top 20 hacker news stories for 2019-10-11

Why Enterprise Software Sucks

https://twitter.com/random_walker/status/1182635589604171776

6 years ago

1310 upvotes – 554 comments

Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, and eBay exit Facebook’s Libra project

https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/11/20910330/mastercard-stripe-ebay-facebook-libra-association-withdrawal-cryptocurrency

6 years ago

1083 upvotes – 343 comments

Larry Wall has approved renaming Perl 6 to Raku

https://github.com/perl6/problem-solving/pull/89

6 years ago

★ 80 Artistic-2.0
619 upvotes – 439 comments

I’m Convinced We Found Evidence of Life on Mars in the 1970s

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/im-convinced-we-found-evidence-of-life-on-mars-in-the-1970s/

6 years ago

477 upvotes – 259 comments

Exposure to air pollution is linked to an increase in violent crime

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2019/10/09/exposure-to-air-pollution-is-linked-to-an-increase-in-violent-crime

6 years ago

408 upvotes – 219 comments

Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram Restricted in Southern Turkey

https://netblocks.org/reports/twitter-facebook-whatsapp-and-instagram-restricted-in-southern-turkey-oy9RzE83

6 years ago

363 upvotes – 229 comments

600k concurrent websocket connections on AWS using Node.js (2015)

https://blog.jayway.com/2015/04/13/600k-concurrent-websocket-connections-on-aws-using-node-js/

6 years ago

357 upvotes – 137 comments

SEC halts Telegram's $1.7B token offering

https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2019-212

6 years ago

323 upvotes – 201 comments

Uber Go Style Guide

https://github.com/uber-go/guide/blob/master/style.md

6 years ago

★ 17.4k Makefile Apache-2.0
309 upvotes – 134 comments

NASA aims for first manned SpaceX mission in first-quarter 2020

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-space-exploration-spacex/nasa-aims-for-first-manned-spacex-mission-in-first-quarter-2020-idUSKBN1WP1CS

6 years ago

308 upvotes – 161 comments

Alexei Leonov, the first human to walk in space, has died

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/alexei-leonov-died-cosmonaut-first-man-to-walk-in-space-dead-age-85-cause-of-death-not-released-2019-10-11/

6 years ago

292 upvotes – 32 comments

Mail Data Loss in macOS 10.15

https://mjtsai.com/blog/2019/10/11/mail-data-loss-in-macos-10-15/

6 years ago

280 upvotes – 128 comments

AWS Elasticsearch: a fundamentally-flawed offering

https://spun.io/2019/10/10/aws-elasticsearch-a-fundamentally-flawed-offering/

6 years ago

278 upvotes – 150 comments

California power outage triggers chaos in science labs

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03086-2

6 years ago

264 upvotes – 301 comments

Review of 737 Max Certification Finds Fault with Boeing and FAA

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/11/business/boeing-737-max.html

6 years ago

258 upvotes – 124 comments

Our unpredictable and overburdened schedules are taking a toll on society

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/11/why-dont-i-see-you-anymore/598336/

6 years ago

245 upvotes – 186 comments

What You Can't Say (2004)

http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html

6 years ago

241 upvotes – 232 comments

Hiren’s BootCD Based on Windows 10 PE X64

https://www.hirensbootcd.org

6 years ago

238 upvotes – 84 comments

Twitter analysis: identifying a propaganda bot network

https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2019/09/03/twitter-analysis-identifying-a-pro-indonesian-propaganda-bot-network/

6 years ago

232 upvotes – 71 comments

Chrome 77 Breaking Drag and Drop Events

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1005747

6 years ago

219 upvotes – 186 comments
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