top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-12-05

How to fight back against Google AMP as a web user and a web developer

https://markosaric.com/google-amp

6 years ago

Ask HN: Best book / resources on leadership, especially for tech teams?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21712194

6 years ago

Why Taxpayers Pay McKinsey $3M a Year for a Recent College Graduate Contractor

https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/why-taxpayers-pay-mckinsey-3m-a-year

6 years ago

Web-assembly powered WYSIWYG LaTeX Editor, supporting nearly all LaTeX package

https://github.com/SwiftLaTeX/SwiftLaTeX

6 years ago

★ 2.2k C AGPL-3.0

Show HN: A searchable list of self-hosted software with screenshots

https://selfhostedsource.tech/self-hosted/all

6 years ago

Hexing the technical interview (2017)

https://aphyr.com/posts/341-hexing-the-technical-interview

6 years ago

Show HN: AI Dungeon 2 – AI-generated text adventure built with 1.5B param GPT-2

http://www.aidungeon.io/

6 years ago

I spent 22 years in prison for a crime I didn’t commit

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/e63xwa/i_spent_22_years_in_prison_for_a_crime_i_didnt/

6 years ago

The Amazon Builders' Library

https://aws.amazon.com/builders-library/

6 years ago

Battery Pack Prices Fall As Market Ramps Up

https://about.bnef.com/blog/battery-pack-prices-fall-as-market-ramps-up-with-market-average-at-156-kwh-in-2019/?sf113554299=1

6 years ago

Inferring and hijacking VPN-tunneled TCP connections

https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2019/q4/122

6 years ago

A Week in the Life of a McDonald’s Cashier

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/zmjjnj/how-i-get-by-a-week-in-the-life-of-a-mcdonalds-cashier

6 years ago

Apple Explains Mysterious iPhone 11 Location Requests

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/12/apple-explains-mysterious-iphone-11-location-requests/

6 years ago

Dating While Dying

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/24/opinion/sunday/dating-while-dying.html

6 years ago

America’s Air Quality Worsens, Ending Years of Gains, Study Says

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/10/24/climate/air-pollution-increase.html

6 years ago

DeepSpeech 0.6

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/12/deepspeech-0-6-mozillas-speech-to-text-engine/

6 years ago

Is Arm ready for server dominance?

https://www.scylladb.com/2019/12/05/is-arm-ready-for-server-dominance/

6 years ago

A visual guide on troubleshooting Kubernetes deployments

https://learnk8s.io/troubleshooting-deployments

6 years ago

Arcade Game Typography

https://readonlymemory.vg/shop/book/arcade-game-typography/

6 years ago

A New Search Engine

https://0x65.dev/blog/2019-12-05/a-new-search-engine.html

6 years ago

How to Make Remote a Success

https://www.bearer.sh/blog/how-to-make-remote-a-success

6 years ago

Get PostgreSQL Database Structure as a Detailed JavaScript Object

http://www.pg-structure.com

6 years ago

Spain planning on going ahead with ‘Google tax’ despite US tariff threats

https://elpais.com/elpais/2019/12/04/inenglish/1575463947_590283.html

6 years ago

Proxmox VE 6.1 – Open-Source virtualization platform

https://www.proxmox.com/en/news/press-releases/proxmox-ve-6-1

6 years ago

Amazon Dodges Responsibility for Unsafe Products

https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-amazon-dodges-responsibility-for-unsafe-products-the-case-of-the-hoverboard-11575563270

6 years ago

Natural Language Processing Best Practices and Examples

https://github.com/microsoft/nlp-recipes

6 years ago

★ 6.4k Python MIT

An Illustrated First-Person Guide to the CIA’s Torture Program

https://www.enmnews.com/2019/12/04/an-illustrated-first-person-guide-to-the-c-i-a-s-torture-program/

6 years ago

Cancer cells die in microgravity conditions – study

https://www.dw.com/en/zero-gravity-kills-cancer-cells/a-50230741

6 years ago

Stress That Doesn't Pay: The Commuting Paradox (2004) [pdf]

https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/20544/1/dp1278.pdf

6 years ago

A Billion Surveillance Cameras Forecast to Be Watching Within Two Years

https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-billion-surveillance-cameras-forecast-to-be-watching-within-two-years-11575565402

6 years ago

France, Spain, and Italy’s English skills are on the decline: study

https://qz.com/1736699/france-spain-and-italys-english-skills-are-on-the-decline/

6 years ago

Command Line Tools to Break Your Dependence on the GUI

https://www.putorius.net/5-cool-command-line-tools.html

6 years ago

What Is the Cost of Building a Subway? [pdf]

https://pedestrianobservations.files.wordpress.com/2019/11/costspresentation2.pdf

6 years ago

Tensorflow User Experience

https://nostalgebraist.tumblr.com/post/189464877164/attention-conservation-notice-machine-learning

6 years ago

China gene-edited baby experiment 'may have created unintended mutations'

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/dec/04/china-gene-edited-baby-experiment-may-have-created-unintended-mutations

6 years ago

Making a text adventure game with GPT2

https://quicktotheratcave.tumblr.com/post/187432425523/shall-we-play-a-game-a-gpt-2-text-adventure

6 years ago

Create-React-App 3.3

https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app/releases/tag/v3.3.0

6 years ago

★ 103.4k JavaScript MIT

Former Away employees describe a toxic work environment

https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/5/20995453/away-luggage-ceo-steph-korey-toxic-work-environment-travel-inclusion

6 years ago

Instructions per cycle: AMD Zen 2 versus Intel

https://lemire.me/blog/2019/12/05/instructions-per-cycle-amd-versus-intel/

6 years ago

John Berger’s ‘Ways of Seeing’ Exploded a Discipline

https://aeon.co/essays/john-bergers-ways-of-seeing-and-his-search-for-home

6 years ago

Drivers Refuse to Put Down Their Phones. People Keep Dying

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2019-distracted-drivers/

6 years ago

Snibgo's ImageMagick Pages (2014)

https://im.snibgo.com/index.htm

6 years ago

Firefox 71: A year-end arrival

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

6 years ago

Librem 5 USA

https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-usa/

6 years ago

Intel's “Cripple AMD” Function

https://www.agner.org/optimize/blog/read.php?i=49&v=f

6 years ago

An Overview of the Monad

https://functional.christmas/2019/5

6 years ago

Deprecating the GitHub Developer Program

https://developer.github.com/changes/2019-12-05-gdp-deprecation/

6 years ago

The Logic of Information: A Theory of Philosophy as Conceptual Design

https://ndpr.nd.edu/news/the-logic-of-information-a-theory-of-philosophy-as-conceptual-design/

6 years ago

React Suspense

https://react.christmas/2019/5

6 years ago

Global warming-induced migratory bird body size reduction and shape change

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/ele.13434

6 years ago

Survivorship Bias: The Tale of Forgotten Failures

https://fs.blog/2019/12/survivorship-bias/

6 years ago

Efficient lock-free durable sets

https://blog.acolyer.org/2019/12/02/efficient-lock-free-durable-sets/

6 years ago

Mining Social Media

http://socialdata.site/

6 years ago

Space: The Integrated Team Environment

https://www.jetbrains.com/space/

6 years ago

Make your website a black hole to big tech

https://usefathom.com/news/blackhole

6 years ago

Extended BPF: A New Type of Software [pdf]

http://www.brendangregg.com/Slides/UM2019_BPF_a_new_type_of_software.pdf

6 years ago

Monads, or Programmable Semicolons (2014)

https://zacharyvoase.com/2014/04/30/monads/

6 years ago

Ask HN: With ADHD, how did you become an effective software developer?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21716306

6 years ago