top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-05-24

Product Marketing for Engineers

https://github.com/LisaDziuba/Marketing-for-Engineers

5 years ago

688 upvotes – 84 comments

How the biggest consumer apps got their first 1k users

https://www.lennyrachitsky.com/p/how-the-biggest-consumer-apps-got

5 years ago

623 upvotes – 102 comments

Jepsen: MongoDB 4.2.6

http://jepsen.io/analyses/mongodb-4.2.6

5 years ago

604 upvotes – 254 comments

Show HN: A Firefox add-on to strip Google search results of 'blacklisted' URLs

https://github.com/davidahmed/wiper

5 years ago

574 upvotes – 308 comments

Chromium project finds that 70% of security defects are memory safety problems

https://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-security/memory-safety

5 years ago

467 upvotes – 458 comments

Habits of High-Functioning Teams

https://deniseyu.io/2020/05/23/habits-of-high-performing-teams.html

5 years ago

436 upvotes – 107 comments

The Big List of Naughty Strings

https://github.com/minimaxir/big-list-of-naughty-strings

5 years ago

409 upvotes – 92 comments

Ask HN: If you could work remote where would you live?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23294799

5 years ago

355 upvotes – 742 comments

With remote work plan, Facebook dashes hopes of paycheck arbitrage

https://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN22Y1IA

5 years ago

347 upvotes – 775 comments

Tuxedo Book BA15: AMD-only and Linux-preinstalled laptop

https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en/Linux-Hardware/Linux-Notebooks/15-16-inch/TUXEDO-Book-BA15-Gen10.tuxedo

5 years ago

318 upvotes – 155 comments

Ask HN: Looking for side project ideas

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23290536

5 years ago

310 upvotes – 157 comments

Implementing simple cooperative threads in C

https://brennan.io/2020/05/24/userspace-cooperative-multitasking/

5 years ago

304 upvotes – 86 comments

Linus Torvalds has switched to AMD

https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/5/24/407

5 years ago

288 upvotes – 129 comments

Most book clubs are doing it wrong (2017)

http://jsomers.net/blog/book-clubs

5 years ago

254 upvotes – 151 comments

Learn Genetics

https://learn.genetics.utah.edu/

5 years ago

244 upvotes – 41 comments

Coronavirus: 'Baffling' observations from the front line

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/52760992

5 years ago

234 upvotes – 165 comments

The original .NET garbage collector was written in Common Lisp

https://twitter.com/rainerjoswig/status/1264664590853562368

5 years ago

221 upvotes – 66 comments

Caffeine: A vitamin-like nutrient, or adaptogen

http://raypeat.com/articles/articles/caffeine.shtml

5 years ago

212 upvotes – 245 comments

Guide to Concurrency in Python with Asyncio

https://www.integralist.co.uk/posts/python-asyncio/

5 years ago

195 upvotes – 76 comments

TSA compton backscattering exposes body to non-negligible radiation (2010)

http://www.public.asu.edu/~atppr/bodyscan.html

5 years ago

178 upvotes – 90 comments

Classic Calculator Was Reverse Engineered from the Bare Metal

https://spectrum.ieee.org/geek-life/hands-on/this-classic-calculator-was-literally-reverse-engineered-from-the-bare-metal

5 years ago

168 upvotes – 68 comments

Restaurants rebel against delivery apps as cities crack down on fees

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/restaurants-rebel-against-delivery-apps-cities-crack-down-fees-n1211456

5 years ago

167 upvotes – 222 comments

Linux 5.8 Set to Optionally Flush the L1d Cache on Context Switch

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=L1d-Cache-Flushing-Queued

5 years ago

164 upvotes – 148 comments

Running Lisp in Production (2015)

https://www.grammarly.com/blog/engineering/running-lisp-in-production/

5 years ago

139 upvotes – 96 comments

NSA “precomputed contact chaining” enhances phone-record tracking program

https://www.wired.com/story/inside-the-nsas-secret-tool-for-mapping-your-social-network/

5 years ago

138 upvotes – 49 comments

The Argument Against Quantum Computers and the Quantum Laws of Nature [pdf]

https://gilkalai.files.wordpress.com/2020/04/laws-blog.pdf

5 years ago

137 upvotes – 23 comments

Orion’s Arm Universe Project: Collaborative Hard Sci-Fi Worldbuilding

https://www.orionsarm.com

5 years ago

135 upvotes – 19 comments

Writing and the narrative fallacy (2018)

https://jacklimpert.com/2018/04/jeff-bezos-talks-about-writing-and-the-narrative-fallacy/

5 years ago

133 upvotes – 90 comments

Scaling SQLite to 4M QPS on a Single Server (EC2 vs. Bare Metal)

https://blog.expensify.com/2018/01/08/scaling-sqlite-to-4m-qps-on-a-single-server/

5 years ago

133 upvotes – 42 comments

Self Supervised Learning in NLP

https://amitness.com/2020/05/self-supervised-learning-nlp/

5 years ago

130 upvotes – 14 comments

Removing old, obsolete dams restores life to creeks and streams

https://www.riverkeeper.org/campaigns/river-ecology/saving-hudson-river-fish/dam-removal/

5 years ago

130 upvotes – 37 comments

They redesigned PubMed

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/05/they-redesigned-pubmed-beloved-website-it-hasn-t-gone-over-well

5 years ago

129 upvotes – 123 comments

One-Word Domains

https://www.oneword.domains/

5 years ago

128 upvotes – 164 comments

Don’t Be Afraid of RAID

https://louwrentius.com/dont-be-afraid-of-raid.html

5 years ago

120 upvotes – 172 comments

Show HN: FizzBuzz purely in Rust's trait system

http://github.com/doctorn/trait-eval/

5 years ago

120 upvotes – 30 comments

PineBook Pro (open source ARM laptop)

https://wiki.pine64.org/index.php/Pinebook_Pro

5 years ago

116 upvotes – 49 comments

Immutable Databases

https://adlrocha.substack.com/p/adlrocha-immutable-databases

5 years ago

114 upvotes – 53 comments

W64devkit: A Portable C and C++ Development Kit for Windows

https://nullprogram.com/blog/2020/05/15/

5 years ago

112 upvotes – 130 comments

Mocking time and testing event loops in Go

https://dmitryfrank.com/articles/mocking_time_in_go

5 years ago

103 upvotes – 33 comments

The Chiral Puzzle of Life

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ab8dc6

5 years ago

101 upvotes – 41 comments

Apple adds 192-room hotel to plans of Northwest Austin campus

https://austin.culturemap.com/news/city-life/05-20-20-apple-adds-surprising-element-to-1-billion-campus-in-northwest-austin/

5 years ago

101 upvotes – 99 comments

Let’s Draw Together

https://multiuser-sketchpad.glitch.me/

5 years ago

98 upvotes – 41 comments

Setting the story straight on quite a few issues

https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2020/05/23/nope/

5 years ago

96 upvotes – 77 comments

Intelligence Without Reason (1991) [pdf]

https://www.ijcai.org/Proceedings/91-1/Papers/089.pdf

5 years ago

86 upvotes – 11 comments

NIST Handbook of Engineering Statistics (2012)

https://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/handbook/

5 years ago

84 upvotes – 7 comments
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