top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-01-19

Crew Dragon launch escape demonstration

https://www.spacex.com/webcast?20200119

6 years ago

721 upvotes – 328 comments

Ask HN: What are the best unknown books you have read?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22092108

6 years ago

613 upvotes – 388 comments

Show HN: A set of standard document templates

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22091603

6 years ago

433 upvotes – 34 comments

Dynamic type systems are not inherently more open

https://lexi-lambda.github.io/blog/2020/01/19/no-dynamic-type-systems-are-not-inherently-more-open/

6 years ago

382 upvotes – 275 comments

How is search so bad? A case study

https://svilentodorov.xyz/blog/bad-search/

6 years ago

319 upvotes – 396 comments

Why build this blog, or anything, on IPFS?

http://teetotality.blog/posts/why-ipfs/

6 years ago

302 upvotes – 148 comments

The Polygons of Another World: Super Nintendo

http://fabiensanglard.net/another_world_polygons_SNES/index.html

6 years ago

282 upvotes – 46 comments

Demoscene, the secret behind Finnish game industry

https://www.janipenttinen.com/post/who-is-jani-penttinen-the-game-developer

6 years ago

254 upvotes – 63 comments

It costs $10k to ‘own’ a Chick-fil-A franchise

https://thehustle.co/why-it-only-costs-10k-to-own-a-chick-fil-a-franchise/

6 years ago

248 upvotes – 214 comments

Yukihiro Matsumoto: “Ruby is designed for humans, not machines”

https://evrone.com/yukihiro-matsumoto-interview

6 years ago

248 upvotes – 174 comments

C++ coroutines: Initial implementation pushed to master

https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2020-01/msg01096.html

6 years ago

231 upvotes – 169 comments

Ask HN: What's the fastest tool for basic CRUD?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22091012

6 years ago

224 upvotes – 112 comments

Show HN: Proton Native V2 – Create Cross Platform Desktop Apps with React

https://proton-native.js.org/#/v2_changes?

6 years ago

222 upvotes – 34 comments

San Diego Awarded GE Mass Surveillance Contract Without Oversight

https://californiaglobe.com/section-2/city-of-san-diego-awarded-ge-mass-surveillance-contract-without-oversight/

6 years ago

212 upvotes – 56 comments

Ask HN: Courses/resources to improve my self-esteem and believe in myself more?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22092303

6 years ago

198 upvotes – 131 comments

3Blue1Brown and the Beauty of Mathematics [video]

https://lexfridman.com/grant-sanderson/

6 years ago

187 upvotes – 21 comments

SoftICE

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

6 years ago

168 upvotes – 82 comments

Staff emails claim Boeing 777X ‘shares Max problem’

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2020/01/18/staff-emails-claim-boeing-777x-shares-max-problem/

6 years ago

159 upvotes – 79 comments

Reformer, the Efficient Transformer

https://ai.googleblog.com/2020/01/reformer-efficient-transformer.html

6 years ago

158 upvotes – 43 comments

Femtolisp: A lightweight, robust, scheme-like Lisp implementation

https://github.com/JeffBezanson/femtolisp

6 years ago

146 upvotes – 60 comments

A game in a pure language (part 1): introduction and problems with Idris

https://flowing.systems/2020/01/13/a-game-in-a-pure-language-part-1-introduction-and-problems-with-idris.html

6 years ago

144 upvotes – 58 comments

Let People Move to Jobs

https://www.jefftk.com/p/let-people-move-to-jobs

6 years ago

134 upvotes – 302 comments

Maine's giant spinning ice disc looks like it's reforming

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jan/19/maines-giant-spinning-ice-disc-looks-like-its-reforming

6 years ago

127 upvotes – 70 comments

How refactoring a macro reduced my Rust project build time from 4 hours to 40sec

https://users.rust-lang.org/t/5-hours-to-compile-macro-what-can-i-do/36508

6 years ago

124 upvotes – 23 comments

Postdoc Myths

https://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/srk21/blog/2019/12/02/#postdoc-myths

6 years ago

123 upvotes – 69 comments

Statecharts: A visual formalism for complex systems [pdf]

https://pdf.sciencedirectassets.com/271600/1-s2.0-S0167642300X00603/1-s2.0-0167642387900359/main.pdf?X-Amz-Security-Token=IQoJb3JpZ2luX2VjEFMaCXVzLWVhc3QtMSJHMEUCIHucfbZrX7uhXZ6g7sPgeMz%2FaNK8vVrrniEMDHpdj8oNAiEA6MndWhkJGxvkmaBiFCeBzAK8i6Cp3TYJ7CUjTsn8%2BZAqvQMI2%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2FARACGgwwNTkwMDM1NDY4NjUiDHtJBwUuEOSOkHMD3SqRA96cbj%2B8pFDILB37hoRQqXwXlDLo8cHbqg0DGazBqN3JluH39kLyJ1W2RJQoGYpX56pTvygrv4YsmAXA1XCZTAuUirLwKenI%2BIsuSvZGZhSsxj4nXfoxMdAN0QR9of4WPEUXcvHVlDAcA9w6PhSwE7JDmlnXjC1uHQv6PaTKtvDjTCN7GN2%2F5XUz6UCLJys6Eh3QS7WVur%2BsbY7j5lmSeYVu9%2B%2Bvv1OUaiNvZtDnwowqdMg8MWvmHPgaH1Jw6cnAMJ1twKOJ8pqzN1CB5oUXnca80zNXC8Ll3APvzG6f7FI2YLgaZxY%2FHlS7EMlsg460PYvobzODr7a3vRypr66OmazUfN0QjM%2BPQbx1DT4UbXX6aNwidCuDcVCnGO93PoZI52P5Xm0ayR1Utss69TsbyCIE5ASfHuSo0bhfJ69rmf2Ym5JyoFZLNVsHiM%2F0EENB53XjBVN5NTtRhwFD%2FxDym2YahTATsI6xRuCNJ67i0UMy2Aq42t8dBPXLiqIrmSircIutZu1A49SZ0l4lrKqB7VtBMNq0kvEFOusBDAkKvoIobf3FXFYCuGor2dslmz5yLUJOTxwb1331nvlXFbHzlvOUSJIWiDG5lM17hzUSHLl%2FIAM1iiWxq0nVqv4uljwXAAVeEoe787L%2BEZ8mTCdbu6aefx4r0keotVqaBRfbd7XZVKsve9eKtM9aXLBOUzxCdkhuRniZo7qsCL83oN%2FUTGSDpp4p6%2BYwNvTTWWL%2BxwV55vZ8eAKvGmmEQKwXDGORuDFjI9pNxBdLUbC%2FyquaoznQS8iKExy7wXK8Fk7lSlX7%2FJmy7ln06LKznS67jqjP8HhRDwkNT9U1PXBvirn2VuDq56TIPA%3D%3D&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Date=20200119T190111Z&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Expires=300&X-Amz-Credential=ASIAQ3PHCVTY6PFD5VUW%2F20200119%2Fus-east-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Signature=738a6e6dbcba7354b3d02a0a79babfc6e9ce15f1af6820d23723ec7d54af3d25&hash=e57859694f003430965ce27a8e30172bba2e37086eb1109895ff6d2b1994196d&host=68042c943591013ac2b2430a89b270f6af2c76d8dfd086a07176afe7c76c2c61&pii=0167642387900359&tid=spdf-faed9d06-b6a0-45ae-80df-50bb31c923d9&sid=383795ee78944049719af099d4b4b2255614gxrqb&type=client

6 years ago

121 upvotes – 20 comments

Brandchirps – Simple Brand Monitoring

https://brandchirps.com/

6 years ago

121 upvotes – 85 comments

Fedora CoreOS Out of Preview

https://fedoramagazine.org/fedora-coreos-out-of-preview/

6 years ago

121 upvotes – 71 comments

The Email Zuckerberg Sent to Cut His Cofounder Out of Facebook (2012)

https://www.businessinsider.com/exclusive-heres-the-email-zuckerberg-sent-to-cut-his-cofounder-out-of-facebook-2012-5

6 years ago

109 upvotes – 39 comments

Sonant: A tool for creating generative music based on random walks

https://sonant.generated.space

6 years ago

106 upvotes – 19 comments

World’s Shortest Wavelength Laser Diode Emits Deep UV Light at Room Temperature

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.7567/1882-0786/ab50e0

6 years ago

101 upvotes – 64 comments

Software is a focus intensive industry

https://redbeardlab.com/2020/01/19/software-is-a-focus-intensive-industry/

6 years ago

100 upvotes – 26 comments

What Is Color Management?

https://partnerhelp.netflixstudios.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025502033-What-is-Color-Management-

6 years ago

99 upvotes – 11 comments

Variations on symmetric nearest neighbour smoothing

https://observablehq.com/@jobleonard/symmetric-nearest-neighbour-all-the-things

6 years ago

92 upvotes – 12 comments

Show HN: YouTube-dl wrapper with added features to easily manage YouTube audio

https://github.com/pseudoroot/yt-audio

6 years ago

91 upvotes – 44 comments

Japan’s 99% Conviction Rate [audio]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p080pgdy

6 years ago

90 upvotes – 98 comments

Leading Projects – As a Software Engineer

https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/how-to-lead-a-project-in-software-development/

6 years ago

83 upvotes – 17 comments

Boeing's safety vs. cost-control culture may be what sent out fatal aircraft

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/boeing-fifth-estate-costs-safety-1.5426571

6 years ago

82 upvotes – 25 comments
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