top 20 hacker news stories for 2019-10-28

The “Talk”

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/the-talk-3

6 years ago

877 upvotes – 112 comments

Apple Developer Documentation Is Missing

https://v4.chriskrycho.com/2019/apple-your-developer-documentation-is-garbage.html

6 years ago

830 upvotes – 389 comments

Alphabet in bid to buy Fitbit

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-fitbit-m-a-alphabet-exclusive/exclusive-google-owner-alphabet-in-bid-to-buy-fitbit-sources-idUSKBN1X71NY

6 years ago

561 upvotes – 522 comments

The Little Handbook of Statistical Practice (2012)

http://www.jerrydallal.com/LHSP/LHSP.htm

6 years ago

502 upvotes – 36 comments

Unix: A History and a Memoir, by Brian Kernighan

https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~bwk/

6 years ago

502 upvotes – 139 comments

Ask HN: What is the most beautiful piece of code you've ever read?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21373852

6 years ago

476 upvotes – 380 comments

After Spike in Deaths, New York to Get 250 Miles of Protected Bike Lanes

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/28/nyregion/nyc-biking-deaths-lanes.html

6 years ago

398 upvotes – 311 comments

AirPods Pro

https://www.apple.com/airpods-pro/

6 years ago

393 upvotes – 378 comments

Tether: The Story So Far

https://www.kalzumeus.com/2019/10/28/tether-and-bitfinex/

6 years ago

377 upvotes – 225 comments

Adopting Erlang

https://adoptingerlang.org/

6 years ago

366 upvotes – 68 comments

Thriving on the Technical Leadership Path

https://keavy.com/work/thriving-on-the-technical-leadership-path/

6 years ago

315 upvotes – 134 comments

Dissent at Facebook over hands-off stance on political ads

http://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/28/technology/facebook-mark-zuckerberg-political-ads.html

6 years ago

309 upvotes – 393 comments

Playboy Interview: Steve Jobs (1985)

http://reprints.longform.org/playboy-interview-steve-jobs

6 years ago

284 upvotes – 99 comments

Ask HN: I just wrote an O(N) diffing algorithm – what am I missing?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21382709

6 years ago

281 upvotes – 57 comments

How Figma's Multiplayer Technology Works

https://www.figma.com/blog/how-figmas-multiplayer-technology-works/

6 years ago

268 upvotes – 63 comments

Ask HN: What do you automate in your life and work?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21373931

6 years ago

244 upvotes – 192 comments

The Story of the Team Behind the 6502

https://www.team6502.org/

6 years ago

232 upvotes – 43 comments

3D graphics rendering pipeline. Implemented in JavaScript. Run in a terminal

https://github.com/sinclairzx81/zero

6 years ago

★ 2.4k TypeScript
229 upvotes – 51 comments

Tcl: Everything Is a String

https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/everything+is+a+string

6 years ago

227 upvotes – 162 comments

Block on GM rice ‘has cost millions of lives and led to child blindness’

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/26/gm-golden-rice-delay-cost-millions-of-lives-child-blindness

6 years ago

226 upvotes – 164 comments
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