top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-03-01

Ask HN: Good ways to capture institutional knowledge?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22454333

6 years ago

547 upvotes – 213 comments

NymphCast: Casual attempt at open alternative to Chromecast

https://mayaposch.blogspot.com/2020/03/nymphcast-casual-attempt-at-open.html

6 years ago

487 upvotes – 184 comments

UC Santa Cruz fires 54 grad students who were striking for higher pay

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/02/29/us/university-california-santa-cruz-strike-grad-students/index.html

6 years ago

421 upvotes – 424 comments

Clojure: A Lisp that wants to spread

https://simongray.github.io/essays/spread.html

6 years ago

386 upvotes – 291 comments

Google's ambitious push into gaming is floundering

https://www.businessinsider.com/why-are-so-few-games-on-google-stadia-2020-2

6 years ago

379 upvotes – 467 comments

Travelling with 24” Monitors

https://blog.luap.info/travelling-with-24-monitors.html

6 years ago

361 upvotes – 341 comments

A journey to searching Have I Been Pwned database in 49μs

http://stryku.pl/poetry/okon.php

6 years ago

333 upvotes – 124 comments

Epistemic standards for “Why did it take so long to invent X?”

https://rootsofprogress.org/epistemic-standards-for-why-it-took-so-long

6 years ago

326 upvotes – 191 comments

Why Cloudflare Chose AMD EPYC for Gen X Servers

https://blog.cloudflare.com/technical-details-of-why-cloudflare-chose-amd-epyc-for-gen-x-servers/

6 years ago

284 upvotes – 117 comments

How many users block Google analytics? (2017)

https://blog.wesleyac.com/posts/google-analytics

6 years ago

265 upvotes – 234 comments

Better Business Bureau rejects Molekule’s air purifier claims

https://thewirecutter.com/blog/watchdog-rejects-molekule-air-purifier-claims/

6 years ago

265 upvotes – 130 comments

‘Re-education’, forced labour and surveillance beyond Xinjiang

https://www.aspi.org.au/report/uyghurs-sale

6 years ago

255 upvotes – 106 comments

Learn Awk by Example (2019)

https://github.com/thewhitetulip/awk-anti-textbook/

6 years ago

★ 743
250 upvotes – 29 comments

Economists study what happens when people stop using Facebook

https://www.calnewport.com/blog/2020/02/29/top-economists-study-what-happens-when-you-stop-using-facebook/

6 years ago

241 upvotes – 161 comments

Aleph: A suite of data analysis tools for investigators

https://docs.alephdata.org/

6 years ago

240 upvotes – 21 comments

Brunsli: Practical JPEG repacker (now part of JPEG XL)

https://github.com/google/brunsli

6 years ago

★ 750 C++ MIT
233 upvotes – 72 comments

The Only Type of API Services I'll Use

https://www.rdegges.com/2020/the-only-type-of-api-services-ill-use/

6 years ago

210 upvotes – 61 comments

Cost of a thread in C++ under Linux

https://lemire.me/blog/2020/01/30/cost-of-a-thread-in-c-under-linux/

6 years ago

194 upvotes – 133 comments

Mats Järlström’s victorious 6-year battle over yellow lights

https://www.koin.com/local/washington-county/mats-jarlstroms-victorious-6-year-battle-over-yellow-lights/

6 years ago

180 upvotes – 133 comments

Malicious Charging Cable

https://shop.hak5.org/products/o-mg-cable

6 years ago

168 upvotes – 65 comments

I found and fixed a bug in PHP's standard library

https://www.miguelxpn.com/coding/php/opensource/2020/03/01/how-i-found-and-fixed-a-bug-in-php-std-lib.html

6 years ago

167 upvotes – 32 comments

How to Create a LED Mask Using Arduino, NeoPixels, and C++

https://armaizadenwala.com/blog/how-to-create-a-led-rave-mask-using-arduino

6 years ago

161 upvotes – 37 comments

GTK has a new website

https://www.gtk.org/

6 years ago

160 upvotes – 80 comments

How I Did It: From Psych Degree to VP of Data Science at Top Startup

https://eugeneyan.com/2020/02/28/psych-grad-to-vp-data-science

6 years ago

153 upvotes – 76 comments

Is it normal that I see others’ Redis data on shared hosting?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/60477527/is-it-normal-that-i-see-others-redis-data-on-shared-hosting

6 years ago

144 upvotes – 32 comments

Down on the farm that harvests metal from plants

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/26/science/metal-plants-farm.html

6 years ago

131 upvotes – 27 comments

An industry dedicated to making foods crispy

https://www.bonappetit.com/story/crispy

6 years ago

131 upvotes – 101 comments

Show HN: IMAP API – Self-hosted access to IMAP over REST

https://imapapi.com/

6 years ago

125 upvotes – 25 comments

Clickhouse Local

https://clickhouse.tech/docs/en/operations/utils/clickhouse-local/

6 years ago

124 upvotes – 75 comments

Data Science Interview Questions

https://hackernoon.com/160-data-science-interview-questions-415s3y2a

6 years ago

123 upvotes – 22 comments

Sun's NeWS was a mistake, as are all toolkit-in-server windowing systems (2013)

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/NeWSWasAMistake

6 years ago

121 upvotes – 125 comments

A parody Twitter account hits a nerve with Silicon Valley VCs

https://www.protocol.com/parody-twitter-account-vcs

6 years ago

119 upvotes – 27 comments

Microsoft is retiring its MCSA, MCSD and MCSE certifications

https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-is-retiring-its-mcsa-mcsd-and-mcse-certifications-in-june-2020/

6 years ago

110 upvotes – 80 comments

Canadians name top appliance brands that break down

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/marketplace-appliances-right-to-repair-1.5475649

6 years ago

109 upvotes – 98 comments

Tiny electric car looks like a washing machine and costs just $6,600

https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/28/cars/citroen-ami-cheap-electric-car/

6 years ago

107 upvotes – 124 comments

Algorithms from Bishop's ML book implemented in Python

https://github.com/ctgk/PRML

6 years ago

★ 11.7k Jupyter Notebook MIT
107 upvotes – 3 comments

Planetary – a music sequencer that looks like a simple landscape

https://infovore.org/archives/2020/03/01/planetary-a-sequencer/

6 years ago

104 upvotes – 10 comments

CAF: C++ Actor Framework

https://github.com/actor-framework/actor-framework

6 years ago

★ 3.4k C++ BSD-3-Clause
104 upvotes – 40 comments

The Tulsa Remote Worker Experiment

https://www.citylab.com/life/2020/02/tulsa-incentives-work-remotely-coworking/604873/

6 years ago

101 upvotes – 86 comments

New report on the cellular effects of a calorie-restricted diet in rats

https://www.salk.edu/news-release/eat-less-live-longer/

6 years ago

100 upvotes – 95 comments

Facebook Now Lets You Turn Any 2D Photo into a 3D Image Using AI

https://petapixel.com/2020/02/28/facebook-now-lets-you-turn-any-2d-photo-into-a-3d-image-using-ai/

6 years ago

100 upvotes – 50 comments

Product of Negatives (2010)

https://susam.in/blog/product-of-negatives/

6 years ago

94 upvotes – 75 comments

Minds, Machines and Gödel (1961)

http://users.ox.ac.uk/~jrlucas/Godel/mmg.html

6 years ago

89 upvotes – 46 comments

Scottish Power: "Billing chaos caused by a new IT system"

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2020/mar/01/scottish-power-bills-bailiffs-accounting-chaos

6 years ago

89 upvotes – 29 comments

AutoMLPipeline – Create and evaluate machine learning pipeline architectures

https://github.com/IBM/AutoMLPipeline.jl

6 years ago

★ 370 Julia MIT
80 upvotes – 13 comments

'Fear Factor' Is Running High as Currency Markets Resume Trading

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-01/no-place-to-hide-for-markets-looking-for-central-bank-salvation

6 years ago

79 upvotes – 137 comments

William Gibson on the apocalypse: “it’s been happening for at least 100 years”

https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2020/02/william-gibson-apocalypse-it-s-been-happening-least-100-years

6 years ago

78 upvotes – 31 comments

George Hotz: Fully Self-Driving Cars Are a Scam and Silicon Valley Needs to Die

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nnh5TQ60hek

6 years ago

78 upvotes – 65 comments

Comparative genetic analysis of 2019-nCoV receptor ACE2 in different populations

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41421-020-0147-1

6 years ago

77 upvotes – 56 comments
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