top 20 hacker news stories for 2020-01-11

Goodbye, Clean Code

https://overreacted.io/goodbye-clean-code/

6 years ago

1678 upvotes – 575 comments

Ask HN: What has your work taught you that other people don't realize?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22018946

6 years ago

698 upvotes – 727 comments

Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017)

http://johnsalvatier.org/blog/2017/reality-has-a-surprising-amount-of-detail

6 years ago

498 upvotes – 115 comments

Medications that change who we are

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200108-the-medications-that-change-who-we-are

6 years ago

419 upvotes – 274 comments

Why I Quit Using Google

https://www.kylepiira.com/2020/01/09/why-i-quit-google/

6 years ago

378 upvotes – 170 comments

HTML attributes to improve your users' two factor authentication experience

https://www.twilio.com/blog/html-attributes-two-factor-authentication-autocomplete

6 years ago

357 upvotes – 81 comments

A Man Who’s Spending $1B to Own Every Pop Song

https://marker.medium.com/the-man-whos-spending-1-billion-to-own-every-pop-song-75df0024155b

6 years ago

350 upvotes – 231 comments

A billion medical images are exposed online

https://techcrunch.com/2020/01/10/medical-images-exposed-pacs/

6 years ago

350 upvotes – 189 comments

Haters

http://paulgraham.com/fh.html

6 years ago

321 upvotes – 295 comments

How to make roguelike games in Rust

http://bfnightly.bracketproductions.com/rustbook/

6 years ago

301 upvotes – 74 comments

Lyft’s algorithm is trying to block people with names like ‘Dick’ and ‘Cummings’

https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/19/21030601/lyft-algorithm-block-names-inappropriate-obscene

6 years ago

281 upvotes – 286 comments

OpenBSD won't update Firefox, advises users to switch to ESR

https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20200109141600

6 years ago

247 upvotes – 335 comments

A calculator for the Terminal that renders beautiful math

https://kary.us/nota/

6 years ago

245 upvotes – 84 comments

Pijul: a distributed version control system, written in Rust (2019)

https://nest.pijul.com/pijul_org/pijul

6 years ago

238 upvotes – 122 comments

We’re approaching the limits of computer power – we need new programmers

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jan/11/we-are-approaching-the-limits-of-computer-power-we-need-new-programmers-n-ow

6 years ago

227 upvotes – 255 comments

Scientists Use Recycled Sewage Water to Grow 500-Acre Forest in the Desert

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/using-sewage-water-to-grow-trees-in-egyptian-desert/

6 years ago

222 upvotes – 84 comments

OpenWrt 19.07

https://openwrt.org/releases/19.07/notes-19.07.0

6 years ago

208 upvotes – 116 comments

Blake3 is 10 times faster than SHA-2

https://nextjournal.com/mk/BLAKE3

6 years ago

198 upvotes – 159 comments

Day of week of procedure and 30 day mortality for elective surgery (2013)

https://www.bmj.com/content/346/bmj.f2424

6 years ago

188 upvotes – 83 comments

A game theorist breaks down the effects of inequality

http://nautil.us/issue/79/catalysts/how-the-rich-imperil-cooperation

6 years ago

149 upvotes – 90 comments
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