Daily Hacker News for 2018-05-30
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 30, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Tcpdump Examples
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A security vulnerability in Git that can lead to arbitrary code execution
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Tesla in autopilot mode crashes into parked Laguna Beach police cruiser
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De Beers admits defeat over man-made diamonds
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AI winter is well on its way
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Diamonds Suck (2006)
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Scrum disempowers developers
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Walmart will begin offering to subsidize college tuition for its U.S. workers
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Reddit just passed Facebook as #3 most popular website in US
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Intel Announces Optane DIMMs
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-05-29
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 29, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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NPM proxy users receiving ERR 418 I'm a teapot
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A new fast hash table in response to Google’s new fast hash table
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High school physics course notes, with JavaScript simulations
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Facebook Tools Are Used to Screen Out Older Job Seekers, Lawsuit Claims
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Possible BGP hijack of 1.1.1.1
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Read first pages of novels, and reveal the author and title if you're hooked
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I wrote a negative Yelp review and it made my life a nightmare
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Mastodon 2.4.0
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UTC Is Enough for Everyone, Right?
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Thousands of AI researchers are boycotting the new Nature journal
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-05-28
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 28, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Oracle plans to dump risky Java serialization
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Self-criticism can take a toll on our minds and bodies
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Space Invaders from Scratch
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Unifying Theories of Psychedelic Drug Effects
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Why “children,” not “childs”? (2016)
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Python’s For - Else
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An embedded database written in Rust
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The Engineer vs. the Border Patrol
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Show HN: Cost of a 51% Attack on Popular Cryptocurrencies
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I put all my personal data on eBay
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-05-27
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 27, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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30 years later, QBasic is still the best
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The DisplayPort Pin 20 Problem
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Why Is Location Data No Longer Private?
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Alan Bean, 4th Person to Walk on the Moon, Dies at 86
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EU censorship machines and link tax laws are nearing the finish line
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USB Reverse Engineering: Down the Rabbit Hole
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How to write efficient matrix multiplication
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Bitcoin backlash as ‘miners’ stress power grids in Central Washington
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Every Ruler in Europe Every Year Since 400 BC
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Analog Devices AD9361 – when microchips are more profitable than drugs
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-05-26
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 26, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Reality Driven Development: Fixing Project Management in Software
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What's Going on in Your Child's Brain When You Read Them a Story?
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Mussels test positive for opioids in Seattle's Puget Sound
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Ghostery exposed everyone's email address in its GDPR email by not using BCC
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GDPR: Programmatic ad buying plummets in Europe
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Harvard Classics Book Download
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Jeff Bezos announces Amazon is picking up 'The Expanse'
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FBI tells router users to reboot now to kill malware infecting 500k devices
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GDPR Version of USA Today Is 500KB Instead of 5.2MB
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The Importance of Deep Work and the 30-Hour Method for Learning a New Skill
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-05-25
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 25, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Show HN: Parabola.io – Automate your work with visual programming
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Cool Backgrounds
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Andy Rubin Puts Essential Up for Sale, Cancels Next Phone
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There are real reasons for Linux to replace ifconfig, netstat, etc
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GDPR: US news sites unavailable to EU users over data protection rules
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Black: An uncompromising Python code formatter
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Apple rejects Valve’s Steam Link game streaming app over ‘business conflicts’
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Google and Facebook accused of breaking GDPR laws
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Things to know about the GDPR, Mozilla and Firefox
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GDPR for lazy people: Block all European users with Cloudflare Workers
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-05-24
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 24, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Command-line Tools can be 235x Faster than a Hadoop Cluster (2014)
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Bitcoin Gold Hit by Double Spend Attack, Exchanges Lose Millions
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Ask HN: Why is nearing completion so demotivating?
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Apple Signs Deal with Volkswagen for Driverless Car
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The Awk Programming Language (1988) [pdf]
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U.S. Launches Criminal Probe into Bitcoin Price Manipulation
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Ditch the Batteries: Off-Grid Compressed Air Energy Storage
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Uber Self-Driving Car That Struck Pedestrian Wasn’t Set to Stop in an Emergency
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Amazon device recorded private conversation, sent it out to random contact
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Show HN: Wired-elements – UI web components with a hand drawn, sketchy look
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-05-23
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 23, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Show HN: HyperApp – 1k JavaScript framework for building web applications
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Winds 2.0: It’s Time to Revive RSS
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DigitalMars C/C++ Compiler
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FBI repeatedly overstated encryption threat figures to Congress, public
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Adobe Photoshop 1.0.1 Source Code (2013)
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Filmstro: Royalty-Free Music
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Why did I spend 1.5 months creating a Gameboy emulator? (2017)
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Algorithms and Data Structures Explained and Implemented in JavaScript
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The Bill Gates Line
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Judge Rules Trump Can’t Block People on Twitter
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-05-22
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 22, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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PostgreSQL 11 Partitioning Improvements
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The Power of Prolog
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Mental Models: The Best Way to Make Intelligent Decisions (113 Models Explained)
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I became CEO at 20. Here's what I learned
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Charging electric scooters is a cut-throat business
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We May First Find Aliens on Eyeball Planets
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Deconstructing Kitty
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Prices for dried coffee husks are outstripping those for beans
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Amazon Pushes Facial Recognition to Police, Critics See Surveillance Risk
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The end of an era: Saying goodbye to search.cpan.org
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-05-21
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 21, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Sci Hub repository torrents of scientific papers
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Getting Google to ban our entire company
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Apps for which macOS applies compatibillity fixes
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How a Kalman filter works, in pictures (2015)
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CBS “60 Minutes” piece on Google’s abuse of dominance
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Japan's secret spy agency
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Playing battleships over BGP
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Predatory Behavior Runs Rampant in Facebook’s Addiction Support Groups
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$36k Google App Engine RCE
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82-Year-Old Japanese Woman Finds Success in Coding
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-05-20
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 20, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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A relatively simple Datalog engine
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Lessons from My Math Degree That Have Nothing to Do with Math
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Devices Which Track Cellphones, Intercept Calls Found All Over DC, MD, VA
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How Judea Pearl Became One of AI's Sharpest Critics
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Libui: a portable GUI library for C
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How I targeted the Reddit CEO with Facebook ads to get an interview at Reddit
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Ocean-going robots that could revolutionize fishing, drilling, and science
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Getting 1Password 7 ready for the Mac App Store
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Facebook: Let Us Be Part of the Hearing
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Europe’s open-access drive escalates as university stand-offs spread
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-05-19
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 19, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Mathematicians Disprove Conjecture Made to Save Black Holes
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The Zen of Erlang (2016)
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Show HN: Whiteboardfree – Developer Jobs at Companies That Don't Whiteboard
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Steve Wozniak Recounts His Efforts to Engineer the Apple II Floppy Disk System
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Solving dynamic programming interview problems
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Chinese Government Fabricates Social Media Posts for Strategic Distraction
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Fridge 0.1
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Estonia plans to become a free public transport nation
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How to disappear from the internet
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A Wikipedia editor's long-running campaign
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-05-18
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 18, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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GDPR: Removing Monal from the EU
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Another flaw in Signal desktop app leaks chats in plaintext
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Facebook Use Has Been Dropping Since the 2016 Election, According to SimilarWeb
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Sweden ends contract with Elsevier, moving for open access for science articles
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GDPR: Don't Panic
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The Stuxnet worm may be the most sophisticated software ever written
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Jim Black's Steve Jobs Story
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How to Come Up with Profitable Business Ideas
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Introducing Git protocol version 2
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An Interesting Pattern in the Prime Numbers: Parallax Compression
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-05-17
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 17, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Too Clever by Half
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Tarballs, the ultimate container image format
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Salesforce CEO Benioff calls for national privacy law
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AI and Compute
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A pure JavaScript implementation of Git for Node and browsers
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HoweyCoins – An educational tool to alert investors to possible fraud
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The Entire Economy Is MoviePass Now
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A new Xbox controller to make gaming accessible to more people with disabilities
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MacOS command line version of the WireGuard VPN is now available for testing
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LocationSmart Leaked Location Data for All Major U.S. Carriers in Real Time
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-05-16
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 16, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Eigenvectors and Eigenvalues (2015)
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HTTP headers we don't want
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I Got Catfished by a Candidate
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Algorithms Behind Modern Storage Systems
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Show HN: The Curious Expedition – A Steam game in HTML5
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US cell carriers are selling access to real-time phone location data
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What we've learned from building Ghost after 5 years and $3M
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How a domain registrar can kill your business
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The sad state of sysadmin in the age of containers (2015)
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Senate votes to reinstate net neutrality
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-05-15
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 15, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Gmail Icons are Hard
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Safe ways to do things in bash
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Wi-Fi alliance announces mesh networking standard
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I Don’t Know How to Waste Time on the Internet Anymore
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Memory transfer between snails challenges view of how brain remembers
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Professor Frisby's Mostly Adequate Guide to Functional Programming (2015)
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NSA encryption plan for ‘internet of things’ rejected by ISO
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Shell Style Guide
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Ask HN: How do I learn math/physics in my thirties?
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Completely Silent Computer
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-05-14
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 14, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Plastic Bag Found at the Bottom of World's Deepest Ocean Trench
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How to start a Go project in 2018
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Docker is a dangerous gamble
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Australian regulator investigates Google data harvesting from Android phones
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A new set of vulnerabilities affecting users of PGP and S/MIME
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Enter the Matrix – A technical overview and guide to all things Matrix
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EFail – Vulnerabilities in end-to-end encryption technologies OpenPGP and S/MIME
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How Rust 1.26 more than tripled the speed of my code
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John Carmack: My Steve Jobs Stories
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Launch HN: Necto (YC W18) – ISP Starter Kit
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-05-13
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 13, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Nasa will send helicopter to Mars to test otherworldly flight
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Things no one tells you before an Antarctic expedition (2015)
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Why the Luddites Matter
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Build your own X: project-based programming tutorials
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Malware Found in the Ubuntu Snap Store
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Google's Plan to Make Tech Less Addictive
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“But didn't you write an embedded OS?”
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Flopstarter: a platform for bad ideas
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GDPR will pop the adtech bubble
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Make front end shit again
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-05-12
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 12, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Warriorjs – An exciting game of programming and artificial intelligence
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Laws of Tech Economics: Commoditize Your Complement
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Asciinema – Record and share your terminal sessions
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Show HN: Strimpack – roll your own livestreaming portal, chat, subs, and forum
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Why does deep and cheap learning work so well?
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Tesla’s giant battery in Australia reduced grid service cost by 90%
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The Last Slave Ship Survivor Gave an Interview in the 1930s
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Man donated blood every week for 60 years and helped save 2.4M babies
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Discover dev – a daily digest of engineering blogs
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Apple faces class action lawsuit over failing MacBook butterfly keyboards
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-05-11
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 11, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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What’s the waiter doing with the computer screen? (2012)
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Multiple OS Vendors Release Security Patches After Misinterpreting Intel Docs
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Young Chinese are sick of working long hours
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Man Allegedly Used Change of Address Form to Move UPS Headquarters
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Emails Show FDA Chemists Have Been Finding Glyphosate in Food
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Google YOLO clickjacking
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Study Shows a Productivity Boost of Working From Home
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Linux sandboxing improvements in Firefox 60
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Ask HN: Which books have made you introspect?
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Pyre: Fast Type Checking for Python
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-05-10
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 10, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Glom – Restructured Data for Python
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California Votes to Require Rooftop Solar Power on New Homes
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The Senate has forced a vote to restore net neutrality
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Seaweed in Cow Feed Reduces Methane Emissions Almost Entirely
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Ubuntu 18.04: Unity is gone, Gnome is back, and Ubuntu has never been better
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Amazon Aurora Backtrack
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Microsoft Turned Consumers Against the Beloved Skype Brand
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ISPs Lying That They Don’t Make Enough Money
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Carnegie Mellon Launches Undergraduate Degree in Artificial Intelligence
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Rust 1.26 released
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-05-09
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 09, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Fonts for Complex Data
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A Plane That Accidentally Circumnavigated the World (2014)
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How Mapbox Is Winning Over Developers to Challenge Google's Mapping Dominance
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Introducing extended line endings support in Notepad
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Android P
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You can now run Linux apps on Chrome OS
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A Short Introduction to the Art of Programming (1971) [pdf]
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Apple cracking down on applications that send location data to third-parties
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Firefox 60 released
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Taskwarrior, where have you been all my life?
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-05-08
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 08, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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List of screw drives
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Concorde ‘B’
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Uber vehicle reportedly saw but ignored woman it struck
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Ask HN: How do you continuously monitor web logs for hack attempts?
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Show HN: How to Tune a Guitar
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Cutting Edge Deep Learning for Coders, Part 2
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Who controls glibc?
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Tech watchdogs call on Facebook, Google for transparency around censored content
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iOS 11.4 to Disable USB Port After 7 Days: What It Means for Mobile Forensics
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Google Duplex: An AI System for Accomplishing Real World Tasks Over the Phone
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-05-07
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 07, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Researchers have developed a water-based battery to store solar and wind energy
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Thermal Paper Polaroid
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96-Year-Old Secretary Quietly Amasses Fortune, Then Donates $8.2M
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Why Is It Hard to Make Friends Over 30? (2012)
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The Various Kinds of IO – Blocking, Non-Blocking, Multiplexed and Async
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Self-Awareness for Introverts [pdf]
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Surviving Your 40s
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International Obfuscated C Code Contest – 2018 Winning Entries
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The Economics of Writing a Technical Book
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Conversations with a six-year-old on functional programming
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-05-06
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 06, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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“Manager READMEs” from some tech companies
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A mistake about manufacturing costing Americans millions of jobs
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Google, please fix Android's slow, bloated share UI
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Hello Qt for Python
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AstroNavigation – A free course
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The Erlang Runtime System
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CS109 Data Science
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Gitea: Open source, self-hosted GitHub alternative
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Subscription Hell
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California to become first U.S. state mandating solar on new homes
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-05-05
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 05, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Yale physicists find signs of a time crystal
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Never Write Your Own Database (2017)
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What happens before main() is executed in C and why is it important?
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AT&T explains why it blocked Cloudflare DNS: It was just an accident
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Canada facing ‘brain drain’ as tech talent leaves for Silicon Valley
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Please Stop Using Adblock (But Not Why You Think)
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NSA collected 500M U.S. call records in 2017, a sharp rise: official report
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Seven Puzzles You Think You Must Not Have Heard Correctly (2006) [pdf]
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The United States of Japan
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Our Approach to Employee Security Training
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-05-04
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 04, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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100 prisoners problem
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7-Zip: From Uninitialized Memory to Remote Code Execution
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Pocket Casts acquired by NPR
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De-Googling my phone
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A 1970s Teenager's Bedroom (1998)
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C Primer
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Google embraces, extends, and extinguishes
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Moving Fast and Securing Things
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The rise of the pointless job
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Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design (2003)
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-05-03
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 03, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Lobe – Deep Learning Made Simple
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'Anti-authority' tech rebels take on ISPs, connect NYC with cheap Wi-Fi
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Google Maps Platform
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AT&T updates firmware to block access to 1.1.1.1
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Tesla beats expectations with $3.4B in revenue
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Is there a fix for impostor syndrome?
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High Speed Networking: Open Sourcing our Kernel Bypass Work
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Fake it till you make it: the wolves of Instagram
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Stripe to donate $1M to California Yimby
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Twitter urges users to change passwords after computer 'glitch'
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-05-02
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 02, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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A Mass of Copyrighted Works Will Soon Enter the Public Domain
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TIC-80, a fantasy computer to learn programming
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Introducing .app, a more secure home for apps on the web
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Facebook is launching a dating feature
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I've spent the last two years building a new email client
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Open-sourcing gVisor, a sandboxed container runtime
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Jupyter Receives the ACM Software System Award
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Both in rich and poor countries, universal health care brings huge benefits
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Proton Native – React Native for the desktop
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Python startup time: milliseconds matter
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-05-01
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 01, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Show HN: ReLaXed – High-quality PDFs using web technologies
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Salsify – A New Architecture for Real-time Internet Video
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I switched from iPhone to the Pixel 2: One-week report
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You know how HTTP GET requests are meant to be idempotent?
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Medium tries to prevent people reading deleted articles on the Wayback Machine?
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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2018)
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C Is Not a Low-Level Language
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Facebook announces Clear History feature
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Amazon threatens to suspend Signal's AWS account over censorship circumvention
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Macbook Pro frying USB peripherals
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-04-30
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on April 30, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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9,096 Stars in the Sky – Is That All?
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StreetLend.com shuts down, citing GDPR regulations
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Thinking of yourself as an insomniac may be a part of the problem
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A home-made lithographically-fabricated integrated circuit
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How to speed up the Rust compiler in 2018
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Twitter also sold data access to Cambridge Analytica researcher
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IBM is not doing \"cognitive computing\" with Watson (2016)
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Simone Giertz on her brain tumour [video]
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Stripe Atlas for LLCs
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WhatsApp founder plans to leave after broad clashes with parent Facebook
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