top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-02-15

The dystopian world of software engineering interviews

https://www.jarednelsen.dev/posts/The-horrifically-dystopian-world-of-software-engineering-interviews

6 years ago

Signs you’re working in a feature factory (2016)

https://cutle.fish/blog/12-signs-youre-working-in-a-feature-factory

6 years ago

An app can be a home-cooked meal

https://www.robinsloan.com/notes/home-cooked-app/

6 years ago

Rules to run a software startup with minimum hassle

https://www.joisig.com/rules-software-startup-minimum-hassle

6 years ago

Sweden gives employees unpaid time off to be entrepreneurs (2019)

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/02/sweden-gives-all-employees-time-off-to-be-entrepreneurs/

6 years ago

Developer salary spreadsheet compiled from tweets

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-xIgk7Mw1S5DXTZSbKBgxlsQAn7XGIu7Mfy72lSVHKk/edit#gid=129993618

6 years ago

ActivityPub, the secret weapon of the Fediverse

https://homehack.nl/activitypub-the-secret-weapon-of-the-fediverse/

6 years ago

ESbuild – A fast JavaScript bundler and minifier in Go

https://github.com/evanw/esbuild/

6 years ago

★ 39.8k Go MIT

How to take smart notes with Org mode

https://blog.jethro.dev/posts/how_to_take_smart_notes_org/

6 years ago

Blender 2.82

https://www.blender.org/press/blender-2-82-released/

6 years ago

What made the 1960s CDC6600 supercomputer fast?

https://cpldcpu.wordpress.com/2020/02/14/what-made-the-cdc6600-fast/

6 years ago

Waterfox sold to System1, an ad company that bought a majority of Startpage

https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/f3gqoc/privacy_browser_waterfox_appears_to_be_sold_to/

6 years ago

SoftBank’s $375M bet on pizza went bad fast

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-02-13/inside-the-firings-at-softbank-s-robot-pizza-startup

6 years ago

Cancer medicine generates enormous revenues but marginal benefits for patients?

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/the-cancer-industry-hype-vs-reality/

6 years ago

NetBSD 9.0

https://netbsd.org/releases/formal-9/NetBSD-9.0.html

6 years ago

Apple's long processor journey

https://liam-on-linux.livejournal.com/69433.html

6 years ago

Benford's Law

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benford%27s_law

6 years ago

Show HN: Configurable Route Planning – Avoid left turns, areas and more

https://discuss.graphhopper.com/t/5190

6 years ago

RCMP arrest 'money mules' tied to scam calls from India

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/rcmp-cra-telephone-scam-fraud-investigation-1.5463838

6 years ago

These Lyrics Do Not Exist

https://theselyricsdonotexist.com

6 years ago

Don’t stage off Starship

https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2020/02/15/dont-stage-off-starship/

6 years ago

Microsoft cut off game maker's revenue stream, so he built his own replacement

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/14/random-salad-ceo-offers-own-ad-network-after-microsoft-cuts-support.html

6 years ago

Google redraws the borders on maps depending on who’s looking

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/02/14/google-maps-political-borders/

6 years ago

Ask HN: Schedule of a solo founder?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22335478

6 years ago

Did the early internet activists blow it?

https://slate.com/technology/2020/02/three-decades-internet-freedom-activism.html

6 years ago

Three Types of Data

https://www.brandons.me/blog/three-types-of-data

6 years ago

Windows vs. Linux Scaling Performance 16 to 128 Threads with Threadripper 3990X

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=3990x-windows-linux&num=1

6 years ago

DBLog: A Change-Data-Capture Framework

https://netflixtechblog.com/dblog-a-generic-change-data-capture-framework-69351fb9099b

6 years ago

More emphasis on trains in Europe to replace flights

https://back-on-track.eu/more-emphasis-on-trains-in-europe-to-replace-flights/

6 years ago

Bloomberg U.S. Startups Barometer

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/startup-barometer/

6 years ago

Astronomers want public funds for intelligent life search

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-51223704

6 years ago

Scaling Bitbucket’s Database

https://bitbucket.org/blog/scaling-bitbuckets-database

6 years ago

From models of galaxies to atoms, simple AI shortcuts speed up simulations

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/02/models-galaxies-atoms-simple-ai-shortcuts-speed-simulations-billions-times

6 years ago

The side effects of an unfinished internet

https://neilpatil.me/2020/02/15/Unfinished-Internet.html

6 years ago