top 50% 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

741 upvotes – 566 comments

The Unparalleled Genius of John von Neumann

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

6 years ago

636 upvotes – 319 comments

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

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

6 years ago

537 upvotes – 167 comments

Eigenvectors from eigenvalues

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

6 years ago

529 upvotes – 86 comments

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

522 upvotes – 444 comments

Pointless work meetings 'really a form of therapy'

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

6 years ago

510 upvotes – 207 comments

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

453 upvotes – 131 comments

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

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

6 years ago

443 upvotes – 116 comments

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

416 upvotes – 548 comments

The Value in Go’s Simplicity

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

6 years ago

368 upvotes – 360 comments

Sourcehut's Year in Alpha

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

6 years ago

351 upvotes – 69 comments

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

340 upvotes – 74 comments

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

327 upvotes – 46 comments

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

298 upvotes – 67 comments

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

263 upvotes – 131 comments

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

247 upvotes – 177 comments

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

242 upvotes – 260 comments

Distilling knowledge from neural networks to build smaller and faster models

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

6 years ago

230 upvotes – 16 comments

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

221 upvotes – 127 comments

NaN Gates and Flip FLOPS

http://tom7.org/nand/

6 years ago

199 upvotes – 33 comments

Nine-year-old child to graduate university

https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/14/europe/university-graduate-child-genius-scli-intl/index.html

6 years ago

189 upvotes – 222 comments

TROS: IBM mainframes stored microcode in transformers

http://www.righto.com/2019/11/tros-how-ibm-mainframes-stored.html

6 years ago

189 upvotes – 36 comments

The 80/24 Rule

https://blog.ploeh.dk/2019/11/04/the-80-24-rule/

6 years ago

170 upvotes – 191 comments

“Why We Sleep” Is Riddled with Scientific and Factual Errors

https://guzey.com/books/why-we-sleep/

6 years ago

159 upvotes – 58 comments

Google Chrome experiment crashes browser tabs, impacts companies worldwide

https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-chrome-experiment-crashes-browser-tabs-impacts-companies-worldwide/

6 years ago

155 upvotes – 105 comments

What is the “two-drive trick” that can read Amiga disks on a PC?

https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/12747/what-is-the-two-drive-trick-that-can-read-amiga-disks-on-a-pc

6 years ago

151 upvotes – 43 comments

A Black Hole Threw a Star Out of the Milky Way Galaxy

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/14/science/stars-black-hole-milky-way.html

6 years ago

148 upvotes – 83 comments

It's Not Sabotage, They're Drowning

https://shermanonsoftware.com/2019/11/15/its-not-sabotage-theyre-drowning/

6 years ago

144 upvotes – 101 comments

Show HN: Scholarref tools – never deal with journal webpages again

https://adamsgaard.dk/scholarref.html

6 years ago

127 upvotes – 18 comments

Oyo's business model is looking a lot like WeWork's

https://asia.nikkei.com/Opinion/Oyo-s-business-model-is-looking-a-lot-like-WeWork-s

6 years ago

123 upvotes – 59 comments

Show HN: Faster UTF-8 validator

https://github.com/zwegner/faster-utf8-validator

6 years ago

★ 220 C
122 upvotes – 55 comments

Open-sourcing Clusterman, a cluster autoscaler for Kubernetes and Mesos

https://engineeringblog.yelp.com/2019/11/open-source-clusterman.html

6 years ago

109 upvotes – 44 comments

Taylor Swift: Don’t know what else to do

https://www.facebook.com/notes/taylor-swift/dont-know-what-else-to-do/10156631338812023/

6 years ago

106 upvotes – 79 comments

NUVIA: New Server CPU Startup Going After Intel and AMD

https://www.anandtech.com/show/15115/nuvia-breaks-cover-new-startup-to-take-on-datacenter-cpu-market

6 years ago

98 upvotes – 37 comments

Ohio bill would allow students to be scientifically wrong due to religion

https://local12.com/news/local/ohio-house-passes-bill-allowing-student-answers-to-be-scientifically-wrong-due-to-religion

6 years ago

92 upvotes – 118 comments

Gibberish Asian Font Mystery Solved (2006)

http://hanzismatter.blogspot.com/2006/08/gibberish-asian-font-mystery-solved.html

6 years ago

91 upvotes – 51 comments

Pinephone – “BraveHeart” Limited Edition Linux SmartPhone

https://store.pine64.org/?product=pinephone-braveheart-limited-edition-linux-smartphone-for-early-adaptor

6 years ago

90 upvotes – 69 comments

OpenWRT will natively support NextDNS in upcoming 19.07.0 release

https://github.com/openwrt/luci/pull/3291

6 years ago

★ 7.5k JavaScript Apache-2.0
89 upvotes – 46 comments

Codem Ipsum: Lorem Ipsum but for Code

https://codemipsum.pomb.us/

6 years ago

89 upvotes – 34 comments

Lyft is ceasing scooter operations in six cities and laying off 20 employees

https://techcrunch.com/2019/11/14/lyft-is-ceasing-scooter-operations-in-six-cities-and-laying-off-20-employees/

6 years ago

83 upvotes – 30 comments

The architecture of declarative configuration management

https://blog.nelhage.com/post/declarative-configuration-management/

6 years ago

82 upvotes – 20 comments

A Year of Helping Customers Build Production-Ready Kubernetes Infrastructure

https://www.pulumi.com/blog/crosswalk-kubernetes/

6 years ago

82 upvotes – 34 comments

U.S. Workers Show Little Improvement in 21st Century Skills

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-11-15/u-s-workers-show-little-improvement-in-21st-century-skills

6 years ago

81 upvotes – 136 comments

The Measure of Intelligence: towards more human-like artificial systems

https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.01547

6 years ago

80 upvotes – 12 comments

Show HN: Simple PDF to PNG Server

https://secureview.cloudbrowser.xyz/secretpage-canneverbefound.html

6 years ago

78 upvotes – 56 comments
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