top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-01-18

Volkswagen exec admits full self-driving cars 'may never happen'

https://www.thedrive.com/tech/31816/key-volkswagen-exec-admits-level-5-autonomous-cars-may-never-happen

6 years ago

486 upvotes – 897 comments

Nototo – Build a unified mental map of notes

https://www.nototo.app/

6 years ago

475 upvotes – 131 comments

Show HN: OneDev – A Lightweight GitLab Alternative

https://github.com/theonedev/onedev

6 years ago

★ 14.9k Java MIT
459 upvotes – 94 comments

Smart homes will turn dumb overnight as Charter kills security service

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/01/smart-homes-will-turn-dumb-overnight-as-charter-kills-security-service/

6 years ago

414 upvotes – 303 comments

Students defeat new 'Barnacle' parking clamp, skip fines and get free internet

https://postmediadriving.wordpress.com/auto-news/news/students-defeat-new-barnacle-parking-boot-skip-fines-and-get-free-internet

6 years ago

410 upvotes – 360 comments

Clearview AI helps law enforcement match photos of people to their online images

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/18/technology/clearview-privacy-facial-recognition.html

6 years ago

369 upvotes – 156 comments

Lisping at JPL (2002)

http://flownet.com/gat/jpl-lisp.html

6 years ago

307 upvotes – 307 comments

Cartridge cannot be used until printer is enrolled in HP Instant Ink

https://twitter.com/ryandonsullivan/status/1218149470220632064

6 years ago

289 upvotes – 163 comments

HTTP static server one-liners

https://gist.github.com/willurd/5720255

6 years ago

286 upvotes – 66 comments

Technical Debt Is Like a Tetris Game

https://www.fluentcpp.com/2020/01/17/technical-debt-is-like-a-tetris-game/

6 years ago

256 upvotes – 118 comments

America’s aggressive use of sanctions endangers the dollar’s reign

https://www.economist.com/briefing/2020/01/18/americas-aggressive-use-of-sanctions-endangers-the-dollars-reign

6 years ago

235 upvotes – 310 comments

Learn to write your first OS kernel (2018)

https://github.com/arjun024/mkernel

6 years ago

★ 1.3k C GPL-2.0
210 upvotes – 12 comments

How Amazon Web Services Uses Formal Methods (2015) [pdf]

https://www.cslab.pepperdine.edu/warford/math221/How-Amazon-Web-Services-Uses-Formal-Methods.pdf

6 years ago

199 upvotes – 28 comments

Data Brokers

https://oag.ca.gov/data-brokers

6 years ago

195 upvotes – 75 comments

Algorithm for Drawing Trees

https://rachel53461.wordpress.com/2014/04/20/algorithm-for-drawing-trees/

6 years ago

189 upvotes – 40 comments

Luhmann's Zettelkasten

https://emvi.com/blog/luhmanns-zettelkasten-a-productivity-tool-that-works-like-your-brain-N9Gd2G4aPv

6 years ago

186 upvotes – 83 comments

The case for cities where you’re a sensor, not a thing to be sensed

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2020/jan/17/the-case-for-cities-where-youre-the-sensor-not-the-thing-being-sensed

6 years ago

184 upvotes – 44 comments

Measure code execution time accurately in Python

https://knasmueller.net/measure-code-execution-time-accurately-in-python

6 years ago

176 upvotes – 60 comments

Show HN: Store your luggage in local shops

http://usebounce.com/

6 years ago

174 upvotes – 179 comments

Barr’s Encryption Push Is Decades in the Making

https://www.wsj.com/articles/barrs-encryption-push-is-decades-in-the-making-but-troubles-some-at-fbi-11579257002

6 years ago

169 upvotes – 181 comments

New suction-cup system spins water to stick to rough surfaces

https://newatlas.com/science/zpd-suction-rough-surfaces/

6 years ago

167 upvotes – 33 comments

California wants to tax companies for executive pay ratio

https://www.foxbusiness.com/money/california-ceo-pay-chief-executive-compensation

6 years ago

163 upvotes – 224 comments

Worrydream Refs

http://worrydream.com/refs/

6 years ago

149 upvotes – 23 comments

Why so many things cost exactly zero

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-12/sunday-strategist-why-so-many-things-cost-exactly-zero

6 years ago

141 upvotes – 179 comments

Ending Legacy Admissions at Johns Hopkins

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/01/why-we-ended-legacy-admissions-johns-hopkins/605131/

6 years ago

140 upvotes – 98 comments

Standalone WebAssembly games using I/O devices

https://medium.com/wasmer/wasmer-io-devices-announcement-6f2a6fe23081

6 years ago

137 upvotes – 128 comments

AlphaFold: Using AI for Scientific Discovery

https://deepmind.com/blog/article/AlphaFold-Using-AI-for-scientific-discovery

6 years ago

136 upvotes – 20 comments

ANSI Common Lisp (1995)

http://www.paulgraham.com/acl.html?viewfullsite=1

6 years ago

129 upvotes – 54 comments

Internet use reduces study skills in university students

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/01/200117085321.htm

6 years ago

121 upvotes – 38 comments

A Sober Look at Bayesian Neural Networks

https://jacobbuckman.com/2020-01-17-a-sober-look-at-bayesian-neural-networks/

6 years ago

113 upvotes – 45 comments

In search of a better job scheduler

https://beepb00p.xyz/scheduler.html

6 years ago

112 upvotes – 29 comments

Principles to help design and deploy a zero trust architecture

https://github.com/ukncsc/zero-trust-architecture

6 years ago

★ 1.6k
112 upvotes – 0 comments

Nothing Changes Until You Do

https://blog.armory.io/nothing-changes-until-you-do/

6 years ago

109 upvotes – 42 comments

A biotechnology dream: nitrogen-fixing cereal crops

http://news.mit.edu/2020/making-real-biotechnology-dream-nitrogen-fixing-cereal-crops-0110

6 years ago

105 upvotes – 95 comments

What the death of iTunes says about digital habits

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/01/how-death-itunes-explains-2010s/604291/

6 years ago

103 upvotes – 112 comments

WinWorld: online museum of vintage, abandoned, and pre-release software

https://winworldpc.com/library/operating-systems

6 years ago

101 upvotes – 26 comments

Hidden Dangers of the Great Index Fund Takeover

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-01-09/the-hidden-dangers-of-the-great-index-fund-takeover

6 years ago

99 upvotes – 89 comments

LISP I Programmer's Manual (1960) [pdf]

http://history.siam.org/sup/Fox_1960_LISP.pdf

6 years ago

95 upvotes – 2 comments

Automatic Differentiation via Contour Integration

https://keplerlounge.com/neural-computation/2020/01/16/complex-auto-diff.html

6 years ago

94 upvotes – 20 comments

Hyundai and Kia back Arrival, a British startup making electric delivery vans

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2020/01/a-100-million-investment-pulls-and-ev-startup-out-of-stealth-mode/

6 years ago

93 upvotes – 41 comments

'Remarkable' MIP*=RE proof describes how to solve seemingly impossible problem

https://gizmodo.com/remarkable-mathematical-proof-describes-how-to-solve-se-1841003769

6 years ago

92 upvotes – 44 comments

Indiana's Oldest State Worker Is Retiring at 102

https://www.npr.org/2020/01/17/797305975/indianas-oldest-state-worker-is-retiring-at-102-i-ve-been-a-pretty-lucky-guy

6 years ago

88 upvotes – 50 comments

Ask HN: Why does anyone still use Medium?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22085649

6 years ago

87 upvotes – 67 comments

The first video of individual atoms bonding and breaking

https://www.inverse.com/article/62367-watch-first-video-of-atoms-bonding-breaking

6 years ago

87 upvotes – 11 comments

Aspects of Categorical Recursion Theory

https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.05778

6 years ago

85 upvotes – 10 comments

New Software Flaw Could Further Delay Boeing’s 737 Max

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-17/new-software-flaw-identified-in-boeing-s-grounded-737-max-jet

6 years ago

81 upvotes – 108 comments

DataHand

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

6 years ago

81 upvotes – 52 comments

Show HN: Google Sheets add-on to compare text, fuzzy-match, highlight duplicates

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22083533

6 years ago

80 upvotes – 27 comments
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