top 50% 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

Unix: A History and a Memoir, by Brian Kernighan

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

6 years ago

502 upvotes – 139 comments

The Little Handbook of Statistical Practice (2012)

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

6 years ago

502 upvotes – 36 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

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

Looping Music Seamlessly

http://nolannicholson.com/looper.html

6 years ago

223 upvotes – 61 comments

Sourcehut Q3 2019 Financial Report

https://sourcehut.org/blog/2019-10-21-sourcehut-q3-2019-financial-report/

6 years ago

216 upvotes – 59 comments

Oberon Operating System

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oberon_(operating_system)

6 years ago

196 upvotes – 93 comments

SQLite is easy to compile

https://jvns.ca/blog/2019/10/28/sqlite-is-really-easy-to-compile/

6 years ago

192 upvotes – 54 comments

The Most Gender-Switched Names in the U.S.

https://flowingdata.com/2019/08/28/gender-switched-names/

6 years ago

189 upvotes – 148 comments

On-Line Pizza Idea Is Clever but Only Half-Baked (1994)

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-08-25-fi-31168-story.html

6 years ago

189 upvotes – 157 comments

When AWS, Azure, or GCP Becomes the Competition

https://www.gkogan.co/blog/big-cloud/

6 years ago

186 upvotes – 89 comments

U.S. Seeks to Heighten Scrutiny of Foreign Investment in Tech, Infra, Data

https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-seeks-to-heighten-scrutiny-of-foreign-investment-in-technology-infrastructure-data-11568750471?mod=rsswn

6 years ago

179 upvotes – 114 comments

Bhopal disaster

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

6 years ago

156 upvotes – 68 comments

I got 40 paying customers in 6 months with 0 dollars spent

https://blog.pixelixe.com/2019/10/24/how-I-got-40-paying-customers-in-6-months-with-0-dollars-spent/

6 years ago

155 upvotes – 63 comments

Websites can change content inside a selection

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1591698

6 years ago

154 upvotes – 127 comments

Voting machines pose a greater threat to our elections than foreign agents

https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/464065-voting-machines-pose-a-greater-threat-to-our-elections-than-foreign-agents

6 years ago

153 upvotes – 104 comments

Private firefighters go to work for California's wealthy

https://www.foxbusiness.com/money/private-firefighters-california-wealthy-wildfire

6 years ago

147 upvotes – 188 comments

Could a Neuroscientist Understand a Microprocessor? (2017)

https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005268

6 years ago

146 upvotes – 36 comments

Google, in Rare Stumble, Posts 23% Decline in Profit

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/28/technology/google-alphabet-earnings.html

6 years ago

145 upvotes – 87 comments

Snap: A Microkernel Approach to Host Networking

https://ai.google/research/pubs/pub48630/

6 years ago

144 upvotes – 75 comments

Introduction to Adversarial Machine Learning

https://blog.floydhub.com/introduction-to-adversarial-machine-learning/

6 years ago

143 upvotes – 15 comments

Ripe NIC: 'In Five Weeks We'll Run Out of IPv4 Internet Addresses'

https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2019/10/this-time-there-really-are-no-ipv4-internet-addresses-left.html

6 years ago

136 upvotes – 231 comments

Ten Commandments of How to Write an IMAP Client (2006)

https://www.washington.edu/imap/documentation/commndmt.txt.html

6 years ago

134 upvotes – 44 comments

A Cybersecurity Firm’s Sharp Rise and Stunning Collapse

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/11/04/a-cybersecurity-firms-sharp-rise-and-stunning-collapse

6 years ago

127 upvotes – 36 comments

A neural algorithm for similarity search (2017)

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/358/6364/793

6 years ago

125 upvotes – 12 comments

Dark color: Things to know about color when adopting dark mode

https://sarunw.com/posts/dark-color/

6 years ago

122 upvotes – 65 comments

Offline-Pedia converts old televisions into Wikipedia readers (2018)

https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2018/07/17/offline-pedia/

6 years ago

111 upvotes – 31 comments

Ask HN: What are your experiences with Svelte (JS framework)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21376557

6 years ago

110 upvotes – 101 comments

Go Is the New Ruby

https://00f.net/2019/10/28/go-is-the-new-ruby/

6 years ago

105 upvotes – 59 comments

Who does that server really serve? (2010)

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-serve.en.html

6 years ago

105 upvotes – 37 comments

Widget-Maker – A Flutter UI Builder

https://www.widgetmaker.dev/

6 years ago

104 upvotes – 23 comments

Why Palladium Is Suddenly a More Precious Metal

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-28/why-palladium-is-suddenly-a-more-precious-metal-quicktake-k2ap4ryc

6 years ago

99 upvotes – 84 comments

Heroes and Juniors: Increasing Engineering Team Velocity

https://medium.com/@bellmar/heroes-and-juniors-increasing-engineering-team-velocity-97ce6a59103e

6 years ago

96 upvotes – 24 comments

Launch HN: Carve (YC S19) – Rent Cars from Local Dealerships

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21378161

6 years ago

95 upvotes – 165 comments

900 Children Test Positive for H.I.V. in Pakistani city of Ratodero

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/26/world/asia/hiv-aids-pakistan-ratodero.html

6 years ago

92 upvotes – 94 comments

Man wins French Scrabble championship without speaking a word of French (2015)

https://www.cbc.ca/news/trending/man-wins-french-scrabble-championship-without-speaking-a-word-of-french-1.3161884

6 years ago

92 upvotes – 46 comments

The Mark Zuckerberg Is a Lot Less Impressive Than the Movie Version

https://forward.com/culture/433666/the-real-mark-zuckerberg-is-a-lot-less-impressive-than-the-movie-version/

6 years ago

92 upvotes – 95 comments

What is a ket? How do traits work? Quantum computing in Rust, part 1

https://walther.guru/blog/impl-quantum-part-1/

6 years ago

87 upvotes – 27 comments

Duffel (YC S18) raises $30M for flight booking API

https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/28/duffel-raises-30m-led-by-index-ventures-to-disintermediate-legacy-travel-platforms/

6 years ago

82 upvotes – 44 comments

Cluster SSH – Manage Multiple Linux Servers Simultaneously

https://www.putorius.net/cluster-ssh.html

6 years ago

79 upvotes – 87 comments

Leaving Prison at 72

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/28/us/geneva-cooley-alabama-prison.html

6 years ago

78 upvotes – 101 comments

Show HN: I created a portable lightweight replacement for Microsoft HTML Help

https://www.dmitripopov.com/introducing-litehelp/

6 years ago

77 upvotes – 40 comments

Early-Career Setbacks Can Set You Up for Success

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/27/smarter-living/career-advice-overcome-setback.html

6 years ago

77 upvotes – 61 comments
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