top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-02-14

Signal is finally bringing its secure messaging to the masses

https://www.wired.com/story/signal-encrypted-messaging-features-mainstream/

6 years ago

631 upvotes – 392 comments

Japan has 33k businesses at least a century old

https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20200211-why-are-so-many-old-companies-in-japan

6 years ago

536 upvotes – 262 comments

18-year-old personal website, built with Frontpage and still updated

http://www.fmboschetto.it/

6 years ago

520 upvotes – 472 comments

Google cuts jobs at cloud-computing group

https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-cuts-jobs-at-cloud-computing-group-11581719153

6 years ago

511 upvotes – 312 comments

Brown: color is weird [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wh4aWZRtTwU

6 years ago

498 upvotes – 138 comments

Ask HN: What job can a “jack of all trades” look for?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22326109

6 years ago

496 upvotes – 207 comments

Apple Edge Cache

https://cache.edge.apple

6 years ago

483 upvotes – 218 comments

Ask HN: What are some examples of good database schema designs?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22324691

6 years ago

437 upvotes – 175 comments

Ask HN: How do you learn complex, dense technical information?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22325975

6 years ago

420 upvotes – 175 comments

A Map of Mathematics

https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-map-of-mathematics-20200213/

6 years ago

414 upvotes – 55 comments

To become a good C programmer (2011)

http://fabiensanglard.net/c/

6 years ago

364 upvotes – 132 comments

A radio frequency exposure test finds an iPhone 11 Pro exceeds the FCC's limit

https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/telecom/wireless/radio-frequency-exposure-test-iphone-11-pro-double-fcc-limits

6 years ago

346 upvotes – 161 comments

California’s housing crisis: how a bureaucrat pushed to build

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/13/business/economy/housing-crisis-conor-dougherty-golden-gates.html

6 years ago

329 upvotes – 621 comments

Quadsort: a stable non-recursive merge sort

https://github.com/scandum/quadsort

6 years ago

★ 2.2k C Unlicense
312 upvotes – 106 comments

I made my own PCBs with a 3D printer

https://www.stavros.io/posts/make-pcbs-at-home/

6 years ago

285 upvotes – 144 comments

Mac OS Catalina: more trouble than it’s worth (Part 2)

http://morrick.me/archives/8760

6 years ago

263 upvotes – 245 comments

Flowcharts of programming language constructs

https://www.progsbase.com/blog/flow-charts-of-programming-language-constructs/

6 years ago

253 upvotes – 85 comments

Plink-plonk.js – hear webpages render with DOM observer and audio API

https://gist.github.com/tomhicks/6cb5e827723c4eaef638bf9f7686d2d8

6 years ago

248 upvotes – 58 comments

The US Secret Service mistook a cyberpunk RPG for a hacker's handbook

https://www.dicebreaker.com/categories/roleplaying-game/feature/gurps-cyberpunk-rpg-us-secret-service

6 years ago

242 upvotes – 77 comments

Show HN: A Firefox extension to add latency to distracting webpages

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/delaywebpage/

6 years ago

232 upvotes – 51 comments

Why do incompetent managers get promoted?

https://medium.com/@lancengym/why-do-incompetent-managers-get-promoted-815165a03bee

6 years ago

224 upvotes – 140 comments

Fastai: A Layered API for Deep Learning

https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.04688

6 years ago

214 upvotes – 42 comments

Facebook reverses on paid influencers after Bloomberg memes

https://techxplore.com/news/2020-02-facebook-paid-political-messages-ads.html

6 years ago

214 upvotes – 334 comments

Self-driving cars turned out to be harder than expected

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2020/2/14/21063487/self-driving-cars-autonomous-vehicles-waymo-cruise-uber

6 years ago

204 upvotes – 282 comments

Introduction to Clifford Algebra (2006)

https://www.av8n.com/physics/clifford-intro.htm

6 years ago

189 upvotes – 71 comments

HQ Trivia shuts down after acquisition falls through

https://techcrunch.com/2020/02/14/hq-trivia-shuts-down/

6 years ago

183 upvotes – 93 comments

Delphi's 25th Birthday

https://community.idera.com/developer-tools/b/blog/posts/25-years-of-excellence

6 years ago

182 upvotes – 194 comments

Millions of Tiny Databases [pdf]

https://assets.amazon.science/c4/11/de2606884b63bf4d95190a3c2390/millions-of-tiny-databases.pdf

6 years ago

173 upvotes – 10 comments

Svgbob – convert ASCII diagrams to SVG, now with styling support

https://ivanceras.github.io/svgbob-editor/

6 years ago

161 upvotes – 33 comments

Founders share the challenges of running a tech business

https://www.indiehackers.com/post/the-biggest-challenges-of-running-a-tech-business-ea87797f6d

6 years ago

159 upvotes – 47 comments

Corona Labs is shutting down, will open-source everything under MIT

https://coronalabs.com/blog/2020/02/12/corona-labs-annual-update/

6 years ago

144 upvotes – 25 comments

Why do so many developers get DRY wrong?

https://changelog.com/posts/why-do-so-many-developers-get-dry-wrong

6 years ago

137 upvotes – 150 comments

A 7KB AWS lambda Node.js library with zero runtime dependencies

https://www.npmjs.com/package/micro-aws-lambda

6 years ago

123 upvotes – 59 comments

Problems, not solutions (2018)

https://ben.balter.com/2018/07/16/problems-not-solutions/

6 years ago

122 upvotes – 41 comments

OpenSSH 8.2

https://lists.mindrot.org/pipermail/openssh-unix-announce/2020-February/000138.html

6 years ago

118 upvotes – 57 comments

Early humans in Africa may have interbred with an extinct species: new research

https://theconversation.com/early-humans-in-africa-may-have-interbred-with-a-mysterious-extinct-species-new-research-131699

6 years ago

116 upvotes – 102 comments

Classification of the Principal Programming Paradigms (2009)

https://www.info.ucl.ac.be/~pvr/paradigms.html

6 years ago

116 upvotes – 33 comments

Amazon can’t end fake reviews, but its new system might drown them out

https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/2/14/21121209/amazon-fake-reviews-one-tap-star-ratings-seller-feedback

6 years ago

114 upvotes – 140 comments

Printing tiny, high-precision objects

https://actu.epfl.ch/news/printing-tiny-high-precision-objects-in-a-matter-o/

6 years ago

112 upvotes – 24 comments

Why has progress stalled? (2014)

https://aeon.co/essays/has-progress-in-science-and-technology-come-to-a-halt

6 years ago

109 upvotes – 137 comments

Amish Hackers (2009)

https://kk.org/thetechnium/amish-hackers-a/

6 years ago

109 upvotes – 59 comments

A Human's Guide to Words (2010)

https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/A_Human%27s_Guide_to_Words

6 years ago

109 upvotes – 15 comments

Wardian cases and the process of transporting plants

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-51209050

6 years ago

108 upvotes – 20 comments

Ask HN: Do You Miss IRC?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22330459

6 years ago

101 upvotes – 108 comments

CSS Containment Specification

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_Containment

6 years ago

101 upvotes – 57 comments

Crystal 0.33

https://crystal-lang.org/2020/02/14/crystal-0.33.0-released.html

6 years ago

98 upvotes – 42 comments

LibreTaxi 2 published, open-source Uber PoC

https://github.com/ro31337/libretaxi2

6 years ago

★ 92 AGPL-3.0
96 upvotes – 23 comments

AutoFlip: an open-source framework for intelligent video reframing

https://ai.googleblog.com/2020/02/autoflip-open-source-framework-for.html

6 years ago

89 upvotes – 10 comments

Passionate kissing is not a human universal (2015)

https://hraf.yale.edu/romantic-or-disgusting-passionate-kissing-is-not-a-human-universal/

6 years ago

89 upvotes – 68 comments

Gossiping Commons

https://gossipingcommons.org/

6 years ago

82 upvotes – 11 comments

Show HN: Critic.sh – Simple testing framework for Bash

https://github.com/Checksum/critic.sh

6 years ago

★ 456 Shell MIT
79 upvotes – 14 comments

Exploring the Web Speech API

https://www.voorhoede.nl/en/blog/exploring-the-web-speech-api/

6 years ago

78 upvotes – 9 comments

NYC Active Major Construction

https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/buildings/html/nyc-active-major-construction.html

6 years ago

77 upvotes – 42 comments
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