top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-12-23

Downsides to working at a tech giant

https://blog.garrytan.com/working-for-microsoft-cost-me-200-dollars-million

6 years ago

700 upvotes – 559 comments

Boeing CEO ousted as 737 Max crisis deepens

https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-boeing-737-max-ceo/boeing-ceo-ousted-as-737-max-crisis-deepens-idUKKBN1YR1FP

6 years ago

659 upvotes – 609 comments

Working for a startup makes less sense

https://zainamro.com/notes/working-for-a-startup-makes-less-sense

6 years ago

572 upvotes – 378 comments

Lilith: x86-64 OS written in Crystal

https://github.com/ffwff/lilith

6 years ago

★ 1.1k Crystal
542 upvotes – 251 comments

Ask HN: Haven't worked for a while, best guide/advice to start a hobby project?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21861412

6 years ago

407 upvotes – 141 comments

WTFPython – Understanding Python through surprising snippets

https://github.com/satwikkansal/wtfpython/blob/master/README.md

6 years ago

★ 36.9k Python WTFPL
396 upvotes – 185 comments

How to undo almost anything with Git (2015)

https://github.blog/2015-06-08-how-to-undo-almost-anything-with-git/

6 years ago

372 upvotes – 79 comments

Ram Dass has died

https://tricycle.org/trikedaily/ram-dass-dies/

6 years ago

372 upvotes – 192 comments

Open-Source Spotify App

https://github.com/ThasianX/SpotifyDaily

6 years ago

★ 646 Swift MIT
345 upvotes – 110 comments

Typing inside of the default WSL terminal feels amazing (2018)

https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/327

6 years ago

★ 102.9k C++ MIT
332 upvotes – 117 comments

Evolutionary history and why physical activity is important for brain health

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-your-brain-needs-exercise/

6 years ago

284 upvotes – 123 comments

A Navy Seal's Semester at Yale, at Age 52

https://gen.medium.com/my-semester-with-the-snowflakes-888285f0e662

6 years ago

265 upvotes – 177 comments

How to Create the Apple Fifth Avenue Cube in WebGL

https://tympanus.net/codrops/2019/12/20/how-to-create-the-apple-fifth-avenue-cube-in-webgl/

6 years ago

253 upvotes – 23 comments

Learn Rust the Dangerous Way

http://cliffle.com/p/dangerust/

6 years ago

239 upvotes – 23 comments

Many Japanese children refuse to go to school

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-50693777

6 years ago

228 upvotes – 245 comments

Post-Mortem for Bra Theory

http://bratheory.com/hiatus/

6 years ago

216 upvotes – 50 comments

Million WebSockets and Go (2017)

https://gbws.io/articles/million-websocket-and-go/

6 years ago

210 upvotes – 34 comments

Story of Odoo: Open-Sourced Competitor to Oracle, SAP

https://breakoutstartups.substack.com/p/breakout-startups-24-odoo

6 years ago

195 upvotes – 74 comments

Researchers have identified 100 mysteriously disappeared stars in the night sky

https://www.sciencealert.com/a-look-through-past-star-catalogues-finds-scores-of-stars-that-have-mysteriously-vanished

6 years ago

189 upvotes – 172 comments

Simpler UI Logic With Finite State Machines

https://terodox.tech/ui-state-machines/

6 years ago

185 upvotes – 53 comments

ToTok, an Emirati messaging app, is the latest escalation of a digital arms race

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/22/us/politics/totok-app-uae.html

6 years ago

165 upvotes – 140 comments

Bazel 2.0

https://blog.bazel.build/2019/12/19/bazel-2.0.html

6 years ago

160 upvotes – 113 comments

The World of Statecharts

https://statecharts.github.io/

6 years ago

142 upvotes – 29 comments

Tesla's stock just hit a record $420

https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/23/investing/tesla-stock-420/index.html

6 years ago

137 upvotes – 93 comments

Open letter concerning Facebook's proposals to apply end-to-end encryption

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/open-letter-to-mark-zuckerberg

6 years ago

136 upvotes – 133 comments

The Hottest New Thing in Seasteading Is Land

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-12-20/silicon-valley-seasteaders-go-looking-for-low-tax-sites-on-land

6 years ago

129 upvotes – 255 comments

Windows 0-day exploit used in Operation WizardOpium

https://securelist.com/windows-0-day-exploit-cve-2019-1458-used-in-operation-wizardopium/95432/

6 years ago

128 upvotes – 23 comments

Randomize HN: Removing the vote threshold for getting to the front page

https://danluu.com/randomize-hn/

6 years ago

117 upvotes – 54 comments

Beyond L2 Loss – How We Experiment with Loss Functions

https://eng.lyft.com/beyond-l2-loss-how-we-experiment-with-loss-functions-at-lyft-51f9303f5d2d

6 years ago

115 upvotes – 3 comments

Mike Bloomberg is plowing millions of dollars into a secretive tech firm

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/23/mike-bloomberg-campaign-uses-tech-firm-he-founded-earlier-this-year.html

6 years ago

114 upvotes – 82 comments

France to Raise Pollution Tax on SUVs and Trucks to €22k

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-12-20/france-sharpens-offensive-against-suvs-by-raising-penalties

6 years ago

109 upvotes – 115 comments

Kutt – a modern, open-source URL shortener

https://github.com/thedevs-network/kutt

6 years ago

★ 10.7k JavaScript MIT
109 upvotes – 58 comments

The Year in Biology

https://www.quantamagazine.org/quantas-year-in-biology-2019-20191223/

6 years ago

107 upvotes – 2 comments

Work Shorter Hours in Winter

https://www.wired.com/story/science-explains-why-we-should-work-shorter-hours-winter/

6 years ago

106 upvotes – 35 comments

Target=“_blank” – the most underestimated vulnerability ever

https://www.jitbit.com/alexblog/256-targetblank---the-most-underestimated-vulnerability-ever/

6 years ago

105 upvotes – 13 comments

Chernobyl Dice: A quantum random number generator with a Nixie tube display

https://github.com/nategri/chernobyl_dice

6 years ago

★ 197 C++ MIT
105 upvotes – 31 comments

How Crisco Made Americans Believers in Industrial Food

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/how-crisco-made-americans-believers-industrial-food-180973845/

6 years ago

104 upvotes – 185 comments

Reviewing Bad Schematics as EE Interview Tactic

https://cushychicken.github.io/bad-schematic-interviews/

6 years ago

104 upvotes – 107 comments

For Her Head Cold, Insurer Coughed Up $25,865

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/12/23/787403509/for-her-head-cold-insurer-coughed-up-25-865?t=1577125419719

6 years ago

98 upvotes – 131 comments

Scratch that: Cats film to be 'resupplied' with 'improved visuals'

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/dec/23/cats-film-resupplied-improved-visuals

6 years ago

97 upvotes – 188 comments

All I want for Christmas is to sign in with Apple

https://viorel.me/2019/all-i-want-for-christmas-is-sign-in-with-apple/

6 years ago

92 upvotes – 81 comments

The Periodic Table of Videos

http://www.periodicvideos.com/

6 years ago

89 upvotes – 6 comments

Jarvis, an Alfred Alternative for Windows

https://github.com/spectresystems/jarvis

6 years ago

★ 647 C# MIT
89 upvotes – 53 comments

The Nightjet: A Big Bet on Train Travelers Who Take It Slow

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/23/business/overnight-train-austria.html

6 years ago

87 upvotes – 51 comments

To stop pancreatic cancer from spreading, cut out the chatter

https://massivesci.com/articles/cancer-pancreas-trebek-crispr-organ-chip-diseases/

6 years ago

85 upvotes – 6 comments

Design APIs: The Evolution of Design Systems

https://matthewstrom.com/writing/design-apis/

6 years ago

84 upvotes – 11 comments

Wolf 359

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_359

6 years ago

84 upvotes – 49 comments

HyperbolaBSD Roadmap: hard fork of the OpenBSD kernel and userspace

https://www.hyperbola.info/news/announcing-hyperbolabsd-roadmap/

6 years ago

83 upvotes – 112 comments

Particle Filter

https://leimao.github.io/project/Particle-Filter/

6 years ago

78 upvotes – 19 comments

Dickbars and Other Readability Excrement (2017)

http://shindoisshin.net/blog/dickbars-and-other-readability-excrement

6 years ago

73 upvotes – 49 comments

Deploying Authoritative OCaml-DNS Servers as MirageOS Unikernels

https://hannes.nqsb.io/Posts/DnsServer

6 years ago

72 upvotes – 1 comments

Learning Morse code in the 21st century

https://airfactsjournal.com/2019/12/learning-morse-code-in-the-21st-century/

6 years ago

72 upvotes – 36 comments

Indoor CO2 could cut our capacity for complex, strategic thinking: study

https://news.yahoo.com/carbon-dioxide-homes-offices-classrooms-131700552.html

6 years ago

69 upvotes – 55 comments
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