top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-01-17

A Sad Day for Rust

https://words.steveklabnik.com/a-sad-day-for-rust

6 years ago

1243 upvotes – 991 comments

DigitalOcean is laying off staff

https://techcrunch.com/2020/01/17/digitalocean-layoffs/

6 years ago

816 upvotes – 399 comments

An alternative argument for why women leave STEM

https://medium.com/@kjmorenz/is-it-really-just-sexism-an-alternative-argument-for-why-women-leave-stem-cccdf066d8b1

6 years ago

629 upvotes – 700 comments

EU considers temporary ban on facial recognition in public spaces

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-ai/eu-mulls-five-year-ban-on-facial-recognition-tech-in-public-areas-idUSKBN1ZF2QL

6 years ago

591 upvotes – 201 comments

Show HN: ESQLate – Build minimum viable admin panels with just SQL

https://github.com/forbesmyester/esqlate

6 years ago

★ 1.3k JavaScript GPL-3.0
505 upvotes – 79 comments

I've been working on X11 on jailbroken iOS

https://maxleiter.com/X11/

6 years ago

403 upvotes – 87 comments

Startup Ideas 2020

https://dcgross.com/2020-startup-themes/?src=t

6 years ago

359 upvotes – 165 comments

Actix project postmortem

https://github.com/actix/actix-web

6 years ago

★ 24.5k Rust Apache-2.0
338 upvotes – 397 comments

Aussie firefighters save world's only groves of prehistoric Wollemi pines

https://www.npr.org/2020/01/16/796994699/aussie-firefighters-save-worlds-only-groves-of-prehistoric-wollemi-pines

6 years ago

275 upvotes – 100 comments

PopSockets CEO calls out Amazon's tactics before House committee

https://mashable.com/article/amazon-bullying-tactics-popsockets-hearing/

6 years ago

273 upvotes – 178 comments

Boltzmann Brain

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

6 years ago

238 upvotes – 149 comments

Trying out the Pinebook Pro – a $200 ARM Laptop

https://www.jeremymorgan.com/blog/linux/pine64-pro-laptop-review/

6 years ago

237 upvotes – 142 comments

Show HN: 1.5kb Microkernel for Ben Eater's 6502 Computer

https://github.com/janroesner/sixty5o2

6 years ago

★ 422 Assembly MIT
230 upvotes – 34 comments

AirPods Pro owners complain of worse noise cancellation after firmware updates

https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/17/21069953/apple-airpods-pro-noise-cancellation-problems-firmware-2b588-2c54

6 years ago

223 upvotes – 156 comments

Microsoft’s quest to go ‘carbon negative’ inspires $1B fund

https://www.greenbiz.com/article/microsofts-quest-go-carbon-negative-inspires-1b-fund

6 years ago

223 upvotes – 121 comments

Show HN: Pinball Map – user-updated map of public pinball machines

https://pinballmap.com/

6 years ago

203 upvotes – 85 comments

Georgia election server showed signs of tampering, expert says

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/georgia-election-server-showed-signs-tampering-expert-says-n1117441

6 years ago

201 upvotes – 151 comments

Inside the digital clock from a Soyuz spacecraft

http://www.righto.com/2020/01/inside-digital-clock-from-soyuz.html?m=1

6 years ago

196 upvotes – 75 comments

Goodbye, New York, California and Illinois – Hello where?

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-01-09/where-people-leaving-new-york-california-and-illinois-are-going

6 years ago

193 upvotes – 684 comments

Incident: Ethiopian B737 at Dire Dawa on Jan 9th, swarm of grasshoppers

https://avherald.com/h?article=4d1de8cc&opt=1

6 years ago

188 upvotes – 85 comments

Software certifications; a waste of time and money (2018)

https://tomaytotomato.com/certs-waste-of-time/

6 years ago

174 upvotes – 99 comments

'Break up big tech's monopoly': Smaller rivals join growing chorus

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tech-antitrust/break-up-big-techs-monopoly-smaller-rivals-join-growing-chorus-ahead-of-congress-hearing-idUSKBN1ZG17J

6 years ago

168 upvotes – 151 comments

U.S. job openings post biggest drop in more than four years

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-economy-jobs/u-s-job-openings-post-biggest-drop-in-more-than-four-years-idUSKBN1ZG1V0

6 years ago

163 upvotes – 260 comments

Vaping-related lung injuries primarily linked to black-market products

https://cei.org/blog/cdc-confirms-black-markets-not-%E2%80%9Cvaping%E2%80%9D-caused-outbreak%C2%A0

6 years ago

161 upvotes – 81 comments

DuckDuckGo Lite

https://duckduckgo.com/lite/

6 years ago

156 upvotes – 62 comments

What Unix Cost Us [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-IWMbJXoLM

6 years ago

152 upvotes – 90 comments

Microsoft Project Verona: Research programming language for concurrent ownership

https://github.com/microsoft/verona

6 years ago

★ 3.7k C++ MIT
142 upvotes – 16 comments

A new browsing experience arrives in Firefox for Android Nightly

https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2020/01/17/a-brand-new-browsing-experience-arrives-in-firefox-for-android-nightly/

6 years ago

138 upvotes – 148 comments

Bring your monorepo down to size with sparse-checkout

https://github.blog/2020-01-17-bring-your-monorepo-down-to-size-with-sparse-checkout/

6 years ago

137 upvotes – 64 comments

A new obstacle to landing a job after college: getting approved by AI

https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/15/tech/ai-job-interview/index.html

6 years ago

136 upvotes – 120 comments

Efforts to change the Japanese culture of extreme work weeks

https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20200114-how-the-japanese-are-putting-an-end-to-death-from-overwork

6 years ago

132 upvotes – 114 comments

Why we’re writing machine learning infrastructure in Go, not Python

https://towardsdatascience.com/why-were-writing-machine-learning-infrastructure-in-go-not-python-38d6a37e2d76

6 years ago

130 upvotes – 74 comments

Gathering Intel on Intel AVX-512 Transitions

https://travisdowns.github.io/blog/2020/01/17/avxfreq1.html

6 years ago

126 upvotes – 48 comments

Why is quicksort better than other sorting algorithms in practice? (2013)

https://cs.stackexchange.com/questions/3/why-is-quicksort-better-than-other-sorting-algorithms-in-practice

6 years ago

117 upvotes – 63 comments

Animation shows the temperature change by country from year 1880 to 2019

https://twitter.com/anttilip/status/1217529718938820610

6 years ago

116 upvotes – 79 comments

EU mulls five-year ban on facial recognition tech in public areas

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-ai/eu-mulls-five-year-ban-on-facial-recognition-tech-in-public-areas-idUSKBN1ZF2QL

6 years ago

116 upvotes – 2 comments

L.A.'s Lost Transit

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2020/1/17/las-lost-transit

6 years ago

114 upvotes – 68 comments

Questions I would ask God about the game of Go

http://fuseki.net/home/QuestionsIwouldaskGodaboutthegameofgo.html

6 years ago

111 upvotes – 130 comments

Superhuman and the Productivity Meta-Layer

https://julian.digital/2020/01/17/superhuman-the-productivity-meta-layer/

6 years ago

98 upvotes – 18 comments

Google offers certificate to help IT career growth

https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/grow-with-google/new-certificate-help-people-grow-careers

6 years ago

95 upvotes – 75 comments

Concrete Semantics

http://www.concrete-semantics.org/

6 years ago

94 upvotes – 17 comments

The phases product teams go through

https://firstround.com/review/how-to-craft-your-product-team-at-every-stage-from-pre-product-market-fit-to-hypergrowth/

6 years ago

88 upvotes – 20 comments

Toronto is surveillance capitalism’s new frontier

https://torontolife.com/city/toronto-is-surveillance-capitalisms-new-frontier/

6 years ago

87 upvotes – 30 comments

The Perils of Constant Feedback

https://tjcx.me/posts/perils-constant-feedback/

6 years ago

79 upvotes – 21 comments

Caltrain Vibration and Volatility Analysis

https://www.nathanblack.me/post/caltrain-vibration-and-volatility-analysis

6 years ago

76 upvotes – 63 comments

Using Standard HTML (1997)

https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/Standards.html

6 years ago

72 upvotes – 35 comments

Comments on the MISRA C coding guidelines (2011)

http://www.knosof.co.uk/misracom.html

6 years ago

69 upvotes – 38 comments
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