top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-11-26

Psilocybin for major depression granted Breakthrough Therapy by FDA

https://newatlas.com/science/psilocybin-major-depression-mdd-usona-breakthrough-therapy-fda/

6 years ago

1240 upvotes – 466 comments

The Real Class War

https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2019/11/the-real-class-war

6 years ago

773 upvotes – 608 comments

Fibery – yet another collaboration tool

https://fibery.io/anxiety

6 years ago

705 upvotes – 145 comments

Reverse Engineering for Beginners [pdf]

https://beginners.re/RE4B-EN.pdf

6 years ago

451 upvotes – 49 comments

Machine Learning on Encrypted Data Without Decrypting It

https://juliacomputing.com/blog/2019/11/22/encrypted-machine-learning.html

6 years ago

421 upvotes – 116 comments

Show HN: Coscreen.co – a radically different remote collaboration tool

http://coscreen.co

6 years ago

404 upvotes – 184 comments

Google Fires Four Workers, Including Staffer Tied to Protest

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-11-25/google-fires-four-employees-citing-data-security-violations

6 years ago

397 upvotes – 353 comments

RISC-V Foundation moving to Switzerland over trade curb fears

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-china-semiconductors-insight/u-s-based-chip-tech-group-moving-to-switzerland-over-trade-curb-fears-idUSKBN1XZ16L

6 years ago

379 upvotes – 269 comments

Eternal Terminal

https://eternalterminal.dev/

6 years ago

373 upvotes – 101 comments

Show HN: patchbay.pub – Poor man's ngrok/IFTTT/serverless

https://patchbay.pub

6 years ago

362 upvotes – 79 comments

How to annotate everything

https://beepb00p.xyz/annotating.html

6 years ago

315 upvotes – 76 comments

Vinod Khosla Wins Ruling Threatening Public Beach Access

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-11-26/billionaire-khosla-wins-ruling-threatening-public-beach-access

6 years ago

307 upvotes – 333 comments

Our Startup Handbook

https://versionone.vc/startup-handbook/

6 years ago

278 upvotes – 20 comments

Google’s fires four organizers after hiring union-busting firm

https://medium.com/@GoogleWalkout/googles-next-moonshot-union-busting-7bd2784dc690

6 years ago

273 upvotes – 95 comments

The LEGO Group acquires BrickLink

https://brickset.com/article/47293/the-lego-group-acquires-bricklink

6 years ago

261 upvotes – 137 comments

BorgBackup: Deduplicating Archiver

https://www.borgbackup.org/

6 years ago

258 upvotes – 103 comments

Emacs: The Editor for the Next Forty Years [video]

https://media.emacsconf.org/2019/26.html

6 years ago

251 upvotes – 269 comments

Dark Mode by Default – 95% of People Prefer Dark over Light Mode

https://getpolarized.io/2019/11/25/Dark-Mode-Should-Be-The-Default-With-95-Percent-Preferring-it-Over-Light-Mode.html

6 years ago

241 upvotes – 222 comments

HPE Drive fail at 32,768 hours without firmware update

https://support.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docId=emr_na-a00092491en_us

6 years ago

229 upvotes – 114 comments

The Zen of Weight Lifting

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/22/well/move/the-zen-of-weight-lifting.html

6 years ago

214 upvotes – 121 comments

Big Calculator: How Texas Instruments Monopolized Math Class

https://gen.medium.com/big-calculator-how-texas-instruments-monopolized-math-class-67ee165045dc

6 years ago

211 upvotes – 229 comments

Firefox browser will block the IAB's DigiTrust universal ID

https://digiday.com/media/firefox-browser-will-block-the-iabs-digitrust-universal-id/

6 years ago

206 upvotes – 118 comments

In mobile, 62.7% of computation energy cost is spent on data movement [pdf]

https://safari.ethz.ch/architecture/fall2019/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=onur-comparch-fall2019-lecture6b-in-memory-computation-i-afterlecture.pdf

6 years ago

200 upvotes – 157 comments

Health Concerns Mount as More Old Sewer Pipes Are Lined with Plastic

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/health-concerns-mount-as-more-old-sewer-pipes-are-lined-with-plastic/

6 years ago

200 upvotes – 66 comments

Indiana manipulated report on Amazon worker’s death, investigation says

https://www.indystar.com/story/news/investigations/2019/11/25/amazon-indiana-governor-eric-holcomb-warehouse-accident-hq-2/4282653002/

6 years ago

181 upvotes – 62 comments

Julia v1.3

https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/v1.3.0/NEWS.md

6 years ago

179 upvotes – 84 comments

Atom editor still phones home prior to consent dialog

https://github.com/atom/atom/issues/20182

6 years ago

164 upvotes – 108 comments

Jor1k: Run Linux in the browser with multicore and network support

https://github.com/s-macke/jor1k

6 years ago

161 upvotes – 38 comments

Latency/throughput tradeoffs, illustrated with coffee

https://medium.com/@kentbeck_7670/inefficient-efficiency-5b3ab5294791

6 years ago

160 upvotes – 32 comments

AVX register corruption from signal delivery

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=205663

6 years ago

159 upvotes – 37 comments

Y Combinator Abruptly Shutters YC China

https://techcrunch.com/2019/11/21/y-combinator-abruptly-shutters-yc-china/

6 years ago

154 upvotes – 36 comments

FortiGuard XOR Encryption in Multiple Fortinet Products

https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Nov/38

6 years ago

146 upvotes – 89 comments

The Tibetan meditation research of Herbert Benson

https://aeon.co/videos/how-a-scientific-attempt-to-demystify-buddhist-meditation-yielded-astounding-results

6 years ago

143 upvotes – 27 comments

Air pollution causes brain structure changes that resemble Alzheimer's disease

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/25/well/mind/air-pollution-brain-dementia-alzheimer-memory.html

6 years ago

139 upvotes – 33 comments

It's 2019, but It Sure Feels a Lot Like 1998 for Stocks

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-11-26/2019-markets-and-economy-feel-like-1998-tech-bull-market

6 years ago

128 upvotes – 166 comments

China sets up Hong Kong crisis center in mainland

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hongkong-protests-shenzhen-exclusive/exclusive-china-sets-up-hong-kong-crisis-center-in-mainland-considers-replacing-chief-liaison-idUSKBN1Y000P

6 years ago

126 upvotes – 32 comments

JSONCrush – Compress JSON into URI Friendly Strings

https://github.com/KilledByAPixel/JSONCrush

6 years ago

121 upvotes – 62 comments

How fast do I talk?

https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/talk-fast/

6 years ago

118 upvotes – 48 comments

Instagram’s Explore Recommender System

https://instagram-engineering.com/powered-by-ai-instagrams-explore-recommender-system-7ca901d2a882

6 years ago

109 upvotes – 55 comments

Building a language server for Muon

https://nickmqb.github.io/2019/11/24/building-a-language-server-for-muon.html

6 years ago

101 upvotes – 54 comments

Scala.js 1.0.0-RC1

https://www.scala-js.org/news/2019/11/26/announcing-scalajs-1.0.0-RC1/

6 years ago

100 upvotes – 55 comments

The Vienna Bank Job

https://www.occrp.org/en/the-austrian-bank-job/the-vienna-bank-job

6 years ago

99 upvotes – 6 comments

Understanding the generalization of ‘lottery tickets’ in neural networks

https://ai.facebook.com/blog/understanding-the-generalization-of-lottery-tickets-in-neural-networks

6 years ago

98 upvotes – 16 comments

Hours Worked by Women Age 55 to 61 Confound Labor Market Analysis

https://www.dallasfed.org/research/economics/2019/1126.aspx

6 years ago

98 upvotes – 54 comments

Cut global emissions by 7.6% per year for next decade to meet 1.5°C Paris target

https://www.unenvironment.org/news-and-stories/press-release/cut-global-emissions-76-percent-every-year-next-decade-meet-15degc

6 years ago

97 upvotes – 199 comments

Getting Started with APL (2017)

https://www.sacrideo.us/getting-started-with-apl/

6 years ago

97 upvotes – 40 comments

Google fires activist Rebecca Rivers and 3 others

https://venturebeat.com/2019/11/25/google-fires-activist-rebecca-rivers-and-3-others/

6 years ago

97 upvotes – 37 comments

Applying machine learning and deep learning methods to audio analysis

https://www.comet.ml/blog/?p=916

6 years ago

93 upvotes – 20 comments

Teen's TikTok video about China's Muslim camps goes viral

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-50559656

6 years ago

92 upvotes – 16 comments

Nomogram

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

6 years ago

90 upvotes – 8 comments

Can You Copyright Work Made by Artificial Intelligence?

https://whyisthisinteresting.substack.com/p/why-is-this-interesting-the-ai-copyright

6 years ago

89 upvotes – 114 comments

Launch HN: Scanwell (YC S18) – At-home UTI test with same-day treatment options

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21640781

6 years ago

87 upvotes – 33 comments

Do we need a web API?

https://liaison.dev/blog/articles/Do-We-Really-Need-A-Web-API-yq12wz

6 years ago

86 upvotes – 105 comments

Show HN: KickStarter for open source projects and LinkedIn for OSS contributors

https://openteams.com/

6 years ago

86 upvotes – 57 comments

Pirate Act: what the law says and how it threatens pirate radio stations

https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/26/20978243/pirate-act-radio-stations-law-legislation-fcc-haitian-dj-joan-martinez

6 years ago

84 upvotes – 80 comments

Ask HN: Is there a better employment route to high earnings than FAANG?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21641864

6 years ago

84 upvotes – 82 comments

The heritability of self-control: A meta-analysis

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0149763418307905

6 years ago

81 upvotes – 65 comments

SinGAN: Learning a Generative Model from a Single Natural Image

https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.01164

6 years ago

77 upvotes – 9 comments

Tendon stem cells enhance regeneration

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41556-019-0417-z

6 years ago

75 upvotes – 28 comments
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