top 10 hacker news stories for 2019-12-07

The Lesson to Unlearn

http://paulgraham.com/lesson.html

6 years ago

1333 upvotes – 565 comments

Ask HN: What mistakes did you make when starting as a consultant/freelancer?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21728436

6 years ago

622 upvotes – 268 comments

The Product-Minded Software Engineer

https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/the-product-minded-engineer/

6 years ago

616 upvotes – 142 comments

Great White Sharks Are Terrified of Orcas

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/great-white-sharks-are-completely-terrified-orcas-180972009/

6 years ago

322 upvotes – 191 comments

The rise and fall of the PlayStation supercomputers

https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/3/20984028/playstation-supercomputer-ps3-umass-dartmouth-astrophysics-25th-anniversary

6 years ago

283 upvotes – 169 comments

Deploy-your-own-SaaS: “only yours” cloud services for everyday needs

https://github.com/Atarity/deploy-your-own-saas

6 years ago

275 upvotes – 51 comments

Indexing Billions of Text Vectors

https://0x65.dev/blog/2019-12-07/indexing-billions-of-text-vectors.html

6 years ago

252 upvotes – 40 comments

“I lost my inheritance with one wrong digit on my sort code”

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2019/dec/07/i-lost-my-193000-inheritance-with-one-wrong-digit-on-my-sort-code

6 years ago

244 upvotes – 222 comments

Reducing the Performance Gap of Intel's MKL on AMD Threadripper

https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/hpc/How-To-Use-MKL-with-AMD-Ryzen-and-Threadripper-CPU-s-Effectively-for-Python-Numpy-And-Other-Applications-1637/

6 years ago

222 upvotes – 138 comments

Google management shuffle points to retreat from Alphabet experiment

https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-management-shuffle-points-to-retreat-from-alphabet-experiment-11575579677

6 years ago

216 upvotes – 208 comments
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