top 50% 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

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

Biometric YubiKey

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

6 years ago

264 upvotes – 199 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

Is Inequality Inevitable?

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-inequality-inevitable/

6 years ago

238 upvotes – 598 comments

DNA database that found Golden State Killer is potential national security leak

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614642/dna-database-gedmatch-golden-state-killer-security-risk-hack/

6 years ago

233 upvotes – 190 comments

Censorship is bad even when it’s done by private companies

https://necpluribusimpar.net/censorship-is-bad-even-when-its-done-by-private-companies/

6 years ago

233 upvotes – 246 comments

CRDT: Conflict-free replicated data type

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict-free_replicated_data_type

6 years ago

229 upvotes – 63 comments

First New HIV Strain in 19 Years Identified

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/first-new-hiv-strain-in-19-years-identified/

6 years ago

213 upvotes – 87 comments

Facebook says one hundred API users may have improperly accessed user data

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/facebook-says-100-software-developers-may-have-improperly-accessed-user-n1076881

6 years ago

209 upvotes – 67 comments

Mark Text: Simple and Elegant Markdown Editor Focused on Speed and Usability

https://marktext.app/

6 years ago

206 upvotes – 141 comments

Those odd-looking security barriers

https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/2019/11/06/those-odd-looking-security-barriers/

6 years ago

186 upvotes – 144 comments

Milan Airport WiFi sends your MAC address to advertisers and trackers

https://twitter.com/pimterry/status/1192028773526441985

6 years ago

185 upvotes – 61 comments

Airbnb Plans to Verify Every Listing

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/06/business/dealbook/boeing-dealbook-conference.html

6 years ago

175 upvotes – 183 comments

South Koreans fake their funerals for life lessons

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-southkorea-livingfunerals/dying-for-a-better-life-south-koreans-fake-their-funerals-for-life-lessons-idUSKBN1XG038

6 years ago

170 upvotes – 61 comments

SoftBank Reveals $6.5B Loss from Uber, WeWork Turmoil

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-11-06/softbank-posts-6-5-billion-operating-loss-on-wework-and-uber

6 years ago

170 upvotes – 80 comments

Science Vigilante Calls Out Bogus Results in Prestigious Journals

https://onezero.medium.com/this-science-vigilante-calls-out-bogus-results-in-prestigious-journals-eb5a414c7f76

6 years ago

169 upvotes – 72 comments

Postgres Health Check and SQL Performance Analysis

https://gitlab.com/postgres-ai/postgres-checkup

6 years ago

★ 292 AGPL-3.0
169 upvotes – 18 comments

Former Twitter Employees Charged with Spying for Saudi Arabia

https://www.thehour.com/news/article/Former-Twitter-employees-charged-with-spying-for-14815126.php

6 years ago

168 upvotes – 1 comments

Microsoft’s web-based version of Visual Studio

https://techcrunch.com/2019/11/04/you-can-now-try-microsofts-web-based-version-of-visual-studio/

6 years ago

166 upvotes – 193 comments

One Tether Trader Didn't Cause the Bitcoin Bubble

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-11-05/did-the-bitcoin-bubble-come-from-one-bitfinex-tether-trader

6 years ago

157 upvotes – 127 comments

Is GraphQL Still Relevant in an HTTP2 World?

https://medium.com/@__xuorig__/is-graphql-still-relevant-in-an-http2-world-64964f207b8

6 years ago

157 upvotes – 90 comments

Typora: A truly minimal markdown editor

https://typora.io/

6 years ago

154 upvotes – 70 comments

For Sale: Sat-Takers’ Names. Colleges Buy Student Data and Boost Exclusivity

https://www.wsj.com/articles/for-sale-sat-takers-names-colleges-buy-student-data-and-boost-exclusivity-11572976621?mod=rsswn

6 years ago

152 upvotes – 105 comments

Godot 3.2 beta 1

https://godotengine.org/article/dev-snapshot-godot-3-2-beta-1

6 years ago

149 upvotes – 39 comments

BrowserFS: An in-browser filesystem supports various back ends

https://github.com/jvilk/BrowserFS

6 years ago

★ 3.1k TypeScript
146 upvotes – 20 comments

Show HN: microvm – a minimalist machine type for QEMU inspired by Firecracker

https://github.com/qemu/qemu/blob/master/docs/microvm.rst

6 years ago

★ 13k C
145 upvotes – 20 comments

Nuclear fusion is 'a question of when, not if'

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-50267017

6 years ago

141 upvotes – 330 comments

California says Facebook dodged privacy subpoenas

https://www.axios.com/california-says-facebook-dodged-privacy-subpoenas-87c63512-5ba8-4b13-ba2c-b3ce4231aba4.html

6 years ago

140 upvotes – 13 comments

Glyphosate in Organic Hydroponic Food Production

https://livelovefruit.com/glyphosate-in-organic-hydroponic-food

6 years ago

138 upvotes – 57 comments

My Hardest Bug to Debug (2018)

https://www.programminginsteeltoecaps.com/my-hardest-bug-to-debug/

6 years ago

136 upvotes – 71 comments

Uber Sinks to New Record Low as IPO Share Lockup Expires

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-11-06/large-uber-block-trade-is-said-to-price-as-ipo-lockup-expires

6 years ago

134 upvotes – 205 comments

Association between gifts from pharma group to drug prescribed by French doctors

https://www.bmj.com/content/367/bmj.l6015

6 years ago

133 upvotes – 58 comments

TheForger's Win32 API Programming Tutorial

http://www.winprog.org/tutorial/

6 years ago

133 upvotes – 99 comments

Biogrid’s GPU-accelerated world simulation

https://medium.com/@haversine02/simulated-worlds-are-like-onions-dfa18cab3d85

6 years ago

129 upvotes – 8 comments

Fastly launches its new compute environment – supports Rust

https://www.fastly.com/blog/join-the-beta-new-serverless-compute-environment-at-the-edge

6 years ago

127 upvotes – 15 comments

Baby’s First Garbage Collector (2013)

http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2013/12/08/babys-first-garbage-collector/

6 years ago

125 upvotes – 29 comments

Passivhaus Detailing and Design

https://architizer.com/blog/practice/details/passivhaus-complete-guide/

6 years ago

125 upvotes – 108 comments

The Ransomware Superhero of Normal, Illinois

https://www.propublica.org/article/the-ransomware-superhero-of-normal-illinois

6 years ago

118 upvotes – 37 comments

How to Steal a Billion

https://oversharing.substack.com/p/how-to-steal-a-billion

6 years ago

118 upvotes – 146 comments

FCC approves T-Mobile and Sprint merger

https://techcrunch.com/2019/11/05/fcc-approves-t-mobile-sprint-merger-despite-serious-concerns/

6 years ago

114 upvotes – 60 comments

Facebook communication and lawsuit documents: 7000 pages leaked

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252473540/Lawmakers-study-leaked-Facebook-documents-made-public-today

6 years ago

113 upvotes – 21 comments

Using the linear distance operator in Postgres 12 to find the closest match

https://www.2ndquadrant.com/en/blog/postgresql-12-implementing-k-nearest-neighbor-space-partitioned-generalized-search-tree-indexes/

6 years ago

113 upvotes – 39 comments

Shields.io: Quality metadata badges for open source projects

https://shields.io/

6 years ago

109 upvotes – 10 comments

The Emergent Features of JuliaLang: Part II – Traits

https://invenia.github.io/blog/2019/11/06/julialang-features-part-2/

6 years ago

107 upvotes – 18 comments

Introduction to Probability at an advanced level (2018) [pdf]

https://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~aditya/resources/AllLectures2018Fall201A.pdf

6 years ago

106 upvotes – 14 comments

Show HN: OpenCV based multi-object-tracker with various object detection models

https://github.com/adipandas/multi-object-tracker

6 years ago

★ 691 Python MIT
105 upvotes – 21 comments

Indiana Bell moved a functioning building in 1930

https://kottke.org/19/11/the-indiana-bell-moved-a-functioning-building-in-1930

6 years ago

102 upvotes – 24 comments

Rust async/await hits stable tomorrow

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/master/RELEASES.md

6 years ago

★ 112.4k Rust Apache-2.0
97 upvotes – 35 comments

Former Twitter Employees Charged with Spying for Saudi Arabia

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/06/technology/twitter-saudi-arabia-spies.html

6 years ago

95 upvotes – 4 comments

CX: Wait-Free Universal Construction

https://concurrencyfreaks.blogspot.com/2019/11/cx-wait-free-universal-construction.html

6 years ago

91 upvotes – 24 comments

20K Workers Will Be Jobless in Indian IT Sector, Thanks to Infosys and Cognizant

https://techtudor.blogspot.com/2019/11/approximately-20000-employees-will-be.html

6 years ago

91 upvotes – 80 comments

One Man's Junk

https://rootsofprogress.org/one-mans-junk

6 years ago

86 upvotes – 31 comments

Total Horse Takeover

https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/Wa2hASzbxyvutHJff/total-horse-takeover

6 years ago

82 upvotes – 34 comments

Xerox Considers Takeover Offer for HP

https://www.wsj.com/articles/xerox-considers-takeover-offer-for-hp-11573012201?mod=rsswn

6 years ago

80 upvotes – 84 comments

How California Became America’s Housing Market Nightmare

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2019-california-housing-crisis/

6 years ago

80 upvotes – 163 comments

Apple's New Privacy Page

https://www.apple.com/privacy/

6 years ago

78 upvotes – 38 comments

Boeing whistleblower raises doubts over 787 oxygen system

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-50293927

6 years ago

76 upvotes – 13 comments

Airbnb Suffers Big Defeat in Jersey City

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/05/nyregion/airbnb-jersey-city-vote.html

6 years ago

72 upvotes – 74 comments

Latitude Design System

https://www.flexport.com/design

6 years ago

70 upvotes – 30 comments

The new dot com bubble is here: it’s called online advertising

https://thecorrespondent.com/100/the-new-dot-com-bubble-is-here-its-called-online-advertising/13230718600-5d15791f

6 years ago

68 upvotes – 16 comments
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