top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-11-10

Using Firefox for a faster, calmer and distraction-free internet

https://marko.fyi/firefox/

6 years ago

We are making Sandboxie a free tool, with plans to transition it to open source

https://www.sandboxie.com/

6 years ago

Andrej Karpathy talks about how Tesla's NNs are structured and trained [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBklltKXtDE

6 years ago

Audio Processing for Dummies

http://adventures.michaelfbryan.com/posts/audio-processing-for-dummies/

6 years ago

Why the Boeing 737 will never take the place of the 757

https://thepointsguy.com/news/737-never-replace-757/

6 years ago

California’s Criminal Cops

https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/11/10/californias-criminal-cops-convicted-but-stay-on-the-job/

6 years ago

Three of the Hundred Falsehoods CS Students Believe

http://www.cs.uni.edu/~wallingf/blog/archives/monthly/2019-11.html#e2019-11-10T11_06_39.htm

6 years ago

Hospitals are a weak spot in U.S. cybersecurity

https://www.axios.com/hospitals-cybersecurity-medical-information-hacking-076cb826-fc69-4ba6-b3fd-57ce19ab00c6.html

6 years ago

Failing 15% of the time is the best way to learn, say scientists

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/failing-study-success-machine-learning-a9186051.html

6 years ago

When His SR-71 Blackbird Disintegrated, This Pilot Free Fell from Space

http://www.chuckyeager.org/news/sr-71-disintegrated-pilot-free-fell-space-lived-tell/

6 years ago

Steam for Linux client adds support for Linux namespaces

https://steamcommunity.com/app/221410/discussions/0/1638675549018366706/

6 years ago

Nostalgia for Minecraft

https://reallifemag.com/open-worlds/

6 years ago

The Rising Threat of Digital Nationalism

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-rising-threat-of-digital-nationalism-11572620577?mod=rsswn

6 years ago

Paged.js: Paginating content and making books in the browser

https://www.pagedmedia.org/paged-js/

6 years ago

Tokyo's 2D Cafe

https://soranews24.com/2019/09/01/tokyos-amazing-2d-cafe-looks-like-an-illustration-but-its-an-actual-restaurant-you-can-eat-in/

6 years ago

Organizational Skills Beat Algorithmic Wizardry (2013)

https://prog21.dadgum.com/177.html

6 years ago

Bash-lib: Library for bash utility methods and tools

https://github.com/cyberark/bash-lib

6 years ago

★ 674 Shell Apache-2.0

My Favorite Programming Problem to Teach: Digit Length

https://jstrieb.github.io/posts/digit-length/

6 years ago

How Ambient Chill Became the New Silence

https://www.topic.com/how-ambient-chill-became-the-new-silence

6 years ago

Former Mayor of Munich Explains How Microsoft Undermined Linux

http://techrights.org/2019/11/09/christian-ude-on-microsoft/

6 years ago

PyData: A community for developers and users of open source data tools

https://pydata.org/

6 years ago

The NASA women who inspired 'Hidden Figures' will get Congressional gold medals

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/11/09/us/hidden-figures-congressional-medals-trnd/index.html

6 years ago

404 Page Not Found

https://thebaffler.com/salvos/404-page-not-found-wagner

6 years ago

As L.A. ports automate, some workers are cheering on the robots

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2019-11-07/port-automation-dockworkers-vs-truckers

6 years ago

Improving Go code: An introduction to the static analysis tool Staticcheck

https://superhighway.dev/staticcheck-in-action

6 years ago

SQL in CockroachDB: Mapping Table Data to Key-Value Storage (2015)

https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/sql-in-cockroachdb-mapping-table-data-to-key-value-storage/

6 years ago

We were supposed to be living in pod houses

https://theoutline.com/post/8005/futuro-house-the-home-of-the-future-that-never-was?zd=2&zi=lz5sv2cj

6 years ago

It’s impossible to see the world as it is, argues a neuroscientist [video]

https://aeon.co/videos/its-impossible-to-see-the-world-as-it-is-argues-a-cognitive-neuroscientist

6 years ago

Ontario police warn of SIM swapping fraud

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-provincial-police-sim-swapping-phone-number-porting-1.5354567

6 years ago

Keep your source code SIMPLE

https://medium.com/@kevingoslar/keep-your-source-code-simple-d5873cb854dc

6 years ago

Detectron2: A PyTorch-based modular object detection library

https://ai.facebook.com/blog/-detectron2-a-pytorch-based-modular-object-detection-library-/

6 years ago

ID editor: It is time for us to end this abusive relationship

https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/woodpeck/diary/391175

6 years ago

Unlike Babies, the Best Managers Come with Instructions

https://torch.io/unlike-babies-the-best-managers-come-with-instructions/?hss_channel=tw-983379969773420544

6 years ago

Ask HN: What is the simplest and most flexible way to build a CRUD app in 2019?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21498216

6 years ago

The Creepy Corridors of Video Games

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2019-08-06-the-creepy-corridors-of-video-games

6 years ago