top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-02-21

More bosses give four-day workweek a try

https://www.npr.org/2020/02/21/807133509/enjoy-the-extra-day-off-more-bosses-give-4-day-workweek-a-try

6 years ago

934 upvotes – 388 comments

Which of these Amazon Prime purchases are real?

https://thewirecutter.com/blog/i-bought-these-things-from-amazon-prime-can-you-tell-which-ones-are-real/

6 years ago

853 upvotes – 408 comments

How to Write Usefully

http://paulgraham.com/useful.html

6 years ago

821 upvotes – 285 comments

Radical hydrogen-boron reactor leapfrogs current nuclear fusion tech?

https://newatlas.com/energy/hb11-hydrogen-boron-fusion-clean-energy/

6 years ago

760 upvotes – 276 comments

Amazon let a fraudster keep my Sony A74 IV and refunded him

https://petapixel.com/2020/02/21/amazon-let-a-fraudster-keep-my-sony-a7r-iv-and-refunded-him-2900/

6 years ago

732 upvotes – 280 comments

Discord is not an acceptable choice for free software projects

https://sneak.berlin/20200220/discord-is-not-an-acceptable-choice-for-free-software-projects/

6 years ago

532 upvotes – 357 comments

Scientists use ML to find an antibiotic able to kill superbugs in mice

https://www.statnews.com/2020/02/20/machine-learning-finds-novel-antibiotic-able-to-kill-superbugs/

6 years ago

438 upvotes – 89 comments

Gilbert Strang Teaches Linear Algebra

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-06-linear-algebra-spring-2010/video-lectures/

6 years ago

425 upvotes – 91 comments

Follow-up to “The dystopian world of software engineering interviews”

https://www.jarednelsen.dev/posts/what-to-do-when-you-reach-number-1-on-hacker-news

6 years ago

371 upvotes – 530 comments

Single-payer healthcare would save $450B and 68k lives a year: study

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(19)33019-3/fulltext

6 years ago

353 upvotes – 390 comments

Requirements volatility is the core problem of software engineering

https://stackoverflow.blog/2020/02/20/requirements-volatility-is-the-core-problem-of-software-engineering/

6 years ago

346 upvotes – 242 comments

QEMU for iOS

https://github.com/utmapp/UTM

6 years ago

335 upvotes – 145 comments

Google resists demands from states in digital-ad probe

https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-resists-demand-from-states-in-digital-ad-probe-11582281000

6 years ago

323 upvotes – 172 comments

The Bash Hackers Wiki

https://wiki.bash-hackers.org/

6 years ago

304 upvotes – 88 comments

Maryam Mirzakhani

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

6 years ago

299 upvotes – 33 comments

FCC forced by court to ask the public again for feedback on net neutrality

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/02/21/fcc_net_neutrality/

6 years ago

294 upvotes – 162 comments

Peter Norvig's Economic Simulation (2018)

https://github.com/norvig/pytudes/blob/master/ipynb/Economics.ipynb

6 years ago

242 upvotes – 112 comments

Chrome deploys deep-linking in latest build despite privacy concerns

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/02/20/chrome_deploys_deeplinking/

6 years ago

242 upvotes – 147 comments

AMD Threadripper 3970X under heavy AVX2 load: Defective by design?

https://forum.level1techs.com/t/amd-threadripper-3970x-under-heavy-avx2-load-defective-by-design/153883

6 years ago

225 upvotes – 194 comments

Paris Mayor: It's Time for a '15-Minute City'

https://www.citylab.com/environment/2020/02/paris-election-anne-hidalgo-city-planning-walks-stores-parks/606325/

6 years ago

218 upvotes – 185 comments

Neat URL cleans URLs, removing parameters such as 'fbclid' and 'utm'

https://github.com/Smile4ever/Neat-URL

6 years ago

213 upvotes – 69 comments

Quarter of all tweets about climate change produced by bots

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/feb/21/climate-tweets-twitter-bots-analysis

6 years ago

190 upvotes – 152 comments

Challenges with distributed systems

https://aws.amazon.com/builders-library/challenges-with-distributed-systems/

6 years ago

188 upvotes – 27 comments

Show HN: MDAnki – convert Markdown to Anki cards

https://github.com/ashlinchak/mdanki

6 years ago

179 upvotes – 72 comments

The Need for Data Engineers

https://thenewstack.io/data-scientists-get-the-glamour-but-there-is-also-a-need-for-data-engineers/

6 years ago

174 upvotes – 59 comments

Varoufakis to Publish Notorious Eurogroup Recordings from 2015 Meetings

https://greece.greekreporter.com/2020/02/14/varoufakis-to-publish-notorious-eurogroup-recordings-from-turbulent-2015-meetings/

6 years ago

154 upvotes – 225 comments

Corporate buzzwords are how workers pretend to be adults

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/02/most-annoying-corporate-buzzwords/606748/

6 years ago

148 upvotes – 106 comments

Amb

http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Amb

6 years ago

143 upvotes – 33 comments

Windows 10 could start bullying people into using a Microsoft account to install

https://www.techradar.com/news/windows-10-could-start-bullying-people-into-using-a-microsoft-account-to-install

6 years ago

138 upvotes – 129 comments

Racket-on-Chez Status

https://blog.racket-lang.org/2020/02/racket-on-chez-status.html

6 years ago

137 upvotes – 50 comments

Beyond Bézier Curves (2013)

https://bosker.wordpress.com/2013/11/13/beyond-bezier-curves/

6 years ago

132 upvotes – 40 comments

Programming a space invader in OCaml and OpenGL: lessons learned

https://marmelab.com/blog/2020/02/21/ocaml-and-opengl-in-practice.html

6 years ago

124 upvotes – 118 comments

Breaking the Salary Sharing Taboo

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/02/19/magazine/salary-sharing.html

6 years ago

122 upvotes – 145 comments

Domain Logic and SQL (2003)

https://www.martinfowler.com/articles/dblogic.html

6 years ago

121 upvotes – 56 comments

Launch HN: Freshpaint (YC S19) – an automated, retroactive Segment alternative

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22384680

6 years ago

119 upvotes – 55 comments

JP Morgan economists warn of 'catastrophic' climate change

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-51581098

6 years ago

115 upvotes – 75 comments

People leave molecular wakes that may give away their secrets

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2020/02/13/people-leave-molecular-wakes-that-may-give-away-their-secrets

6 years ago

115 upvotes – 33 comments

Inside the Philip Morris campaign to 'normalize' a tobacco device

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-philipmorris-international-iqos-insig/inside-the-philip-morris-campaign-to-normalize-a-tobacco-device-idUSKBN20F1Q7

6 years ago

109 upvotes – 125 comments

Little Ideas

https://www.collaborativefund.com/blog/100-little-ideas/

6 years ago

104 upvotes – 12 comments

If cash gets damaged, this Treasury team will make sure it’s not a lost cause

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/if-your-cash-gets-damaged-this-treasury-team-will-make-sure-its-not-a-lost-cause/2020/02/13/609fd154-3c6b-11ea-8872-5df698785a4e_story.html

6 years ago

103 upvotes – 31 comments

Riot OS – Real-Time, MMU optional and threads

https://www.riot-os.org

6 years ago

100 upvotes – 50 comments

Overthinking it and the value of simple solutions (2019)

https://korecki.me/blog/2019/10/8/overthinking-it-and-the-value-of-simple-solutions

6 years ago

99 upvotes – 57 comments

Giant Phages: a discovery in the world of viruses

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/02/oh-look-ton-giant-viruses-inside-your-mouth/606763/

6 years ago

94 upvotes – 11 comments
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