top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-11-04

We Stood Up to a Patent Troll and Won

https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-project-jengo-saga-how-cloudflare-stood-up-to-a-patent-troll-and-won/

6 years ago

1675 upvotes – 246 comments

I Got Access to My Secret Consumer Score

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/04/business/secret-consumer-score-access.html

6 years ago

884 upvotes – 325 comments

Undercover reporter reveals life in a Polish troll farm

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/01/undercover-reporter-reveals-life-in-a-polish-troll-farm

6 years ago

665 upvotes – 308 comments

Microsoft 4-day week boosts productivity and sales

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-50287391

6 years ago

492 upvotes – 242 comments

Apple TV, Apple TV, Apple TV, and Apple TV+

https://dcurt.is/apple-tv-all-the-way-down

6 years ago

491 upvotes – 194 comments

Pure CSS – Lace

https://diana-adrianne.com/purecss-lace/

6 years ago

415 upvotes – 103 comments

I tried to adjust the time on my alarm clock

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20191104-01/?p=103052

6 years ago

372 upvotes – 354 comments

Algebraic Structures: Things I wish someone had explained about FP

https://jrsinclair.com/articles/2019/algebraic-structures-what-i-wish-someone-had-explained-about-functional-programming/

6 years ago

354 upvotes – 93 comments

The trillion-dollar lawsuit against Tether

https://danco.substack.com/p/the-trillion-dollar-lawsuit-part?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo2MTQwNiwicG9zdF9pZCI6MTYwNDE1LCJfIjoiR04vbWEiLCJpYXQiOjE1NzI4Mjk2NDksImV4cCI6MTU3MjgzMzI0OSwiaXNzIjoicHViLTg2MjMiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.LEnAhs6P88d7mEmzqAZmdP2O767cIwRI73guebuO6L4

6 years ago

349 upvotes – 165 comments

U of Chicago projected to be the first U.S. university to cost $100k per year

https://hechingerreport.org/university-of-chicago-projected-to-be-the-first-u-s-university-to-charge-100000-a-year/

6 years ago

336 upvotes – 543 comments

The manager’s schedule is holding remote work back

https://medium.com/@lukethomas14/the-managers-schedule-is-holding-remote-work-back-f9c1302ac6f3

6 years ago

332 upvotes – 196 comments

Separating gifted children hasn't led to better achievement

https://hechingerreport.org/opinion-separating-gifted-children-hasnt-led-to-better-acheivement/

6 years ago

324 upvotes – 372 comments

Regulating Big Tech makes them stronger, so they need competition instead

https://www.economist.com/open-future/2019/06/06/regulating-big-tech-makes-them-stronger-so-they-need-competition-instead

6 years ago

316 upvotes – 191 comments

Magnet doubles hydrogen yield from water splitting

https://cen.acs.org/articles/97/web/2019/06/Magnet-doubles-hydrogen-yield-water.html

6 years ago

298 upvotes – 109 comments

A woman with a rare genetic mutation that has protected her from dementia

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/04/health/alzheimers-treatment-genetics.html

6 years ago

296 upvotes – 39 comments

Show HN: Tailwind Builder – online editor for the Tailwind CSS framework

https://tailwind.build/

6 years ago

295 upvotes – 43 comments

Flood of Oil Is Coming, Complicating Efforts to Fight Global Warming

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/03/business/energy-environment/oil-supply.html

6 years ago

291 upvotes – 476 comments

Designing the Facebook Company Brand

https://facebook.design/companybrand

6 years ago

291 upvotes – 216 comments

RISC-V OS Using Rust: Memory Management Unit

http://osblog.stephenmarz.com/ch3.2.html

6 years ago

288 upvotes – 26 comments

Research shows Bitcoin 2017 rally caused by single whale

https://cryptovest.com/news/bitcoin-btc-2017-rally-caused-by-single-whale-research-shows/

6 years ago

267 upvotes – 4 comments

L.A. temporarily suspends Uber’s permit to rent out electric scooters and bikes

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-11-04/los-angeles-suspends-uber-jump-scooters-bikes-data-privacy

6 years ago

261 upvotes – 201 comments

Some Favorite Non-Technical Books (2018)

http://www.stroustrup.com/literature.html

6 years ago

233 upvotes – 48 comments

Plants communicate, nurture their seedlings, and get stressed

http://nautil.us/issue/77/underworlds/never-underestimate-the-intelligence-of-trees

6 years ago

225 upvotes – 37 comments

DNS Wars

https://www.potaroo.net/ispcol/2019-11/dnswars.html

6 years ago

211 upvotes – 87 comments

Lone Bitcoin Whale Likely Fueled 2017 Price Surge, Study Says

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-11-04/lone-bitcoin-whale-likely-fueled-2017-price-surge-study-says

6 years ago

185 upvotes – 350 comments

What SQL Analysts Need to Know About Python (2016)

https://segment.com/blog/sql-vs-python/

6 years ago

184 upvotes – 113 comments

FreeBSD 12.1

https://www.freebsd.org/releases/12.1R/relnotes.html

6 years ago

178 upvotes – 55 comments

The IRS has granted nonprofit status to a daily newspaper

https://www.niemanlab.org/2019/11/meet-the-salt-lake-tribune-501c3-the-irs-has-granted-nonprofit-status-to-a-daily-newspaper-for-the-first-time/

6 years ago

175 upvotes – 115 comments

Apple Commits $2.5B to Ease California Housing Crunch

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/04/technology/apple-california-housing-crisis.html

6 years ago

170 upvotes – 333 comments

Laser-Based Audio Injection on Voice-Controllable Systems

https://lightcommands.com/

6 years ago

168 upvotes – 19 comments

Building a Large-Scale Distributed Storage System Based on Raft

https://www.cncf.io/blog/2019/11/04/building-a-large-scale-distributed-storage-system-based-on-raft/

6 years ago

163 upvotes – 5 comments

Voyager 2’s Discoveries from Interstellar Space

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/04/science/voyager-2-interstellar-solar-wind.html

6 years ago

154 upvotes – 107 comments

Krispy Kreme mule will be allowed to continue operating

https://www.facebook.com/343592209610103/posts/449232749046048

6 years ago

153 upvotes – 131 comments

Visual Studio online available for public preview

https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/services/visual-studio-online/

6 years ago

153 upvotes – 121 comments

Dell bets big on Ubuntu Linux laptops for developers

https://www.zdnet.com/article/dell-bets-big-on-ubuntu-linux-laptops-for-developers/

6 years ago

150 upvotes – 171 comments

Deep Learning in the Real World: Dealing with Non-Differentiable Loss Functions

https://fruty.io/2019/11/04/deep-learning-in-the-real-world-how-to-deal-with-non-differentiable-loss-functions/

6 years ago

144 upvotes – 20 comments

Half of us have quit our job because of a bad boss (2015)

https://fortune.com/2015/04/02/quit-reasons/

6 years ago

135 upvotes – 75 comments

GitHub Sponsors is now out of beta in 30 countries

https://github.blog/2019-11-04-github-sponsors-is-now-out-of-beta-in-30-countries/

6 years ago

132 upvotes – 56 comments

Build OpenJDK for a Nice Speedup

http://august.nagro.us/optimized-openjdk.html

6 years ago

127 upvotes – 39 comments

Illumos is a Unix operating system which provides next-generation features

https://www.illumos.org/

6 years ago

127 upvotes – 75 comments

Roam – Tool for Thinking

https://roamresearch.com/

6 years ago

123 upvotes – 43 comments

Trip planning on Android phone turned off for now

https://onebusaway.org/trip-planning-on-android-phone-turned-off-for-now/

6 years ago

120 upvotes – 46 comments

YC, not Lambda School, is unbundling education

https://medium.com/swlh/y-combinator-not-lambda-school-is-unbundling-education-bd6fdf0c78d7

6 years ago

120 upvotes – 100 comments

Uber Q3 Results

https://investor.uber.com/news-events/news/press-release-details/2019/Uber-Announces-Results-for-Third-Quarter-2019/default.aspx

6 years ago

116 upvotes – 161 comments

A New Digital Manifesto

https://anewdigitalmanifesto.com/

6 years ago

104 upvotes – 64 comments

Bitcoin as a Game

http://jpkoning.blogspot.com/2019/11/bitcoin-11-years-in.html

6 years ago

96 upvotes – 78 comments

Show HN: Perceptual hashing tools for detecting child sexual abuse material

https://github.com/thorn-oss/perception

6 years ago

92 upvotes – 49 comments

ShareDrop – P2P File Transfer Using WebRTC

https://sharedrop.io

6 years ago

92 upvotes – 49 comments

Laws, theories, principles and patterns that developers might find useful

https://github.com/dwmkerr/hacker-laws

6 years ago

92 upvotes – 10 comments

If You Can Manage a Waffle House, You Can Manage Anything

https://www.wsj.com/articles/if-you-can-manage-a-waffle-house-you-can-manage-anything-11572667205?mod=rsswn

6 years ago

91 upvotes – 51 comments

How Big Is a Proton?

https://sparkonit.com/2019/11/04/how-big-is-a-proton/

6 years ago

91 upvotes – 51 comments

Journal will publish heavily criticized paper on gender differences in physics

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/11/decision-certain-draw-fire-journal-will-publish-heavily-criticized-paper-gender

6 years ago

89 upvotes – 87 comments

What Shape Is the Universe, Closed or Flat?

https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-shape-is-the-universe-closed-or-flat-20191104/

6 years ago

87 upvotes – 26 comments

GDPR fines were meant to rock the data privacy world

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/gdpr-fines

6 years ago

87 upvotes – 94 comments

The IRS Tried to Hide Emails That Show Tax Industry Influence

https://www.propublica.org/article/the-irs-tried-to-hide-emails-that-show-tax-industry-influence-over-free-file-program

6 years ago

85 upvotes – 6 comments
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