top 20 hacker news stories for 2020-02-10

Microsoft begins showing an anti-Firefox ad in the Windows 10 start menu

https://news.softpedia.com/news/microsoft-begins-showing-an-anti-firefox-ad-in-the-windows-10-start-menu-529137.shtml

6 years ago

Why Google Did Android

https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2020/02/09/Why-Android

6 years ago

Will Spotify Ruin Podcasting?

https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/will-spotify-ruin-podcasting

6 years ago

Jules Verne’s Most Famous Books Were Part of a 54-Volume Masterpiece

http://www.openculture.com/2020/02/jules-vernes-voyages-extraordinaires.html

6 years ago

Mondragon Corporation

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

6 years ago

Chinese military personnel charged for hacking into Equifax

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/chinese-military-personnel-charged-computer-fraud-economic-espionage-and-wire-fraud-hacking

6 years ago

Turing-NLG: A 17B-parameter language model

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/turing-nlg-a-17-billion-parameter-language-model-by-microsoft/

6 years ago

Ask HN: How Sound Is the “Teach Yourself CS” Learning Resource?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22286340

6 years ago

JuliaLang: The Ingredients for a Composable Programming Language

https://white.ucc.asn.au/2020/02/09/whycompositionaljulia.html

6 years ago

ICANN Allows .COM Price Increases, Gets More Money

https://www.namecheap.com/blog/icann-allows-com-price-increases-gets-more-money/

6 years ago

“I made an operating system UI within Unity”

https://old.reddit.com/r/Unity3D/comments/ey5eta/i_made_an_operating_system_ui_within_unity/

6 years ago

Performant Front-End Architecture

https://www.debugbear.com/blog/performant-front-end-architecture

6 years ago

Things I wish I knew about state management when I started writing React apps

https://medium.com/@veeralpatel/things-ive-learned-about-state-management-for-react-apps-174b8bde87fb

6 years ago

Memory Bandwidth Napkin Math

https://www.forrestthewoods.com/blog/memory-bandwidth-napkin-math/

6 years ago

Ask HN: What’s the most important modern simple invention?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22290362

6 years ago

The Disneyfication of a University

https://academeblog.org/2020/01/30/the-disneyfication-of-a-university

6 years ago

Microsoft Zero and DeepSpeed: Memory Efficient Large Neural Network Training

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/zero-deepspeed-new-system-optimizations-enable-training-models-with-over-100-billion-parameters/?OCID=msr_blog_zerodeep_tw

6 years ago

Show HN: Free GeoJSON editor to visualize, download or convert into many formats

https://geoman.io/

6 years ago

Is a Dataframe Just a Table? (2019) [pdf]

https://plateau-workshop.org/assets/papers-2019/10.pdf

6 years ago

A dark web tycoon pleads guilty, but how was he caught?

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/615163/a-dark-web-tycoon-pleads-guilty-but-how-was-he-caught/

6 years ago