top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-01-30

Not everyone has an internal monologue

https://ryanandrewlangdon.wordpress.com/2020/01/28/today-i-learned-that-not-everyone-has-an-internal-monologue-and-it-has-ruined-my-day/

6 years ago

1225 upvotes – 876 comments

Monoliths Are the Future

https://changelog.com/posts/monoliths-are-the-future

6 years ago

1065 upvotes – 552 comments

Apple delivers a new redesigned Maps for users in the United States

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/01/apple-delivers-a-new-redesigned-maps-for-all-users-in-the-united-states/

6 years ago

582 upvotes – 462 comments

Sovereign: Ansible playbooks to build and maintain your own private cloud

https://github.com/sovereign/sovereign

6 years ago

556 upvotes – 140 comments

WHO declares coronavirus outbreak a public health emergency

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/who-reconvenes-assess-latest-coronavirus-1.5445775

6 years ago

495 upvotes – 439 comments

Charges dropped against pentesters paid to break into Iowa courthouse

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/01/criminal-charges-dropped-against-2-pentesters-who-broke-into-iowa-courthouse/

6 years ago

493 upvotes – 114 comments

Command-line tools can be faster than a Hadoop cluster (2014)

https://adamdrake.com/command-line-tools-can-be-235x-faster-than-your-hadoop-cluster.html

6 years ago

463 upvotes – 253 comments

Tell HN: Mailgun lowers free-tier API from 10k to 625 emails per month

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22192543

6 years ago

422 upvotes – 255 comments

Andrei Tarkovsky’s Message to the Young: “Learn to Be Alone” (2015)

http://www.openculture.com/2015/03/andrei-tarkovskys-message-to-young-people.html

6 years ago

349 upvotes – 91 comments

Let's Destroy C

https://gist.github.com/shakna-israel/4fd31ee469274aa49f8f9793c3e71163#lets-destroy-c

6 years ago

348 upvotes – 184 comments

Sun's surface seen in new detail

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-51305216

6 years ago

336 upvotes – 91 comments

Lenovo now shipping Ubuntu on high end workstations in the US

https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/think-workstations/thinkstation-p-series-towers/ThinkStation-P520/p/33TS3TPP520

6 years ago

308 upvotes – 123 comments

How to Find New Music

https://www.solfej.io/blog/how-to-find-new-music

6 years ago

301 upvotes – 266 comments

California's housing bill SB 50 has died in the state Senate

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/01/30/californias-controversial-housing-bill-sb-50-fails/4614387002/

6 years ago

289 upvotes – 439 comments

The spine of San Francisco is now car-free

https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2020/01/market-street-car-free-san-francisco-bike-lanes-transit/605674/

6 years ago

249 upvotes – 318 comments

Standardizing OpenAI’s deep learning framework on PyTorch

https://openai.com/blog/openai-pytorch/

6 years ago

242 upvotes – 116 comments

Fancy Clojure REPL

https://asciinema.org/a/296507

6 years ago

240 upvotes – 52 comments

The Rust Compilation Model Calamity

https://pingcap.com/blog/rust-compilation-model-calamity/

6 years ago

236 upvotes – 176 comments

Lungs heal damage from smoking

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-51279355

6 years ago

233 upvotes – 153 comments

A guide to freelancing in Finland

https://github.com/sam-hosseini/freelancing-in-finland

6 years ago

230 upvotes – 147 comments

Facebook PHP Source Code from August 2007

https://gist.github.com/nikcub/3833406

6 years ago

229 upvotes – 96 comments

Jepsen: Etcd 3.4.3

https://jepsen.io/analyses/etcd-3.4.3

6 years ago

219 upvotes – 55 comments

CalTech wins $1.1B jury verdict in patent case against Apple, Broadcom

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-broadcom-apple-verdict/caltech-wins-1-1-billion-jury-verdict-in-patent-case-against-apple-broadcom-idUSKBN1ZS399

6 years ago

207 upvotes – 135 comments

Advice to avoid public Wi-Fi is mostly out of date

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/01/why-public-wi-fi-lot-safer-you-think

6 years ago

206 upvotes – 114 comments

IBM Names Arvind Krishna CEO

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-30/ibm-names-arvind-krishna-as-ceo-rometty-to-retire-at-year-s-end

6 years ago

202 upvotes – 138 comments

F-35’s gun that can’t shoot straight adds to its roster of flaws

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-30/f-35-s-gun-that-can-t-shoot-straight-adds-to-its-roster-of-flaws

6 years ago

198 upvotes – 361 comments

How to build a search engine with common Unix tools (2018) [pdf]

https://www.iaria.org/conferences2018/filesDBKDA18/AndreasSchmidt_Tutorial_SearchEngine.pdf

6 years ago

197 upvotes – 26 comments

The Rise and Fall of the OLAP Cube

https://www.holistics.io/blog/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-olap-cube/

6 years ago

194 upvotes – 53 comments

JVM Anatomy Quarks

https://shipilev.net/jvm/anatomy-quarks/

6 years ago

193 upvotes – 38 comments

The Rise of SQL-Based Data Modeling

https://www.holistics.io/blog/the-rise-of-sql-based-data-modeling-and-dataops/

6 years ago

192 upvotes – 125 comments

Health-Records Company Pushed Opioids to Doctors in Secret Deal

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-29/health-records-company-pushed-opioids-to-doctors-in-secret-deal

6 years ago

172 upvotes – 1 comments

Developing GHC for a Living

https://serokell.io/blog/developing-ghc-for-a-living

6 years ago

167 upvotes – 55 comments

OpenSK: a fully open-source security key implementation

https://security.googleblog.com/2020/01/say-hello-to-opensk-fully-open-source.html

6 years ago

151 upvotes – 26 comments

Show HN: A self-hosted email engine

https://mailcoach.app

6 years ago

149 upvotes – 58 comments

Realm of Racket

https://www.realmofracket.com/

6 years ago

145 upvotes – 8 comments

State of SaaS Product Onboarding

https://userpilot.com/saas-product-onboarding/

6 years ago

141 upvotes – 45 comments

AT&T lied about everything it promised to do if it got a tax cut

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qjdvex/atandt-lied-about-everything-it-promised-to-do-if-it-got-a-tax-cut

6 years ago

138 upvotes – 72 comments

'Patient zero' in cyberattack on UN aviation agency was official's son (2019)

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/icao-patient-zero-cyberattack-whistleblower-1.5223883

6 years ago

136 upvotes – 11 comments

Compiler Construction by Niklaus Wirth [pdf]

https://inf.ethz.ch/personal/wirth/CompilerConstruction/CompilerConstruction1.pdf

6 years ago

135 upvotes – 59 comments

Botanical illustration is becoming endangered

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/home/botanical-illustration-is-becoming-endangered-but-the-job-is-essential/2020/01/28/24636724-3dff-11ea-8872-5df698785a4e_story.html

6 years ago

132 upvotes – 63 comments

The Colorado mystery drones weren’t real

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/884xv3/the-colorado-mystery-drones-werent-real

6 years ago

125 upvotes – 76 comments

The Bourne Shell Source Code

https://www.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V7/usr/src/cmd/sh

6 years ago

122 upvotes – 39 comments

Dropbox ignore file or folder in beta

https://help.dropbox.com/files-folders/restore-delete/ignored-files

6 years ago

121 upvotes – 136 comments

Apache Guacamole 1.1.0

https://guacamole.apache.org/releases/1.1.0/

6 years ago

120 upvotes – 50 comments

Apple’s New Map, Expansion #7: Final Parts of the Continental U.S.

https://www.justinobeirne.com/new-apple-maps-continental-united-states

6 years ago

119 upvotes – 43 comments

New antiviral treatment made from sugar

https://actu.epfl.ch/news/unique-new-antiviral-treatment-made-using-sugar/

6 years ago

114 upvotes – 49 comments

A Pythonista's Review of Haskell

https://bytes.yingw787.com/posts/2020/01/30/a_review_of_haskell/

6 years ago

112 upvotes – 102 comments

Amazon soars after earnings beat

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/30/amazon-amzn-q4-2019-earnings.html

6 years ago

110 upvotes – 88 comments

Snowflake: Graphical SFTP client and terminal emulator with helpful utilities

https://github.com/subhra74/snowflake

6 years ago

103 upvotes – 44 comments

Sorting Algorithms in C

https://github.com/ismdeep/sort-algos-c

6 years ago

98 upvotes – 9 comments

Avast caught selling user data

https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2020/01/30/avast-is-going-to-stop-selling-your-web-habits/#41e4252389db

6 years ago

95 upvotes – 38 comments

The Let It Crash Philosophy Outside Erlang

https://stratus3d.com/blog/2020/01/20/applying-the-let-it-crash-philosophy-outside-erlang/

6 years ago

93 upvotes – 32 comments

What to do when you don’t trust your data anymore

https://laskowskilab.faculty.ucdavis.edu/2020/01/29/retractions/

6 years ago

89 upvotes – 20 comments
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