top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-11-24

Tell HN: Google should drop Quora from search results

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21622322

6 years ago

1007 upvotes – 346 comments

Beating C with one line of Brainfuck

https://kiwec.net/blog/posts/beating-c-with-brainfuck/

6 years ago

567 upvotes – 86 comments

Hard Problems in Cryptocurrency: Five Years Later

https://vitalik.ca/general/2019/11/22/progress.html

6 years ago

486 upvotes – 360 comments

The Web Began Dying in 2014 (2017)

https://staltz.com/the-web-began-dying-in-2014-heres-how.html

6 years ago

370 upvotes – 263 comments

Today’s Top Tech Skills

https://www.hiringlab.org/2019/11/19/todays-top-tech-skills/

6 years ago

356 upvotes – 357 comments

Cryptoqueen: A woman scammed the world, then vanished

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-50435014

6 years ago

344 upvotes – 157 comments

Data leak reveals how China 'brainwashes' Uighurs in prison camps

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-50511063

6 years ago

329 upvotes – 148 comments

The team that powers VLC

https://increment.com/teams/the-team-that-powers-vlc/

6 years ago

304 upvotes – 49 comments

Stop Teaching Code, Solicit Predictions Instead

https://blog.upperlinecode.com/stop-teaching-code-a1039983b39

6 years ago

230 upvotes – 56 comments

GitHub satanically messing with Markdown – changes 666 to DCLXVI

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44619165/github-satanically-messing-with-markdown-changes-666-to-dclxvi?rq=1

6 years ago

229 upvotes – 91 comments

Japanese hotel room costs $1 a night, but you have to livestream your stay

https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/livestream-hotel-room-japan-intl-hnk/index.html

6 years ago

222 upvotes – 197 comments

TikTok: Cheerfulness and censorship

https://netzpolitik.org/2019/cheerfulness-and-censorship/

6 years ago

219 upvotes – 153 comments

The rape of men: a dark secret of war (2011)

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2011/jul/17/the-rape-of-men

6 years ago

215 upvotes – 98 comments

Jslinux (2018)

https://bellard.org/jslinux/

6 years ago

212 upvotes – 28 comments

I ditched Google for DuckDuckGo

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/duckduckgo-google-alternative-search-privacy

6 years ago

205 upvotes – 122 comments

YouTube’s annoying Premium spam

https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/23/20946114/google-youtube-premium-subscription-ads-pop-ups-spam-rant

6 years ago

204 upvotes – 182 comments

Pika – A JavaScript package registry for the modern web

https://www.pika.dev/registry

6 years ago

171 upvotes – 104 comments

Historians Find Another Spy in the U.S. Atomic Bomb Project

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/23/science/manhattan-project-atomic-spy.html

6 years ago

165 upvotes – 151 comments

CUDA Toolkit Release Notes

https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/cuda-toolkit-release-notes/index.html

6 years ago

160 upvotes – 119 comments

Why are people getting worse at “The Price Is Right”?

https://qz.com/1740513/why-are-people-getting-worse-at-the-price-is-right/

6 years ago

156 upvotes – 187 comments

Why does F = ma?

http://cognitivemedium.com/f-ma

6 years ago

153 upvotes – 85 comments

Tim Berners-Lee unveils plan to save the web

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/nov/24/tim-berners-lee-unveils-global-plan-to-save-the-internet

6 years ago

149 upvotes – 90 comments

Edge vs. Chrome: Microsoft's Tracking Prevention Hits Google the Hardest

https://www.zdnet.com/article/with-its-new-edge-browser-microsoft-takes-dead-aim-at-google/

6 years ago

149 upvotes – 77 comments

KiCad Joins Linux Foundation to Advance Electronic Design Automation

https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press-release/2019/11/kicad-joins-linux-foundation-to-advance-electronic-design-automation/

6 years ago

143 upvotes – 49 comments

A Thermomechanical Material Point Method for Baking and Cooking [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBpolaB4DqA

6 years ago

141 upvotes – 20 comments

Show HN: LegraJS – Draw using Lego-like brick shapes on Canvas

https://legrajs.com/

6 years ago

140 upvotes – 27 comments

Jennicam: The first woman to stream her life on the internet (2016)

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-37681006

6 years ago

135 upvotes – 70 comments

Battle Chess

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_Chess

6 years ago

132 upvotes – 90 comments

Ask HN: How would you bootstrap a space company?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21624284

6 years ago

123 upvotes – 149 comments

Makesite.py – Simple, lightweight, and magic-free static site/blog generator

https://github.com/sunainapai/makesite

6 years ago

★ 1.8k Python MIT
121 upvotes – 72 comments

Early Chinese World Maps (2010)

https://resobscura.blogspot.com/2010/09/wanguo-quantu.html

6 years ago

112 upvotes – 26 comments

Translating the Cyberpunk Future

https://blog.neocabgame.com/post/188394177391/translating-the-cyberpunk-future

6 years ago

100 upvotes – 35 comments

Ask HN: Anyone else in constant anxiety and how do you cope?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21619671

6 years ago

98 upvotes – 134 comments

Why Are Canadian Construction Costs So High? (2018)

https://pedestrianobservations.com/2018/07/03/why-are-canadian-construction-costs-so-high/

6 years ago

97 upvotes – 140 comments

Things I learned when I worked at LAX

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-11-22/airport-secrets-from-dead-bodies-to-tsa-contraband-to-vip-lounges

6 years ago

96 upvotes – 86 comments

YouTube channel owners: Is your content directed to children?

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/blogs/business-blog/2019/11/youtube-channel-owners-your-content-directed-children

6 years ago

95 upvotes – 82 comments
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