top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-10-06

Writing Is Thinking: Learning to Write with Confidence

https://blog.stephsmith.io/learning-to-write-with-confidence/

7 years ago

Stack Overflow Inc. Fiasco: Timeline

https://cellio.dreamwidth.org/2019/10/05/stack-overflow-fiasco-timeline.html

7 years ago

macOS no longer allows changing wifi mac address

https://slashdot.org/submission/10504880/macos-no-longer-allows-changing-wifi-mac-address

7 years ago

Show HN: I had issues organizing my favorite recipes, so I built this

https://www.feastgenius.com/

7 years ago

Tools I Recommend for Building Geospatial Web Applications

https://medium.com/swlh/tools-i-recommend-for-building-geospatial-web-applications-274d6939536c

7 years ago

Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager

https://bitwarden.com/

7 years ago

VPN⁰: A Privacy-Preserving Distributed VPN

https://brave.com/vpn0-a-privacy-preserving-distributed-virtual-private-network/

7 years ago

Tesla Model 3 represented over 15% of September new car sales in The Netherlands

https://cleantechnica.com/2019/10/03/the-netherlands-surpasses-wildest-predictions-for-tesla-model-3-sales/

7 years ago

How Do Individual Contributors Get Stuck? A Primer (2017)

http://www.elidedbranches.com/2017/01/how-do-individual-contributors-get.html

7 years ago

How Bash Completion Works

https://tuzz.tech/blog/how-bash-completion-works

7 years ago

CloudFlare is ruining the internet for me (2016)

https://www.slashgeek.net/2016/05/17/cloudflare-is-ruining-the-internet-for-me/

7 years ago

Learning Haskell is no harder than learning any other programming language

https://williamyaoh.com/posts/2019-10-05-you-are-already-smart-enough.html

7 years ago

An apology to our community, and next steps

https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/334551/an-apology-to-our-community-and-next-steps

7 years ago

Telecom Lobbyists Successfully Remove Canada from Wireless Pricing Report

https://www.iphoneincanada.ca/carriers/telecom-lobbyists-remove-canada-wireless-report/

7 years ago

Chinese farmer 'studies law for 16 years' to defeat dumping of hazardous waste

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/chinese-farmer-wang-englin-study-law-16-years-chemicals-corporation-qinghua-group-dump-chemical-a7566911.html

7 years ago

LastPass Extension slows Chrome's responsiveness by up to 50%

https://twitter.com/_pastelsky/status/1180864405648502784

7 years ago

I hate living in my tiny house

https://www.fastcompany.com/90407740/why-i-hate-living-in-my-tiny-house

7 years ago

A Beginner’s Guide to Chart.js

https://www.stanleyulili.com/javascript/beginner-guide-to-chartjs/

7 years ago

Tectonic – TeX/LaTeX Engine in Rust

https://tectonic-typesetting.github.io/en-US/

7 years ago

An Inside Look at Microsoft’s Newest Flight Simulator

http://inspire.eaa.org/2019/09/30/an-inside-look-at-microsofts-newest-flight-simulator/

7 years ago

Severely deficient autobiographical memory in healthy adults (2015)

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S002839321500158X

7 years ago

Building a constraint programming solver in Julia

http://opensourc.es/blog/constraint-solver-1

7 years ago

A German word for:“It only works when I try to show you how it does not work”?

https://german.stackexchange.com/questions/54648/what-is-the-german-word-for-it-only-works-when-i-try-to-show-you-how-it-does-n

7 years ago

Why New York City Stopped Building Subways (2018)

https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2018/04/why-new-york-city-stopped-building-subways/557567/

7 years ago

The privacy trade-offs of cheap Android smartphones

https://www.fastcompany.com/90408472/cheap-smartphones-have-a-disturbing-secret

7 years ago

The Greening of Paris Makes Its Mayor More Than a Few Enemies

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/05/world/europe/paris-anne-hildago-green-city-climate-change.html

7 years ago

What I’ve learned about SEO (2018)

https://salon.thefamily.co/the-google-seo-bible-everything-a-startup-needs-to-know-a60dbac2d060

7 years ago

World's Best-Run Pension Funds Say It's Time to Start Worrying

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-06/world-s-best-run-pension-funds-say-it-s-time-to-start-worrying

7 years ago

Westworld (1973): the first film with CGI, and its source code (2017) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzvbAm0y8YQ

7 years ago

The Mun Programming Language

https://mun-lang.org/

7 years ago

Zupiter: A Web-Based Modular Synthesizer

https://pointersgonewild.com/2019/10/06/zupiter-a-web-based-modular-synthesizer/

7 years ago

Why are cars killing more pedestrians?

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/oct/03/collision-course-pedestrian-deaths-rising-driverless-cars

7 years ago

The Founding of Google Maps (2015)

https://medium.com/@lewgus/the-untold-story-about-the-founding-of-google-maps-e4a5430aec92

7 years ago

Zachtronics: Ten Years of Terrible Games (2017) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Df9pz_EmKhA

7 years ago

I Worked at Capital One for 5 Years. How We Justified Piling Debt on the Poor

https://newrepublic.com/article/155212/worked-capital-one-five-years-justified-piling-debt-poor-customers?__twitter_impression=true

7 years ago

Taboola and Outbrain are merging to create a clickbait giant

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/04/business/media/online-advertising-chumbox-merger.html

7 years ago

Journalist says CBP withheld passport until he agreed he writes ‘propaganda’

https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2019/10/04/journalist-says-cbp-officer-withheld-his-passport-until-he-agreed-he-writes-propaganda/

7 years ago

Break before make, abstractions, and sleazy ISPs

http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2019/10/05/nxdomain/

7 years ago

China’s Millennials

https://www.lrb.co.uk/v41/n19/-shengyun/chinas-millennials

7 years ago

High finance is wrecking the economy and the planet, but it won't reform itself

https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/high-finance-is-wrecking-the-economy-and-the-planet-but-it-wont-reform-itself-banking-wall-street-city-of-london

7 years ago

A fast alternative to the modulo reduction (2016)

https://lemire.me/blog/2016/06/27/a-fast-alternative-to-the-modulo-reduction/

7 years ago

Causing ZFS corruption for fun, profit, and quality assurance

https://datto.engineering/post/causing-zfs-corruption

7 years ago

How to adopt an “openness” mindset at work

https://spin.atomicobject.com/2019/10/06/player-mindset/

7 years ago

Echolocation in blind people reveals the brain’s adaptive powers

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/10/echolocation-blind-people-reveals-brain-s-adaptive-powers

7 years ago

Void Linux (musl) on the Huawei MateBook X Pro

https://bitcannon.net/post/huawei-matebook-x-pro-void-linux/

7 years ago