top 50% 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

Japanese people may have gained longevity by balancing their diets

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2021/01/16/japanese-people-may-have-gained-longevity-by-balancing-their-diets

5 years ago

213 upvotes – 260 comments

Local rules instead of global censorship

https://redecentralize.org/blog/2021/01/18/centralization-is-a-danger-to-democracy

5 years ago

208 upvotes – 213 comments

The short, tormented life of computer genius Phil Katz (2000)

https://web.archive.org/web/20000829071343/http://www2.jsonline.com/news/state/may00/katz21052000a.asp

5 years ago

201 upvotes – 98 comments

Can you treat loneliness by creating an imaginary friend?

https://nautil.us/blog/can-you-treat-loneliness-by-creating-an-imaginary-friend

5 years ago

188 upvotes – 216 comments

Data Scientist Rebekah Jones, Facing Arrest, Turns Herself in to Authorities

https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2021/01/18/957914495/data-scientist-rebekah-jones-facing-arrest-turns-herself-in-to-florida-authoriti

5 years ago

185 upvotes – 175 comments

Are We Really Engineers?

https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/crossover-project/are-we-really-engineers/

5 years ago

181 upvotes – 131 comments

Decluttering low-Earth orbit: It's time to tidy up space

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2021/01/14/its-time-to-tidy-up-space

5 years ago

174 upvotes – 131 comments

Shuffle — An online editor for busy developers

https://shuffle.dev

5 years ago

165 upvotes – 41 comments

Nobody lives here: Nearly 5M Census Blocks with zero population (2014)

https://tumblr.mapsbynik.com/post/82791188950/nobody-lives-here-the-4-million-census-blocks

5 years ago

162 upvotes – 103 comments

How I Build Web Apps As A Freelancer

https://timdaub.github.io/2021/01/16/web-principles/

5 years ago

156 upvotes – 79 comments

Update: Prosecutors asked that Rebekah Jones be banned from the internet

https://yro.slashdot.org/story/21/01/17/2257210/floridas-whistleblower-covid-19-data-manager-arrested-today

5 years ago

155 upvotes – 53 comments

Woman may have tried to sell Pelosi computer device to Russians, FBI says

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-protests-cyber/woman-may-have-tried-to-sell-pelosi-computer-device-to-russians-fbi-says-idUSKBN29N1KU

5 years ago

137 upvotes – 144 comments

Why Combustion Is Exothermic

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jchemed.5b00333#

5 years ago

136 upvotes – 65 comments

The Amiga 1000 Parceiro

https://www.amigalove.com/viewtopic.php?t=1689

5 years ago

134 upvotes – 22 comments

Degoogling My Life

https://thefiringneuron.com/2021/01/17/degoogling-my-life/

5 years ago

128 upvotes – 181 comments

Living microbes, possibly 100M years old, pulled from beneath the sea (2020)

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/07/scientists-pull-living-microbes-100-million-years-beneath-sea

5 years ago

123 upvotes – 83 comments

Technosolutionism Isn’t the Fix

https://hedgehogreview.com/issues/america-on-the-brink/articles/technosolutionism-isnt-the-fix

5 years ago

117 upvotes – 77 comments

Show HN: 100 LOC Ruby forward proxy using only standard libraries

https://github.com/jamesmoriarty/forward-proxy

5 years ago

115 upvotes – 37 comments

Stromatolites: A Billion-Year-Old Living Organism

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20210117-stromatolites-the-earths-oldest-living-lifeforms

5 years ago

112 upvotes – 30 comments

Tracking down a segfault that suddenly started happening

https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2021/01/tracking-down-a-segfault-that-suddenly-started-happening/

5 years ago

105 upvotes – 25 comments

Mammalian Aggression

https://srconstantin.github.io/2021/01/17/Mammalian-Aggression.html

5 years ago

102 upvotes – 32 comments

GNU Radio 3.9

https://www.gnuradio.org/news/2021-01-17-gnu-radio-v3.9.0.0-release/

5 years ago

99 upvotes – 53 comments

JuliaCall Update: Automated Julia Installation for R Packages

https://www.stochasticlifestyle.com/juliacall-update-automated-julia-installation-for-r-packages/

5 years ago

93 upvotes – 14 comments

Foxconn gets green light for $270M factory in Vietnam

https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/01/18/foxconn-gets-green-light-for-270m-factory-in-vietnam

5 years ago

91 upvotes – 52 comments

React Component for 3D Maps

https://github.com/felixpalmer/procedural-gl-react

5 years ago

82 upvotes – 14 comments

Aldous Huxley interviewed by Mike Wallace (1958)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alasBxZsb40

5 years ago

81 upvotes – 23 comments

I Tried to Get a ‘Leftover Dose’ of the Vaccine Last Night

https://www.thecut.com/2021/01/i-tried-to-get-a-leftover-dose-of-the-vaccine-last-night.html

5 years ago

77 upvotes – 147 comments

The Fediverse is better than regular social media

https://slashdev.space/posts/2021-01-18-reasons-the-fediverse-is-better

5 years ago

76 upvotes – 76 comments
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