top 50% 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

1047 upvotes – 559 comments

Why Google Did Android

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

6 years ago

552 upvotes – 348 comments

Will Spotify Ruin Podcasting?

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

6 years ago

491 upvotes – 367 comments

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

450 upvotes – 129 comments

Mondragon Corporation

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

6 years ago

442 upvotes – 283 comments

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

408 upvotes – 317 comments

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

367 upvotes – 139 comments

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

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

6 years ago

360 upvotes – 76 comments

JuliaLang: The Ingredients for a Composable Programming Language

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

6 years ago

355 upvotes – 221 comments

ICANN Allows .COM Price Increases, Gets More Money

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

6 years ago

338 upvotes – 126 comments

“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

316 upvotes – 176 comments

Performant Front-End Architecture

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

6 years ago

305 upvotes – 114 comments

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

296 upvotes – 327 comments

Memory Bandwidth Napkin Math

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

6 years ago

269 upvotes – 54 comments

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

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

6 years ago

253 upvotes – 560 comments

The Disneyfication of a University

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

6 years ago

241 upvotes – 257 comments

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

218 upvotes – 20 comments

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

https://geoman.io/

6 years ago

214 upvotes – 25 comments

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

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

6 years ago

193 upvotes – 113 comments

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

168 upvotes – 145 comments

A new model and dataset for long-range memory

https://deepmind.com/blog/article/A_new_model_and_dataset_for_long-range_memory

6 years ago

166 upvotes – 13 comments

Personal info of 6M Israelis leaked after Likud uploads voter info

https://www.jpost.com/Israel-Elections/Personal-info-of-6m-Israelis-leaked-after-Likud-uploads-voter-info-617048

6 years ago

162 upvotes – 81 comments

Tracking systems of TV streaming devices

https://blog.acolyer.org/2020/02/10/watching-you-watch/

6 years ago

160 upvotes – 57 comments

Event-Driven Architecture

https://pradeeploganathan.com/architecture/event-driven-architecture/

6 years ago

160 upvotes – 61 comments

Visual 6502 in JavaScript

http://visual6502.org/JSSim/index.html

6 years ago

155 upvotes – 20 comments

All about Birds

https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide

6 years ago

151 upvotes – 49 comments

Pgcat – Enhanced PostgreSQL logical replication

https://github.com/kingluo/pgcat

6 years ago

★ 386 Go Apache-2.0
145 upvotes – 21 comments

When did Americans lose their British accents?

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/29761/when-did-americans-lose-their-british-accents

6 years ago

145 upvotes – 105 comments

In Case You Ever Want to Unicycle 21,000 Miles

https://www.outsideonline.com/2407533/unicycle-travel-gear

6 years ago

144 upvotes – 49 comments

Systemd Home Directories

https://systemd.io/HOME_DIRECTORY/

6 years ago

138 upvotes – 191 comments

Show HN: Managing SSH Access to AWS EC2 Instances Using SSM

https://github.com/elpy1/ssh-over-ssm

6 years ago

★ 750 Shell MIT
131 upvotes – 36 comments

Diagram as Code for prototyping cloud system architectures

https://github.com/mingrammer/diagrams

6 years ago

★ 42.2k Python MIT
129 upvotes – 30 comments

Fax on the beach: The audacious, visionary, calamitous iPad of the 90s

https://www.inputmag.com/features/fax-on-the-beach-the-story-of-atts-eo-communicator-90s-ipad-flop

6 years ago

128 upvotes – 86 comments

A prospective Alzheimer’s trial reports

https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2020/02/10/a-prospective-alzheimers-trial-reports

6 years ago

123 upvotes – 77 comments

Fyne: Native Mobile UX in Go

https://github.com/fyne-io/fyne/releases/tag/v1.2.0

6 years ago

★ 28.1k Go
113 upvotes – 21 comments

People of Las Vegas

https://believermag.com/the-people-of-las-vegas/

6 years ago

109 upvotes – 78 comments

Model built by researchers suggests coronavirus outbreak began in November

https://www.utoronto.ca/news/model-built-u-t-researchers-suggests-coronavirus-outbreak-began-november-has-yet-be-controlled

6 years ago

108 upvotes – 73 comments

Show HN: Discover the World of Mathematics

https://mathpendium.org/

6 years ago

108 upvotes – 36 comments

Companies that buy data derived from scraping the contents of email

https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/pkekmb/free-email-apps-spying-on-you-edison-slice-cleanfox

6 years ago

102 upvotes – 43 comments

Why I’m Leaving San Francisco: Meta study

https://www.ryanckulp.com/leaving-san-francisco-meta-study/

6 years ago

100 upvotes – 93 comments

Brandless has shut down

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-02-10/softbank-backed-brandless-shutters-less-2-years-after-investment

6 years ago

99 upvotes – 71 comments

Send me your privacy abuse tipoffs

https://robertheaton.com/2020/02/07/send-me-your-privacy-abuse-tipoffs/

6 years ago

98 upvotes – 12 comments

WHO Director-General: “We may only be seeing the tip of the iceberg”

https://twitter.com/DrTedros/status/1226629008302931971

6 years ago

97 upvotes – 74 comments

Facebook Workplace co-founder launches downtime fire alarm Kintaba

https://techcrunch.com/2020/02/10/kintaba-incident-alerts/

6 years ago

84 upvotes – 47 comments

Taika Waititi Calls Out Apple's MacBook Keyboard Backstage at the Oscars

https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/f1k4nd/taika_waititi_calls_out_apples_macbook_keyboard/

6 years ago

84 upvotes – 49 comments

Reflecting on the first two decades of our foundation

https://www.gatesnotes.com/2020-Annual-Letter?WT.mc_id=20200210000000_AL2020_BG-TW_&WT.tsrc=BGTW

6 years ago

82 upvotes – 91 comments

Ask HN: Is it worth switching from web development to native iOS dev?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22288217

6 years ago

80 upvotes – 66 comments

Debugging C++ Coroutines [pdf]

http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2020/p2073r0.pdf

6 years ago

79 upvotes – 26 comments

Trump’s 2021 budget drowns science agencies in red ink, again

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/02/trump-s-2021-budget-drowns-science-agencies-red-ink-again

6 years ago

76 upvotes – 46 comments

The laser and microphone atop Mars 2020, NASA's next rover

https://phys.org/news/2020-02-laser-microphone-atop-mars-nasa.html

6 years ago

76 upvotes – 9 comments

Long Term Support

http://exple.tive.org/blarg/2019/12/17/long-term-support/

6 years ago

76 upvotes – 62 comments

A document signed by a five year old, agreeing to be deported

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5000507-Stillman-Hellen-2.html#document/p1

6 years ago

74 upvotes – 31 comments

Learn Python the NSA Way

https://twitter.com/chris_swenson/status/1225836060938125313

6 years ago

73 upvotes – 2 comments

On Drafting an Engineering Strategy

https://www.paperplanes.de/2020/1/31/on-drafting-an-engineering-strategy.html

6 years ago

72 upvotes – 13 comments
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