top 20 hacker news stories for 2019-10-24

Ask HN: Are there books for mathematics like Feynman's lectures on physics?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21346272

6 years ago

788 upvotes – 171 comments

BBC News launches 'dark web' Tor mirror

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-50150981

6 years ago

765 upvotes – 288 comments

Gitlab ‘rethinking’ third-party telemetry

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitaly/issues/2113

6 years ago

623 upvotes – 422 comments

React Concurrent Mode

https://reactjs.org/docs/concurrent-mode-intro.html

6 years ago

446 upvotes – 294 comments

How SSH Port Became 22

https://www.ssh.com/ssh/port

6 years ago

382 upvotes – 81 comments

Ring Gave Police Stats About Users Who Said No to Law Enforcement Requests

https://gizmodo.com/ring-gave-police-stats-about-users-who-said-no-to-law-e-1837713840

6 years ago

368 upvotes – 276 comments

MIT Media Lab Scientist Used Refugees to Tout Food Computers That Didn't Work

https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/at-work/start-ups/mit-media-lab-scientist-used-syrian-refugees-to-tout-food-computers

6 years ago

359 upvotes – 204 comments

The Hacker’s Manifesto (1986)

http://phrack.org/issues/7/3.html

6 years ago

341 upvotes – 128 comments

Stripe to move to South San Francisco

https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/2nd-most-valuable-U-S-startup-to-leave-SF-as-14558067.php

6 years ago

324 upvotes – 419 comments

Why Aren’t We Curious About the Things We Want to Be Curious About?

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/18/opinion/sunday/curiosity-brain.html

6 years ago

324 upvotes – 119 comments

How to Become the Best in the World at Something

https://forge.medium.com/how-to-become-the-best-in-the-world-at-something-f1b658f93428

6 years ago

322 upvotes – 141 comments

Congressman's phone password is 111111

https://gfycat.com/uncommonacclaimedboar

6 years ago

321 upvotes – 194 comments

Google T5 scores 88.9 on SuperGLUE Benchmark, approaching human baseline

https://super.gluebenchmark.com/leaderboard

6 years ago

303 upvotes – 235 comments

Grafana Labs raises $24M

https://grafana.com/blog/2019/10/24/what-24-million-means-for-our-open-source-community/

6 years ago

293 upvotes – 114 comments

Working asynchronously

https://blog.remote.com/why-you-should-be-doing-async-work/

6 years ago

266 upvotes – 103 comments

Earliest known draft of the King James Bible discovered

https://www.neh.gov/article/first-draft-king-james-bible

6 years ago

247 upvotes – 231 comments

Calculus for the Curious

https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2019/10/16/calculus-for-the-curious/

6 years ago

243 upvotes – 38 comments

Man sues AT&T over 'SIM Swap' hack allegedly involving employees

https://www.foxla.com/news/torrance-man-sues-att-over-1-8-million-sim-swap-hack-allegedly-involving-company-employees

6 years ago

242 upvotes – 119 comments

Teaching Rats to Drive Tiny Cars

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2220721-scientists-have-trained-rats-to-drive-tiny-cars-to-collect-food/

6 years ago

241 upvotes – 103 comments

The decline in U.S. life expectancy is unlike anything seen in a century (2018)

https://www.popsci.com/life-expectancy-declining

6 years ago

239 upvotes – 335 comments
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