top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-01-06

Products I Wish Existed

http://blog.eladgil.com/2020/01/products-i-wish-existed-2020-edition.html

6 years ago

798 upvotes – 419 comments

Top Paying Tech Companies by SWE Level

https://drive.google.com/file/d/19ne7ccUdOWewD4rFDQjjnQEJDgsmgFID/view

6 years ago

792 upvotes – 589 comments

For tech-weary Midwest farmers, 40-year-old tractors now a hot commodity

http://www.startribune.com/for-tech-weary-midwest-farmers-40-year-old-tractors-now-a-hot-commodity/566737082/

6 years ago

701 upvotes – 494 comments

Evidence that the key assumption made in discovery of dark energy is in error

https://phys.org/news/2020-01-evidence-key-assumption-discovery-dark.html

6 years ago

486 upvotes – 286 comments

C Compiler from Scratch

https://github.com/DoctorWkt/acwj

6 years ago

★ 13.2k C GPL-3.0
484 upvotes – 67 comments

The McDonnell Douglas-Boeing merger led to the 737 Max crisis

https://qz.com/1776080/how-the-mcdonnell-douglas-boeing-merger-led-to-the-737-max-crisis/

6 years ago

450 upvotes – 281 comments

AMD Ryzen 4000 Mobile APUs

https://www.anandtech.com/show/15324/amd-ryzen-4000-mobile-apus-7nm-8core-on-both-15w-and-45w-coming-q1

6 years ago

432 upvotes – 307 comments

New Cambridge Analytica Leaks

https://techcrunch.com/2020/01/06/facebook-data-misuse-and-voter-manipulation-back-in-the-frame-with-latest-cambridge-analytica-leaks/

6 years ago

404 upvotes – 193 comments

Renowned Entomologist Says ‘Get Rid of Your Lawn’

https://news.wttw.com/2019/10/02/fearing-insect-apocalypse-renowned-entomologist-says-get-rid-your-lawn

6 years ago

393 upvotes – 323 comments

People Who Are Obsessed with Success and Prestige

https://www.bennettnotes.com/post/obsessed-with-success-and-prestige/

6 years ago

378 upvotes – 350 comments

Hobby x86 kernel written with Zig

https://github.com/jzck/kernel-zig

6 years ago

★ 437 Zig
355 upvotes – 223 comments

Donald Knuth: Algorithms, Complexity, Life, and the Art of Programming [video]

https://youtube.com/watch?list=PLrAXtmErZgOdP_8GztsuKi9nrraNbKKp4&v=2BdBfsXbST8

6 years ago

355 upvotes – 72 comments

Let me give you a list of the top scams coding bootcamps use to steal your money

https://twitter.com/lzsthw/status/1212284566431576069

6 years ago

331 upvotes – 183 comments

Better protecting kids’ privacy on YouTube

https://youtube.googleblog.com/2020/01/better-protecting-kids-privacy-on-YouTube.html

6 years ago

277 upvotes – 357 comments

SoftBank has walked away from startups, months after submitting term sheets

https://www.axios.com/softbank-walk-away-startups-honor-creator-seismic-8d4adc0c-dcfb-42d3-982e-f422a9963be8.html

6 years ago

274 upvotes – 124 comments

A harassment campaign on Goodreads

https://www.patreon.com/posts/32921860

6 years ago

270 upvotes – 175 comments

Always Review Your Dependencies, AGPL Edition

https://www.agwa.name/blog/post/always_review_your_dependencies

6 years ago

253 upvotes – 228 comments

Clojure for the Erlang VM

http://clojerl.org/

6 years ago

242 upvotes – 49 comments

Is Git Irreplaceable? (2019)

https://fossil-scm.org/forum/forumpost/b251b6e48e

6 years ago

240 upvotes – 550 comments

Wi-Fi Alliance Brings Wi-Fi 6 into 6 GHz

https://www.wi-fi.org/news-events/newsroom/wi-fi-alliance-brings-wi-fi-6-into-6-ghz

6 years ago

225 upvotes – 202 comments

ClickHouse cost-efficiency in action: analyzing 500B rows on an Intel NUC

https://www.altinity.com/blog/2020/1/1/clickhouse-cost-efficiency-in-action-analyzing-500-billion-rows-on-an-intel-nuc

6 years ago

216 upvotes – 86 comments

Let the Compiler Do the Work

http://cliffle.com/p/dangerust/6/

6 years ago

213 upvotes – 60 comments

California Sues Vinod Khosla over Martins Beach Public Access

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-01-06/martins-beach-california-lawsuit

6 years ago

209 upvotes – 244 comments

CalVer: Calendar Versioning

https://calver.org/

6 years ago

194 upvotes – 99 comments

Go Things I Love: Channels and Goroutines

https://www.justindfuller.com/2020/01/go-things-i-love-channels-and-goroutines/

6 years ago

192 upvotes – 69 comments

Dealing with Loneliness

https://manojsurya.com/loneliness-how-to-identify-and-deal-with-it/

6 years ago

191 upvotes – 142 comments

Anna Wiener on her book “Uncanny Valley”

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jan/06/anna-wiener-uncanny-valley-silicon-technology-political-surveillance

6 years ago

190 upvotes – 131 comments

Why is Wednesday, November 17, 1858 the base time for OpenVMS?

https://www.slac.stanford.edu/~rkj/crazytime.txt

6 years ago

188 upvotes – 67 comments

Why I use R

https://blog.shotwell.ca/posts/why_i_use_r/

6 years ago

185 upvotes – 117 comments

How to be successful (at your career, Twitter edition)

https://twitter.com/sama/status/1214274038933020672

6 years ago

170 upvotes – 83 comments

Ouster's new digital Lidar – 128 beams, ultra-wide view

https://ouster.com/blog/128-channel-lidar-sensors-long-range-and-ultra-wide-view/

6 years ago

168 upvotes – 118 comments

Nestur: NES Emulator in Rust

https://github.com/spieglt/nestur

6 years ago

★ 545 Rust
153 upvotes – 52 comments

Hopefully fair performance reviews for software developers

https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/performance-reviews-for-software-engineers/

6 years ago

141 upvotes – 113 comments

Linus Torvalds: Linux Scheduler Not to Blame for Google Stadia Port Issues

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/linus-torvalds-linux-scheduler-not-to-blame-for-google-stadia-port-issues

6 years ago

131 upvotes – 136 comments

Peak map: Visualize the elevation of any area using a ridgeline chart

https://github.com/anvaka/peak-map

6 years ago

★ 636 JavaScript MIT
127 upvotes – 67 comments

A Response to Hello World in Go

http://www.doxsey.net/blog/a-response-to-hello-world

6 years ago

127 upvotes – 40 comments

2019 in Review

https://rauchg.com/2020/2019-in-review

6 years ago

124 upvotes – 31 comments

Pre-Inca canal system uses hillsides as sponges to store water

https://eos.org/articles/pre-inca-canal-system-uses-hillsides-as-sponges-to-store-water

6 years ago

118 upvotes – 20 comments

Benchmarking shell pipelines and the Unix “tools” philosophy

https://blog.plover.com/Unix/tools.html

6 years ago

112 upvotes – 63 comments

Store the proof of a webpage saved with SingleFile in Bitcoin

https://blog.woleet.io/woleet-singlefile-extension-bitcoin-proof/

6 years ago

107 upvotes – 77 comments

Technical Debt in Machine Learning Systems (2015) [pdf]

http://papers.nips.cc/paper/5656-hidden-technical-debt-in-machine-learning-systems.pdf

6 years ago

107 upvotes – 5 comments

Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters: Time Series

https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/billions/time-series

6 years ago

103 upvotes – 49 comments

A Hidden Cost of Ransomware: Wholesale Password Theft

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/01/the-hidden-cost-of-ransomware-wholesale-password-theft/

6 years ago

102 upvotes – 43 comments

15ft tumbleweeds trap drivers and force Washington state road closure

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jan/01/tumbleweeds-trap-drivers-force-road-closure-washington

6 years ago

99 upvotes – 57 comments

US Pressed Dutch Gov over ASML Sale

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-asml-holding-usa-china-insight/trump-administration-pressed-dutch-hard-to-cancel-china-chip-equipment-sale-sources-idUSKBN1Z50HN

6 years ago

97 upvotes – 67 comments

Nine States Face Economic Contraction, Most Since 2009 Crisis

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-02/nine-states-face-economic-contraction-most-since-2009-crisis

6 years ago

97 upvotes – 97 comments

Shutdown of US coal power facilities saved over 26k lives, study finds

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jan/06/coal-power-pollution-gas-saved-lives-study

6 years ago

94 upvotes – 52 comments
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