top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-11-09

The FCC Has Fined Robocallers $208M, Collected $6,790

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-fcc-has-fined-robocallers-208-million-its-collected-6-790-11553770803?mod=rsswn

6 years ago

My name causes an issue with any booking

https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/149323/my-name-causes-an-issue-with-any-booking-names-end-with-mr-and-mrs

6 years ago

It’s Not Enough to Be Right – You Also Have to Be Kind

https://forge.medium.com/its-not-enough-to-be-right-you-also-have-to-be-kind-b8814111fe1

6 years ago

I got my money back from a scammer by contacting his mom on Facebook (2016)

https://blog.haschek.at/2016/how-a-scammer-stole-500-dollars-from-me

6 years ago

Time Series Prediction – A short introduction for pragmatists

https://www.liip.ch/en/blog/time-series-prediction-a-short-comparison-of-best-practices

6 years ago

Fast Markov chains in ~20 lines of sh, grep, cut and Awk

https://0x0f0f0f.github.io/posts/2019/11/really-fast-markov-chains-in-~20-lines-of-sh-grep-cut-and-awk/

6 years ago

Let's Create a Simple Load Balancer with Go

https://kasvith.github.io/posts/lets-create-a-simple-lb-go/

6 years ago

Chicago book returns surge 240% after city eliminates fines

https://abc7chicago.com/society/book-returns-surge-24025-after-city-eliminates-fines/5668725/

6 years ago

German solar and wind are triple the cost of French nuclear, last half as long

https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2019/11/france-spent-less-on-nuclear-to-get-about-double-what-germany-gets-from-renewables.html

6 years ago

Bye, Chrome: Why I’m switching to Firefox (2018)

https://www.fastcompany.com/90174010/bye-chrome-why-im-switching-to-firefox-and-you-should-too

6 years ago

How Swift Achieved Dynamic Linking Where Rust Couldn't

https://gankra.github.io/blah/swift-abi/

6 years ago

Curl to shell isn't so bad

https://arp242.net/curl-to-sh.html

6 years ago

Rust 2020: GUI and Community

https://raphlinus.github.io/rust/druid/2019/10/31/rust-2020.html

6 years ago

LineageOS Android Distribution

https://lineageos.org/

6 years ago

One-Percenters Close to Surpassing Wealth of U.S. Middle Class

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-11-09/one-percenters-close-to-surpassing-wealth-of-u-s-middle-class

6 years ago

List of Hoaxes on Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_hoaxes_on_Wikipedia

6 years ago

Scientist: A Ruby library for carefully refactoring critical paths

https://github.com/github/scientist

6 years ago

★ 7.6k Ruby MIT

Games with Famous Bad Translations into Japanese

https://legendsoflocalization.com/games-with-famous-bad-translations-into-japanese/

6 years ago

Notes on Type Layouts and ABIs in Rust

https://gankra.github.io/blah/rust-layouts-and-abis/

6 years ago

WebKit Goals for 2020

https://trac.webkit.org/wiki/WebKitGoalsfor2020

6 years ago

Estonia has a new way to stop speeding motorists

https://www.economist.com/europe/2019/11/07/estonia-has-a-new-way-to-stop-speeding-motorists

6 years ago

How an Optimizing Compiler Works

http://www.lihaoyi.com/post/HowanOptimizingCompilerWorks.html

6 years ago

Narcissistic CEOs weaken collaboration and integrity

https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/narcissistic-ceos-weaken-collaboration-integrity

6 years ago

YouTube suspends Google accounts of Markiplier's viewers for minor emote spam

https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/dtr6gi/youtube_suspends_google_accounts_of_markipliers/

6 years ago

Discovering Hard Disk Physical Geometry Through Microbenchmarking

http://blog.stuffedcow.net/2019/09/hard-disk-geometry-microbenchmarking/

6 years ago

Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names (2010)

https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names/

6 years ago

Haskell and Rust

https://www.fpcomplete.com/blog/2018/11/haskell-and-rust

6 years ago

Viral Tweet About Apple Card Leads to Goldman Sachs Probe

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-11-09/viral-tweet-about-apple-card-leads-to-probe-into-goldman-sachs

6 years ago

Parkinson's Law: Work expands to fill available time

https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20191107-the-law-that-explains-why-you-cant-get-anything-done

6 years ago

Show HN: LuaJIT assembler/assembly language for direct bytecode programming

https://github.com/rochus-keller/LjTools

6 years ago

★ 288 C++ GPL-2.0

Union Types have been accepted for PHP 8

https://wiki.php.net/rfc/union_types_v2

6 years ago

A tiny pharmacy is identifying problems with common drugs

https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/a-tiny-pharmacy-is-identifying-big-problems-with-common-drugs-including-zantac/2019/11/08/6dd009ca-eb76-11e9-9c6d-436a0df4f31d_story.html

6 years ago

Effects of Vitamin D and Omega-3 Fatty Acid on Biomarkers of Inflammation

http://clinchem.aaccjnls.org/content/early/2019/10/23/clinchem.2019.306902

6 years ago

Vaping Illnesses Are Linked to Vitamin E Acetate, CDC Says

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/08/health/vaping-illness-cdc.html

6 years ago

The Wright Brothers: Pioneers of Patent Trolling

https://time.com/4143574/wright-brothers-patent-trolling/

6 years ago

Instagram to test hiding like counts in the US

https://techcrunch.com/2019/11/08/instagram-hide-likes-us/

6 years ago

Building a CRUD App with Datomic Cloud Ions

https://jacobobryant.com/post/2019/ion/

6 years ago

A Prisoner Who Briefly Died Argues That He’s Served His Life Sentence

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/08/us/prisoner-dies-life-sentence.html

6 years ago

The U.S. military, algorithmic warfare, and big tech

https://venturebeat.com/2019/11/08/the-u-s-military-algorithmic-warfare-and-big-tech/

6 years ago

The average American eats 17 teaspoons of added sugar daily

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/nov/07/the-average-american-eats-17-teaspoons-of-added-sugar-daily-its-killing-us

6 years ago

Dynamically Adjustable Key-Value Store by Combining LSM and COW B+ Tree [pdf]

https://greensky00.github.io/pdf/jungle_hotstorage19.pdf

6 years ago

People Working in DevOps Should Read the Toyota Way

https://zwischenzugs.com/2019/11/06/why-everyone-working-in-devops-should-read-the-toyota-way/

6 years ago

Airships could return to our crowded skies

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20191107-how-airships-could-return-to-our-crowded-skies

6 years ago