top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-02-03

The Missing Semester of Your CS Education

https://missing.csail.mit.edu/

6 years ago

1163 upvotes – 196 comments

Tesla's self driving algorithm's overlay [video]

https://www.tesla.com/sites/default/files/images/careers/autopilot/network.mp4

6 years ago

669 upvotes – 641 comments

Coronavirus Forces World’s Largest Work-from-Home Experiment

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-02-02/coronavirus-forces-world-s-largest-work-from-home-experiment

6 years ago

621 upvotes – 333 comments

TeamViewer stores user passwords in registry, encrypted with hard-coded key

https://whynotsecurity.com/blog/teamviewer/

6 years ago

439 upvotes – 123 comments

Captcha.nsa.gov

https://captcha.nsa.gov

6 years ago

435 upvotes – 144 comments

Things I Believe About Software Engineering

https://blog.wesleyac.com/posts/engineering-beliefs

6 years ago

420 upvotes – 225 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2020)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22225314

6 years ago

349 upvotes – 674 comments

Microsoft Teams outage due to expired certificate

https://techcrunch.com/2020/02/03/microsoft-teams-has-been-down-this-morning/

6 years ago

339 upvotes – 172 comments

CBS gets YouTube review of 'Picard' taken down for using 26 seconds

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200128/10284943817/cbs-gets-angry-joes-youtube-review-picard-taken-down-using-26-seconds-shows-trailer.shtml

6 years ago

339 upvotes – 178 comments

New in PHP 8

https://stitcher.io/blog/new-in-php-8

6 years ago

326 upvotes – 255 comments

Cards Against Humanity buys Clickhole, turning it into an employee-owned company

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/katienotopoulos/cards-against-humanity-buys-clickhole

6 years ago

312 upvotes – 55 comments

Honk more, wait more: Mumbai traffic police introduce the ‘punishing signal’

https://weather.com/en-IN/india/news/news/2020-02-01-honk-more-wait-more-mumbai-traffic-police-punishing-signal

6 years ago

278 upvotes – 216 comments

Rescuing vintage arcade video games from an abandoned ship (2016)

https://arcadeblogger.com/2016/05/06/arcade-raid-the-duke-of-lancaster-ship/

6 years ago

270 upvotes – 49 comments

Huge success in business is largely based on luck: new research

https://theconversation.com/huge-success-in-business-is-largely-based-on-luck-new-research-130843

6 years ago

252 upvotes – 117 comments

Hey Dropbox, why can't I compare file versions like this?

http://web.eecs.utk.edu/~azh/blog/whycanticomparefileversions.html

6 years ago

245 upvotes – 130 comments

Swift Crypto

https://swift.org/blog/crypto/

6 years ago

242 upvotes – 79 comments

Climate models are running red hot, and scientists don’t know why

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-02-03/climate-models-are-running-red-hot-and-scientists-don-t-know-why

6 years ago

241 upvotes – 315 comments

C# Pattern Matching

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/pattern-matching

6 years ago

231 upvotes – 209 comments

The state of full text search in PostgreSQL 12

https://fosdem.org/2020/schedule/event/postgresql_the_state_of_full_text_search_in_postgresql_12/

6 years ago

229 upvotes – 50 comments

Ask HN: How to explain job gaps on the resume?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22225372

6 years ago

222 upvotes – 238 comments

IBM's Lost Decade

https://www.platformonomics.com/2020/02/ibms-lost-decade/

6 years ago

217 upvotes – 189 comments

German banks are hoarding so many euros they need more vaults

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-31/german-banks-are-hoarding-so-many-euros-they-need-more-vaults

6 years ago

202 upvotes – 320 comments

Tech salaries are risk premiums

https://phildini.dev/tech-salaries-are-risk-premiums

6 years ago

194 upvotes – 169 comments

You’re better off using Exceptions

https://eiriktsarpalis.wordpress.com/2017/02/19/youre-better-off-using-exceptions/

6 years ago

190 upvotes – 238 comments

Taking back Mondays and Tuesdays (2019)

https://about.wtf.studio/mondays/

6 years ago

182 upvotes – 67 comments

Justice Department meeting state AG offices Tuesday to discuss Google: sources

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tech-antitrust-google/justice-department-meeting-state-ag-offices-tuesday-to-discuss-google-sources-idUSKBN1ZX2LG

6 years ago

175 upvotes – 190 comments

How to decrypt WhatsApp end-to-end media files

https://blog.erratasec.com/2020/01/how-to-decrypt-whatsapp-end-to-end.html

6 years ago

166 upvotes – 26 comments

Fig – Crowdfunding for video games

https://www.fig.co/

6 years ago

159 upvotes – 83 comments

Behind Amazon’s HQ2 fiasco

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-02-03/amazon-s-hq2-fiasco-was-driven-by-bezos-envy-of-elon-musk

6 years ago

149 upvotes – 170 comments

18 years of Blender open source projects [video]

https://fosdem.org/2020/schedule/event/blender/

6 years ago

148 upvotes – 13 comments

April: An APL That Compiles to Common Lisp

https://github.com/phantomics/april

6 years ago

★ 651 Common Lisp Apache-2.0
148 upvotes – 11 comments

Allocator Designs

https://os.phil-opp.com/allocator-designs/

6 years ago

141 upvotes – 9 comments

AI thinks like a corporation (2018)

https://www.economist.com/open-future/2018/11/26/ai-thinks-like-a-corporation-and-thats-worrying

6 years ago

140 upvotes – 60 comments

Null Values in SQL Queries

https://mitchum.blog/null-values-in-sql-queries/

6 years ago

137 upvotes – 152 comments

Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking Freelancer? (February 2020)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22225313

6 years ago

133 upvotes – 208 comments

James Lovelock: 'I Would Not Waste My Fortune on Colonizing Mars'

https://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/james-lovelock-i-would-not-waste-my-fortune-on-colonizing-mars-a-322a80e0-f768-45f5-b426-f8f32e6e9002

6 years ago

127 upvotes – 317 comments

Airports for the Supersonic Age

https://www.airporthistory.org/airports-sst-1.html

6 years ago

123 upvotes – 38 comments

Ex-CIA Software Engineer Goes on Trial for Vault 7 Leak

https://www.wsj.com/articles/ex-cia-engineer-goes-on-trial-for-massive-leak-11580741119

6 years ago

123 upvotes – 122 comments

Drew Houston Joins Facebook Board of Directors

https://about.fb.com/news/2020/02/drew-houston-joins-facebook-board/

6 years ago

117 upvotes – 88 comments

Microsoft's Three Browsers

https://textslashplain.com/2020/02/03/microsofts-three-browsers/

6 years ago

114 upvotes – 103 comments

NSW and Victoria just jumped 1.8 metres north

https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw-and-victoria-just-jumped-1-8-metres-north-20200102-p53ocx.html

6 years ago

111 upvotes – 42 comments

Building a Linux Desktop for Cloud Native Development

https://blog.alexellis.io/building-a-linux-desktop-for-cloud-native-development/

6 years ago

108 upvotes – 50 comments

Writing a DSL in Lua (2015)

https://leafo.net/guides/dsl-in-lua.html

6 years ago

108 upvotes – 41 comments

NetBSD 9.0 Coming Soon with Arm64, Updated ZFS, HW-Accelerated Virtualization

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NetBSD-9.0-RC2-Released

6 years ago

108 upvotes – 24 comments

Aging Canadian government computer systems at risk of 'critical failure'

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/federal-it-systems-critical-failure-1.5448871

6 years ago

105 upvotes – 79 comments

Alphabet announces fourth quarter and fiscal year 2019 results [pdf]

https://abc.xyz/investor/static/pdf/2019Q4_alphabet_earnings_release.pdf

6 years ago

92 upvotes – 101 comments

The mystery of silphium, a lost Roman herb (2017)

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20170907-the-mystery-of-the-lost-roman-herb

6 years ago

90 upvotes – 37 comments

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2020)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22225312

6 years ago

88 upvotes – 218 comments

Programming an HP-15C (2013)

https://blog.plover.com/brain/hp-15c.html

6 years ago

86 upvotes – 59 comments

Show HN: Cronyo – A simple CLI to manage your cron jobs on AWS

https://github.com/cronyo/cronyo

6 years ago

★ 322 Python MIT
86 upvotes – 13 comments

Tulsa Race Riot of 1921

https://www.britannica.com/event/Tulsa-race-riot-of-1921

6 years ago

85 upvotes – 9 comments
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