top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-02-16

1-on-1 meeting questions

https://github.com/VGraupera/1on1-questions

6 years ago

★ 9.6k JavaScript MIT
1030 upvotes – 296 comments

I Learned French in 12 Months

http://www.runwes.com/2020/02/11/howilearnedfrench.html

6 years ago

748 upvotes – 312 comments

How to Take Smart Notes

https://praxis.fortelabs.co/how-to-take-smart-notes/

6 years ago

469 upvotes – 111 comments

Ramanujan Surprises Again (2015)

https://plus.maths.org/content/ramanujan

6 years ago

454 upvotes – 92 comments

FDA clears ‘world’s first’ portable, low-cost MRI

https://www.healthimaging.com/topics/healthcare-economics/fda-clear-worlds-first-portable-mri

6 years ago

447 upvotes – 130 comments

South Korea switching their 3.3M PCs to Linux

https://www.fosslinux.com/29117/south-korea-switching-their-3-3-million-pcs-to-linux.htm

6 years ago

447 upvotes – 201 comments

Photographer sues Getty Images for $1B for being billed for her own photo (2016)

https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-getty-copyright-20160729-snap-story.html

6 years ago

402 upvotes – 120 comments

"This community is available in the app"

https://www.reddit.com/r/mobileweb/comments/f2afvz/this_community_is_available_in_the_app/

6 years ago

399 upvotes – 224 comments

Hacking my arm prosthesis to plug into a synth: thought-controlled music [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSKBtEBRWi4

6 years ago

310 upvotes – 46 comments

Defacto: Factorio-like game in the browser for the PICO-8

https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=30631

6 years ago

309 upvotes – 71 comments

Show HN: A stream of AI-generated art

https://art42.net/

6 years ago

277 upvotes – 187 comments

Don’t use the word ‘did’ or dumb anti-piracy company will delete you from Google

https://torrentfreak.com/dont-use-the-word-did-or-a-dumb-anti-piracy-company-will-delete-you-from-google-200216/

6 years ago

270 upvotes – 115 comments

Paperd.Ink – A hackable e-paper display

https://paperd.ink/

6 years ago

242 upvotes – 83 comments

A 2,500-mile radius in Asia contains half the world's population (2017)

https://www.cntraveler.com/story/more-than-half-the-worlds-population-lives-inside-this-circle

6 years ago

205 upvotes – 209 comments

Apollo: An iOS Reddit app built for power and speed

https://apolloapp.io/

6 years ago

200 upvotes – 126 comments

The Art of Powerful Questions (2003) [pdf]

https://umanitoba.ca/admin/human_resources/change/media/the-art-of-powerful-questions.pdf

6 years ago

199 upvotes – 14 comments

Graph Neural Networks – An Overview

https://theaisummer.com/Graph_Neural_Networks/

6 years ago

185 upvotes – 28 comments

Dreamcast Emulator Redream 1.5.0 Progress Report

https://redream.io/posts/progress-report-february-2020

6 years ago

183 upvotes – 47 comments

Writing Grant Applications

https://billwadge.wordpress.com/2020/02/10/im-good-enough-im-smart-enough-and-dog-gone-it-people-like-me-writing-grant-applications

6 years ago

160 upvotes – 49 comments

Screens Are Bad for Young Brains

https://parentology.com/its-official-screens-are-bad-for-young-brains/

6 years ago

156 upvotes – 212 comments

Aggressively Stupid: The Story Behind After Dark (2007)

https://lowendmac.com/2007/aggressively-stupid-the-story-behind-after-dark/

6 years ago

130 upvotes – 23 comments

Ask HN: What do you use tools like IFTTT or Zapier for?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22343370

6 years ago

122 upvotes – 54 comments

Mathematicians Discover Prime Conspiracy (2016)

https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematicians-discover-prime-conspiracy-20160313/

6 years ago

117 upvotes – 52 comments

FAA faces dilemma over 737 Max wiring flaw that Boeing missed

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/faa-faces-dilemma-over-737-max-wiring-flaw-that-boeing-missed/

6 years ago

116 upvotes – 117 comments

Activate this ‘bracelet of silence,’ and Alexa can’t eavesdrop

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/14/technology/alexa-jamming-bracelet-privacy-armor.html

6 years ago

115 upvotes – 133 comments

Data USA: explore, map, compare, and download U.S. data

https://datausa.io/

6 years ago

112 upvotes – 11 comments

Demystifying Differentiable Programming (2018)

https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.10228

6 years ago

110 upvotes – 42 comments

Video Game Keyboard Diagrams

http://isometricland.net/keyboard/keyboard.php

6 years ago

109 upvotes – 26 comments

Spore Prototypes (2008)

http://www.spore.com/comm/prototypes

6 years ago

105 upvotes – 39 comments

Boredom is but a window to a sunny day beyond the gloom

https://aeon.co/ideas/boredom-is-but-a-window-to-a-sunny-day-beyond-the-gloom

6 years ago

105 upvotes – 25 comments

Facebook URLs Dataset Now Available for Academic Research

https://socialscience.one/blog/unprecedented-facebook-urls-dataset-now-available-research-through-social-science-one

6 years ago

95 upvotes – 25 comments

Math Keeps Changing

https://macwright.org/2020/02/14/math-keeps-changing.html

6 years ago

95 upvotes – 70 comments

Moral Mazes: Bureaucracy and Managerial Work (1983)

https://hbr.org/1983/09/moral-mazes-bureaucracy-and-managerial-work

6 years ago

93 upvotes – 18 comments

A document that the NSA uses for teaching Python

https://archive.org/details/comp3321/page/n89/mode/2up/search/device

6 years ago

91 upvotes – 22 comments
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