-study-its-kind-no-evidence-testosterone-reduces-cognitive-empathy

6 years ago

427 upvotes – 236 comments

How a double-free bug in WhatsApp turns to remote code execution

https://awakened1712.github.io/hacking/hacking-whatsapp-gif-rce/

6 years ago

416 upvotes – 120 comments

Ocean plastic waste probably comes from ships, report says

https://www.afp.com/en/news/826/ocean-plastic-waste-probably-comes-ships-report-says-doc-1kv8e91

6 years ago

373 upvotes – 291 comments

Microsoft introduces Windows 10 X for dual-screen devices

https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/02/microsoft-introduces-windows-10-x-for-dual-screen-devices/

6 years ago

372 upvotes – 291 comments

Y Combinator Top Companies List 2019

https://www.ycombinator.com/topcompanies/

6 years ago

371 upvotes – 156 comments

Do you have a problem? Write a compiler

http://oleg.fi/gists/posts/2019-09-26-write-a-compiler.html

6 years ago

327 upvotes – 139 comments

What are the most indispensable books for indie hackers?

https://www.indiehackers.com/post/what-are-the-most-indispensable-books-for-indie-hackers-e2ec3a13e9

6 years ago

301 upvotes – 61 comments

Making a RISC-V Operating System Using Rust

http://web.eecs.utk.edu/~smarz1/osblog/

6 years ago

300 upvotes – 46 comments

Schwab Removes U.S. Stock, ETF and Options Commissions

https://pressroom.aboutschwab.com/press-release/corporate-and-financial-news/conjunction-chuck-schwabs-new-book-invested-schwab-remove

6 years ago

274 upvotes – 275 comments

RxBar co-founder Peter Rahal on life after becoming a millionaire

https://marker.medium.com/what-really-happens-when-you-become-an-overnight-millionaire-acac42990175

6 years ago

264 upvotes – 180 comments

Show HN: My first game, minimal procgen gravity golf inspired by Desert Golfing

http://astro.golf

6 years ago

232 upvotes – 113 comments

Microsoft announces new Surface Duo phone

https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/2/20895128/microsoft-surface-phone-foldable-screen-features-specs-price-release-date

6 years ago

225 upvotes – 178 comments

How much faster is Redis at storing a blob of JSON compared to Postgres?

https://www.peterbe.com/plog/redis-vs-postgres-blob-of-json

6 years ago

224 upvotes – 114 comments

Where Is the Sun Located in the Milky Way?

https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/where-is-the-sun-located-in-the-milky-way

6 years ago

222 upvotes – 100 comments

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: 40 years of parody and predictions

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02969-8

6 years ago

208 upvotes – 110 comments

The IBM Pentium 4 64-Bit CPU

http://www.cpushack.com/2019/10/01/the-story-of-the-ibm-pentium-4-64-bit-cpu/

6 years ago

207 upvotes – 78 comments
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