top 20 hacker news stories for 2021-01-18

I wasted $40k on a fantastic startup idea

https://tjcx.me/p/i-wasted-40k-on-a-fantastic-startup-idea

5 years ago

851 upvotes – 385 comments

Software effort estimation is mostly fake research

http://shape-of-code.coding-guidelines.com/2021/01/17/software-effort-estimation-is-mostly-fake-research/

5 years ago

780 upvotes – 308 comments

HR is not your friend, and other things I think you should know

http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2021/01/17/woe/

5 years ago

730 upvotes – 458 comments

GPT-Neo – Building a GPT-3-sized model, open source and free

https://www.eleuther.ai/gpt-neo

5 years ago

725 upvotes – 252 comments

Context switching costs more than we give it credit for

https://thinkingthrough.substack.com/p/context-switching-cost-more-than

5 years ago

590 upvotes – 352 comments

We are sending more foster kids to prison than to college

https://www.kansascity.com/news/special-reports/article238206754.html

5 years ago

539 upvotes – 396 comments

Show HN: Compare prices that US hospitals charge patients, insurance companies

https://turquoise.health/

5 years ago

447 upvotes – 374 comments

That XOR Trick (2020)

https://florian.github.io/xor-trick

5 years ago

428 upvotes – 231 comments

Parler’s de-platforming shows the exceptional power of cloud providers

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/16/how-parler-deplatforming-shows-power-of-cloud-providers.html

5 years ago

420 upvotes – 906 comments

Patient Regains Sight Following Artificial Cornea Implantation

https://www.prnewswire.com/il/news-releases/corneat-visions-first-patient-regains-sight-following-artificial-cornea-implantation-at-rabin-medical-center-ending-a-decade-of-blindness-301205312.html

5 years ago

406 upvotes – 75 comments

Tech companies are profiling us from before birth

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/tech-companies-are-profiling-us-from-before-birth/

5 years ago

380 upvotes – 138 comments

A bot that converts Reddit threads into ace attorney scenes

https://github.com/micah5/ace-attorney-reddit-bot

5 years ago

344 upvotes – 75 comments

I made Deskreen, open source app to make any device a second screen for computer

https://www.deskreen.com

5 years ago

331 upvotes – 151 comments

GitHub Stale Bots – A False Economy

https://blog.benwinding.com/github-stale-bots/

5 years ago

288 upvotes – 156 comments

Julia adoption keeps climbing

https://www.hpcwire.com/2021/01/13/julia-update-adoption-keeps-climbing-is-it-a-python-challenger/

5 years ago

278 upvotes – 300 comments

TV detector vans once prowled the streets of England

https://hackaday.com/2021/01/18/tv-detector-vans-once-prowled-the-streets-of-england/

5 years ago

264 upvotes – 553 comments

The embedded YouTube player told me what you were watching

https://bugs.xdavidhu.me/google/2021/01/18/the-embedded-youtube-player-told-me-what-you-were-watching-and-more/

5 years ago

260 upvotes – 104 comments

Software engineering is a learning process, working code is a side effect

https://www.lambdabytes.io/posts/selearning/

5 years ago

237 upvotes – 74 comments

Ballista: Distributed compute platform implemented in Rust using Apache Arrow

https://github.com/ballista-compute/ballista

5 years ago

223 upvotes – 58 comments

Three reasons fungi are not plants

https://asm.org/Articles/2021/January/Three-Reasons-Fungi-Are-Not-Plants

5 years ago

220 upvotes – 101 comments
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