Technical Knowledge Journey

US 50 states redrawn as equal population 4 by cryptozeus | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Inside Macintosh (1985) [pdf] 2 by theBashShell | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Why the free upgrade to Windows 10 still works 3 by miles | 0 comments on Hacker News.

1958 Facom 128B Japanese Relay Computer, Still Working [video] 17 by fortran77 | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Spam and Phishing in Q3 2019 3 by laurex | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Practical Examples in Data Oriented Design 22 by Tomte | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Miltown: A game-changing drug you've probably never heard of (2017) 4 by Hooke | 0 comments on Hacker News.

EU antitrust regulators say they are investigating Google's data collection 3 by PretzelFisch | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Common Identification Standard for Federal Employees and Contractors (2004) 3 by dredmorbius | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Linus: People should aim to make “badly written” code “just work” 8 by pcr910303 | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Obesity, extreme diet: 382 days without eating. It works 7 by joak | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Shell Has a Forth-Like Quality (2017) 2 by pcr910303 | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Pilots Revving Engines Too Hard Led to IndiGo’s Airbus Woes 2 by EdwardDiego | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Study Finds Wind Speeds Are Increasing, Which Could Boost Wind Energy 3 by PretzelFisch | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Urbit 11 by tomrod | 0 comments on Hacker News.

What I've Learned over National Blog Posting Month (NaBloPoMo) 2019 3 by jamietanna | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: MScSim – the real time flight dynamics simulation software 3 by app4soft | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Community Memory Terminal 3 by 11thEarlOfMar | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Pride and Paragon: Virginia Woolf on George Eliot (1919) 3 by CrocodileStreet | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Disproved Discoveries That Won Nobel Prizes 3 by wwarner | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Nano-nonsense: 25 years of charlatanry 4 by ZhuanXia | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Jacob Collier’s four magical chords 3 by bobbiechen | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Parsing Expressions by Recursive Descent (1999) 4 by Tomte | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Many elementary teachers don’t understand math, and it makes them anxious 9 by denzil_correa | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Automated Vacuum Collection 3 by anonymfus | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Disc rot is a challenge for both archivists and collectors 5 by anonymfus | 1 comments on Hacker News.

ELF Binaries and Relocation Entries 3 by matt_d | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Keycat – A self-hosted end-to-end encrypted password manager 5 by acasajus | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Neural Annealing: Toward a Neural Theory of Everything 4 by dangirsh | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Tracking down the true origin of a font used in many games and shareware titles 3 by Lammy | 1 comments on Hacker News.

How to Build a Healthcare Unicorn? 3 by saumik | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Introduction to Data Compression (2013) [pdf] 3 by skovorodkin | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Improving CLIs with isatty 3 by jez | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Find stuff in org-mode anywhere (2017) 3 by skovorodkin | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Hack-a-Mol 3 by breck | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Google AdWords charged me for clicks in Istanbul while location-targeting the US 6 by siggi | 0 comments on Hacker News.

React in concurrent mode: 2000 state-connected comps re-rendered at 60FPS 2 by macando | 0 comments on Hacker News.

ISOC revealed it would get 1.13B from US investors for .org 3 by dano | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Can hundreds of unrelated satellites create a GPS backup? 4 by throw0101a | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Watching pornography rewires the brain to a more juvenile state 11 by laurex | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Singapore tells Facebook to correct post under new fake news law 3 by djsumdog | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Digital Tools I Wish Existed 27 by jborichevskiy | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Hologram Within a Hologram Hints at Fate of Black Holes 4 by furcyd | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Burning Out 13 by burning_out_101 | 5 comments on Hacker News. Burning out as an early stage start-up employee. I’ve been employed there a few years, worked miracles, but getting recently getting some poor feedback. Confusing situation. Wondering if I should just quit? Is career salvageable? I solved the business’ biggest issue. Start-up was founded to do X, founders couldn’t figure out how to do X, I was asked to do X. Under enormous pressure I single handily figured out how to do X, conducted all the R&D, built the prototype, supervised the engineer and release. Its still a prototype, but solves one of the industries biggest problem. Non-founder team lead is unhappy some minor issues have slipping in the chaotic process of getting this to market. I’m doing several different jobs and do everything. My solution is going to change the market, the idea is worth millions of dollars, likely more. Founders are very please, but getting poor feedback from team lead. Team lead h...

Burned-Out Flash Trips Up Older Teslas 5 by JoachimS | 2 comments on Hacker News.

The Matrix Calculus You Need for Deep Learning 3 by yarapavan | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Silicon Valley-Backed App Lenders Use Phone Data to Hassle Borrowers 3 by JumpCrisscross | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Some scientists are serious about resurrecting zeppelins for low-carbon travel 4 by simonebrunozzi | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Drive drunk twice in Quebec, get ignition breathalyzer for life 2 by hckr_nj | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Advent of Code 2019 9 by nneonneo | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Scientists turn undersea fiber optic cables into seismographs 4 by DoreenMichele | 0 comments on Hacker News.

DeepPCB: Pure AI-Powered, Cloud-Native Printed Circuit Board Routing 3 by chakerb | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: What Are You Thankful For? 4 by japhyr | 3 comments on Hacker News. I think this gets asked most years, and I always enjoy the threads that come out of it. I am thankful for a family that I enjoy spending the holidays with. I am thankful that I had a safe childhood and got a good education throughout my life. I am also thankful for the HN community. People dump on this site sometimes, but over most of the past decade HN has been an overwhelmingly positive part of my life. Thank you to everyone for what you bring to the community here.

My 2019 programming language hierarchy 4 by SIRHAMY | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: A live-drawn portrait of the common face 4 by sloev | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Zephyr – An Operating System for IoT 3 by thiscatis | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Mental Mountains 3 by 5107h | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Corals that could survive climate change and help save the world’s reefs 3 by Akababa | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: What should be taught in high school? 6 by NiloCK | 3 comments on Hacker News. I'm an educator with a CS / programming background. There's a possibility that I'll be moving into the 'Information and Communications Technology' role next year at my medium sized high school (grades 9-12, ~700 students, diverse student population). My jurisdiction's curriculum in this area is not well developed, and there are no standardized tests to prepare for. I'll have an amount of freedom in deciding course content that's unusual for high school teachers. What would HN have the modern western high school student learn with respect to "Information and Communications Technology"?

Flow Browser – A parallel, multithreaded HTML browser 6 by robin_reala | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Making Git and Jupyter Notebooks play nice 3 by mana99 | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New research: Dark Energy might not exist after all 4 by BurningFrog | 0 comments on Hacker News.

AMD's Ryzen Gang Is Currently Clobbering Intel on Salea 6 by ekoutanov | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Gitlab is down 7 by vickyonit | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Notimeforbooks.com – Read a book, one page at a time, in your inbox 23 by steven_pack | 8 comments on Hacker News.

Nine climate tipping points now 'active,' warn scientists 9 by xdze2 | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Crash Blossoms (2010) 3 by acsillag | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Bill Gates-backed Heliogen targets 1,500°C solar thermal 4 by nclzz | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Firefox Replay 3 by nachtigall | 0 comments on Hacker News.

IKEA invests 200M euro to become climate positive by 2030 2 by rkraaijenhagen | 0 comments on Hacker News.

German murderer wins 'right to be forgotten' 4 by onetimemanytime | 1 comments on Hacker News.

What's New in Firefox Preview 3.0 6 by vidyesh | 0 comments on Hacker News.

ReadMe (YC W15) is hiring. Help us make APIs easy to use 1 by gkoberger | 0 comments on Hacker News.

RMS: GitHub has done terrible harm to our community 4 by stargrave | 1 comments on Hacker News.

India plans to cap commissions for Uber, Ola: Economic Times 3 by hhs | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Jor1k: Run Linux in the browser with multicore and network support 22 by hsnewman | 4 comments on Hacker News.

Twitter account deletions on 'pause' after outcry 4 by herendin2 | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Man or boy test 6 by lisper | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Uber’s ‘Dirty Little Secret’: Shared Driver Accounts 5 by JumpCrisscross | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Raspberry Pi 4 WiFi stops working at 2560x1440 screen resolution 3 by pabs3 | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Webglstudio.js – A full open-source 3D graphics editor in the browser 5 by mdip | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Syscall Call-From Verification 12 by cnst | 0 comments on Hacker News.

California school shooting shines light on murky 'ghost gun' world 3 by motiw | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Playball: Watch MLB games from the comfort of your own terminal 3 by computerlab | 0 comments on Hacker News.

CoinTracker (YC W18) Is Hiring Senior Software Engineers in SF 1 by jonlerner | 0 comments on Hacker News.

The Great American Eye Exam Scam 14 by theothermkn | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Oil Is the New Data 5 by jeffreygoesto | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Don DeLillo's literary interpretation of an astronaut’s view of earth (2018) 9 by Hooke | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Thousand year-old windmills in Iran (2017) 6 by autokill | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Firefox browser will block the IAB's DigiTrust universal ID 4 by cpeterso | 0 comments on Hacker News.

I'm not burned out, I'm pissed off 4 by eitland | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Hours Worked by Women Age 55 to 61 Confound Labor Market Analysis 5 by luu | 3 comments on Hacker News.

A Brief History of the Current Empirical Software Engineering Science Turf War 4 by luu | 0 comments on Hacker News.

On John Simon 4 by lermontov | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Excite CEO: here's why Excite didn't buy Google for $750k and 1% Excite stocks 7 by wenbin | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Body Predictive Index of Penile Size (1999) 2 by muzani | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Bootstrap v4.4.0 Released 3 by pierreneter | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Astrophotography with Night Sight on Pixel Phones 2 by JayXon | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Senate Considers Banning Dial Phones (1930) 6 by rmason | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Gorse – An recommender system back end based on collaborative filtering 5 by lutun | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Nabokov Was Right About Butterflies (2011) 3 by misss | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Quiting Big Tech, what is it like? 3 by throwaway1m | 0 comments on Hacker News. I've spent the last decade in two FANG companies, and I've got to a high level where my total compensation is ridiculous. The problem is that it bores me to tears, and I don't want to do it anymore. At first thought, maybe I am burned out? However, I can still come home and write code for a side-project, so I don't think this is "burn-out". I don't know to be honest. I think the best description is that I am cynical of the "mission", and I can't connect my work to people I care about. How do I know what the source of the problem is? However, I wanted to pose two questions. First, what is the environment like for exiting high-level former-FANG employees? Second, what are some of the surprises post-FANG that I would be in for if I wanted to start a company? Thank you for your time.

Your Debugger Sucks 3 by samth | 0 comments on Hacker News.

It's Way Too Easy to Get a .gov Domain Name 3 by jakejarvis | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Understanding and repairing the power supply from a 1969 analog computer 4 by robin_reala | 0 comments on Hacker News.

A Look at PureDarwin – An OS Based on the Open Source Core of macOS 6 by jamieweb | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Twitter prepares for cull of inactive users 3 by alexanderdmitri | 0 comments on Hacker News.

AVX register corruption from signal delivery 3 by est31 | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Nomogram 6 by gorgoiler | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Google’s fires four organizers after hiring union-busting firm 31 by callil | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Google Fires Four Workers, Including Staffer Tied to Protest 18 by phissk | 5 comments on Hacker News.

SinGAN: Learning a Generative Model from a Single Natural Image 5 by groar | 0 comments on Hacker News.

A tour of probabilistic programming language APIs 3 by nafizh | 0 comments on Hacker News.

T-Fuzz: fuzzing by program transformation (2018) [pdf] 3 by luu | 0 comments on Hacker News.