top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-11-25

Interactive Linear Algebra

https://textbooks.math.gatech.edu/ila/

6 years ago

981 upvotes – 49 comments

Computer Architecture – ETH Zürich – Fall 2019

https://safari.ethz.ch/architecture/fall2019/doku.php?id=schedule

6 years ago

654 upvotes – 74 comments

ICANN races towards regulatory capture: the great .org heist

http://blogs.harvard.edu/sj/2019/11/23/a-tale-of-icann-and-regulatory-capture-the-dot-org-heist/

6 years ago

643 upvotes – 122 comments

I am no longer able to use Google with Lynx

https://blind.guru/endofgoogle.html

6 years ago

575 upvotes – 318 comments

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3960X and 3970X Review

https://www.anandtech.com/print/15044/the-amd-ryzen-threadripper-3960x-and-3970x-review-24-and-32-cores-on-7nm

6 years ago

488 upvotes – 337 comments

The Ripe NCC Has Run Out of IPv4 Addresses

https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/ripe-list/2019-November/001712.html

6 years ago

416 upvotes – 419 comments

Recreation.gov

https://www.recreation.gov/

6 years ago

416 upvotes – 195 comments

Job loss predictions over rising minimum wages haven't come true

https://www.axios.com/minimum-wage-job-loss-predictions-not-true-dcda5eac-996d-4539-a07e-12933eef4bca.html

6 years ago

410 upvotes – 370 comments

The California DMV Is Selling Drivers’ Personal Information

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/evjekz/the-california-dmv-is-making-dollar50m-a-year-selling-drivers-personal-information

6 years ago

376 upvotes – 162 comments

Bye Bye Microsoft Office, Hello LibreOffice

https://easydns.com/blog/2019/11/25/bye-bye-microsoft-office-hello-libreoffice/

6 years ago

349 upvotes – 311 comments

Greensboro Man Creates Dating App Where He's the Only Guy Allowed

https://www.wfmynews2.com/article/news/local/2-wants-to-know/greensboro-dating-app-online-dating-singularity/83-de8a5d3a-dea6-4a71-8da0-f2394f071cdc

6 years ago

344 upvotes – 392 comments

Writing An Interpreter In Go (2016)

https://interpreterbook.com/

6 years ago

305 upvotes – 60 comments

Novelty and Heresy

http://paulgraham.com/nov.html

6 years ago

288 upvotes – 333 comments

Are We Wayland Yet?

https://www.swalladge.net/archives/2019/10/14/are-we-wayland-yet/

6 years ago

288 upvotes – 367 comments

React Table is a “headless” UI library

https://github.com/tannerlinsley/react-table/blob/master/docs/concepts.md

6 years ago

★ 27.9k TypeScript MIT
257 upvotes – 114 comments

Uber loses licence to operate in London, will still operate while appealing

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-50544283

6 years ago

256 upvotes – 501 comments

Uber Loses London License over Concerns for Rider Safety

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-11-25/uber-denied-new-license-by-london-s-transport-regulator

6 years ago

255 upvotes – 5 comments

Creating an open-source solution to the headaches of headless browsers

https://sourcesort.com/interview/joel-griffith-browserless

6 years ago

252 upvotes – 98 comments

Show HN: I made a no-bullshit image host

https://imgz.org/

6 years ago

248 upvotes – 247 comments

If you care about user privacy, don’t use Facebook JavaScript SDK

https://simplelogin.io/blog/do-not-use-facebook-sdk/

6 years ago

240 upvotes – 100 comments

Teacher Effects on Student Achievement and Height: A Cautionary Tale

https://www.nber.org/papers/w26480

6 years ago

237 upvotes – 169 comments

Yahoo Pipes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Pipes

6 years ago

224 upvotes – 94 comments

Neat Rust Tricks: Passing Closures to C

https://blog.seantheprogrammer.com/neat-rust-tricks-passing-rust-closures-to-c

6 years ago

215 upvotes – 66 comments

Worker-Owned Apps Are Trying to Fix the Gig Economy

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/pa75a8/worker-owned-apps-are-trying-to-fix-the-gig-economys-exploitation

6 years ago

210 upvotes – 145 comments

Toshiba device tests cancer types from a drop of blood

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/25/business/corporate-business/toshiba-test-cancer-blood/

6 years ago

197 upvotes – 91 comments

Braid: Synchronization for HTTP

https://braid.news/

6 years ago

196 upvotes – 47 comments

Threadripper 3960X Compiles Linux Kernel in Under 30 Seconds

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd-linux-3960x-3970x&num=9

6 years ago

190 upvotes – 54 comments

Unleashing Open-Source Silicon

https://opensource.googleblog.com/2019/09/unleashing-open-source-silicon.html

6 years ago

189 upvotes – 78 comments

Mail in a Box

https://mailinabox.email/

6 years ago

172 upvotes – 65 comments

Nerd Fonts

https://www.nerdfonts.com

6 years ago

164 upvotes – 20 comments

Gross margins and SaaS companies

https://twosigmaventures.com/blog/article/why-gross-margins-matter/

6 years ago

161 upvotes – 39 comments

Show HN: A small bootstrapped independent VPN company in the Netherlands

https://www.wifimask.com/about

6 years ago

154 upvotes – 108 comments

Show HN: Excel Sensitivity Analysis Tool

https://causal.app/sensitivity

6 years ago

148 upvotes – 30 comments

Relentlessly Simplify

https://den.dev/blog/relentlessly-simplify/

6 years ago

148 upvotes – 74 comments

Learn Coq in Y Minutes

https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/coq

6 years ago

148 upvotes – 55 comments

In defense of 'flicks' (or how I learned to stop worrying and love 705600000)

https://mux.com/blog/in-defense-of-flicks-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-705600000/

6 years ago

141 upvotes – 61 comments

IBM System 360 Model 20 restoration: The big push

https://ibms360.co.uk/?p=485

6 years ago

137 upvotes – 6 comments

CS 007: Personal Finance for Engineers – Stanford University 2017-20

https://cs007.blog/

6 years ago

133 upvotes – 39 comments

Git-subtrac: all your Git submodules in one place

https://apenwarr.ca/log/20191109

6 years ago

132 upvotes – 23 comments

Keeping Memory Contents Secret

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/804658/8eaf9fdc5477865e/

6 years ago

129 upvotes – 41 comments

Pgloader – migrate your data from any SQL database into PostgreSQL

https://github.com/dimitri/pgloader

6 years ago

★ 6.4k Common Lisp
127 upvotes – 12 comments

Found hidden safe, should we crack?

https://www.bogleheads.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=295877

6 years ago

125 upvotes – 88 comments

Cloudmacs: access your Emacs in browser

https://beepb00p.xyz/cloudmacs.html

6 years ago

124 upvotes – 36 comments

Scaling SVG Elements

https://wattenberger.com/guide/scaling-svg

6 years ago

120 upvotes – 36 comments

The Fall of WeWork

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/11/inside-the-fall-of-wework

6 years ago

114 upvotes – 58 comments

The Birth of Legacy Software – How Change Aversion Feeds on Itself

https://software.rajivprab.com/2019/11/25/the-birth-of-legacy-software-how-change-aversion-feeds-on-itself/

6 years ago

113 upvotes – 66 comments

Japan wants foreign entrepreneurs, but what's missing?

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/25/business/japan-foreign-entrepreneurs/

6 years ago

113 upvotes – 146 comments

Lightweight API Design in Swift

https://www.swiftbysundell.com/articles/lightweight-api-design-in-swift/

6 years ago

109 upvotes – 56 comments

Older IT Workers Left Out Despite Tech Talent Shortage

https://www.wsj.com/articles/older-it-workers-left-out-despite-tech-talent-shortage-11574683200?mod=rsswn

6 years ago

105 upvotes – 208 comments

Mergeable replicated data types – Part I

https://blog.acolyer.org/2019/11/25/mergeable-replicated-data-types-part-i/

6 years ago

104 upvotes – 21 comments

Cthulhu Ventures

https://cthulhuventures.com/

6 years ago

103 upvotes – 71 comments

Hidden Cam Above Bluetooth Pump Skimmer

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/11/hidden-cam-above-bluetooth-pump-skimmer/

6 years ago

101 upvotes – 86 comments

Instagram is deleting the accounts of hundreds of porn stars

https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-50222380

6 years ago

99 upvotes – 127 comments

Lisp-Flavored Programming Languages

https://github.com/dundalek/awesome-lisp-languages

6 years ago

★ 860
98 upvotes – 76 comments

NSA Backdoors and Bitcoin (2013)

https://chrispacia.wordpress.com/2013/10/30/nsa-backdoors-and-bitcoin/

6 years ago

95 upvotes – 57 comments

DeepFovea: Neural Reconstruction for Foveated Rendering and Video Compression

https://research.fb.com/publications/deepfovea-neural-reconstruction-for-foveated-rendering-and-video-compression-using-learned-statistics-of-natural-videos/

6 years ago

94 upvotes – 19 comments

Seeing Like a Finite State Machine

http://crookedtimber.org/2019/11/25/seeing-like-a-finite-state-machine/

6 years ago

89 upvotes – 40 comments

Qt Binding for Go with Support Desktop, Mobile and Embeddable

https://github.com/therecipe/qt

6 years ago

★ 10.7k Go LGPL-3.0
88 upvotes – 27 comments

Four-hundred Thirty-Five Representatives Can Not Represent 300M Americans

https://thirty-thousand.org/

6 years ago

84 upvotes – 150 comments

Singapore issues first correction order under 'fake news' law

https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/Singapore-issues-first-correction-order-under-fake-news-law

6 years ago

82 upvotes – 100 comments

How machine learning is revolutionising market intelligence

https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2019/11/21/how-machine-learning-is-revolutionising-market-intelligence

6 years ago

81 upvotes – 19 comments

Show HN: Creepyface – A JavaScript library to make your face look at the pointer

https://creepyface.io

6 years ago

81 upvotes – 36 comments

Adobe Photoshop AI Detector

https://www.fxguide.com/fxfeatured/adobe-photoshop-ai-detector/

6 years ago

80 upvotes – 25 comments

The Worst Businessman of the 18th Century BC (2018)

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kristinakillgrove/2018/05/11/meet-the-worst-businessman-of-the-18th-century/

6 years ago

80 upvotes – 39 comments
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