top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-11-30

Calculus Explained with GIFs and Pics (2014)

https://0a.io/chapter1/calculus-explained.html

6 years ago

My .in domain has been transferred to another registrant without notification

https://twitter.com/susam/status/1200678538254393345

6 years ago

Yes, And – How to be effective in the theatre of work

https://tomcritchlow.com/2019/11/18/yes-and/

6 years ago

Medieval Price List

http://medieval.ucdavis.edu/120D/Money.html

6 years ago

Urbit

https://urbit.org/

6 years ago

Adventures in Netflix

https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2019/02/14/adventures-in-netflix/

6 years ago

Gnu: Net

https://gnunet.org/en/#about

6 years ago

Longevity Linked to Proteins That Calm Overexcited Neurons

https://www.quantamagazine.org/longevity-linked-to-proteins-that-calm-overexcited-neurons-20191126/

6 years ago

Garbage Collection

http://craftinginterpreters.com/garbage-collection.html

6 years ago

Mal – Make a Lisp, implemented in 79 languages

https://github.com/kanaka/mal/

6 years ago

★ 10.6k Assembly

Small Projects, Big Companies

https://pioneer.app/blog/small-projects-big-companies/

6 years ago

Schwab Leaves San Francisco for Texas

https://www.wsj.com/articles/schwab-leaves-san-francisco-for-texas-11574900348?mod=rsswn

6 years ago

Troubling trends in machine learning scholarship (2018)

https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.03341

6 years ago

GitHub Trip Report

https://fossil-scm.org/forum/forumpost/536ce98d85

6 years ago

Corporate debt nears a record $10T, and borrowing binge poses new risks

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/corporate-debt-nears-a-record-10-trillion-and-borrowing-binge-poses-new-risks/2019/11/29/1f86ba3e-114b-11ea-bf62-eadd5d11f559_story.html

6 years ago

Airmash – a game that refused to die

https://www.janwillemboer.nl/blog/posts/2019-11-airmash-history/

6 years ago

History of Fidonet (1993)

http://www.olografix.org/gubi/estate/archivio/fido/fido.htm

6 years ago

The Infamous SCSH Scheme Shell “Acknowledgements” (1994)

http://www.scsh.net/docu/html/man.html#node_index_start

6 years ago

Belarus’s Soviet Economy

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-11-27/belarus-s-soviet-economy-has-worked-better-than-you-think

6 years ago

Sherlock: Find usernames across social networks

https://github.com/sherlock-project/sherlock

6 years ago

★ 82.6k Python MIT

South Carolina judges often lack formal training in the law

https://www.propublica.org/article/these-judges-can-have-less-training-than-barbers-but-still-decide-thousands-of-cases-each-year

6 years ago

Show HN: Dot-to-ASCII – Graphviz to ASCII Converter

https://dot-to-ascii.ggerganov.com

6 years ago

Go memory ballast: How I learnt to stop worrying and love the heap

https://blog.twitch.tv/en/2019/04/10/go-memory-ballast-how-i-learnt-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-heap-26c2462549a2/

6 years ago

Never mind the 1 percent Let's talk about the 0.01 percent (2017)

https://review.chicagobooth.edu/economics/2017/article/never-mind-1-percent-lets-talk-about-001-percent

6 years ago

Spices Have Made, and Unmade, Empires

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/27/t-magazine/spices.html

6 years ago

Study Finds Wind Speeds Are Increasing, Which Could Boost Wind Energy

https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2019/11/29/wind-energy-green-power

6 years ago

Life expectancy in the U.S. is declining for middle-aged people of all groups

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/26/health/life-expectancy-rate-usa.html

6 years ago

Live video from a fishing boat in New Zealand

https://www.betterfish.co/

6 years ago

Origami Levels of Complexity [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDwPXRy9IFc

6 years ago

Disc rot is a challenge for both archivists and collectors (2017)

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/mg9pdv/the-hidden-phenomenon-that-could-ruin-your-old-discs

6 years ago

An Epidemic of AI Misinformation

https://thegradient.pub/an-epidemic-of-ai-misinformation/

6 years ago

Half an operating system: The triumph and tragedy of OS/2 (2013)

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/11/half-an-operating-system-the-triumph-and-tragedy-of-os2/

6 years ago

Thermal Testing Raspberry Pi 4

https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/thermal-testing-raspberry-pi-4/

6 years ago

Jacob Collier’s four magical chords

https://www.ethanhein.com/wp/2019/jacob-colliers-four-magical-chords/

6 years ago

Costco's Thanksgiving Day Website Crash Cost It Nearly $11M

https://www.thestreet.com/technology/costco-thanksgiving-day-website-crash-cost-it-nearly-11million-15185344

6 years ago

Dutch antennas unfolded behind the moon

https://www.ru.nl/english/news-agenda/news/vm/imapp/astrophysics/2019/dutch-antennas-unfolded-behind-moon/

6 years ago

The Neues Museum claims copyright over 3D-printing files of the Nefertiti bust

https://slate.com/technology/2019/11/nefertiti-bust-neues-museum-3d-printing.html

6 years ago

Bryan Cantrill interviews Arthur Whitney (2009)

https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1531242

6 years ago

Superconductivity Theory Under Attack

https://phys.org/news/2019-11-superconductivity-theory.html

6 years ago

Hack-a-Mol

https://chemapps.stolaf.edu/jmol/jsmol/hackamol.htm

6 years ago

The Internet Oracle

https://internetoracle.org/

6 years ago

Frink

https://futureboy.us/frinkdocs/

6 years ago

It’s not a zero-sum game for Apple TV+, Netflix, and Disney+

https://onezero.medium.com/everyones-wrong-about-the-streaming-wars-95f1eb717a90

6 years ago

1958 Facom 128B Japanese Relay Computer, Still Working [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_j544ELauus

6 years ago

New class of painkiller found in a mud sample

https://imb.uq.edu.au/article/2019/10/new-class-painkiller-found-mud

6 years ago

BSD Sockets Addressing

https://idea.popcount.org/2019-12-06-addressing/

6 years ago

Quadcopter Programming Part 2: Using the CMSIS Library and First Takeoff

https://timakro.de/blog/quadcopter-programming-part-2/

6 years ago