top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-12-03

Sundar will be the CEO of both Google and Alphabet

https://blog.google/inside-google/alphabet/letter-from-larry-and-sergey

6 years ago

1204 upvotes – 587 comments

Archivists Are Trying to Make Sure LibGen Never Goes Down

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/pa7jxb/archivists-are-trying-to-make-sure-a-pirate-bay-of-science-never-goes-down

6 years ago

908 upvotes – 257 comments

The latest version of Slack has a setting to disable the WYSIWYG editor

https://twitter.com/jedisct1/status/1201927500223438854

6 years ago

783 upvotes – 221 comments

BPF: A New Type of Software

http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2019-12-02/bpf-a-new-type-of-software.html

6 years ago

603 upvotes – 185 comments

Metaflow, Netflix's Python framework for data science, is now open source

https://metaflow.org

6 years ago

517 upvotes – 114 comments

A comment on Hacker News led to 4½ new Unicode characters (2016)

https://unicodepowersymbol.com/we-did-it-how-a-comment-on-hackernews-lead-to-4-%c2%bd-new-unicode-characters/

6 years ago

488 upvotes – 186 comments

Amazon CodeGuru – Preview

https://aws.amazon.com/codeguru/

6 years ago

429 upvotes – 203 comments

My Show HN Project got acquired after 6 months

https://medium.com/@joshahowarth/how-my-show-hn-project-got-acquired-after-6-months-954f81ca6a18

6 years ago

419 upvotes – 97 comments

We ran the numbers, and there really is a pipeline problem in engineering hiring

http://blog.interviewing.io/we-ran-the-numbers-and-there-really-is-a-pipeline-problem-in-eng-hiring/

6 years ago

327 upvotes – 638 comments

The best Cyber Monday deals according to Alexa: any Amazon-owned brand

https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/12/3/20992885/best-amazon-cyber-monday-deals-alexa-private-label-brands

6 years ago

287 upvotes – 195 comments

Ask HN: Curious to know if people still use IRC?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21691802

6 years ago

260 upvotes – 248 comments

Big Pile of Vim-Like

https://vim.reversed.top/

6 years ago

250 upvotes – 129 comments

FDA bowed to industry for decades as alarms were sounded over talc

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-health-fda-talc/

6 years ago

249 upvotes – 129 comments

Firefox Full-device VPN

https://private-network.firefox.com/vpn

6 years ago

248 upvotes – 115 comments

A Guide to Distributed Teams

https://increment.com/teams/a-guide-to-distributed-teams/

6 years ago

227 upvotes – 24 comments

FBI warns that connected televisions can provide hackers a window into homes

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-7746531/FBI-warns-citizens-connected-televisions-provide-hackers-window-homes.html

6 years ago

218 upvotes – 273 comments

How to play with people who are better than you

https://wellcomecollection.org/articles/Xc6GEBEAACgABJG_

6 years ago

216 upvotes – 184 comments

Economists Are Rethinking the Numbers on Inequality

https://www.economist.com/briefing/2019/11/28/economists-are-rethinking-the-numbers-on-inequality

6 years ago

214 upvotes – 352 comments

Four fired workers file charges against Google

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/dec/03/google-is-no-longer-listening-four-fired-workers-file-charges-against-tech-giant

6 years ago

213 upvotes – 270 comments

Firefox 71

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/12/firefox-71-a-winter-arrival/

6 years ago

211 upvotes – 65 comments

Busyness leads to bad decisions

https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20191202-how-time-scarcity-makes-us-focus-on-low-value-tasks

6 years ago

210 upvotes – 80 comments

Launch HN: Buy Me a Coffee (YC W19) – Give your audience a way to thank you

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21694759

6 years ago

206 upvotes – 179 comments

The ominous opacity of the AWS bill – a cautionary tale

https://www.taloflow.ai/blog/ominous-aws-bill

6 years ago

203 upvotes – 109 comments

Amazon Kendra: Enterprise Search Service

https://aws.amazon.com/kendra/

6 years ago

195 upvotes – 55 comments

List of Fictional Microsoft Companies

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

6 years ago

188 upvotes – 51 comments

So You Think You Want to Open a Brewery (2014)

https://drinks.seriouseats.com/2014/03/challenges-of-opening-a-brewery-job-advice-beer-industry-collin-mcdonnell-henhouse.html

6 years ago

185 upvotes – 286 comments

Show HN: Adventurekeep – A Toolkit for D&D

https://adventurekeep.com

6 years ago

182 upvotes – 57 comments

The Principles of Versioning in Go

https://research.swtch.com/vgo-principles

6 years ago

174 upvotes – 87 comments

The Science of Wi-Fi on Airplanes

https://onezero.medium.com/what-makes-it-possible-to-browse-the-internet-at-35-000-feet-1afaea83eb5

6 years ago

158 upvotes – 66 comments

Firefox 71

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/71.0/releasenotes/

6 years ago

145 upvotes – 58 comments

Amazon SageMaker Autopilot

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-sagemaker-autopilot-fully-managed-automatic-machine-learning/

6 years ago

141 upvotes – 43 comments

Amazon Launches Managed Cassandra Service

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-amazon-managed-apache-cassandra-service-mcs/

6 years ago

137 upvotes – 157 comments

Coming Soon – Graviton2-Powered General Purpose EC2 Instances

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/coming-soon-graviton2-powered-general-purpose-compute-optimized-memory-optimized-ec2-instances/

6 years ago

132 upvotes – 53 comments

The Factorization of RSA-240

https://listserv.nodak.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=NMBRTHRY;fd743373.1912&FT=M&P=T&H=&S=

6 years ago

131 upvotes – 36 comments

AWS Is Now Available from a Local Zone in Los Angeles

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-now-available-from-a-local-zone-in-los-angeles/

6 years ago

124 upvotes – 61 comments

Whoever built the Boston Marathon bombs is still on the loose (2018)

https://www.newsweek.com/2018/01/19/boston-marathon-bomb-maker-loose-776742.html

6 years ago

123 upvotes – 48 comments

Ask HN: Which charities do you donate to?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21692744

6 years ago

122 upvotes – 150 comments

FBI asked Sony for data on user who used PlayStation network to sell cocaine

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/zmjp73/fbi-asked-sony-playstation-4-user-data-cocaine-dealer

6 years ago

116 upvotes – 73 comments

Simple Dynamic Strings library for C, compatible with null-terminated strings

https://github.com/antirez/sds

6 years ago

107 upvotes – 83 comments

RAWGraphs: a missing link between spreadsheets and data visualization

https://rawgraphs.io/

6 years ago

106 upvotes – 10 comments

Purism Librem 5 Hardware Schematics

https://puri.sm/posts/a-different-kind-of-transparency/

6 years ago

105 upvotes – 49 comments

Inside Larry Page’s Kitty Hawk: Returned Deposits, Battery Fires, Boeing Shakeup

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeremybogaisky/2019/12/01/inside-larry-pages-kitty-hawk-returned-deposits-battery-fires-boeing-cora/#40ad689758ab

6 years ago

100 upvotes – 70 comments

The Intoxicating History of Gin

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/12/09/the-intoxicating-history-of-gin

6 years ago

100 upvotes – 88 comments

Long S

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

6 years ago

98 upvotes – 38 comments

90k Packages Disappear Daily in NYC

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/02/nyregion/online-shopping-package-theft.html

6 years ago

84 upvotes – 97 comments

Fake News Is Still Fooling Facebook’s Fact-Checking Systems

https://onezero.medium.com/how-fake-news-is-still-fooling-facebooks-fact-checking-systems-fa8b0e0255b8

6 years ago

82 upvotes – 80 comments

PG&E Had Systemic Problems with Power Line Maintenance, California Probe Finds

https://www.wsj.com/articles/pg-e-had-systemic-problems-with-power-line-maintenance-california-probe-finds-11575338873?mod=rsswn

6 years ago

82 upvotes – 26 comments

Amazon's on-site emergency care endangers its employees

https://theintercept.com/2019/12/02/amazon-warehouse-workers-safety-cyber-monday/

6 years ago

74 upvotes – 11 comments

Why do holes horrify me?

https://mosaicscience.com/story/trypophobia-why-clusters-holes-horrify-fear-disgust/

6 years ago

73 upvotes – 91 comments

Human Web – Data Collection Without Privacy Side-Effects

https://0x65.dev/blog/2019-12-03/human-web-collecting-data-in-a-socially-responsible-manner.html

6 years ago

72 upvotes – 17 comments

H-1B in 2020: Immigration Visa Faces Further Restrictions

https://insights.dice.com/2019/12/03/h-1b-2020-immigration-visa-restrictions/

6 years ago

71 upvotes – 80 comments

What happens when you add a new teller? (2008)

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2008/10/21/what-happens-when-you-add-a-new-teller/

6 years ago

70 upvotes – 29 comments

Show HN: Referlist – Increase email sign-ups via word of mouth referrals

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21691720

6 years ago

70 upvotes – 25 comments

Agner Krarup Erlang

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

6 years ago

69 upvotes – 8 comments
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