top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-10-18

My Favourite Git Commit

https://fatbusinessman.com/2019/my-favourite-git-commit

6 years ago

Coffee Is Hard

https://www.stilldrinking.org/coffee-is-hard

6 years ago

Four kinds of documentation

https://www.divio.com/blog/documentation/

6 years ago

Earth and Sun

https://ciechanow.ski/earth-and-sun/

6 years ago

New pathfinding algorithm

https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-317

6 years ago

Bazel 1.0

https://opensource.googleblog.com/2019/10/bazel-reaches-10-milestone.html

6 years ago

Mathematics for Machine Learning [pdf]

https://mml-book.com/

6 years ago

Are Aerospike Engines Better Than Traditional Rocket Engines?

http://everydayastronaut.com/aerospikes/

6 years ago

Alphabet’s Wing begins making commercial drone deliveries in the US

https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/18/alphabets-wing-begins-making-first-commercial-drone-deliveries-in-the-u-s/

6 years ago

Faster Layouts with CSS Grid and Subgrid

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/10/faster-layouts-with-css-grid-and-subgrid/

6 years ago

Most U.S. Dairy Cows Are Descended From Just Two Bulls

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/10/17/770696476/most-u-s-dairy-cows-are-descended-from-just-2-bulls-thats-not-good

6 years ago

Practice Sight-Reading Music

https://sightreading.training/

6 years ago

List of software that has free tiers for developers

https://free-for.dev/

6 years ago

California fault capable of producing a magnitude 8 earthquake has begun moving

https://www.stripes.com/news/us/unprecedented-movement-detected-on-california-earthquake-fault-capable-of-8-0-temblor-1.603516/quake-1.603517

6 years ago

The Wayback Machine: Fighting Digital Extinction in New Ways

https://blog.archive.org/2019/10/18/the-wayback-machine-fighting-digital-extinction-in-new-ways/

6 years ago

I Survived the “Destroying Angel” (2006)

http://blog.mycology.cornell.edu/2006/11/22/i-survived-the-destroying-angel/

6 years ago

Gridsome – A Vue.js static site generator

https://gridsome.org/

6 years ago

Mark Hurd Has Died

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/18/mark-hurd-co-ceo-of-oracle-dies-at-62.html

6 years ago

Discontinuing Support for NSFW Imgur r/subsections Associated with Reddit

https://blog.imgur.com/2019/10/14/discontinuing-support-for-nsfw-reddit-subsections/

6 years ago

Uptime 15,364 days – The Computers of Voyager [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H62hZJVqs2o

6 years ago

We moved our servers to Iceland

https://blog.simpleanalytics.com/why-we-moved-our-servers-to-iceland

6 years ago

Microsoft’s visual data explorer SandDance open sourced

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

6 years ago

Builders Ditch Nest After Google Ties Devices to Digital Assistant

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-17/builders-ditch-nest-as-google-ties-digital-assistant-to-devices

6 years ago

The US nuclear forces’ messaging system finally got rid of its floppy disks

https://www.c4isrnet.com/air/2019/10/17/the-us-nuclear-forces-dr-strangelove-era-messaging-system-finally-got-rid-of-its-floppy-disks/

6 years ago

Email marketing regulations around the world

https://github.com/threeheartsdigital/email-marketing-regulations

6 years ago

★ 466

Remove my password from lists so hackers won't be able to hack me (2017)

https://github.com/danielmiessler/SecLists/pull/155

6 years ago

★ 70.5k PHP MIT

Really Fixing Getrandom()

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/802360/06e2457983b56edb/

6 years ago

Boeing 2016 internal messages suggest employees may have misled FAA on 737 MAX

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ethiopia-airplane-boeing-exclusive/exclusive-boeing-2016-internal-messages-suggest-employees-may-have-misled-faa-on-737-max-sources-idUSKBN1WX25G

6 years ago

I'm Resigning as a Stack Overflow Community Elected Moderator

https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/390427/im-resigning-as-a-stack-overflow-community-elected-moderator

6 years ago

Scientists create device that cuts desalination costs by 90%

https://tass.com/science/1083191

6 years ago

Photographing Big Waves at Mavericks

https://www.cake.co/conversations/L44Nh7h/my-cautionary-tale-of-photographing-the-world-s-biggest-waves-at-mavericks

6 years ago

Rules for Developing Safety-Critical Code (2006) [pdf]

http://pixelscommander.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/P10.pdf

6 years ago

Machine learning in UK financial services

https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/report/2019/machine-learning-in-uk-financial-services.pdf?la=en&hash=F8CA6EE7A5A9E0CB182F5D568E033F0EB2D21246

6 years ago

Show HN: Blackjack Break, a minimal quick-play blackjack game

https://blackjackbreak.com

6 years ago

Drones flying in formation acting as a 3D display (2018)

https://twitter.com/MachinePix/status/1184830194323984389

6 years ago

Boeing Pilot Warned of ‘Egregious’ Issue with 737 Max in 2016

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/18/business/boeing-flight-simulator-text-message.html

6 years ago

Cortex: Deploy machine learning models in production

https://github.com/cortexlabs/cortex/tree/v0.9.0

6 years ago

★ 8k Go Apache-2.0

Daily blue light shortens lifespan, causes brain neurodegeneration in Drosophila

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41514-019-0038-6

6 years ago

D at 20: Hits and Misses [pdf]

https://digitalmars.com/articles/hits.pdf

6 years ago

Mac Pro Puts the Pedal to Metal in Apple's Race with Nvidia

https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/10/18/editorial-mac-pro-puts-the-pedal-to-metal-in-apples-race-with-nvidia

6 years ago

Mozilla Intends to Deprecate OpenSearch

https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2019/10/15/search-engine-add-ons-to-be-removed-from-addons-mozilla-org/

6 years ago

Facebook and Speech

https://continuations.com/post/188425562010/facebook-and-speech-its-all-about-power

6 years ago

FAA says Boeing withheld ‘concerning’ messages about the 737 Max

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/18/boeing-shares-slide-on-report-faa-is-concerned-it-was-misled-about-737-max.html

6 years ago

Highlights from “The Checklist Manifesto” by Atul Gawande

https://www.chestergrant.com/highlights-from-the-checklist-manifesto-by-atul-gawande

6 years ago

The Beauty of COBOL (2018)

https://devops.com/the-beauty-of-the-cobol-programming-language-v2/

6 years ago

The Real Reasons I Don’t Hire You

https://charity.wtf/2019/10/18/the-real-11-reasons-i-dont-hire-you/

6 years ago

Catalan separatists have tooled up with decentralized app for civil disobedience

https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/17/catalan-separatists-have-tooled-up-with-a-decentralized-app-for-civil-disobedience/

6 years ago

Nvim-colorizer.lua: The fastest colorizer for neovim (and no dependencies too)

https://github.com/norcalli/nvim-colorizer.lua

6 years ago

★ 2.6k Lua

The Pixel 4’s face unlock works on sleeping people

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/10/the-pixel-4s-face-unlock-works-on-sleeping-unconscious-people/

6 years ago

Egypt uncovers 'huge cache' of ancient sealed coffins

https://www.cnn.com/style/article/luxor-egyptian-coffins-hnk-scli/index.html

6 years ago

The 2018 Olympics Cyberattack

https://www.wired.com/story/untold-story-2018-olympics-destroyer-cyberattack/

6 years ago

A historian's critique of popular conceptions of witchcraft

https://athenaeumreview.org/essay/managing-our-darkest-hatreds/

6 years ago

YC Interview Tips from a Former YC Partner [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfTgzA6iKZc

6 years ago

Show HN: Booste – a cloud-hosted desktop for developers

http://www.devs.booste.io/

6 years ago

Comparison of X Window Managers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_X_window_managers

6 years ago

We Need to Design Health Care Reform That Puts Patients Before Profits

https://rooseveltinstitute.org/why-we-need-to-design-health-care-reform-that-puts-patients-before-profits/

6 years ago

Microchip Adds RISC-V Cores to PolarFire FPGAs

https://www.electronicsweekly.com/open-source-engineering/risc-v-day-microchip-adds-risc-v-hard-ip-polarfire-fpgas-2019-10/

6 years ago

The outcry over deaths on Amazon's warehouse floor

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/oct/17/amazon-warehouse-worker-deaths

6 years ago