top 20 hacker news stories for 2019-12-07

The Lesson to Unlearn

http://paulgraham.com/lesson.html

6 years ago

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

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

6 years ago

The Product-Minded Software Engineer

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

6 years ago

Great White Sharks Are Terrified of Orcas

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

6 years ago

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

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

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

6 years ago

★ 9k Python

Indexing Billions of Text Vectors

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

6 years ago

“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

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

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

File systems unfit as distributed storage back ends: 10 years of Ceph

http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2019/11/sosp19-file-systems-unfit-as.html

6 years ago

Ask HN: How to improve code quality while maintaining decent velocity?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21730125

6 years ago

Education Is a System of Indoctrination of the Young (1989) [video]

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

6 years ago

A walk through the Magit interface

https://emacsair.me/2017/09/01/magit-walk-through/

6 years ago

New Features in ES2019

https://javascript.christmas/2019/7

6 years ago

Structuring Your Project

https://docs.python-guide.org/writing/structure/

6 years ago

Brain tunes itself to criticality, maximizing information processing

https://source.wustl.edu/2019/10/brain-tunes-itself-to-criticality-maximizing-information-processing/

6 years ago

Rolls-Royce Touts Nuclear Reactors as Key to Clean Jet Fuel

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-12-06/rolls-royce-pitches-nuclear-reactors-as-key-to-clean-jet-fuel

6 years ago

Australia’s status as an open democracy downgraded by The CIVICUS Monitor

https://www.hrlc.org.au/news/2019/12/5/downgrading-of-australias-open-democracy-status-a-stark-reminder-of-the-need-to-create-an-australian-charter-of-human-rights-and-freedoms

6 years ago

PracticalAI 2.0: A New Platform to Learn ML Using Python, Keras and Tensorflow

https://practicalai.me/

6 years ago