top 20 hacker news stories for 2019-11-19

How to recognize AI snake oil [pdf]

https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~arvindn/talks/MIT-STS-AI-snakeoil.pdf

6 years ago

Sweden Drops Julian Assange Rape Investigation

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50473792

6 years ago

We ‘may’ have discovered a potential remedy for tinnitus

https://www.linkedin.com/content-guest/article/we-may-have-discovered-potential-remedy-tinnitus-spencer

6 years ago

Tools we used to create a hit HTML5 game on Steam

https://www.codecks.io/blog/2019/creating-a-hit-steam-game-in-html5/

6 years ago

"Google Stadia is not a product that exists because people want it"

https://threader.app/thread/1196557401710837762

6 years ago

Some users say they're getting rid of Fitbit because they don't trust Google

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/17/people-getting-rid-of-fitbits-after-google.html

6 years ago

How to run your own mail server (2017)

https://www.c0ffee.net/blog/mail-server-guide/

6 years ago

Thousands flock to Wikipedia founder's 'Facebook rival'

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-50460243

6 years ago

Valve confirm Half-Life: Alyx, a VR game being revealed on Thursday

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2019/11/19/valve-confirm-half-life-alyx-a-vr-game-being-revealed-on-thursday/

6 years ago

Clang Format Tanks Performance

https://travisdowns.github.io/blog/2019/11/19/toupper.html

6 years ago

TikTok hits 1.5B downloads, outperforming Instagram

https://www.businessinsider.com/tiktok-hits-15-billion-downloads-outperforming-instagram-2019-11

6 years ago

Alan Moore on superhero culture

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-50473092

6 years ago

Facebook and Microsoft Partner on Remote Development

https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2019/11/19/facebook-microsoft-partnering-remote-development/

6 years ago

Hospitals pledge to fight admin price transparency plan in court

https://www.healthcaredive.com/news/hospitals-pledge-to-fight-trump-admin-price-transparency-plan-in-court/567474/

6 years ago

40% of multinational profits are shifted to tax havens each year

https://missingprofits.world/

6 years ago

A Python library for writing distributed self-replicating programs

https://mitogen.networkgenomics.com/

6 years ago

Algebraic Data Types: Things I wish someone had explained about FP

https://jrsinclair.com/articles/2019/algebraic-data-types-what-i-wish-someone-had-explained-about-functional-programming

6 years ago

New York State Attorney General Investigating WeWork

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-wework-newyork-investigation-exclusiv/exclusive-new-york-state-attorney-general-investigating-wework-sources-idUSKBN1XT01J

6 years ago

How NBA executive Jeff David stole $13M from the Sacramento Kings

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/28078881/how-nba-executive-jeff-david-stole-13-million-sacramento-kings

6 years ago

Nebula, Slack's Open Source Global Overlay Network

https://slack.engineering/introducing-nebula-the-open-source-global-overlay-network-from-slack-884110a5579

6 years ago