top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-12-08

Verizon/Yahoo Blocking Attempts to Archive Yahoo Groups – Deletion: Dec. 14

https://modsandmembersblog.wordpress.com/2019/12/08/verizon-yahoo-bad-form/

6 years ago

1393 upvotes – 405 comments

Why databases use ordered indexes but programming uses hash tables

https://www.evanjones.ca/ordered-vs-unordered-indexes.html

6 years ago

429 upvotes – 197 comments

If the Moon Were Only 1 Pixel (2014)

https://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html

6 years ago

422 upvotes – 82 comments

Learning to code vs. learning to automate

https://daedtech.com/dont-learn-to-code-learn-to-automate/

6 years ago

398 upvotes – 181 comments

Human-Assisted Archival of Yahoo Groups

https://github.com/davidferguson/yahoogroups-joiner

6 years ago

★ 82 JavaScript
384 upvotes – 62 comments

GCC-Rust: Rust frontend for GCC

https://github.com/sapir/gcc-rust/tree/rust

6 years ago

★ 203 C GPL-2.0
288 upvotes – 138 comments

Powerful Statement of Resistance from a College Student on Trial in Moscow

https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/a-powerful-statement-of-resistance-from-a-college-student-on-trial-in-moscow

6 years ago

271 upvotes – 93 comments

The Go runtime scheduler's way of dealing with system calls

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/GoSchedulerAndSyscalls

6 years ago

255 upvotes – 99 comments

Cairo Desktop Environment

https://cairoshell.com/

6 years ago

243 upvotes – 88 comments

Ask HN: What tech choices make “new” Reddit so unbearably slow?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21738571

6 years ago

238 upvotes – 158 comments

Far Cry

http://ceasarbautista.com/essays/far_cry.html

6 years ago

237 upvotes – 103 comments

SpaceX working on fix for Starlink satellites so they don’t disrupt astronomy

https://spacenews.com/spacex-working-on-fix-for-starlink-satellites-so-they-dont-disrupt-astronomy/

6 years ago

204 upvotes – 255 comments

Statically-typed error handling in Python using Mypy

https://beepb00p.xyz/mypy-error-handling.html

6 years ago

198 upvotes – 126 comments

Quadratic Payments: A Primer

https://vitalik.ca/general/2019/12/07/quadratic.html

6 years ago

194 upvotes – 86 comments

An example of exploiting two fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox on Windows

https://github.com/0vercl0k/CVE-2019-11708

6 years ago

★ 625 JavaScript MIT
190 upvotes – 56 comments

Man Loses Home After Failing to Pay $8.41 in Property Taxes

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyphillipserb/2019/12/06/man-loses-home-after-failing-to-pay-841-in-property-taxes/#9abe2d32a207

6 years ago

184 upvotes – 88 comments

How much a baby is touched leaves measurable effects on DNA methylation (2017)

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article186889938.html

6 years ago

181 upvotes – 90 comments

Climate change and nutrient pollution are depleting oxygen from oceans: study

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-50690995

6 years ago

165 upvotes – 106 comments

Ask HN: Why GraphQL APIs but no Datalog APIs?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21738331

6 years ago

162 upvotes – 107 comments

Vulnerable Nations Call for Ecocide to Be Recognized as an International Crime

https://www.climateliabilitynews.org/2019/12/06/ecocide-international-criminal-court-vanuatu/

6 years ago

162 upvotes – 46 comments

Caroll Spinney has died

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/08/obituaries/caroll-spinney-dead.html

6 years ago

153 upvotes – 29 comments

Friends of Vast Industrial Concrete Kafkaesque Structures

http://seriss.com/people/erco/fovicks/

6 years ago

147 upvotes – 70 comments

How to write better game libraries

https://handmade.network/wiki/7138-how_to_write_better_game_libraries

6 years ago

146 upvotes – 123 comments

Ask HN: What are some examples of well-designed personal sites?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21737529

6 years ago

145 upvotes – 93 comments

Developing a Statically Typed Programming Language (2017)

https://blog.mgechev.com/2017/08/05/typed-lambda-calculus-create-type-checker-transpiler-compiler-javascript/

6 years ago

143 upvotes – 20 comments

California is about to allow former felons to serve on juries

https://calmatters.org/justice/2019/11/california-former-felons-becoming-jurors-new-2020-law/

6 years ago

142 upvotes – 158 comments

Epsilon: The JDK’s Do-Nothing Garbage Collector

https://blogs.oracle.com/javamagazine/epsilon-the-jdks-do-nothing-garbage-collector

6 years ago

141 upvotes – 75 comments

Using Makefile(s) for Go

https://danishpraka.sh/2019/12/07/using-makefiles-for-go.html

6 years ago

137 upvotes – 101 comments

The curious case of Croatian wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2019-08-30/Opinion

6 years ago

127 upvotes – 31 comments

Using machine learning to choose compression algorithms

https://vks.ai/2019-12-05-shrynk-using-machine-learning-to-learn-how-to-compress

6 years ago

125 upvotes – 58 comments

Héctor Garcia-Molina, 1953–2019

https://rjlipton.wordpress.com/2019/12/08/hctor-garcia-molina-1953-2019/

6 years ago

121 upvotes – 16 comments

Larry and Sergey: A Valediction

http://www.roughtype.com/?p=8661

6 years ago

119 upvotes – 113 comments

A $7 Credit Limit: Jack Ma’s Ant Lures Hundreds of Millions of Borrowers

https://www.morningstar.com/news/dow-jones/20191208772/a-7-credit-limit-jack-mas-ant-lures-hundreds-of-millions-of-borrowers

6 years ago

113 upvotes – 134 comments

Hospital superbugs are evolving to survive hand sanitizers (2018)

https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/08/hospital-superbugs-are-evolving-to-survive-hand-sanitizers/

6 years ago

113 upvotes – 61 comments

Smalltalk with the GraalVM

https://www.javaadvent.com/2019/12/smalltalk-with-the-graalvm.html

6 years ago

109 upvotes – 33 comments

After a bone marrow transplant, a man has two sets of DNA

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/07/us/dna-bone-marrow-transplant-crime-lab.html

6 years ago

108 upvotes – 29 comments

Steve Jobs: Out for Revenge (1989)

https://www.nytimes.com/1989/08/06/magazine/steve-jobs-out-for-revenge.html

6 years ago

101 upvotes – 107 comments

Satellites Show New Internment Camps in Tibet

https://unpo.org/article/21403

6 years ago

99 upvotes – 19 comments

How TiKV reads and writes

https://tikv.org/blog/how-tikv-reads-writes/

6 years ago

97 upvotes – 12 comments

Show HN: Yazz Pilot – Self Service Apps Without the IT Department

https://github.com/zubairq/pilot

6 years ago

★ 544 JavaScript MIT
95 upvotes – 28 comments

Gurgel Itaipu

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

6 years ago

94 upvotes – 34 comments

Ask HN: What are the best computing-related videos you've watched recently?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21737922

6 years ago

92 upvotes – 18 comments

Lisp Programming in Vim with Slimv or Vlime

https://susam.in/blog/lisp-in-vim-with-slimv-or-vlime/

6 years ago

85 upvotes – 42 comments

Getting Pagination Wrong (2016)

https://blog.jooq.org/2016/08/10/why-most-programmers-get-pagination-wrong/

6 years ago

80 upvotes – 70 comments

How to Show Available WiFi Networks on Linux from the Command Line

https://www.linuxuprising.com/2019/11/how-to-show-available-wifi-networks.html

6 years ago

80 upvotes – 27 comments

The Czochralski method for growing single-crystal semiconductors

https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-institute/ieee-history/modern-civilization-relies-on-this-crystalgrowing-method

6 years ago

76 upvotes – 14 comments

Show HN: Microfronts – Front-end solution for running multiple frameworks as one

https://github.com/eavichay/microfronts

6 years ago

★ 319 TypeScript MIT
75 upvotes – 35 comments

Show HN: Notably – a simple tool for sharing markdown notes

https://notably.cc/#/?v=1

6 years ago

74 upvotes – 26 comments

Someone found a way to bypass Windows 7 Extended Security Updates checks

https://www.ghacks.net/2019/12/07/someone-found-a-way-to-bypass-windows-7-extended-security-updates-checks/

6 years ago

74 upvotes – 86 comments

A tale of two covariates: Why OWID and company are wrong about US healthcare

https://randomcriticalanalysis.com/2019/11/07/a-tale-of-two-covariates-why-owid-and-company-are-wrong-about-us-healthcare/

6 years ago

72 upvotes – 73 comments

Finala: A cloud scanner that analyzes wasteful and unused resources

https://github.com/similarweb/finala

6 years ago

★ 734 Go
71 upvotes – 16 comments
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