top 20 hacker news stories for 2019-11-17

Writing userspace USB drivers for abandoned devices

https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/userspace-usb-drivers

6 years ago

872 upvotes – 114 comments

The Efficiency-Destroying Magic of Tidying Up

https://florentcrivello.com/index.php/2019/09/04/the-efficiency-destroying-magic-of-tidying-up/

6 years ago

594 upvotes – 190 comments

Firefox’s Fight for the Future of the Web

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/nov/17/firefox-mozilla-fights-back-against-google-chrome-dominance-privacy-fears

6 years ago

571 upvotes – 283 comments

Amtrak Could Turn a Profit for the First Time

https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2019/11/15/amtrak-profit-train-ceo-richard-anderson

6 years ago

484 upvotes – 434 comments

Show HN: Open-Source Alternative to Intercom, Drift, Zendesk, FreshChat

https://github.com/chatwoot/chatwoot

6 years ago

417 upvotes – 79 comments

The Power of Shower Thoughts

https://alexanderell.is/posts/trust-in-your-unconscious/

6 years ago

351 upvotes – 78 comments

A foundation course in reading German

https://courses.dcs.wisc.edu/wp/readinggerman/

6 years ago

327 upvotes – 156 comments

Gource.io – a software version control visualization tool

http://gource.io

6 years ago

256 upvotes – 32 comments

Tetrachromats: people who see colors invisible to most of us (2014)

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20140905-the-women-with-super-human-vision

6 years ago

249 upvotes – 221 comments

ICA asks ICANN to block .Org private equity deal in damning letter

https://domainnamewire.com/2019/11/15/ica-asks-icann-to-block-org-private-equity-deal-in-damning-letter/

6 years ago

247 upvotes – 50 comments

Why 50 Ohms?

https://www.microwaves101.com/encyclopedias/why-fifty-ohms

6 years ago

242 upvotes – 89 comments

“What Alan Kay Got Wrong About Objects”

https://blog.metaobject.com/2019/11/what-alan-kay-got-wrong-about-objects.html

6 years ago

241 upvotes – 231 comments

Tinyland

https://emmasmith.me/tinyland/

6 years ago

205 upvotes – 19 comments

Hacking Neural Networks: A Short Introduction

https://github.com/Kayzaks/HackingNeuralNetworks

6 years ago

178 upvotes – 7 comments

A Woman Who Recorded 70k Tapes of American News

https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2019/11/14/recorder-the-marion-stokes-project

6 years ago

167 upvotes – 58 comments

Colossal Holograms

https://medium.com/through-the-looking-glass/colossal-holograms-b7f86f5925bd

6 years ago

161 upvotes – 101 comments

Chaos, and what to do about it (2018)

http://chaosbook.org/

6 years ago

157 upvotes – 24 comments

Podman and Buildah for Docker Users

https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2019/02/21/podman-and-buildah-for-docker-users/

6 years ago

156 upvotes – 73 comments

33 Thomas Street

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/33_Thomas_Street

6 years ago

156 upvotes – 59 comments

Scapegoating free software’s failures

https://writing.kemitchell.com/2019/11/17/VC-Shill.html

6 years ago

150 upvotes – 118 comments
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