Daily Hacker News for 2018-12-30
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 30, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Doctors ask engineers to spend more time in the hospital before building apps
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Inter UI, a typeface designed for user interfaces
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Guesstimate – A Spreadsheet for things that aren't certain
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A little-known C feature: Static array indices in parameter declarations (2013)
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EU to fund bug bounty programs for open-source projects
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Ibuprofen alters human testicular physiology to produce compensated hypogonadism
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How the Valley treats experienced people
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Ask HN: Which tool do you use to create beautiful diagrams?
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How Facebook tracks you on Android [video]
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Show HN: Vector Logo Zone – SVG logos for your readme or credits page
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-12-29
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 29, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Brain.js
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Show HN: Pg-extend-rs – Easy Postgres extensions in Rust
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Fundamental rule of traffic: building new roads makes people drive more (2015)
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What Happens to Kid Culture When Streets Are Closed to Cars
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Things I Don’t Know as of 2018
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Teachers Quit Jobs at Highest Rate on Record
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Why I’m so “against” Ethereum
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How Facebook Keeps Messenger from Crashing on New Year's Eve
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How DOOM fire was done
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Windows file access performance compared to Linux
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-12-28
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 28, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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A fake hitman, a kill list, a darknet vigilante, and a murder
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Epic Games banked a $3B profit in 2018
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Steve Jobs hired a career juggler to teach programming to developers
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Best Paper Awards in Computer Science since 1996
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SSH Examples, Tips and Tunnels
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Crypto 101 – Introductory course on cryptography
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Show HN: Open source JavaScript library to record and replay the web
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Fish shell 3.0
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“Modern” C++ Lamentations
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911 emergency services go down across the US after CenturyLink outage
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-12-27
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 27, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Apple needs to change iPhone’s call UI because robocalls are killing us
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Colin O’Brady Completes Crossing of Antarctica with Final 32-Hour Push
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Rust 2019 and beyond: limits to some growth
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lsix: ls for images
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Hospital prices are about to go public in the U.S.
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Ask HN: What do you use for authentication and authorization?
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Krita in 2018 and 2019
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Seeing Theory: A visual introduction to probability and statistics (2017)
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Fridge 0.2
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Please do not attempt to simplify this code
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-12-26
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 26, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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T * sin (t) ≈ Christmas tree
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Emacs Fireplace
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My video with 47M views was stolen on YouTube [video]
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Deciphering the postcard-sized raytracer
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Machine learning has become alchemy (2017) [video]
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New Office Hours Aim for Well Rested, More Productive Workers
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Recovering Nintendo’s Lost SimCity for the NES
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Artificial Intelligence Creates Realistic Pictures of People
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China to take over Kenya’s main port over unpaid huge Chinese Loan
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Patreon Bars Anti-Feminist for Racist Speech, Inciting Revolt
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-12-25
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 25, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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My one-liner Linux Dropbox client
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Learn Prolog Now
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SQLite as an Application File Format (2014)
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Netflix Pulls the Plug on Feature Designed to Get Kids Addicted to Netflix
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IPv6 xmas display uses 75 Internet's worth of addresses
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DOOMBA
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Show HN: Wiv.js – A library for a more wiggly div
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Mental Models I Find Repeatedly Useful (2016)
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Teach Yourself Logic: A Study Guide [pdf]
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Human blood cells can be directly reprogrammed into neural stem cells
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-12-24
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 24, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Photo Wake-Up: 3D Character Animation from a Single Photo
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Neural networks in JavaScript – free 19-part course
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Canada Prohibits Piracy Settlement Demands in ISP Copyright Notices
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Ultima Online spent years developing a system that was destroyed by players
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Linux 4.20 released
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The Internet of Unprofitable Things
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Ruby 2.6
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Social networks are no longer social
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Blender 2.8
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CSS grid garden
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-12-23
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 23, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Chinese battery expert is charged with stealing trade secrets from US employer
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How to Be a Programmer: A Short, Comprehensive, and Personal Summary (2002) [pdf]
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YouTube's Copyright Protection System Is a Mess
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Ask HN: Favorite nonfiction books of 2018?
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Google Takes Down Artstation Android App for Explicit Content
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The Wavefunction Collapse Algorithm Explained
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Binctr: Static, unprivileged, self-contained containers as executable binaries
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Ask HN: What technologies did you learn in 2018?
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Congress votes to make open government data the default in the United States
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Speedy Web Compiler – A Rust port of Babel and Closure Compiler
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-12-22
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 22, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Raspberry Pi Pet Detector Camera Using Python, TensorFlow, and Twilio [video]
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Facebook open-sources a speech-recognition system and a machine learning library
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AT&T will put a fake 5G logo on its 4G LTE phones
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Can you use a magnifying glass and moonlight to light a fire? (2016)
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Discord raises $150M, surpassing $2B valuation
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An Apology and an Update
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Show HN: A new spline
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Malaysia seeks $7.5B in reparations from Goldman Sachs
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Countries that have preoccupied Americans the most since 1900
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Ask HN: Best talks of 2018?
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-12-21
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 21, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Show HN: Analysis of 2018 Hacker News “Who Is Hiring” Job Posts
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Gluten Free Antarctica
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China hacked HPE, IBM and then attacked clients
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NHS.UK frontend
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At Blind, a security lapse revealed private complaints from tech employees
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CBD and hemp are now legal in the U.S
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Problem Solving with Algorithms and Data Structures Using Python
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Porting Alpine Linux to RISC-V
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Indian government to intercept, monitor, and decrypt citizens’ computers
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How ‘Baldur’s Gate’ Saved the Computer RPG
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-12-20
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 20, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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What I learned from reading a thousand emergency room bills
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LibreRouter: Powering community networks with free and open hardware
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Introducing Project Mu
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Estimating Value of Facebook by Paying Users to Stop Using It
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For First Time in More Than 20 Years, Copyrighted Works Will Enter Public Domain
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WireGuard for iOS
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VirtualBox 6.0 released
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Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada
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We should replace Facebook with personal websites
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Amazon Sends 1,700 Alexa Voice Recordings to a Random Person
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-12-19
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 19, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Building a Spotify Player for My Mac SE/30
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Google Tech Dev Guide
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As Facebook Raised a Privacy Wall, It Carved an Opening for Tech Giants
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Windows Sandbox
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Writing copy for landing pages
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Facebook gave Spotify and Netflix access to users’ private messages
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Python gets a new governance model
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What I learned in ten years of blogging
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MailChimp deleted my account with no warning
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Bye Bye Mongo, Hello Postgres
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-12-18
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 18, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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I need to copy 2000+ DVDs in 3 days. What are my options?
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Show HN: Fully-automatic image background removal tool
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Inventor May Have Cured Motion Sickness Without Drugs
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Neural Networks as Ordinary Differential Equations
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Dotsies (2012)
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Why we should care about the Nate Silver vs. Nassim Taleb Twitter war
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Reasons Python Sucks
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Glitter bomb tricks parcel thieves
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SpaceX Is Raising $500M at a $30.5B Valuation
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Stop Learning Frameworks
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-12-17
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 17, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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How the 0.001% invest
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Browsers
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Sandspiel – A falling sand game built in Rust and WebGL
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Long Before Trees Overtook the Land, Earth Was Covered by Giant Mushrooms
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The Yoda of Silicon Valley
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Minikanren – An embedded DSL for logic programming
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Robinhood Checking Moved Fast and Broke
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Google’s Secret China Project “Effectively Ended” After Internal Confrontation
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Clojure 1.10 release
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MIPS Goes Open Source
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-12-16
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 16, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Pictures from the Eastern Bloc in the 80s
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The Best Programming Advice I Ever Got (2012)
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Rust and WebAssembly in 2019
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Tell HN: Tim May, Author of “The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto”, Has Died
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My Dad's Friendship with Charles Barkley
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Google AMP case study: leads dropped by 59%
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Johnson and Johnson knew for decades that asbestos lurked in its Baby Powder
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German exclaves in Belgium separated by a bicycle path from the rest of Germany
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4,400 year old Egyptian tomb discovered in the Saqqara pyramid complex
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Can Repelling Magnets Replace the Spring in a Pogo Stick?
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-12-15
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 15, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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How to Grow Old (1951)
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Snowboarding for Geeks
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Shame Storm
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Experts Urge U.S. To Continue Support for Nuclear Fusion Research
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China’s Economy Slows Sharply
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Red Hat contributes etcd to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation
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Johnson & Johnson knew for decades that asbestos lurked in its Baby Powder
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UCLA asked faculty to consider declining to review for Elsevier journals
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Remote code execution vulnerability in SQLite
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Serverless Computing – One Step Forward, Two Steps Back
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-12-14
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 14, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Verizon signals its Yahoo and AOL divisions are almost worthless
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Mail Loop From Hell (2012)
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Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma when jumping from aircraft
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Introduction to Applied Linear Algebra: Vectors, Matrices, and Least Squares
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Everything you should know about certificates and PKI but are too afraid to ask
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Write Your Own Virtual Machine
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SIPC Says It Has Serious Concerns About Robinhood's New Product
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Turtletoy
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Facebook says new bug allowed apps access to private photos of up to 6.8M users
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CenturyLink is blocking customer internet, saying Utah legislators told them to
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-12-13
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 13, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Archive.org donations are currently matched by a generous supporter 2-to-1
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Ant Colonies Retain Memories That Outlast the Lifespans of Individuals
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Puzzle-solving 'doesn't slow down mental decline in older people'
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Why should I have written ZeroMQ in C, not C++ (2012)
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50 CVEs in 50 Days: Fuzzing Adobe Reader
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The Titanic Was on Fire for Days Before the Iceberg Hit
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Free Hotel Wifi with Python and Selenium
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Robinhood launches 3% checking account
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Virgin Galactic successfully reaches space
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China harvested organs from political prisoners, says tribunal
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-12-12
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 12, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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The Cube Rule of Food Identification
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Windows Server 2019 Includes OpenSSH
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Ask HN: Books you read in 2018?
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Ask HN: What's the best book on modern UI/UX?
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Write good git commit messages
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Google transferred ownership of Duck.com to DuckDuckGo
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ATDT relief
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Grafana Loki – Like Prometheus, but for logs
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Comcast rejected by small town, residents vote for municipal fiber instead
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An open letter to FB, Twitter, Instagram regarding algorithms and my son's birth
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-12-11
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 11, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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The cold start problem: how to build your machine learning portfolio
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Google Employees Demand the End of Forced Arbitration Across the Tech Industry
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Amazon’s Chips Threaten Intel
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After landing a lucrative job at a tech startup, I had made a terrible mistake
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PracticalAI – A practical approach to learning machine learning
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Just tell me how to use Go Modules
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How the Dreamcast Copy Protection Was Defeated
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Super Micro says review found no malicious chips in motherboards
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DigitalOcean launches its container service
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Firefox 64 Released
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-12-10
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 10, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Why Aren’t Rich People Happy With the Money They Have?
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Tracking leaks on NDA beta Xbox 360s by embedding serial number on-screen
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Why Not to Use Quora
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Companies use smartphone locations to help advertisers and even hedge funds
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Prions, Nearly Indestructible and Universally Lethal, Seed the Eyes of Victims
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Tell HN: Aaron Swartz's website is offline
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Apple Airplay on Raspberry Pi in 7 Easy Steps
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Nasa's Voyager 2 probe 'leaves the Solar System'
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On Shutting Down
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Google will shut down Google+ four months early after second data leak
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-12-09
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 09, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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An interview with the documentary filmmaker Adam Curtis
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US Is Net Oil Exporter for First Time in 75 Years
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Gut bacteria may offer a treatment for autism
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TSA’s Roadmap for Airport Surveillance Moves in a Dangerous Direction
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How Does setState Know What to Do?
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The Game Engine Black Book: Doom
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Do I really need to get out the soldering-iron again?
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Crypto Market Crash Leaving Bankrupt Startups in Its Wake
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Show HN: Visalist – Find visa requirements for countries around the world
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JIRA is an antipattern
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-12-08
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 08, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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AMD’s aggressive pricing update on the EPYC 7371
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Viral hepatitis: A silent epidemic killing more people than HIV, malaria or TB
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Nginx on Wasmjit
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American Entrepreneurs Who Flocked to China Are Heading Home, Disillusioned
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Whats thw crazyest thing ur goats have eaten? (2012)
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PyTorch 1.0 is out
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MIT team develops 3D printer that's 10x faster than comparable 3D printers
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Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you resurrect?
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Australia’s vague anti-encryption law sets a dangerous new precedent
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Rocket v0.4: Typed URIs, Database Support, Revamped Queries
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-12-07
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 07, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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StateOfTheArt.ai
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The Rise of Microsoft Visual Studio Code
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Facebook accused of striking 'secret deals over user data'
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Repl.it Multiplayer
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Neither PWA nor AMP are needed to make a website load fast
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A blogging style guide
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Choose Firefox Now, or Later You Won't Get a Choice (2014)
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Ask HN: How do you manage UI/UX for your side projects?
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They Rejected Us
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Facial recognition: It’s time for action
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-12-06
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 06, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Measuring the “Filter Bubble”: How Google is influencing what you click
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'Dark fluid' with negative mass could dominate the universe
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Send Noncompete Agreements Back to the Middle Ages
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Internal Tensions at Facebook Are Boiling Over
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Canada has arrested Huawei’s global chief financial officer in Vancouver
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Lyft Files for IPO
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A well-known URL for changing passwords
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Tesla's giant battery saved $40M during its first year, report says
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Rust 2018 is here, but what is it?
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Goodbye, EdgeHTML
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-12-05
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 05, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Show HN: Dark Reader extension – Dark mode for every website
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Tech company patterns
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Ask HN: What to do after $8M (all cash, post tax) exit?
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Google personalizes search results even when you’re logged out, new study finds
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Hacker News Highlights, August to November 2018
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Hashicorp Vault v1.0
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China Announces Punishments for Intellectual-Property Theft
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Why Do Hospitals Hate Sleep So Much?
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Guide to scaling engineering organizations
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Facebook's seized files published by MPs
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-12-04
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 04, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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The Friendship That Made Google Huge
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The U.S. Yield Curve Has Inverted
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Quora User Data Compromised
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Firefox desktop market share now below 9%
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Microsoft is building a Chromium browser to replace Edge on Windows 10
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Absolute Beginner's Guide to Emacs (2012)
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What we learned from 3 years of bra engineering, and what's next
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Announcing Open Source of WPF, Windows Forms, and WinUI
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Google's cross-platform Flutter UI toolkit goes 1.0
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Samsung used my DSLR photo to fake their phone’s “portrait mode”
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-12-03
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 03, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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What makes BeOS and Haiku unique
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How Does React Tell a Class from a Function?
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UBlock Origin 1.17.4 released
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AlphaFold: Using AI for scientific discovery
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How I Wrote a Modern C++ Library in Rust
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Ask HN: What are your “brain hacks” that help you manage everyday situations?
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PhysX SDK 4.0, an Open-Source Physics Engine
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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2018)
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Tumblr will ban all adult content on December 17th
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I Quit Google Over Its Censored Chinese Search Engine
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-12-02
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 02, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Madrid bans polluting vehicles from city centre
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Monarch butterfly populations in U.S. west are down an order of magnitude
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8K is now being broadcast in Japan
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The Second Edition of “Refactoring”
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A Programmer's Introduction to Mathematics
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The Octopus Is Smart as Heck, But Why?
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Amazon FBA Experiment
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Mozilla hit with takedown request for anti-paywall addons
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How Google Code Search Worked: Regex Matching with a Trigram Index (2012)
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I quit Instagram and Facebook and it made me a lot happier
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-12-01
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 01, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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LibrePCB: First stable release published
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Daniel Kahneman on when to trust intuitive judgment
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Al Lowe reveals his Sierra source code collection
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Chip wars: China, America and silicon supremacy
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Blockchain study finds zero success rate and vendors don't call back
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Source: Google Hangouts for consumers will be shutting down sometime in 2020
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Why is 2 * (i * i) faster than 2 * i * i in Java?
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Show HN: Cross-platform open-source 3D modeling software
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The EU Copyright Directive: What Redditors in Europe Need to Know
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Psychology’s Replication Crisis Is Real
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Daily Hacker News for 2018-11-30
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on November 30, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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'Talent Wants Transit': Companies Near Transportation Gaining the Upper Hand
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Google Shut Out Privacy and Security Teams from Secret China Project
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FoundationDB Document Layer
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Starting a Business in Silicon Valley
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Google Container for Firefox – Prevent Google from tracking you around the web
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The Matrix Cookbook (2012) [pdf]
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Google Tried to Patent My Work After a Job Interview
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Mozilla pulls Bypass Paywalls from Firefox add-ons store
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Marriott hack hits 500M Starwood guests
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Spectrum is joining GitHub
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