top 20 hacker news stories for 2019-11-06

Former Twitter Employees Charged with Spying for Saudi Arabia

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/former-twitter-employees-charged-with-spying-for-saudi-arabia-by-digging-into-the-accounts-of-kingdom-critics/2019/11/06/2e9593da-00a0-11ea-8bab-0fc209e065a8_story.html

6 years ago

712 upvotes – 323 comments

Intel publishes misleading benchmarks against AMD

https://www.servethehome.com/intel-performance-strategy-team-publishing-intentionally-misleading-benchmarks/

6 years ago

618 upvotes – 202 comments

In Praise of the 5-Hour Workday and Other ‘Radical’ Ideas

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/06/opinion/five-hour-workday-experiment.html

6 years ago

540 upvotes – 327 comments

What do we really know about the effectiveness of digital advertising?

https://thecorrespondent.com/100/the-new-dot-com-bubble-is-here-its-called-online-advertising/13228924500-22d5fd24

6 years ago

500 upvotes – 358 comments

Uber’s self-driving car could not detect pedestrians outside of a crosswalk

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/11/06/uber_self_driving_car_death/

6 years ago

457 upvotes – 563 comments

Ask HN: How do you make sure your servers are up as a single founder?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21461617

6 years ago

448 upvotes – 223 comments

Boeing whistleblower raises doubts over 787 oxygen system

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-50293927

6 years ago

431 upvotes – 216 comments

Better World Books and the Internet Archive Unite to Preserve Millions of Books

https://against-the-grain.com/2019/11/atg-newsflash-for-the-love-of-literacy-better-world-books-and-the-internet-archive-unite-to-preserve-millions-of-books/

6 years ago

389 upvotes – 44 comments

Congolese doctor discovered Ebola, but didn't get credit until now

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2019/11/04/774863495/this-congolese-doctor-discovered-ebola-but-never-got-credit-for-it-until-now

6 years ago

370 upvotes – 74 comments

Re-Licensing Sentry

https://blog.sentry.io/2019/11/06/relicensing-sentry

6 years ago

348 upvotes – 280 comments

Base64 encoding and decoding at almost the speed of a memory copy

https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.05109

6 years ago

344 upvotes – 115 comments

Man Underpaid Property Tax by $8.41 County Seized Home, Sold It-Kept Profits

https://reason.com/2019/11/06/a-michigan-man-underpaid-his-property-taxes-by-8-41-the-county-seized-his-property-sold-it-and-kept-the-profits/

6 years ago

327 upvotes – 184 comments

“Is your startup idea taken?” and why we love X for Y startups

https://andrewchen.co/x-for-y-startup-ideas/

6 years ago

317 upvotes – 223 comments

Start before you think you’re ready

https://austinkleon.com/2019/11/05/start-before-you-think-youre-ready/

6 years ago

299 upvotes – 76 comments

It took 12 weeks to ship an MVP I thought would take 3

https://boxci.dev/blog/why-it-took-12-weeks-to-ship-an-mvp-I-thought-would-take-3

6 years ago

282 upvotes – 217 comments

A Study of Meditation Under the Influence of Psilocybin

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-50612-3

6 years ago

278 upvotes – 154 comments

Biometric YubiKey

https://www.yubico.com/2019/11/yubico-reveals-first-biometric-yubikey-at-microsoft-ignite/

6 years ago

264 upvotes – 199 comments

File systems unfit as distributed storage back ends: lessons from Ceph evolution

https://blog.acolyer.org/2019/11/06/ceph-evolution/

6 years ago

264 upvotes – 71 comments

Recursive Mono and Sans, a free variable type family

https://www.recursive.design/

6 years ago

248 upvotes – 61 comments

Designing better data tables (2017)

https://uxdesign.cc/design-better-data-tables-4ecc99d23356

6 years ago

241 upvotes – 93 comments
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