top 50% 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

907 upvotes – 344 comments

Sweden Drops Julian Assange Rape Investigation

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

6 years ago

803 upvotes – 721 comments

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

659 upvotes – 328 comments

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

637 upvotes – 201 comments

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

https://threader.app/thread/1196557401710837762

6 years ago

490 upvotes – 672 comments

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

468 upvotes – 235 comments

How to run your own mail server (2017)

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

6 years ago

389 upvotes – 262 comments

Thousands flock to Wikipedia founder's 'Facebook rival'

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

6 years ago

376 upvotes – 261 comments

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

348 upvotes – 205 comments

Clang Format Tanks Performance

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

6 years ago

306 upvotes – 151 comments

TikTok hits 1.5B downloads, outperforming Instagram

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

6 years ago

298 upvotes – 305 comments

Alan Moore on superhero culture

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

6 years ago

290 upvotes – 354 comments

Facebook and Microsoft Partner on Remote Development

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

6 years ago

289 upvotes – 141 comments

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

276 upvotes – 298 comments

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

https://missingprofits.world/

6 years ago

270 upvotes – 153 comments

A Python library for writing distributed self-replicating programs

https://mitogen.networkgenomics.com/

6 years ago

252 upvotes – 39 comments

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

242 upvotes – 112 comments

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

241 upvotes – 129 comments

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

240 upvotes – 144 comments

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

213 upvotes – 66 comments

Uxbox – The open-source prototyping tool

https://www.uxbox.io/

6 years ago

188 upvotes – 24 comments

“Royalty-Free” Music Supplied by YouTube Results in Mass Video Demonetization

https://torrentfreak.com/royalty-free-music-supplied-by-youtube-results-in-mass-video-demonetization-191118/

6 years ago

173 upvotes – 64 comments

Talent May Be Shifting Away from Superstar Cities: Study

https://www.citylab.com/life/2019/11/job-growth-cities-county-data-workers-talent-attraction/602200

6 years ago

167 upvotes – 201 comments

Show HN: Space Invaders but the invaders evolve with genetic algorithm

https://github.com/victorqribeiro/invaderZ

6 years ago

★ 709 JavaScript MIT
155 upvotes – 36 comments

In Defense of Latin

https://lithub.com/look-latin-is-not-useless-neither-is-it-dead/

6 years ago

150 upvotes – 198 comments

Logic Puzzles with Prolog (2017)

https://www.metalevel.at/prolog/puzzles

6 years ago

138 upvotes – 26 comments

Power Plant Turns Waste into Energy and Doubles as a Ski Slope and Climbing Wall

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/power-plant-turns-waste-into-energy-and-doubles-as-a-ski-slope/

6 years ago

137 upvotes – 47 comments

Heliogen’s new tech could unlock renewable energy for industrial manufacturing

https://techcrunch.com/2019/11/19/heliogens-new-technology-could-unlock-renewable-energy-for-industrial-manufacturing/

6 years ago

135 upvotes – 76 comments

Boeing faced ‘limited’ safety review from NASA while SpaceX got full examination

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/11/18/boeing-faced-only-limited-safety-review-nasa-while-spacex-got-full-examination/

6 years ago

134 upvotes – 68 comments

What America Lost When It Lost the Bison

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/11/how-bison-create-spring/602176/

6 years ago

132 upvotes – 81 comments

Empathic concern does not reduce partisan animosity: study

https://www.wired.com/story/empathy-is-tearing-us-apart/

6 years ago

127 upvotes – 134 comments

The Everything Town in the Middle of Nowhere

https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/14/20961523/amazon-walmart-target-package-delivery-sales-tax-montana-roundup

6 years ago

126 upvotes – 46 comments

The Magical Excel 97 Far East Language Build Screwdriver

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20191119-00/?p=103115

6 years ago

124 upvotes – 79 comments

The Early History of Usenet, Part I: The Technological Setting

https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/blog/2019-11/2019-11-14a.html

6 years ago

123 upvotes – 39 comments

Culdesac: Car-free neighborhood built from scratch in Tempe

https://culdesac.com/

6 years ago

122 upvotes – 136 comments

USS Pueblo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Pueblo_(AGER-2)

6 years ago

108 upvotes – 109 comments

Coreboot 4.11

https://blogs.coreboot.org/blog/2019/11/19/announcing-coreboot-4-11/

6 years ago

100 upvotes – 26 comments

Run an Internet Speed Test from the Command Line

https://www.putorius.net/speed-test-command-line.html

6 years ago

98 upvotes – 47 comments

Launch HN: Convictional (YC W19) – Supplier Network for Retailers

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21575963

6 years ago

96 upvotes – 51 comments

Configuring Ansible

https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/configuring-ansible

6 years ago

93 upvotes – 53 comments

There Is No Cure for Burnout

https://elladawson.com/2019/11/18/there-is-no-cure-for-burnout/

6 years ago

93 upvotes – 90 comments

How to (not) have sex in the 600s

https://twitter.com/erik_kaars/status/1196756091289423875

6 years ago

90 upvotes – 53 comments

Eliza explores the dangers of on-demand digital therapy

https://www.polygon.com/reviews/2019/8/12/20798997/eliza-zachtronics-visual-novel-review-impressions

6 years ago

90 upvotes – 11 comments

Tracers – Rust Instrumentation Library

https://github.com/anelson/tracers

6 years ago

★ 221 Rust
88 upvotes – 17 comments

Why is Android Studio's Emulator always listening to my microphone?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52945864/android-studio-wants-access-to-microphone

6 years ago

79 upvotes – 25 comments

Valve announces Half-Life: Alyx with first and only tweet for account

https://twitter.com/valvesoftware

6 years ago

76 upvotes – 29 comments

Show HN: Visualize how HN/Reddit talk about your company and products

http://brandimage.io

6 years ago

74 upvotes – 33 comments

Astronomers Despair as Starlink Train Ruins Observation of Nearby Galaxies

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonathanocallaghan/2019/11/18/this-is-not-coolastronomers-despair-as-spacex-starlink-train-ruins-observation-of-nearby-galaxies/#4601f3666538

6 years ago

73 upvotes – 110 comments
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