top 20 hacker news stories for 2019-11-15

Jimmy Wales has quietly launched a Facebook rival

https://www.zdnet.com/article/wikipedias-jimmy-wales-has-quietly-launched-a-facebook-rival-social-network/

6 years ago

The Unparalleled Genius of John von Neumann

https://medium.com/cantors-paradise/the-unparalleled-genius-of-john-von-neumann-791bb9f42a2d

6 years ago

I Created a $60K/Month App That Collects In-Person Payments Through Stripe

https://www.starterstory.com/stripe-in-person-payments

6 years ago

Eigenvectors from eigenvalues

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2019/08/13/eigenvectors-from-eigenvalues/

6 years ago

Supreme Court to Hear Google-Oracle Copyright Fight

https://www.axios.com/supreme-court-google-oracle-copyright-fight-c5de0f29-b6ff-436e-afe0-68f794a62ad6.html

6 years ago

Pointless work meetings 'really a form of therapy'

https://www.bbc.com/news/education-50418317

6 years ago

Which answer in this list is the correct answer to this question? (2017)

https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/2217248/which-answer-in-this-list-is-the-correct-answer-to-this-question

6 years ago

To motivate people, talk about the context of the work to be done

https://www.sametab.com/blog/employee-engagement

6 years ago

Google cancels TGIF weekly all-hands meetings

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/15/google-cancels-tgif-weekly-all-hands-meetings.html

6 years ago

The Value in Go’s Simplicity

https://benjamincongdon.me/blog/2019/11/11/The-Value-in-Gos-Simplicity/

6 years ago

Sourcehut's Year in Alpha

https://sourcehut.org/blog/2019-11-15-sourcehut-1-year-alpha/

6 years ago

Sea-Thru: A Method for Removing Water from Underwater Images

https://petapixel.com/2019/11/13/this-algorithm-can-remove-the-water-from-underwater-photos-and-the-results-are-incredible/

6 years ago

Training algorithms on copyrighted data not illegal: US Supreme Court

https://towardsdatascience.com/the-most-important-supreme-court-decision-for-data-science-and-machine-learning-44cfc1c1bcaf

6 years ago

Hayabusa2 is leaving the asteroid Ryugu and heading back to Earth

https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/hayabusa2-is-leaving-the-asteroid-ryugu-and-heading-back-to-earth

6 years ago

Interstellar space even weirder than expected, NASA probe reveals

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2019/11/interstellar-space-weirder-than-expected-nasa-voyager-2-reveals/

6 years ago

How Google uses blacklists, algorithm tweaks and contractors for search results

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/how-google-interferes-with-its-search-algorithms-and-changes-your-results/ar-BBWOCm2

6 years ago

Ex-FDA Advisor Says of Lasik Eye Surgery: ‘It Should Have Never Been Approved’

https://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2019/06/17/lasik-eye-surgery-complications-fda-approval/

6 years ago

Distilling knowledge from neural networks to build smaller and faster models

https://blog.floydhub.com/knowledge-distillation/

6 years ago

Cops are making fewer arrests since N.J. got rid of cash bail

https://www.nj.com/data/2019/11/cops-are-making-fewer-arrests-since-nj-got-rid-of-cash-bail.html

6 years ago

NaN Gates and Flip FLOPS

http://tom7.org/nand/

6 years ago