top 50% 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

Making Instagram.com faster: Part 3 – cache first

https://instagram-engineering.com/making-instagram-com-faster-part-3-cache-first-6f3f130b9669

6 years ago

213 upvotes – 68 comments

Don't Outsource Your Thinking (2015)

https://medium.com/@blakeross/don-t-outsource-your-thinking-ad825a9b4653

6 years ago

193 upvotes – 27 comments

Credit Suisse scandal shakes Zurich’s elite

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/-spygate-_credit-suisse-scandal-shakes-zurich-s-elite/45280086

6 years ago

191 upvotes – 86 comments

Convert Curl Syntax to Python Requests

https://curl.trillworks.com/

6 years ago

166 upvotes – 45 comments

Ask HN: How many of you have been impacted by a layoff?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21229345

6 years ago

164 upvotes – 169 comments

When Chinese Employees Ask for Justice, Facebook Silence Their Voices

https://en.pingwest.com/a/3649

6 years ago

162 upvotes – 57 comments

Love Letter to Clojure

https://itrevolution.com/love-letter-to-clojure-part-1/

6 years ago

161 upvotes – 17 comments

Photos of Kids Are Powering Surveillance Technology

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/10/11/technology/flickr-facial-recognition.html

6 years ago

139 upvotes – 36 comments

Google made large contributions to climate change deniers

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/11/google-contributions-climate-change-deniers

6 years ago

138 upvotes – 57 comments

Monzo: How our security team handle secrets

https://monzo.com/blog/2019/10/11/how-our-security-team-handle-secrets

6 years ago

137 upvotes – 63 comments

California Blocks Police Body Cam Use of Face Recognition

https://www.aclu.org/blog/privacy-technology/surveillance-technologies/california-just-blocked-police-body-cam-use-face

6 years ago

137 upvotes – 60 comments

Microsoft open sources SandDance, a visual data exploration tool

https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/opensource/2019/10/10/microsoft-open-sources-sanddance-visual-data-exploration-tool/

6 years ago

136 upvotes – 30 comments

The Nobel Peace Prize 2019

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/2019/summary/

6 years ago

125 upvotes – 84 comments

Quintillion CEO’s Promise to Wire the Arctic Was $1B Scam

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-10-08/quintillion-ceo-s-promise-to-wire-the-arctic-was-1-billion-scam

6 years ago

122 upvotes – 64 comments

WeWork chases new financing as cash crunch looms

https://www.ft.com/content/f29ecc58-eba9-11e9-a240-3b065ef5fc55

6 years ago

114 upvotes – 135 comments

The Navy's Patent for a Compact Nuclear Fusion Reactor

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/a29427713/navy-compact-fusion-reactor/

6 years ago

111 upvotes – 146 comments

Show HN: A news aggregator for the Python community written in Python/Django

https://github.com/sebst/pythonic-news/

6 years ago

★ 545 Python AGPL-3.0
106 upvotes – 37 comments

I tried to hack my insomnia

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614478/i-tried-to-hack-my-insomnia-with-technology-heres-what-worked/

6 years ago

104 upvotes – 115 comments

Lost transcription of Tale of Genji chapter found in Japanese storeroom

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/oct/10/lost-chapter-the-tale-of-genji-murasaki-shikibu-found-japan

6 years ago

103 upvotes – 9 comments

New York's Strand bookstore fights back over landmark status

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/oct/11/new-york-the-strand-bookstore-landmark-status-sue

6 years ago

103 upvotes – 76 comments

MNT Reform DIY Laptop

https://mntre.com/reform/

6 years ago

98 upvotes – 39 comments

HamWAN: A modern, multi-megabit, IP-based, digital network for amateur radio use

https://hamwan.org/

6 years ago

98 upvotes – 9 comments

Google gets OK to siphon water for South Carolina plant

https://www.thestate.com/news/local/environment/article235973882.html

6 years ago

96 upvotes – 67 comments

Why are adult daughters missing from ancient German cemeteries?

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/10/why-are-adult-daughters-missing-ancient-german-cemeteries

6 years ago

96 upvotes – 53 comments

Fibers aren’t useful for much any more

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20191011-00/?p=102989

6 years ago

93 upvotes – 58 comments

Effects of acute wild blueberry supplementation on the cognition of children

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00394-018-1843-6

6 years ago

91 upvotes – 63 comments

Function Currying in Go

https://medium.com/@meeusdylan/function-currying-in-go-a88672d6ebcf

6 years ago

88 upvotes – 94 comments

China has increased fishery subsidies

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2019/10/sea-running-out-of-fish-despite-nations-pledges-to-stop/

6 years ago

87 upvotes – 20 comments

Fixing the World (2011)

http://zguide.zeromq.org/page:all#Fixing-the-World

6 years ago

86 upvotes – 26 comments

Tracking PG&E outages by scraping to a Git repo

https://simonwillison.net/2019/Oct/10/pge-outages/

6 years ago

85 upvotes – 11 comments

iPadOS review: The iPad is dead, long live the iPad

https://arstechnica.com/?p=1582717

6 years ago

82 upvotes – 92 comments

Show HN: Git-remote-s3 – push and pull Git repos to/from s3, encrypted using GPG

https://github.com/bgahagan/git-remote-s3

6 years ago

★ 326 Rust MIT
79 upvotes – 16 comments

The Myth of a Wilderness Without Humans

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-myth-of-a-wilderness-without-humans/

6 years ago

79 upvotes – 43 comments
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